Rutgers IFH Speaker Series: Scholars on Housing & Transportation Health Research

Please join us on Monday, October 26 at 12:30pm in the 1st floor conference room at IFH or via Zoom to support the next generation of population health researchers. We are excited to be joined in person by this past year’s impressive recipients of IFH’s Howard Leventhal Scholarship for Trainees, who will discuss their scholarship-supported health research.

Nora Sullivan, who is pursuing her doctorate in social work from the Rutgers School of Social Work, is focusing her research on faith-based organizations offering permanent housing to people experiencing homelessness, also known as a Housing First approach. Her talk is titled,“Faith and Housing First: A Multi-Method Study of Faith-Aligned Organizations Providing Housing First Services.”

Yingning Xie (Ningning), who is pursuing his doctorate in planning and public policy from the Rutgers Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, is focusing his research on car-less immigrants and their access to high-quality health-related destinations, as well as the impact of affordable mobility tools such as e-bikes. His talk is titled, “E-Cycling for Wellbeing.”