Today’s population health challenges are complex. Addressing these challenges and building environments that value and promote health for everyone requires expertise from multiple scientific disciplines and public and private partners.
Guided by the principles of scientific rigor, equity, justice, community engagement, and multidisciplinary and multi-institution collaboration, the Lerner Center’s mission is to improve population and community health through research, education, outreach and health promotion programming focused on the social, spatial and structural determinants of physical, mental and behavioral health and health disparities.
With faculty affiliates from public health, sociology, psychology, economics, medicine and public administration, the Lerner Center’s approach to research is both multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary.
Established in 2011 with an endowment from Sid and Helaine Lerner, the center fulfills its mission through the interrelated pillars of research, education, advocacy and action.
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Scott Landes was interviewed on Included: The Disability Equity Podcast
April 16, 2021
Lerner Affiliate and associate professor of sociology, Scott Landes, was interviewed about disability data during the pandemic on Included: The Disability Equity Podcast hosted by the Johns Hopkins University Disability Health and Research. Listen to the audio version here: https://included.libsyn.com/13-disability-data and read the transcript here: https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:56a3e4ca-6fdf-417c-a074-8713db7fda6c#pageNum=1.
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Research by Lerner affiliates is regularly funded by the National Institutes of Health, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Russell Sage Foundation and many other federal agencies and foundations. The Lerner Center also funds population health research at Syracuse University through its Faculty Fellows Program.
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Scott Landes was interviewed on Included: The Disability Equity Podcast
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Lerner Affiliate and associate professor of sociology, Scott Landes, was interviewed about disability data during the pandemic on Included: The Disability Equity Podcast hosted by the Johns Hopkins University Disability Health and Research. Listen to the audio version here: https://included.libsyn.com/13-disability-data and read the transcript here: https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:56a3e4ca-6fdf-417c-a074-8713db7fda6c#pageNum=1.
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