The Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute announced the launch of a new LGBTQ Health Center of Excellence on June 4, in partnership with the Harvard T.H. “It's such a preventable cause.”Early programs will include an LGBTQ Health Voices Fellowship, meant to train the next generation of LGBTQ health leaders to influence public discourse (by learning to write op-eds and policy briefs, for example); design of new coursework for medical and public health students that includes teaching them to document health disparities; and funding relevant research. The center will be staffed by 13 faculty members from Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute—an affiliate of Harvard Medical School that is part of a larger health insurance company called Point32Health—and HSPH, including epidemiologists, pediatricians, biostatisticians, and behavioral scientists. The partnership with Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute will give the center access to healthcare data from customers across New England, and the opportunity to collect new data for research on sexual orientation and gender identity. “We’re really not dedicating enough time to preparing our students or med school students to care for the LGBTQ population,” she said.