With funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, LZC is conducting applied research on the role of narratives in shaping healthcare workers’ implementation of policies that advance immigrant inclusion and well-being.
We are collaborating with NYC H+H to evaluate the implementation and effectiveness of a telephonic model that screens patients for benefits like SNAP, WIC, and Fair Fares (a reduced fare program for public transit) while assisting them with Medicaid enrollment.
ICH has received a grant from Arnold Ventures to build a research and evaluation portfolio that identifies promising existing practices and innovations in drug testing and tests their effectiveness using an equitable evaluation framework.
LZC is conducting a study of the Cambridge Health Alliance’s Asylum Program’s (CHAAP) asylum medicine residency elective in partnership with CHAAP and the Center for Health Equity Education and Advocacy (CHEEA).
The Leah Zallman Center is working with The Hastings Center on a research study to explore the bioethical challenges that clinicians and staff face at community health centers across the country.
The Leah Zallman Center for Immigrant Health Research (LZC) partnered with No Kid Hungry to evaluate a No Kid Hungry grant aimed at addressing food insecurity in immigrant communities and thawing the chilling effects of the public charge ruling.