TABLE 2—

Prevalence of Faculty and Student Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Research and Health Curricula in Departments: US Schools of Public Health, 2002–2003

Department Characteristic	No.a (%)
Faculty research
Are any faculty members currently conducting HIV- or AIDS-related lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender health research?
Yes	37 (36.3)
No	56 (54.9)
Do not know	9 (8.8)
Are any faculty members currently conducting lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender health research other than HIV and AIDS?
Yes	18 (17.6)
No	67 (65.7)
Do not know	17 (16.7)
Have any faculty members ever chaired a doctoral committee on lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender health?
Yes	8 (7.8)
No	52 (51.0)
Do not know	42 (41.2)
Student research
Are any students currently conducting lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender health research?
Yes	22 (21.6)
No	44 (43.1)
Do not know	36 (35.3)
Have any students ever completed a doctoral dissertation on lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender health?
Yes	10 (9.9)
No	72 (71.3)
Do not know	19 (18.8)
Health curricula
Did your department offer a course in the past 2 years that covered lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender health topics extending beyond HIV and AIDS?
Yes	9 (8.8)
No	93 (91.2)
Does your department plan to offer a course in the next 3 years that will cover lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender health topics extending beyond HIV and AIDS?
Yes	11 (10.8)
No	86 (84.3)
Do not know	5 (4.9)
How adequate is your department’s coverage of lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender health topics?
Very adequate	11 (10.8)
Somewhat adequate	27 (26.5)
Somewhat inadequate	29 (28.4)
Very inadequate	16 (15.7)
Do not know/refused to answer	19 (18.6)

^a Total sums to 102 except for student lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender doctoral dissertation because 1 department did not award doctoral degrees.