2023 – Those Nerdy Girls
Those Nerdy Girls came together in a moment of crisis in March 2020. As the creators of Dear Pandemic, we filled the early information void and translated emerging COVID-19 science first for our family & friends, and then a much larger public audience via our social media platforms. It was no accident that many of our founding members were trained population health scientists who could synthesize information across many disciplines and methodologies. Read more
2020 – Houston Area Urban League
The Sunnyside Strong collaboration is a community-engaged research project in Houston, Texas. The project, supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Interdisciplinary Research Leaders program and led by Felicia Jackson, Family Support Services Manager at the Houston Area Urban League, Rachel Kimbro, PhD, a sociologist at Rice University, and Quianta Moore, MD, JD and a Fellow in Child Health Policy at the Baker Institute for Public Policy. Read more
2019 – William Story and The Congolese Health Partnership
The Congolese Health Partnership (CHP)—a collaboration between the College of Public Health at the University of Iowa, the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (UIHC), and leaders in the Congolese community—was launched in January 2017 in Johnson County, Iowa. The CHP was established based on the growing number of Congolese refugees settling in Johnson County in the past decade (now over 1,500) and the health care obstacles that these families face on a daily basis, including transportation, language, cultural differences, and difficulty navigating a complex health care system. Read more