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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...

NEW YORK — The Harvard Medical School has added to its LGBT-specific training over the last year with a new elective course devoted to gay health, more incorporation of LGBT issues in existing courses and a new LGBT scholarship NBC News reports. The elective course was unveiled in January, 2016 for...

In a new study, two professors are looking at bullying based on stigma -- where one is treated unfairly or unjustly due to one's race, sexual orientation, gender, or other characteristic -- and examining the methods used to prevent this type of bullying and address it when it happens. Read the story...

Members of the LGBT community at HMS and HSDM came together—at a reception for the LGBT Advisory Committee and at National Coming Out Day —to celebrate past accomplishments and forge a new path for the future. Read the full story here.

Dr. Yvonne Gomez-Carrion has been honored by the Massachusetts Medical Society as the 2018 recipient of the Society’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Health Award, an honor recognizing an individual who has made outstanding contributions to LGBT health. Dr. Gomez-Carrion, a Newton resident...

By: Michael GirouardMD/MBA Candidate Class of 2020Harvard Medical School & Harvard Business School Opioid use disorder (OUD) has reached alarming rates in the United States. As a clerkship student rotating through the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (a Harvard teaching affiliate), I was struck by how...

This fall, HMS launched the Sexual and Gender Minorities Health Equity Initiative, a three-year plan to amend the core MD curriculum so that all students and faculty clinicians can become exceptionally well equipped to provide high-quality, holistic health care for sexual and gender minority...

RACHEL D. COHEN ( READ ORIGINAL ARTICLE ON SHOTS: HEALTH NEWS FROM NPR) Sarah Spiegel, a third-year student at New York Medical College, pushed for more education on LGBT health issues for students. When Sarah Spiegel was in her first year at New York Medical College in 2016, she sat in a lecture...

A lovely range of events happening around the HMS community in honor of Pride Month. These events are a great way to connect with the community at your hospital and to learn more about LGBTQ health equity. If you are looking for a book to understand the history of the movement we are a part of, I...

Cecil R. Webster, Jr., MDGenerally speaking, discussing what happens in our bedrooms outside of the bedroom can be anxiety-provoking. Let’s try to make your doctor’s office an exception. Why is this important? People in the LGBTQ+ community contend not only with a full range of health needs, but...