our work
We partner with diverse clients and communities on research and programs that advance health and social change.
We bring our expertise, agility, and imagination, as well as a commitment to making a difference, to every project we undertake. As our case studies demonstrate, we have a long track record of applying these skills and values to address a range of complex challenges.
The North Carolina Healthy Food Environments in Hospitals Project: An Analysis of the Implementation Process and the Role of Feedback.
Qualitative Assessment of Facilitators and Barriers to HPV Vaccination Among Providers Serving a High-Risk Community.
Everyone Has Questions: A Campaign for the BirdsNBees Texting Service of North Carolina.
“Hit Me Up, and We Can Get Down”: Youth Sexual Histories and Sexual Self-Disclosure in Online Social Networking Profiles.
Check Yourself: Community Response to a Syphilis Social Marketing Campaign for Men Who Have Sex with Men.
Internet Partner Notification Efforts in Los Angeles County.
Effects of inSPOTLA.org Promotion Efforts: Paid Advertising Compared to Free Media Exposure.
Using Social Marketing to Promote Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Home Testing Among Young Women of Color.
The Environment: A Tough Sell? The Appeal of Green Magazine Covers on the Newsstand.
Testing Behavior and Perceived Risk for Syphilis in a Time-Space Sample of Men Who Have Sex with Men.
Perceptions of Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Among Young Latina and African-American Women: Findings from Qualitative Research.
Designing the “I Know” Social Marketing Campaign to Promote Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Testing Among Young Women of Color in Urban Los Angeles, CA.
Using Choice-Based Conjoint Exercise to Assess Self-Reported Serosorting Among Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) Cruising the Internet for Sex.
How Men Who Have Sex with Men Conceptualize and Manage Their Risk of Contracting Syphilis: Results from Qualitative Research.
Between Idea and Act Falls the Shadow: Discrepancies Between STD Testing Attitudes and Behavior in a Survey of Young African American and Latina Women.
Impact of a Hip-Hop Radio Outreach Collaboration to Promote Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Testing among Youth in L.A. County.
The First Year of inSPOTLA: Report from the Field on Internet HIV/STD Partner Notification.
Evaluation of “Stop the Sores”: A Successful Social Marketing Campaign for Syphilis Elimination Among Men Who Have Sex with Men, Los Angeles County, 2004.
inSPOTLA: New Frontiers in HIV/STD Partner Notification Using the Internet.
Evaluation of Healthy Penis 2004.
Choice-Based Conjoint: A New Methodological Approach to Assess Sexual Practices and Decision Making Among Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) Cruising the Internet for Sex.
Pilot Segmentation of Gay and Bisexual Men in Los Angeles: Sexual Practice Attitudes, Values, and Beliefs.
The Integration of Sexually Transmitted Disease Testing and HIV Counseling and Testing In Los Angeles County, 2002.
Understanding How Adolescents with Diabetes and Their Parents Use Digital Devices to Search for Health Information and Its Relationship to Adolescent Diabetes Management Confidence.
Gentrification’s Bonding and Dividing Effects: A Study of Residents’ Opinions and Experiences with Changes in a Los Angeles Suburb.
“I Am the Change to This Neighborhood. I Am Gentrification”: Artist Identity, Perceptions, and Integration in a Gentrifying Community.
Topic Avoidance in Conversations with Adolescents with Type 2 Diabetes.
Food Is Something Everyone Should Participate In”: Exploring Parent-Teen Co-Use of a Nutrition App in Low-Income, Latino Homes.
A Qualitative Study Investigating the Needs and Gaps in Existing Services for Women Living with HIV in Los Angeles County.
Acceptability of Plan A: An Entertainment-Education Video Intervention to Prevent STIs and Unintended Pregnancies Among Young African-American and Latina Women
Influences of Media-Related Parenting on Adolescents’ Diabetes Self-Efficacy and Behaviors.