Randall Sell, ScD

Professor, Department of Community Health and Prevention; Director, Program for LGBT Health
Expertise LGBTQ public health

Sell was one of the first to estimate the prevalence of lesbians, gays and bisexuals in a probability sample of the United States, United Kingdom and France. His work critically examines the variables used to measure health disparities.

Sell is a collaborator on a federally funded scientific study of social diffusion in online media for reaching hidden communities. He is also the lead investigator for a study of social networks as a means to sample gay men and collect health information. He has researched and published on the history and best practices of sampling homosexuality and has created an assessment of sexual orientation (the Sell Scale). He serves as a consultant to an ever-increasing number of surveys and programs that have begun to collect sexual orientation data. Sell also established the website GayData.org. Sell also directs Drexel's certificate program in LGBT Health.

Contact

267.359.6095 randall.l.sell@drexel.edu

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In The News

LGBT+ Victims of Coronavirus Should Be Counted in Health Data, U.S. Lawmakers
Apr 30, 2020
Randall Sell, ScD, a professor in the Dornsife School of Public Health, was quoted in an April 30 Reuters article about state lawmakers urging U.S. officials on Thursday to determine how many coronavirus patients are LGBT+, saying the data could be critical to the health of the gay and transgender community amid the pandemic.
Populations Who dare Not Speak Their Names
Jan 31, 2018
Randall Sell, ScD, an associate professor in the Dornsife School of Public Health, penned an op-ed that ran on Jan. 31 in the Philadelphia Gay News about the need for researchers to stop being forced to mask health research on LGBTI populations.
Federal ‘Conscience Protection’ Office Concerns LGBT Advocates
Jan 25, 2018
Randall Sell, ScD, assistant professor in the Dornsife School of Public Health, was quoted in a Jan. 25 Philadelphia Gay News article on what "conscience protection" offices signal to the LGBT community.
Study shows just 0.1 percent of NIH funding went to LGBT research
Dec 13, 2013
Randall Sell, ScD, an associate professor in the School of Public Health, was quoted in a Pittsburgh City Paper article on Dec. 13 about the low proportion of NIH research funding that goes to study of LGBT health issues.

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