LGBT Health
LGBT Health is the premier peer-reviewed journal dedicated to promoting optimal healthcare for all sexual and gender minority persons worldwide. The Journal focuses specifically on health while maintaining sufficient breadth to address policy, legislative, and education and training issues relevant to the provision of healthcare and health outcomes. This Journal aims to advance understanding of the health needs particular to each sexual and gender minority population and to improve delivery of and access to culturally competent healthcare. LGBT Health also encourages further research and increased funding in this critical but currently underserved domain. The Journal is an authoritative source of information and provides an international forum for the most recent developments in health research, clinical practice, and policy. Contributions from all continents are solicited including Asia and Africa which are currently underrepresented in LGBT health research.
LGBT Health facilitates and supports the efforts of researchers, clinicians, academics, and policymakers to eliminate barriers to healthcare and expand options for prevention and treatment with the aim of improving health outcomes for all LGBT and other sexual and gender minority populations.
Priority is given to data-driven research articles that have direct implications for improving clinical practice and access to care, and reducing health disparities. It is imperative that LGBT and other sexual and gender minority populations are considered as distinct groups rather than combined as a single entity. Similarly, bisexual and transgender populations should not be grouped across gender. Gender assessment should include a two-step method that considers both natal gender (gender assigned at birth) and current gender identity.
LGBT Health coverage includes:
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Evidence-based clinical best practices and guidelines
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Clinical care and decision-making support for all sexual and gender minority individuals including those with somatic intersex conditions and other variations of sex development and, when relevant, their families
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Development of appropriate methods and measures to collect and analyze sexual orientation and gender identity data
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Cancer risks, prevention, and screening behaviors, barriers to diagnosis and treatment, survivorship, and end-of-life care
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Cardiovascular disease and other chronic conditions
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HIV/AIDS and other STIs – risk behaviors, testing, prevention, and treatment services
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Sexual and reproductive health including assisted reproduction
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Overweight, obesity and eating disorders
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Transgender specific healthcare: Routine clinical care, assessments for and provision of gender affirming treatments and procedures; longitudinal follow-up studies including the health consequences of long-term gender affirming hormone use
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Development, implementation, and evaluation of tailored and culturally appropriate prevention and treatment interventions
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Health disparities and needs across the life course
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Intersectionality among race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, geographic location, and sexual and gender minority status
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Impact of stigma, discrimination, and violence on mental and physical health
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Substance use and abuse (alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs)
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LGBT healthcare in the primary care setting
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Professional medical education and training in LGBT health
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Access to healthcare services and health insurance coverage
The Journal publishes original research, reviews, clinical reports, perspectives in all of the areas identified above, and select book reviews.
LGBT Health is under the editorial leadership of Editor-in-Chief William Byne, MD, PHD, Columbia University, New York, NY.
Audience: All healthcare providers and researchers with an interest in sexual and gender minority health as well as policy makers and advocates for equality in healthcare for LGBT and other sexual and gender minority populations. This includes physicians and physician assistants of all disciplines, nurses and nurse practitioners, social workers and psychologists as well as researchers in any relevant area of the health sciences, including basic, translational, and clinical studies; population studies; social sciences, and medical anthropology.
Watch an important video message from Editor-in-Chief William Byne, MD, PhD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kkRgdRAFfs
| William Byne, MD, PhD | Columbia University, New York, NY, USA |
| Jack Drescher, MD | Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA |
| Ulrike Boehmer, PhD | Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA |
| Sean Cahill, PhD | The Fenway Institute, Fenway Health, Boston, MA, USA |
| Michael E. Newcomb, PhD | Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA |
| Tonia C. Poteat, PhD, MPH, MMSc | Duke University School of Nursing, Durham, NC, USA |
| Jae A. Puckett, PhD | Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA |
| Carl G. Streed Jr, MD, MPH, FACP | Boston University School of Medicine; Center for Transgender Medicine & Surgery, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA |
| Abigail W. Batchelder, PhD, MPH | Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA |
| John R. Blosnich, PhD, MPH | University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| Walter Bockting, PhD | Columbia University, New York, NY, USA |
| Lisa Bowleg, PhD | The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA |
| George R. Brown, MD | East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, USA |
| Billy A. Caceres, PhD, RN | Columbia University, New York, NY, USA |
| Brittany M. Charlton, ScD | Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA |
| Ada Cheung, MBBS, FRACP, PhD, DIPBUS | The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Demetre C. Daskalakis, MD, MPH | NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Long Island City, NY, USA |
| Griet De Cuypere, MD, PhD | University Hospital Ghent, Ghent, Belgium |
| Brian de Vries, PhD | San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, USA |
| Madeline Deutsch, MD, MPH | University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA |
| Omar Fattal, MPH, MD | NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue, New York, NY, USA |
| Jamie Feldman, MD, PhD | University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA |
| Jessica N. Fish, PhD | University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA |
| Karen I. Fredriksen-Goldsen, PhD | University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA |
| Robert Garofalo, MD, MPH | Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA |
| Kasey Jackman, PhD, RN, PMHNP-BC | Columbia University School of Nursing New York, NY, USA |
| Tiffany Jones, PhD | Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia |
| Michael Kauth, PhD | University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA |
| Deborah J. Kayman, PhD, LMSW | Veterans Integrated Service Network 3, New York, NY, USA |
| Alex S. Keuroghlian, MD, MPH | Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA |
| Seung-Sup Kim, MD, MPH, ScD | Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea |
| Ilan H. Meyer, PhD | UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| Brian Mustanski, PhD | Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA |
| Conall O’Ccleirigh, PhD | Harvard Medical School and The Fenway Institute, Fenway Health, Boston, MA, USA |
| Charlotte J. Patterson, PhD | University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA |
| H. Jonathon Rendina, PhD, MPH | Hunter College of the City University of New York, New York, NY, USA |
| Patricia Robertson, MD | University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA |
| Travis Salway, MSc, PhD | Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada |
| David Eric Sandberg, PhD | University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA |
| Theo Sandfort, PhD | Columbia University, New York, NY, USA |
| Ayden Scheim, PhD | UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| Joanna Semlyen, PhD | University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom |
| Jillian Shipherd, PhD | VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, USA |
| Madison Shea Smith, PhD | Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA |
| Annelou L.C. de Vries, MD, PhD | VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Ryan J. Watson, PhD | University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA |
| Claudia Wiesemann, MD, PhD | Universitatsmedizin Gottingen, Gottingen, Germany |