Click on the links below to learn more about what I've done in each area.
 | Facilitation |
| Public Speaking/Trainings |
| Evaluation Research |
| Technical Assistance |
| Information Development |
| Grant and science writing |
Facilitation
I have experience facilitating a wide range of meetings. Past events have included up to 100 people and spanned a wide range of topics and participant experience levels.
It's important to remember that facilitation isn't just leading a meeting, the strength of facilitation is in guiding participants through a series of decisions. Frankly, if you don't need to make hard decisions, then it's often best to save your money and skip having a facilitator. But if you do need to make those decisions, then a facilitator can help immeasurably in keeping the meeting on track, guiding the process, and reaching the intended goals. I find facilitation to be some of my most interesting work. This is partly because it involves so many simultaneous and different tasks. While I'm calling on the next person, I'm often also noting who else wants to speak, remembering the list of other speakers, keeping track of where we are in Roberts Rules, trying to think of a solution that reflects the concerns of two disputing factions, and matching it all to the intended agenda times. Clearly facilitation is never boring. I also enjoy it simply because it's so gratifying to get to the end of the day and have reached the goals.
Examples of past facilitation
| 2003 - Facilitated meeting to create the National LGBT Communities Tobacco Action Plan, Washington, D.C. |
| 2002 - Facilitated 1st New York Statewide Transgender Meeting, Albany, N.Y. |
| 1998-2002 - Facilitated Ryan White Title I Planning Council annual meetings to prioritize and allocate funds for future year. Sites include: Orlando, FL., Philadelphia, PA. and Baltimore, MD. |
| 2001 - Facilitated portions of the developmental meetings for the National Coalition for LGBT Health, Washington, D.C. |
Trainings & Public Speaking
People have said I've got a weensy bit of a flair in front of an audience. Maybe it depends on the day or maybe it's just cause I'm one of those perverse people who enjoy public speaking. Either way, this is a key part of my worklife. While much of my work has been at larger conferences, I am interested in doing this on a more local level too. Are you looking for a Transgender 101 training? Call me. (or Samuel Lurie, cause he does that real well too).
Examples of public speaking/trainings
| 2005 - Invited closing plenary speaker at the National Conference for Tobacco or Health: "LGBT social justice and tobacco". |
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2004 -- Invited speaker at the National Conference on Lesbian Health: "Do you know someone over 60 and under 20?" |
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2004 -- Invited plenary speaker at the Gay and Lesbian medical Association Conference: "LGBT Tobacco Update". |
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2004 -- Invited plenary speaker Asian Pacific Partners for Education And Leadership Conference. |
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2002 -- Invited plenary speaker Gay and Lesbian Medical Association Conference: "Smoke, Lies, and Mirrors: Tobacco and the LGBT Communities." |
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2002 -- Presentation at National Conference on Tobacco or Health: "The LGBT Incubation Project." |
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2002 -- Invited speaker at the Reducing Tobacco Health Disparities Conference: "The LGBT Incubation Project." |
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2001 -- Invited plenary speaker at the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association Conference: "Transgender Health Care Training.". |
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2001 -- Presentation at the National Lesbian Health Conference: "Gender ID as a barrier to healthcare and treatment." |
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2000 -- Presentation at Healing Works: "Transgender 101
Training." |
Evaluation Research
I have been part of the evaluation team on a number of different projects in several different areas of LGBT Health. I have training and experience in both quantitative and qualitative methods, including: survey design, administration, focus groups, short interviews and life history interviews. From the logic model to the data analysis, I can provide the direction you need to design and conduct a bulletproof program evaluation.
Examples of past evaluation/research projects
| 2005 - Qualitative design, data collection and analysis of dissertation research, including focus groups, short and life history interviews. |
| 2001-5 - Evaluator/Project Manager for the LGBT Incubation Project, and American Legacy Foundation funded Priority Population Grant at The Fenway Institute. This four year project incoporated a series of think tanks at different LGBT Health Centers, then moved onto fielding a pilot test of an innovative smoking cessation concept. The pilot test was evaluated with a full complement of both quantitative and qualitative data collection methods. |
| 2002-4 - Evaluator/Project Manager for a Special Project of National Significance at The Fenway Institute. This project developed and tested an innovative method for stabilizing People of Color into HIV care. |
| 1998-9 - Evaluator on Removing the Barriers, a CDC funded LGBT cultural competency training project being run by the Mautner Project for Lesbians with Cancer. This pilot project evaluation included a range of methods including, training observations, site inspections, and survey instruments. |
| 1996-9 - Project Director on a series of HIV community needs assessments. These needs assessments were excersises in accessing hard-to-reach populations. A variety of strategies were used to get high response rates for surveys about peoples' experiences with HIV services. Surveys were fielded in several different languages, including Spanish and Haitian Creole. Focus groups sometimes supplemented the survey effort, to provide a greater depth of information. Cities include: Baltimore, MD, Orlando, FL, Norfolk, VA, Philadelphia, PA. |
Technical Assistance
A lot of past technical assistance work has been in the HIV arena, where interpretation of complicated federal directives on HIV funding programs is a constant issue. In this capacity I've created action plans, written RFPs (Request for Proposals), and created grievance policies for cities or regions getting federal HIV money.
More recently, I have started to do LGBT Health technical assistance. Examples of this include:
| 2002 - serving on an expert panel on LGBT data collection at the CDC, |
| 2001 - writing pieces of the LGBT Healthy People 2010 Companion Document |
| 2002 - serving on the advisory group for the CDC-funded House Ball Project in New York City |
| 2004-5 - consulting for an LGBT clean indoor air campaign being funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and fielded by the National Coalition for LGBT Health |
| 2003-4 - consulting team for the development of the National LGBT Communities Tobacco Action Plan |
Information Development
Sometimes we need information and have to strategize on how to collect it. Othertimes we need a report, website, or training manual to pop, so have to think about how to present the information that's there. This often includes a focus on how to organize the information, how to graphically present it, and guaging the language to match the audience.
Examples of past information development projects
| 2004 - Reformat and content revision of the training manual for the Fenway SPNS project. |
| 2004 - Nationwide inventory of LGBT anti-tobacco programs, conducted for the Tobacco Technical Assistance Consortium as part of the development of the National LGBT Communities Tobacco Action Plan. |
Grant and science writing
I have been grantwriting for 15 years. For a while in DC, I ran a consulting firm that led teams of grantwriters working on large HIV proposals from the cities to the feds. In all, I have led or written over $100 million dollars worth of grant proposals. (Alright, maybe it's cheating that the city proposals could garner $10M at a time). Point is, I have a wide range of skills and experiences that can help take a proposal from concept to funding.
Most recently, I have expanded beyond grantwriting to do science writing for groups developing peer-reviewed publications or presentations. In these cases, I have usually been the final writer brought in, then charged with getting the paper publication-ready. This can involve reorganization and further primary research and/or developing a related presentation. Below are examples of work in this area:
Egilman D,
Scout, Kol L, Hegg LA, Rankin Bohme S. Manipulated
Data in Shell’s Benzene Historical Exposure Study.
International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health.
Forthcoming.
Egilman D,
Presler A, Hegg LA, Rankin Bohme S, Scout. 2006. Vioxx Marketing: Merck’s
Failure to Warn. Conference Proceedings,
International Ergonomics Association.
Egilman D, Scout. 2006. Corporate Corruption of Science: the Case of Chromium(VI). International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health. Vol. 12/2. April/June.
Forthcoming Presentations:
Egilman D, Presler A, Hegg LA, Billings M, Scout. 2006. Merck-y ethics and sacrificing health for profit: ADVANTAGE Vioxx trial demonstrates a profile of deceit. APHA Annual Conference, Boston, MA.
Egilman D, Scout. 2006.
Epidemiologic techniques: How to hide a benzene cancer relationship. APHA
Annual Conference, Boston, MA.
I have lots of writing samples, please contact me to tell me what flavor you would like to see.