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Welcome
Welcome to the website for Cells to Society (C2S): The Center on Social Disparities and Health at the Institute for Policy Research. Our mission is: (1) To bring together the social, life, and biomedical sciences to understand the origins, consequences, and policy solutions for contemporary health inequalities in the United States; and (2) to examine how broad social, race/ethnic, and economic disparities "get under the skin" and affect human development and physical health.
News
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The New York Times covers a study co-authored by anthropologists Christopher Kuzawa and Thomas McDade and their colleagues that suggests men are biologically wired to care for their children.
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Developmental psychologist Lindsay Chase-Lansdale received the 2011 award for Distinguished Contributions to Public Policy for Children from the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD).
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Psychobiologist Emma Adam and graduate research assistant Cassandra Hart find that children with a parent working part-time get more sleep than those with a stay-at-home parent.
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Biological anthropologist Thomas McDade and graduate research assistant Molly Metzger find that breastfed babies are 14 pounds lighter in adolescence than their formula-fed siblings.
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IPR seed grant for C2S director Lindsay Chase-Lansdale and research scientist Teresa Sommer leads to ACF/HHS funding for a dual-generation project that links early childhood education centers to postsecondary education and training for low-income parents.
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Social demographer Christine Percheski determines that expanding health insurance coverage, whether public or private, is not enough to ensure that children will receive timely, quality care.
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C2S is supported in part by a grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (5R21HD53946-3)
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