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May 2, 2025 - News

Harvard's LGBTQ+ health center gutted by NIH funding cuts

Steph Solis

From left, Ariel Beccia, an instructor at the LGBTQ Health Center of Excellence at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Julia Marcus, associate professor at Harvard Medical School and with the LGBTQ Health Center of Excellence, and Brittany Charlton, associate professor and founding direct — From left, Ariel Beccia, Julia Marcus and Brittany Charlton of the LGBTQ Health Center of Excellence at the Harvard, which had its NIH funding terminated. Photo: Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

One Boston victim of recent federal research cuts is the newly opened LGBTQ+ Health Center of Excellence at Harvard University.

State of play: The National Institutes of Health clawed back the remaining $5.9 million of nearly $16 million in research funding, founder Brittany Charlton said.

Threat level: The cuts have killed research on over-the-counter PreP, health outcomes for pregnant lesbian, gay and bisexual women and youth mental health.

What they're saying: "We were already not investing enough (in LGBTQ+ health research)," says Charlton, who last month joined a federal lawsuit challenging the cuts.

"Now with all of these terminations coming down in seemingly very targeted ways … our science is under attack."

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