Research Archives

11.10.2017 Screenshot of main menu of storytelling intervention

Storytelling and African-American Veterans with High Blood Pressure

Would hearing another person’s story help increase adherence to treatment plans? A recent study assessed the effectiveness of DVD storytelling to decrease blood pressure of African-American veterans.

Fellow Gilbert Benavidez

11.09.2017 Policeman with a car at a DUI checkpoint at sunset

Does Undocumented Immigration Increase Drug and Alcohol Problems?

The debate on the supposed connection has far outpaced the research in this area.

Guest Author Michael T. Light

11.07.2017 Landscape with dust in the air obscuring the sun during California drought

Public Health Impact of Drought: California Case Study

The devastating health impacts of California's drought include worsening of chronic disease, acute stress, and exacerbated psychological illness and distress.

Fellow Gilbert Benavidez

11.06.2017 Peoples Climate March 2017

Climate Disease and Kidney Injustice

In areas of Central America there is an extraordinary Chronic Kidney Disease epidemic. Some have proposed the disease be named heat stress nephropathy. It has been suggested that the cause is climate change.

Guest Author Madeleine K. Scammell

11.03.2017 Book cover "Protest Stencil Toolkit"

Health Equity

Public Health Advocacy or Propaganda?

Recent research focuses on two distinct ways public health professionals think about advocacy: ‘selling’ public health or ‘giving voice’ to communities who tend not to be heard in public health research and policy discussions, and the risks inherent in both approaches.

Guest Author Kat Smith

11.01.2017 a race car on a wet track

Health Equity

Speed Kills: The Fast-Moving Advances of Automated Vehicles

Automated vehicles were intended to address deaths caused by human error, but a lack of caution in developing them puts consumers in danger.

Fellow Madeline Bishop

10.30.2017 Boy looking out of the window of a schoolbus

Better Needs Assessments for Better Education Outcomes

About one in six US public schools did not meet standards for student achievement in the 2014-2015 school year. Children of color and kids from low-income families are most affected by the low performance of these schools.

Fellow Madeline Bishop

10.18.2017 Risk of Suffocation 0-15 months Warning Label

Air Mattresses and Infant Deaths

Air mattresses are increasingly seen as an affordable and transportable sleep surface. However, there were 108 cases of infant death between 2004 and 2015 involving air mattresses, and this figure may be vastly underreported.

Guest Authors Jennifer Doering, Trina Salm Ward

10.16.2017 Closeup of George Washington's eyes on a dollar bill

The Financial Burden of Sexual Assault

Research by Ashley M. Tennessee and colleagues highlights the costs incurred by privately-insured female rape survivors as a result of the violent crimes committed against them.

Fellow Madeline Bishop

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