By Elizabeth Dougherty
Sari Reisner, HMS assistant professor of pediatrics and an epidemiologist and researcher at Boston Children’s Hospital, is working to find ways to help school health professionals reduce the bullying of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) students.
Bryn Austin, HMS professor of pediatrics and a behavioral researcher at Boston Children’s Hospital, is investigating how state laws affect the health of gender minorities.
Li Zhou, HMS associate professor of medicine and a primary care doctor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is investigating ways to identify LGBTQ patients from electronic health records and, in turn, gather more data about their health disparities.
All have recently been awarded pilot funding from the Harvard Catalyst Health Disparities Research Program to embark on research projects that support translational research into LGBTQ health disparities.