Grant: Prize: IHSPR Rising Star Award

The Our Stats data visualization dashboard (https://ourstats.ca/our-datashboard) is a knowledge translation tool developed by Dr. Kiffer G. Card and the Community-based Research Centre for Gay Men's Health in partnership with the Advance Alliance - a collaboration of the leading HIV and gay men's health organizations in Canada. Our Stats makes data from the Sex Now Survey - Canada's largest and longest running second generation surveillance study of gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men - easily accessible and available to the community leaders, advocates, and professionals who can best use it to inform research, evaluation, and programming goals. In doing so, the Our Stats dashboard increases access to community health data collected for and by sexual and gender minority men. In the words of one CIHR reviewer, this dashboard represents "un pas majeur vers la démocratisation de la recherche" ("a major step towards the democratization of research."). Indeed, the dashboard allows geographic mapping, time-based trend analysis, and custom data aggregations that greatly reduce the barriers to valuable data about the gay, bi-, and queer communities. Since its launch at the 2019 Gay Men's Health Summit, Dr. Card has led numerous webinars and in-person trainings to educate community health professionals and advocates on how this powerful new tool can help in their advocacy, service delivery, and granting work. Visit www.OurStats.ca to see the tool in action.