
Youth Culture
Understanding youth culture serves as the basis for effective youth-focused programs and actions plans. We prioritize:

Innovative and Reliable Studies
Providing a framework for analysis of health-related needs of adolescents and young people living in the country, through participative studies on different aspects of youth culture in the Dominican Republic, including sexual and reproductive rights, access to health services, adolescent lifestyles, toxic habits, potential risk and resilient behaviors, among other related topics.

Stigma-Reduction
Deconstructing social stigma frequently related to diverse youth groups.

Effective Interventions
Involving young leadership in research and intervention activities in different public health areas, to prepare new generations of community leaders for evidence-based analysis and transformation of their own health-related determinants.
Related Work



Assessment of Youth Gangs in the Dominican Republic
With the aim of providing the evidence needed to develop strategies for prevention and reduction of potentially negative impact of youth gangs on health and quality of life of adolescents and youth in the Dominican Republic, this study employed Rapid Assessment Process (RAP) methodology to describe and analyze social and health-related dynamics of these organizations.


Children and adolescents living with disability in the Dominican Republic: Situation and response analysis
This descriptive, observational and transversal study, based on Rapid Assessment Process Methodology (Beebe, 2001), was designed to describe and analyze the situation and response to disability and its social determinants among children and adolescents (age 0-19) in the Dominican Republic.