It’s June, y’all… HAPPY PRIDE! This month we’re celebrating Pride, the LGBQTQ+ community, and our lab of amazing LGBTQ+ and allied health researchers. One of the main Pride events is kicking off in Columbus, Ohio this week, so we thought…
The Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) from the CDC released their 2023 report. Based on the findings, it is crucial that to reduce health risk behaviors among young people (and across the life course), we must first ensure that LGBTQ+…
The OSUCCC-James T32 in Cancer Prevention & Control is currently accepting Postdoc applications! The OSUCCC-James T32 Training Program (Columbus, OH) focuses on cancer prevention, ranging from cancer risk and epidemiology (including tobacco) to health outcomes. The program covers the full…
For those who know Joanne, know her research is extremely close to home. As a member of and passionate advocate for the LGBTQ community, as well as a former smoker and current tobacco-researcher, Joanne shares her experience using menthol cigarettes…
Lesbian, Bisexual, and Queer (LBQ+) women and non-binary people assigned female at birth (NB people AFAB) are more likely than their heterosexual peers to smoke. and use e-cigarettes. One explanation is that for over 20 years, the tobacco industry has…
Excerpted from PS LGBTQ Health Equity. Today, I am celebrating because I work at an institution that is positively contributing to the health, wellbeing, and education of LGBTQ+ people. The Ohio State University was selected as one of 40 institutions nationwide…
On August 20, 2022, the world lost an excellent scientist and human, Dr. Deborah Bowen. Deb was a Professor of Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Washington, but we first crossed paths at Boston University School of Public Health…
Hi all! I was recently invited to join in a Town Hall Talk on Flavored Tobacco Use among LGBTQ communities hosted by the LGBT Cancer Network and Equitas Health Institute. My colleagues Gabe Glissmeyer (LGBT Tobacco Network), Julia Applegate (Equitas…
Ohio’s House Bill 616 states that no public school, community school or private school that accepts vouchers shall “teach, use, or provide any curriculum or instructional materials on sexual orientation or gender identity” in kindergarten through third grade. And older kids can’t…
I want to encourage all postdoc and junior faculty with substantial student loan debt to apply for this cycle of the National Institute’s of Health (NIH) Loan Repayment Program (LRP). Full disclosure: I applied for the NIH LRP in November…