Our Projects

Greater Rochester Health Foundation

Healthy and Equitable Futures Initiative: Greater Rochester Health Foundation

LZC is collaborating with Parent Leaders from the GRHF to examine the impact and viability of their parent liberation model as part of the organization’s ongoing systems change…

Vital CxNs

Evaluation of Vital CxNs’ Community Partnerships

The Leah Zallman Center for Immigrant Health Research is partnering with Vital CxNs to develop, implement, and analyze a survey tool to measure shared metrics within and across…

City of Boston Mayor’s Office for Immigrant Advancement’s (MOIA)

Technical Assistance for MOIA’s community-based participatory research study

LZC is providing technical assistance to the City of Boston Mayor’s Office for Immigrant Advancement’s (MOIA) on their community-based participatory research (CBPR) study to learn more about the…

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Policy on the frontlines: Narrative research for immigrant well-being

With funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, LZC is conducting applied research on the role of narratives in shaping healthcare workers’ implementation of policies that advance immigrant…

City of Boston Mayor’s Office for Immigrant Advancement (MOIA)

Evaluation of MOIA’s Weaving Well-being 3.0

LZC is evaluating the third iteration of the City of Boston Mayor’s Office for Immigrant Advancement (MOIA)’s Weaving Well-being Initiative, building on LZC’s evaluation of the pilot and…

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Immigrant mental health in Boston: Technical assistance and landscape review

LZC is providing TA to the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in support of its new initiative, Partnerships for Community Health and Immigrant Well-being.

Massachusetts Immigrant Collaborative

TA support for the Massachusetts Immigrant Collaborative

LZC provided TA to the Massachusetts Immigrant Collaborative (MIC) to support its impact-driven collaboration.

Technical Assistance for Vital CxNs

The Leah Zallman Center for Immigrant Health Research (LZC) at the Institute for Community Health (ICH) partnered with Vital CxNs on a six-month technical assistance project that resulted…

City of Somerville's SomerViva: Office of Immigrant Affairs

Strategic Planning with SomerViva: Office of Immigrant Affairs

The Institute for Community Health (ICH) and the Leah Zallman Center for Immigrant Health Research (LZC) facilitated a strategic planning process with the City of Somerville’s SomerViva: Office…

City of Boston

Evaluation of the City of Boston’s COVID-19 Immigrant Economic Recovery Initiative

LZC is the methodology and evaluation partner on the City of Boston’s COVID-19 Immigrant Economic Recovery Initiative.

Share Our Strength

Evaluation of the Nutrition in Housing (NIH) program

ICH and the Leah Zallman Center is conducting a mixed-methods evaluation of Nutrition in Housing (NIH), a pilot program from Share Our Strength – No Kid Hungry.

Massachusetts Immigrant & Refugee Advocacy Coalition (MIRA)

Technical assistance for MIRA’s Immigrant Assistance Services program (IAS)

The Leah Zallman Center is providing technical assistance services to the Massachusetts Immigrant & Refugee Advocacy Coalition (MIRA) to learn from their new pilot program, Immigrant Assistance Services…

City of Boston Mayor's Office for Immigrant Advancement (MOIA)

Evaluation of MOIA’s Weaving Well-being Initiative

LZC evaluated the second round of the City of Boston Mayor’s Office for Immigrant Advancement’s (MOIA) Weaving Well-being initiative. Weaving Well-being aims to support immigrant-serving community-based organizations in…

Southern New Hampshire University

Southern New Hampshire University ESOL Community Needs Analysis

The Leah Zallman Center is partnering with Southern New Hampshire University’s Center for New Americans and New Hampshire Equity Collective to conduct an analysis of English language instruction…

CHA Foundation

Capacity Building for Asylum Medicine at CHA and Beyond

LZC is conducting a study of the Cambridge Health Alliance’s Asylum Program’s (CHAAP) asylum medicine residency elective in partnership with CHAAP and the Center for Health Equity Education…

The Greenwall Foundation

Bioethics in Community Health: Understanding Ethical Challenges of Community Health Centers

The Leah Zallman Center is working with The Hastings Center on a research study to explore the bioethical challenges that clinicians and staff face at community health centers…

No Kid Hungry

Strategies for Thawing the Chilling Effect: Increasing Understanding and Uptake of Public Benefits in Immigrant Communities

The Leah Zallman Center for Immigrant Health Research (LZC) partnered with No Kid Hungry to evaluate a No Kid Hungry grant aimed at addressing food insecurity in immigrant…

City of Boston Mayor's Office for Immigrant Advancement (MOIA)

Evaluation of the City of Boston Mayor’s Office for Immigrant Advancement’s (MOIA) Immigrant Mental Health Initiative

LZC is conducting a participatory evaluation of the City of Boston Mayor’s Office for Immigrant Advancement’s (MOIA) pilot initiative on advancing immigrant mental health.

HEAL Winchendon Coalition

HEAL Winchendon Evaluation

In 2019, HEAL Winchendon partners reached out to Dr. Santos for assistance developing a health equity intervention based partially on lessons learned from Empowerment Economics. The HEAL Winchendon…

Global Refuge (formerly Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service)

New American Cities Evaluation

LZC partnered with Global Refuge to evaluate the New American Cities program, tracking individual- and community-level metrics of refugee economic well-being in five cities and developing a model…