2018-2019 Advancing Health Equity Pilot Awards

2018-2019 Awards

Meryl Alper - Institute of Health Equity and Social Justice, Northeastern University

Meryl Alper
Assistant Professor
College of Arts Media and Design

Title: Communication Studies, College of Arts, Media, and Design, Advancing Digital and Health Equity for Autistic Children Ages 9-13

Jeanne Madden - Bouve College of Health Sciences, Northeastern UniversityJeanne Madden
Associate Professor
Bouvé College of Health Sciences

Title: Food Insecurity among Medicare Beneficiaries

Andrea Grimes Parker, Northeastern UniversityAndrea Grimes Parker
Associate Professor
School of Interactive Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology

Title: Expressive Design: Personal Health Informatics Innovations to Support Coping and Resilience

Rachel Rodgers - Northeastern UniversityRachel Rodgers
Associate Professor
College of Social Sciences and Humanities and Bouvé College of Health Sciences

Title: Tools for health equity across the weight spectrum: Development and validation of a paradigm to elicit fear of fat and desire for thinness

Carmel Salhi - Institute of Health Equity and Social Justice ResearchCarmel Salhi
Assistant Professor
Bouvé College of Health Sciences

Title: Conflict and decentralization in Syria’s healthcare system: The impact of emerging service providers on community member’s healthcare access and participation

Laura Senier - Northeastern UniversityLaura Senier
Assistant Professor
College of Social Science and Humanities and Bouvé College of Health Sciences

Title: The mental health effects of access to green and blue spaces in urban environments

Liza Weinstein - Northeastern UniversityLiza Weinstein
Associate Professor
College of Social Science and Humanities

Title: Embodied exclusion: The Social production of marginality in a Mumbai slum settlement