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A paradigm shift for cancer equity

For Pride Month, I’m advocating for equity in cancer care! In my latest commentary, I’m calling for a paradigm shift that prioritizes the sexual rehabilitation of cancer patients, especially gay and bisexual men, whose sexual health needs are often overlooked. Read my commentary in JAMA Oncology and join the conversation on making cancer care more […]

Norms & Nicotine

Norms and Nicotine This rapid systematic review sheds light on the understudied role of normative processes in influencing tobacco use behaviors among sexual and gender minority populations. We propose a model where normative processes moderate the association between minority stress and tobacco use behaviors. This research was presented at the 2024 meeting of the Society […]

HPV Decide: The development and evaluation of a comprehensive tool to facilitate informed HPV choices among adults aged 27 to 45

Background: The shared clinical decision-making recommendation for mid-adult HPV vaccination in the United States (i.e., CDC 2019) may be successfully facilitated using patient-facing decision aids. The purpose of this study was to design, develop, and field test the HPV Decide decision tool among the target patient population (unvaccinated adults aged 27 to 45) and healthcare […]