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.

The Center for Health Promotion and Health Equity welcomes Meredith T. Niles, an internationally recognized scholar at the forefront of food systems, climate change, public health, and equity. Her research promotes sustainable food security and community well-being, with a focus on underserved and rural populations, through innovative research, policy, and engagement.