Yaneli Jimenez Carmona

Strong social connectedness is proven to positively impact a person’s health and well-being, while weaker social connectedness often leads to negative mental health issues such as depression. A team of researchers in New Zealand sought to determine whether the converse relationship is accurate, testing whether mental health and wellbeing is a strong determinant of social […]

The design of New York City’s built environment has created an abundance of social isolation and crime over the years due to factors including inaccessible outdoor space, insufficient lighting and buildings being fenced off from surrounding communities. The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) created the Connected Communities Initiative to leverage the reality of the

Data disaggregation is an imperative focus in the mission to achieve health equity in the research community. Disaggregating data creates more sub-categories which allows for increased reflection of people’s individualized experiences rather than minimizing their experiences by forcing them to identify with the data within a few broad categories. This is an expensive pursuit that