CHPHE works alongside communities to understand their strengths, priorities, and needs—and to create solutions together. Community partnership is the foundation of our work, guided by shared leadership, trust, and respect for lived experience.

By collaborating with local residents, organizations, and leaders, we ensure our research supports real-world change and advances health equity. Our community-centered, antiracist research framework helps elevate community voice, build local capacity, and generate solutions that strengthen health and resilience where it matters most.

CHPHE designs and tests programs that help people build healthier habits across the life course. Our work focuses on everyday behaviors that shape health—such as physical activity, diet, sleep, stress, and substance use—using practical tools and real-world settings.

Through behavioral science, technology-enabled interventions, and culturally responsive approaches, we identify what truly helps people make lasting changes. From chronic disease prevention to overdose risk reduction, our research supports healthier lifestyles across diverse communities.

Health equity is at the heart of everything we do. CHPHE focuses on removing barriers—such as unfair policies, discrimination, environmental injustice, and lack of access—that limit opportunities for health.

Our research examines how systems, policies, and environments shape unequal health outcomes, particularly for communities that have been historically overlooked. By generating rigorous, policy-relevant evidence, we advance solutions that promote fairness, justice, and the opportunity for everyone to live a healthy life.