Our research brings a public health lens to community safety, and housing, economic, and climate justice.
Our research products equip community organizers and social justice movements with tools to shift narrative, build community power, and create transformational policy change for health equity and justice. We examine and document the root causes of health inequities and elevate equitable policies using a mixed methods approach, including data analysis, focus groups, interviews and health literature reviews.
HIP’s research is conducted in partnership with community organizing groups and advisors to support social justice movements and campaigns. To learn more about our approach to responsible, equitable, and community-centered research, explore the HIP Research Code of Ethics, developed with guidance from community organizers.
We believe just public health research:
- Is collaborative and conducted in close communication with community partners
- Should be beneficial to communities and support policy change to improve living conditions
- Uplifts and reflects people’s lived realities
- Ensures research participants and their stories are respected
- Offers acknowledgement and compensation to participants
- Empowers participants to end participation anytime if they feel uncomfortable
- Encompasses follow-up beyond project completion
We believe just public health research:
- American University
- Boston University School of Public Health
- Capella University
- Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
- City University of New York
- Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
- Colorado School of Public Health
- Drexel University
- Emory University Rollins School of Public Health
- George Washington University
- Georgia State University
- Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- Howard University
- Iowa State University
- Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
- Northeastern University
- Northwestern University
- Oregon Health and Science University and Portland State University School of Public Health
- Rutgers University
- San Diego State University School of Public Health
- San Francisco State University
- San Jose State University
- Seattle University
- Tufts University
- Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
- University of California Berkeley School of Public Health
- University of California Davis
- University of California Los Angeles Fielding School of Public Health
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health
- University of Central Arkansas
- University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Health
- University of Iowa College of Public Health
- University of Maryland School of Public Health
- University of Michigan School of Public Health
- Wayne State University
- University of Minnesota School of Public Health
- University of Minnesota Medical School
- University of Oxford
- University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health
- University of South Florida College of Public Health
- University of Southern California
- University of Victoria
- University of Washington School of Public Health
- University of Wisconsin Madison
- University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health
We believe just public health research:
- Is collaborative and conducted in close communication with community partners
- Should be beneficial to communities and support policy change to improve living conditions
- Uplifts and reflects people’s lived realities
- Ensures research participants and their stories are respected
- Offers acknowledgement and compensation to participants
- Empowers participants to end participation anytime if they feel uncomfortable
- Encompasses follow-up beyond project completion
From our partners
"The approach that HIP has taken in this Research Code of Ethics is really trailblazing…it really is counter to the experiences that we've had before about being researched subjects."
Tomás Rivera
Chainbreaker Collective
Home Sick: Uncovering the Health Harms in Homes of America’s Manufactured Housing Communities
In collaboration with Manufactured Housing Action, we explored the state of housing habitability for 10 Homes of America manufactured home communities, and assessed the health impacts of these habitability issues on residents.
Reimagining Public Health Advocacy: Findings from a National Scan of Public Health and Community Power-building Groups
Drawing on a national scan of nongovernmental public health and community power-building groups, this report explains how we approach our work to shift the field of public health, the research we conducted to better understand the gaps between public health and community power-building organizations, and the implications of what we’ve learned.
Stop Cop Cities: Invest in Public Health Solutions
Drawing from public health literature and the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, Georgia, we authored a research report on the health harms posed by the growing number of police training facilities, commonly referred to as “Cop Cities.”
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