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Health & health care for lesbian, bisexual and same sex attracted women

 
 
 
DIALOG PhD project

Links

 

Links are provided to various research sites relevant to the DIALOG project. These are in four categories.


University of Melbourne Research sites

The Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne
http://www.gp.unimelb.edu.au/

Diamond longitudinal project
http://www.diamond.unimelb.edu.au/research/projects.html

Melbourne Research and Innovation Office, University of Melbourne
- to download Code of Conduct for Research
http://www.research.unimelb.edu.au/humanethics/

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Lesbian and Gay Health Research sites

Gay and Lesbian Health Victoria
www.glhv.org.au,
phone: (03) 9285 5382 or email: info@glhv.org.au
La Trobe University, 1st Floor, 215 Franklin St, Melbourne 3000, Victoria

The Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
215 Franklin St, Melbourne 3000, Victoria
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/arcshs/
Tel: +61 3 9285 5382
Fax: +61 3 9285 5220
Email: arcshs@latrobe.edu.au

Australian Centre for Lesbian and Gay Lesbian Research
This centre has now been disbanded.
http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/centres/aclgr/
Email: aclgr@social.usyd.edu.au

Gay and Lesbian Ageing Issues in Australia
This site is owned by Dr Jo Harrison.
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~jamms
Dr Jo Harrison's PhD Thesis
http://www.library.unisa.edu.au/adt%2Droot/public/adt%2DSUSA%2D01042005%2D134827/

Australian Lesbian Medical Association
ALMA offers annual Lesbian and Bisexual Women’s education and research grants
www.almas.net.au

National Centre in HIV Social Research
http://nchsr.arts.unsw.edu.au
Level 2, Webster building, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 2052
Phone: +61 2 9385 6776, Fax: +61 2 9385 6455
Email: nchsr@unsw.edu.au

Lesbian and Gay research in UK Universities and Colleges
A summary of researchers undertaking lesbian and gay research in the UK.
http://hallcarpenter.tripod.com/hca/univ.html

Lesbian Health Research Centre, University of San Francisco, California
This includes health information, guidelines for what to ask your doctor and the facility to ask a doctor questions.
http://www.lesbianhealthinfo.org/

Sexuality Information and Education Council of United States (SIECUS)
www.siecus.org

Lesbian Health Fund, Gay and Lesbian Medical Association, USA
GLMA runs the Lesbian Health research Fund, with biannual grant rounds.
http://www.glma.org/programs/lhf/index.shtml

GLMA-Columbia University White paper on LGBT Health
This paper was written in 2000 to contribute LGBT content for the national Healthy People 2010 health plan of the USA.
http://www.glma.org/pub/jglma/vol4/3/index.shtml
GLMA white paper jan 00 [pdf]

Mautner Project
The Mautner Project is a national lesbian health organization based in Washington, DC. It runs lesbian health research, advocacy and health care provider education programs.
http://www.mautnerproject.org/programs%5Fand%5Fservices/Research/

Women who have sex with women and STDs
Dr Jeanne Marrazzo is Assistant Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) at the University of Washington in Seattle, and also directs the Seattle STD/HIV Prevention and Training Center.
Her website disseminates her research into sexual health and sexually transmitted diseases in women who have sex with women.
http://depts.washington.edu/wswstd/

Howard Brown Health Center, Chicago, USA
Howard Brown Health Center is for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. They conduct various research projects in LGBT health.
http://www.howardbrown.org/research-main.asp

The Fenway Institute, Boston, USA
The Fenway Institute is affiliated with the Fenway Community Health Center. It is dedicated to research, education and advocacy for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
http://www.fenwayhealth.org/site/PageServer?pagename=FCHC_ins_fenway_home

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General Practice and Primary Care Research sites

Royal Australian College of General Practitioners – research foundation and grants
www.racgp.org.au/research

Australian Association for Academic General Practice
http://www.aaagp.org

Primary Health Care Research and Information Service, Australia
http://www.phcris.org.au/

Roadmap of Australian Primary Health Care Research (ROAR)
http://www.phcris.org.au/products/roar.php

North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG)
http://www.napcrg.org/

UK Federation of Primary Care Research Organisations
http://www.ukf-pcro.org/

Center for Studies in Family Medicine, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Professor Moira Stewart and colleagues who pioneered work on the patient-centered clinical method.
http://www.uwo.ca/fammed/csfm/

Resources for Family Medicine Researchers, USA
http://www.fmresearch.org/

World Organisation of National Colleges, Academies and Academic Associations of General Practitioners/Family Physicians (WONCA – or World Organization of Family Doctors)
http://www.globalfamilydoctor.com/

Professor Nicky Britten
University of Exeter, Peninsula Medical School
Institute of Health and Social Care Research, Applied Health Care Research
Interests in the sociology of prescribing and medicine-taking, communication between patients and health care professionals, the use of complementary and alternative medicine, and the synthesis of qualitative research.
http://myprofile.cos.com/britten

Professor Lucy Candib
Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and a faculty family physician at the Family Health and Social Service Center in Worcester, MA., USA. She has written many articles about Family Medicine and the intersection of feminism and family medicine.
http://146.189.194.141/fmch/faculty/Candib_Lucy.cfm

Professor Kirsti Malterud
Professor of General Practice, Division for General Practice, Department of Public Health and primary Health Care, University of Bergen, Norway.
She has interests in women’s health (including lesbian women), clinical communication and qualitative research methods.
http://www.uib.no/isf/people/kirsti.htm

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Lesbian and Gay Research in General Practice/Primary Care

Dr Bob Cant
Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Primary Care and Public Health, London South Bank University
Researched the Primary Care experiences of lesbians and gay men
http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/hsc-ResearchInstitute/bob.htm

Professor Sue Wilkinson
Professor of Feminist and Health Studies and Social Psychology Program Director
Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University, Leicestershire UK.
Researched lesbian health care experiences, qualitative methodologies
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ss/depstaff/staff/wilkinson.html

Professor Tamsin Wilton
Professor of Human Sexuality, School of Sociology, University of West England, Bristol
Researches lesbian health, sociology of health and medicine
http://www.uwe.ac.uk/hlss/sociology/staff_twilton.shtml

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For information about this page, contact: Dr Ruth McNair
Contact email address: r.mcnair@unimelb.edu.au
Department homepage: www.gp.unimelb.edu.au
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