Lesbian Health Fund (LHF)

The Lesbian Health Fund (LHF), a program of GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ Equality, was established in 1992 to define, study, and educate lesbians and sexual minority women (SMW), as well as their health providers, about health issues facing SMW, LHF’s mission is to improve the health of SMW and their families through investigation and research and is the only US research fund dedicated solely to the unique health needs of SMW.

The LHF Grant Committee welcomes all proposals that identify or address health disparities among sexual and/or gender minority women, or gender diverse people AFAB; 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:
  • BIPOC people
  • Intersex individuals or individuals with differences or disorders of sex development
  • Bisexual people
  • Individuals whose gender identity falls within the full spectrum of gender
  • Older adults
  • Adolescents
• Methods & Frameworks
  • Qualitative research Measurement & methods of SGM people
  • Community-informed/Community-based participatory research
  • Trauma-informed research
  • Social & behavioral research
  • Intersectionality