LGBTIQ+ health and wellbeing

ARCSHS houses Australia’s largest research program focused on LGBTIQ+ health and wellbeing.

We cover a wide range of research subjects, including:

  • mental health
  • substance use
  • family, domestic and sexual violence
  • health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTIQ+ people
  • disability
  • older people
  • spirituality and spiritual care
  • suicide prevention

We work in meaningful partnership with LGBTIQ+ community organisations and stakeholders to maximise our impact. We are also responsible for two of the biggest national surveys on LGBTIQ+ health and wellbeing including:

  • Private Lives: exploring the health and wellbeing of adult LGBTIQ+ people
  • Writing Themselves In: examining the health and wellbeing of LGBTIQ+ young people.

Our projects include:

  • Accessible PrIDe - Building capacity of LGBTQ+ and disability sectors to practice inclusively with LGBTQ+ people with intellectual disability
  • Co-creating rainbow inclusive care for gender and sexually diverse people in residential aged care.
  • Writing Themselves In 4 - A study of the health and wellbeing of LGBTQA+ youth in Australia
  • LGBTI+ Lives in Crisis - Mental health crisis support for LGBTIQA+ adults
  • Private Lives 3 - A study of the health and wellbeing of LGBTIQ+ adults in Australia
  • QSOX - Cultural practices of alcohol use, vaping and smoking among lesbian, bisexual and queer women
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTQA+ people - a series of factsheets exploring data from PL3, WTI4 and Trans Pathways
  • LGBTQA+ people with disability
  • LGBTQA+ mental health and suicidality - a suite of state-based briefing papers based on data from PL3, WTI4 and Pride and Pandemic
  • Crossing Lines - A study investigating unwanted sexual behaviours against LGBTQ+ people, aiming to generate actionable knowledge and focussing on the social forces, risk factors, and characteristics of those who use sexual violence
  • Pride and Pandemic - The health impacts of COVID-19 on LGBTQ communities
  • Rainbow Ageing - Health and social wellbeing of older LGBT people in Australia

Theme co-convenors:

Joel Anderson and Ruby Grant

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