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Yale Equity Reseach and Innovation Center (ERIC)

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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.

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Yale Equity Reseach and Innovation Center (ERIC) @eric-ysm.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Congratulations to our Postgraduate Associates (PGAs) for their incredible End-of-Year Presentations last week! They shared their progress on their projects for the year, with projects on topics from digital health for Black women, food insecurity, and post-incarceration support.
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Yale Equity Reseach and Innovation Center (ERIC) @eric-ysm.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
We are excited to share our next ERIC spotlight on Amelea Lowery, MPH, a ERIC community member and former Staff, and current Community Outreach Manager for the Yale Cancer Center! #yale #publichealth #yalecancercenter #community #leadership
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Yale Equity Reseach and Innovation Center (ERIC) @eric-ysm.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Congratulations to ERIC Postgraduate Associate Lisbette Acosta, BS, for her acceptance to and upcoming matriculation to the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine (UCSF) for the Doctor of Medicine program as a member of the Class of 2030! @ucsf @ucsfmed #medicine #ucsf
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Yale Equity Reseach and Innovation Center (ERIC) @eric-ysm.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Congratulations to ERIC Research Associate II Vivien Wambugu, MSc, for her acceptance to and upcoming matriculation to the University of Oxford Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) in Population Health! We could not be more proud! #healthequity #doctor #oxford #yale #medicine #publichealth
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Yale Equity Reseach and Innovation Center (ERIC) @eric-ysm.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Congratulations to ERIC Project Manager Kate Fraser, PMP, MPH for her graduation from the Yale School of Public Health with her Master in Public Health as a member of the Class of 2026! We are so proud! #healthequity #graduation #yale #medicine #publichealth #mph #graduate #ivyleague #ysph
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Yale Equity Reseach and Innovation Center (ERIC) @eric-ysm.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Congratulations to ERIC Student Research Intern Samantha (Sam) Liu on her graduation from Yale College with a BA in English (magna cum laude) and Global Health Studies Certificate. Sam has also been awarded the US Fulbright Scholar Award. Congrats, Sam!
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Yale Equity Reseach and Innovation Center (ERIC) @eric-ysm.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
We are proud to announce that ERIC Faculty Karen Wang, MD, MHS was recognized as Recipient of the 2026 JCTS Publication Award from the Association for Clinical and Translational Science (ACTS)! Learn more and read the paper here: medicine.yale.edu/news-article...
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Yale Equity Reseach and Innovation Center (ERIC) @eric-ysm.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
We are proud to announce that ERIC Faculty Dr. Cece Calhoun, MD, MPHS, MBA, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine (Hematology) and (Hematology/Oncology), is receiving the Health Award at the NAACP Greater New Haven Branch 109th Annual Freedom Fund Celebration on May 14, 2026. Congrats, Dr. Calhoun!
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Yale Equity Reseach and Innovation Center (ERIC) @eric-ysm.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
By 2060, oncology still won’t reflect the U.S.—even with faster URiM growth. Roberts et al. project URiM representation among cancer physicians rising only to 12.5% vs 43.2% population share in baseline. #ERICSpotlight #Oncology #CancerCare #WorkforceDiversity pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41074755/
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Yale Equity Reseach and Innovation Center (ERIC) @eric-ysm.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Data can’t advance health equity if it’s built without equity. As public health data infrastructure erodes, we apply a data equity lens to deliver actionable steps to build clearer data equity, leading to strong health equity frameworks. Read our publication here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41060023/
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Yale Equity Reseach and Innovation Center (ERIC) @eric-ysm.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Please welcome our next ERIC spotlight on Daniel Sarpong, PhD, the Executive Director of the Office of Health Equity Research (OHER) and Senior Research Scientist in the Department of General Internal Medicine!
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Yale Equity Reseach and Innovation Center (ERIC) @eric-ysm.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Congrats to Mark Abraham, DataHaven (@datahaven.bsky.social) Executive Director, who won the Elm Award as part of the 2026 Annual Seton Elm-Ivy Awards Ceremony on April 8th, 2026!
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Yale Equity Reseach and Innovation Center (ERIC) @eric-ysm.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Please welcome our next ERIC spotlight, our Postgraduate Associate Cassandra Michel, MPH. Swipe to learn more!
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Yale Equity Reseach and Innovation Center (ERIC) @eric-ysm.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Our next ERIC spotlight series features Vivien Wambugu, MSc, ERIC's Research Associate II. We are so proud of Vivien! Learn more about her and what makes her such a critical part of the ERIC community.
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Yale Equity Reseach and Innovation Center (ERIC) @eric-ysm.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Congratulations to ERIC Core Faculty Kristina Talbert-Slagle, Ph.D. on being appointed Co-Chair of the Connecticut Commission on Racial Equity in Public Health 🎉 wp.cga.ct.gov/creph/person...
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Yale Equity Reseach and Innovation Center (ERIC) @eric-ysm.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Meet our third ERIC featured member, Imran Saeed, PharmD, MPH for our ERIC Spotlight Series! We are so grateful to have Imran in our community. Read on to learn more about him and his work!
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Yale Equity Reseach and Innovation Center (ERIC) @eric-ysm.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Meet our second featured ERIC member, Lisbette Acosta, BS, Postgraduate Associate and ERIC Social Media Coordinator! Learn more about her and her work here at ERIC.
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Yale Equity Reseach and Innovation Center (ERIC) @eric-ysm.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Welcome to the first of our ERIC spotlight series, with Corrine Liu, MPH, to start us off! Learn more about Corrine and what makes her such a special part of the ERIC community.
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Yale Equity Reseach and Innovation Center (ERIC) @eric-ysm.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
New ERIC study finds that most patients are willing to share race/ethnicity/language data, but lower willingness still exists in key populations: people with less trust in providers, poorer health, and certain racial/ethnic groups. Equity needs data, and data needs trust www.i-jmr.org/2025/1/e67288
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Yale Equity Reseach and Innovation Center (ERIC) @eric-ysm.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
How can using Western and Indigenous knowledge shape better research? 🌱 In their new paper, Wali et al. and ERIC Faculty Dr. Jeremy Schwartz share how learning Indigenous methods helped researchers adapt a digital health program for remote Ugandan communities. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41100180/
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Yale Equity Reseach and Innovation Center (ERIC) @eric-ysm.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
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...
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Yale Equity Reseach and Innovation Center (ERIC) @eric-ysm.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
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.
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Yale Equity Reseach and Innovation Center (ERIC) @eric-ysm.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
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) 🎉
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Yale Equity Reseach and Innovation Center (ERIC) @eric-ysm.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
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!
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Yale Equity Reseach and Innovation Center (ERIC) @eric-ysm.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
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!
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Yale Equity Reseach and Innovation Center (ERIC) @eric-ysm.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
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...
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Yale Equity Reseach and Innovation Center (ERIC) @eric-ysm.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
🌟 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 🌍💙
Marcella Nunez-Smith with a quote saying “our partnerships with CACOST, UT Southwestern, and Parkland are essential to EQBMED’s community-centric approach to expanding clinical trial access”Abstract of paper titled “Supporting diversity in clinical trials: the equitable breakthroughs in medicine site maturity model”
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Yale Equity Reseach and Innovation Center (ERIC) @eric-ysm.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
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.
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Yale Equity Reseach and Innovation Center (ERIC) @eric-ysm.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
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
Room of attendees sittingDr. James Rawlins Jr. talking in a panelReverend Dr. Leroy O. Perry Jr speaking at a panelJackson Higginbottom presenting at a stage with a slide deck contextualizing the political moment.
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Yale Equity Reseach and Innovation Center (ERIC) @eric-ysm.bsky.social · 09/10/2024
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!
Doctors standing and smiling behind the blue Yale University School of Public Health sign.
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Yale Equity Reseach and Innovation Center (ERIC) @eric-ysm.bsky.social · 07/10/2024
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!
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Yale Equity Reseach and Innovation Center (ERIC) @eric-ysm.bsky.social · 07/10/2024
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!
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Yale Equity Reseach and Innovation Center (ERIC) @eric-ysm.bsky.social · 01/10/2024
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!
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