IHDSC is full of thought leaders and innovators in equity-driven research across multiple disciplines, sectors, and social issues. We aim to amplify the work of our affiliates to a broad audience of scholars, students, local and global community-based stakeholders, and beyond. Check out some of the latest publications from across our scholarly network.

October 2025 - March 2026

• Advancing a temporal science of behavior 
  • Authored by Drew H. Abney, Caitlin M. Fausey, Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda
     
• Leveling the playing field: Default policy and its effects on English learner reclassification rates
  • Authored by Caroline Bartlett, Joseph R. Cimpian, and Madeline Mavrogordato
     
• How do direct and vicarious racism and connectedness in school contexts matter for adolescent suicidality?
  • Authored by Adam Benzekri, Lauren Mims, Stephen T. Russell, Jasmine Swanson, Pamela Morris-Perez
     
• Beyond Societal Binaries: A Call to Eliminate Mental Health Inequities Among Liminal Youth
  • Authored by Adam Benzekri and Pamela Morris-Perez
     
• The Importance of Quality for Scaling Up Early Childhood Development Services: Experimental Evidence from Nicaragua
  • Authored by Florencia Lopez Boo, Jane Leer, Akito Kamei
     
• Skill-Targeted Universal Social and Emotional Learning Interventions for Education in Conflict and Crisis: Experimental Impacts in Niger. 
  • Ha Yeon Kim, Lindsay E. Brown, Carly Tubbs Dolan, Erick Ngoga, Rebecca Finney Fernandes, Zezhen Wu, J. Lawrence Aber
     
• Ten Findings about Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Authored by Jillie Chang, David K. Evans, Carolina Rivas Herrera
     
• Promoting Social Connectedness Through Inter-brain Neurofeedback
  • Authored by Xiaojun Cheng, Rongbin Zhang, Phoebe Chen, Ziyuan Song, Feng Cheng, Suzanne Dikker, Yafeng Pan
     
• Masking the health impacts of anti-LGBTQ+ policies by political suppression of data and informational erasure
  • Authored by Joseph R. Cimpian, Mollie T. McQuillan 
     
• Approaches for Sustaining Diabetes Prevention Program Practices Post-Graduation: A Scoping Review. Preventive Medicine Reports
  • Authored by Josephine M. Dudzik, Emily A. Johnston , Yuning Liu, Fred LaPolla, Jeannette M. Beasley
     
• How Probability Distributions Felled the Case for the Beneficial Effects of Income Inequality: And Other Adventures of Probability Distributions on the Knowledge Quest
  • Authored by Guillermina Jasso
     
• Creating healthy habits for Maryland preschoolers (CHAMP): a cluster-randomized controlled trial among childcare centers
  • Authored by Alysse J. Kowalski, Bridget Armstrong, Angela C.B. Trude, Raquel Arbaiza, Amber Czinn, Laura L. Bellows, Susan L. Johnson, Yan Wang, Erin R. Hager, Maureen M. Black
     
• Lacto-ovo-vegetarian and vegan diets in children and adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis of nutritional and health outcomes
  • Authored by Sofia Lotti, Giona Panizza, Daniela Martini, Wolfgang Marx, Jeannette M. Beasley, Barbara Colombini, Monica Dinu
     
• “The moms all Agree on one Thing:” Black Women’s Perspectives on Key Agenda Items for the Next President of the United States
  • Authored by Lauren C. Mims, Dulce Lopez Alvarez, Elisha Arnold, Whitney Cetoute, Qunishia Carter, Jasmin R. Brooks Stephens
     
• A strengths-based approach to suicide prevention among Black youth: Advancing the Black youth thriving framework through a systematic review
  • Authored by Jasmin R. Brooks Stephens, Elijah R. Murphy, Ty A. Robinson, Elisha Arnold, Lauren C. Mims
     
• Youth suicide prevention in the form of a structured film contest: a qualitative study to build the theory of change for Directing Change
  • Authored by Pamela Morris-Perez, Abiraahmi Shankar, Adam Benzekri, Rachel Abenavoli, Jana Sczersputowski, Devin Saragosa-Harris, Stan Collins, Catalina Canizares, Stephen Russell, Kiara Alvarez
     
• Living between binaries: why do liminal youth have higher suicide risk?
  • Authored by Pamela Morris-Perez, Adam Benzekri, Ella Ben Hagai, Jade Ma
     
• (Dis)connected? Digital Public Services and the Challenge of Equity 
  • Authored by Cristina Pombo, Benjamin Roseth, Julieth Santamaria, Carolina Rivas, Mateo Vásquez
     
• Predictors of antenatal care utilization among the Rohingya population in the refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh in Conflict and Health
  • Authored by Daniel Simon, Duja Michael, Sajjadur Rahman, Mary Caroline Hiott, AK Rahim, Kazi Istiaque Sanin, Fahmida Tofail, Alice J. Wuermli
     
• Ecologically Grounded Observations Offer Unique Insights into the Embodied and Embedded Nature of Infant Learning
  • Authored by Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda
     
• A Conceptual Framework for Education Research in Conflict and Protracted Crisis (ERICC): A Holistic Approach for Systematic Field Building. Educational Researcher
  • Authored by Ha Yeon Kim, Carly Tubbs Dolan, J. Lawrence Aber, Silvia Diazgranados, Tejendra Pherali
     
• Examining Generalizability of Nutrient-Based Food Patterns and Their Cross-Sectional Associations with Cardiometabolic Health for Hispanic/Latino Adults in the US: Results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) and the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL)
  • Authored by Jeanette J.  Varela, Josiemer Mattei, Daniela Sotres-Alvarez, Yasmin Mossavar-Rahmani, Amanda C. McClain, Luis E. Maldonado, Martha L. Daviglus, Briana J.K. Stephenson
     
• Ethical and culturally responsive biomarker research in the majority world in Child Development Perspectives 
  • Authored by Alice J. Wuermli, Ashraf Haque, Caroline M. Hiott, Elisa Ugarte, Kazi Istiaque Sanin, Fahmida Tofail, Paul D. Hastings
     
• A prenatal birth cohort study of intergenerational risk and resilience after conflict and forced displacement 
  • Authored by Alice Wuermli, Mary Caroline Hiott, Elisa Ugarte, Sajjadur Rahman, Mahbub Elahi, AK Rahim, Goutam Kumar Dutta, Shakil Ahamed, Bharati Rani Roy, Reza Mostary Akhter, Eamam Hossain, Duja Michael, Tasnim Kabir Ayrin, Subah Hasneen Haseen, Rayhan Bin Alam, Tarikul Islam Ratul, Abu Horaira, Melissa Gladstone, Istiaque Sanin, Rubhana Raqib, Jena Hamadani, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Paul D. Hastings, Fahmida Tofail 
     
• Fathers’ Engagement with and Perceptions of Child Play: Evidence from the Rohingya Camps of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh
  • Authored by Fatima Tuz Zahra, Shikhty Sunny, Sneha Bolisetty, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Yeshim Iqbal, Sharon Kim
     
• Do Early Social-Emotional Learning Programs Have Lasting Effects Through Middle School?
  • Authored by Pei Zhu, Livia Martinez, Nicholas Commins, Claudia Solís-Román, Peyton Nash

May-September 2025

• Activity Intensity and All-Cause Mortality Following Fall Injury Among Older Adults: Results from a 12-Year National Survey
  • Authored by Oluwaseun Adeyemi, Tracy Chippendale, Olugbenga Ogedegbe, Dowin Boatright, and Joshua Chodosh
     
• Personal Pronoun Comprehension in Addressed and Non-Addressed Situations in Autistic and Nonautistic Preschoolers
  • Authored by Jonet Artis, Rhiannon J. Luyster, Lily Carroll, Angela Xiaoxue He, and Sudha Arunachalam
     
• Protein Supplementation, Plasma Branched-Chain Amino Acids, and Insulin Resistance in Postmenopausal Women: An Ancillary Study from the Supplemental Protein to Outsmart Osteoporosis Now (SPOON) Trial
  • Authored by Jessica Dauz Bihuniak, Alessandra Byer, Christine A. Simpson, Rebecca R. Sullivan, Josephine M. Dudzik, Karl L. Insogna, and Jeannette M. Beasley
     
• The Need for Context in Intergroup Conflict Research
  • Authored by Rezarta Bilali
     
• Effects of Integrating Early Childhood with Health Services: Experimental Evidence from the Cresça com Seu Filho Home-Visiting Program
  • Authored by Florencia Lopez Boo, Maria de la Paz Ferro, and Pedro Carneiro
     
• Safety Using Public Buses in Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities: An Exploratory Study in Two North American Cities
  • Authored by Tracy Chippendale, Ruheena Sangrar, Shlomit Rotenberg, Angela Curl, Natisha Baig, and Lisa Suzuki
     
• The Stroll Safe Randomized Controlled Trial: Program Effects on Falls Self-efficacy
  • Authored by Tracy Chippendale, Lijing Wei, and Alex Dahlen
     
• Advancing Knowledge in the Spirit of Fararo: Generativity and Unification
  • Authored by Guillermina Jasso
     
• Certainty, Unity, and Tolerance
  • Authored by Guillermina Jasso
     
• Effects of heterogeneous versus homogeneous grouping on English learners’ language and literacy development: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial
  • Authored by Michael J. Kieffer, C. Patrick Proctor, Andrew W. Weaver, Sasha Karbachinskiy, Qihan Chen, Qun Yu, Gabriella Solano, Aaron Coleman, Shaelyn M. Cavanaugh, Xiaoying Wu, Elise Cappella, and Rebecca D. Silverman 
     
• Health Aspects of Vegan Diets Among Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review and  Meta-analyses
  • Authored by Alina Koller, Sabine Rohrmann, Maria Wakolbinger, Jan Gojda, Eliška Selinger, Monika Cahova, Martin Světnička, Sandra Haider, Sabrina Schlesinger, Tilman Kühn, and Jeffrey W. Keller
     
• “I choose joy": Exploring Black Familial Joy as a Strengths-Based Coping Asset in the United States
  • Authored by Lauren C. Mims, Amina Patricia Anekwe, Addison Duane, Seanna Leath, Jasmin R. Brooks Stephens, Marketa Burnett, Heather Bishop, and Truc Thao Bui
     
• Centering Critical Consciousness in Science Teaching and Learning: An Introduction to Historically Relevant Science Pedagogy
  • Authored by Alexis D. Riley
     
• Teacher Turnover and Student Disciplinary Infractions: Evidence from New York City
  • Authored by Luis A. Rodriguez and Christopher Redding 
     
• Feasibility of an Online Grocery Intervention Pilot to Improve Fruit and Vegetable Purchase and Food Security Among Adults With Children Eligible for SNAP
  • Authored by Angela C. B. Trude, Zoya Naaz Rehman, Stefani Wiloejo, Kellie McLean, Laura Catalina Velasco Daza, and Pasquale Rummo
     
• Police Fairness, Anger and Support for Violent and Non-Violent Disruptive Actions in Chile
  • Authored by Micaela Varela, Rezarta Bilali, Joaquin Bahamondes, Ana Figueiredo, Monica M. Gerber, and Erin Godfrey