Areas of Research
- Community Resilience
- Health and Public Health Systems
- Health and Risk Communication
- Household Preparedness
- Research Methods
- Trauma and Mental Health
- Mass Violence
- Extreme Heat and Climate Change
Community Resilience
- Age-Friendly Action Plan for the Los Angeles Region 2018-2012
- Community Resilience Learning Collaborative and Research Network (C-LEARN): Study Protocol with Participatory Planning for a Randomized, Comparative Effectiveness Trial
- Evaluating Community Partnerships Addressing Community Resilience in Los Angeles, California
- Who Participates in the Great ShakeOut? Why Audience Segmentation Is the Future of Disaster Preparedness Campaigns
- Why Do Community and Public Health Partnerships Matter During Disaster Recovery?
- How Do Communities Use a Participatory Public Health Approach to Build Resilience? The Los Angeles County Community Disaster Resilience Project
- 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)
- Public Health Disasters: Be Prepared
Health and Public Health Systems
- A Program for Local Health Departments to Adapt and Implement Evidence-Based Emergency Preparedness Programs
- 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
- Medical Countermeasures: A Stitch in Time Saves Nine
- Standardized Emergency Management System and Response to a Smallpox Emergency
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
Household Preparedness
- Canaries in the coal mine: Interpersonal violence, gang violence, and violent extremism through a public health prevention lens
- 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
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
Trauma and Mental Health
- 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
Mass Violence
- Ideologically Motivated Violence: A Public Health Approach to Prevention
- Countering Violent Extremism Through Public Health Practice: Proceedings of a Workshop
- Addressing Violent Extremism as Public Health Policy and Practice
Extreme Heat and Climate Change
- Heat exposure during outdoor activities in the US varies significantly by city, demography, and activity
- Strategic locating of refuges for extreme heat events (or heat waves)
- Heat/mortality sensitivities in Los Angeles during winter: a unique phenomenon in the United States
- Mortality and morbidity during extreme heat events and prevalence of outdoor work: An analysis of community- level data from Los Angeles County, California
- 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
