William G. Axinn Psychiatric disorders are the leading source of disability worldwide and affect 53% of the U.S. population. In addition to the individual suffering they entail, disabilities associated with these disorders may have substantial consequences for family...
Michael Mueller-Smith The use of legal financial obligations, colloquially referred to as financial sanctions, imposed on individuals who come into contact with the criminal justice system is widespread and growing in the U.S. criminal justice system. These fees...
Dean Yang, Tanya Rosenblat, James Riddell IV How do disasters affect poverty and food security? Do disaster impacts operate, at least in part, through changes in economic preferences and psychological factors? Can community health and development programs improve...
Pamela Jagger We leverage dynamism in East and Southern Africa’s coupled human, terrestrial and atmospheric systems and its implications for environmental change to predict past, present and future impacts on regional climate, land use, and air quality. We...
Dean Yang, Tanya Rosenblat, James Riddell IV How do disasters affect individual decision-making about important health behaviors? Can public health interventions reduce disaster-induced deterioration of such decision-making? We explore these questions in the context...
