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Resource for Understanding the Health and Identity of Transgender People

In celebration of LGBTQ+ Pride month, LAHMS is proud to offer this resource created by first-year Harvard medical student Casey Orozco-Poore for the Racial Justice Coalition's "Essentials" series. In this presentation, you will find more information on the health and identity of transgender people...

Bisexuality and health: The cost of invisibility

Sabra L. Katz-Wise, PhDOn September 23, 2019, the 20th anniversary of Bi Visibility Day, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) held its first-ever bisexual health research workshop. As an invited panelist at this event, sponsored by the NIH’s Sexual and Gender Minority Research Office, I joined 19...

A Tool to Combat Bullying

For a group of Harvard researchers, communication and intervention are the keys to a new tool designed to reduce bullying of LGBTQ students around the country. According to the most recent information gathered by the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, lesbian, gay and bisexual students are...

Curriculum

Transforming Transgender Care: $1.5 million gift kick-starts sexual, gender minority health equity initiative When Perry Cohen experienced an urgent health concern earlier this year, his town’s only care provider who specializes in working with LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer)...

Edgar Garcia Saiz

Program: HMS PathwaysHometown: Miami, FLUndergrad: Harvard CollegeDegrees: Human Developmental and Regenerative BiologyInterests: Health disparities, psychiatry, internal medicine, LGBTQ+ health, Latinx health IRL: board games, running, dancing

Carlos Dos Santos

Program: MD PathwaysHometown: Caracas, Venezuela/Miami, FLUndergrad: University of PennsylvaniaDegrees: BA in Comparative Literature & Cultural Theory, BA in BiologyInterests: Emergency Medicine, Critical Care, Palliative Care, narrative medicine theory, critical theory philosophyIRL: reading...

Transgender Health and Identity

Consider joining HMS students and faculty for a lunch talk and workshop on Transgender Health & Identity. Topics include:- basic terminology- nonbinary gender identity- best clinical practices- health disparities and mental health- non-medical and medical transition- pronoun workshop