Book chapters

Elsevier,

Antimalarial Agents, 2020, Pages 1-48

This book chapter advances SDGs 3 and 15 by explaining how malaria presents challenges that are heavily linked to multiple sustainability goals, and advances in drug-development is a key part of addressing future challenges here.
Elsevier,

Three Facets of Public Health and Paths to Improvements: Behavior, Culture, and Environment, 2020, Pages 353-380

This book chapter advances SDG 3, 5, and 10 through its examination of structural racism in the provision of health care services to black women in racially segregated black communities
Elsevier,

Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 59, 2020, Pages 1-30

This chapter addresses SDG5, SDG10, and SDG16 by critically examining the concept of social essentialism and its adverse consequences for justice and equality, particularly around issues of race and gender.
Elsevier,

Community Mental Health Engagement with Racially Diverse Populations, 2020, Pages 113-132

This chapter addresses Goal 3 by exploring a faith-based mental health promotion (FBMHP) programme.
Elsevier,

Community Mental Health Engagement with Racially Diverse Populations, 2020, Pages 15-48

This chapter addresses SDGs 3 and 10 by addressing the disparities existing in mental healthcare in the US Latinx population.
Elsevier,

The Developing Microbiome, 2020, Pages 21-41

This book chapter advances SDGs 3 and 10 by explaining how the acquisition of microbial communities during early life is closely intertwined with children’s immune and metabolic development. Environmental influences like prenatal maternal factors, delivery mode, peripartum antibiotic administration, nutrition, and the indoor microbiome in the hospital and home play a part during this critical early window.
Elsevier,

Community Mental Health Engagement with Racially Diverse Populations, 2020, Pages 15-48

This chapter addresses SDG 10 and SDG 3 by discussing the issues currently driving mental healthcare disparities in the Latinx population and how these approaches can provide a viable way to reduce them.
Elsevier,

Community Mental Health Engagement with Racially Diverse Populations, May 2020, Pages 49-82

This book chapter advances SDG 3 and 10 by outlining a community-based participatory research (CBPR) project where academic researchers and community organization leaders identify mental health and parenting needs through a needs assessment and panel discussion
Elsevier,

Community Mental Health Engagement with Racially Diverse Populations, May 2020, Pages 83-111

This book chapter advances SDG 3 and 10 by reviewing the health and mental health inequities of American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities and how to overcome the disparities.
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Community Mental Health Engagement with Racially Diverse Populations, May 2020, Pages 133-159

This book chapter advances SDG 3 and 10 by reviewing important considerations for working with Arab/Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) youth, including considerations of acculturation, discrimination, and cultural considerations regarding clinical care

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