what we do

Past work

We were part of a collective that established the first LGBTQ Cultural Competency Training Standards with leading partners Whitman-Walker Institute and the National LGBT Cancer Network. Check out the toolkit here.

CONQUER(TM): the patient voice articles for people diagnosed with cancer.

Below is a select list of publications relevant to our mission for a more inclusive, sustainable future.

Developing Standards for Cultural Competency Training for Healthcare Providers to Care for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Asexual Persons: Consensus Recommendations. LGBT Health.  2022.

All research is LGBTQI research: Recommendations for improving cancer care through research relevant to sexual and gender minority populations. Annals of LGBTQ Public and Population Health. 2022.

Together-Equitable-Accessible-Meaningful (TEAM) Training to improve cancer care for sexual and gender minorities (SGM): Outcomes from a pilot study. Journal of Cancer Education. 2022.

Implementation factors for patient navigation program success: a qualitative study. Implementation Science Communications. 2021.

"When the pain is so acute or if I think that I'm going to die": Health care seeking behaviors and experiences of transgender and gender diverse people in an urban area. Plos One. 2021.

Learner outcomes of diverse oncology professionals after the TEAM cultural competency training. Journal of Cancer Education 2020.

Cancer care considerations for sexual and gender minority patients. Oncology Issues. 2019.

Patient navigation in cancer: The business case to support clinical needs. Journal of Oncology Practice. 2019.

Establishing effective patient navigation programs in oncology. Supportive Care in Cancer. 2019

Advancing access and equity: the vision of a new generation in cancer control. Lancet Oncology. 2017.

Lecture on Decolonizing Research, April 22, 2022

World Cancer Day overview on queer health. Union for International Cancer Control. 2020.

Development of patient navigation programs and their role in promoting health literacy. National Academies of Medicine, Science and Engineering. 2019.

Workforce competencies in patient navigation. National Academies of Medicine, Science, and Engineering. 2017.

Let's Talk Cancer: Inclusive care for LGBTQI People, Union for International Cancer Control 2023

Less Cancer, Disparities in Cancer Screening and Care among the LGBTQ Community, John Dingell Cancer Health Disparities Access Interviews, National Cancer Prevention Workshop 2023

Health Care Disparities and the LGBTQI Community, GW Pride 2022

In Health Care, Not Discriminating Is Not Enough, Newsweek, 2021

A Tale of Two Cities: Maranda's Health Equity Work in the Nation’s Capital, Center for Education Equity