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Julia Bond, an epidemiologist at BU. The NIH recently granted Bond $1.25m to further Bond’s research on sexual health and wellness. COURTESY OF JULIA BOND

BU professor of epidemiology aims to destigmatize sexual health through $1.25M NIH grant

By Luke Wise October 27, 2025
About 20 years ago, Julia Bond attended a peer health education group meeting at Bowdoin College when she realized discussions about sexual health programming almost always ignored one topic: pleasure.  “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. “So I kind of went rogue.” 
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