Office for Disparities Research and Workforce Diversity Webinar Series: Understanding Stigma and Discrimination as Drivers of Mental Health Disparities for Diverse, Rural, LGBTQ+ Communities

Employing a minority stress framework, REALM goals to find out the next: whether or not sorts of stigma, discrimination, and traumatic experiences differ throughout LGBTQ+ teams; how these exposures are related to elevated prevalence and incidence of despair, suicidal ideation, and suicide makes an attempt; and if and how proximal minority stress-related elements mediate and/or reasonable these associations. Further, constructing on these findings, REALM will evaluate the relative acceptability of numerous technology-delivered intervention elements for despair and suicide prevention for various rural LGBTQ+ communities.

Challenges with on-line recruitment and enrollment and inventive options shall be shared, along with classes realized in how to make sure participant security. The webinar will finish with an outline of the cohort so far and share preliminary baseline findings associated to check goals.

About the audio system

Sarah M. Murray, Ph.D., M.S.P.H.

Assistant Professor
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Department of Mental Health

Sarah M. Murray (she/her) is a psychiatric epidemiologist and assistant professor on the Bloomberg School of Public Health at John Hopkins University. Her major analysis curiosity is utilizing blended strategies to know the multifaceted relationship between violence, stigma, and frequent psychological issues to tell the event of efficient methods to advertise the psychological well being and psychosocial well-being of people experiencing marginalization and/or residing in conditions of complicated adversity in high-, middle- and low-income nations. Much of her analysis focuses on higher understanding and measuring experiences of stigma amongst sexual and gender minority adults. As principal investigator of the REALM examine, Dr, Murray seeks to raised perceive how these experiences might drive psychological well being disparities and what strengths-based and protecting elements might contribute to optimistic psychological well being outcomes to tell intervention improvement.

Kirsten Siebach, M.S.W.

NIMH Global Mental Health T32 Doctoral Fellow
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Department of International Health

Kirsten Siebach (she/they) is a 3rd 12 months doctoral pupil within the International Health Department on the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. Kirsten’s analysis pursuits lie within the influence of the structural surroundings, together with insurance policies, legal guidelines, social attitudes, and norms, on psychological well being and psychosocial well-being, particularly among the many LGBTQ+ neighborhood. Kirsten’s dissertation work will study how structural stigma impacts LGBTQ+ adults residing within the rural United States. Kirsten has a grasp’s diploma in social work from the Boston College School of Social Work. She works with Mariah Valentine and clinician Gina Baily Herring to implement the psychological well being security protocol for the REALM examine.

Mariah Valentine-Graves, M.P.H.

Public Health Program Associate Emory University Rollins School of Public Health
Program, Research, Innovation in Sexual Minority Health (PRISM)

Mariah Valentine-Graves (she/her) acquired her bachelor’s diploma in historical past and political science from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in 2013, adopted by her Master of Public Health in behavioral science and well being training from the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in 2016. During her time at UCSD, she was concerned in social justice work as an intern with each the UCSD LGBT Resource Center and the UCSD Women’s Center. During her time at Emory University, Mariah labored for two years as a graduate analysis assistant for the Women’s Interagency HIV Study on the Grady Infectious Disease Program. She has labored with PRISM Health as a public well being program affiliate since 2016, coordinating the Engage[men]t Study, a cohort examine of males residing with HIV in Atlanta. She leads participant-facing actions within the REALM examine together with recruitment and retention of contributors.

About the Office for Disparities Research and Workforce Diversity Webinar Series

The Office for Disparities Research and Workforce Diversity Webinar Series is designed for investigators conducting or serious about conducting analysis on psychological well being disparities, girls’s psychological well being, minority psychological well being, and rural psychological well being.

Registration

This webinar is free, however registration is required .