News
December 2024
YEAH Showcase. Youth presented their calls to action for reducing violence in their communities through photography, spoken word, and theater performances.
November 2024
Marcia Ash successfully defended her dissertation research on barriers and facilitators to caring for the mental health of Black perinatal women experiencing trauma and stress. Congratulations Dr. Marcia!
October 2024
ISTSS. Dr. Briana and Em Lemon presented at the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS).
September 2024
Succeeding Together Standing Up to Disparities symposium hosted by UCB on September 17th in Atlanta, GA. Tiffaney Renfro was invited to moderate a panel on Advocacy Efforts to Improve Health Equity, sharing feedback on healthy equity from a public health perspective. Tiffaney spoke on THRIVE’s approach to community engaged efforts and working collaboratively and equitable with community leaders and stakeholders. The keynote speaker was Martin Luther King, III who spoke on his father’s legacy and his fight for health equity as a fundamental human right.
September 2024
PCORI. Co-PI Abigail Lott and Tiffaney Renfro joined other Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) awardees in Washington D.C. to share more on our multi-site trial aimed at improving health outcomes for pregnant Black Women.
September 2024
William T. Community Forum. Youth participants of CDC YEAH in Kansas City presented their photovoice pictures at a community forum.
September 2024
Violence Prevention Symposium Student Panel. Kayla Anderson moderated the youth panel and Dr. Briana presented about THRIVE’s work at the Violence Prevention Symposium.
May 2024
Link 2 Training. Dr. Briana, Dr. Marizen Ramirez, and Reggie Prince facilitated the Link 2 training, which provides safety, stabilization, coping support, and linkage to services for students.
May 2024
2024 RSPH DEI Staff Award. Tiffaney Renfro received the 2024 RSPH DEI Staff of the Year Award.
May 2024
Woods-Jaeger, B. (2024). Developing Approaches to Heal Racial Trauma among African American Youth. The Normandy Landings Revisited: 80 Years of Traumatic Stress Studies, and Counting. Caen, France.
May 2024
Woods-Jaeger, B., Townsend, D., & Townsend, D.T. (2024). Taking Collective Action to Advance Healing from Community Trauma. Cultivating Connections & Community Think Tank, Philadelphia, PA.
April 2024
Woods-Jaeger, B., Garrett, B., Anderson, K., Renfro, T., Thompson, R. (2024). IPRCE Morehouse School of Medicine Pipeline Development Program: Early Lessons Learned and Plan for the Future. Symposium presented at Society for Advancement of Violence and Injury Research Annual Conference.
2023
Woods-Jaeger, B., Anderson, B., Bates, A., Barnes-McElhaney, A., Ross, J., Anderson, K., & Renfro, T. (2023). Co-developing Innovative Strategies to Address Racial Trauma: The Power of Youth Participatory Action Research to Advance Health Equity. Roundtable presented at the American Public Health Association Annual Conference.
April 2023
Dr. Briana and Imani Belton presented at The Society for Advancement of Violence and Injury Research (SAVIR) 2023 Annual Conference.
April 2023
Em Lemon and Yesnely Flores presented at Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) 2023 Annual Conference.
April 2023
Stella Udoetuk presented at The 2023 Annual Medical Education Conference (AMEC) on her research project, Utilizing the Models of Social Support to Assess the Mental Health Support Systems of Black Perinatal Women: A Qualitative Analysis.
September 2022
Marcia Ash was awarded an R36 Dissertation Grant by the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ) for her dissertation research. Marcia will conduct a mixed-methods study to examine multilevel barriers and facilitators to caring for the mental health of Black perinatal women experiencing trauma and stress in order to develop targeted recommendations for future implementation of culturally responsive trauma screenings and supports.
August 2022
Dr. Briana presented at the 25th National Institute of Mental Health Conference on Mental Health Services Research (MHSR). She participated in the symposium, “Successful Implementation of Trauma-focused Interventions: Stakeholder and Community Partner Leadership” at 3:25 PM on Tuesday, August 3, 2022.
July 2022
July is Minority Mental Health Awareness Month.
Click here for a description of our efforts to advance youth mental health equity, as well as relevant resources.
May 2022
Yesnely Flores was awarded the 2022 Eugene J. Gangarosa Award by the Rollins School of Public Health. This award is presented to the graduating student who has demonstrated a creative approach to solving public health problems and who shows promise for outstanding service in the international arena.
October 2021
Em Lemon was awarded an NIH R36 Mental Health Research Dissertation Grant by the National Institute of Mental Health for her dissertation research. Her mixed-methods examines how immigration policy enforcement affects depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation among Latinx youth and explores youth perspectives of the role of immigration policies, collective efficacy, and connectedness on Latinx youth mental health.
Yesnely Flores received the LCPH Outstanding Student Paper Award for 2021 at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting for her paper entitled “Amplified Social Isolation from COVID-19 policies amongst undocumented Latinx families”.
Congratulations to Dr. Briana who was elected to the board of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. Her appointment will begin at the virtual ISTSS 37th Annual Meeting, which will be held on November 2-5, 2021.
May 2021
Dr. Briana received the 2021 Emory Provost's Distinguished Teaching Award for Excellence in Graduate and Professional Education. This award is given to one faculty member at the Rollins School of Public Health and honors outstanding scholars who excel as teachers.