Scout is
me. I am an independent lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT)
health consultant in my pro life. On the amateur side, I'm a husband to
one and a father to three. This whole clan lives in Lincoln, Rhode Island,
an old mill town where we can walk to lots, and where Beth down at the grocery
store was one of the first to ask if I'd defended my dissertation. We've
got a garden in our backyard that gets bigger every year, three pet chickens,
and we're really grooving on the balance of small town life with easy access to
cities. In my years here, I've discovered a love for the tried and true
New England hobby of trashpicking. What? Trash? OK, think of
it as recycling. Or gleaning if you're in France. For me it's free
stuff every morning, and it's the place where I found the wedding ring I gave to
Susanna.
Yes, I did say three kids. I got three little
mugwumpers that wear me ragged and make me happy. Catch all of five of us
some early morning as we hop on our bikes and head out to the local
towpath. And - tandems rule!
Short professional bio + contact info
Scout
Director
National
LGBT Tobacco Control Network
The
Fenway Institute
7 Haviland St
.
Boston
,
MA
02115
401-263-5092
401-633-6092
f
scoutout@gmail.com
www.scoutout.org
Dr. Scout is the Director of the National LGBT Tobacco Control Network and
an independent health consultant specializing in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and
transgender (LGBT) health, tobacco, social determinants of health, health
disparities, and HIV. In 2005
he completed his Ph.D. from
Columbia
’s Mailman School of Public Health in
New York City
. The dissertation, Social
Determinants of Transgender Health, breaks new ground in exploring a
little-understood population within the lens of discrimination and stigma.
Scout has been consulting with different community-based health
organizations since 1994, providing a range of technical assistance.
Activities include: evaluating a Special Project of National Significance
at Fenway Community Health; participating with the Parity Alliance task force to
pursue tobacco litigation opportunities for LGBT and communities of color;
conducting a series of HIV needs assessments for different Eligible Metropolitan
Areas across the east coast, and facilitating the first ever statewide
transgender political meeting for
New York
State
. Scout hails from a small town in
Rhode Island
where he’s usually the only transgender father of three kids at the PTA
meetings.
