Caucus Awards

WALTER J. LEAR OUTSTANDING STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD

The Caucus established the Walter J. Lear Outstanding Student Research Award to recognize exceptional work by students on LGBT-related issues. The award consists of a stipend and free caucus membership. All students who submit an abstract to the Caucus for consideration for the annual meeting are eligible for this award. Walter J. Lear was one of the founders and a longtime chair of the Caucus. He founded the Caucus in 1975 and worked with APHA to inform them of our health issues and the need for research. Click here to read Walter's Obituary.

2025
Tyra Gravesande
Embodied Marginalization: How Black Trans Women Navigate Disclosures of Intimate Partner Violence in Clinical Settings

2024
Mari Tarantino
Gender non-affirmation from sexual partners: Psychometric evaluation and correlates of a brief stigma scale in a sample transgender and gender diverse community health center patients

2023
Jackie Cosse
Self-determined concepts of health: An intersectional study of personal, social, and political subjectivities among a diverse sample of LGBTQ adults

2022
Rory P. O’brien
Effects of county- and state-level structural stigma on minority stress, and anxiety and depressive symptoms in a nationwide sample of sexual minority adolescents,"

2021
Shahmir H. Ali
"Exploring disparities in lifetime sexual violence and attitudes related to sexual assault among young sexual minority South Asian Americans,"

2020
Hill Landon Wolfe, MPA
Transgender-related discrimination is associated with substance use and treatment history in a multi-state sample of transgender adults

2019
Naomi Greene
Exploring Healthcare provider interactions in breast cancer screening and care among Black sexual minority women

2018
Stephanie Creasy
Previously Incarcerated Transgender Women: A Mixed-Methods Study on Experiences, Needs, and Resiliencies

2017
Sarah M. Piperato
A Population-Based Study of Body Mass Index and Physical Activity Disparities Among Sexual Minority Identified Women

2016
Amaya Perez-Brumer
We don't treat your kind”: Social determinants of HIV prevention and care in the context of competing health needs among transgender people in Jackson, Mississippi