Six organizations are launching a national study on how COVID-19 impacted the LGBTQ community. The We Count Collaborative will bring together data from 45,000 LGBTQ patients.
It is a joint effort between the PRIDE Study (based at Stanford University on the Peninsula) and five federally qualified health centers: the Los Angeles LGBT Center, the Callen-Lorde Community Health Center in New York, CrescentCare in New Orleans, Howard Brown Health in Chicago, and the Whitman-Walker Institute in Washington, D.C.
Annesa Flentje, who has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and is associate director of the PRIDE Study, told the Bay Area Reporter that the project, launched in May, is necessary due to the dearth of sexual orientation and gender identity, or