Lee Badgett, professor of Economics and a former CRF Family Research Scholar 2004-2005 has focused her work on family policy issues and labor market discrimination based on sexual orientation, race, and gender. She recently discussed these topics in an article regarding wage gaps for women in same sex relationships. To read the article click here.

Shannon Gair and Sarah McCormick, former Graduate Grant Writer Program members of 2019, PhD candidates in the department of psychological and brain sciences, were recently rewarded with a Dissertation Completion Fellowship. Learn about their funding here.  

Former CRF Family Research Scholar, Airín Martínez, assistant professor of health promotion and policy has been awarded the 2021 Henry Montes President’s Award from the Latino Caucus for Public Health. She received the honor on Oct. 25,  during the American Public Health Association’s annual meeting. Dr. Martínez research examines how the local implementation of immigration enforcement policies creates material deprivation and psychosocial stress among Latinx mixed-status families, with at least one unauthorized immigrant.

During her CRF year, Dr.  Martínez explored the relationship between chronic psychosocial stressors and physiological stress, on salivary uric acid, a biomarker for oxidative stress, among Latinx families of different migrant family structures (only US-born parents, authorized immigrant parents, and families with 1+ unauthorized immigrant parents). The study hopes to demonstrate the consequences of parents’ legal vulnerabilities for children’s physical health. She hopes that her research can reverse policies excluding US immigrant populations and inform community-based prevention strategies. 

Christina Rowley, a member of the 2019-20 Graduate Student Grant Writer’s Program and fourth-year doctoral student in the Clinical Psychology program with the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, has been awarded the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA), an Individual Predoctoral Fellowship to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research. The award, supported by NIH, is given to doctoral students who demonstrate an integrated research and clinical training plan. The fellowship is designed to assist predoctoral students to clearly enhance their potential in developing into productive, independent physician-scientists.