Past Research
Aaida A. Mamuji (York University Co-Leader)
Angela Chia-Chen Chen(Co-Leader)
National Science Foundation-funded Social Science Extreme Events Research Network and the CONVERGE facility at the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado Boulder
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This COVID-19 Working Group for Public Health and Social Sciences Research is interested in issues of stigma, fear, discrimination, and backlash in light of COVID-19, as well as social countermeasures and emergency management actions that can be taken to address them. The group’s broad scope includes research interest in Sinophobia, stigma faced by frontline workers and those that have tested positive, compounded by discrimination experienced by those already marginalized, and the role played by culture and social media.
Shelby Langer
Edson College Center for Innovation in Healthy and Resilient Aging Faculty Scholar Award
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Aims are to test feasibility of recruitment and data collection among 30 older adult spouse pairs and to examine intra- and inter-personal associations between indicators of relationship functioning (relationship satisfaction, communication, intimacy) and gut microbiota composition and diversity.
Elizabeth Reifsnider
ASU Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR)
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This project aims to determine the professional quality of life, resilience, selfefficacy, and stress of nurses nationally and internationally during the pandemic. Findings will elucidate impacts of the virus on members of this critical work force. Knowledge gained will inform planning by healthcare leadership to promote resilience and self-efficacy among health care workers and also to prevent fatigue, burnout and illness.
Mitch Kirwan
Kelly Cue Davis
ASU Institute for Social Science Research
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Research will examine which emotion regulation strategies may be associated with sexually aggressive intentions.
Megan Petrov
ASU Institute of Social Sciences Research
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This study aims to understand how the COVID-19 pandemic and the related social distancing measures may have affected sleep patterns, health behaviors, and well-being.
Kelly Cue Davis
Department of Defense Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury Research Program for the Office of the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP)
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This work will develop accessible and effective methods to prevent sexual assault among male and female service members; It will refine a research-based, computerized sexual assault prevention program, originally designed for college students, to meet the needs of military members.
Sunny Kim
Angela Chia-Chen Chen (Co-Investigator)
NIH/NIMHD
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U54 Center Grant Project (PI: Marsiglia): To develop digital in-person stories from KA immigrant mothers about HPV vaccination of their children and examine the feasibility and the preliminary effectiveness of the digital storytelling intervention among 50 KA mothers of unvaccinated boys and girls aged 11-14.
Shawn Youngstedt
Department of Defense (CDMRP)
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Armando Pena (PhD student)
Gabe Shaibi; Micah Olson, MD
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease
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This study aims to examine the effect of lifestyle intervention on pro- and anti-inflammatory mediators in 79 obese Latino youth with prediabetes as compared to a usual care control group of 38 obesity- and glycemia-matched Latino youth. Understanding how changes in pro- and anti-inflammatory markers relate to changes in beta-cell function is important to identify specific mechanisms that can be targeted in future studies.
Rodney Joseph
ASU Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR)
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This project will examine the acceptability and feasibility of Smart Walk, a culturally relevant and theory-based Smartphone application developed to deliver a physical activity intervention for African American women aged 50-65.