Distinguished Lifetime Membership is conferred as a recognition on those leaders who have devoted their time, knowledge and abilities to the advancement of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer public health.#@#_WA_-_CURSOR_-_POINT_#@#
Honorees:
2020:
José Ramón Fernández-Peña, MD, MPA
President, American Public Health Association
Lisa Carlson, MPH
President, American Public Health Association
2017
Dan Mertens
Prior
Walter Lear, MD
Founder, LGBTQ Health Caucus (formerly the LGBT Caucus of Public Health Professionals)
2017 APHA Annual Meeting in Atlanta
Musarrat Rahman, MPH, was the Grant W. Farmer Memorial Scholarship Awardee! Musarrat shared her work from her master's thesis in a poster session titled, "Watching your back: How much do people at increased risk actually know about human papillomavirus (HPV) and its association with anal cancer?" We look forward to more promising intersectional LGBTQ public health work from Musarrat!
2016 APHA Annual Meeting in Denver
First, Joanne Patterson, hailing from a Ph.D. program at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, won our selection committees hearts with a compelling application. Joanne has worked tirelessly to bring LGBTQ inclusion into her work at multiple levels throughout her career and educational endeavors. Joanne exemplified the deep commitment to improving the lives of our community members through public health, advocacy, and education that were the values we wished to honor about our friend, colleague, and past LGBT Caucus Chair, Grant.
Second, we honored Alvin Tran, a Doctor of Science student from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of public health, whose work both prior to graduate school and during is indicative of a strong commitment to the LGBTQ community and improving our community’s health.
And last, but not least, DaRel Barksdale, a DrPh candidate at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University. DaRel came to public health through volunteer services, and seeks to use his education fro furthering community involvement in LGBTQ health, with a specific emphasis on the cultural aspects of communicating public health interventions with MSMs and MSMs of color.
We would like to congratulate these three awardees for their efforts on the Scholarship application, and also their commitment and dedication to LGBTQ public health.
The Caucus established the Walter J. Lear Outstanding Student Research Award to recognize exceptional work by students on LGBT-related issues. The award consists of a stipend and free caucus membership. All students who submit an abstract to the Caucus for consideration for the annual meeting are eligible for this award.
Walter J. Lear was one of the founders and a longtime chair of the Caucus. He founded the Caucus in 1975 and worked with APHA to inform them of our health issues and the need for research. Click here to read Walter's Obituary
Thanks to Carmine Novembre of Pfizer for support of the Walter Lear Student Award.
About the CaucusSince its founding in 1975, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer/Questioning (LGBTQ) Caucus has been an association of public health professionals committed to furthering LGBTQ issues within the American Public Health Association (APHA) and the field of public health at large. For more information about the LGBTQ Health Caucus, please see our Frequently Asked Questions. |