Research with Purpose

Margaret Lombe, Associate Professor and Bridge Program Co-Director

• Exploring associations between neighborhood amenities and mental health: Insights from parent reports of older youth in low-income households
• Family history of diabetes: Neighborhood and familial risks in African American youth living in public housing

Mary Collins, Professor and Chair of Human Behavior, Research & Policy

• Post‐secondary educational aspirations among young adults with foster care experience: A focus on vocational education.
• Another side of waiver federalism: Lessons from federal workforce policy

Barbara Jones, Dean and Professor

• Digital divide in social media use among cancer survivors and the moderation role of offline social support
• The Current State of Palliative Care Research for Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Thematic Analysis of Empirical Literature

Deborah Chassler, Senior Academic Researcher

• Tailored strategies to reduce opioid overdose deaths for pregnant and postpartum women: Examples and lessons learned from the HEALing Communities Study
• The Process and Cost of Developing a Community Advisory Board Focused on Opioid Overdose Deaths

Luis Alvarez-Hernandez, Assistant Professor

• Transforming through switch points: Latinx nonbinary individuals’ experiences of moving from internalized cisnormativity to liberated consciousness
• “Si te la pones, yo también me la pongo”: COVID vaccines and Hispanic communities at the Texas-Mexico border region

Astraea Augsberger, Associate Professor & Associate Dean for Doctoral Education

• Project IMPACT: Achieving Family Stability for Parents With Intellectual Disabilities
• Bridging success: How institutional adults can support system involved youth and young adults in pursuing post-secondary vocational education and career pathways

Hyeouk Chris Hahm, Professor and Associate Dean for Research Professor

• National Trends of Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors Among Asian American Young Adults Between 2008 and 2019: The Intersection of Sex and Sexual Identity
• Fluctuating recovery: Trajectories of young adult mental health through the COVID-19 pandemic 2020-2022

Jennifer M. Gómez, Associate Professor

• Effect of White Supremacy on White Young People’s Blame Attributions in a Male-Perpetrated Acquaintance Rape Vignette
• Examining the generational intersection of interpersonal, cultural, and institutional betrayal in Flint, Michigan

Elizabeth Klein, Director of Student Services for Online Programs

• “I Feel Like there’sa Politician in the Room”: Provider Perceptions of the Impacts of State Abortion Bans on Physician–Patient Relationships
• Stressors and coping strategies among people affected by Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in West Africa: A qualitative study across multiple levels of the social ecology

Lindsay Rosenfeld, Research Scientist

• Coherence of stroke survivors’ lived experiences and the stroke-specific quality of life scale
• Insights from multidisciplinary rare disease visits: Findings from wrap-up documents and participant surveys in a national diagnostic study

Moaven Razavi, Senior Research Scientist

• Formulation and validation of a regional household wealth index for sub-Saharan Africa

William Crown, Distinguished Research Scientist

• A hybrid simulation model of HIV program interventions: From transmission behavior to macroeconomic impacts
• Research method, conduct, and reporting considerations for improving the quality of non-hypothesis-evaluating treatment effectiveness analyses using real-world data: An ISPOR Special Interest Group report

Allyala Nandakumar, Research Professor

• Supporting local ownership of transition processes: A key pathway to sustaining the HIV response
• US isolationism, HIV, and primary care integration: The inflection point for low-income and middle-income countries is now

Yoonsook Ha, Associate Professor

• Advancing research on equitable access to early care and education in the United States
• They need nurturance; they need to be seen: Early care and education for children exposed to intimate partner violence

Clemens Noelke, Research Associate Professor

• Temporal Trends in the Childhood Opportunity Index at Children’s Hospitals

Clemens Noelke, Research Associate Professor; Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, Professor and Director of IECOHD; Robert Ressler, Research Scientist

• Death by neighborhood: Preliminary results on disparities in violent deaths by neighborhood opportunity with the Child Opportunity Index 3.0

Robert Ressler, Research Scientist

• Using the Child Opportunity Index to examine equity in access to a state-funded prekindergarten program

Monica Jordan, Senior Project Manager

• Mapping care pathways: Clinical providers’ perspectives on process maps of HIV service delivery in Uganda

Allyson Baughman, Project Director, CISWH

• Staying afloat: How families raising children with disabilities used the expanded Child Tax Credit

Darien Alexander Williams, Assistant Professor

• Planning from the Black Counterpublic
• The importance of belonging: Reflections on a participatory action research project in Jacksonville, Florida

Arden O’Donnell, Postdoctoral Associate

• Development of a Mindfulness and Self-compassion (MASC) Stress Reduction Program for Caregivers of Persons With Dementia With Behavioral Symptoms
• Extending the Reach: Ambulatory Specialty Palliative Care for People With Heart Failure

Peter Treitler, Assistant Professor

• Treatment initiation and outcomes associated with receipt of emergency department-based peer support following opioid overdose
• States with substantial increases in buprenorphine uptake did so with increased Medicaid prescribing, 2018–24

Daniel Jacobson Lopez, Assistant Professor and Deputy Title IX Coordinator

• “Cuz They Straight and Everything”: Barriers to Reporting Sexual Assault Among Gay Latino Male Sexual Assault Survivors
• Dreams Interrupted: Unraveling Predictors and Correlates of Insomnia Symptoms and Sleep Distress Among Ghanian Men Who Have Sex With Men (MSM) Living with HIV

Ruth Paris, Professor

• Trauma and mental health: Examining psychosocial changes for Latin American immigrant mothers and young children participating in Child-Parent Psychotherapy

Bethlyn Vergo Houlihan, Project Director, CISWH

• What Families of Children With Medical Complexity Say About Their Family Well-Being

Hope Haslam Straughan, Clinical Associate Professor 

• Sustainable social work practice through ritual. Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work: Social Thought, 44(3), 251–263
• Parental Understanding of Cultural Difference: A Study of Transracially Adopting Couples. Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services, 106(3), 613-626

Jordana Muroff, Professor and Chair of Clinical Practice

• Classification of indoor clutter from images: Application to hoarding assessment

Dawn Belkin Martinez, Clinical Professor and Associate Dean, Equity & Inclusion

• Storytelling for social change: Using emerging technology to develop antioppressive social work training and practice

Dolores Acevedo-Garcia

• Neighborhood Child Opportunity and Preterm Birth Rates by Race and Ethnicity
• Confronting the Role of Structural Racism in Inequities in Child Neighborhood Opportunity and Child Health

Astraea Augsberger

• Bridging Success: How Institutional Adults Can Support System Involved Youth and Young Adults in Pursuing Post-Secondary Vocational Education and Career Pathways

Deborah Chassler

• “…Work is Really Being Done and It’s Very Worthwhile…”: Reflections from Community Advisory Board Members

Mary Collins

• Choosing Post-Secondary Vocational Education Pathways: Narratives of Young Adults with Previous System Involvement

Meg Comeau

• The Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network for Children With Medical Complexity
• Addressing Emerging Needs Through the COVID-19 and Children With Medical Complexity ECHO

Ashley Davis & Hope Haslam Straughan

• Forced to Choose: BSW Students’ Experiences of a College Merger

Yoonsook Ha

• Experiences of Child Care Providers Serving Subsidy-Receiving Children Involved in the Child Protective Services System: Implications for Equitable Access

Hyeouk Chris Hahm

• Asian American Children’s Psychological Well-Being and Health Behaviors: Advancing a Culturally Informed Perspective on the Role of Parenting
• Saraiya, T. C., Hien, D. A., Singal, S., & Hahm, H.C. The Invisibility of Asian American, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in Substance Use Research: A Call to Action

Pamela Joshi

• Advancing Research on Equitable Access to Early Care and Education in the United States

Jennifer M Gómez

• But Is It Okay? The Need to Still Ask Black/African American Mothers about Violence Exposure During the COVID-19 Worldwide Pandemic

Bronwyn Keefe

• State Policy Academies on Mental Health, Substance Use, and Aging

Lyndsey D. McMahan

• The Varied Perspectives of Organisational Effectiveness: What’s at Stake for Early Childhood Development in Programmes in Rwanda?

Juliann H. Nicholson

• “They Need Nurturance; They Need to Be Seen”: Early Care and Education for Children Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence

Clemens Noelke

• Association of Neighborhood Opportunity and Pediatric Hospitalization Rates in the United States

Ruth Paris

• Yang, Y.*, Paris, R., Hansen, H.*, & Short Mejia, A. Juggling Competing Responsibilities: Experiences with Parenting, Child Welfare, and Substance Use treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic

Robert Ressler

• In Conversation with Equity: Qualitatively Engaging Quantitative Data for Equitable Social Impact

Lindsay Rosenfeld

• The Influence of Dr. Rima Rudd’s Organizational Health Literacy Scholarship in Maryland
• Educational Attainment, Severity and Short-Term Prognosis of Intracerebral Haemorrhage

Judith Scott

• Intersectional HIV Stigma Among Black Women: Regional Differences and Implications from the Black Women First Initiative
• Beyond Survival: Harnessing Sustainability Frameworks to Assess and Support Programs Implementing Bundled Interventions for Black Women with HIV

Wade Taylor

• Acceptability of a Smartphone-Music Intervention for Chronic Pain and Problematic Opioid Use among People Living with HIV

Peter Treitler

• Implementation of an Office-Based Addiction Treatment Model for Medicaid Enrollees: A Mixed Methods Study

Bethlyn Vergo Houlihan

• What Families of Children With Medical Complexity Say They Need: Humanism in Care Delivery Change
• Trauma-Informed Leadership in Quality Improvement: What We Learned From Practicing in a Pandemic

Luis R. Alvarez-Hernandez

• Entre madres y comadres: Trans Latina immigrants empowering women beyond marianismo

• Epistemological weaving: Writing and sense making in qualitative research with Gloria Anzaldúa

Astraea Augsberger

• Youth engagement to achieve health equity: Are health care organizations and leaders prepared?

• Trauma-Informed Photovoice for Adolescents and Young Adults with Child Welfare Involvement

Emilia Bianco

• Towards an ethics of compassionate care in accompanying human suffering: dialogic relationships and feminist activist scholarship with asylum-seeking mothers

Tom Byrne

• Impact of the monetary value of housing asssitance on adult health outcomes

• Extended foster care and homelessness: Assessing the impact of the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act on rates of homelessness among youth

Mary Collins

• “Time has come again” for Career Pathways: Workforce development for youth in the U.S.

Jennifer M. Gómez

• Barriers to Formal Help-Seeking Among Black American Young Adults: Exploring the Roles of Sexual Violence Victimization, Intersectional Oppression, & Perceived Burdensomness

• “It will always feel worse because it comes with that added ‘betrayal’”: Intersectionality Praxis and Black Young Women Survivors’ Perspectives on Cultural Betrayal Trauma Theory

Judith G. Gonyea

• Historical Perspectives on Older Americans’ Voting Participation: The Effects of Individual Aging, Life Cycle, and Generational Cohort

Hyeouk Chris Hahm

• Psychological distress and heavy alcohol consumption among US young women during the COVID-19 pandemic

• Barriers and risk factors associated with non-treatment-seeking for suicidality onset during the COVID-19 pandemic among young adults

Barbara Jones

• Social workers are key to addressing social determinants of health in integrated care settings  

• Community Health Work and Social Work Collaboration: Integration in Health Care and Public Health Settings: A Conceptual Framework

Bronwyn Keefe

• Enhancing Behavioral Health Competencies for Senior Center Staff through Workforce Development and Training

• Impact of the Interprofessional Leadership in Healthcare Certificate on Health Professionals’ Collaboration and Leadership Abilities

Daniel Jacobson López

• “Take It Out on the Floor”: Experiences of Violence Among Black LGBT House and Ball Community Youth in a Rust Belt City

• Discrimination and Rejection: The Effects of Ethnic and Sexuality-Based Discrimination Against Latino Gay and Bisexual Men

Judith Scott

• What Is Supportive Parenting? Perspectives From Chinese Immigrant Caregivers With Low- Income Living in the Greater Boston Area

Renée Spencer

• Going the distance: A longitudinal qualitative study of formal youth mentoring relationship development

Wade Taylor

• Chronic pain and substance use disorders among older sexual minority men living with HIV: Implications for HIV disease management across the HIV care continuum

Peter Treitler

• Emergency Department Peer Support Program and Patient Outcomes After Opioid Overdose

Darien Alexander Williams

• Solidarity in disaster scholarship