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

 

• 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.

 

 

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