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February 2026 Swetland Seminar || Housing and Infant Health: Targeted Investment and Meaningful Engagement (TIME) Study
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The probability that a child does not live to celebrate their first birthday, the infant mortality rate (IMR), is widely accepted as an indicator of overall well-being of a population. The racial disparities in IMR are a long-standing problem, both nationally and locally in Central Ohio. IMR disparities are often place-based and are the result of policies and practices that have created and maintained the disparate opportunity landscape. Beginning to undo the effects of these policies on disparities in IMR and health outcomes at the community level will require: (1) understanding the ways that the policies have been experienced by women, (2) identifying avenues for targeted investment designed to create meaningful change, and (3) making financial commitments to improve outcomes. The Targeted Investment and Meaning Engagement (TIME) Study tells the story of Columbus, Ohio’s Linden neighborhood, a historically disinvested community that has been devastated by decades of disparate policies and high IMR. This mixed-methods study uses information gathered through an extensive policy inventory of the neighborhood, qualitative interviews with Black women, and engagement with residents to understand the “why” of the neighborhood deprivation that imperils birth outcomes for Black infants to tailor future investment strategies.
Learn more here:
https://www.nationwidechildrens.org/research/areas-of-research/center-for-child-health-equity-and-outcomes-research/chisolm-lab
Panelists:
- Deena J. Chisolm, PhD
Nationwide Foundation Endowed Chair in Health Equity Research
Vice President of Health Services Research
Director, Center for Child Health Equity and Outcomes Research, Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Professor of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University College of Medicine
- Kierra S. Barnett, PhD, MPH
Senior Research Scientist
Center for Child Health Equity and Outcomes Research
The Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital