Accomplishments: Department of Social and Behavioral Health
Jason Flatt (Environmental & Occupational Health) was appointed by the National Institutes of Health to serve as a member of the Career Development for Early Career Investigators Study Section, National Institute on Aging Initial Review Group, National Institute on Aging.
Membership on an Initial/Integrated Review Group represents a…
Timothy Grigsby (Environmental & Occupational Health) published a commentary on "Leaving "Drug Abuse" behind: A Theoretical and Methodological Heuristic to Selecting "Problem Drug Use" or "Drug Misuse" as Alternative Terms" in the journal Substance Use and Misuse.
This commentary provides a guide to selecting alternative terms for drug abuse…
Timothy Grigsby (Environmental & Occupational Health) co-published an article on "Adverse Childhood Experiences and Intimate Partner Violence; Findings From a Community Sample of Hispanic Young Adults" in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
In the United States, a substantial proportion of the adult population from all…
Jason Flatt (Environmental & Occupational Health) published an article on "Subjective cognitive decline higher among sexual and gender minorities in the United States, 2015-2018" in the journal, Alzheimer's & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical Interventions.
Subjective cognitive decline represents self-reported…
Jason Flatt (Environmental and Occupational Health) published "Subjective cognitive decline higher among sexual and gender minorities in the United States, 2015–2018," in the journal Alzheimer's & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical Interventions that found that LGBTQ+ people or sexual and gender minorities…
Timothy J. Grigsby (Environmental & Occupational Health) co-published an article on "The Impact of Childhood Trauma on Substance Use Trajectories in a Longitudinal Hispanic Cohort from Adolescence through Emerging Adulthood" in the journal Child Abuse and Neglect. This study examined the role of adverse childhood experiences in…
Gabriela Buccini (Environmental and Occupational Health) is a co-author of a newly published article, "Household Food Insecurity and Early Childhood Development in Brazil: An Analysis of Children under 2 Years of Age," in the Public Health and Nutrition Journal. This study found that household food insecurity was strongly associated with the…
Jason Flatt and Krystal Kittle (Environmental & Occupational Health) coauthored an article, "Recommendations for Advancing Research with Sexual and Gender Minority Older Adults in The Journals of Gerontology: Series B." The article provides an overview of SGM aging research disseminated in the journal, limitations, and…
Gabriela Buccini (Environmental and Occupational Health) is a first-author of the newly published "Socio-demographic inequities in nurturing care for early childhood development across Brazilian municipalities" in the Maternal and Child Nutrition journal. Providing an enabling nurturing care environment for early childhood…
Gabriela Buccini (Environmental and Occupational Health) is a co-author of a newly published article, "Household food insecurity and early childhood development in Brazil: an analysis of children under 2 years of age," in the Public Health Nutrition journal. The study found that household food insecurity is strongly associated…
Manoj Sharma, Jason Flatt (both Environmental & Occupational Health), and Kavita Batra (Medicine), published an article, “Testing the Multi-theory Model (MTM) to Predict the Use of New Technology for Social Connectedness in the COVID-19 Pandemic” in the journal, Healthcare. The article tackles the public health issue of social isolation that…
Timothy J. Grigsby (Environmental & Occupational Health) published an article that highlighted how "Pandemic-related Work Status is Associated with Self-reported Increases in Substance Abuse." This online study assessed self-reported increases in substance use (alcohol, cigarettes, marijuana, and opioid pain medication) during the initial…