Health x Housing Lab Events
The Health x Housing Lab at NYU Langone hosts regular events with the goal of disseminating evidence-based information, amplifying the voices of people with lived experience of homelessness and housing insecurity, and educating a wide audience across sectors.
Please visit our resource library to view our past events and explore research on a variety of health- and housing-related topics.
Health x Housing Lab Research Seminar Series
Our Research Seminar Series highlights research at the intersection of health and housing, with a focus on moving research to action. Seminars incorporate knowledge from research, practice, and lived experience.
Homecoming Realities: Understanding Housing insecurity and Health After Incarceration
On May 23, 2024, Dallas Augustine, PhD, and Danya Keene, PhD, presented research on the intersection of reentry, housing insecurity, and health, and explored the processes that can lead to housing insecurity upon reentry into the community after incarceration. Fay Owens provided opening remarks and participated in the discussion from the perspective of someone with lived experience of homelessness upon reentry.
Speakers: Dallas Augustine, PhD (assistant professor in the Department of Justice Studies, San José State University) Danya Keene, PhD (associate professor of social behavioral sciences, director of the Housing and Health Equity Lab, Yale School of Public Health); Fay Owens (peer specialist and advocacy coordinator, Urban Justice Center); moderated by Giselle Routhier, PhD (research assistant professor, Health x Housing Lab).
Flipping the Script
Flipping the Script events fill a gap in medical education on housing and homelessness and re-envision how that education is provided. At these events, people with lived experience of homelessness teach healthcare students, trainees, and practitioners about how homelessness and housing insecurity affect health, and how better care can be provided.
Flipping the Script: A Teach-In for Healthcare Workers on Homelessness and the Criminal Legal System
At this panel, held on April 2, 2024, individuals with lived experience of homelessness and housing insecurity shared their experiences navigating healthcare and other services upon reentry into the community, after incarceration.
Speakers: Fay Owens, Sharmaine Smith, Larry Thomas, Jose Vega; moderated by Michael Shen, MD, clinical director at NYC Health + Hospitals Woodhull Safety Net Clinic.
Other Events
Members of our team also participated in other events.
SIREN 2022 National Research Meeting: Racial Health Equity in Social Care
The Health x Housing Lab team presented at the September 15, 2022, SIREN National Research Meeting. Advisory committee members Kadisha Davis and Antoine Lovell joined co-directors Kelly M. Doran, MD, and Giselle Routhier, PhD, to discuss ways to uplift and integrate the knowledge of people with lived experience of homelessness in social care research, education, and practice.
Institute for Excellence in Health Equity Summer Series: Housing and Health Equity
NYU Langone’s Institute for Excellence in Health Equity summer seminar series provides interns, trainees, fellows, and study team members with an increased awareness of how health equity impacts health and medicine. This presentation, held on July 7, 2022, by Health x Housing Lab co-directors Dr. Routhier and Dr. Doran, focused on definitions of housing insecurity, housing as a social determinant of health, and structural causes of homelessness.
