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Postdoctoral Fellow Shanna Kattari presented “Sexy Spoonies and Crip Sex: Intersections of Sexuality and Disability" at the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists Summer Institute. The theme of the institute this year was Decentering the Norm: Social Justice...

Professor William Elliott III and Melinda Lewis, co-authors of Making Education Work for the Poor: The Potential of Children's Savings Accounts, served as panelists for the New America event, Making Education Work: Is Attacking Wealth Inequality the Answer? The event focused on educational...

Professor Edie Kieffer presented "The Impact of Michigan's Medicaid Expansion on Dental Care Utilization, Oral Health and Job-Related Outcomes" at the 2018 Academy Health Annual Research Meeting.

Associate Professor and CoDirector of Child and Adolescent Data Lab Joe Ryan, along with Director of Operations Terri Gilbert and Data Analyst Andrew Moore are featured on the front page of Detroit Legal News for their work with the lab. 

Assistant Professor Shawna Lee received a research grant from the Department of Health and Human Services - Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Her project aims to reduce risk factors associated with infant mortality and other negative birth outcomes by significantly improving the provision...

Professor Emerita Kathleen Faller received the Sol Gothard Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Association of Forensic Social Workers.

Assistant Professor Kristin Seefeldt was quoted in the Washington Post article, “The U.N. says 18.5 million Americans are in ‘extreme poverty.’ Trump’s team says just 250,000 are.”

She was also quoted in Trib Live and The Spokesman Review 

Professor Edie Kieffer presented "Healthy Mothers on the Move: A Community Health Worker-Led Diabetes Prevention Intervention for Pregnant and Postpartum Latinas” at the American Diabetes Association conference. Research Associate Brandy Sinco contributed to this presentation.

Kieffer and Sinco...

Associate Professor Andrew Grogan-Kaylor was cited in Germany’s Zeit Online for his meta-analysis of 50 years of research on corporal punishment.

Associate Professor Terri Friedline's recent study was featured in the Boston Globe article, “It can cost more for a checking account if you’re black or Latino, study says.” ‘‘If we care about racially disparate patterns in costs and fees and want to eliminate those in the financial system, our...