Epidemiology

 

Daniel Hagen

Prevalence, Treatment, and Control of Depressive Symptoms Before and After Passage of the Affordable Care Act: Evidence from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

Principal Investigators: Daniel Hagen, Melody Goodman, Emily Goldmann

The Affordable Care  Act (ACA) of 2010 included approaches to improve population mental health, such as depression screening in primary care practice. This project uses data from the 2015-2016 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) to elucidate whether the prevalence of depressive symptoms, pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment, and of adequate symptom control has changed since the implementation of this policy.

Psychosocial Effects of Same-Sex Marriage and Civil Partnership in the United Kingdom

Principal Investigators: Hagen, D., Lewis, G., Goldmann, E. 

Existing research suggests that the formalization of opposite-sex relationships is associated with favorable mental health outcomes, especially among males. This project seeks to examine whether this association also applies to individuals in same-sex relationships, using data from the UK Household Longitudinal Survey (UKHLS).

Gender Differences in Depression Across Europe: A Systematic Review of Cross-National Studies

Principal Investigators: Daniel Hagen, Emily Goldmann

Unipolar depressive disorders are consistently more common among females among males; however, the magnitude of this gender difference varies among populations. This systematic review seeks to synthesize evidence from nationally representative, cross-national studies across Europe to identify the range of such differences and to signpost potential associations with country-level social policies and cultural norms. 

Acculturation and Depressive Symptoms Among Dominicans in New York City

Researchers: Hagen, D., Goldmann, E., Parikh, N.S., Goodman, M., Boden-Albala, B. 

Acculturation, the extent to which migrants assimilate to the cultural environment of the receiving country, is commonly found to be associated with adverse health outcomes among Hispanic populations in the United States. However, there is comparatively little research on mental health outcomes such as depression, and few studies have investigated differences between Hispanic subpopulations. Against this backdrop, this project uses data from a community health survey among Dominican residents of Northern Manhattan (New York City) to analyze associations between different measures of acculturation and lifetime prevalence of depressive symptoms.


Emily Goldmann

COVID-related stressors and mental health among harm reduction service providers in New York State

Principal Investigator: Emily Goldmann

Researchers: Holly Hagan, Danielle Ompad, Daniel Hagen

Funder: NIH Supplement grant to submit May 15 (NIDA) – not funded; revising to submit as R21

Rapid Assessment of COVID-19 Mental Health and Coping among Marginalized Racial/Ethnic Groups in the U.S. South

Principal Investigator: Emily Goldmann

Co-Is: Lawrence Yang, Supriya Misra, PhuongThao (PT) Le

Researchers: Daniel Hagen 

Funder: Center for Opinion Research at the University of Texas at Tyler

Seeking new students: Yes

New marijuana products: Implications for sexual effects and sexual risk behavior

Principal Investigator: Emily Goldmann

Researchers: Danielle Ompad, Melody Goodman, Daniel Hagen, Simon Sandh

Funder: Pilot grant funded by the Center for Drug Use and HIV/HCV Research (CDUHR) Pilot Projects and Mentoring Core ($5000)

Seeking new students: No

Ten Challenges to Global Mental Health Surveillance.

Principal Investigator: Emily Goldmann

Researchers:

Funder: n/a

Seeking new students: No

The Rapid Behavioral Health Assessment: A validated post-disaster survey instrument.

Principal Investigators: Emily Goldmann, David Abramson

Researchers: Rachael Piltch-Loeb R

Marital status and behavioral health by sexual orientation among New York City adults.

Principal Investigators: Goldmann E, Liu Y, Feng Y.

Psychological distress and its association with childlessness among Ghanaian women living in Accra.

Principal Investigators: Traub A, Goldmann E, Ompad DC, Adanu R.

Comparing behavioral health estimates across US population-based studies.

Principal Investigators: Goldmann E, McGill M, Ompad DC, Goodman M.

Available datasets for mental health surveillance in Ghana.

Principal Investigators: Goldmann E, Poku O, Hagen D.


Lawrence Yang

Characterizing cognition across the lifespan in untreated psychosis in China (9/1/15- 5/31/20)

Principal Investigator: Lawrence Yang, Gary Yu (Co-I)

Researchers: Margaux Grivel

Grant: 1 R01 MH108385,  National Institutes of Mental Health, 2016- 2021

China is implementing a national project that is a historic transformation of its mental health services and is the largest national program to offer treatment to persons with psychosis. This project provides an unprecedented opportunity to study the ‘natural state’ of cognition in a large untreated sample of individuals with psychosis (n=400), in the absence of the effect of medications, compared with a treated sample (n=400) and healthy controls (n=400).  The research training program increases capacity to intervene with untreated psychosis to serve as a model for scale-up for first intervention in China.

Whether this project is seeking new students: NO

Stigmatization of HIV/AIDS, SARS, and COVID-19 (Coronavirus)

Principal Investigator: Lawrence Yang, Don De Jarlais

Funder: None

Researchers: Margaux Grivel, Sarah Lieff

This proposal seeks to rapidly respond to stigma elicited by the COVID-19 pandemic by Assessing stigma related to COVID, HIV/AIDS and SARS among 1,200 general community members in New York 

Whether this project is seeking new students: YES

Rapid Response Testing of empirically-based Messaging to Reduce COVID-Related Stigma towards Chinese Americans

Principal Investigator: Lawrence Yang; Co-I: Supriya Misa, PhuongThao (PT) Le

Researchers: Emily Goldmann, Sophia Meifang Wang, Ashley Feng

This proposal seeks to rapidly respond to racial stigma elicited by the COVID-19 pandemic by  1) Assessing COVID-related stigma among 1,200 general community members in New York towards Chinese- and Asian- Americans; 2) Testing efficacy of stigma reduction messages among these 1,200 general community members to reduce COVID-related stigma towards Chinese Americans; and 3) Assessing the acceptability of and disseminating anti-stigma messages found to be effective via public health initiatives in NY and nationally.

Funder (none), Dates: 2020 to present

Whether this project is seeking new students: NO

Characterizing cognition across the lifespan in untreated psychosis in China (9/1/15- 5/31/20)

Principal Investigator: Lawrence Yang, Gary Yu (Co-I)

Researchers: Margaux Grivel

Grant: 1 R01 MH108385,  National Institutes of Mental Health, 2016- 2021

China is implementing a national project that is a historic transformation of its mental health services and is the largest national program to offer treatment to persons with psychosis. This project provides an unprecedented opportunity to study the ‘natural state’ of cognition in a large untreated sample of individuals with psychosis (n=400), in the absence of the effect of medications, compared with a treated sample (n=400) and healthy controls (n=400).  The research training program increases capacity to intervene with untreated psychosis to serve as a model for scale-up for first intervention in China.

Whether this project is seeking new students: NO