The Keith Haring Nurse Practitioner Postgraduate Fellowship in LGBTQ+ Health
Applications for the 2025-2026 Haring Fellowship are now closed!
Welcome to the Keith Haring Nurse Practitioner Postgraduate Fellowship in LGBTQ+ Health!
Through this fellowship, we offer a premier LGBTQ+ healthcare training program that enhances knowledge, increases compassion, and brings awareness to the healthcare barriers that LGBTQ+ communities face. Upon completion of this training and experience, our fellows are specialized in LGBTQ+ health and utilize the skills they learn to help close the gap in health disparities for LGBTQ+ people.
This full-time, year-long program, which runs from September to August, consists of precepted and independent sessions as well as specialty rotations and didactic portions. The fellowship is designed to give academically prepared family and adult-gerontology primary care nurse practitioners an opportunity to spend time under the guidance of an LGBTQ+ health expert.
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Fellowship Mission
Our mission is to train nurse practitioners to provide high quality, patient-centered, culturally responsive and compassionate primary care to LGBTQ+ communities in all of their diversity (2025).
Fellowship Vision
Haring Fellows, with their increased knowledge and competency to treat the complex health care needs of the LGBTQ+ communities, will bring these new skills with them to help reduce the gap in health disparities for LGBTQ+ people.
Goals & Expectations
The fellowship program is rigorous and comprehensive and includes training in care for all LGBTQ+ communities and people living with HIV. Haring Fellows will commit to a year-long program that includes a full schedule of training, patient care, and didactics. Haring Fellows learn over time and have constant access to expert providers who will help shape their practice, alongside mentorship, networking, and professional growth opportunities. We expect Haring Fellows to feel passionately about primary care and working with LGBTQ+ communities.
Program goals:
- Increase the number of LGBTQ+ sensitive primary care providers and increase access to LGBTQ+ care that is comprehensive, team-based, patient-centered, coordinated, accessible, high quality and safe.
- Increase primary care workforce retention through improving confidence, capability and job satisfaction.
- Develop leadership qualities to improve clinic and patient outcomes through quality improvement, population health and/or research.
- Advance skills for creating organizational change to transform healthcare systems to be LGBTQ+ inclusive and affirming.
By the end of the program, Haring Fellows will:
- Provide comprehensive, team-based, patient-centered, high-quality and safe primary and LGBTQ+ care.
- Demonstrate confidence that aligns with their competence.
- Develop a quality improvement plan, propose an intervention to improve population health, and/or engage in a research project at Callen-Lorde.
- Perform an evaluation and hold a sensitivity training at an outside organization regarding LGBTQ+ inclusivity.
- See at least 15-16 patients a day.
Curriculum & Schedule
The curriculum focuses on the advancement of clinical and diagnostic skills as well as leadership and scholarship skills. Haring Fellows will have supervised as well as independent sessions each week. Each fellow will work with clinical preceptors and other clinicians as they rotate through specific specialties and areas of practice. A strong focus is placed on primary care, HIV and STI prevention and treatment, including HIV pre-exposure and post exposure prophylaxis, anal health, gynecological care for sexual minority women and people of trans experience, transgender health, alternative insemination and parenting options, and HIV specialist training. Scholarly and leadership pursuits, such as presenting and publishing, quality improvement work, research and teaching are encouraged and mentored. While the majority of sessions will be spent in our Brooklyn site, for some of the specialty rotations there will be travel to offices outside of Brooklyn and to our Chelsea Manhattan location.
The fellowship consists of six sessions:
Precepted session: Independent session: HIV session: Specialty session: Didactic session: Administrative session:Interested in applying? Here’s what you’ll need:
- FNP or AGPCNP from an accredited nursing school
- Your resume
- Short essay responses to three questions (maximum of 400 words each)
- You may include a cover letter if you wish
- Three professional letters of recommendation. The actual letters must be uploaded for the application. Each letter must contain the following information about the referee: name, institution, relationship to the applicant, professional specialty, complete address, phone, email
Once you have these components ready, you’re ready to apply.
The Keith Haring Nurse Practitioner Postgraduate Fellowship in LGBTQ+ Health accredited through the National Nurse Practitioner Residency & Fellowship Training Consortium. Learn more about the rigorous standards of the NNPRFTC.
Visitors to our site are encouraged to provide public comment as part of our accreditation process. Please visit the Accreditation Status and Public Comment Website.
The Keith Haring Nurse Practitioner Postgraduate Fellowship in LGBTQ+ Health is funded, in part, through the Keith Haring LGBTQ+ Health Equity Endowment, which was established at Callen-Lorde by the Keith Haring Foundation in 2019.
