The health, mental health and behavioral health research program is one of five interrelated programs that form the pillars of scholarship at the UNC School of Social Work.
Physical, mental, and behavioral health influence each other and impact an individual’s relationship to the people, spaces, and systems around them. Supporting the broad range of health and well-being depends on evidence-informed and responsive policies and practices.
Toward this end, our faculty are identifying the psychosocial factors that affect health-related conditions — such as postpartum conditions, perinatal health, obesity, substance use disorders, serious mental illness, as well as health consequences of prejudice, bias, and racism — and in turn are developing interventions that foster resilience, reduce risk, advance equity, transforming systems, and improve lives.
Program Labs
Program labs are faculty-led research teams collaborating within a research program to conduct interrelated projects. Labs that are part of the health, mental health and behavioral health research program include:
