Current and Upcoming Projects

Parent & Child Well-Being Study

The Parent & Child Well-Being study is a community needs assessment of the strengths and challenges faced by parents dealing with major stressors to inform the development and implementation of a parent-based preventive intervention to improve child social-emotional and physical health.


Addressing the Needs of Parents Living with HIV

Preventing the Intergenerational Transmission of Risk

In the PATH study, we are conducting a community-engaged, mixed-methods needs assessment of the unique challenges facing parents living with HIV, their adolescent children, and healthcare providers working with PLWH.

Funding: Community-Engaged Scholars Program

South Carolina Clinical & Translational Research Institute

National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (UL1 TR001450, PI: Brady)

Role: Pilot Project PI


Upcoming Projects

My upcoming projects are focused on parent-based prevention of child emotional, behavioral, and physical health problems among families dealing with major stressors. We are conducting community-engaged research with families who deal with stressors such as parental chronic illness/HIV, traumatic stress, parental substance use, racial discrimination, and/or financial strain.

I am affiliated with the University of South Carolina Research Center for Child Well-Being, which is a multidisciplinary center focused on integrated prevention of (a) social, emotional, and behavioral problems and (b) unhealthy lifestyle behaviors in children aged 2-10. As a faculty member within this center, much of my ongoing and upcoming research is grounded in prevention science, multidisciplinary collaborations, and family-based child health promotion in school aged children.

I also have ongoing collaborations focused on the intersection of HIV, traumatic stress, and problematic substance use; and universal screening of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance use disorder (SUD) within HIV care settings including Ryan White agencies.


Recently Completed Projects

Targeting Parenting to Prevent HIV and Substance Use Among Trauma-Exposed Youth

The FACTS study gathered descriptive, mixed-methods data with trauma-exposed teens and their parents, to guide the future development of a trauma-informed, culturally relevant, family-based preventive intervention targeting parenting to reduce adolescents’ risk of substance abuse and HIV infection.

HIV/AIDS, Substance Abuse, and Trauma Training Program (HA-STTP)

University of California, Los Angeles

National Institute of Drug Abuse (R25DA035692; PI: Gail Wyatt, Ph.D.)

Role: HA-STTP Scholar


Team REACH

Building a Transdisciplinary Collaboration for Integrated HIV/PTSD Care to Address Mental Health and Risk Reduction

In the Team REACH (Resiliency, Engagement, and Accessibility for Comorbid HIV/PTSD Populations) study, we explored barriers and facilitators to transdisciplinary HIV/trauma clinical and research collaborations.

Funding:

Team Science Pilot Project Grant
South Carolina Clinical and Translational Research Institute, Medical University of South Carolina
National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (UL1 TR001450, PI: Brady)
Role: Pilot Project PI

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