Deadline: 15-Mar-25
The Lesbian Health Fund (LHF), a program of GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ+ Equality was established to define, study, and educate lesbians and other sexual minority women, as well as their healthcare providers, about health issues facing the community.
LHF is the only US research fund dedicated solely to the unique health needs of LGBTQ+ women and girls.
Research Areas
- The LHF Grant Committee welcomes all proposals that identify or address health disparities among LGBTQ+ women and girls (e.g., sexual and/or gender minority women or girls, gender diverse people assigned female at birth); however, special consideration will be given to proposals that focus on the following:
- Research that generates pilot data for subsequent training or early-stage investigator grants
- Subpopulations that are often underrepresented in sexual and gender minority
(SGM) research, including but not limited to:- Adolescents/Youth
- Bisexual people
- Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color
- Gender diverse people
- Intersex individuals or individuals with differences of sex development (DSD)
- Older adults
- People who experience multiple points of marginalization
- Rural communities
- Methods & frameworks
- Measurement & methods of LGBTQ+ people
- Community-informed/community-based participatory research
- Trauma-informed research
- Social & behavioral research
- Intersectionality
- Sexual and Gender Minority Health Disparities Research Framework
- Topical areas
- Sexual and reproductive health, including family & parenting issues
- The impact of the pandemic on health and wellbeing
- Educational initiatives (e.g., curriculum development)
- Acute care/hospitalization experiences
- Access to healthcare issues
- Across the lifespan issues
- Violence prevention
Funding Information
- For the 2025 grant cycle, they plan to fund grants in the range of $5,000 to $10,000 each.
Eligibility Criteria
- Graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty interested in pursuing a research career focused on LGBTQ+ women or girls are invited to apply.
- Senior scholars, faculty, and non-profit organizations interested in expanding their program of research into this population are also welcome to apply.
- Applicants’ organizations or institutions must have a US tax ID.
- Proposed research may not begin until you have received funding from LHF. Grant money is not awarded for completed research or for projects in progress.
- Current LHF grantees may not participate in a new grant as PI or Co-Investigator until LHF receives the written Final Report for their current grant.
For more information, visit GLMA.