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Dr. Katz-Wise wrote “ COVID-19 and the LGBTQ+ community: Rising to unique challenges” for the Harvard Health Blog in April 2020 and so far over 2120 people have read it. Her piece remains one of the few published on the ways our community is impacted by this pandemic. With all of the media coverage...

In honor of Pride month, the SGM Health Equity Initiative hosted a conversation with members of the LGBTQIA+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, and more) community in the Greater Boston area. Representing an array of identities and experiences, the panelists discuss what...

We are excited to share a new preprint, " Whole-exome imputation within UK Biobank powers rare coding variant association and fine-mapping analyses" (Barton et al.), which reports an atlas of 1,189 rare coding variants likely to causally influence 54 quantitative traits in UK Biobank. This analysis...

Alice Lorch, MD, MPH, Director of Ophthalmology Residency Training Program at Harvard Medical School (HMS), has been honored with the Anne Klibanski Visiting Scholars Award. This award–given through The Mass General Center for Faculty Development–provides an opportunity for her to serve as “virtual”...

Volunteer with Skype a Scientist and virtually connect with students and the public around the world! Sign up at https://www.skypeascientist.com/ Our HMS postdoc Megan Sperry shares her experience with Skype a Scientist! One of my favorite experiences with the organization Skype a Scientist was...

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Read about one of our beloved advisor, Dr. Poussaint, here!

Alex Keuroghlian and Kevin Kapila are world travelers. Authorities on LGBTQ medical and mental health care, the Harvard Medical School and Fenway Health psychiatrists have circled the globe providing education and training workshops in countries such as Malawi, Nigeria and Uganda. But their trip to...

Most people call her "Lash," but LaShyra Nolen’s name is hardly the only unique thing about her. Last year, she became the first black woman ever elected as class president of Harvard Medical School (HMS). Read more at https://www.teenvogue.com/story/lash-nolen-harvard-medical-school-class-...

Lloyd P. Aiello, MD, PhD, has been named the 2020 recipient of the prestigious Friedenwald Award from the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO). The Friedenwald Award was established in 1957 as a memorial to Dr. Jonas S. Friedenwald, a distinguished researcher whose...