Research labs

SHARE Lab

Dr. Meng Huo Directs the Social relationships, Health, and Altruism REsearch (SHARE) lab.

The SHARE lab primarily aims to understand how and why older adults help others, and how these helping behaviors may strengthen older adults' resilience against age-related declines and promote healthy aging. Our ongoing projects examine (a) empathy and support exchanges in couples coping with early-stage cognitive impairment, (b) volunteering - particularly in the context of health limitations, and (c) perceptions and experiences of ageism. The ultimate goal is to inform psychosocial and lifestyle interventions that can help midlife and older adults lead their best lives across both normative and pathological trajectories of aging.

https://sharelab.ucdavis.edu/

(SOAR) Research Lab

Dr. Maciel Hernández directs The Socioemotional and Academic Resilience (SOAR) research lab.

The Lab aims to understand how children’s emotion and regulatory behaviors relate to their academic, social, and psychological adjustment, spanning from childhood to adolescence. We focus on studying school and cultural contextual factors affecting well-being and developmental processes that promote resilience within academic and community settings.

https://hernandezlab.ucdavis.edu

The Cannon Lab

Dr. Cannon and her lab examine the intersections of environmental injustices and climate risks, and their resulting inequalities using a range of methods and interdisciplinary approaches. For example, the Community Air Project is a multi-campus and community partner research project with collaborators at UC Davis (PI Clare Cannon), UC Irvine (co-PI Mike Méndez), UC San Diego (co-PI Camila Alvarez), and the UC Davis Air Quality Research Center (co-PI Tony Wexler). The goal of this project is to collaborate with frontline communities to deploy novel, low-cost air quality monitors to measure the two major kinds of hazardous air pollutants (HAPs), metallic compounds (MC) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in real time. These HAPs have been linked to a range of adverse health outcomes. Our approach is a community engaged one in which our community partners serve as collaborators throughout the research process from conceptualization, data collection through dissemination of findings. Finally, a novel contribution of this project is the use of these new instruments in communities with high environmental injustice across California.

https://clarecannon.ucdavis.edu/

Falbe Lab

From policy to plate, the Falbe Lab is cooking up smart solutions to prevent chronic disease and serve up health for all through research on policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) interventions. Our current work includes developing and evaluating: healthy retail policies, sugar and sodium warning labels, interventions that co-benefit health and environmental sustainability, expanding water access, excise taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages, food marketing, and communication campaigns.