Research

Small Area Estimation for Opioid Abuse Prevention and Response

This research project applies advanced geospatial methods to integrate multiple types of surveillance data acquired from diverse sectors to rapidly create stable estimates of opioid overdose counts and rates of prescription opioids alone, heroin alone, and co-use in Georgia's 159 counties, 108 of which are rural with populations less than 35,000.

Principal Investigator:

Lance Waller, PhD | Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health

Co-Investigator:

Janet Cummings, PhD | Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health

Collaborator:

Laura Edison, DVM, MPH | Georgia Department of Public Health

Core Project

In Progress

Addressing ACEs among Hispanic Caregivers in a Pediatric Primary Care Population to Improve Child Health and Decrease Early Adversity

This study investigates whether disclosure of parent/caregiver ACEs to a young child’s primary care physician, accompanied by a structured conversation about the effects of these ACEs on parental and child heath can improve child health, build parental resilience, and support positive parenting behaviors.

Principal Investigators:

Maneesha Agarwal, MD | Children's Healthcare of Atlanta

Abby Lott, PhD | Emory University, School of Medicine

Co-Investigators:

Angie Boy, DrPH | Children's Healthcare of Atlanta

Tim Moran, PhD | Emory University, School of Medicine

Core Project

In Progress

ACEs and Suicidal Behavior in African American Women: Assessment and Prevention

This project is designed to advance the field of suicide prevention for African American women by identifying risk and protective factors that influence the ACEs/suicide relationship, and by rigorously testing a culturally competent, multilevel suicide prevention intervention targeting African American adults who have previously attempted suicide.

Principal Investigator:

Nadine Kaslow, PhD | Emory School of Medicine

Dorian Lamis, PhD, ABPP |Emory School of Medicine

Co-Investigators:

Sarah Dunn, PhD, ABPP |Emory School of Medicine

Sheryl Heron, MD, MPH |Emory School of Medicine

Core Project

In Progress

Screen and Intervene: Cross-Cutting Violence Prevention for Transgender and Gender Diverse People

This project aims to catalyze cross-cutting violence prevention and intervention strategies for transgender and gender diverse (TGD) people by strengthening community-based health and social service capacities to implement culturally sensitive and gender-affirming violence prevention involving screening and referral to services.

Principal Investigator:

Athena Sherman, PhD, PHN, RN, CNE | Emory University, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing

Co-Investigator/Senior Mentor:

Don Operario, PhD | Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health

Core Project

In Progress

Improving Access to Overdose Prevention via Pharmacy-Based Peer-Led Services in Atlanta, Georgia

This study aims to assess barriers and facilitators to implementation of a coordinated model for delivery of Naloxone and Fentanyl test strips that enhances collaboration between the primary sources for these—pharmacies, community-based harm reduction organizations, and the peer-support networks of people who use drugs.

Principal Investigator:

Umed Ibragimov, MD, PhD, MPH | Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health

Co-Investigators:

Natalie Crawford, PhD, MPH | Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health

Jessica Sales, PhD | Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health

Henry Young, PhD | University of Georgia, College of Pharmacy

Core Project

In Progress

A Community Based Participatory Research Approach for Addressing the Role of Firearms in Suicide Prevention among Black Males

This study aims to use CBPAR methods to characterize risk and protective factors across levels of the social-ecological model for Black men with access to firearms who have and have not attempted suicide, then leverage these risk and protective factors to co-develop and pilot a culturally responsive intervention to prevent self-inflicted injury or death among multiply marginalized Black men with access to firearms.

Co-Principal Investigators:

Dorian Lamis, PhD, ABPP | Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Nadine J. Kaslow, PhD, ABPP | Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Randi Smith, MD, MPH | Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Surgery

Co-Investigators:

Lauren Hudak, MD, MPH | Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine

Sarah Dunn, PhD, ABPP | Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Ann Schwartz, MD | Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Timothy Moran, PhD | Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine

Core Project

In Progress

Developing Coordinated Hospital-Community Trauma Informed Care to Prevent Youth Violence

This project aims to develop coordinated hospital-community trauma-informed care (HCTIC) programs for violently injured Black youth that address both individual and socio-ecological factors contributing to youth violence.

Principal Investigator:

Briana Woods-Jaeger, PhD | Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health

Co-Investigators:

Jessica Sales, PhD | Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health

Randi Smith, MD, MPH | Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Surgery

Core Project

In Progress

Organizational Readiness of the Georgia Trauma System to Implement the Cardiff Model

This research project aims to assess the organizational readiness of trauma centers in Georgia, along with their law enforcement and community partners, to implement the Cardiff Model.

Principal Investigator:

Daniel Wu, MD | Grady Memorial Hospital

Co-Investigators:

Jessica Sales, PhD | Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health

Jasmine Moore, MPH | Grady Memorial Hospital

Core Project

Complete

Identifying Barriers and Facilitators to Implementing a Community Drug-Checking App among the Department of Health and Diverse Communities of People Who Use Drugs in Fulton County, GA

This 18-month pilot project aims to assess facilitators and barriers to implementing StreetCheck, a web-based app which allows people who use drugs to anonymously share the results of their drug tests with public health departments, with our Communities of Practice (CoP).

Principal Investigators:

Sarah Febres-Cordero, BSN, MS, PhD | Emory University, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing

Beatrice King, BA, MS | Fulton County Board of Health

Co-Investigator:

Athena Sherman, PhD, PhN, RN | Emory University, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing

Pilot Project

In Progress

Identifying Facilitators of Coordinated Care for BIPOC Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence: Formative Research Towards Intervention Development

This project aims to characterize facilitators of coordinated care to inform intervention development for BIPOC survivors of intimate partner violence.

Principal Investigator:

Dabney P Evans, PhD, MPH | Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health

Co-Investigators:

Athena Sherman, PhD, PhN, RN | Emory University, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing

Subasri Narasimham, PhD, MPH | Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health

Pilot Project

In Progress

Leveraging Physical and Online Digital Infrastructures to Infer College Students' Social Isolation and its Relationship to Risk of Suicide

This project aims to provide preliminary insights on detecting and monitoring multi-dimensional risk and protective factors of suicide using sophisticated machine learning techniques from data gathered on social media interaction.

Principal Investigator:

Ursula Kelley, PhD, APRN, ANP-BC, PMHNP-BC | Emory University, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing

Co-Investigators:

Chelsea Hagopian, DNP, APRN, AGACNP-BC | Emory University, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing

Shelby Collins, DNP, APRN, NP-C | Emory University, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing

Collaborator:

Ingrid Duva, RN, PhD | Emory University, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing

Pilot Project

In Progress

Life Care Specialists (LCS) with a Focus on Multi-Modal Non-Pharmacologic Strategies for Pain Control in the Aftermath of Orthopaedic Trauma

This study investigates which components of the LCS intervention contribute to it's effectiveness, and whether LCS affects long-term abuse risk and overdose-related deaths, with the ultimate goal of nationally scaling this model for all patients receiving an opioid prescription.

Principal Investigator:

Mara Schenker, MD | Emory University Orthopaedic Surgery, Grady Memorial Hospital

Co-Investigators:

Alaina Steck, MD | Emory University Department of Emergency Medicine, Grady Memorial Hospital

Briony Swire-Thompson, PhD |Northeastern University

Cammie Wolf Rice | Christopher Wolf Crusade

Elaine Miller-Karas, MSW, LCSW | Trauma Resource Institute

Pilot Project

Complete

Building a Social Media Platform for Surveillance and Support of Intimate Partner Violence and its Victims during COVID-19 and Beyond

This study aims to use social media, natural language processing, and machine learning to establish a framework for IPV surveillance and support of IPV victims during the pandemic and onward.

Principal Investigators:

Sangmi Kim, PhD, MPH, RN | Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing

Abeed Sarker, PhD |Emory University, Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine

Pilot Project

Complete

Examining the Psychosocial Impact of COVID-19 on Undocumented Latinx Immigrant Families

This community-engaged pilot study examines how stress related to COVID-19 is impacting the mental health and risk for child maltreatment among Latinx immigrant families, and how unique factors such as immigration policy effects and cultural and community resources influence this impact.

Principal Investigator:

Briana Woods-Jaeger, MPH, PhD |Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health

Co-Investigator:

Emily Lemon, MPH |Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health

Pilot Project

Complete