HOMME Lab

Health. Opportunities. Mobile-Health. Mamas. Equity

What we do.

Our lab focuses on multi-level community partnered participatory approaches to support birthing persons and their families primarily through developing, implementing, and evaluating perceptions, experiences, and health outcomes in perinatal care. Further, we study the roles of communities, policies, and birth equity workers (doulas, childbirth educators) on the health of birthing persons and their families. Additionally, we examine ways to promote breastfeeding/chest feeding equity with an emphasis in Black families. Lastly, we assess how the structural and social determinants of health play an integral role on maternal and infant health

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Recruiting Participants for Research Study

Our Team

Dr. Kacie Blackman

Principal Investigator

Dr. Thomas Chan

Developmental Health Researcher

Wyconda Cotton-Curtis

Research Assistant

Destiny Varela

Research Assistant

Kate Gregg

BSPH Intern

Brenda Simonian

LAEP Research Assistant

Denise Jimenez

BSPH Intern

Mahi Morou

LAEP Research Assistant

Niralee Sandesh Bhanushali

Research Assistant

Our Alumni

Join our Team!

Please submit your resume/cv and a 1 page writing sample to Kacie.blackman@csun.edu

 “And so, lifting as we climb, onward and upward we go, struggling and striving, and hoping that the buds and blossoms of our desires will burst into glorious fruition ‘ere long. “ Mary Church Terrell

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Contact Us

18111 Nordhoff St, Northridge, CA 91330. Lilac as shown below.

homme.lab@csun.edu
+1 818 677 4926

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