Transforming Care is an annual conference organized by Equitas Health - The 9th annual Transforming Care Conference “Carrying the Torch” will take place Thursday, October 10th 2024. In-Person at the Fawcett Center & Virtual. Livestreamed by Bell Tree Productions.

Cassie (PRIDEnet’s LGBTQIA+ Regional Engagement Coordinator - Midwest) will be co-presenting with Rachel Hetrick, MPH from PRIDEnet's Community Partner Consortium member Equitas Health Institute.

Presentation: "Shaping Our Present and Future: LGBTQIA+ Health Research & Insights from LGBTQIA+ Older Adults"*

They will be sharing back results from Community Listening Sessions completed with LGBTQIA+ Older Adults – discussing the key findings, highlighting quotes from participants, sharing recommendations that focus on improving clinical care and social services, as well as provide ideas on future research on LGBTQIA+ aging and how to make research engagement and enrollment strategies more inclusive and responsive for this community.

*This presentation is pre-recorded, available to conference attendees for 5 days

Learn more about the conference: https://transformingcareconference.com/

The Philadelphia Trans Wellness Conference is in-person and online. PRIDEnet's presentation will happen virtually for all of those who registered. Registration is free, and closed on August 30, 2024. PRIDEnet's presentation, "Listen, Then Act: Leveraging LGBTQIA+ Community Listening Sessions To Inform Research And Practice" will be live on Saturday, September 7, 2024 at 8:30 a.m. EST.

Session Description: Improving LGBTQIA+ health care and research requires centering the voices of LGBTQIA+ community members. Community listening sessions are an effective tool for gathering direct feedback and ensuring that efforts reflect the principle of community engaged research. As a representative of PRIDEnet at Stanford University, Cassie Armea-Warren will share how we have used these sessions to inform projects like The PRIDE Study and the All of Us Research Program, highlighting lessons learned and offering practical insights for applying this approach in diverse settings.

Learn more: https://www.mazzonicenter.org/conference/virtual-participation-ptwc

PRIDEnet will be presenting at NAESM! Find us at Workshop X in Lambert A lobby level from 2:15pm-3:45pm (CDT)

Description: PRIDEnet, based out of Stanford, formed a Black/African American/African diasporic LGBTQIA+ Advisory Group who provided feedback on ways that research projects can use more culturally competent and responsive community engagement strategies focused for this community. In this session, we'll share back an executive summary of recommendations, including the feedback that there was a lack of education around what health research is and why LGBTQIA+ representation is important. There is both misinformation and a lack of information about the health experiences of Black/African American/African diasporic LGBTQIA+ people. To increase representation of Black SGM people in health research, we need many people from the community to participate. To address this gap, PRIDEnet created a new interactive exhibit "Take PRIDE in Our Health Stories"! As a group we'll go through a guided exhibit tour, which will include learning how community-engaged health research can help advance LGBTQIA+ health care and having group conversations about topics of health and research.