Dr. Francisco Buchting Publishes Article on Recent Institute of Medicine Report on LGBT Health
Dr. Francisco O. Buchting, Vice President of Program Services at ETR Associates, recently published an article for the website 365gay.com addressing the recent Institute of Medicine (IOM) report on LGBT Health. In the article, titled "Why the IOM Report Is a Healthy Change for LGBTs," Dr. Buchting summarizes why this IOM report marks a turning point in addressing health inequalities in the LGBT community. A community that historically was not counted in most community health research and therefore did not exist is now being measured, starting with the IOM report. Dr. Buchting also points out that that the LGBT community must now become more of a focus in health research and public health funding.
About Dr. Francisco O. Buchting
Francisco O. Buchting, PhD, is Vice President of the Program Services Division at ETR Associates. In addition to his management of the division, Dr. Buchting's recent work includes having a leadership role in the area of health in the Latino and LGBT communities, doing health disparities research, advancing eHealth programs and knowledge transfer/research translation efforts, and producing research sampling methodologies reports on hard-to-reach communities and mobile populations. He is also a member of the National Cancer Institute's Tobacco Research Network on Disparities (TReND).
Dr. Buchting's career includes bilingual clinical practice in behavioral medicine, with a special focus on chronic diseases; authoring research articles; designing and directing programs in the areas of nicotine addiction, HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infection (STI) and healthy relationships; and work in the area of applying integrated marketing communication techniques to public health initiatives. He has also co-authored a bi-monthly newspaper column on health, and worked on adapting health literature, especially in the areas of HIV/AIDS and tobacco use, for underserved and marginalized populations.
His career is marked by extensive personal involvement in health advocacy and community activism, as well as service on community-based organization boards and museum advisory committees. Dr. Buchting earned his PhD and MA in clinical psychology at Boston University, and his BAS (Bachelor of Arts and Science) in philosophy and psychology at the University of California at Davis.
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