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About Equitas Health Institute

The Institute for LGBTQ Health Equity is the education, research, and community engagement arm of Equitas Health, focusing on reducing health disparities in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning (LGBTQ+) community.

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What’s hot at the institute?

  • We’re #stillteaching during COVID-19


    Why is cultural competency not enough?

    The “new normal” must include affirming healthcare. That’s why we’re now offering all of our workshops and trainings as webinars. Recently Lead Trainer Ramona Peel conducted a live webinar titled, “Combatting Bias via Cultural Humility: Making Historical Sites More Inclusive for the LGBTQ+ Community,” with AmeriCorps members at the Ohio History Connection. Here’s what one participant had to say: “I am so glad we still had the opportunity to learn how historical sites can combat bias with cultural humility, even though the in-person training had to

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  • VARIAT Sim App Teaches Empathy


    When Nationwide Children’s Hospital developed the new app, VARIAT Sim (Virtual and Augmented Reality Implicit Association Training), they called on the expertise of the Equitas Health Institute to guide their module addressing implicit biases toward sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) in a healthcare setting. The VARIAT Sim app provides healthcare workers an in-person, onsite perspective to promote empathy and decrease implicit bias. By successfully completing the SOGI module, Medicaid providers will:   Increase their awareness of implicit biases. Learn how biases and social determinants of

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  • Transforming Care 2020: Call for Abstracts


    We are excited to announce we are accepting abstracts for the 2020 Transforming Care Conference between April 6, 2020 and May 22, 2020. Transforming Care has come to be known as the most comprehensive conference on LGBTQ+ HIV health equity in the country. Conference participants tell us that what makes TCC so transformative is the mix of people—researchers, practitioners, activists, community members all broadening each other’s perspectives. This year’s TCC theme will be The Invisibles. SUBMIT A PROPOSAL We seek proposals presented by and geared toward medical

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  • LGBTQ+ Provider Guide Now Digital!


    The Equitas Health Institute Provider Guide is a listing of Ohio medical and social service providers who offer varying degrees and types of LGBTQ+ affirming care. Now you can search the guide by geographic region on our website! Providers listed in this guide answered “yes” to at least one of the following questions. When searching the guide, you’ll use tthe corresponding symbols to determine the nature of LGBTQ+ affirming services each provider offers. PROVIDER COLOR KEY: Has had LGBTQ-specific cultural competency training. Have you received any

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What Folks Are Saying …

  • “Thank you for the education! I took this workshop because I work with adolescents who identify different from what society has said they should be. I can better serve my consumers because I understand there are differences between sexual identity and sexual orientation.”

    Social service provider

  • “I would take ANY class from Ramona Peel.”

    Broad Street Food Pantry volunteer

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  • “Thank you so much! Your presentation was so helpful! A breath of fresh air!”

    Sinclair College employee

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  • Medical Mutual of Ohio

    “The entire training series was phenomenal. Coming in, I was already confident in my ability to be an ally, but I still learned so, so much. I honestly believe this training should be mandatory for everyone.”

    Medical Mutual of Ohio employee


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    “I recommend staff participating in this training more than once: at new hire orientation, and then again after they have spent time on the job.”

    Equitas Health Medical Center employee


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    “Ramona is an incredible speaker – engaging, clear, and thought-provoking. A Friday seminar is a hard slot to take, but she did an amazing job, and I would stay late every Friday to hear more of what she has to say.”

    Center for Balanced Living employee


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We have experience serving Ohio’s healthcare leaders and corporate culture innovators. Some of our satisfied clients include:

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