Spanning Topics, Disciplines & Continents
- Creating classroom connections
- Promoting interdisciplinary projects
- Encouraging interdisciplinary thinking—because when the disciplines speak, new insight can emerge
Below is just a very brief selection of recent faculty research.To learn more about these and other projects, please visit the Center for Health and Wellbeing.
Princeton-Brazil: Global Health / Demography of Aging Center
Treating Pharma-Induced Aging in Brazil
Project: Studying pharmaceutical-induced aging symptoms in the United States and Brazil
PI: João Biehl, Anthropology
Learn more about this and other Demography of Aging Center research projects
Health Grand Challenge
Creating a New Meningitis Risk Model
Project: Predictive Models of Meningitis Risk in the African Meningitis Belt
PIs: Nicole Basta, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Paul Ginoux, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences; Elena Shevliakova, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Tracking the Trade-Offs of Autoimmunity & Infection
Project: The Role of Humoral Immunity in Human Health: How Does Infection Susceptibility Relate to Autoimmune Susceptibility?
PI: Andrea Graham, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Uncovering the Impact of Information Structure on Disease
Project: Informational Structure of Infectious Diseases
PIs: Ramanan Laxminarayan, Center for Health and Wellbeing & Princeton Environmental Institute; Simon Levin, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Advancing Biomaterial Threat Prevention
Project: Graphene Nanosensors for Ubiquitous Diagnostics
PI: Michael McAlpine, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Working to Prevent an Outbreak
Project: Understanding the Impact of Meningococcal B Vaccination among Princeton University Students
PI: Nicole Basta, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Studying Health Outcomes in the Arab World
Project: Political Islam and the politics of health care in the Arab world
PIs: Amaney Jamal, Politics; Elizabeth Nugent, Politics; Tarek Masoud, Public Policy - Harvard University
Learn more about these and other Health Grand Challenge research projects
Program on U.S. Health Policy
Addressing the Ongoing HIV Epidemic
Project: Modeling the Impact of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis and Targeted Hepatitis C Case-finding and Treatment on the HIV and HCV epidemics in Newark, NJ
PI: Bryan Grenfell, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology & Woodrow Wilson School
Incentivizing Better Care
Project: Making Health Insurance Work: Data-Driven Incentive Alignment
PIs: Mark Braverman, Computer Science; and Sylvain Chassang, Economics & Woodrow Wilson School
Analyzing Growing Antibiotic Resistance
Project: Epidemiology of Antibiotic Use in U.S. Hospitals
PIs: Ramanan Laxminarayan, Princeton Environmental Institute; and Simon Levin, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Examining the Link Between Privatization and Later-Life Care
Project: Long Run Effects of Privatizing Public Health Insurance
PI: Ilyana Kuziemko, Economics
Learn more about these and other U.S. Health Policy research projects