# GSH Training Grant

> **NIH NIH T32** · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · 2021 · $39,655

## Abstract

SUMMARY/ABSTRACT OF PARENT GRANT
This proposal requests continued funding for a unique and highly successful predoctoral
research training program located in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia
University's Mailman School of Public Health. This program aims to prepare students for
research and teaching careers focused on the historical, social, cultural, and psychological
dimensions of gender and sexuality as they impact on reproductive and sexual health and on
the health of sexual and gender minorities, both nationally and globally. With the goal of
strengthening this program's ability to support highly qualified students during the dissertation
phase of their training, we are requesting an increase from our current four to six funded training
slots, the two additional slots to be reserved for students who have completed their coursework.
Nationally, sexual and reproductive health indicators continue to lag behind those of other
developed countries; gender and sexual minorities experience especially high rates of serious
physical and mental illness. Globally, the burden of disease and death associated with HIV,
sexually transmitted infections, and maternal and infant mortality represents an urgent problem.
Trainees in this multidisciplinary program follow a theoretically and methodologically rigorous
curriculum consisting of (1) disciplinary training in anthropology, sociology, psychology, or
history comparable to that received by Ph.D. candidates in Columbia's Graduate School of Arts
and Sciences; (2) a two-semester specially-designed course in the major traditions in social
theory that undergird contemporary practice in the sociomedical sciences and its application to
health-related research; (3) training in epidemiology and biostatistics; (4) a course in the
biological bases of sexual and reproductive health; (5) a minimum of two additional courses
specifically focused on contemporary theoretical approaches and substantive topics in gender,
sexuality, and health; (6) an ongoing faculty-trainee seminar in gender, sexuality, and health; (7)
a required course in research ethics; 8) a research apprenticeship supervised by program
faculty; (9) doctoral research focused on a topic in gender, sexuality, and health. This program's
training faculty are drawn from the disciplines listed above plus medicine, epidemiology, social
work, and public policy.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10330271
- **Project number:** 3T32HD049339-15S1
- **Recipient organization:** COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
- **Principal Investigator:** Jennifer S Hirsch
- **Activity code:** T32 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $39,655
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2005-05-10 → 2022-07-25

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10330271

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10330271, GSH Training Grant (3T32HD049339-15S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10330271. Licensed CC0.

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