Professor Mullings has a strong commitment to producing scholarship that addresses timely social issues, is undertaken in collaboration with research subjects and seeks to empower communities through knowledge.

For example, funded by the Centers for Disease Control, the Harlem BirthRight Project explored racial disparities in heath through ethnographic study of the ways in which race, class and gender intersected to unique stressors. The research team worked with community residents to produce materials for community consumption such as the brochure below, explaining the study and how the resulting findings could be used by them.