News - Institute for Health Equity and Social Justice Research

March 27

Student Researchers Receive PEAK Awards for Spring 2023

We are excited to announce that three Institue for Health Equity Faculty Scholars are mentoring 3 student researchers this spring semester for the PEAK awards. The Institute would like to celebrate […]

March 27

The Wylie Lab Has Recently Published a Study in Environmental Pollution

The Wylie Lab has just published a peer-reviewed study in Environmental Pollution entitled “Outcomes of the Halliburton Loophole: Chemicals Regulated by the […]

October 18

Dr. Tiana Yom Co-authors Post for the American Evaluation Association about Culturally Responsive Evaluation Series

October 5

Student Researchers Receive PEAK Awards for Fall 2022

October 3

HEI Dylan Hogan Launches a New Adaptive Sport in Boston and at Northeastern

September 28

SGAs Selected for the Robert Wood Foundation’s Health Policy Scholars Research Program

August 29

New Publication from Affiliated Faculty Atsushi Matsumoto and Faculty Scholar Dr. Claudia Santelices

August 22

Former HEI Meghna Iyer Publishes Undergraduate Manuscript

August 10

Dr. Chieh Li Receives an Exploratory/ Developmental Research Grant Award (R21) from the NIH

May 11

Institute SGAs Graduate from PhD Program

May 4

Dr. Tiana Yom Receives Outstanding Teaching Award

April 20

Health Equity Interns Receive Huntington 100 Awards

Five current and former Health Equity Interns were selected into the Huntington 100 for 2022. Recipients are nominated for their positive impact on the campus community, demonstrated record of service, high […]

April 14

Institute Faculty, Staff, and Students Volunteer at Community Servings

Each semester, the Institute for Health Equity and Social Justice offers a service opportunity in support of our mission of promoting health equity and social justice and reducing disparities in […]

April 13

NU-PEL and GBEN Virtual Event Recap

April 6

Institute SGA Sameera Nayak Receives Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award

February 14

Student Researchers Receive PEAK Awards for Spring 2022

December 15

Dr. Beth Molnar Receives 4-Year Grant from the CDC

Dr. Beth Molnar, Director of the Violence Prevention and Trauma Studies team, has received funding from the Center for Disease Control for her Evaluation of school-based Healthy Relationships project. Dr. […]

December 15

Building Back Stronger: A Panel Discussion on Racial and Health Equity Lessons Learned During COVID-19

Last week the Institute for Health Equity and Social Justice Research hosted a panel discussion with representatives from state and local health and mental health agencies on racial and health […]

November 30

NU-PEL Co-hosts Virtual Event with the GBEN

The Northeastern University Public Evaluation Lab (NU-PEL) and the Greater Boston Evaluation Network (GBEN) co-hosted a virtual event as a part of the Culturally Responsive Evaluation (CRE) series. The full event session can be […]

November 25

Dr. Beth Molnar Interviewed by NBC10 Boston

Dr. Beth Molnar, Director of the Violence Prevention and Trauma Studies Team here at the Institute, was recently interviewed by NBC10 regarding the death of 5-year-old Elijah Lewis. The full story can […]

October 21

Faculty, Staff, and students from the Institute, Northeastern Public Evaluation Lab (NU-PEL), and Dr. Molnars’ Lab Participate in Northeastern’s Annual SOURCE Event

On October 6, 2021 Faculty, Staff, and students from the Institute, Northeastern Public Evaluation Lab (NU-PEL), and Dr. Molnars’ Lab participated in SOURCE, which is the university-wide Showcase of Opportunities […]

September 20

SGAs Receive Grants to Move Forward Their Doctoral Dissertations

PhD student Lorraine Lacroix-Williamson has been named a Fellow of the Fostering Diversity in HIV Research program at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. This […]

August 4

Childcare is a Business Issue? Harvard Business Review Article

Director of the Institute, Alisa Lincoln, along with Northeastern faculty Alicia Modestino, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, and Jamie Ladge, Associate Professor of Management recently had an article, Childcare […]

August 4

New Publication From Faculty Scholar Dani Snyder-Young

Faculty scholar, Dr. Dani Snyder Young, Assistant Professor of Theater College of Arts, Media, and Design, recently published a paper titled, Recovery capital and collaborative theatre making: how actors in recovery from substance addiction value […]

August 2

Recent Publication from Affiliated Faculty Wallis Adams and Director Alisa Lincoln

Wallis Adams (IHESJR Affiliated Faculty) and Alisa Lincoln’s (Director of IHESJR) article, “Barriers to and Facilitators of Implementing Peer Support Services for Criminal Justice–Involved Individuals”, was recently published in Psychiatric […]

July 28

Former HEI Sophie Wiltshire Featured in Online Florida Paper

Sophie Wiltshire is a recent Bouvé College of Health Sciences’ graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree in Health Science. She was recently featured in St. Pete Catalyst, a local […]