Kim Rollings PhD

5 Calls Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

🔹CALL congress and tell them to restore funding to DHS Centers of Excellence, including SENTRY. 5calls.org

🔹Why this matters to me: My partner is a SENTRY team member. I’ve seen the hard work and amazing results of this team’s rigorous research to protect communities and save lives. These cuts harm many careers and families, and more critically, the country’s readiness to protect our safety.

Beyond slashing jobs and wasting millions in research investment, this decision is short-sighted and dangerous. We are losing vital technology and the “playbook” for emergency responders during these crises.

SENTRY | A Homeland Security Center of Excellence SENTRY Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence addresses the many challenges of protecting our homeland.

🔹DHS cut all funds for SENTRY, the center responsible for developing critical defenses to protect public spaces from drones, biological attacks, active shooters, and more. SENTRY is 1 of the 9 DHS Centers of Excellence all targeted for termination in 2025. sentry.northeastern.edu

World Cup Crowds Could Be Targeted. This Team Worked to Keep Them Safe.

If DHS is no longer protecting “soft targets” like schools, transit hubs, places of worship, sports arenas, and events like the 2026 World Cup, who is?
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/s...

Enjoyed presenting to @umichsph.bsky.social students about healthy housing and aging this week!

Michigan housing initiatives involving health systems: A narrative review Recent U.S. health system efforts to address social drivers and determinants of health include housing, but detailed information about housing initiat…

New publication! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Michigan Housing Initiatives involving health systems: A narrative review

@umisr.bsky.social @umichsph.bsky.social @um-src.bsky.social @um-ihpi.bsky.social

The Devil’s Hair Dryer Hell is other people, with leaf blowers

All week...
medium.com/citylab/the-...

HANDS OFF CHICAGO | Opposing Trump's Military Occupation Hands Off Chicago is a grassroots effort to oppose military intervention in Chicago.

Please use your privilege for good. Do something.
Hands Off Chicago- www.handsoffchicago.com
IL Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights- www.icirr.org/fsn
National Immigrant Justice Center- immigrantjustice.org
Protecting Chicago- www.chicago.gov/city/en/dept...
5calls- 5calls.org

Institute for Social Research HomeLab offers ideal environment for fitness device study

The HomeLab also sounds like a great opportunity for environment-behavior research. research.umich.edu/research-sto...

@iaps-association.bsky.social @umisr.bsky.social

"Make your voice heard.
5 Calls is the easiest and most effective way for U.S. constituents to make a political impact."
5calls.org

“It’s like I’m on the balcony even though I’m not.” Resident perceptions of state-required private outdoor spaces in Michigan’s permanent supportive housing A private outdoor space (balcony or patio) is required for all dwellings supported by Michigan’s Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program. These private outdoor spaces may particularly benefit...

People highly value their apartment balconies and patios even when their "use" is invisible! Christina Bollo and I learned about affordances made possible by private outdoor space from residents of permanent supportive housing in this new Housing & Society article:
doi.org/10.1080/0888...

And if you must use the ADI, consider using the Standardized ADI www.openicpsr.org/openicpsr/pr...

There are days in life that shake you.

I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵

"Make your voice heard.
5 Calls is the easiest and most effective way for U.S. constituents to make a political impact."
5calls.org

Opinion | I’m a health researcher. NIH’s pause on research grants could have a devastating cost. This is a potentially devastating event — not just for the scientific community, but for all Americans.

www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.

www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

Research Assistant Professor position at Michigan's Institute for Social Research: careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

We recently published a new dataset, "Standardized Area Deprivation Index (ADI) by Census Block Group, United States, 2015, 2020 and 2022," which is now available on OpenICPSR! Access the data and learn more here: doi.org/10.3886/E210...