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.
Ishan Saha
MPH Candidate in Health Policy at Harvard Chan School of Public Health – Class of 2025
MD Candidate at UC San Diego School of Medicine – Class of 2026
Ishan (He/Him) is a current medical student at UC San Diego, now pursuing a masters in public health in health policy at the Harvard School of Public Health. In medical school, Ishan was an active leader of the LGBTQ+ advocacy group and helped organize events such as Rainbow Pin Ceremony, Transgender Day of Remembrance, and Transgender Week of Action. As a Sanford Scholar, he led research on how gender minority stress impacted the intersectional development of mental health conditions among Trans women. At Chan, Ishan is a LGBTQ Health Equity Fellowship awardee and is currently working with Trans Health HQ to help develop a centralized clinician hub for physicians to easily access resources to guide care for Trans patients. He aims to get involved in research on changes and interpretations of gender and sexual fluidity with the GenderWise Lab at Harvard Chan. As an aspiring Emergency Medicine physician, he is eager to further conduct research on crisis management for LGBTQ+ populations in emergency settings. In his free time Ishan is an avid musician and photographer, with a desire to break into photojournalism as a medium for LGBTQ+ Advocacy.
Representative Publications
- Ishan Saha, Kyle Okamuro, Jill Blumenthal, Carson McCann, Jennifer Anger, David Grelotti. The Relationship of Gender Minority Stress and Psychosocial Syndemics among Transgender Women. [Poster Presentation] University of California, Community Health Conference: Sacramento, CA, May 27, 2023.