Shelia Broyles, Ph.D., M.P.H.
-	Dietary and physical activity behaviors and socio-demographic influences on these behaviors in African-American preschool aged children and their mothers
-	The feasibility of implementing an enhanced health curriculum in Head Start centers serving predominantly Mexican-American preschoolers and their families
-	Recruitment, development, enrichment, and retention program for Hispanic students and faculty
-	Disparities in health and training
-	The effects of environmental influences on the health and development

Sandra Daley, M.D.
-	Recruitment, development, enrichment, and retention program for Hispanic students and faculty
-	Factors that increase the number of qualified disadvantaged students entering the local healthcare workforce
-	Disparities in health and training

Patricia East, Ph.D.
-	Family- and individual-level factors that contribute to how younger siblings of pregnant teens can avoid teenage parenting (This is the only study in the country to focus on siblings’ risk of adolescent pregnancy and to examine family adaptation to adolescent transition to parenting).

Howard Taras, M.D.
-	Access to Dental Care
-	Families of children eligible for, but not enrolled in, subsidized health insurance programs
-	Pediatric residency training
-	Community-based education venues for low-income parents
-	Physician consultation to schools and integration of students with special health care needs
-	Community physicians’ involvement in local school district health policies
-	The role of school social climate in the attendance and achievement of obese and non-obese students
-	The effects of environmental influences on the health and development

Michelle Zive, MS, RD
-	Dissemination of research-based social marketing programs for low-income communities.
-	Fruits and vegetables consumption and daily physical activity.
-	Obesity prevention through parks and recreation, and strategies that change the school and community environment of Latino neighborhoods.

María Luisa Zúñiga, Ph.D.
Research focus is on health care access and utilization in the US-Mexico border region with particular emphasis on Latinos living with HIV. Specific areas of research emphasis include:
-	Cross-border health care access and utilization in the US-Mexico border region
-	HIV-prevention primary and secondary prevention, including HIV/STI prevention among youth; prevention with persons living with HIV and research to reduce the impact of HIV-related stigma
-	Behavioral health and health promotion among persons of Mexican origin
-	Community-Based Participatory Research