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.
Our Work
The SOGIE (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Expression) Health Equity Research Collaborative, previously named the Harvard SOGIE Health Equity Research Collaborative, is an inter-institutional group of LGBTQ+ health researchers.
The mission of the SOGIE Collaborative is to advance health equity for all communities, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity and expression. To do so we bring together internationally-recognized scientific experts from diverse disciplines and institutions whose research focuses on the intersections of sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and health.
We are committed to promoting the health of diverse LGBTQ+ communities in terms of sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, race/ethnicity, geography, and other axes of social inequality.
The team centers intersectional and feminist lenses and utilizes a range of approaches, including: community-based participatory research; qualitative and mixed methods; epidemiology and biostatistics; demography; psychology; intervention design, implementation, and evaluation research; and policy translation. We are committed to disseminating our research to all audiences, including academics, policymakers, LGBTQ+ communities, and the general public.
We follow collaboratively developed community norms and use an equitable mentorship model to support researchers at all career stages through our works-in-progress meetings, journal clubs, professional development workshops, peer mentorship lunches, grant writing sessions, seminar series, and more.