BU Professor Aims to Destigmatize Sexual Health
A Boston University professor of epidemiology, Julia Bond, has been awarded a $1.25M NIH grant to research sexual health.
“It was a really interesting disconnect where the public health focus was on [topics] that were important but that were not necessarily the primary concern for at least from what I was seeing,”
Bond said, recalling a peer health education group meeting at Bowdoin College about 20 years ago, where she realized discussions about sexual health programming often ignored the topic of pleasure.
Now, with the Director’s Early Independence Award from the National Institutes of Health, Bond will investigate the relationship between sexual function and conception.
Author's summary: BU professor researches sexual health with NIH grant.
- Grant amount: $1.25M
- Award: Director’s Early Independence Award
- Research focus: Relationship between sexual function and conception