Brian Mustanski, PhD

Our new study shows effects of the Keep It Up! digitial HIV prevention program on increasing #PrEP use, that it is cost-saving, and compares strategies for implementation. It is free to access now! link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Introducing the Impact Institute (@Impact_NU), formerly known as the Institute for Sexual and General Minority Health and Wellbeing (ISGMH)! The name Impact Institute is a nod to one of our first programs researching the health of #LGBTQ populations.

As WorldPride is underway this weekend in Washington, D.C., a rally and march are planned for Sunday to protest the Trump administration's actions affecting the LGBTQ+ community, such as cutting funding for health research. Many researchers in areas like gender affirming care and HIV/AIDS have lost federal grants. @AliRogin sat down with @Mustanski, director of the Impact Institute for LGBTQ health research, to learn more.

On @pbsnewshour now discussing federal cuts to critical #LGBTQhealth research grants that use scientific methods to help improve the health of not just the 10% of Americans in this group but findings benefit all. youtu.be/S57q8-MPQrw

Congratulations to @NUFeinbergMSS faculty @AmeliaVanPelt, PhD, MPH and team on publishing this paper that uses the innovation tournament methodology to crowdsource ideas for implementation of long-acting PrEP in sexual minority men in Chicago! Read now: shorturl.at/suO5p

This was a fun project! Our team ran an innovation tournament to crowdsource ideas for injectable PrEP in Chicago. #impsci

How can implementation science accelerate progress toward ending the HIV epidemic? A new JAIDS supplemental issue provides insight by summarizing HIV implementation knowledge from 120 EHE projects and identifying next steps to advance interventions. tinyurl.com/4jb2fmbt

Conversion therapy was significantly associated with several adverse cardiovascular health outcomes, such as increased BP. 🩸 Hear why @Mustanski says #clinicians should discourage patients from “pursuing these discredited practices”: healio.com/news/primary-c…

These results suggest that exposure to SOGICE may increase the risk of adverse cardiovascular health outcomes, underscoring the need for enforcement of bans and affirmative care approaches.

In our cohort study of 703 LGBTQ young adults 10.2% were exposed to these practices, typically around the time of puberty. Exposure was associated with later elevated blood pressure, increased systemic inflammation, and higher odds of self-reported hypertension diagnosis.

Supreme Court has decided to hear a case challenging local and state laws banning so-called “conversion therapy” for LGBTQ youth. Our new study in @JAMANetworkOpen is first to show these discredited practices increase risk for later heart disease. Free: jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

Kudos to Maria Pyra, PhD, MPH, Med, and the entire @ISGMH team for their work on the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (JAIDS) Supplemental Issue: Progress and Priorities to End the HIV Epidemic by 2030. Read more: shorturl.at/115xo

"We are on the precipice of being able to end HIV in our country," ISGMH's @Mustanski tells @axios. "We have the tools to solve it, ... but if we back off that, if we take our foot off the pedal, we will have more #HIV cases in the United States." axios.com/local/chicago/…

🩹 Spread the word about what is going on. Share this post and others from amazing #LGBTQhealth researchers that are suffering the devastating closure of an entire field of critical science.

🩹 If you are connected to a foundation that might offer emergency support please reach out to me. Please invest in us to keep reporting on the health needs of the LGBTQ community and scientifically backed solutions.

Last weeks have been dizzying as the fed canceled nearly all our @ISGMH NIH funded research 2 improve implementation of health services, health of young gay/bi/lesbian men & women, trans health in HIV, mental health, cancer, cardio disease, drug use, etc. How can you help? 🧵

What a treat to get to collaborate with this great team helping review how #ImpSci can help inform mental health services.

Today marks the beginning of National LGBTQ Health Awareness Week. Check out this #freetoread introduction to a new special issue of Health Psychology on sexual and gender minority health inequities bit.ly/4h0jkrA @drdustinduncan @Mustanski