Comprehensive Sexual Health Education &
Prevention and Early Intervention Programming
Sexual Health & Wellbeing
Through active RWJF and NIH funding, we are currently engaged in a three-phase study of sexual health and wellbeing. We are conducting community conversations, in-depth interviews, and will launch a survey in 2026. Phase 1 studies the psychometrics of “sexual health,” to produce a community-developed measure that moves beyond a narrow focus on identity, and better aligns with the WHO standards and culturally relevant understandings. Phase 2 explores the dimensions and domains of holistic sexual wellbeing.
Graphic Medicine
Recognizing the documented efficacy of comprehensive sexual health education (CSHE) in improving sexual health and decreasing interpersonal violence, we’re addressing a number of curricular/competency gaps and educational access barrier through graphic medicine. Graphic medicine is “the use of comics to tell stories of illness and health.” Our specific initiative will work to increase health literacy, disrupt stigmatizing and violent narratives, and transform 2SLGBTQIA+ health-related practices and policies by acting as evidence for change.
Programming for Autists
Although Autists make up ~13% of the adult U.S. population, they are heavily underrepresented in gender and sexual health research and programming. This has dire consequences, given that Autists are more likely to experience intimate partner and sexual violence. This project will co-develop, test, and pilot a lived-experience led ADAPT-ITT (Assessment, Decision, Adaptation, Production, Topical experts-integration, Training, and Testing) prevention and early intervention (PEI) sexual health program.