Browsing: Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing

The NIH recently funded the five-year SILOS Project, led by principal investigator Michelle Birkett, PhD, which will conduct innovative observational research across five cities across the United States to better understand the social contexts that drive HIV and substance use.

The Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University will begin scaling up its collection and use of data related to patient sex assigned at birth, gender identity, and sexual orientation with funding from the National Cancer Institute.

The Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing has been awarded a five-year, $9 million for the expansion of the 2GETHER study, which aims to reduce HIV incidence by teaching relationship and sexual health promotion skills to young men who have sex with men.