Current Projects

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)

Columbia University – The Impact Structural Environmental Racism on Adverse Childhood Experiences and Injury Outcomes in Disproportionately Affected Communities

Columbia University – Using Data Science and Casual Inference to Estimate Community-Level Impact of Policies on Injuries and Adverse Childhood Experiences

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus – Substance Use Program Evaluation, including ACEs and Recovery (SPEAR)

University of Iowa – Adverse Childhood Experiences and Accelerated Epigenetic Aging in Adulthood: A Longitudinal Investigation of Resilience Among Black Populations

University of North Carolina – Programmatic and Policy Strategies for the Primary Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse

University of Pennsylvania – Examining the Efficacy of the PRAISE with Coaching Program in Reducing Peer Aggression and Bullying

University of Pennsylvania – Cuidándonos: Peer Leaders for Promoting Psychological Wellbeing Among Latinx Young Adult Parents with Depression Symptoms and a History of Adverse Childhood Experiences

University of Texas Health Science Center (UTHealth) – Examination of Perinatal Depression Symptom Trajectories and Associated Maternal and Child Predictors and Short and Long-term Outcomes

University of Washington – Promoting Prevention and Resilience from Adverse Childhood Experiences in Tribal Communities Through Culturally Responsive Brief Behavioral Parent Training

Falls

University of Iowa – Translational Research to Refer Rural Older Adults to Evidence-based Falls Prevention Programs

University of Washington – Cultural Adaption of Remotely Delivered Enhance Fitness for Falls Prevention among Rural American Indian Older Adults

Opioid overdose

Emory University – Improving Access to Overdose Prevention via Pharmacy-based Peer-led Services in Atlanta, Georgia

Johns Hopkins University – Xylazine Contamination in the Illicit Opioid Supply: An Emerging Public Health Crisis

Johns Hopkins University – Opioid Prescribing, Use, Storage and Disposal Patterns Among Children and Adolescents: A Mixed Methods Approach

Johns Hopkins University – Natural Language Processing as a Tool for Strengthening Drug Overdose Surveillance Systems: Implementation and Impact

Medical College of Wisconsin – The Role of Detoxification in Preventing or Contributing to Opioid Overdose

University of Michigan – Enhancing the System for Overdose Surveillance through Prospective Spatiotemporal Prediction

University of Iowa – A Statewide Evaluation of Emergency Departments’ Treatment Capacity and Management of Substance Use Disorders

University of North Carolina – Promoting Equitable Access to Evidence-informed Pre-arrest Diversion Programs to Prevent Drug-related Harms and Overdose

University of Washington – Increasing Access to Harm Reduction in Rural Primary Care to Prevent Overdose

Suicide

Columbia University and University of Iowa – Forecasting Emerging Racial Inequities in United States Injury Epidemics: Identifying the Causes and Predictors of Changing Racial Patterns in Urban Overdose and Suicide

Emory University – A Community Based Participatory Research Approach for Addressing the Role of Firearms in Suicide Prevention among Black Males

Johns Hopkins University – An Exploratory Psychological Autopsy Study of Suicide Among Black American Youth

Medical College of Wisconsin – Experiences with Law Enforcement and Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors Among Young Black Men

Medical College of Wisconsin – Evaluating the Roles of Alcohol and Firearms on Disparities in Homicides and Suicides in Wisconsin

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus – A Randomized controlled trial of public health messages to Prevent Firearm Suicide Among a nationally Representative Sample of Firearm-Owning US Veterans

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus – Hiding in Plain sight: a Transdisciplinary Multisystem Approach to Suicide Prevention for Black Girls

University of Michigan – Promoting Community Conversations About Research to End Suicide (PC CARES): Community- Based Factors for Implementation Success

University of North Carolina – Improving Surveillance of Nonfatal Suicide-Related Outcomes with Statewide Emergency Medical Services Data

University of Texas Health Science Center (UTHealth) – Target Safety: a Collaboration of Firearm Retailers and Health Care to Address Suicide Prevention

University of Texas Health Science Center (UTHealth) – Timing of Suicide Screening in Pediatric Primary Care

Transportation safety

Columbia University – Physical environmental strategies to reduce road traffic crash risks and health inequities for vulnerable road users

University of North Carolina – Optimizing eMoms and Teens for Safe Dates (eMTSD) for Implementation and Dissemination

Traumatic brain injury (TBI)

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus – Identifying Factors Influencing Parents’ Decisions about their Children’s Contact collision sports participation

University of Michigan – Athletic Trainers and Remote Symptom Monitoring as Facilitators for Improved Sport-Related Concussion Recovery

Violence and injury

Emory University – Developing Coordinated Hospital-Community Trauma Informed Care to Prevent Youth Violence

University of North Carolina – Optimizing eMoms and Teens for Safe Dates (eMTSD) for Implementation and Dissemination

University of Michigan – Evaluation of A School-based Social and Material Needs Identification System to Prevent Youth Violence

University of Pennsylvania – Mobilizing Social Media for Violence Prevention

University of Texas Health Science Center (UTHealth) – Using an Innovative Implementation Strategy to Increase the Translation of Effective Youth Violence Prevention in Schools

University of Washington – Promoting School Safety Through Community Collaboratives