Reading Time: 3 minutes LGBTQ youth face additional mental health pressures associated with stigma and discrimination
Author: Dionne Gesink
Dr. Gesink is a Professor and Social Epidemiologist with the University of Toronto, Dalla Lana School of Public Health. Here research focuses on the social epidemiology of sexual and reproductive health, with an interest in the patterns, pathways and relationships between behavioural, social, cultural, environmental and spatial factors and health. Her research approach is grounded in relational and community based participatory research principles.