Good afternoon, colleagues. Thank you for attending the following webinar as part of the Health Equity Speaker Series at CDC’s National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention — Office of Health EquitSOGI_8_15_19v2_handout2.pdfy.

• ·       Event title: Improving Measurement of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in the Federal Statistical System
• ·       Presenters: Nancy A. Bates, MA (Senior Researcher for Survey Methodology, U.S. Census Bureau) and Sylvia K. Fisher, PhD (Director, Office of Research and Evaluation, U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration)
• ·       Date: Thursday, August 15, 2019

A captioned version of the webinar recording is now available on YouTube. In addition, I am also sharing a copy of the PowerPoint slides in PDF format attached to this email and the following links on behalf of the presenters.

• ·       Link to the web site for the Federal Interagency Working Group for Improving Measurement of Sexual Orientation: https://nces.ed.gov/FCSM/SOGI.asp
• ·       Link to the Methods and Measurement in Sexual & Gender Minority Health Research page on the NIH Sexual & Gender Minority Research Office web site: https://dpcpsi.nih.gov/sgmro/measurement
• ·       Link to the Understanding the Status and Well-Being of Sexual and Gender Diverse Populations page on the National Academies of Science web site: http://sites.nationalacademies.org/DBASSE/CPOP/sexual_and_gender_diversity/
• ·       Link to the LGBT Stats page on the Williams Institute web site: https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/lgbtstats/

The presenters have asked that I forward along their answers to questions that we did not get to address during the webinar. Those questions and answers are at the bottom of this email.