Last month we mentioned Dr. Scout’s Huffington Post OpEd urging NIH to accelerate their response to the LGBT IOM report. We are happy to say that this generated a few responses from HHS. First, we were assured the NIH response to the report would now include some level of external expert review. Second, Scout has been invited to present to NIH staff at their pride event next month. We’ve been working with students at Boston University to conduct an analysis of LGBT funding in the full NIH portfolio; while we had first planned for them to present the findings at APHA, we hope they might be ready to present directly to NIH at that pride event.