Research and Resources
BSHE faculty members are renowned scholars in the areas of HIV/AIDS prevention, cancer prevention and control, adolescent health, workforce development, and women health. They are currently involved in over 30 funded research projects. Their research is funded by federal government organizations such as the National Institutes of Health (e.g. NCI, NIEHS, NIAAA, NIDA, NIMH), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health Resources and Services Administration, Association of Schools of Public Health, and private foundations such as the American Legacy Foundation and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. They also work with the Georgia Division of Public Health and local health departments around Georgia.
Our faculty work in diverse areas that involve social-ecological determinants of health and diseases. The areas span major disease problems (HIV/AIDS, cancer, heart disease), specific populations (adolescents, women, minority groups, rural communities), multiple health promotion settings (schools, communities, churches, the Internet) and specific behavioral and social problems (substance abuse, tobacco control, nutrition, physical activity, injury prevention, health communication). Students have many opportunities to work with faculty on these research projects.
Below you will find the major areas of research in BSHE:
Addiction and Mental Health
- Lives Across Time (LAT):A Longitudinal Study of Adolescent and Adult Substance Use and Mental Health
- People and Places: Neighborhood Effects on Drug Use Among African American Adults
- Using Distance Technology for the Treatment of Mental Health Problems
Adolescent Health
- T3 (Tracking Teen Trends)
- Public Education and Communication on Improving Health Care Delivery than Kawasaki Disease
Cancer and Chronic Disease
- Avon Foundation Comprehensive Breast Center: Community Educational Outreach Initiative
- Quality of Life for Men with Localized Prostate Cancer
- Emory Prevention Research Center
- Cancer Prevention and Control Research Network
- Evaluation of Special Events to Increase Cancer Screening
Global Health
- HIV Prevention for Xhosa Women Living in Capetown, South Africa
- Longitudinal Analysis of Transactional Sex, Violence, and HIV/HSV2 in South Africa
HIV/AIDS and Infectious Diseases
- Vaccine Dinner Club
- Be Healthy: Neighborhood Effects on HIV Risk-Taking
- Spatial Variations in IDU Risk: Relationship to Structural Intervention
- HORIZONS
- GIRL POWER
- R.E.A.L. MEN Project: An HIV Intervention for Fathers and Sons
- Emory Center for AIDS Research (CFAR)
- An Interdisplinary Study of HOPE VI Relocations and Biobehavorial Risks for HIV
Minority Health
- Project ACTS: About Choices in Transplantation and Sharing
- Living ACTS: About Choices in Transplantation and Sharing
- EBAN: An HIV Prevention Program for Serodiscordant African-American Couples
- National Survey of HIV Risk for African-American Women's
Patient Disease Management
- Preventing Depression in People with Epilepsy
- EASE A Test of an Epilepsy Self Management Model
- WebEase: An Online Self Management Program For People with Epilepsy