Core Projects

As part of a leadership development fellowship focused on structural racism, this project will examine strategies used by community-based organizations to adapt mental health interventions for use with LGBTQ+ youth. Research activities include a case study of an organization serving LGBTQ+ youth of color, interviews with organization leaders serving LGBTQ+ youth across the United States and developing and testing prototypes of dissemination materials to share practice-based expertise. The project is co-led by one university partner and one practice partner. 

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This collaborative center leverages partnerships between the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Massachusetts General Brigham, and the Mass League of Community Health Centers to address social determinants of health linked to cancer inequities in Massachusetts. The capacity-building unit will develop and offer capacity-building for researchers to support social change with the products of their research. We will also support new research collaborations between academics and practitioners addressing social determinants of health.  

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Led by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, this collaborative center leverages partnerships with researchers and practitioners in Boston, Madagascar, Burkina Faso, and South Africa to advance and disseminate interventions to address heat stress among populations at great risk for the negative impacts of climate change. Through the Implementation, Solutions, and Evaluation Core, my team is supporting implementation science and user-design efforts across all projects. 

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This project examines the effects of using a culturally tailored inoculation approach to increase resilience to tobacco marketing influences among young adult sexual minority women. The Harvard team is designing and testing dissemination supports for community-based organizations serving lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBTQ+) populations. 

This hybrid type 1 implementation-effectiveness trial examines the impact of an adapted evidence-based tobacco cessation program on tobacco cessation rates among persons of low socioeconomic status in Greater Mumbai, India. Major changes to the program include cultural adaptations, task-shifting, use of resource-appropriate delivery channels, and technology-enabled capacity-building. 

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The Outreach Core of the U54 Partnership between UMass Boston and the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center will build capacity among community- and faith-based organizations to deliver cancer prevention interventions for adolescents and young adults from marginalized communities. The Core will also support under-represented minority students to consider and advance in population science research careers addressing health equity. The Core will be run in collaboration with a Community Advisory Board.  

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Working in collaboration with the Institute for New England Native American Studies, this project will support Native students to identify ways to build a sense of community across institutes of higher education in the Boston area. The project will result in a proposal for a community-led series of activities that support Native students to thrive in academic environments that can otherwise be quite hostile and harmful to them