Houghton Lab
Principal Investigator
We work primarily on female and transgender health as it relates to hormones and culture. Specifically, we are interested in how culture and context impact hormones and, in turn, how those hormones regulate things like puberty, menstruation, and breast cancer risk.
We apply a mixed-methods approach to our work, which means focusing equally on both culture and biology.
Our team has developed methods that couples the lived experience of our subjects with the biology of their experience to produce research that advances how we promote health and prevent chronic disease.