PhD-PHS-SBS

I am an MD/PhD candidate studying how neighborhood contexts perpetuate systemic racism and ableism by shaping child physical, mental, and behavioral health. My aim is to be a pediatrician scientist … Continue reading “Logan Nicole Beyer”

I’ve worked on projects surrounding immigration, stress, and health, cancer inequities in AI/AN populations, and state-level midwifery policy and birth outcomes. Currently, I’m interested structural and political determinants of health, … Continue reading “Laura Chen”

Research/Practice Interests: Social epidemiology; Implementation science; Cancer prevention; Health equity; Community Engagement

My work considers how race, public policy, and American democracy affect life chances and health. I’m particularly interested how public policies that reduce wealth inequality lead to better health, how … Continue reading “Matlin Gilman”

I am interested in refugee health, maternal and child health, reproductive health, substance use, community based participatory research, and mixed methods.

My research aims to generate evidence—using multi-level theoretical frameworks and its application in social and spatial epidemiology—to advance equity-oriented public health scholarship and practice in pursuit of human rights and … Continue reading “Soroush Moallef”

My research focuses on understanding 1) how upstream (e.g., neighborhood, policies) and individual-level (e.g., characteristics) factors could interact to buffer long-term health impact of childhood adversity, and 2) cultural difference … Continue reading “Sakurako S. Okuzono”

My research focuses on social and structural determinants of transgender and nonbinary adolescent mental health disparities, quantitative intersectional methods, and demographic measurement.

I study spatial and social epidemiology, and I aim to spatially analyze the causal relationship between location-based factors and racial health disparities and further research and policy advancement on housing … Continue reading “Taylor J. Robinson”

Research/practice Interests : Social epidemiology, health equity, political determinants of health, and gender and health