Beyond the Rainbow: Health Equity for Lesbian and Queer Women (Virtual)

This Beyond the Rainbow virtual panel centers the real experiences of lesbian, bisexual, and queer women navigating healthcare today.

Presented in collaboration with GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ+ Equality, the conversation looks at what’s working, what’s not, and what needs to change, for both patients and providers.

Grounded in the long history of LGBTQ+ women pushing health equity forward, this discussion focuses on practical solutions and clear, actionable takeaways.

Topics include:

• Sexual health and preventive care
• Midlife, perimenopause, and menopause
• Navigating clinical interactions
• Mental health and systemic stress

Panelists will share real-world examples and guidance to help improve care and outcomes for LGBTQ+ women, as well as trans and nonbinary people with shared health needs.

*ASL Interpretation will be provided by Hands of Equality

Moderator

Jessica Halem is Co-Founder and Head of Business Development at Aviva Bio, a biotech company focused on improving hormone health for women. She’s spent her career advocating for LGBTQ+ people to get the care they deserve—and making sure the healthcare system catches up. A former stand-up comic turned health innovator, Jessica brings honesty, humor, and actual evidence to conversations about our bodies, our health, and what better care can look like.

Panelists

Dr. Uchenna “Lulu” Umeh is a Black queer immigrant pediatrician, physician-educator, speaker, and affirming life coach based in Atlanta, Georgia. She is the founder of Dr. Lulu’s Pride Corner, a coaching practice providing affirming emotional support for LGBTQIA+ youth, adults, and their families, with a particular focus on multiply marginalized communities. With over three decades in medicine, Dr. Lulu’s work sits at the intersection of healthcare, family systems, identity, and healing. She is widely known for her bias-informed, affirmation-centered frameworks, including Reverse Intersectionality, Bias Begins at Home™, and Safety, Affirmation, and Inclusion (SAI)—approaches that shift conversations from blame and silence toward systems, safety, and sustainable care.

Debb Dunn, PA-C, MBA is a nationally recognized leader in transgender health care and a family practice physician assistant at Resolve MD, where she provides comprehensive care for transgender and nonbinary patients across the lifespan. As Director of Gender Affirming Care for Planned Parenthood of Maryland, she has expanded access statewide, training staff and establishing transgender care at every location. She helped develop the Trans Health Equity Act in Maryland and has shaped gender-affirming care policy at both institutional and state levels. Dunn serves on Maryland’s inaugural LGBTQ Commission and the Maryland Board of Physicians Physician Assistant Advisory Board.

Dr. Beth Oller has practiced Family Medicine in rural Kansas for the past 15 years. She serves on the Board of Directors and Vice President for Membership and Development for GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ+ Equality, is the President of the Kansas Academy of Family Physicians, and serves on the American Academy of Family Physicians Commission on Federal and Public Policy. Her practice focuses are women’s health, reproductive healthcare, maternal mental health and gender affirming care.

Date: 4/22/26

Time: 12PM PT/3PM PT

Location: Virtual

Cost: Free

*ASL Interpretation will be provided by Hands of Equality

Register here!