A5081330009- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Community Health and Development
- Participatory Visual Research Methods
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Engineering and Material Science Research
- Nuclear and radioactivity studies
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Communication in Education and Healthcare
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
- International Student and Expatriate Challenges
- Digital Storytelling and Education
- Gender, Feminism, and Media
- EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Chronic Disease Management Strategies
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Musicology and Musical Analysis
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Latin American and Latino Studies
- Crime, Deviance, and Social Control
- Media Influence and Health
- Open Source Software Innovations
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Feminist Theory and Gender Studies
University of Montana
2023-2025
Washington State University
2006-2019
United States Department of the Army
2012
United States Army
2012
Fox Chase Cancer Center
2012
We currently see an interdisciplinary shift toward a "participatory turn" in health research and promotion under which community engagement, shared decision making planning, the use of visual digital methods have become paramount. Digital storytelling (DST) is one such innovative engaging method increasingly used applied interventions, with growing body identifying its value. Despite increasing use, standard approach to empirically assess impacts on individuals participating DST...
The Mountain West Clinical and Translational Infrastructure Network Community Engagement Outreach (CEO) Core has fostered academic-community engagement since 2018. States historically receiving lower levels of NIH funding are characterized by significantly higher proportions rural remote populations, as well uniquely elevated percentages Native American/Alaska Hawaiian/Pacific Islander populations compared to most other states. This case study highlights the Core's efforts in advancing...
Although recent increases in collegiate prescription drug misuse have generated a great deal of concern, there are few analyses available that examine the socio-cultural factors influencing these trends. This article attempts to address this gap knowledge by providing an analysis several pharmaceutical college students. Prescription drugs put number different purposes setting, including self-medication, socio-recreation, and academic functioning. Such is acceptable social context where...
There is a common perspective among public health researchers and community members that although promotion or disease prevention practices, programs, projects should be done with rather than to individuals communities, for various practical, economic, political, cultural reasons, this easier said done. This study examines community-based participatory research (CBPR) in university-based center conducting Indian Country. article reviews the tensions between CBPR ideologies, its practical...
Public health efforts focused on Latina youth sexuality are most commonly framed by the syndemic of teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, a narrow often heteronormative focus that perpetuates silences contribute to inequities overlooks growing need for increased education, awareness, support lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning (LGBTQ) youth. This article presents findings from project Let’s Talk About Sex: Digital Storytelling Puerto Rican Youth, which used...
Abstract Influenced by CitationCooke and Kothari's (2001) suggestion that participation "remains a way of talking about rather than doing things" (p. 32), we question to what extent this is true in the public health funding process. Thus, aim article was investigate ways which recent National Institutes Health (NIH)-funded community-based participatory research (CBPR) projects discursively positioned CBPR their grant applications. We collected 17 NIH-funded proposals, analyzed them using...
This study designed and validated an instrument for measuring sojourners' intercultural everyday communication self-efficacy. Factor analysis of a Likert-type scale completed by Japan Exchange Teaching (JET) Programme respondents (N = 213) identified unidimensional-factor solution with 34-items loading (α=.95). It revealed negative, positive, no correlation existing scales that lent validity to the resulting Sojourner Self-Efficacy in Communication (SSEC) Scale. The authors present both full...
Homelessness remains a major problem in the United States as result of urban deprivation, economic decline, rise housing costs, and decline blue-collar wages. Meanwhile, dominant discourses around homelessness tend to frame matter terms individual deviance rather than structural impediments. This study utilizes Community-Based Participatory Research photovoice method articulate what small number "successfully home stable individuals" attribute helping them remain well those factors that...
Despite the safety and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccine, public hesitancy about receiving vaccination remains strong among disproportionately affected populations in United States. To design more locally culturally appropriate strategies, research is needed to explore qualitative characteristics vaccine these populations. Thus, we conducted in-depth interviews with 19 Indigenous 20 rural participants utilized a grounded theory approach identify factors associated their decision making....
Community-based participatory research (CBPR) has captured public health attention and support because it is positioned as an approach that involves researchers communities equitable partners in addressing disparities. However, unknown the extent to which CBPR creates a space scientific discourse signal "community voice," we define textual expression of community-centered perspectives on collective roles, interests, worldviews. In this study, utilized culture-centered examine community voice...
The authors investigate the process through which clean indoor air ordinances were considered in 10 communities southwestern United States and key factors that influenced diffusion adoption. Clean ordinances, ban smoking public places, adopted approximately 1,409 U.S. from 1986 to April 2004. gathered data New Mexico Texas by means of face-to-face interview, e-mail, telephone interviews analyzing archival materials. Important influences on adoption or rejection (a) personal experiences...
Drug scares have historically been created for a range of purposes and with variety effects in the United States. Moral panics evoked by these drug either support or challenge dominant American ideas about race, economics, society. In present study, we examined newspaper accounts methamphetamine use Inland Pacific Northwest States an effort to understand how "reality" "meth epidemic" is socially constructed hotspot," reflect upon ways that discourse Whiteness intersects this construction....
This participatory study used PhotoVoice and qualitative description to (a) mentor baccalaureate nursing college students in workforce diversity research; (b) explore barriers facilitators encountered by rural American Indian, Hispanic, other high school when attending pursuing careers or the health sciences; (c) model a process of social action help existing future students. Baccalaureate graduate participated all stages research, including dissemination. Five themes emerged from analysis...
Schools are critical venues for supporting LGBTQ+ youth well-being. Implementing LGBTQ-supportive practices can decrease experiences of stigmatization, discrimination, and victimization that lead to adverse mental health outcomes like anxiety, depression, suicidality. However, schools also subject a wide range outer-context pressures may influence their priorities implementation practices. We assessed the role emergent determinants in context 5-year cluster randomized controlled trial study...
The Modeling and Simulation (M&S) branch at Dugway Proving Ground provides high-fidelity simulation that support a variety of United States Army testing programs. Ground's primary mission is to provide developmental production the nation's chemical biological (CB) defense To enhance existing test programs, incorporates many capabilities allow modeling simulated trials under conditions could not otherwise be replicated due environmental safety regulations. Each M&S capability subjected formal...
Abstract Kinase inhibitors are a growing class of therapeutically active agents that being used in the clinic. An interesting notion is which show clinical efficacy likely do so by inhibiting not only their intended target but also off-target kinases. Thus, pleiotropic effects kinase may be advantageous preventing tumor progression. Using panel 160 had been previously tested against 300 recombinant human kinases, we sought to identify kinases sensitize PANC1 cells sub-lethal dose...