We build the evidence infrastructure for better health.
I AM Research Group develops the research, data, methods, and public tools needed to understand health outcomes and strengthen decision-making. We build studies, data systems, research methods, public evidence, and scholar pipelines designed to move from rigorous inquiry into real institutional and community use.
Research agenda
The questions are connected because health systems are connected.
I AM studies the conditions that shape health outcomes across people, places, institutions, care systems, and data environments.
Population Health & Outcomes
Research on the conditions, environments, institutions, and systems that shape health outcomes across populations.
Mental Health & Chronic Disease
Questions at the intersection of stress, disease, care, resilience, behavior, and long-term health outcomes.
Health Data & Population Intelligence
Public data products, surveys, dashboards, and source-governed systems that make health patterns easier to understand and act on.
Access, Trust & Systems of Care
Access, communication, trust, caregiving, and the systems people must navigate when they seek care.
Measurement Science & Research Methods
Better ways to ask, measure, analyze, and interpret health questions without flattening context, categories, or lived experience.
Research infrastructure
One research group. Multiple public engines.
The platforms turn research capacity into public participation, recurring data, population intelligence, global visibility, and scholar development.
Black Health Co-OP
Community-facing research infrastructure connecting participation, survey work, public evidence, and health visibility.
Explore Black Health Co-OPGlobal Black Health Atlas
A public data platform for country-level population health visibility, demographic context, data-quality notes, and health intelligence.
Open the AtlasState of Black Data
A recurring public survey designed to surface needs, experiences, research priorities, and evidence for reports and future studies.
View State of Black DataResearch Academy
The scholar-development engine for research assistants, fellows, students, and emerging researchers learning to design rigorous studies, work with data, and communicate evidence publicly.
Explore the Research AcademyHow evidence moves
Research is a chain of accountability.
I AM is designed so the work does not stop at an interesting question or a published finding. The system moves evidence toward use.
Question
Name the problem clearly enough to study it.
Method
Build measures that respect history, categories and context.
Study
Collect and interpret evidence with methodological discipline.
Public Evidence
Translate findings into reports, tools, data and accessible explanation.
Consequence
Return the evidence to the institutions and communities that can use it.
The I AM standard
Rigorous enough for science. Clear enough for public life.
The research standard is not only about what I AM studies. It is about how the group treats methods, missingness, public responsibility and scholar formation.
Proof of work
Research experience. Scientific review. Public translation. Scholar formation.
I AM grows from a body of applied health research, national scientific review, public-health translation, and research training rather than from a branding exercise.
Applied Health Study Work
Health-facing scholarship that informs study design, community engagement and the group’s approach to evidence.
Scientific Review
Research expertise brought into national scientific and public-health knowledge environments.
Public Health Roundtables
Public-facing work that connects research, scientific review, health systems, and understandable evidence.
Next Generation Pipeline
Training emerging scholars in research questions, methods, data interpretation, grants and public scholarship.
Research outputs
The work should leave the lab in more than one form.
Different audiences need different evidence products. I AM is built to publish across scholarly, public and institutional formats.
Scholar pipeline
Training the next generation is part of the research.
I AM is not only a place to conduct research. It is a place to learn how to do research well—through questions, measures, data, grants, manuscripts, and public translation.
Founder
Kevin Ahmaad Jenkins, PhD
I AM Research Group was founded as independent research infrastructure for questions that require methodological seriousness, public visibility, and durable support. The aim is larger than a single study: build the house, the methods, the data, the scholars, and the public tools needed for rigorous health research to grow.
The founder’s role is to set the intellectual direction, develop research architecture, build partnerships and create a platform where scholars and communities can produce evidence with methodological independence and public usefulness.
Build with I AM
Fund the research. Strengthen the methods. Expand the public evidence.
Partner with I AM Research Group on health studies, data infrastructure, grant development, scholar training, public translation, and community-facing research platforms.
Research briefings
Methods and evidence, explained publicly.
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