Date of Award

January 2025

Document Type

Open Access Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Public Health (MPH)

Department

School of Public Health

First Advisor

Ali Miller

Abstract

While public health evidence and rhetoric is frequently leveraged in scholarship and policy advocacy related to changes in law/policy targeting LGBTQ+ individuals, the existing public health body of evidence surrounding punitive and progressive policy shifts does not fully account for the interconnectedness of the law’s impacts on health, rights, pleasure, and belonging. To address this and pave the way for more representative research, the triangle of sexual citizenship framework links pleasure, rights, health, and sexual citizenship as key, connected components of research in this field. To account for hesitancy and confusion on how to integrate components of the triangle of sexual citizenship into health research, this thesis presents a scoping review and evaluation of public health methodologies and study designs based on their ability to address oft forgotten connections, represented by the triangle of sexual citizenship framework. Learnings from the scoping review and methods evaluations are applied to Namibia as a case study for future research recommendations in the face of anticipated changes to law/policy impacting LGBTQ+ individuals.

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