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The SLEEP Empowers Lab offers training experiences for individuals interested in how sleep affects children’s health and how communities can better support healthy sleep across daily life. Learn more about the trainee opportunities.

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Current Research Studies

SLEEP Friendly Cities

SLEEP Friendly Cities is a multilevel approach to population sleep health prevention and promotion. The SLEEP Friendly Cities framework aims to deploy a variety of strategic arms, interventions and initiatives across three focus areas: Place-Based Investments in Sleep Health: Investments in sleep

Sleep Deficiencies Computable Phenotype

NIH K01-funded population health study that uses machine learning approaches to support the equitable identification of pediatric sleep deficiency in the electronic health care records.

Determinants of Nocturnal Arousal Patterns

A community-based observational study that utilizes to assess daily association between physiological arousal, sleep disturbance, and racism-related stressors in adolescents across 14 days.

Project SLEEPS

Funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) and in collaboration with principal investigator Dr. Hughes and Dr. Asarnow (Children’s Hospital Los Angeles) as co-principal investigator, the research team will compare the effectiveness of two evidence-based school-friendly

Determinants of the Sleep HealthCare Disparities

A retrospective cohort study conducted to complete the following objective: 1) evaluate the association between social and environmental determinants and sleep health care disparities and related comorbidities using the SDH screening cohort data, 2) analyze and report current epidemiologic