Research Focus Areas
Our faculty members consist of a diverse and interdisciplinary group of health disparities and equity researchers with areas of focus as follows:
- Community-based participatory research
- LGBT health disparities
- Nutrition and food sciences
- Healthcare management
- Tobacco use
- HIV and other STI disparities
- Mental health
- Medical sociology
- Health informatics
- Many more
Under the current leadership team (since 2017), there has been a total of 18 peer-reviewed publications resulting from collaborations among such core faculty. For each faculty's research, please click on the names below under "Faculty Members."
Examples of Recent Peer-Reviewed Publications
from CHE faculty collaborations.
This list is not comprehensive, but only provides a snapshot.
Avina RM as lead author:
“I Actually Don’t Know What HIV Is”: A Mixed Methods Analysis of College Students’ HIV Literacy. Diseases. 8(1):1. DOI: 10.3390/diseases8010001
Becerra MB as lead author:
Experiences of violence and mental health outcomes among Asian American transgender adults in the United States. PLOS ONE. Mar 4;16(3):e0247812. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0247812
Mshigeni SK as lead author:
“We don’t all have the privilege of having our own quiet place”: College Students in a Hispanic Serving Institution during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Latinos and Education, pre-print available.