Principal Investigator: Jasmine Weiss, MD, MHS Increasing the diversity of the physician workforce is critical to addressing health disparities in the United States, particularly for Black Americans. This study will examine the role of undergraduate Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in increasing the representation of Black physicians in medical schools and ultimately the physician workforce.

Principal Investigators: Monisa Aijaz, MD, MPH, Valerie Lewis, PhD, Genevra Murray, PhD   COVID19 has caused dramatic changes to primary care access and delivery that present significant issues to the primary care workforce. First, primary care practices have cancelled large swaths of in person visits while working to rapidly implement telehealth. This is coupled with… Read more »

Investigator: Erin P. Fraher, PhD, MPP; Todd Jensen, PhD, MSW; Brianna Lombardi, PhD, MSW In a Year 10 study, we used latent class analysis (LCA) to describe the career typologies of primary care physicians (PCPs) in North Carolina which found that PCPs were sorted into four types of careers in 2009 and 2019 with high… Read more »

Investigators: Brianna Lombardi, Emily McCartha, Connor Sullivan, Erin Fraher Overview: Workplace violence is described by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) as “any act or threat of physical violence, harassment, intimidation, or other threatening disruptive behavior that occurs at the work site. It ranges from threats and verbal abuse to physical assaults and even homicide.”… Read more »

Investigators: Lisa de Saxe Zerden, PhD, MSW; Brianna Lombardi, PhD, MSW; Erica Richman, PhD, MSW; Alex Forte, MSW; Evan Galloway, MPS Objective: Targeted planning for co-location of DEA-waivered buprenorphine prescribers and BH clinicians could increase the use of medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD). Presently, less than half of all waivered prescribers, outside of hospitals, are co-located… Read more »

Investigators: Emily M. Hawes, PharmD, BCPS, CPP; Brianna Lombardi, PhD, MSW; Evan Galloway, MPS; Hilary A. Campbell, PharmD, JD; Cristen P. Page, MD, MPH; Mary Roth McClurg, PharmD, MHS Objective: Despite evidence supporting the integration of pharmacists in team-based primary care, little information exists on the co-location of pharmacists with primary care physicians in the United States… Read more »

Investigators: Brianna Lombardi, PhD, MSW, Lisa de Saxe Zerden, PhD, MSW, and Erin Fraher, PhD, MPP Rapid growth of social work degree programs, along with a diverse array of social work practice areas makes it is difficult to describe and count the social work profession. This project examines the data sources that could be used to… Read more »

Investigators: Brianna Lombardi, PhD, MSW; Lisa de Saxe Zerden, PhD, MSW; Erica L. Richman, PhD, MSW This study will investigate how integrated health care (IHC) teams adapted during COVID-19 with a specific focus on their use of tele-health and how they adapted components of IHC such as warm hand-offs between providers and patients, referral linkages, and communication… Read more »

The Sheps Center is proud to host a Lunch & Learn series this year focused on statistical methods for analyzing data.  These sessions will be facilitated by Chuck Huber from StataCorp.  Read more about Dr. Huber below. Recordings of each session will be posted on this page.   September 19, 2024 12-1pm EST Introduction to… Read more »

Here you will find a list of publications affiliated with the Sheps Center from August 2023 – November 2023.   Berkowitz SA, Basu S, Hanmer J. Eliminating Food Insecurity in the USA: a Target Trial Emulation Using Observational Data to Estimate Effects on Health-Related Quality of Life. J Gen Intern Med. 2023 Aug;38(10):2308-2317. doi: 10.1007/s11606-023-08095-6…. Read more »

Here you will find a list of publications affiliated with the Sheps Center from March 2023 – July 2023.   Kent, E. E., deJong, N. A., Barnette, H., Deaton, S., Appert, K., Ming, D. Y. (2023). Caregiving across the life course: a health policy priority for North Carolina. North Carolina Medical Journal, 84(3), 114-118. Mayo-Wilson… Read more »

Here you will find a list of publications affiliated with the Sheps Center from December 2022 – March 2023. Davis SA, Thomas KC. Patterns of mental health service use during the transition to adulthood among autistic adolescents and young adults, Autism in Adulthood (in press). Hynes DM, Thomas KC. Realigning theory with evidence to understand… Read more »

Here you will find a list of publications affiliated with the Sheps Center from August 2022 – December 2022. Shabo, V. & Friedman, H.R. (2022). Health, Work, and Care in Rural America. New America Policy Report Shook-Sa, Bonnie E., M.G. Hudgens, A.L. Kavee, and D.L. Rosen. 2022. “Estimating the number of persons with HIV in… Read more »

Here you will find a list of publications affiliated with the Sheps Center from March 2022 – July 2022. Richmond J, Adams LB, Annis IE, Ellis AR, Perryman T, Sikich L, Thomas KC. Rapid and Deferred Help-Seeking among African American Parents of Children with Emotional and Behavioral Difficulties, Psychiatric Services. (in press)  Fraher EP, Lombardi… Read more »