CPHSJ Research Roundup: October 2024
The 'Research Roundup' is a collection of recently published faculty research, faculty featured in the news as expert sources, and professional achievements from August until mid-October.
Echu Liu, Ph.D., (Health Management and Policy) contributed to the "Affordability, negative experiences, perceived racism, and health care system distrust among black American women aged 45 and over" in the AIMS Public Health Journal.
Liu and colleagues also published, along with HMP sutdents Alison Bach, and Lionel Gumireddy, published the 'A Study of the Connection Between Health Insurance Literacy and Health Status: Evidence from the US Healthcare Reform Monitoring Survey' in the Journal of Community Health.
Cheryl Rathert, Ph.D. (Department of Health Management and Policy) as corresponding author, along with Derick Simmons and Kimberly Enard, Ph.D. from Saint Louis University's Department of Health Management and Policy published the 'Racial and ethnic differences in patient psychological safety: A qualitative patient narrative study' in the SSM-Qualitative Research in Health.
Michael Rozier, SJ, Ph.D., (Health Management and Policy), published the 'How Do We Avoid the Misuse of Discernment in Decision-Making?' in Health Progress, the Journal of the Catholic Health Association of the United States (CHA).
Keon L. Gilbert, DrPH, (Behavioral Science and Health Equity ) helped co-author the from the Brookings Institute titled "Olympic transformation of metropolitan cities--for better or for worse."
Gilbert also "Banning critical race theory could hinder the pursuit of environmental justice" in Policy Commons with the Brookings Institute.
Ricardo J. Wray, Ph.D. (Behavioral Science and Health Equity) helped author the , published in PrePrints, titled 'Exploring the Role of Communication Asset Mapping (CAM) as a Strategy to Promote Hereditary Cancer Risk Assessment Information within African American Communities.'
Nancy L. Weaver, Ph.D., M.P.H., (Behavioral Science and Health Equity) published the "Trading the 鈥淟ook of Disapproval鈥� for 鈥淚 Got Your Back鈥� is a Big Win for Parents" on faceitabuse.org
Ricardo J. Wray, Ph.D., (Behavioral Science and Health Equity) and the Mosquito Alert intiative with the Missouri Botanical Garden was featured in the titled 'Mosquitoes can now be tracked with an app' on the Yale 'Climate Connections' podcast.
Enbal Shacham, Ph.D. (Behavioral Science and Health Equity) was on KMOX-AM 1120 about using technology to track diseases.
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