Heller Social Policy Impact Report

Features

• When social inequities cause health inequities
• Equality outside the box
• Mapping American childhood
• Understanding alcohol use disorder recovery journeys in Detroit’s Black communities
• Included in the conversation
• Building the next generation of scholars

Profiles

• Q&A: Making child care more equitable: Kate Giapponi Schneider, PhD’16
• From knowledge to impact — turning insight into action for social justice: Professor Susan Curnan

Features

• The power and pitfalls of AI
• Not all WWII veterans benefited equally from the GI Bill
• Heller’s Opioid Policy Research Collaborative sets its sights on drug overdoses
• Uncovering inequities facing disabled people of color
• The “fissured workplace” and child labor
• Increasing access to community-based mental health care

Profiles

• Analyzing how hiring algorithms impact people with disabilities: Kartik Trivedi, PhD candidate
• Q&A: Supporting community-based organizations: Meelee Kim, PhD’19

Features

• Tracking HIV resource allocation and cost in Africa
• Nurses: (yet) another COVID-19 casualty
• Improving health care for pregnant people with disabilities

Profiles

• Evaluating the impact of U.S. state immigrant inclusion policies on immigrant health and well-being: Priya Agarwal-Harding, PhD candidate
• Q&A: Connecting communities and decision-makers to enhance peacebuilding policies: Peter Dixon

Features

• Reframing student debt cancellation as a racial justice issue
• The conference that continues to shape U.S. health policy
• Safeguarding refugee health in a global pandemic

Profiles

• PhD dissertation spotlight: How culturally competent teachers can create a more equitable education system: Sana Shaikh, PhD’20
• Q&A: Improving child well-being and equity across the United States: Clemens Noelke

Research Impact Highlights

• Supporting mental health equity among Black youth in Waltham
• Child Opportunity Index 2.0 in action
• Election 2020: Policy contributions to political platforms
• New web tool helps communities find solutions to opioid epidemic
• Challenging ableist norms around civic engagement
• Preterm delivery among Black women
• Federal testimony on critical social policies
• Awards and recognition highlights

Features

• Transforming youth employment in Ethiopia
• Supporting working adults with mental illness
• Attacking COVID-19 from every angle

Profiles

• PhD dissertation spotlight: Food insecurity causes unique stress in mothers, long-term effects for children: Maia Hyary, PhD'20
• Q&A: Revealing health disparities for people with disabilities: Ilhom Akobirshoev, PhD'15

• Assessing Health Care Efficiencies in Kenya
• Peer Support for Parents with Mental Illness
• Confronting Racial Inequities in Workplace Benefits
• Building a Job Market for Nashville Youth
• Evaluating Waltham's Two-Way Immersion School

• The Challenges of Paying for Child Care
• Global Health Economics for the Future
• The Impact of Opioids in the Workforce
• A Holistic Approach to Decreasing Hospital Admissions
• Redefining Housing Insecurity

• The FIRST Step Toward STEM Careers 
• Improving Health Outcomes in Haiti
• The Impact of Violence on People with Disabilities
• Promoting Safer Opioid Prescribing Behavior
• Improving Behavioral Health for the Commonwealth

• A Model Oral Health Care System
• Building Wealth for Low-Wage Workers
• New Labor Laws for New Economic Realities
• Lifting Children Out of Poverty
• Has Diabetes Control Hit a Ceiling? 

• From Blank Canvas to a Full Picture
• Policy Power Tool
• Measuring India's Grade School Lunch Program
• Bridging the Information Gap
• When Social Programs Reinforce Social Inequality

• The Impact of Combat Exposure Among Female Soldiers
• Enhancing Opportunities for International Students
• Striking Grand Bargains
• Convening for the Commonwealth
• Shameful Care at Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities

• Coordinating Care and Corrections
• Increasing Inclusive Care
• Elevating the Conversation on Caste
• Did the ACA Impact Behavioral Health Treatment Disparities?
• The Case for Culture Change

• An Apple a Day
• Taking the Lead on the Family and Medical Leave Act
• Moving Along the Full Treatment Continuum
• Immigrant Integration
• Evaluation's Evolution

• The Racial Wealth Audit
• Course Correction
• A Pivotal Episode
• Tackling the Opioid Crisis
• Ricardo Godoy's 20-year Study in the Bolivian Amazon