Our Current Studies


Our interventions, developed across two research studies in collaboration with community partners, use participatory methods and focus on empowering parents as agents of change.

MI Vacuna

Motivational Interviewing for Vaccine Uptake in Latinx Individuals: A collaborative, community-engaged approach to address vaccine hesitancy in Latinx adults with mental illness.

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Fathers & Families

Examining how fathers' parenting practices impact children's health-related behaviors and growth, including an exploration of factors that influence fathering and the role of co-parents.

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Our Completed Studies


Rise & SHINE

Rise & SHINE (Sleep Health in Infancy and Early Childhood) is a longitudinal cohort study that examines infants' sleep patterns between one month and 2 years, familial and environmental determinants of these patterns and their effect on accelerated weight gain over the first two years of life.

Communities for Healthy Living

Communities for Healthy Living (CHL) is a family-centered childhood obesity prevention program for Head Start preschools that integrates a parenting program co-led by Head Start staff and parents, enhanced nutrition support, and a media campaign.

Manville Moves

Manville Moves is an exercise intervention designed to improve behavioral regulation and classroom functioning among children with neurodevelopmental and affective disorders within a therapeutic day-school environment.

Transformative Health Research in Vibrant Communities

Principal Investigator:听Kirsten Davison, PhD

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alvarecr@bc.edu