Projects Overview

The HELIOS lab brings researchers from different disciplines and population focus together to create transcendent research, methods, and practical interventions to promote health equity for socially at-risk populations.

The lab includes NIH funding and engages in community-based research and apply this knowledge and research in our daily work with communities in Orange County.

Lab-Wide Projects

  • Mi Propio Camino (My Own Way): Addressing negative beliefs about medication to improve adherence among Hispanic adults with hypertension

  • HEAL-OC (Health Equity and Literacy in Orange County) Addressing COVID-19 Inequities in Orange Count

  • The COVID-19 Unity Project Community voices during the pandemic in Orange County, California