About Us

A multi-disciplinary approach

The field of public health targets health upstream before health problems require clinical care. Promoting mental wellbeing and preventing mental distress are more effective approaches than treating mental disorders. Promoting safety and preventing violence is more proactive than the reactive approach ranging from protection and mitigation strategies to punishment-oriented practices. Promoting economic security and preventing food insecurity is essential for health and wellbeing. Our current team research projects focus on applying the science of health promotion and prevention to mental health, community gun violence, food insecurity, and health inequality.

Research techniques

All students are trained to:

• Generate an Institutional Review Board Protocol for human subjects research

• Conduct ethical and responsible human subjects research

• Construct a survey questionnaire via Qualtrics to collect human subjects data on various attitudes, beliefs, and self-reported behaviors

• Develop flyers, videos, presentation materials, and other recruitment materials for in-person tabling and digital communication

• Recruit Binghamton students and Broome County community members to participate

• Analyze quantitative data using statistical methods and data visualization techniques in R OR analyze qualitative data using open-ended survey responses, interviews or focus groups

• Write a team manuscript in markdown and publish reproducible scientific reports

Some students are trained to:

• Collect and analyze psychophysiological data using MUSE S and Fitbits

• Design and deliver a health promotion/prevention program by logic modeling and following other intervention mapping steps

• Design an online experimental task

• Conduct community-based, participatory research

• Design, code, and publish a web-based Shiny application