Health disparities among LGBTQIA+ people, here and around the world

Kathryn Whetten, director of the Center for Health Policy and Inequalities Research at Sanford School of Public Policy, and Sara LeGrand, associate research professor in the Duke Global Health Institute - DGHI, are leading the new Duke Sexual and Gender Minority Health Program, which officially launched in February with a day-long interdisciplinary symposium. It brought together researchers, clinicians and members of the LGBTQIA+ community to discuss how healthcare conditions can improve for sexual and gender minorities in the United States and around the globe.

We chatted about their work looking into the health disparities that exist for LGBTQIA+ people — from gender and racial discrimination to lack of access to needed care — and what more needs to be done, in terms of their research as well as making the systemic changes needed for the people part of these communities to be served more equitably. Check out the full story here.