About the Seminar
Join the Impact Institute for our Current Issues in LGBTQ Health seminar featuring Annesa Flentje, PhD.
The PRIDE Study is a national longitudinal cohort study (>30,000 enrolled participants) of LGBTQIA+ health built on national community and participant engagement. The study is currently launching its 10th year of annual measurement of social, mental, and physical health. The PRIDE Study uses a collaborative model to support novel research questions within the cohort (using existing annual or novel data collection), while supporting community engagement.
In-person attendance is highly encouraged for this seminar. After registering, a Zoom link will be provided for those unable to attend at the Impact Institute.
About the Speaker
Annesa Flentje, PhD, is a Professor at Stanford University in the Stanford Prevention Research Center, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine. Dr. Flentje is a clinical psychologist who uses multiple methods to understand the impacts of stress and coping on human health and disease. Her research has investigated how stress directly impacts health outcomes and how these processes are mediated through both behaviors (e.g., substance use and coping) and molecular mechanisms (e.g., epigenetics and transcriptional regulation). Dr. Flentje has developed cognitive behavioral interventions to reduce stress, and identified these as a mechanism to alter immune pathways in gene expression.
Dr. Flentje is currently leading a large comparative effectiveness study of two interventions for posttraumatic stress symptoms among LGBTQIA+ populations in California. Dr. Flentje has developed and led nationwide mentoring initiatives to support health research of understudied populations and translational research to improve health. Dr. Flentje is Co-Director of The PRIDE Study (pridestudy.org), a national longitudinal cohort study of LGBTQIA+ individuals within the United States that has enrolled over 30,000 participants and is approaching 10 years of data collection.
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