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Lecture: Understanding Suicide Risks Among LGBT Veterans in VA Care12:30pm
Lecture: Understanding Suicide Risks Among LGBT Veterans in VA Care
Thursday, September 26th, 2019
12:30 PM - 01:45 PM
Storrs Campus Rainbow Center; Student Union 403
The Out to Lunch Gender, Sexuality, and Community is a weekly academic lecture and discussion series with guest scholars and community activists from various disciplines examining a variety of topics related to gender identity, gender expression, and sexuality. Each semester offers a broad sampling of the areas.
The Fall 2019 semester is co-sponsored by the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department (http://wgss.uconn.edu).
Today's lecture is entitled, "Understanding Suicide Risks Among LGBT Veterans in VA Care" and will be presented by Joseph Goulet, PhD (he/him/his).
Synopsis: • Little research has examined LGBT Veterans risk for suicide. We hypothesize that LGBT status is a pre-disposing factor that increases risk due to minority status, the stress of prior and ongoing discrimination, including military sexual trauma, that may be increased due to proximal factors such as mental health and medical conditions, homelessness, a lack of engagement in care, system and providers lack of awareness of needs, among other factors. However, the engagement of LGBT Veterans in VA is difficult to estimate: sexual orientation and gender identity (SO/GI) data is not (yet) collected in a structured manner. We will use VA EHR data to identify LGBT Veterans to ascertain suicidal behavior(s) and assess risk and protective factors among LGBT Veterans in all gender, age, and racial and ethnic groups.
Biography: Joseph Goulet, PhD, is an epidemiologist and statistician by training, currently the Director of the Methodology and Biostatistics core of the VA’s Pain Research, Informatics, Multi-morbidities, and Education (PRIME) Center, and an associate professor of medicine at Yale. My research focuses on the impact of mental health conditions on the course of care and outcomes for Veterans with comorbid medical conditions. He has been involved in the design and conduct of large cohort studies using VA EHR data sources supplemented by patient surveys on topics including HIV, women Veteran’s health, and musculoskeletal disorders. He serves as a Principle Investigator on the current study for which he is presenting today, and works closely with his co-PI Dr. Qing Zeng on the informatics Aims.
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Message from the Director – New Hire
The Rainbow Center has some exciting news to share with the campus community! In February 2019 the RC launched a search for its first full-time Rainbow Center Coordinator. On-campus interviews for finalists were held in early May. The search was remarkably competitive. It is my pleasure to announce that Julia Anderson (she/her/hers) was offered the position and recently 
accepted. She began her role as Rainbow Center Coordinator on June 21. Julia brings a high level of expertise, facilitation, and dedication to the work and we are excited to have her as part of the Rainbow Center team. Julia is a 2018 UConn HESA alum and previously served in a temporary programming role for the Rainbow Center for the past year. Julia’s favorite part of her job is the personal connections she is able to make with students and colleagues at UConn. She will continue to oversee the FYE class taught in the Rainbow Center, the FAMILEE mentoring program, and the Rainbow Center’s training programs, among other things.
Thank you for a great year!
