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.
Centering Youth Voices: Community-Driven Housing Interventions for Young Adults
On May 27th, 2025, Sarah Narendorf, PhD, LCSW and Aryeana Straughter provided an overview of a newly adapted, team-based version of Critical Time Intervention called Charge Up!. Alex Wagaman, PhD, and Dez Barnette discussed a shared housing program model designed for LGBTQ+ and pregnant/parenting young people. Speakers Bureau and Peer Network member, Oluwakemi Adebisi-Oke, provided opening and closing remarks from the perspective of someone with lived experience of homelessness as a young adult. The seminar was moderated by Giselle Routhier, PhD, Research Assistant Professor and Co-Director of the Health x Housing Lab.
Speakers: Oluwakemi Adebisi-Oke (speakers bureau and peer network, advisory committee, Health x Housing Lab); Sarah Narendorf, PhD, LCSW (associate professor, NYU Silver School of Social Work); Aryeana Straughter (transition support specialist, Charged Up!, NPower Alumni); Alex Wagaman, PhD,(associate professor, School of Social Work, Virginia Commonwealth University); Dez Barnette (advocate, operations coordinator, A Way Home America) 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 Medical Respite Care
At this panel, held on April 8, 2025, individuals with lived experience of homelessness and housing insecurity shared their experiences receiving medical respite care.
Speakers: Raimundo Alvarez-Quattrochi, Ronald Bull-Karpeh, Leah Williams, and Sean Kupisz; moderated by Michael Shen, MD.
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.
