# GSH Training Grant

> **NIH NIH T32** · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · 2020 · $143,346

## Abstract

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:** 9952393
- **Project number:** 5T32HD049339-14
- **Recipient organization:** COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
- **Principal Investigator:** Jennifer S Hirsch
- **Activity code:** T32 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $143,346
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2005-05-10 → 2022-04-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9952393

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9952393, GSH Training Grant (5T32HD049339-14). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9952393. Licensed CC0.

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