Associate Professor of Health and Behavioral Sciences jimi adams headed up the team organizing an international conference on networks & COVID-19 this month: COVID-19 Satellite of Sunbelt . The International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA) conference included a plenary session, invited panel on the intersection between policy and research,...

Sara Yeatman, Associate Professor and Chair of Health and Behavioral Sciences, and her collaborators at the CU Population Center at CU Boulder have been awarded an R01 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to support their research examining how expanded access to contraception impacts women’s and...

Two undergraduate Public Health majors (Lisette Martinez and Safa Mechergui), along with graduate student in Health and Behavioral Sciences, Marisa Westbrook, and Chair and Associate Professor Sara Yeatman, recently published, “The Influence of School-Based Health Center Access on High School Graduation: Evidence From Colorado” in the Journal of Adolescent Health...

Graduate student in Health and Behavioral Sciences, Marisa Westbrook, and Associate Professor of Political Science Tony Robinson recently published, “Unhealthy by design: health & safety consequences of the criminalization of homelessness,” in the Journal of Social Distress and Homelessness . Although U.S. cities are expanding “anti-homeless” legislation – such as...

Sara Yeatman, Associate Professor and Chair of Health and Behavioral Sciences, along with colleagues at CU Boulder, was recently awarded $705,000 from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. This grant will support their ongoing project assessing the long-term impact of expanded access to contraception on women’s education and income.

Public health undergraduates, Lisette Martinez (MARC-USTAR) and Safa Mechergui (EUReCA fellow), presented their research alongside Health and Behavioral Sciences doctoral student Marisa Westbrook at the American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting , in Philadelphia, on November 5. This research, a collaboration with Associate Professor and Chair Sara Yeatman and...

In his new book Gathering Social Network Data (Sage, 2019), Director of the Undergraduate Major in Public Health and Associate Professor of Health and Behavioral Sciences, jimi adams focuses on the principles necessary for gathering social network data. On this episode of the podcast New Books in Sociology (a Channel...

Ronica Rooks, Associate Professor in the Department of Health and Behavioral Sciences, recently received a prestigious Fulbright Canada Award. Rooks will spend the spring 2020 semester at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, where she will conduct research alongside other experts on aging. Rooks’ project will look at the links...

Together with Stephanie Chamberlin (doctoral student in the Department of Health and Behavioral Sciences) and Kate Dovel (recent HBS PhD, now Assistant Professor at UCLA and living in Malawi), Sara Yeatman (Associate Professor in the Department of Health and Behavioral Sciences) just published research demonstrating the large gender disparity in...

Health and Behavioral Science Associate Professor Jimi Adams' new book Gathering Social Network Data is available for "Open Review" while also under peer review. Learn more about crowd sourcing as a compliment to peer-review here .