Kay Emma Sophia, Miller Gabe H, Puga Frank, Bruce Josh, Kennedy Bridge Hill, Pavela Gregory M, Densley Erin, Smith Trevis, Froehlich Mallie, MacCarthy Sarah
School of Nursing, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States.
Department of Sociology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States.
Front Public Health. 2025 Jun 26;13:1573811. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1573811. eCollection 2025.
The largest sexual (e.g., lesbian, gay and bisexual) and gender (e.g., transgender, nonbinary, gender diverse) minority (SGM) population in the United States resides in the Deep South; however, this area has no legal protections for SGM individuals, who experience substantial health inequities. Researchers from the Deep South are consistently overlooked in national dialogs on SGM health, with few SGM health training programs located in this area of the country. In response to these health and sociopolitical disparities and the dearth of regional SGM health training programs, we developed GenderS (Education on Gender and Sex), an innovative research education program led by a community-academic partnership that provides experiential and didactic training in SGM health in the Deep South via an online asynchronous curriculum; a one-week in-person residency in Birmingham, Alabama; and monthly virtual networking salons. In this paper, we describe the theoretical underpinnings of GenderS, the process for developing the curriculum and other program components, our evaluation plan, and lessons learned to date. Through dissemination of a national toolkit that includes templates and examples from GenderS, we can help other organizations adapt our program to their local contexts to train the next generation of SGM health researchers. Although we met challenges in developing recruitment materials for the program due to the enactment of an anti-diversity, equity, and inclusion law in Alabama, enthusiasm for our program remained high, illustrated by receipt of applications from 20 applicants across the United States and Africa.
美国最大的性取向（如女同性恋、男同性恋和双性恋）和性别（如跨性别者、非二元性别者、性别多元者）少数群体（SGM）居住在南部腹地；然而，该地区对SGM个体没有法律保护，他们面临着严重的健康不平等。在关于SGM健康的全国性讨论中，来自南部腹地的研究人员一直被忽视，该国这个地区几乎没有SGM健康培训项目。为应对这些健康和社会政治差异以及区域SGM健康培训项目的匮乏，我们开发了GenderS（性别与性教育），这是一个由社区 - 学术伙伴关系主导的创新研究教育项目，通过在线异步课程、在阿拉巴马州伯明翰市举行为期一周的线下实习以及每月的虚拟交流沙龙，为南部腹地的SGM健康提供体验式和讲授式培训。在本文中，我们描述了GenderS的理论基础、课程和其他项目组成部分的开发过程、我们的评估计划以及迄今为止吸取的经验教训。通过传播一个包含GenderS模板和示例的全国性工具包，我们可以帮助其他组织根据当地情况调整我们的项目，以培养下一代SGM健康研究人员。尽管由于阿拉巴马州颁布了一项反多样性、公平和包容性的法律，我们在为该项目开发招募材料时遇到了挑战，但对我们项目的热情依然高涨，来自美国和非洲的20名申请者提交了申请就说明了这一点。
