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Research and Partners

The Nexus of Health and Innovation

The College of Health is the nexus of health research at Lehigh. Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of the people of communities across the country and around the world, as well as the greater Lehigh Valley.

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The Strategic Research topics in the College of Health focus on interdisciplinary topics that are critical to community and population health. In our Community and Population Health research area, we seek to improve the health of underserved populations through data-driven prevention and intervention based on social, biological, psychological, commercial, and other determinants of health. Our Health Innovation & Technology research aims to develop diagnostics, devices, and data analytics to improve health outcomes, leveraging Lehigh’s traditional technology strengths.

The College of Health accomplishes its work through partnership.  We partner internally at Lehigh with colleagues in business, engineering, education, and the arts and sciences in multidisciplinary collaborations that reflect the complex nature of any health challenge. We collaborate with a range of external partners – from corporations and foundations to health networks and government agencies – who work with communities and share our goals to address some of society’s most pressing health challenges.

Research and partners inquires may be directed to INRSRCH@lehigh.edu

 

Areas of Research 

  • Improving the health of global & Indigenous populations
  • Exploring the impact of the built environment and greenspace
  • Modeling of infectious diseases for prediction and control
  • Creating interventions to improve mental & behavioral health
  • Addressing maternal & child health issues
  • Integrating health data science & technology, as well as qualitative methods
  • Examining health policy & ethics in healthcare, and economics of health systems
  • Tackling issues of addiction and substance use (smoking, alcohol, etc)
  • Assessing environmental factors (air, water, etc) on health
  • Reducing health disparities among underserved populations in the Lehigh Valley and internationally (LGBTQ, Immigrant, Latino, etc)

 

Publications & News

Research News >>

Lehigh Research Review
2023 Volume No. 7

  • Rochelle Frounfelker & Gabrielle String
    • WASH Insecurity and Psychological Well-being: A Concept Mapping Study
    • Oxfam Report
  • Rochelle Frounfelker
    • The Washpsych Datasets: Wash Insecurity and Psychosocial Wellbeing in Ivory Coast and Nigeria
    • SSRN
  • Jong Cheol Shin
    • Investigating the Impact of Daily and Nighttime Noise on Sleep Duration: Insights from an Apple Watch Study
    • Sleep
  • Jong Cheol Shin
    • The 3-30-300 Rule for Green Space Exposure and Sleep in Elementary School Children
    • Sleep
  • Tom McAndrew
    • The Watermelon Meow Meow Outbreak: Enhancing Public Health Education Through Real-World Experience, Statistical Programming, and Infectious Disease Modeling
    • PRIMUS
  • Linchen He
    • Nasal oxidative stress mediating the effects of colder temperature exposure on pediatric asthma symptoms
    • Pediatric Research

Contact Us

     Please direct all questions to inrsrch@lehigh.edu.