Christopher Grasso
Biographic Data
| ID | 263140 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Grasso |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Grasso |
| SIGNATURE | GRASSO C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fenway Health |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0782-5016 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 99 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Disparities in depression and anxiety at the intersection of race and gender identity in a large community health sample
Clinical and Behavioral Outcomes for Transgender Women Engaged in HIV Care
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Data Completeness at US Federally Qualified Health Centers, 2020 and 2021
Objectives. To assess the performance of US federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) after 6 years of required sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) data reporting and update estimated proportions of sexual and gender minorities cared for at FQHCs. Methods. We conducted secondary analyses of data reported to the 2020 and 2021 Uniform Data System from 1297 FQHCs caring for nearly 30 000 000 patients annually. We used multivariable logist…
Patterns of E-Cigarette Use Among Primary Care Patients at an Urban Community Center
Puritans and Pilgrims
Puritans and Pilgrims Christopher Grasso New Light on the Old Colony: Plymouth, the Dutch Context of Toleration, and Patterns of Pilgrim Commemoration. Early American History. By Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs. Leiden: Brill, 2020. 582 pages. Cloth, ebook. One Small Candle: The Plymouth Puritans and the Beginnings of English New England. By Francis J. Bremer. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 267 pages. Cloth, ebook. The Puritans: A Transatlantic …
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Data Collection at US Health Centers
Objectives. To examine the relationship between city-level structural stigma pertaining to sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) and completeness of patient SOGI data collection at US federally qualified health centers (FQHCs). Methods. We used the Human Rights Campaign’s Municipal Equality Index to quantify city-level structural stigma against sexual and gender minority people in 506 US cities across 49 states. We ascertained the complet…
Sexual and Gender Minority Health in the Covid-19 Pandemic
Sexual and Gender Minority Health in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Why Data Collection and Combatting Discrimination Matter Now More Than Ever, an article from American Journal of Public Health, Vol 110 Issue 9
Required Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Reporting by US Health Centers
Objectives. To assess the performance of US health centers during the first year of required sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) data reporting and to estimate the baseline proportion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender patients accessing health centers. Methods. We conducted a secondary analysis of SOGI data from 2016. These data were reported by 1367 US health centers caring for 25 860 296 patients in the United States and terr…
Treatment Outcomes Associated with Quitting Cigarettes Among Sexual Minority Men Living with HIV
HIV Preexposure Prophylaxis as a Gateway to Primary Care
Objectives. To determine whether HIV preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) use is associated with use of non–HIV-related health care. Methods. We conducted a cross-sectional study of potential PrEP candidates at a Boston, Massachusetts, community health clinic during 2012 to 2016, comparing the proportion of PrEP users and non-PrEP users receiving primary care. Results. Of 5857 PrEP candidates, 2047 (35%) were prescribed PrEP. After adjustment for demog…
Marcus et al. Respond
AffiliationsAll of the authors are with The Fenway Institute, Fenway Health, Boston, MA. Julia L. Marcus is also with Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston. Douglas S. Krakower, Victoria Powell, and Kenneth H. Mayer are also with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston
Pulpit and Nation
In a strong addition to the field of early American political and religious history, Spencer W. McBride’s Pulpit and Nation fulfills the author’s claim that it “focuses on pivotal national events and developments between 1775 and 1800 in which religious language and symbolism helped shape public discourse” (p. 4). It is well researched, drawing on a variety of primary sources both published and archival, and offers a compact and well-organized pr…
Bloody engagements
xxxv, 221 pages : 25 cm
A Plundering Expedition
Here, John Russell Kelso provides an account of the plundering expedition that he and his fellow Union soldiers undertook from September to October 1862. On around October 1, Major John C. Wilber decided to make an expedition into Arkansas with a force of over 200 men. At first, it was his intention to have no officers accompany this expedition except Captain Samuel A. Flagg and a few others. This triggered a suspicion that the expedition was mea…
Capturing and Destroying
Here, John Russell Kelso describes the events that led to the capture of rebel captain Joseph Hale Mooney and the destruction of the Salt-peter caves in Arkansas, all of which transpired between November and December 1862. At the close of November 1862, Kelso and Capt. Milton A. Burch decided to make another expedition to Arkansas. Their goal was two-fold: to capture Mooney and his band, and to destroy the caves where the rebels were manufacturin…
Fighting Rebels in Arkansas
In this chapter, John Russell Kelso gives an account of his group's battle with the rebels in Arkansas between October and November 1862. After October and until the end of 1862, Capt. Milton A. Burch and Kelso led many expeditions into various portions of Arkansas. On all of these expeditions, they were remarkably successful, killing many enemies and capturing large numbers of prisoners. One of these expeditions was into a portion of Arkansas wh…
World and Ground
Many of the best recent works in early American history investigate the lives of specific people in particular places, reconstructing the past "on the ground" and connecting this local analysis with larger geographic or conceptual spaces. These are neither macrohistories that descend to the ground only for illustrative anecdotes nor microhistories that merely make big gestures to give their small stories broader relevance. The four exemplary worl…
The Predictive Syndemic Effect of Multiple Psychosocial Problems on Health Care Costs and Utilization among Sexual Minority Women
Comprehensive Transgender Healthcare
This report describes the evolution of a Boston community health center's multidisciplinary model of transgender healthcare, research, education, and dissemination of best practices. This process began with the development of a community-based approach to care that has been refined over almost 20 years where transgender patients have received tailored services through the Transgender Health Program. The program began as a response to unmet clinic…
Body Mass Index, Depression, and Condom Use Among HIV-Infected Men who have Sex with Men
Substance Use Among HIV-Infected Patients Engaged in Primary Care in the United States
Objectives. The purpose of this study was to better understand substance use behaviors and deleterious health consequences among individuals with HIV. Methods. We examined a multicenter cohort of HIV-infected patients (n = 3413) receiving care in 4 US cities (Seattle, Birmingham, San Diego, Boston) between December 2005 and April 2010 in the Centers for AIDS Research Network of Integrated Clinical Systems (CNICS). We used generalized estimating e…
Effect of Same-Sex Marriage Laws on Health Care Use and Expenditures in Sexual Minority Men
Objectives. We sought to determine whether health care use and expenditures among gay and bisexual men were reduced following the enactment of same-sex marriage laws in Massachusetts in 2003. Methods. We used quasi-experimental, prospective data from 1211 sexual minority male patients in a community-based health center in Massachusetts. Results. In the 12 months after the legalization of same-sex marriage, sexual minority men had a statistically …
Nonadherence to medical appointments is associated with increased plasma HIV RNA and decreased CD4 cell counts in a community-based HIV primary care clinic
This study examined the association of appointment nonadherence to markers of disease severity using one year of demographic and health information on 995 individuals with HIV in primary care at an urban community health centre. At the latest visit, 106 of 946 valid cases (11.2%) had a CD4 less than or equal to 200, and 454 of 936 valid cases (48.5%) had detectable plasma HIV RNA (greater than 50 copies/ml). Using logistic regression, appointment…
Skepticism and American Faith
In the spring of 1839, Abner Kneeland left Boston for good. The infamous freethinker, a former Baptist and then Universalist minister who had renounced Christianity, had spent sixty days in jail for blasphemy the previous summer. In that same year William Miller, formerly a skeptical deist and now a Baptist preacher, gave his first Boston lecture, arguing that Christ would return to earth in 1843. As Kneeland shook the dust of Boston from his sho…
Tenacious of Their Liberties
Effect of Same-Sex Marriage Laws on Health Care Use and Expenditures in Sexual Minority Men
Objectives. We sought to determine whether health care use and expenditures among gay and bisexual men were reduced following the enactment of same-sex marriage laws in Massachusetts in 2003. Methods. We used quasi-experimental, prospective data from 1211 sexual minority male patients in a community-based health center in Massachusetts. Results. In the 12 months after the legalization of same-sex marriage, sexual minority men had a statistically …
Required Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Reporting by US Health Centers
Objectives. To assess the performance of US health centers during the first year of required sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) data reporting and to estimate the baseline proportion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender patients accessing health centers. Methods. We conducted a secondary analysis of SOGI data from 2016. These data were reported by 1367 US health centers caring for 25 860 296 patients in the United States and terr…
Comprehensive Transgender Healthcare
This report describes the evolution of a Boston community health center's multidisciplinary model of transgender healthcare, research, education, and dissemination of best practices. This process began with the development of a community-based approach to care that has been refined over almost 20 years where transgender patients have received tailored services through the Transgender Health Program. The program began as a response to unmet clinic…
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Data Completeness at US Federally Qualified Health Centers, 2020 and 2021
Objectives. To assess the performance of US federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) after 6 years of required sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) data reporting and update estimated proportions of sexual and gender minorities cared for at FQHCs. Methods. We conducted secondary analyses of data reported to the 2020 and 2021 Uniform Data System from 1297 FQHCs caring for nearly 30 000 000 patients annually. We used multivariable logist…
Sexual and Gender Minority Health in the Covid-19 Pandemic
Sexual and Gender Minority Health in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Why Data Collection and Combatting Discrimination Matter Now More Than Ever, an article from American Journal of Public Health, Vol 110 Issue 9
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Data Collection at US Health Centers
Objectives. To examine the relationship between city-level structural stigma pertaining to sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) and completeness of patient SOGI data collection at US federally qualified health centers (FQHCs). Methods. We used the Human Rights Campaign’s Municipal Equality Index to quantify city-level structural stigma against sexual and gender minority people in 506 US cities across 49 states. We ascertained the complet…
HIV Preexposure Prophylaxis as a Gateway to Primary Care
Objectives. To determine whether HIV preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) use is associated with use of non–HIV-related health care. Methods. We conducted a cross-sectional study of potential PrEP candidates at a Boston, Massachusetts, community health clinic during 2012 to 2016, comparing the proportion of PrEP users and non-PrEP users receiving primary care. Results. Of 5857 PrEP candidates, 2047 (35%) were prescribed PrEP. After adjustment for demog…
Skepticism and American Faith
In the spring of 1839, Abner Kneeland left Boston for good. The infamous freethinker, a former Baptist and then Universalist minister who had renounced Christianity, had spent sixty days in jail for blasphemy the previous summer. In that same year William Miller, formerly a skeptical deist and now a Baptist preacher, gave his first Boston lecture, arguing that Christ would return to earth in 1843. As Kneeland shook the dust of Boston from his sho…
The Predictive Syndemic Effect of Multiple Psychosocial Problems on Health Care Costs and Utilization among Sexual Minority Women
Body Mass Index, Depression, and Condom Use Among HIV-Infected Men who have Sex with Men
Substance Use Among HIV-Infected Patients Engaged in Primary Care in the United States
Objectives. The purpose of this study was to better understand substance use behaviors and deleterious health consequences among individuals with HIV. Methods. We examined a multicenter cohort of HIV-infected patients (n = 3413) receiving care in 4 US cities (Seattle, Birmingham, San Diego, Boston) between December 2005 and April 2010 in the Centers for AIDS Research Network of Integrated Clinical Systems (CNICS). We used generalized estimating e…
Jonathan Edwards and the Limits of Enlightenment Philosophy
Journal Article Jonathan Edwards and the Limits of Enlightenment Philosophy. By Leon Chai. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xvi, 164 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-19-512009-4.) Get access Christopher Grasso Christopher Grasso College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 4, March 2000, Pages 1755–1756, https://doi.org/10.2307…
Revolution and Religion
Rhetoric and History in Revolutionary New England. Donald Weber
The Experimental Philosophy of Farming
JARED Eliot's Essays upon Field-Husbandry in New-England (I76i), first important agricultural book written in American colonies, proposed to set before Reader Way of mending our poor Land, and raising crops.' Central to method of efficient farming that this Connecticut minister and physician espoused was drill plow, an implement that would enable one man and a team of oxen to plant more straight rows of seeds in a day than a hundred men could pla…
The Devil's Dominion
Gospel of Disunion
A Field of Divine Wonders
It began as a trickle in 1792, but by century's end northwestern Connecticut was awash in revival. In 1799 Edward Dorr Griffin wrote that he could stand at his doorstep in Litchfield County and number fifty or sixty congregations laid down in one field of divine wonders. Griffin was one of the leading ministers whose electrifying preaching triggered the Second Great Awakening - the subject of this award-winning study. A Field of Divine Wonders fo…
Religion in a Revolutionary Age
These eleven essays explore the rich variety and enormous complexity of religious experience in early America, addressing two broad themes: the role of religion in the Revolutionary upheaval itself and the influence of religion on the shaping of America's governing institutions
Revolution and Religion
The Philosophy of Jonathan Edwards
PREFACE INTRODUCTION I. The Prospect of Semiotics The Invitation of Typology The Semiotic Context The Renaissance Episteme II. The Discourse of Typology The Vocabulary of Nature Two Texts: Nature and Scripture The Nature of Typological Relations III. The Logics of Creation The Stoicism of Ramist Logic The Ontology of Supposition Corporeality and Mentality as Rhetorical Placement IV. The Trinity and Creation The Logic of the Trinity Why God Create…
Religion and Politics in the Early Republic
A copy of Reverend Jaspar Adams' 1833 sermon, The Relation of Christianity to Civil Government in the United States, and unpublished letters responding to its thesis form the core of this critical analysis of the historical foundation of debates in church-state relations, and the First Amendment
A Speaking Aristocracy
A Speaking Aristocracy
Damned Women
Creating the Commonwealth
Tenacious of Their Liberties
Jonathan Edwards and the Limits of Enlightenment Philosophy
Journal Article Jonathan Edwards and the Limits of Enlightenment Philosophy. By Leon Chai. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xvi, 164 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-19-512009-4.) Get access Christopher Grasso Christopher Grasso College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 4, March 2000, Pages 1755–1756, https://doi.org/10.2307…
A Speaking Aristocracy
Journal Article A Speaking Aristocracy: Transforming Public Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut. By Christopher Grasso. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xiv, 511 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-8078-2471-2. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8078-4772-0.) Get access Catherine A. Brekus Catherine A. Brekus University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Americ…
A Speaking Aristocracy
The Social History of Skepticism
Do new information technologies always produce progress and enlightenment? No, at least according to observers in 17th-century Europe. Brendan Dooley demonstrates in this study that the transformation of information about present and past politics into a saleable product - whether in the form of hired histories or in the form of journalism - turned writers into speculators, information into opinion and readers into critics. The result, he says, w…
Skepticism and American Faith
In the spring of 1839, Abner Kneeland left Boston for good. The infamous freethinker, a former Baptist and then Universalist minister who had renounced Christianity, had spent sixty days in jail for blasphemy the previous summer. In that same year William Miller, formerly a skeptical deist and now a Baptist preacher, gave his first Boston lecture, arguing that Christ would return to earth in 1843. As Kneeland shook the dust of Boston from his sho…
Nonadherence to medical appointments is associated with increased plasma HIV RNA and decreased CD4 cell counts in a community-based HIV primary care clinic
This study examined the association of appointment nonadherence to markers of disease severity using one year of demographic and health information on 995 individuals with HIV in primary care at an urban community health centre. At the latest visit, 106 of 946 valid cases (11.2%) had a CD4 less than or equal to 200, and 454 of 936 valid cases (48.5%) had detectable plasma HIV RNA (greater than 50 copies/ml). Using logistic regression, appointment…
Effect of Same-Sex Marriage Laws on Health Care Use and Expenditures in Sexual Minority Men
Objectives. We sought to determine whether health care use and expenditures among gay and bisexual men were reduced following the enactment of same-sex marriage laws in Massachusetts in 2003. Methods. We used quasi-experimental, prospective data from 1211 sexual minority male patients in a community-based health center in Massachusetts. Results. In the 12 months after the legalization of same-sex marriage, sexual minority men had a statistically …
Substance Use Among HIV-Infected Patients Engaged in Primary Care in the United States
Objectives. The purpose of this study was to better understand substance use behaviors and deleterious health consequences among individuals with HIV. Methods. We examined a multicenter cohort of HIV-infected patients (n = 3413) receiving care in 4 US cities (Seattle, Birmingham, San Diego, Boston) between December 2005 and April 2010 in the Centers for AIDS Research Network of Integrated Clinical Systems (CNICS). We used generalized estimating e…
Body Mass Index, Depression, and Condom Use Among HIV-Infected Men who have Sex with Men
The Predictive Syndemic Effect of Multiple Psychosocial Problems on Health Care Costs and Utilization among Sexual Minority Women
Comprehensive Transgender Healthcare
This report describes the evolution of a Boston community health center's multidisciplinary model of transgender healthcare, research, education, and dissemination of best practices. This process began with the development of a community-based approach to care that has been refined over almost 20 years where transgender patients have received tailored services through the Transgender Health Program. The program began as a response to unmet clinic…
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