Research: A number of members (Gorka, Barrientos, Fournier, Stern, Aase, Hall, Teater, Philip, Wang, and Kasick) identified DEI specific research efforts and publications:
- Improving data collection efforts to include race, ethnicity, gender-identity, and sexual orientation for use in secondary analyses
- Providing mentorship to URM students learning about the research process
- Targeted research on DEI factors to address disparities
- Providing project mentoring to students with limited access to research mentors at university and COM level
- NIH Diversity Supplement
2020-2021 Highlights and publications:
- Trent Hall awarded Maternal Mental Health Grant by the Ohio Department of Health
- Hall co-authored manuscript, Racial Disparities in Finnegan Neonatal Abstinence Scores for Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome
- Hall has grant application for planned study on Validation of the Brief Opioid Stigma Scale (BOSS) in a Racially, Ethnically and Clinically Diverse Sample and Correlates of Stigma with Expectations of Care and Treatment Preference
- Hall has an accepted article on Perceptions of Racial Discrimination in the Medical Setting Among a Sample of Black Patients Seeking Treatment for Alcohol and Substance Use Disorders. This manuscript is co-authored with faculty of OSU’s Kirwan Institute and Yale’s Recognizing and Eliminating Racial Disparities in Addiction through Culturally Informed Healthcare (REACH) program.
- Jay Fournier submitted NIH R01 grant as co-investigator examining health disparities between Black/White cannabis users
- Lei Wang leads an NIH-funded supplemental study to an R01 examining neuroimaging correlates of racial-disparity in sleep- disruption and cognitive impairment
- Ken Yeager and Arianna Galligher submitted seed gran to research barriers to accessing mental health services for members of the BIPOC community