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.

Bridging Academic and Lived Expertise to Advance Research and Education on Housing and Health

This seminar, held on November 12, 2025, focused on creating and sustaining partnerships between academics and lived experts toward the goal of advancing health and housing equity. The event explored several initiatives led by the Health x Housing Lab which involve collaborating with people with lived experience of homelessness on research and educational initiatives. Speakers discussed two community-engaged research studies exploring the health, housing, and social needs of homeless adults over 55, and the impacts of a hoteling initiative during the COVID-19 pandemic on substance use outcomes. Speakers also discussed a unique Lab initiative, the Speakers Bureau and Peer Network, which connects people with lived experience of homelessness to speaking and writing opportunities with academics, journalists, policymakers, and service providers in the health and housing fields.

Speakers: Giselle Routhier, PhD (Research Assistant Professor, Health x Housing Lab); Cynthia English (lived experience consultant, Health x Housing Lab); Kelly Doran, MD, MHS (Associate Professor, Health x Housing Lab); Milton Perez (lived experience consultant, 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 Substance Use

At this panel, held on October 1, 2025, individuals with lived experience of homelessness and substance use shared their perspectives on navigating healthcare and treatment services.

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.