Sabra L. Katz-Wise, PhD

Sabra L. Katz-Wise, PhD (she/her) is an associate professor in adolescent/young adult medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital, in pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, and in social and behavioral sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is also adjunct faculty at The Fenway Institute. She is director of the SOGIE (Sexual Orientation Gender Identity and Expression) Health Equity Research Collaborative and the GenderWise Lab, and she is a senior faculty advisor for the Boston Children’s Office of Health Equity and Inclusion. Dr. Katz-Wise’s research uses community-engaged mixed methods to investigate sexual orientation and gender identity development and fluidity, health inequities related to sexual orientation and gender identity in adolescents and young adults, and psychosocial functioning in families with transgender and nonbinary youth. Her work has been funded by several grants from the National Institutes of Health and the Boston Children’s Aerosmith Endowment Fund and is widely published in peer-reviewed journals. In addition to research, Dr. Katz-Wise is involved with advocacy efforts to improve the workplace climate, patient care, and learning environment for LGBTQ+ individuals, including her role on the Queer Leadership Council for the Boston Children’s Rainbow Alliance and member of the Boston Children’s Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Council.