The Latest from ISGMH

Steven Thrasher, PhD, discussed health disparities and how the United States failed one of his students who was living HIV at a Cambridge Union debate on October 31. ... Read more

Elizabeth Casline, PhD, joined the Institute as a research assistant professor. Casline is a child and adolescent clinical psychologist and implementation scientist who specializes in LGBTQ youth mental health care.... Read more

The innovative online HIV prevention program Keep It Up! was chosen by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities for inclusion in the newly launched HDPulse Interventions Portal.... Read more

Ado Rivera, MD, PhD, joined the Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing faculty. Rivera is a quantitative methodologist who works as a team scientist across several research... Read more

Associate Director Jagadīśa-devaśrī Dācus received the Outstanding Commitment in Education award from Illinois State Treasurer Michael Frerichs during LGBTQ+ History Month.... Read more

Northwestern University professor Brian Mustanski has been appointed to the Advisory Committee to the Director of National Institutes of Health (NIH), Dr. Monica Bertagnolli. Mustanski was invited to join the committee by Xavier Becerra, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Mustanski’s appointment begins immediately and extends through 2027.

Patients will soon be able to choose “X” as a sex designation at Northwestern Medicine’s 11 hospitals and more than 200 outpatient locations throughout Illinois. “X” is a sex designation on government identification documents that represents a legal sex other than male or female. Most commonly, people who are nonbinary, intersex or transgender may opt to use “X” instead of male “M” or female “F” as a sex designation on identification documents. The designation will be available as part of the health system’s electronic medical record beginning Dec. 18.