$1.5M gift kick-starts sexual, gender minority health equity initiative

With a $1.5 million gift, Harvard Medical School launched the Sexual and Gender Minorities Health Equity Initiative, a three-year plan to amend the core M.D. 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 patients of all ages.

Stephanie Dutchen • harvard
Dec. 17, 2018 ~13 min

Knowing just one gay person shifts attitudes

Merely becoming acquainted with a gay person has the power to shift people's views on marriage equality, research suggests.

Matt Swayne-Penn State • futurity
Dec. 13, 2018 ~5 min


Teens prank health surveys but researchers fight back

Getting "mischievous responders" out of the data gives researchers a more accurate sense of how LGBQ teens differ from their heterosexual peers.

Jordan Bennett-NYU • futurity
Dec. 3, 2018 ~6 min

Author Édouard Louis examines contexts for violence | MIT News

The acclaimed writer, whose work has become a cause célèbre in France and beyond, speaks as part of the MIT Global France Seminar series.

School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences • mit
Nov. 2, 2017 ~6 min

Future physician-advocate | MIT News

Senior Hermoon Worku is pursuing a career dedicated to surgery, advocacy, and teaching.

Kate Telma | MIT News correspondent • mit
Feb. 20, 2017 ~7 min

A new fight with old battle lines | MIT News

Book explores what France’s LGBTQ rights battle says about identity and belonging.

Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office • mit
Feb. 2, 2017 ~7 min

Bruno Perreau named to the French Academic Palms | MIT News

Humanities scholar honored with France's highest distinction for academics.

School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences • mit
Oct. 5, 2016 ~3 min

Surrounded by questions | MIT News

PhD student Nils Wernerfelt deploys the tools of economics to address his many questions about the world.

Catherine Curro Caruso | MIT News correspondent • mit
Sept. 8, 2016 ~8 min


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