Our most recent project, Inequities in Childhood Lead Exposures and Academic and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes (I-CLEAN) seeks to understand how exposure to low levels of lead across the life course affect children’s academic and neurological development and brings residents together to develop a vision for healing the land and addressing and preventing lead exposures.

For more information, please view the I-CLEAN website.

I am a co-founder of the Orange County Health Equity COVID-19 Community-Academic Partnership (OCHEC-CAP). In this partnership, we sought to harness the power of community-based organizations, community responders, and health equity scholars to shape public health policies and practices to reduce COVID-19 inequities affecting low-income communities of color in Orange County, CA. Our partnership was able to highlight data equity concerns, guide strategies to improve access to COVID-19 testing and vaccina5on. Additionally, our partnership supported the bilingual Health Equity Contact Tracing popular education curriculum designed with a community economic development model to equip community responders with the skills and knowledge needed to meet community priorities in the COVID-19 pandemic.