“Rhode Island is one of 13 states in the union that doesn’t have an LGBT health clinic that focuses on serving the LGBT population as a core function of its mission,” says Executive Director Dr. Amy Nunn. The medical director of the clinic, Dr. Philip Chan, echoes her remarks, saying that many times LGBT Rhode Islanders would go to Boston to receive care. Now, they can get the care they need in their home state.

Shira I. Dunsiger, Ph.D., recently joined the Center for Health Equity Research. Here she shares some background on her public health interests and current work.

Katie Biello, PhD, MPH, has been selected to receive a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Sexual & Gender Minority Early Stage Investigator Award. As described by the NIH Sexual & Gender Minority Research Office (SGMRO), Biello’s work demonstrates both contemporary achievement in and a commitment to multiple areas of SGM-related health research.

Research by David M. Williams, a clinical psychologist and professor at Brown University, and his colleagues has shown that how you feel during exercise predicts both current and future physical activity levels.