Reports
- Evaluation of the Louisiana Pre-release Medicaid Enrollment Program. 2019.
- Louisiana Community Health Worker Workforce Study Committee Report. 2020.
Recent Publications
COVID-19
- A Rapid Assessment of Disaster Preparedness Needs and Resources during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, 2021.
- Mental Health Community and Health System Issues in COVID-19: Lessons from Academic, Community, Provider and Policy Stakeholders. Ethnicity & Disease, 2020.
Community Health Workers
- "Nothing About Us Without Us": Insights from State-level Efforts to Implement Community Health Worker Certification. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. 2021.
- Processes for Implementing Community Health Worker Workforce Development Initiatives. Frontiers in Public Health, 2021.
- To strengthen the public health response to COVID-19, we need community health workers. Health Affairs Blog, 2020.
- Community health worker leadership in Louisiana, during and after Hurricane Katrina. American Journal of Public Health, 2020.
- Insights on COVID-19 from community health worker state leaders. Journal of Ambulatory Care Management, 2020.
- Promoting Community Health Worker Leadership in Policy Development: Results from a Louisiana Workforce Study. Journal of Community Health, 2020.
- The National Association of Community Health Workers disputes findings of Covert et al. American Journal of Public Health, 2019.
Environment and Disaster
- Community perspectives on cross-sectoral collaborations to enhance preparedness and community resilience in disaster prone areas: Findings from South Louisiana. American Journal of Public Health, 2019.
- Examining Medicaid utilization data pre-and post-natural disaster: A case study of the 2016 Baton Rouge flood indicating a need for increase behavioral health access. American Journal of Public Health, 2019.
- Strategies to address trauma and enhance resilience in climate change- and disaster-at-risk communities. Traumatology, 2019.
Incarceration and Health
- Interventions for incarcerated adults with opioid use disorder in the United States: A systematic review with a focus on social determinants of health. PLoS One, 2020.
- Promoting health equity and criminal justice reform: The Louisiana experience. American Journal of Public Health, 2020.
LGBTQ+
- Resilience Against Depression Disparities (RADD): A protocol for a randomised comparative effectiveness trial for depression among predominantly low-income racial/ethnic, sexual and gender minorities. BMJ Open, 2019
- Engaging LGBTQ Communities in Community-Partnered Participatory Research: Lessons from the Resilience Against Depression Disparities Study. Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action, 2021..
Maternal and Child Health
- Louisiana Pharmacies' Availability of Emergency Contraception and Counseling Accuracy to Adolescent and Physician Callers. Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology, 2021
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Population Geography and Emergency Contraception Access in Louisiana. Pharmacy (Basel), 2020.
- Analysis of Pregnancy and Birth Rates Among Black and White Medicaid-Enrolled Teens. Journal of Adolescent Health, 2020.
- Homicide During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period in Louisiana, 2016-2017. JAMA Pediatrics, 2020.
- Maternal and infant characteristics associated with maternal opioid overdose in the year following delivery. Addiction, 2020.
Social Determinants of Health
- Action to improve social determinants of health: Outcomes of leadership and advocacytraining for community residents. Health Promotion Practice, 2020.
- Training community residents to address social determinants of health in under resourced communities. Health Promotion Practice, 2019.