News and Events
November 2025
Sean Stielow was an invited guest on the American Public Health Association’s Nation’s Health Podcast, where he discussed his research on early mortality among young Black men. Listen here.
October 2025
Carson Bohl, Ella Minyoung Lee, and Sean Stielow presented their research at the 2025 Southern Harm Reduction Conference. Carson and Ella co-presented their talk titled “Feasibility and Challenges of Street-Based Harm Reduction in Atlanta." Sean gave a talk titled “Effects of SNAP and TANF Drug Felony Bans on Criminal-Legal, Economic, and Health Outcomes: A Rapid Review of Collateral Consequences."
Taylor Nelson received the Health Equity Award in the Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Sciences Department to support her thesis titled: Understanding Cultural Obstacles to Mental Health Care Access for Black Women in U.S. Correctional Facilities and Pathways for Strategic Intervention.
September 2025
Dr. Kaitlin Piper taught a week-long course on Implementation Science at Hanoi Medical University in Vietnam as part of the NIH Fogarty International Center’s D43 training program, CONVERGE, which trains the next generation of scientific leaders in the prevention of sex-based and child violence. She also gave a grand rounds lecture at Hanoi Medical University titled “From Evidence to Impact: Advancing Population Health Through Implementation Science.”
Dr. Kaitlin Piper and colleagues at the Emory Injury Prevention Research Center received funding from the Pediatric Research Alliance for their project, “Caregiver, Teen, and Provider Perspectives on Lethal Means Counseling in a Community Hospital Emergency Department.”
August 2025
Sean Stielow received the APHA Catherine Barber Research Award, funding his project: Medicaid Expansion and the Impact on Suicide and Homicide Mortality Rates among Young Black Men in the United States.
Carson Bohl authored an editorial in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, titled “Atlanta can’t be trusted on homelessness plan after Old Wheat Street eviction.” Read here.
The Southeastern HIV Implementation Science Hub, where Dr. Kaitlin Piper serves as Co-Investigator, received funding to strengthen implementation and dissemination science capacity among community partners in support of the Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) initiative.
June 2025
Tasfia Jahangir was accepted into Brown University’s Collaborative Justice-Involved Research and Training (CJRT) Program on Substance Use and HIV.
Mackenzie Hines-Wilson and Sean Stielow presented their research at the 2025 Annual Southeastern Pediatric Research Conference. Their posters were titled “Ethnoracial Disparities in Psychiatric Conditions, Criminal Legal Outcomes, and Case Processing Among Youth in a Juvenile Court Diversion Program” and “Qualitative Barriers to Behavioral Health Treatment among Families Involved in the Juvenile Legal System”, respectively. Sean won second runner up in the poster competition.
April 2025
Ella Minyoung Lee presented her work at the International Harm Reduction Conference in Bogota, Columbia. Her poster was titled “Enhancing Harm Reduction Responsiveness in the Southern United States: A Student-Led Initiative on a University Campus“. Her travel was supported by an award from the Center for HIV and Mental Health Stigma Elimination Strategies (CHIMES).
Tasfia Jahangir received a T32 Predoctoral NIH Fellowship through the Training in Advanced Data Analytics and Computational Sciences to End Drug-Related Harms (TADA) Program at Emory University Rollins School of Public Health.
March 2025
Sean Stielow gave a talk at the Academic Consortium on Criminal Justice and Health (ACCJH) in Austin TX. His talk was titled “Facilitating Pathways to Behavioral Health Services among Youth and Caregivers Involved in a Juvenile Court Diversion Program.”
January 2025
Dr. Kaitlin Piper was selected as the Associate Director for the Injury Prevention Research Center at Emory (IPRCE).
November 2024
Dr. Kaitlin Piper taught a week-long course on Implementation Science in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, as part of the NIH Fogarty International Center’s D43 TITANS training program, which builds research capacity in non-communicable disease prevention and control.
September 2024
Dr. Kaitlin Piper and Tasfia Jahangir received a pilot grant from the Maternal and Child Health Center of Excellence for their project titled “The relationship between neighborhood disadvantage and substance use disorders throughout adolescence and young adulthood: A 16-year longitudinal study of juvenile detainees.”