current and past projects
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Our projects can be divided into five research clusters:
Below you can see our current and past projects and sorted by research cluster.
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This project will use epidemiology, system dynamics, and community-engaged methods to understand how individual and multiple components of the sociopolitical environment affect Black and Latinx immigrants’ CVD preventive care utilization.
Additional information about the project can be found on NIH Reporter.
Contact Danielle Crookes ([email protected]) to learn more.
The Healthy Relationships Project© developed by Prevent Child Abuse Vermont (PCAVT), is a primary prevention intervention that is deployed within school systems to prevent child sexual abuse. The curricula consist of trainings for school staff, six weeks of classroom lessons delivered by either teachers or trainers from outside, and caregiver workshops.
This initiative seeks to understand the mechanisms by which trauma, occurring over the life course, but especially in childhood, “gets under the skin” of patients and shapes how they think, feel, and behave, often for the remainder of their lives.
This initiative will select twelve of these diverse communities around the country that are seeking to build a coordinated response to vicarious trauma. They will receive training and technical assistance, and be part of a national learning collaborative, to help develop a vision and action plan that is unique to their respective communities.
The direct-service goal of ECMH FIRST is to improve access to high-quality, culturally competent, evidence-based behavioral health services through an innovative Family Partner/Clinician service model for children age 0-48 months and their families in Boston who are involved with the child welfare system.
Recent policy changes and new digital gambling products have led to a rapid increase in rates of sports betting, raising questions about whether these trends will increase disparities in people’s experiences with gambling disorder (GD). With the assistance of Health Equity Interns, we are addressing these gaps by considering how people discuss topics related to GD on two popular recreational sports betting forums on Reddit. Using methods from machine learning, text analysis, and network analysis, we are analyzing a sample of nearly 150,000 comments from 2012 to 2024 that mention key terms related to GD. Findings will carry the potential to inform practitioners’ understandings of how online recreational sports betting forums can both assist and inhibit people’s efforts to seek help for GD.
Contact Cassie McMillan ([email protected]) to learn more.
The Massachusetts Department of Mental Health is committed to increasing the accessibility and availability of effective information, supports, and services that take into account and respect the diverse cultural and linguistic needs of Massachusetts’ youth and young adults who are at risk for psychosis or who are experiencing the recent onset of psychosis and their families and friends
The project aims to address a critical research gap and important public health problem. Chinese American adolescents (CAAs) are at elevated risk for mental health concerns, including depression and suicidal ideation. This public health issue is compounded by the cultural barriers to mental health care experienced by Chinese Americans.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is supporting Northeastern University in exploring the intersection of health and human services to enhance whole-person care for vulnerable groups. Their efforts are part of a broader goal to foster a Culture of Health, which emphasizes creating healthier environments and ensuring access to comprehensive medical, economic, and social support services, with a robust human services sector being crucial for these objectives.
This book project examines the cultural technologies of power artists and cultural producers employ to manipulate stigma and its resulting affects in performance projects oriented towards the alleviation of social inequalities. This includes performances explicitly and implicitly working to reduce stigma experienced by marginalized communities as well as performances working to stigmatize behaviors aligned with facets of oppressive hegemonic power.
Contact Dani Snyder-Young ([email protected]) to learn more.
Contact Samantha Garbers ([email protected]) to learn more.
The initiative of the ACE Resource Network to develop a place-based effort to raise awareness, prevent, and intervene on the associations among ACE and negative health and social outcomes, in Sacramento, CA will be a first of its kind effort.
In partnership with a nonprofit clinic in Knox County, Maine, our interdisciplinary team (from Bouvé and CAMD) is working to identify, design, prototype, and evaluate innovative models of rural community-based care, including mobile health units and organizational and funding models, through a participatory research approach.
Contact Katherine Simmonds ([email protected]) or Sara Carr ([email protected]) to learn more.
Contact Tiffany Joseph ([email protected]) to learn more.
Salus Populi: Educating the Judiciary about the Social Determinants of Health is a project in collaboration with the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University School of Law and the Institute for Health Equity and Social Justice Research at Northeastern University that seeks to provide guidance and training to judges on the impact of the law on the social determinants of health.
This study investigates the role of digital media in eating disorder (ED) development and recovery for autistic individuals, focused on addressing high autism rates among those with EDs and the potential negative impact of social media (SM) on body image concerns and EDs for adolescent girls and young women.
Contact Meryl Alper ([email protected]) or Rachel Rodgers ([email protected]) to learn more.
Dr. Shan Mohammed’s work is focused on the public health workforce education through the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH). Dr. Mohammed served as co-chair of an expert panel that created a report entitled Transformative Approaches to Teaching and Learning. Their current work is now disseminating this work and beginning to evaluate how schools and programs in public health are utilizing the report.
Contact Shan Mohammed ([email protected]) to learn more.
Although legal exclusion in slums has not been featured prominently in global health research, recent studies on Indian cities have shown a strong relationship between legal exclusion and various poor outcomes including infant mortality, child vaccination, child and adult under nutrition, literacy, and educational attainment.
The purpose of the evaluation study is to determine the effectiveness of the SOC project on early child care service systems’ functioning, children’s mental, behavioral, and developmental health outcomes, and the project’s impact on collaboration across the system of care. The evaluators are also measuring policy changes/fiscal reforms associated with preventative infant early childhood mental health in primary care practices during the period of the study.
This study aims to adapt and modify Adult Basic Medication (ABE) for use in an integrated primary care and wellness center embedded in a busy, public, urban outpatient mental health center. The adapted ABE (ABE-MH) will be service-user informed, recovery-focused, led by an ABE instructor, and supported by peer tutors.
Although legal exclusion in slums has not been featured prominently in global health research, recent studies on Indian cities have shown a strong relationship between legal exclusion and various poor outcomes including infant mortality, child vaccination, child and adult under nutrition, literacy, and educational attainment.
WE PLAY stands for Wellness Enhancing Physical Activity for Young Children. This course is designed to provide early childhood educators with tools and support to facilitate active play with preschool children. WE PLAY offers strategies for incorporating physically active play into preschool, including adaptations for children with autism spectrum disorder.
