Centers and Groups.
Schoolwide Centers
Interdisciplinary academic schoolwide centers are charged with bringing together relevant faculty, staff, and students from across SPH to advance an area of strategic academic interest
Center for Climate and Health
Center for Health Data Science
Center for Health Law, Ethics & Human Rights
Center for Trauma and Mental Health
Schoolwide Programs
School-level Programs are charged with conducting meaningful faculty engagement around shared interests and active research in a particular topic area across multiple disciplines and departments.
Adolescent and Behavioral Health Program
Emerging World Leaders
Department-based Labs
An academic department-based Lab includes multiple faculty with shared interests and active research in a particular topic area
Healthy and Empowered Youth (HEY!) Lab
Medicaid Policy Lab
The Politics and Health Lab
Research Groups
Research projects and interest areas led by SPH faculty and staff
Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center (BEDAC)
Black Women’s Health Study
Boston Biorepository, Recruitment, & Integrated Network for Gulf War Illness (BBRAIN)
BUSPH-HSPH Research Coordinating Center (CAFÉ RCC)
BUSPH Maternal and Child Health Center
Chelsea and East Boston Heat (C-Heat) Project
Collaborate.Health
Healthy Minds Network
Methods for Longitudinal Studies in Dementia (MELODEM)
New England Public Health Training Center
Partnered Evidence-Based Policy Resource Center (PEPRec)
Postpartum, Lifestyle & Cardiovascular Evaluation Study (PLACES)
Pregnancy Study Online (PRESTO)
Providence/Boston Center for AIDS Research
Research Group for the Study of Chronic Kidney Disease in Central America
Research on Innovations for Safety and Equity (RISE) Lab
Rubenstein Lab
School Health Institute for Education and Leadership (SHIELD)
Sustainable Built Environment Lab (SBL)
Cross-University Centers and Partnerships
University-level, or intra-university partners with leadership and/or engagement provided by SPH faculty
Alzheimer’s Disease Research
Center for Innovation in Social Work and Health
Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases
Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) Center
Clinical & Translational Science Institute
Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research
Framingham Heart Study
Global Development Policy Center
Grayken Center for Addiction and Boston Medical Center
Institute for Global Sustainability
Program on Reproductive Justice
Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computational Science & Engineering
Sloane Epidemiology Center
If you have questions regarding research at BU School of Public Health, please contact:
Michael McClean
Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Advancement
mmcclean@bu.edu
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