Publications

Area of Research:

• Community Resilience
• Health and Public Health Systems
• Health and Risk Communication 
• Household Preparedness
• Research Methods
• Trauma and Mental Health
• Evaluating the Los Angeles Initiatives to Reduce Targeted Violence
• Extreme Heat and Climate Change

 Community Resilience

• The Los Angeles County Community Disaster Resilience Project — A Community-Level, Public Health Initiative to Build Community Disaster Resilience 
• Assessment for Disaster Engagement with Partners Toolkit (ADEPT)
• Partnerships for Recovery Across The Sectors (PRACTIS) Toolkit
• Measuring Outcomes in a Community Resilience Program: A New Metric for Evaluating Results at the Household Level
• Who Participates in Building Disaster Resilient Communities: A Cluster-Analytic Approach
• The Road to Resilience: Insights on Training Community Coalitions in the Los Angeles County Community Disaster Resilience Project
• Developing a Tabletop Exercise to Test Community Resilience: Lessons from the Los Angeles County Community Disaster Resilience Project
• Partnerships for community resilience:perspectives from the Los Angeles County Community Disaster Resilience project
• Getting to Outcomes: Guide To Community Emergency Preparedness (GTO-CEP)

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 Health and Public Health Systems 

• Terrorism’s Psychologic Effects and Their Implications for Primary Care Policy, Research, and Education 
• Racial/Ethnic Variations in Perceived Fairness During a Bioterrorist Event 
• The Public Health Disaster Trust Scale: Validation of a Brief Measure 
• Emotional and Behavioral Consequences of Bioterrorism: Planning a Public Health Response 
• System Factors Affect the Recognition and Management of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder by Primary Care Clinicians
• An Ecosystems and Vulnerable Populations Perspective on Solastalgia and Psychological Distress After a Wildfire

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Health and Risk Communication 

• “They Blew the Levee”: Distrust of Authorities Among Hurricane Katrina Evacuees 
• Trust Influences Response to Public Health Messages During a Bioterrorist Event 
• WEA (Wireless Emergency Alerts) Messages: Impact on Physiological, Emotional, Cognitive and Behavioral Responses

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Household Preparedness 

• Differences in Individual-Level Terrorism Preparedness in Los Angeles County
• Peer-Mentored Preparedness (PM-PREP): A New Disaster Preparedness Program for Adults Living Independently in the Community
• Developing a Disaster Preparedness Campaign Targeting Low-Income Latino Immigrants: Focus Group Results for Project PREP 
• Using the Precaution Adoption Process model to describe a disaster preparedness intervention among low-income Latinos
• PHRETS 2007 Final Report
• Improving Latino Preparedness Using Social Networks

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Research Methods

• Documentation of the National Survey of Disaster Experiences and Preparedness (NSDEP)
• Public Response to Terrorism. Findings from the National Survey of Disaster Experiences and Preparedness

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Trauma and Mental Health 

• Screening for Mental Health Problems and History of Torture 
• The ISTSS/Rand Guidelines on Mental Health Training of Primary Healthcare Providers for Trauma-Exposed Populations in Conflict-Affected Countries 
• Effect of Violence on Utilization of Services and Access to Care in Persons with HIV
• Intimate Partner Violence and Community Service Needs Among Pregnant and Postpartum Latina Women 
• Mental Health and Health-Related Quality of Life Among Adult Latino Primary Care Patients Living in the United States With Previous Exposure to Political Violence  
• PTSD in Latino Patients: Illness Beliefs, Treatment Preferences, and Implications for Care 
• Screening for Mental Health Problems and History of Torture
• Belief systems as coping factors for traumatized refugees: a pilot study
• Interpersonal Violence Towards Women
• Design of the Violence and Stress Assessment (ViStA) study: A randomized controlled trial of care management for PTSD among predominantly Latino patients in safety net health centers
• Survivors of Torture: A Hidden Population

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 Evaluating the Los Angeles Initiatives to Reduce Targeted Violence

• Countering Violent Extremism Through Public Health Practice: Proceedings of a Workshop
• Addressing Violent Extremism as Public Health Policy and Practice

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Extreme Heat and Climate Change

• Building Thermal Performance, Extreme Heat, and Climate Change
• Household accessibility to heat refuges: Residential air conditioning, public cooled space, and walkability
• Urban Heat Stress Vulnerability in the U.S. Southwest: The Role of Sociotechnical Systems
• Heat Death Associations with the built environment,social vulnerability and their interactions with rising temperature

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