About

The Equity in Health, Wealth and Civic Engagement Priority Research Cluster brings together researchers from across Tufts University to discuss and investigate aspects of equity and inequity in the United States and the world. 

Along with other collaborative research initiatives, an ongoing project is our nationally representative survey of Americans, which has been conducted annually in the spring, beginning in 2020. Scholars from across Tufts contributed to designing and analyzing the survey.

The research has been funded by Tufts University Office of the Vice Provost for Research (OVPR) and the Research and Scholarship Strategic Plan (RSSP) as one of several such initiatives. Additional support has been provided by the Tufts Clinical andTranslational Science Institute (CSTI). Tufts’ Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life funded this website’s visualization tool utilizing our national survey data. Our efforts also include funding research pilot grants, symposia to discuss and inform our findings, and the support of subgroups such as the Substance Use Disorder and Mental Health Working Group.

Principal Investigators:

Jennifer Allen

Professor of Community Health in the Tufts School of Arts and Sciences 

Peter Levine

Associate Dean for academic affairs and Lincoln Filene Professor of Citizenship & Public Affairs in the Tisch College of Civic Life

Jayanthi Mistry

Professor, Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development, Tufts School of Arts and Sciences

Thomas Stopka

Associate professor of Public Health and Community Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine.

Other members of the Research Cluster: