- Organ Donation and Transplantation
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- COVID-19 Impact on Reproduction
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
- Blood donation and transfusion practices
- Religion, Society, and Development
Temple University
2022-2024
University College London
2024
Objective: Churches in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods serve as safe havens many Black communities. provide faith and charitable services but often have limited resources to address the mental health needs of their This article reports on a collaborative effort, driven by members church, understand needs, coping strategies, resilience factors community Americans. Methods: A community-based participatory research effort was established among organization, clinicians, researchers...
Latinx populations are severely underrepresented among organ donors compared with the non-Hispanic White population. The Promotoras de Donación e-learning module was developed to train lay health educators (ie, promotoras) discuss deceased donation and promote donor designation within their communities.This paper described results of 2 studies designed assess direct indirect effects on promotoras' mature Latinas' knowledge, attitudes, behaviors.In partnership 4 community-based promotoras...
African Americans (AA) have been disproportionately affected with the COVID-19 disease experiencing 30%-60% of deaths, while only making up 13% US population. Early data suggest that pregnant women and those cardiovascular (CVD) may experience worse outcomes severe coronavirus infection. There is an urgent need to incorporate AA female perspectives into design research on CVD complications related COVID-19.The goal this project was patients in developing priorities AN agenda COVID-19....
RapidVax was developed in January 2021 to provide COVID-19 vaccination across Temple University’s College of Public Health (CPH). The scale-up phase the project an inter-professional effort develop specific messaging about and delivered communities Philadelphia, esepcially vaccine-hesitant individuals marginalized groups with limiteded access health services. Emphasizing community engagement, evidenced-based message designs, vaccine delivery, has resulted 1,542 within CPH Temple, 2,685...
<sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> Latinx populations are severely underrepresented among organ donors compared with the non-Hispanic White population. The <i>Promotoras de Donación</i> e-learning module was developed to train lay health educators (ie, promotoras) discuss deceased donation and promote donor designation within their communities. </sec> <title>OBJECTIVE</title> This paper described results of 2 studies designed assess direct indirect effects on promotoras’ mature...