Research to Improve Health
Cutting-edge research on the social and structural drivers of health.
To understand the drivers of population health, the systems around populations must be understood — as it is not individuals themselves, but the social and structural systems they encounter in their everyday lives that shape their health.
This is a paradigm shift from a single pathway toward how the entire system fits together to produce health inequities for a particular population. As such, this shift requires complex modeling and computational approaches, new tools and methods for the capture, integration and analysis of rich social data necessary to understand systemic influences on individual health.
Our Projects
Through numerous studies, our team has been at the forefront of understanding of the social and structural drivers of population health via measurement tools, modeling and analysis, and the transdisciplinary integration of scientists and community members.
SILOS
Structural Inequities across Layers Of Social-Context as Drivers of HIV and Substance Use
Read the SILOS grant press release and learn more on the Impact Institute site.
ChiSTIG
Simulation Modeling to Understand and Address HIV Disparities in Racial, Ethnic, and Sexual Minority Populations
Caregiver
Measuring Caregiver Networks of Older Adults with Alzheimer's Disease (Caregiver site)
Network Canvas
Network Canvas provides free and open-source software for surveying social networks, designed for both researchers and participants.
Learn More about Network Canvas here.
(R01DA042711;ODSS Supplement to R34DA052216; and R01DA057973)
PUG2
Leveraging Data Synthesis to Identify Optimal and Robust Strategies for HIV Elimination Among Substance-using MSM
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Our analytical work to understand the social and structural factors driving disease is rooted in community partnerships, which require participants in our studies. Register as a research participant to help advance our research.