Our Projects

Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH)

Understanding gaps in access to SRH care for immigrant communities in Massachusetts

ICH and LZC are conducting a multi-site qualitative research study to understand how immigrant communities experience access to sexual and reproductive services, and to identify areas where policy…

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Evaluation of the Voices for Health Justice 1.0 Program

ICH was the evaluator for the Voices for Health Justice (Voices) 1.0 program, which was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and run by a Steering…

Greater Rochester Health Foundation

Healthy and Equitable Futures Initiative: Greater Rochester Health Foundation

LZC is collaborating with Parent Leaders from the GRHF to examine the impact and viability of their parent liberation model as part of the organization’s ongoing systems change…

Massachusetts Department of Public Health - Bureau of Substance Addiction Services (BSAS)

Evaluation of Mobile Methadone Programs (MMP)

This mixed methods evaluation explores how five Mobile Methadone Programs in Massachusetts are being implemented, who they reach, and how they impact access to methadone treatment compared to…

Bureau of Community Health and Prevention Division of Violence & Injury Prevention/Child Youth Violence Prevention (CYVPU)

HEAL Program Evaluation

ICH is working with MDPH’s Division of Violence and Injury Prevention to evaluate the HEAL violence prevention program, designed to use strengths-based approaches to prevent violence before it…

Vital CxNs

Evaluation of Vital CxNs’ Community Partnerships

The Leah Zallman Center for Immigrant Health Research is partnering with Vital CxNs to develop, implement, and analyze a survey tool to measure shared metrics within and across…

City of Boston Mayor’s Office for Immigrant Advancement’s (MOIA)

Technical Assistance for MOIA’s community-based participatory research study

LZC is providing technical assistance to the City of Boston Mayor’s Office for Immigrant Advancement’s (MOIA) on their community-based participatory research (CBPR) study to learn more about the…

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Policy on the frontlines: Narrative research for immigrant well-being

With funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, LZC is conducting applied research on the role of narratives in shaping healthcare workers’ implementation of policies that advance immigrant…

City of Boston Mayor’s Office for Immigrant Advancement (MOIA)

Evaluation of MOIA’s Weaving Well-being 3.0

LZC is evaluating the third iteration of the City of Boston Mayor’s Office for Immigrant Advancement (MOIA)’s Weaving Well-being Initiative, building on LZC’s evaluation of the pilot and…

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Immigrant mental health in Boston: Technical assistance and landscape review

LZC is providing TA to the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in support of its new initiative, Partnerships for Community Health and Immigrant Well-being.

Massachusetts Immigrant Collaborative

TA support for the Massachusetts Immigrant Collaborative

LZC provided TA to the Massachusetts Immigrant Collaborative (MIC) to support its impact-driven collaboration.

Mass General Brigham (MGB)

Evaluation of Mass General Brigham’s Community Health Impact Funds (CHIF) grants

ICH is conducting a process and outcomes evaluation for the Determination of Need programs of two Mass General Brigham hospitals – Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s…

AcademyHealth

Evaluating AcademyHealth’s Research in Transforming Health and Health Care Systems (RTHS) grantmaking program

ICH is evaluating an AcademyHealth grantmaking program designed to support health care system transformation research. The evaluation aims to understand the grantees’ work, and the impact of that…

RIZE Massachusetts Foundation

RIZE Linkages to Care (LinC) evaluation

ICH is evaluating the RIZE LinC Program, which aims to strengthen partnerships between community-based organizations and healthcare centers in order to improve linkages to substance use disorder care…

Heywood Hospital

Evaluation of NYC Health+Hospital’s One Stop Benefits model

We are collaborating with NYC H+H to evaluate the implementation and effectiveness of a telephonic model that screens patients for benefits like SNAP, WIC, and Fair Fares (a…

Heywood Hospital

Maternal health care access at Heywood Hospital

ICH is supporting the hospital to develop outreach and educational materials that meet the needs of pregnant Spanish and Haitian Creole speakers in their communities.

Massachusetts Department of Public Health

Evaluation of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health’s Adolescent Sexuality Education (ASE) program

ICH partnered with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) to better understand young people’s experiences with their Adolescent Sexuality Education (ASE) program.

CenteringHealthcare Institute

Implementation evaluation of the CenteringPregnancy model

ICH conducted an implementation evaluation of the Centering Pregnancy model, which provides prenatal care in a supportive group setting.

Bureau of Substance Addiction Services, Massachusetts Department of Public Health

Evaluation of recovery-based reentry services for women and nonbinary people

ICH is evaluating the implementation and outcomes of a program supporting women and nonbinary people at risk of fatal opioid overdose as they re-enter their communities from incarceration.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Evaluation of the Voices for Health Justice 2.0 Program

ICH is the evaluator for the second round of the Voices for Health Justice program (Voices 2.0). Voices seeks to build power in communities experiencing health inequities to…

RIZE Massachusetts Foundation

Evaluation of Mosaic Opioid Recovery Partnership

ICH is evaluating RIZE’s Mosaic Opioid Recovery Partnership, which is awarding grants from the state Opioid Recovery and Remediation Fund (ORRF) to organizations across Massachusetts to support substance…

Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers

Evaluation of the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers’ Behavioral Health Workforce Initiative

ICH is evaluating the Behavioral Health Workforce Initiative (BHWI), run by the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers and funded by Mass General Brigham. The initiative consists of…

Technical Assistance for Vital CxNs

The Leah Zallman Center for Immigrant Health Research (LZC) at the Institute for Community Health (ICH) partnered with Vital CxNs on a six-month technical assistance project that resulted…

City of Somerville's SomerViva: Office of Immigrant Affairs

Strategic Planning with SomerViva: Office of Immigrant Affairs

The Institute for Community Health (ICH) and the Leah Zallman Center for Immigrant Health Research (LZC) facilitated a strategic planning process with the City of Somerville’s SomerViva: Office…