A5066661975- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Youth Development and Social Support
- Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Gun Ownership and Violence Research
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Crime Patterns and Interventions
- Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
- Participatory Visual Research Methods
- Community Health and Development
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Public Health Policies and Education
- Child Welfare and Adoption
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Children's Rights and Participation
- Global Health Care Issues
- Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
Massachusetts Department of Public Health
2019-2024
Northeastern University
2015-2021
While structural racism has profound impacts on adolescent health, little is known about how youth synthesize racialized experiences and work to dismantle systems of oppression. This article provides an overview a Youth Participatory Action Research study that used Photovoice community mapping explore violence, like racism, the sexual reproductive health historically excluded as they navigate unjust socio-political landscapes. participants photography maps identify experience bias,...
Counseling parents to reduce access firearms and other potentially lethal suicide methods is commonly known as means counseling (LMC). The current study explores the experiences that emergency department-based behavioural health clinicians described having they provided of adolescents at risk for suicide. Clinicians were purposively sampled from four hospital networks in Colorado after their hospitals adopted LMC protocols part an intervention also included online training provision free...
Efforts to address adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) inequities often aim improve school-based sexuality education reduce individual risk behaviours. Structural determinants are more rarely the focus of interventions. The youth service providers who formed community advisory board for this community-based participatory research project identified opportunities ASRH by mitigating impact social structural violence on health. Semi-structured interviews with members revealed four...
Objectives. To describe how an innovative, community-engaged survey illuminated previously unmeasured pandemic inequities and informed health equity investments. Methods. The methodological approach of Massachusetts’ COVID-19 Community Impact Survey, a cross-sectional online survey, was driven by key principles: prioritizing community engagement, gathering granular intersectional data, capturing root causes, elevating voices, expediting analysis for timeliness, creating data-to-action...
Mental health is impacted by structural factors such as poverty, access to care and quality education, racism, homophobia, transphobia, violence, housing insecurity. The current study adds the extant literature providing data obtained in collaboration with racialized minoritized young people, purpose of understanding how violence affects their mental and, ultimately, suggest community-driven policy. We engaged a diverse sample people—including Black, Latinx, and/or LGBTQ+, insecure, living...