Description:

**This seminar is offered as a HYBRID event: join us IN PERSON or ONLINE. Please RSVP regardless and indicate your intended mode. The in-person event will be held in Baldwin Auditorium of the Lurie Medical Research Building at 303 E. Superior; Chicago. Lunch will be provided for in person attendees on a first-come, first-served basis.**

Directed by Dr. Lauren Beach (they/them) and Dr. Sumanas Jordan (she/her), the ADVOCATE SGM Health Program serves as the clinical and translational research program within the Institute of Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing (ISGMH). To support the program's success, ADVOCATE houses four teams that transverse the research to practice to policy public health translational research pipeline: 1) SGM Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Datamart team 2) SGM Intervention team 3) SGM Learning Health Systems team and 4) SGM Policy team. This seminar will present a brief overview of how ADVOCATE has built a model to achieve meaningful improvements in healthcare delivery and health equity for SGM and HIV patients by co-leading structural health interventions with community and health system partners. We will also describe opportunities to partner with our team, especially with regard to accessing ADVOCATE's SGM population and health outcomes Northwestern Medicine EMR datamarts.

Featuring,

Lauren B Beach, PhD
Assistant Professor, Medical Social Sciences
Northwestern University
Feinberg School of Medicine