We are a community-engaged health equity research lab that investigates:

• How systems and institutional processes create harms that become embodied as everyday experience of hardship, bodily suffering, and exposure to death

• The relationships between structural harms and drug use/addiction, violence, social exclusion, exposure to toxic social/built environments, and criminalization/punishment in health care and social service settings among marginalized populations, especially people who experience poverty and housing instability

• Community-based movements to address harms by those who have been most historically impacted by violence and social exclusion.

• The possibilities for healing-centered health equity through community engaged research and implementation science