Health
Equity
Lab
Welcome to the Health Equity Lab at UConn Storrs!
Featured Researcher
Madeline Campbell | LinkedIn
Maddy earned a Bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Connecticut in 2023. During the Spring of 2022, she engaged in a directed study on focused on theories, concepts, and research pertaining to the study of oral health and oral health disparities. By the conclusion of her semester, Maddy produced an extensive literature review on the causes and consequences of oral health disparities. Her literature review became an important component of a collaborative project that examined associations between former incarceration status, duration of detention, and self-reported oral health among African American women and men.
About Us
The Health Equity Lab is directed by Ryan Talbert and critically investigates social determinants of health that extend from systems of stratification. Recent projects undertaken by lab members include examining the impact of incarceration on race-gender disparities in immune function, the role of women’s empowerment for contraceptive use among Indian women, and the effect of exposure to lethal police violence on substance use patterns, among others. Lab members frequently present their projects at UConn’s Frontiers Undergraduate Exhibition. With funding support from UConn’s Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy; Office of Undergraduate Research; and College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, lab members have also presented their research at the annual meetings of the Eastern Sociological Society, Midsouth Sociological Association, and American Public Health Association. At present, lab collaborations have produced forty-four scholarly presentations, sixteen coauthored manuscripts, and three publications.
Vision
We believe in a world where all have access to health, and where public health systems rely on empirically-grounded interventions driven by principles of anti-racism, justice, and authentic community engagement.
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