MPRC Primary Research Area (PRA)
Collin Mueller's program of research is conceptually grounded in life course, critical race, and cumulative advantage / disadvantage approaches. Mueller specializes in mixed methods research design, team-based ethnographic and in-depth interviewing techniques, and quantitative methods for analyzing longitudinal survey data. Dr.
My program of research examines the health of families impact by incarceration. Incarcerated people often represent the most marginalized within our society, including economic minorities, people of color, and undocumented citizens. I use both qualitative and quantitative research to identify the health, well-being, and resilience processes of individuals and families impacted by incarceration. In this way, my future research will employ population health data to better understand the effects of incarceration on family inequality and health.
Mitch Mokhtari has a wide range of research interests, skills and experience including economic development, health system strengthening (HSS), and public financial management (PFM). His theoretical and quantitative research focuses on reducing healthcare costs, childhood obesity, alcohol use, and fiscal reform. In the past, he has taught economics and economics of transition at Princeton University, the New Economic School, Russia, Eurasia University, Kazakhstan, and University of Houston. Mokhtari has over 25 years experience working on international development across 15 countries.
As a clinical researcher Dr. Mittal is engaged in prevention and intervention research aimed at improving health outcomes of women with experiences of intimate partner violence (IPV). Her research interests include physical, emotional, and sexual health of women and children in the US and internationally, with a specific focus on psychological trauma, interruption of the intergenerational cycle of violence, and physiological mechanisms linking IPV and adverse health outcomes across the lifespan.
As a family demographer working in Africa, Dr. Sangeetha Madhavan has made substantial contributions to our understanding of extended family systems, parenting, household dynamics, and child and adolescent well-being. She currently serves as the Principal Investigator for an NICHD R01 project that seeks to understand the interactional effects of marriage and kinship support on young children’s development in poor urban communities in Nairobi, Kenya.
My research uses rigorous quantitative evidence to evaluate and inform education policies at the national, state, and local levels, with the goal of improving learning opportunities for historically marginalized students in urban areas. My work broadly engages with critical policy issues including student absenteeism, exclusionary discipline, educator’s labor market, and school reform.
Dr. Liu's research focuses on social and behavioral aspects of HIV/AIDS and research methodology. In the past five years, his research projects mainly covered egocentric social and risk networks for HIV infection, sexual risks, non-injection and injection drug use, stigma, survey methodology (e.g., respondent-driven sampling), and advanced analytical techniques (structural equation modeling, actor-partner interdependent modeling, and psychometric analysis).
In my research, I combine my academic background in survey methodology, statistics, genetics, and computer science to develop statistical methods for efficiently designing and analyzing complex samples in population research area. Especially, my research interests focus on health disparity. I have been involved in research projects of:
Dr. Lewis' research investigates how macro-level institutionalized practices (e.g., municipal divestment, gentrification, policing, racism) influence conditions of unsafety in Black communities and inform the ways that Black people navigate daily life in the past and present.
Dr. Lewin is an Associate Professor in Family Science, in the School of Public Health at the University of Maryland, College Park. Prior to coming to the University of Maryland in 2014, she was on the faculty of Children’s National Medical Center in Washington DC. A clinical psychologist by training, Dr. Lewin has worked for the last 17 years to develop and rigorously evaluate primary care and school-based interventions for teen parents and their children.