Adovich Rivera
Northwestern University, IL·Public Health & Epidemiology
Discrimination can affect health, not just well-being. Lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) adults are thought to face higher heart disease risk, partly because discrimination is linked to more smoking, binge drinking and substance use.
- Fields
Public Health & Epidemiology
Medicine & Clinical Research
Social Science
- Topics
sexual minority health
LGB health
health disparities
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Jun 2027
What they work on
- Measure the prevalence and incidence of cardiometabolic conditions and cardiovascular disease by sexual orientation, using linked Kaiser Permanente Research Bank surveys and electronic health records.
- Quantify how much social determinants such as education, income, discrimination and neighborhood safety drive cardiovascular disparities by sexual orientation, using decomposition methods.
- Explore whether telomere length, a marker of biological aging, helps explain differences in cardiometabolic disease between sexual minority and straight adults.
More about the research
Problems with health care access and the stress of being a minority may also play a role. Yet there is little data on the cardiovascular health of sexual minority adults, especially within subgroups such as sexual orientation combined with race. That gap makes it hard to design programs that reduce disparities.
Why it matters
Better data on heart and metabolic disease among lesbian, gay and bisexual adults could help health systems and policymakers set program targets. Identifying which social factors, such as income, education or discrimination, drive the gaps could guide the choice of strategies to improve cardiovascular health in this population.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Robert Rosales
Brown University, RI·Public Health & Epidemiology·Early-career
Assess the acceptability and feasibility of ecological momentary assessment (EMA) measures of social stress, alcohol use and protective factors among Hispanic and white LGB youth, using cognitive interviews and a two-week pilot.
Ethan Cicero
Emory University, GA·Public Health & Epidemiology·Early-career
Examine the epidemiology of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias among middle-aged and older adults from under-resourced communities, including people receiving hormone replacement therapy, using Kaiser Permanente electronic health record data from the STRONG study.
Payal Chakraborty
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC·Public Health & Epidemiology·Early-career
Quantify differences in unintended pregnancy rates by sexual orientation by combining data from two large national longitudinal cohorts.
The school
Northwestern University: 71 labs on PI Pages, $1.3B a year on research, 536 research doctorates a year.
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