Sean Cahill
Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Administration

Sean Cahill, Ph.D., is Director of Health Policy Research at the Fenway Institute in Boston. At Fenway Cahill focuses on LGBT health and HIV policy. Since 2010 he has served as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Public Administration at New York University’s Robert Wagner School of Public Service. He is author of Pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention: Moving toward implementation, published by the Fenway Institute in February 2012.

Cahill is the author of two books on LGBT family policy, and coauthor of LGBT youth in America’s schools, published in May 2012 by the University of Michigan Press. A leader in the LGBT and HIV movements for more than two decades, Cahill was Managing Director of Public Policy, Research and Community Health at Gay Men’s Health Crisis from 2007 to 2011, where he successfully advocated for a national HIV/AIDS strategy and for attention to gay and bisexual men through the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. He directed the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute from 2001 to 2007, and served as its research director from 1999-2001. There he produced ground-breaking research, such as *Outing Age: Public policy issues affecting gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender elders* (2000) and *Black same-sex couples in the United States: A report from the 2000 Census*(2004). He is a member of the Massachusetts Commission on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Youth.











Areas of Expertise

  • Aging
  • Health Policy
  • Race, Class, & Diversity