Peer Reviewed Academic Research
Research from 2023
The Implementation of a Nutrition Intervention in Food Pantries: The Spirit of SWAP, Sofia I. Morales, Genesis Vicente, Katherine LaMonaca, Jasmine Rios, Shayna D. Cunningham, Jackson Higginbottom, Erin Mathios, Steve Werlin, James Cramer, Alycia Santilli, and Kathleen O'Connor Duffany
Advancing Health Equity: An Innovative Program for Building Community Engagement in Research, Alycia Santilli, Katherine LaMonaca, Kendra Carr, Bailee Rue, Karen D'Angelo, Jackson Higginbottom, Sofia Morales, Marquita A. Taylor, Genesis A. Vicente, Anna Lin-Schweitzer, and Kathleen O'Connor Duffany
Barriers and Facilitators to Exclusive Breastfeeding Among Black Mothers: A qualitative study utilizing a Modified Barrier Analysis approach, Victoria Tran, Amelia Reese Masterson, Tomeka Frieson, Frankie Douglass, Rafael Pérez-Escamilla, and Kathleen O'Connor Duffany
Research from 2022
Investigation on urban greenspace in relation to sociodemographic factors and health inequity based on different greenspace metrics in 3 US urban communities, Seulkee Heo and Michelle L. Bell
“Police shootings, now that seems to be the main issue” – Black pregnant women’s anticipation of police brutality towards their children, Renee Mehra, Amy Alspaugh, Linda S. Franck, Monica R. McLemore, Trace Kershaw, Jeannette R. Ickovics, Danya E. Keene, and Alyasah A. Sewell
Mapping Emergency Department Asthma Visits to Identify Poor-Quality Housing in New Haven, CT, USA: a Retrospective Cohort Study, Elizabeth A. Samuels MD, Richard A. Taylor MD, Akshay Pendyal MD, Abbas Shojaee MD, Anne S. Mainardi MD, Evan R. Lemire BA, Arjun K. Venkatesh MD, Steven L. Bernstein MD, and Adam L. Haber PhD
Coalition Building and Food Insecurity: How an Equity and Justice Framework Guided a Viable Food Assistance Network, Alycia Santilli, Anna Lin-Schweitzer, Sofia I. Morales, Steve Werlin, Kim Hart, James Cramer, Jason A. Martinez, and Kathleen O'Connor Duffany
Eviction, post-traumatic stress, and emergency department use among low-income individuals in New Haven, CT, Patrick D. Smith, Allison K. Groves, Brent A. Langellier, Danya E. Keene, Alana Rosenburg, and Kim M. Blankenship
Coastal Land Use Management Methodologies under Pressure from Climate Change and Population Growth, Tao Wu and Juliana Barrett
Research from 2021
COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance and Access Among Black and Latinx Communities, Lilanthi Balasuriya, Alycia Santilli, Jennifer Morone, Jessica Ainooson, Brita Roy, Anuli Njoku, Andrea Mendiola-Iparraguirre, Kathleen O'Connor Duffany, Bernard Macklin, Jackson Higginbottom, Celina Fernandez-Ayala, Genesis Vicente, and Arjun Venkatesh
Does rental assistance improve mental health? Insights from a longitudinal cohort study, Whitney Denary, Andrew Fenelon, Penelope Shlesinger, Jonathan Purtle, Kim M. Blankenship, and Danya Keene
Community Violence Exposure and School Functioning in Youth: Cross-Country and Gender Perspectives, Roman Koposov, Johan Isaksson, Robert Vermeiren, Mary Schwab-Stone, Andrew Stickley, and Vladislav Ruchkin
"Do Their Own Thing": Radical Health Community Alliance for Research & Engagement and the Fair Haven Community Health Center, Ezra S. Lichtman
Implementing the Street Psychiatry Model in New Haven, CT: Community-Based Community Alliance for Research & Engagement for People Experiencing Unsheltered Homelessness, Emma Lo, Brooke Lifland, Eliza C. Buelt, Lilanthi Balasuriya, and Jeanne L. Steiner
The Effects of Rental Assistance on Housing Stability, Quality, Autonomy, and Affordability, Rebecca Shapiro MPH, Kim Blankenship PhD, Alana Rosenberg MPH, and Danya Keene PhD
Research from 2020
Medical Exemption From Disconnection of Utilities in Connecticut, Peter A. Kahn MD, Krishna R. Daggula MS, Wei Teng PhD, Richard C. Hintz MS, and Gretchen Berland MD
Black Pregnant Women “Get the Most Judgment”: A Qualitative Study of the Experiences of Black Women at the Intersection of Race, Gender, and Pregnancy, Renee Mehra PhD, Lisa M. Boyd PhD, Urania Magriples MD, Trace S. Kershaw PhD, Jeannette R. Ickovics PhD, and Danya E. Keene PhD
COVID-19 and Hidden Housing Vulnerabilities: Implications for Health Equity, New Haven, Connecticut, Alana Rosenberg, Danya E. Keene, Penelope Schlesinger, Allison K. Groves, and Kim M. Blankenship
My neighborhood has a good reputation: Associations between spatial stigma and health, Emma Tran, Kim Blankenship, Shannon Whittaker, Alana Rosenberg, Penelope Schlesinger, Trace Kershaw, and Danya E. Keene
Research from 2019
‘Then I Found Housing and Everything Changed’: Transitions to Rent-Assisted Housing and Diabetes Self-Management, Danya Keene, Mariana Henry, Carina Gormley, and Chima Ndumele
Research from 2018
Medical-Legal Partnership: Lessons from Five Diverse MLPs in New Haven, Connecticut, Emily A. Benfer, Abbe R. Gluck, and Katherine L. Kraschel
Availability, Accessibility, Utilization: In-Depth Interviews with Food Insecure Residents and Emergency Food Providers in New Haven, CT, Grace Carroll, Danya Keene, Alycia Santilli, Joy Johannes, Jeannette Ickovics, and Kathleen O'Connor Duffany
Intersectional experiences of discrimination in a low-resource urban community: An exploratory latent class analysis, Valerie A. Earnshaw, Lisa Rosenthal, Kathryn Gilstad-Hayden, Amy Carroll-Scott, Trace S. Kershaw, Alycia Santilli, and Jeannette R. Ickovics
The Effects of Length of Residence and Exposure to Violence on Perceptions of Neighborhood Safety in an Urban Sample, Monica Guo, Kathleen O'Connor Duffany, Fatma M. Shebl, Alycia Santilli, and Danya Keene PhD
Physical neighborhood and social environment, beliefs about sleep, sleep hygiene behaviors, and sleep quality among African Americans, Soohyun Nam, Robin Whittemore, Sunyoung Jung, Carl Latkin, Trace Kershaw, and Nancy S. Redeker
Research from 2017
Did community greening reduce crime? Evidence from New Haven, CT, 1996–2007, Dexter H. Locke, SeungHoon Han, Michelle C. Kondo, Colleen Murphy-Dunning, and Mary Cox
Preparing for Disaster: a Cross-Sectional Study of Social Connection and Gun Violence, Carley Riley, Brita Roy, Nurit Harari, Anita Vashi, Pina Violano, Anne Greene, Georgina Lucas, Jerry Smart, Teresa Hines, Stacy Spell, Sharon Taylor, Barbara Tinney, Maurice Williams, and Emily Wang
Bridging the Response to Mass Shootings and Urban Violence: Exposure to Violence in New Haven, Connecticut, Alycia Santilli, Kathleen O'Connor Duffany, Amy Carroll-Scott, Jordan Thomas, Ann Greene, Anita Arora, Alicia Agnoli, Geliang Gan, and Jeannette Ickovics
School breakfast and body mass index: a longitudinal observational study of middle school students, S Wang, M B. Schwartz, F M. Shebl, M Read, K E. Henderson, and J R. Ickovics
Research from 2016
Everyday discrimination and physical health: Exploring mental health processes, Valerie A. Earnshaw, Lisa Rosenthal, Amy Carroll-Scott, Alycia Santilli, Kathryn Gilstad-Hayden, and Jeannette R. Ickovics
Applying Community Organizing Principles to Assess Health Needs in New Haven, Connecticut, Alycia Santilli MSW, Amy Carroll-Scott PhD, and Jeannette R. Ickovics PhD
Research from 2015
Associations of Neighborhood and School Socioeconomic and Social Contexts With Body Mass Index Among Urban Preadolescent Students, Amy Carroll-Scott, Kathryn Gilstad-Hayden, Lisa Rosenthal, Adam Eldahan, Catherine McCaslin, Susan M. Peters, and Jeannette R. Ickovics
Association of influenza vaccine uptake with health, access to health care, and medical mistreatment among adults from low-income neighborhoods in New Haven, CT: a classification tree analysis, Kathryn Gilstad-Hayden, Amanda Durante, Valerie A. Earnshaw, Lisa Rosenthal, and Jeannette R. Ickovics
Research note: Greater tree canopy cover is associated with lower rates of both violent and property crime in New Haven, CT, Kathryn Gilstad-Hayden, Lori R. Wallace, Amy Carroll-Scott, Spencer R. Meyer, Sarah Barbo, Colleen Murphy-Dunning, and Jeannette R. Ickovics
Weight- and race-based bullying: health associations among urban adolescents, Lisa Rosenthal, Valerie A. Earnshaw, Amy Carroll-Scott, Kathryn E. Henderson, Susan M. Peters, Catherine McCaslin, and Jeannette R. Ickovics
The Relationship between Parental Behaviors and Children's Sugary Drink Consumption Is Moderated by a Television in the Child's Bedroom, Marlene B. Schwartz, Kathryn Gilstad-Hayden, Kathryn E. Henderson, Joerg Luedicke, Amy Carroll-Scott, Susan M. Peters, Catherine McCaslin, and Jeannette R. Ickovics
Research from 2013
Disentangling neighborhood contextual associations with child body mass index, diet, and physical activity: the role of built, socioeconomic, and social environments, Amy Carroll-Scott, Kathryn Gilstad-Hayden, Lisa Rosenthal, Susan M. Peters, Catherine McCaslin, Rebecca Joyce, and Jeannette R. Ickovics