Explore key takeaways on integrating climate resilience and health equity into physical activity interventions from SBM's Outlook Summer 2026 issue titled “Promoting Physical Activity in the Era of Climate Change: Expert Perspectives on the Co-Benefits, Tradeoffs, and Future Directions”.

The Center for Health Policy and Health Equity (CHPHE) is pleased to announce Tayla von Ash, Sc.D., as the latest recipient of the CHPHE Research Seed Award. Designed to foster institutional collaboration and accelerate competitive research proposals, this seed funding will support foundational work tracking the multilevel predictors of children's health behaviors.

We welcome Alex Macmadu Ph.D., to our Center, where her nationally recognized work in harm reduction and community-engaged research advances health equity for people who use drugs. Her leadership is helping address racial disparities in substance use treatment and overdose prevention across Rhode Island.

In a recent article in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, Robert Rosales investigates how daily experiences of discrimination and stress shape alcohol use among Latinx sexual minority youth. Using real-time data collection, the study examines how minority stress influences underage drinking risk and aims to inform more culturally responsive prevention efforts.