2024 News
December 5, 2024
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.
November 25, 2024
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.
November 25, 2024
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.
November 22, 2024
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 projects.
October 25, 2024
Professor Cindy Veldhuis discusses the gaps in queer women's healthcare in Chicago's LGBTQ newspaper, the Windy City Times.
October 22, 2024
Associate Director Jagadīśa-devaśrī Dācus received the Outstanding Commitment in Education award from Illinois State Treasurer Michael Frerichs during LGBTQ+ History Month.
October 16, 2024
People assigned male at birth who belong to a sexual or gender minority group were twice as likely to use methamphetamine following an HIV diagnosis.
October 15, 2024
Gregory Phillips II, PhD, has been named the new director of Northwestern University’s Master of Science in Epidemiology (MS Epi) program.
September 25, 2024
ISGMH trainee Will Liem was awarded the Ethics and Artificial Intelligence Research Grant to develop generative AI tools for sex education geared towards LGBTQ+ teens.
August 27, 2024
Original works by four local Chicago LGBTQ+ artists are now on display at ISGMH, which commissioned the works as part of its ARTGASM mini residency program.
August 23, 2024
The SILOS Project will examine the social and structural factors leading to racial/ethnic differences in HIV transmission and substance use among young men who have sex with men and transgender women.
August 22, 2024
Public health campaigns for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) should shift to sex-positive messaging, researchers say.
June 28, 2024
Northwestern’s Institute for Sexual and Minority Health and Wellbeing (ISGMH) came out to support the LGBTQ+ community at the 2024 Chicago Pride Fest on June 22-June 23.
April 22, 2024
April 12, 2024
A recent Northwestern Medicine comparative analysis of national survey results found that one in four U.S. adolescents in grades 9 through 12 reported their sexual identity as non-heterosexual, according to findings published in JAMA Pediatrics.
March 28, 2024
Leiszle Lapping-Carr, PhD, joins the faculty at the Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing (ISGMH) at Northwestern University.
February 15, 2024
The 2GETHER intervention developed at Northwestern University was designated a "best" evidence-based HIV prevention program by the CDC.
January 5, 2024
The Sociostructural Implementation Science Coordination Initiative (SISCI) is a newly established coordination hub that works with five NIH-funded HIV prevention projects across the US.