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Equity Research & Innovation Center (ERIC) @ Yale focuses on health/care disparities research. Founded by Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith. Posts are from ERIC.
Congratulations to ERIC Faculty Dr. Josefa Martinez-Brockman, PhD, MHS, for her publication on dyadic care models, a model focused on providing medical care to mothers and infants together, to improve health outcomes.

Learn more here: publications.aap.org/pediatrics/a...
November 19, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Congrats to ERIC Faculty Dr. Carol R. Oladele for her powerful talk on community-led research today! Her research puts communities in the driver’s seat of research agenda-setting, driving structural change and setting up communities for a more equitable future both locally and internationally.
November 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Congratulations to ERIC Faculty Jeremy Schwartz, MD and Erica Spatz, MD, MHS for being recipients of the 2025 Hecht Global Health Faculty Network Award for their project titled Mitigating Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Uganda’s Urban Markets (MARKET-Uganda, a pilot study) 🎉
October 22, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Last month, the ERIC team attended the Connecticut Voices for Children 30th Anniversary Celebration, where we championed a vision of a thriving and equitable Connecticut, where all children achieve their full potential.

Here's to a future with thriving children in Connecticut and beyond!
October 22, 2025 at 2:10 PM
We are proud to share our visit with Dr. Shekhar Saxena, WHO global mental health expert and Professor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, this week to discuss our work and explore synergies with the current global mental health landscape.

We are so grateful for this collaboration!
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
New Publication Alert 🚨 Title: "Peripheral Arterial Disease prevalence and risk factors in the Eastern Caribbean Health Outcomes Research Network (ECHORN) cohort"! 🎉 Led by our very own Dr. Peter Adams from our ECHORN site in Barbados. Read here: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
January 14, 2025 at 9:35 PM
🌟 Exciting News! EQBMED launches the Site Maturity Assessment Model to boost diversity in clinical trials. Led by Drs. Curry, Nunez-Smith, & Harris.
Ensuring all communities access cutting-edge research! 💪
#HealthEquity #ClinicalTrials #DiversityInResearch #EQBMED 🌍💙
November 21, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Two weeks ago, our incredible team spent some time at the APHA 2024 Annual Meeting and Expo in Minneapolis! 🎉
Thank you all so much for your time and labor in creating knowledge to support folks at the margins in our local Connecticut communities, national, and global communities.
November 15, 2024 at 9:32 PM
We are filled with gratitude as we reflect on our Third Annual OHER Health Equity Bootcamp: The Art and Science of Dissemination of Research Findings.
Thank you to all the speakers, attendees, and organizers who made this event a success.
#HealthEquity #PublicHealth #CommunityEngagement #Yale
November 15, 2024 at 9:29 PM
More pictures of Drs. Trevor Ferguson, Nadia Bennett, and Marshall Tulloch-Reid's visit to the Yale School of Public Health last week, with Dr. Carol Oladele, Vivien Wambugu, MPH, and Dr. Mayur Desai. Thank you to everyone who made this possible!
October 9, 2024 at 5:19 PM
On Tuesday, Dr. Ferguson from our Jamaica team gave a presentation for the CDE 525 seminar titled "Non-Communicable Diseases in the Caribbean: Mortality, Risk Factor Burden, and Social Determinants and UWI Response". Thank you for such a brilliant talk!
October 7, 2024 at 7:12 PM
Last week, we had the honor of hosting Drs. Nadia Bennett, Trevor Ferguson, and Marshall Tulloch-Reid who visited from the University of the West Indies, Mona in Jamaica. Thank you to all who made this possible!
October 7, 2024 at 7:11 PM
Last Friday, the Office of Health Equity Research and the SEICHE Center for Health and Justice teams had the pleasure of hosting Visiting Community Scholar Michelle Browder. She is known for her Mothers of Gynecology sculpture residing in Montgomery, Alabama. We are so grateful!
October 1, 2024 at 4:37 PM