SOGIE Health Equity Research Collaborative
The mission of the SOGIE Collaborative is to advance health equity for all communities, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity and expression.
Learn About Our Work
Learn about the innovative work among SOGIE Health Equity Research Collaborative membership. This page will be updated continuously, so please check back for more Research Labs and Groups and Research Studies at a later date.
Research Labs and Groups
Based in the Division of Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital, our goal is to advance the health of LGBTQ+ adolescents and young adults by conducting explicitly LGBTQ+ affirming research. Our projects are shaped by a social justice framework and use community-engaged approaches to ensure that the research is relevant for and useful to LGBTQ+ communities.
We promote health equity and well-being through communication. We work with our partner communities to understand how marketing, media, and messaging impact health and well-being. Together, we create communication programs that respect and reflect different needs and cultures.
We are a group of research collaborators working to advance adolescent and young adult health and wellbeing at the intersections of sexual, racial, and gender justice.
The PRISM Lab, led by Dr. Alli Smith, is dedicated to advancing equitable, patient-centered pediatric pain research through the study of pain, resilience, and intersectionality. We seek to understand how individual, interpersonal, and systemic factors shape the experiences of children, adolescents, and young adults living with chronic pain, particularly those whose voices have historically been underrepresented in research and healthcare.
Based at the University of Rhode Island, our scientific mission is to improve the health and wellbeing of vulnerable populations and decrease health disparities through the development and implementation of trauma-informed, community engaged interventions with the potential to mitigate experiences of minority stress (e.g., structural and interpersonal experiences of discrimination, rejection, violence/victimization; internalized stigma) and bolster community connectedness, identity pride, and resilience.
The T4T Health Research Team, based in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the Boston University School of Public Health, studies how social context—including schools, work, families, and romantic relationships—shape the health of young adults. Much of this work focuses on LGBTQ+ young people, particularly trans/nonbinary young adults. We approach this work from a strengths-based perspective, and community input plays a vital role in our research.
Research Studies
The Health Minds Study is an annual survey of college students across the U.S.
Learn more about the Healthy Minds Study.
The goal of the Plurisexual Lives: Understanding Stigma (PLUS) Study is to examine the stigma experiences of adolescents and young adults who are attracted to multiple genders and how these experiences are related to their mental health.
Learn more about the PLUS Study.