• The Health Equity and Beyond Lab and Learning Community is based at UC Santa Cruz and is led by Professor Riley. We are currently focused on several research projects related to: inequities in mortality and bereavement in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic; inequities in chronic pain; farmworker health; and the health consequences of mass deportations during the Mexican Repatriation Era. We aim to generate and share evidence about the emergence, persistence, and modifiability of population health inequities that is relevant to community-led struggles to build power for health equity. Please email Professor Riley if interested in collaborating!
• We formed The Pandemic Equity and Analytics Research Lab (PEARL) in 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. We are a multi-campus team of scholars at various career stages committed to studying COVID-19 pandemic-era inequities in health outcomes, with an eye toward producing policy-relevant evidence. Much of our work using mortality data from California. We are currently focused on intersectional inequities in death by legal status, race/ethnicity, and occupation stratification.
• The Connect/Conectados Project is co-led by researchers from UC Merced, UC Santa Cruz, and UC San Francisco and advised by a group of Indigenous community leaders doing amazing work across California. Connect/Connectados bridges diverse Indigenous experiences by centering people living in California who identify as Native American and/or Indigenous migrants from Mesoamerica. This project is dedicated to an asset-based approach to the study of social networks, specifically exploring the role of cross-Tribal and cross-border social relations, in promoting health and wellbeing within Indigenous communities.
• For other recent work, check out my Google Scholar page.
• And here are some examples of my past work, pre-academia.