Approach
We approach our work:
- Using expertise from disciplines, such as social epidemiology, statistics applied to health, school health, nutrition, and theoretical frameworks including the socioecological framework and the social production of disease which acknowledge factors at multiple levels influence the health of the people.
- Devoting attention to the potential causes of and solutions to disparities in health by ethnicity, social class, gender, birthplace, immigration, or sexual orientation identities, and their combination.
- Assessing and monitoring disparities, and evaluating the impact of policies and interventions on people’s health and related disparities.
- Applying multi-level, systems thinking, diverse methodologies, including qualitative and quantitative approaches, and using multiple datasets at different levels of influence (e.g., individual, schools, communities) and/or collecting new data.
- Listening to a plurality of voices and sharing our research findings with a broad range of people, including community members, students, scientists, public health program participants, and policy makers.
Collaborators
San Francisco State University
Health Equity Institute
- Dr. Laura Mamo
- Professor, Public Health and Health Equity Institute
Institute for Geographic Information Science (IGIS)
- Jerry Davis, Ph.D
- Professor, School of the Environment
- Chloe Martin, M.A.
- GISc Analyst/Consultant, Academic Coordinator for GIS Certificate Program
Department of Sociology & Sexuality Studies
- Dr. Rita Meléndez
- Department Chair and Professor, Department of Sociology & Sexuality Studies
Department of Elementary Education
- Maria Zavala
- Associate Professor, Elementary Education
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- Mika Matsuzaki, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor, International Health and Human Nutrition
Center for Health Equity, University of California San Francisco
- Paula Braveman, MD, MPH
- Professor, UCSF School of Medicine
Chicago Queer Latine Collaborative (CQL)
- Pedro Serrano
- President Co-Chair Officer of the Board of Directors
- Alfredo Flores
- Co-Founding Partner
- Juan Martinez
- Community Health Partner