Co-Directors: Tracey Revenson and Mary Clare Lennon
Tel. 212 817-8709 (TR); 212 817-8779 (MCL)
Email: Trevenson@gc.cuny.edu and Mlennon@gc.cuny.edu

The Health and Society Research Group (HSRG) was created in the Spring of 2007 in light of the burgeoning research in health and society at the Graduate Center. The Co-Directors of this research group are long-time CHE affiliate Professor Tracey Revenson, whose research has focused on such topics as adaptation to chronic illness and the effects of racism on health, and Professor Mary Clare Lennon, a noted sociologist of gender and health, who joined the Graduate Center faculty in January 2007.

Here are some of the major recent health-related projects involving CHE affiliates:

• Expressive Writing and Adjustment to Colorectal Cancer - NIH/National Cancer Institute (Co-Principal Investigator: Tracey Revenson)
• Systematic Review: Measures of Sexual Quality of Life for Female Cancer Survivors - NIH/National Cancer Institute (Principal Investigator: Tracey Revenson)
• Services Research Innovation for Homeless Mentally Ill - NIH/National Institute of Mental Health (Project Director: Mary Clare Lennon)
• Racism, Coping, and Ambulatory Blood Pressure/Minority Supplement - NIH/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (Principal Investigator: William Cross; Co-Project Director: Danielle Beatty)
• Children's Social Reasoning About Exclusion and Rights - NIH/National Institute of Child Health and Development (Principal Investigator: Martin Ruck)
• The CUNY Campaign Against Diabetes--a five-year effort supported by the CUNY Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and coordinated by Hollie Jones, Ph.D. In 2007, Dr. Jones received start-up funding from the American Psychological Association for research on mistrust of healthcare systems and prevalence of Type 2 Diabetes among ethnic minorities. In September 2007 the Campaign Against Diabetes, in partnership with the Public Health Association of New York City, released a major report, Reversing the Diabetes and Obesity Epidemics in New York City: A call to action to confront a public health, economic and moral threat to New York City's future.