Ongoing Projects
Miki Hong: Understanding the Role of Tobacco Control in Community Health for Underrepresented Groups
- The goal of this project is to examine the correlation between tobacco control recommendations in comprehensive plans and existing legislation in municipal government. Partnering with city officials from the Bay Area, this project builds capacity for tobacco control by supporting smoke-free multiunit housing policy backed by comprehensive plans that have worked in the past.
John Alexis Guerra Gomez: Interactive Visual Exploration of Opioid Exposure on Preterm Births in Oakland, California
- This project aims to enable decision and policymakers to extract insights related to preterm birth data in Oakland, California, and other communities.
- The goal of this research is to look at the programs that California has implemented with ARPA funds for the Home and Community Based Services efforts to see if there was improvement in caregiver satisfaction, quality of life, and access to beneficial knowledge.
Jeremy Sorgen: Cannabis Impacts on Tribal Cultural Resources
- Through surveys, interviews, and GIS spatial mapping, this project investigated the impact of cannabis cultivation on Tribal ancestral lands, sacred sites, and archaeological sites as well as Tribal sovereignty in the cannabis permitting process.