HEALTH POLICY RESEARCH SCHOLARS DISSERTATION GRANT AWARDEES
All scholars in Health Policy Research Scholars (HPRS) are eligible to apply for the HPRS Dissertation Grant, a competitive award of up to $10,000 dollars. The one-time grant supports scholar dissertation research activities for projects that have specific health policy implications and advance health equity. Applications are reviewed and awarded quarterly.
- Alex Adia: Impacts of Hospital Market Changes and Consumer Protections on Patient Welfare
- Natalia Coriano-Díaz: Adverse Maternal Outcomes and Obstetric Interventions: Evidence from the U.S. and Puerto Rico
- James Green: Developing a Theory of Ethical Practice Among Queer Social Workers of Color in Spaces of Digital Care
- Hannah Isabel Shai: Exploring the Determinants of Child Beverage Consumption in the Northern Mariana Islands (NMI)
- Nayla Bezares: Assessing Agricultural Self-Reliance and Sustainability in Puerto Rico Using Food Systems Modeling Approaches
- Zeruiah Buchanan: Creating A World Worth Living In: An Exploratory Sequential Mixed Methods Approach to Understanding Black Youth Suicidality Through the Lens of Policy
- Edward Chauca: Exploring Promotora-led Preventive Mental Health Interventions Among Hispanics/Latines in the U.S.: Assessments, Academic Partnership, and Interactions with Social Determinants of Health.
- Ashley Cooper: Socioecological Factors Associated with Weight Status in College Educated Black Women
- Leo Davis: The Role of Fatherhood Interventions in Sustaining Well-being, Mental Health, Child Attachment, and Parenting Relationships for Fathers Impacted by the Criminal Justice System
- Christian Douglas: Designing Systems for Equitable Outcomes: Examining Identity, Attitude, and Behavior to Inform Roadway Interactions and Promote Transportation Equity and Public Health
- Manuel Galvan: Understanding the Distribution of Anti-Black Discrimination: A Study of Hiring, Housing, Judicial Decisions, and Policy Beliefs
- Opal Gay: Examining Intersectional Stigma Among Black Non-binary Adults: A Multi-Level Analysis
- Keiwana Glover: The Role of Iron in Antimicrobial Resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae
- Latesha Harris: Police Violence Exposure and Cardiometabolic Risk in Black Women
- Rehaana Herbert: Wealth, Race, and Gender: Exploring Intersecting Factors in the Financial Well-being of Black Women.
- Melissa Horner: Ongoing U.S. Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Knowledge in Montana Lawmaking
- Bryant Jackson-Green: Regulation by Litigation in Correctional Health Services: A Mixed-Methods Policy Implementation Study
- Sione Lister: America’s Invisible Colonies: Race, Migration, and Settler Colonialism in the U.S. Territories
- Shana McClain: Epistemic Injustice and Silencing of Violence Against Black Women and Girls: Testing Cultural Betrayal Trauma Theory
- Erika Mey: Examining Health Impacts of the Cambodian Genocide and Generational Trauma on Cambodian Nationals, Cambodian American Immigrant Mothers, U.S.-born Cambodian Mothers and Infants
- Laura Morales: Beyond the Tap: Water, Citizenship, and the Reimagining of American Democracy
- Ariana Mora: Leveraging Disease Misclassification to Estimate the Impact of Pre-Pregnancy Healthcare Access on Maternal Morbidity
- Ian Moura: Examining the Impact of Algorithmic Decision-Making Tools on the Disability Community
- Ashley Ortiz Chico: Mangrove Roots: Kinship Networks as Environmental Justice in Loiza, Puerto Rico
- Katherine A. Pérez-Quiñones: The Right to Stay: local perspectives on the politics of disaster, mitigation planning, and habitat conservation in Espinar, Puerto Rico
- Sarah Peralta: Examining Value-Conflicts Documented in Ethical Pediatric Consultations During End-of-Life Care: A Secondary Qualitative Analysis
- Mary Phan: Mindful Classrooms: Teachers Designing and Implementing Mindfulness Interventions
- Carol Ramos-Garena: Agroecological strategies for Puerto Rico’s land use policy challenges
- Christopher Robertson: Covenanted-Policing: Policing, Spatial Racism, and Health (In)Equity in Minneapolis, MN
- Alexandra Rodriguez: Arts and mental health policy: Cross-sectoral advocacy for sustainable practices in the United States
- Alexis Rowland: A History of Broken Toilets: A Genealogy of Jails, Juries, and Carceral Thought in California (1851-2022)
- Muna Saleh: Health After Resettlement: Multilevel Drivers of Health Status Among Somali Refugees with Chronic Conditions
- Carlo Sariego: Transsexualizing Reproduction: Speculating Transgender Reproductive Politics, Desire, and Time in the United States
- Sevly Snguon: Guaranteed income as an economic intervention to mitigate the impact of structural racism on health
- Brianna Suslovic: Social Welfare Policy-to-Practice Translation in Jail Reform Litigation
- Resha Swanson: “The South Got Something to Say”: Understanding How Race, Labor, and Politics Shape Preemption in the U.S. South
- Motunrayo Tosin-Oni: “Place, Race, Racism, and Place-based Policies: Essays on Structural Racism and Community-Level Health Inequities”.
- Jabarey Wells: Exploring the Role of Placemaking in Community Response to Carceral Systems
- Wes Wislar: Doing Disabled Gender and Sexuality: An Examination of Experiences in the Medical Establishment, the Family, and Schools
- Adrian Williams: A Multisurface Interpersonal Circumplex Assessment of Measures of Discrimination and Microaggressions
- Cheryl Aguilar: What about the Parents? Exploring the Impact of Immigration Separation and Reunification on the Wellbeing and Sense of Self of Central American Parents
- Khadijah Ameen: Moving towards community power in academic health – community research partnerships involving Black communities
- Emmanuella Asabor: Segregation and the Infectious Disease Illness Experience: The cases of HIV and COVID-19 in South Africa and the United States
- Brianna Baker: A Mother’s Message: A Family Systems Investigation of Black Women and Girls’ Mental Well-Being, Hope, and Healing
- Denae Bradley: Intimate Spaces in Carceral Places: An Examination of Black Doula Care with Incarcerated Pregnant People
- Sarah El-Azab: A Critical Analysis of Organizational Practices Underlying Interoperability of Race and Ethnicity Data
- Jamilah George: Psychedelic Just(US): The Role of Racial Trauma, Pain Interference, Stigma, and the Justice System on Psychedelic Acceptability among Black Americans
- José Manuel González Vera: Cultural Adaptation of the ACT Guide for Undocumented Community Members
- Alec Hall: The Muunganiko Curriculum: A Piloted Tier 2 Intervention that Integrates Restorative Justice and Youth Participatory Action Research
- Ciara Horne: Methods for Quantifying Inequitable Social Impacts of Dam Failures on Marginalized Communities
- Natasha Lee-Johnson: Black Maternal Resilience: A Mixed Method Study on Perceived Risk of Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes and Decision-Making
- Jessica Levasseur: Exploring the Utility of Silicone Wristbands for Monitoring Exposure to Environmental Phenols With a Focus on Parabens
- Cashell Lewis: Unmasking the Social Determinants of Health: Criminal Legal System Involvement and Suicidal Behavior Among Black Men Among Black Men
- David Mai: Harnessing Regnase-1 and Roquin-1 activity to modulate T cell function
- Adrian Manriquez: The Exploration of Latino BIP Participants’ Experiences of Oppression and Expressions of Critical Consciousness
- Aliyah Middleton: Legal Child Traffickers: Local Businesses and Organizations in Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking
- Lupita Quintana: Developing and evaluating a surveillance system model to facilitate the prevention of pesticide related illness in the State of Illinois
- Sally Ryman: Health Care Experiences of Trans Students Attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities
- Pyar Seth: The Spectral Defect: Rethinking the Drug War through Medicine
- Jenna Sung: Reaching the families Single Session Interventions are best positioned to help: Empowering Economically Insecure Parents to Manage Child Anxiety
- Shannon Whittaker: Gentrification, displacement and health equity: Moving from risks to solutions
- Gabriel Lorenzo Aguilar: The Case for Humanitarian Technical Communication: Theory, Method, and Praxis
- Gabriella Alvarez: Neuroinflammatory Mechanisms Linking Chronic Stress to Motivational Deficits: A Neuropharmacological Approach
- Sofia Cárdenas: Fathers’ Sleep Quality, White Matter Microstructure, and Neural Activation During the Transition to Parenthood
- Christopher Chiu: Sexual Racism and Health among Asian American Sexual Minority Men
- Hayden Dawes: Liberating Ourselves with #RadicalPermission: A Mixed-Methods Intervention Study of People in Digital Community
- Monica De La Cruz: Beyond Sticks and Stones: Exploring Discourses of Poverty
- Daniel Do: COVID-19, Racism, and Mental Health Services
- Morgan Farnworth: Governing the Overdose Crisis: A Multilevel Analysis of Problems, Policy, and Public Capacity
- Jordyn Gunville: Maternal Health Outcomes and Access to Prenatal Care Among American Indians: A Mixed Methods Dissertation
- Alein Haro-Ramos: Immigration and Racial Hierarchies: Structural sources of mental health disparities and digital innovations for mental health among U.S. Latinxs
- Ariel Hart: Beyond the Obstetric Carceral Sphere?: Examining Midwifery Epistemology and Praxis in a Black-led Birth Center
- James Huỳnh: How Kinship and Coalition Networks Shape Distress, Anxiety, and Well-Being Among People Involved in LGBTQ+ Vietnamese American Issues in Orange County, CA
- Grace Ibitamuno: Investigating the Health and Wellness of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and their Families
- Asia Ivey: Black Educators Matter: An Examination of Equity Leadership and Policy Implications for Critical Professional Development
- Gabriel Johnson: Hegemonic Masculinity in Black men ≠ Black Masculinity: An Attempt to Avert the Dominant Gaze, and Its Effects on the Mental Health of Young BlaQ Men
- Natalie Larez: A Pilot Study: Youth Participatory Engagement and Action in Mental Health
- Deniss Martinez: Knowledge and Power Sharing in Indigenous Natural Resource Collaborations in California
- Destiny Printz: Melanated and Mindful: Feasibility of a Brief Parental Stress Intervention for Black and Hispanic Mothers of Toddlers
- Michael Rosario: [Coming Soon]
- Shlon Smith: Access Defined: Towards a Better Understanding of Black Youth’s Access and Utilization of School Mental Health Services
- Kate Somerville: Exploring the Role of School Policy in Healing, Wellbeing, and Mental Health: Centering Student Perspectives on School-Based Approaches to Trauma
- Mahader Tamene: Assessing the Impact of Structural Racism on the Mental Health of Birthing People
- Mudia Uzzi: Structural Drivers of Violent Crime in Baltimore City: An Investigation of Historical and Contemporary Practices and Patterns of Structural Racism
- Mi’Chael Wright: Not on [ ]’s Internet: Black Girl’s Identity and Their Dichotomous Online Experiences
- Keona Wynne: Probing Psychotraumatology Frameworks and Models: An Investigation into the Explanatory Power of Psychotraumatology for Health Equity
- Andrew Arriaga: It’s the Law?: A Study of Policy, Minority Stress, and Gay Men’s Barriers to Parenthood in the United States
- Matthew Bakko: Disentangling Punishment and Care: Organizing Institutional Change in Municipal Community Safety
- Shanaé Burch: In Pursuit of Healthful Narratives: Black Women and/or Gender-Expansive Citizens Creating and Performing Art and Cultural Work in Service of “Good Health”
- Alberto Cifuentes: A Convergent Mixed Methods Study of the Impact of Stigma on the Sexual Health and Substance Use Outcomes of Internet-based Cisgender Male Sex Workers Who Have Sex with Men
- Katherine Gutierrez: Three Essays on Policy, Equity, and Economics
- Mónica Gutierrez: Does Power Impact an Individual’s Ability to Maintain Place, Space, and Identity? A Community Study
- Ans Irfan: Advancing Culture of Health & Health Systems Strengthening through Climate Adaptive Social Entrepreneurship: Social Impact Case Study for Climate Competent Care
- M. Nicole Kunkel: The Effects of Perinatal PCBs and Sociosexual Stress on the Hypothalamus and Behavior of Female Rats
- TyKera Marrow: Just Be A Man About It: A Sequential Explanatory Examination of Men’s Health and Healthcare Utilization
- Tiana Moore: Residential Mobility and Historical Discriminatory Housing Policy’s Influence on Contemporary Child Health and Cognition
- Ezinne Nwankwo: Matters of Place and Health: Ethnic Enclaves, Immigration Enforcement, and Preterm Births Among Latina Mothers in the U.S.
- Samantha Perez: A Novel Cancer-Specific Plectin Targeting Monoclonal Antibody Promotes an Antitumor Immune Response in PDAC Models
- Jocelyn Poe: On Trauma Imaginaries & Community Health
- Jake Ryann Sumibcay: Examining Structural Racism as a Fundamental Cause of Health Inequities Among the Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders in the United States and the Indigenous Māori and Pacific Peoples in Aotearoa New Zealand: An Exploratory Comparative Case Study Analysis
- Hawi Teizazu: Maternal Mortality in the Spotlight: An Analysis of Maternal Health Research, News Media Coverage, and Public Opinion Related to Maternal Mortality and Maternal Health Policies in the United States
- Noah Triplett: Applying Human-Centered Design to Maximize Acceptability, Feasibility, and Usability of Mobile Technology Supervision in Kenya: A Mixed Methods Pilot Study
- Kevin Wiley Jr.: Data Quality and Care Coordination in Type 2 Diabetes Management
- Natasha Williams: Mental Health Among Black Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual People: Examining Patterns of Risk, Treatment Utilization, and Mental Health Management Strategies
- Chioma Woko: The Effect of Source Credibility on Promising Message Themes: A Message Pretesting Study to Address COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy among Black Americans
- Angela Adler: Brain Injury and Romantic Partnership: Relationship Quality and Stigma
- Deanna Barath: Hospital Cross-Sector Partnerships to Improve Health Outcomes
- Rebekah Cross: Gentrification, Residential Mobility and Preterm Birth among Black Women: A Mixed-Methods Study of Racial Resegregation in Northern California
- Yaminette Diaz-Linhart: Does Worker Voice Impact Worker Well-being in Health Care and Social Services?
- Tran Doan: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Universal Routine Depression Screening of U.S. Adolescents in Primary Care
- Josefina Flores Morales: Three Essays on the Health of Immigrants and Undocumented Adults and Elders
- Terrell Frazier: Innovation at the Intersection: Specifying the Dynamics of Tactical Innovation within Heterogenous Activist Networks
- Regina Fuller: The (Un)Making of Comprehensive Sexuality Education Policy in Ghana
- Cristina Gomez-Vidal: The Legal Reproduction of Maternal and Infant Health Inequities in Unincorporated Communities
- Ashley Gripper: We Don’t Farm because it’s Trendy: An Environmental Justice Approach to Understanding the Connections Between Urban Agriculture and Health in Philadelphia
- Raven Hardy: Mechanism of Brain Circuitry Underlying Cognitive Decline in Sickle Cell Disease (SCD)
- Demar Lewis: Black Ideologies on Community Safety in the 21st Century
- Kathleen McCarty: Sport Opportunities for Collegiate Students with Disabilities: A Mixed Methods Review of Current Program Offerings, Barriers, and Facilitators
- Laurent Reyes: A Phenomenological Study Exploring Experiences of Civic Participation among Older African Americans and Latinx Immigrants using an Intersectional Life-Course Perspective
- Kristi Roybal: Exploring the Relationship between Historical Redlining and Place-Based Reproductive Health Inequities: A Qualitative GIS Approach
- Leslie Salas-Hernández: Understanding Police-Public Contact: The Role of Police Violence and a Police Training Intervention
- Samantha Scott: How Deep is your Kaumaha? Unfolding the Experiences of Historical and Intergenerational Trauma among Wāhine
- Dislorei (Desi) Small-Rodriguez: Remaking Collective Identities: Data Sovereignty, Citizenship, and Indigenous Nations
- Jennifer Whittaker: Understanding the Role of Place in Health and Wellbeing for Rural Families: A Photovoice Project by Moms
- Bukola Bakare: Corporate Social Responsibility and Traffic Congestion: A Mixed Methods Study
- Samuel Baxter: Examining Racial Differences in Cardiovascular Health among Young Men: The role of Residential Segregation
- Jasmine Blanks Jones: Performance as Public Work: Youth as Civic Actors for Policy and Practice in Liberia
- Erica Browne: Moving Further Upstream to Promote Racial Equity: A Mixed Method Analysis of Private Nonprofit Hospital Community Benefit
- Brittney Butler: Examination of Exposures to Anti-Black Racism Over the Lifecourse and their Association with Pregnancy Induced Hypertensive Disorders Among Black Women
- Alane Celeste-Villalvir: Finding the Missing Millions: An Exploration of Challenges and Facilitators to Hepatitis C (HCV) Screening Among Individuals Experiencing Homelessness
- Angeliz Encarnación Burgos: Urban Development under Conditions of Colonialism: A Critical Urban History of Santurce, Puerto Rico
- Mario Alberto Espinoza-Kulick: La Gente Unida: Latinx Immigrant and Indigenous Health and Advocacy on California’s Central Coast
- Jenny Guadamuz: Immigration Status, Cardiovascular Risk Factors, and Medication Use in the United States
- Ana Herrera: The Association between Tobacco Retail Outlet Density and Advertising with Neighborhood Socio-demographic Characteristics around Colleges in Texas
- Amy Jones: The New Affirmative Action: The Experience of Students of Color in Diversity-Focused Collegiate Incorporation Programs
- Matthew Lee: Advancing Understandings of Policy Implementation and Sustainability to Address Health Equity: A Mixed Methods Case Study of Tobacco Control in New York City
- Jennifer McGee-Avila: Multilevel Points of Intervention to Improve Cervical Cancer Screening Among Women Living with HIV: A Mixed Methods Approach to Addressing Health Inequities
- Marcela Nava: The Political Economy of Immigrant Health: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Social Capital and the Immigrant Paradox
- Adrian Neely: School Connectedness and African American Students: An Examination with Implications for Policy and Teacher Education
- Marie Plaisime: Perceptions of Racial Bias & Interracial Anxiety Among Medical Students: A Mixed Methods Study
- Arrianna Planey: A Multi-Scale Spatial & Political Economic Analysis of Health Policy, Provider Location Decisions, and Access to Audiology Services
- Jennifer Richmond: Reducing Racial Disparities in Health Services Use: Exploring the Role of Racial Equity Training for Nurse Navigators and Improved Measurement of Trust in Health Care
- Kristefer Stojanovski: Systems Science Approaches to Visualize, Model, and Explore Stigma’s Role in Socially Patterning HIV Risk Among Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex With Men (GBMSM) in Europe
- Dana Williamson: Understanding Capacity-building Efforts to Address Environmental Justice Concerns
- Henry Willis: Developing a Culturally-Adapted Mobile Mental Health Intervention: A Multi-Study, Mixed Methods Approach
- Andrew Anderson: Exploring Mental Health Disparities among Accountable Care Organizations
- Sondra Calhoun Lavigne: Antimicrobial Use and Resistance: Intersections of Companion Animal and Public Health
- Michelle Doose: Examining the Multilevel Influences on Diabetes and Hypertension Clinical Care Management among Breast Cancer Patients
- Paul Shafer: Effect of the Affordable Care Act on Utilization of Emergency and Primary Care
- Patrice Williams: “They Over-Promised and Under-Delivered”: A Mixed Methods Study on the Effects of Residential Displacement Pressure on Black Residents in Southwest Atlanta
