Current Projects

The Isbaar Project (PI: Rebekah Pratt; Rachel Winer)

This study is focused on reducing cervical cancer screening disparities in Somali immigrant women through a primary care based HPV self-sampling intervention.

Our body, Our health | Jirkeena Caafimaadkeena (PI: Bean Robinson; Jennifer Connor)

Our body, Our health investigates factors that may contribute to increased risk of developing chronic sexual pain among circumcised Somali American women living in Minnesota. The overall goal is to gather information that may be used by mental health and medical professionals to provide culturally-sensitive and empirically informed healthcare. 

Preschool Plates (PI: Katie Loth)

This innovative cohort study seeks to understand how the use of specific food parenting practices varies across time and context, and how various food parenting approaches impact children’s dietary intake and eating behaviors over the long term.

Project TRUST (PI: Michele Allen; Luis E. Ortega)

Project TRUST approaches school connectedness and achievement as key social determinants of health and addresses important protective factors contributing to positive youth development and decreased tobacco and other substance use.