( MENAFN - PR Newswire) New Center will serve to advance health equity for LGBTQ communities BOSTON, June 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Harvard Pilgrim health care Institute announces the launch of the LGBTQ Health Center of Excellence to advance health equity for LGBTQ communities. In partnership with Harvard T.H.
Chan School of Public Health, this first-of-its-kind center will leverage the distinctive research and teaching capabilities that both institutions are renowned for. The Center will be led by Brittany Charlton , Harvard Medical School associate professor of population medicine at the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute and associate professor in the department of epidemiology at Harvard Chan School. A leading scholar documenting reproductive health and cancer disparities affecting LGBTQ communities, Dr.
Charlton sought to create a diverse, inclusive, and equitable home for LGBTQ health. "One in ten people in the U.S.
are LGBTQ, and this population will grow, as that number is twice as high among young people. LGBTQ people experience widespread discrimination resulting in adverse physical and mental health," says Dr. Charlton.
"As leaders in public health and medicine, we have both the responsibility and the opportunity to drive real change." Working with partners across Harvard and around the world, the Center will focus on training to prepare the next generation of LGBTQ health leaders, research to expand the evidence base of LGBTQ health, and dissemination to inf.
