Emmett Patterson (he/him) is the Associate Director of Building Healthy Online Communities, a consortium of public health leaders and dating app owners working to advance sexual and mental health for gay, bi, and trans people. He is the former Global Health Projects Manager of Grindr for Equality, where he oversaw projects in Latin America, North Africa, and Eastern Europe, including HIV home testing programs, research on trans and non-binary health priorities, and responding to COVID-19. He got his start in HIV as a capacity building specialist at AIDS United and doing harm reduction work for queer and trans people in his hometown in Southwestern Pennsylvania. His writing is featured in two anthologies on queer health, The Advocate, and in his regular contributions as a journalist for TheBody.com/TheBodyPro.com. Emmett studied Public Health and Gender & Sexuality Studies at American University. He has a graduate certificate in LGBT Health Policy and Practice from the George Washington University.