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Payal Chakraborty

@payalc.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor & Epidemiologist | UNC Chapel Hill | Repro health and sexual health researcher | she/her

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Colleen Reynolds @colleenareynolds.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
One of my dissertation papers was recently published in @amjepi.bsky.social We show DAGs can be a useful tool to guide covariate adjustment & argue that LGBTQ health disparities research: (1) is often descriptive & adjustment should be minimal, e.g. weighting for study design/sampling. 1/4
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Covariate adjustment in LGBTQ+ health disparities research: aligning methods with assumptions
Abstract. In 2016, the National Institutes of Health designated LGBTQ+ individuals (ie, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and all sexual and gend
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Colleen Reynolds @colleenareynolds.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Happy to share a new paper from one of my mentees, Nick Andrysiak: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Nick started this project in @payalc.bsky.social and my class on applied LGBTQIA+ epidemiology. With coauthors coauthors: @albeccia.bsky.social and @britshmit.bsky.social 1/3
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Inequities in eating disorder diagnoses in college students: An intersectional multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy (MAIHDA)
Eating disorders contribute significantly to negative health outcomes across a broad range of domains. Despite their often-debilitating effects, they …
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LGBTQ Health Center of Excellence @lgbtqhealthexce.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
"Harms of restricting abortion care fall hardest on those who already face significant social barriers and barriers to health care." Much more research is essential to ensuring #HealthEquity for ALL. Read more in this Q&A b/t @rewirenewsgroup.com & @payalc.bsky.social #medsky #publichealth #LGBTQ
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Queer People Nearly Twice as Likely To Terminate Pregnancy—New Study
"Abortion is an LGBTQ+ issue."
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Payal Chakraborty @payalc.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Grateful to @rewirenewsgroup.com for the thoughtful coverage of our recent publication! Check out the article below 👇 #episky #reprosky #medsky #LGBTQ #queersky #publichealth #abortioncare
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Payal Chakraborty @payalc.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Proud to share our new study published in @jama.com Network Open, shedding light on how abortion is an LGBTQ+ issue. Grateful to have led this work with an incredible team. Read more below ⬇️ #episky #reprosky #medsky #LGBTQ #queersky #publichealth #abortioncare
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Payal Chakraborty @payalc.bsky.social · 03/10/2024
📣 Check out our article showing disparities in neonatal outcomes by sexual orientation, now out in the Green Journal. (1/2) journals.lww.com/greenjournal... #episky #queerepi #reprosky
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Sexual Orientation–Related Disparities in Neonatal Outcomes : Obstetrics & Gynecology
oss the United States. We restricted analyses to those who reported live births (N=70,642) in the 2001 or 2009 lifetime pregnancy questionnaires. Participants were asked about sexual orientation ident...
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Payal Chakraborty @payalc.bsky.social · 02/07/2024
📣 Our team’s article, “Sexual orientation disparities in gestational diabetes and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy,” was just published by Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology! Article 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #episky #queerepi #reprosky (1/6)
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Sexual orientation disparities in gestational diabetes and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy
Background Sexual minority (SM) individuals (e.g., those with same-sex attractions/partners or who identify as lesbian/gay/bisexual) experience a host of physical and mental health disparities. Howe...
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Payal Chakraborty @payalc.bsky.social · 01/04/2024
Our team’s article, “Sexual orientation disparities in adverse pregnancy outcomes” by @payalc.bsky.social, @colleenareynolds.bsky.social, @britshmit.bsky.social & Schroeder, McKetta, Everett, Obedin-Maliver, Austin, Haneuse was just published by AJOG! doi.org/10.1016/j.aj... (1/5)
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