Research

Environmental Health and Sustainability in Flint

#Corefocus Environmental Health Start June 2018 Number of participants 404 follow fcep on social media Flint Community Engagement Project The Flint Community Engagement Project (FCEP) is cluster of cohort studies, one initiated in 2017 and the others initiated in 2020 and 2021, respectively, that focus on social and health outcomes in Flint, Michigan. Focusing on...

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Youth and Women’s Health in the Five Boroughs

#CoreFocus Environmental Health Start June 2021 Number of Participants 521 follow ths PWH5 study on social media Pediatric and Women’s Health in the Five Boroughs Pediatric and Women’s Health in the Five Boroughs, PWH5, is a multidimensional community-based study that was initiated in 2021. PWH5 addresses environmental health and wellbeing in a hyper-localized public health...

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Opioid Use in Rural and Urban Areas

#CoreFocus Drug Use Start September 2021 Number of Participants 452 follow invisibly visible on social media Visibly Invisible: Opioid Use, Meth, and Drug Injection in New York Our Opioid Use, Meth, and Drug Injection cores, Visibly Invisible, concentrate on the complex string of factors that contribute to drug use in communities throughout the United States,...

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Interpersonal Violence in Chicago and Beyond

#CoreFocus Youth Violence Start January 2019 Number of Participants 376 Violence as a Contagion Using the “violence as disease” paradigm that was established  by physician Gary Slutkin (Cure Violence), our Violence As A  Contagion research and community engagement endeavor is focused on how various sociocultural dynamics precede and follow the eruption of interpersonal and intimate...

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