Research Foci
- Further defining the cyclical and intergenerational nature of the relationship between health, education, and opportunity for individuals from birth through adulthood;
- Understanding and addressing the relationships between chronic diseases, such as asthma and sickle cell disease, on educational outcomes, occupations, participation, and opportunity for school-aged youth;
- Understanding how systemic racism and specifically efforts to support and resist equity in educational settings operate to limit achievement and opportunity for historically and currently oppressed youth;
- Understanding the role of place, specific neighborhoods, and environmental characteristics in health and educational equity.
Seeking to ensure just approaches in our work, the lab focuses on mixed methods collaborative research using community-engaged research principles and pairing quantitative analysis with qualitative methods. The HOPE lab also incorporates methods of implementation science and the development of research community partnerships to address and facilitate the translation of our findings to practice. We also incorporate the use of geospatial methods to explore the ways in which health disparities, race, income, social processes, and in- and out-of-school factors operate differentially across space to impact outcomes and opportunity.
