Major Research Areas

Culture and Health

• Nancy Chin
  Maternal and Child Health research is fertile ground for qualitative approach to classic questions whose definitions have been well established for years using epidemiological data. Why are breast feeding rates so low? What can be done to improve perinatal health outcomes among poor women? An ethnographic research design tries to understand the situation of the people most affected: women and children.

• Ann Dozier
  Customer/client satisfaction; Survey design and development; parenting and child maltreatment; Perinatal outcomes.