LGBTQ+ Population Health
Research and programming for communities health systems tend to overlook.
Meredith McGee, MPH · Boston
I study how systems fail the people they’re supposed to serve, I write about it publicly, and I build tools to close the gap.
I’m a public health researcher, writer, and builder. I get close to where systems meet people, listen for what the official story leaves out, and make things that help.
that’s me where I am this year
Right now
I’m in Boston, publishing Ground Level, a Substack on cannabis, public health, and the gap between policy and practice. I build RateMyPlace, a tenant review platform grounded in public health research. I research at Parabola Center, and I write grants at Bradbury-Sullivan. I live with my partner K and a black lab named Ember who is scientifically proven to reduce my stress.
PROJECTS
RateMyPlace
A public, health-weighted record of rental housing that I designed and built solo. Renters search an address and see what people who actually lived there reported. Live in New Haven and Boston.
Read the case study → RESEARCHCannabis Legalization, From the Ground Up
I co-lead a qualitative study at Parabola Center on how people in states with five or more years of legal cannabis actually experience it. Legalization gets argued about in the abstract. This is what it looks like from the inside.
Read the case study → GRANTSA Million Dollars, One Proposal at a Time
I write and manage grants for Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center. That work has brought in more than a million dollars for health equity and community programming.
Read the case study →What is Medical Cannabis Anyway?
I came looking for a high and found a medicine. Being a patient still comes down to whether my ID matches my address.
What Rescheduling Left Behind
The federal government just lifted one of the tax barriers crushing cannabis operators. It lifted it for the ones who needed help least.
What the DEA's marijuana rescheduling actually does
A small crack in federal prohibition, delivered through a UN treaty that defined its shape.
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Things I think about
Cannabis Policy
What happens when cannabis goes legal: who benefits, who doesn't, and why.
Housing & Tenant Power
Who holds information about the places we live, and who gets kept in the dark.
Public Health Writing
Translating research into writing people outside academia actually read.
Fundraising & Development
Writing grants, building budgets, making the case for things that need funding.
Building Things
Small tools for people navigating systems that were never built for them.
Off the clock, I’m usually reading across three disciplines at once, badly attempting to cook, or outside with Ember. If any of this sounds like your kind of thing, say hello.