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Mental Health Outcomes

We believe mental health is a substantial part of an individual’s overall health. It affects how we think, feel and behave. Through research, we determine how stress and mental illness contributes to populations developing chronic diseases, and we create strategies to improve mental health and overall wellness.

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Featured Publications

  • The Role of Parental Language Acculturation in the Formation of Social Capital: Differential Effects on High-risk Children
  • Organizational Characteristics and Readiness for Tobacco-Free Workplace Program Implementation Moderates Changes in Clinician’s Delivery of Smoking Interventions within Behavioral Health Treatment Clinics
  • Heart Rate Variability and Anxious Arousal: Unique Relations With Sleep-Related Problems in Stress-Exposed Adolescents
  • Poor Sleep and Emotion Dysregulation Mediate the Association Between Depressive and Premenstrual Symptoms in Young Adult Women
  • Factor structure and validation of the mental health checklist (MHCL) for use in isolated, confined and extreme environments

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“This is a good step in terms of my mission as a researcher” Dr. Lauren Gilbert shares her journey in the HRI-RCMI Pilot Grant Program
“The focus of this pilot grant has really been to engage the community at all steps”

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Breaking Down Barriers of Vaccine Hesitancy as Omicron Variant Cases Rise in Houston
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