I do not separate my personal and professional values. These are principles that I aim to embody every day, across domains.
Sleep emerges from interactions across individual, family, community, and system levels. An expanded model including pediatric-specific factors and healthcare system influences anchors my dissertation.
Daniel Buysse, M.D.; Pediatric Adaptation: Meltzer et al.
RDoC rejects the assumption that diagnostic categories are the right unit of analysis, instead organizing mental health research around dimensions of functioning that cut across disorders. It creates space to ask questions that traditional nosology forecloses, particularly around how biological, psychological, and environmental factors interact.
Sleep emerges from interactions across individual, family, community, and system levels. An expanded model including healthcare system influences anchors my dissertation.
Michael Grandner, PhD
The WHO's social determinants framework has become increasingly de-politicized, drifting toward individualized explanations that obscure power. This expanded framework reinserts agents, politics, and power into the analysis of structural determinants. Understanding who benefits from current conditions is critical to understanding how to change them. Karatekin et al. [2024]
Quantitative methods are not neutral. The questions we ask, the variables we include, and the populations we sample all reflect assumptions worth interrogating. CritQuant applies a critical lens to quantitative research to ensure rigor and justice are not treated as afterthoughts.
Figure by Van Dusen & Nissen (2025)
Transformative justice does not treat harm as an individual problem necessitating individual solutions. Rather, it seeks to understand instead what conditions produce harm and what it would take to change them.