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Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion and Population Health
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.
Featured Research
“The Chances of Dying Young Differ Dramatically Across U.S. States” If current conditions remain constant in southern states such as West Virginia, Mississippi, Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, Arkansas and Oklahoma, more than 1 in 5 people born in them will not survive to age 65.
June 2022. Abstract | Full paper (pdf)
“Resilience is Low among Both Military and Non-Military Populations with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder” This data slice uses data from the National Wellbeing Survey to examine resilience among U.S. working-age adults with and without PTSD by their relationship to the military.
June 2022. Abstract | Full paper (pdf)
“COVID-19 Negatively Impacted Health and Social Relationships among Working-Age Adults with Disabilities” This research brief shows that working-age adults (18-64) with personal care and mobility difficulty faced worse health and social impacts than their peers without activities of daily living (ADL) difficulty during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
June 2022. Abstract | Full paper (pdf)
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Research Projects
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.
Student Opportunities
Are you an undergraduate or graduate student at Syracuse University interested in population and community health? Do you seek a career with meaning and purpose?
The Lerner Center provides distinctive experience that combines traditional and applied training in population health and community health research and engagement to address pressing local, regional and national health problems and reduce health inequities—from academic certificates, to internships, to service learning opportunities and more.
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