Recovery Insights Lab

Turning recovery questions into research that improves what happens next.

We study life after brain injury — what matters to survivors, which needs occur together, where people struggle to find help, and where recovery support is missing.

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The learning loop

From recovery questions to practical change.

We start with problems people experience during recovery, study them, and use what we learn to improve the next step.

01

Listen

Start with problems people face during recovery.

02

Identify

Turn the problem into a clear research question.

03

Study

Use the right data and research partners to study it.

04

Build

Translate what we learn into practical tools, map, framework, or recommendation.

05

Improve

Use what we learn to improve the next step, then keep learning.

Current work

Learning what meaningful recovery looks like.

We are engaging with survivors, rehabilitation partners, researchers, and neuroinjury clinics across different care systems. Our work asks what people want to regain after brain injury, how their needs change over time, and whether the measures used in research and care reflect those priorities.

Learning from survivors

We study the goals and challenges people describe after injury, including daily activities, relationships, work, and participation in their communities. Their feedback helps us choose questions that are relevant and manageable to answer.

Working with clinics and rehabilitation partners

We are working with partners to bring survivor-defined questions into neurorecovery research and clinical follow-up, and beginning to learn how these approaches may work in different settings internationally.

Research directions

Questions we are studying.

These connected areas help us understand what people need after injury and where recovery support can improve.

Why this work exists

Building the connections neurorecovery is missing.

We connect survivor experience, clinical insight, and research so that questions from life after brain injury can become evidence, tools, and better next steps.

Research network

Work with us.

We work with survivors, clinicians, researchers, rehabilitation programs, and community organizations to study focused questions about recovery.

Who we work with

  • Hospitals and neurorecovery clinics
  • Rehabilitation programs
  • Brain injury registries and survey teams
  • Community reintegration organizations
  • Academic researchers
  • State and regional brain injury programs

What can support a project

  • Existing de-identified research datasets
  • Survey datasets and patient-reported outcomes
  • Aggregate program outcomes or service-use data
  • Community participation and reintegration measures
  • Referral, follow-up, and resource-access data
Interested in collaborating? Reach out first. We can discuss the research question, the right process, and any privacy or data-sharing steps together.

Bring us a question the recovery system is not answering.

If you see a recovery problem worth studying, we would be glad to hear about it.

Discuss a research question