The Fenway Institute Awarded Historic Grant to Advance LGBT Health Research

Under a presidential administration that has been accused of hampering scientific research in general and research on gay men in particular, the Fenway Institute at Fenway Community Health Center received a $1 million grant by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to establish the first federally funded research center focused on conducting population research on the LGBT community.

The grant - $1 million over 5 years - will support the creation of technical resources and compiling of data with the goals of producing cutting-edge research on LGBT communities and training the next generation of LGBT scholars. Priority areas are behavioral research on the transmission of HIV; characteristics and quality of life of LGBT families and households; and demographic aspects of LGBT health, morbidity, disability and mortality.

Read the coverage in Bay Windows here.

In Newsweekly's story is here.

Fenway's press release is here.