Dr. Cook was interview by Mark Barna for the Nation’s Health, a publication of The American Public Health Association, about using All of Us data and, in particular, about her article titled “A national examination of discrimination, resilience, and depressive symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic: the All of Us Research Program”. Please click on the link to read the full interview. All of Us data driving science on health of people often missed in data collection.

Our Research Assistants, Janice and Stephanie, did an incredible job presenting the Attachment and Health Disparities’ study on Intersectional Discrimination and Cardiometabolic Risk among Sexual and Gender Minorities at the “Dream Makers Summit” at New York University on March 2024.

Dr. Cook was interview by Healio’s Erik Swain and talked more about her recently published paper: “Discrimination, Smoking, and Cardiovascular Disease Risk: A Moderated Mediation Analysis with MESA.”

Please click here to read the full interview, where Dr. Cook talks about how “Practitioners should think more critically about how they approach cardiovascular health given the results of our study and similar studies highlighting the importance of examining the different experiences for people at the intersections of biological sex and race/ethnicity, for instance.”

Our Research Associate, Mariana Rodrigues, presented the Attachment and Health Disparities Lab’s poster entitled: “Context Matters: Assessing Intersectional Discrimination and Cardiometabolic Risk Among Sexual and Gender Minorities of Color” at the Center for Anti-Racism, Social Justice & Public Health’s Annual Symposium.

“Impact of discrimination varies by identity, pointing to need for more intersectional research”. Click here to read the latest highlight of the Attachment and Health Disparities latest publication: “Discrimination, Smoking, and Cardiovascular Disease Risk: A Moderated Mediation Analysis With MESA” , in the Journal of American Heart Association.

Please click here to read the Attachment and Health Disparities Lab’s latest publication: “Assessment of a Daily Diary Study Including Biospecimen Collections in a Sample of Sexual and Gender Minority Young Adults: Feasibility and Acceptability Study”.

Interested in learning more about the “All of Us” Research Program? Please click here to listen to Dr. Stephanie Cook’s latest radio interview to the New Orleans Regional Black Chamber of Commerce (NORBCC) Radio Show.

Please click on the click here to check out the Science news article: “Quarter-million genomes analyzed in NIH project could be ‘hugely important’ for identifying disease risks”, in which Dr. Cook shares information about the All of Us Research Program.

Congratulations are in order to our very own Graduate Research Assistant, Natalie Green. Natalie recently had her commentary published on PNAS. Please read Natalie’s incredible work titled: “Beyond gender: The biological impacts of inequality through the lens of intersectionality” https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2319314121

Our Research Associate, Mariana Rodrigues, presented our ongoing study titled "GeoSENSE: Geospatial Study on Intersectionality, Discrimination, and Cardiometabolic Health Behaviors Among YSGM" at the Center for Health Data Science's Symposium on September 2023.

Our Research Assistants, Antoneta Karaj and Betty Cui presented the Attachment and Health Disparities Lab’s study titled: “Thinking more critically about intersectionality: “Understanding differences in CVD risk among sexual and gender minorities of color” at the American Psychosomatic Society’s (APS) Annual Scientific Meeting in Puerto Rico on March 2023.