Scout is the Executive Director of the National LGBT Cancer Network and the principal investigator of both the CDC-funded LGBTQ tobacco-related cancer disparity network and Out: The National Cancer Survey. He spends much of his time providing technical assistance for tobacco and cancer focusing agencies expanding their reach and engagement with LGBTQ+ populations. Scout has a long history in health policy analysis and a particular interest in expanding LGBTQ+ surveillance and research. He has faculty appointments at both Brown University and Boston Universities’ Schools of Public Health. He is a member of the NIH Council of Councils, the Co-Chair of the NIH Sexual and Gender Minority Research Office Work Group, on the Advisory Panel for NIH’s All of Us initiative, and a U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention delegate. His work has won him recognition from the U.S. House of Representatives, two state governments, and many city governments. Scout is an openly transgender father of three, a vegetarian, an avid hiker and runner.
Quote: “Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.” -James Baldwin
Things to read/watch
Out Survey launch event: https://cancer-network.org/out-the-national-cancer-survey/
Recommended Reading
When They Call You a Terrorist: Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Cullors.
Being Jazz: My Life as a Transgender Teen by Jazz Jennings.