A5055880675- Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- Gender Diversity and Inequality
- Diversity and Career in Medicine
- Global Health Workforce Issues
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Public Health Policies and Education
- Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Obesity and Health Practices
- Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2022
University of California, Los Angeles
2021
UCLA Health
2020
Fielding Graduate University
2018
To manage the spread of coronavirus, health entities have urged public to take preventive measures such as social distancing and handwashing. Yet, many appear reluctant these measures. Research is needed understand factors underlying reluctance, with aim developing targeted interventions. We identify associating coronavirus death one factor. 590 participants completed surveys in mid-March 2020, which included attitudes toward behavioral intentions, sociodemographic factors. Associating...
This study examined whether killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor by current or former law enforcement officers in 2020 were followed shifts public sentiment toward Black people. Methods: Google searches for the names "Ahmaud Arbery," "Breonna Taylor," "George Floyd" obtained from Health Application Programming Interface (API). Using Twitter API, we collected a 1% random sample publicly available U.S. race-related tweets November 2019–September (N = 3,380,616)....
Objectives: To evaluate the relationships between perceived neighborhood racial composition (PNRC), psychosocial risks and resources, depressive symptoms among young (ages 22–35), middle-aged 36–49), older 50+) Black Americans. Methods: Full sample age-stratified linear regression models estimated PNRC-depressive association extent to which it persisted after accounting for (i.e., disorder, other social stressors) resources mastery, support, identity) 627 Americans in Nashville Stress Health...
Substantial research documents health consequences of neighborhood disadvantage. Patterns residential mobility that differ by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status (SES) may sort non-Hispanic (NH) Black low-SES families into disadvantaged neighborhoods. In this study, we leverage a sibling-linked dataset to track among birthing persons between pregnancies investigate baseline characteristics associated with downward mobility, including race/ethnicity, SES, pre-existing conditions. We used...