Media Inquiries

For general media inquiries about sexual health topics and/or to schedule an interview with one of our experts, please contact:

Susan Gilbert, NCSH Co-Director, at susan.gilbert@altarum.org or Lisa Guiterman, media consultant, at lisa.guiterman@gmail.com or (301) 217-9353.

Arranging Media Interviews with NCSH Experts

The NCSH is happy to arrange interviews with nationally-recognized experts on a wide variety of sexual health topics.

Our experts – who include more than 80 leading sexual health experts, physicians, and other health care providers and academics – can provide medically accurate information and practical advice on an array of topics including:

Sexual health, self-esteem, and relationships

• Sexual health across the lifespan, including sexuality education
• Self-esteem and advocating for yourself
• Gender identity and sexual orientation
• Building positive relationships
• Sexual violence
• Healthy sexuality and pleasure (consent, pornography/porn literacy)
• Open communication about sex/sexual health with partners, within families, and between patients/health care providers

Safer sex, STIs, contraception, and health care services

• Safer sex, including barrier methods (condoms, dams), medications, lower risk sexual behaviors, lubrication.
• Preventive sexual health services (e.g., immunizations, STI screening/testing, counseling, sexual history-taking)
• Sexually transmitted infections, including HIV, chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, genital herpes, HPV, trichomoniasis, and mycoplasma genitalium. (Can address stigma, infection rates, transmission, prevention, symptoms, testing, and treatment)
• Open communication between health care providers and patients regarding sex and sexual health
• Reproductive health and pregnancy (contraception, fertility, menstruation, post-partum)
• Health insurance coverage of sexual health services
• Sexual functioning (women and men)

In addition, our experts can address sexual health topics as they relate to specific audiences including:

• Adolescents
• College students
• Young adults
• Women (of all ages)
• Men (of all ages)
• LGBTQ populations
• People with intellectual and developmental disabilities
• Specific racial/ethnic communities, including African Americans, Hispanics, American Indians, and other groups
• People living with HIV and other STIs