Our research strengths
- Developing a strong evidence base to improve health policies, programs and practices for women and children, locally and globally;
- Working in interdisciplinary teams to develop innovative solutions for addressing health disparities among women and children;
- Using innovative approaches, including implementation science, to support the successful implementation of proven women's and children's interventions at scale; and
- Using quantitative and qualitative methods to improve the health of women, children and families in North Carolina, the nation and the world.
Primary Research Interests
Reproductive Health and Women’s Health
- Sexual and reproductive care and family planning
- HIV and AIDS in low income settings
- Gender based violence
- Monitoring maternal morbidity
- Mental health and substance use
- Perinatal mental health disorders
- Women’s cardiometabolic health and chronic disease
- Life course health development
- Lifespan nutrition and development
- Menopause and aging
Infant, Child and Adolescent Health
- Neonatal and infant morbidity and mortality
- Infant and young child feeding
- Maternal fetal health and prevention of congenital anomalies
- Adolescent development
- Child maltreatment, abuse, and neglect
- Access to high quality health care for children and adolescents
- Child and adolescent injury prevention
Health Equity Policy and Programs
- Public health workforce development and capacity strengthening
- Strengthening and protecting Title V policies and programs
- Monitoring and evaluation for population and health programs
- Health policy and services for women, children and families
- Health disparities
- Neighborhood effects on health
- Health as a human right
- Localization and decolonizing movements in global health
