A5074034283- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Child and Adolescent Health
- Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
- Neonatal Respiratory Health Research
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection
- Global Cancer Incidence and Screening
- Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Indian History and Philosophy
- Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Dermatology and Skin Diseases
- Infant Health and Development
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Birth, Development, and Health
- South Asian Studies and Conflicts
- Reproductive tract infections research
- Vitamin C and Antioxidants Research
- Acne and Rosacea Treatments and Effects
- Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
- Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects
Johns Hopkins University
2018-2022
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
2022
Naval Medical Center San Diego
2022
Johns Hopkins Medicine
2018-2022
Georgetown-Howard Universities Center for Clinical and Translational Science
2018
University of California, Berkeley
2013
University of California, San Francisco
2013
Harlem Hospital Center
1984
Columbia University
1984
In response to the growing impact of current opioid public health crisis in United States on adolescents and young adults, pediatricians have an expanding role identifying use early, preventing escalation risky use, reducing opioid-related harms, delivering effective therapies. Research expert consensus suggest brief interventions focused risks associated with ongoing using motivational interviewing strategies engage youth treatment. Because fatal overdose remains a major cause mortality...
Adolescents and young adults (AYA) aged younger than 25 years have the highest rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in United States. Current STI prevention strategies for AYA rely primarily on individual approaches, leaving sexual partners with significant unmet reproductive health care education needs. Dyadic interventions may hold promise harnessing power communal coping within relationship dynamics to enhance decision making, communication, behavior changes that reduce future...
Purpose: To examine how interpersonal factors are associated with family, peer, and partner social support among urban female adolescents in sexual relationships. Design: Secondary data analysis of cross-sectional data. Setting: Two health clinics community sites Baltimore, Maryland. Participants: One hundred sixteen (ages 16-19) 131 heterosexual relationships from the Perceived Risk Sexually Transmitted Diseases cohort. Measures: Interpersonal included parental monitoring, friend–partner...
In 2017, the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and Roundtable on Population Health Improvement at Academies Sciences, Engineering, (the Academies) held […]
OBJECTIVES/SPECIFIC AIMS: Discrimination within the healthcare system and physician distrust have been associated with adverse clinical outcomes for people living HIV; however, many studies do not link these variables to biological data. We hypothesize that perceived discrimination associates higher longitudinal viremia among HIV-positive women. METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: A 2006 cross-sectional survey assessed healthcare-based trust in 92 46 high-risk HIV-negative women from Washington DC...
<h3>Background</h3> Sexually transmitted infection (STI) prevention strategies for adolescents and young adults (AYA) primarily rely on individual approaches leaving sexual partners with significant unmet reproductive health needs. This paper describes the research methods preliminary feasibility, acceptability, effectiveness of a dyad-based behavioral intervention that augments evidence-based interventions joint education counseling STI-affected AYA dyads within primary care setting....
<sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> Adolescents and young adults (AYA) aged younger than 25 years have the highest rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in United States. Current STI prevention strategies for AYA rely primarily on individual approaches, leaving sexual partners with significant unmet reproductive health care education needs. Dyadic interventions may hold promise harnessing power communal coping within relationship dynamics to enhance decision making, communication,...