The Health Equity Institute accomplishes our work through faculty-led health equity research projects, designing and coordinating campus research hubs and labs, and training MA-level students as health equity researchers and scholars.
Funded Projects
Hermanos De Luna y Sol: A community-based HIV prevention intervention, NIH (Emma V. Sanchez, PI)
SF State Transforms: Advancing Faculty Equity at SF State, NSF (Laura Mamo, Co-PI with Dean Carmen Domingo)
Research Ethics in STEM: Network Building and Graduate Student Training, NSF (Laura Mamo, Co-PI with Martha Kenney and Martha Lincoln)
Stress, Hazardous Drinking and Intimate Partner Aggression in a Diverse Sample of Women and their Partners, NIH (Allen LeBlanc, with Tonda L. Hughes, PI)
Impact of Minority Stress on Cardiovascular Disease Risk and Resilience (Allen LeBlanc, consultation)
Structural Racism and Discrimination in Older Men’s Health Inequities (Allen LeBlanc, consultation)
Disparities in early life educational environment and AD/ADRD: leveraging administrative linkages in a unique occupational cohort, NIH (Sepideh Modrek, MPI).
Knowledge and Access to Medication Abortion on College Campuses in a Post-Dobbs Landscape, SFSU (Sepideh Modrek, PI)
The long-term health effects of the New Deal: An 80-year follow-up of 4 cohorts, NIH (Sepideh Modrek, PI)
Science, Technology, and Society -- The STS Hub
Research & Education on Gender and Sexuality Hub (Formerly CREGS)
Reproduction and Health Equity
Big Data and Health Equity Lab
To lead interdisciplinary research and scholarship that provides the knowledge and recommendations to promote health equity
To foster critical consciousness about the social determinants of health through educational and training activities
To collaborate with campus organization, faculty, as well as community organizations and governmental agencies to promote health equity research and activities
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Student-Engaged Research
Health Equity Education
Faculty and Campus Collaboration
Community Development & Engagement
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Federal, Foundation and non-profit Funding partners
SFSU partnerships
External University partners
Community partners
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HEI has offered students, staff, and other faculty opportunities as Co-Investigators, Research Leads, and student researchers through our team-based research projects. Our student alums are over one hundred students placed in Ph.D. programs, academic and industry positions, and primarily through non-profit and social change organizations. SF State faculty have benefited from grant support, training, and participation as fellows in HEI programs.
HEI has brought over 20 million dollars in research and training funds to the campus.
