Alana Rosenberg, MPH
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2024
“It’s just us sitting there for 23 hours like we done something wrong”: Isolation, incarceration, and the COVID-19 pandemic
Rosenberg A, Puglisi L, Thomas K, Halberstam A, Martin R, Brinkley-Rubinstein L, Wang E. “It’s just us sitting there for 23 hours like we done something wrong”: Isolation, incarceration, and the COVID-19 pandemic. PLOS ONE 2024, 19: e0297518. PMID: 38354166, PMCID: PMC10866499, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0297518.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsIncarcerated peopleCarceral settingsUnited States prisonsState prisonsMedical isolationCOVID-19 pandemicJailPrisonIsolation policyUnited StatesSocial relationshipsCOVID-19PolicyMental healthSocial contactPeopleIncarcerationPunishmentNegative impactFacility leadershipPandemicUnitsDiverse locationsEmploymentResults long term
2023
A Qualitative Study of Racial, Ethnic, and Cultural Experiences of Minority Clinicians During Agitation Care in the Emergency Department
Agboola I, Rosenberg A, Robinson L, Brashear T, Eixenberger C, Shah D, Pavlo A, Im D, Ray J, Coupet E, Wong A. A Qualitative Study of Racial, Ethnic, and Cultural Experiences of Minority Clinicians During Agitation Care in the Emergency Department. Annals Of Emergency Medicine 2023, 83: 108-119. PMID: 37855791, PMCID: PMC10843036, DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2023.09.014.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsEmergency departmentPatients of colorED cliniciansQuaternary care medical centerSemistructured individual interviewsMarginalized patient populationsManagement of agitationEthnic minority groupsEmergency careMinority patientsHealth careAgitation managementIndividual interviewsThematic analysisPrimary themesQualitative studyKey themesClinical interactionsOpen codingGroup discussionsMoral injuryCareMedical CenterAgitated patientsMinority groups“Being homeless can burn you out”: a qualitative study of individuals’ experience of administrative burden when accessing homeless services
Robinson L, Schlesinger P, Rosenberg A, Blankenship K, Keene D. “Being homeless can burn you out”: a qualitative study of individuals’ experience of administrative burden when accessing homeless services. Journal Of Social Distress And The Homeless 2023, 33: 438-447. DOI: 10.1080/10530789.2023.2237242.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchHomeless servicesAdministrative burdenAffordable housing optionsUnderutilization of servicesRental assistanceHousing resourcesHousing optionsHomelessnessEviction crisisQualitative studyNew formsIndividual experiencesUnited StatesServicesExperienceNew HavenHousingInequitiesCrisisHavenUnmet needAssistanceInvestmentIndividualsSignificant effortsStructural Racism, the Social Determination of Health, and Health Inequities: The Intersecting Impacts of Housing and Mass Incarceration
Blankenship K, Rosenberg A, Schlesinger P, Groves A, Keene D. Structural Racism, the Social Determination of Health, and Health Inequities: The Intersecting Impacts of Housing and Mass Incarceration. American Journal Of Public Health 2023, 113: s58-s64. PMID: 36696621, PMCID: PMC9877374, DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2022.307116.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsStructural racismHealth inequitiesMass incarcerationConceptualization of racismAffordable housing optionsImpact of housingRacist practicesRace inequitiesHousing optionsSegregated neighborhoodsPublic health researchersRacismUS societySocial determinationBlack peopleRacial health disparitiesHealth equityHousingSocial determinantsInequitiesNew formsHealth researchersPolicyIncarcerationHealth disparities
2022
Paths to Improving Pandemic Preparedness in Jails and Prisons: Perspectives of Incarcerated People and Correctional Staff
Puglisi L, Rosenberg A, Credle M, Negron T, Martin R, Maner M, Brinkley-Rubinstein L, Wang E. Paths to Improving Pandemic Preparedness in Jails and Prisons: Perspectives of Incarcerated People and Correctional Staff. American Journal Of Public Health 2022, 112: s869-s873. PMID: 36446054, PMCID: PMC9707706, DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2022.306956.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchEviction, post-traumatic stress, and emergency department use among low-income individuals in New Haven, CT
Smith PD, Groves AK, Langellier BA, Keene DE, Rosenberg A, Blankenship KM. Eviction, post-traumatic stress, and emergency department use among low-income individuals in New Haven, CT. Preventive Medicine Reports 2022, 29: 101956. PMID: 36161139, PMCID: PMC9502672, DOI: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2022.101956.Peer-Reviewed Original Research“I was reaching out for help and they did not help me”: Mental healthcare in the carceral state
Preston A, Rosenberg A, Schlesinger P, Blankenship K. “I was reaching out for help and they did not help me”: Mental healthcare in the carceral state. Health & Justice 2022, 10: 23. PMID: 35877017, PMCID: PMC9317046, DOI: 10.1186/s40352-022-00183-9.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchQualitative study of patient experiences and care observations during agitation events in the emergency department: implications for systems-based practice
Wong AH, Ray JM, Eixenberger C, Crispino LJ, Parker JB, Rosenberg A, Robinson L, McVaney C, Iennaco JD, Bernstein SL, Yonkers KA, Pavlo AJ. Qualitative study of patient experiences and care observations during agitation events in the emergency department: implications for systems-based practice. BMJ Open 2022, 12: e059876. PMID: 35545394, PMCID: PMC9096567, DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-059876.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsEmergency departmentAgitation eventsQualitative studyEmergency careQualitative studies of patients' experiencesPhysical restraintStudies of patients' experiencesAvoidance of physical restraintSystem of healthcare deliveryPhysical restraint useEmergency care networkCommunity-based teaching hospitalSystems-based practiceTertiary care academic centreInterviews of patientsVerbal de-escalationGrounded theory approachPatient-oriented strategiesExposure to psychological traumaExcessive psychomotor activityCare approachSocioeconomic inequalitiesPatient experienceRestraint useCare networkEviction, intimate partner violence and HIV: Expanding concepts and assessing the pathways through which sexual partnership dynamics impact health
Groves AK, Smith PD, Gebrekristos LT, Keene DE, Rosenberg A, Blankenship KM. Eviction, intimate partner violence and HIV: Expanding concepts and assessing the pathways through which sexual partnership dynamics impact health. Social Science & Medicine 2022, 305: 115030. PMID: 35594760, PMCID: PMC9332133, DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115030.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHIV sexual riskSexual partnership dynamicsHIV riskSexual riskLongitudinal cohort studySexual risk factorsIPV victimizationCohort studyNegative health effectsRisk factorsViolence screeningPartnership dynamicsHealth effectsDisproportionate riskPotential mediatorsPolicy-level solutionsIntimate partner violenceIPV perpetrationRiskPartner violence victimizationTwo-thirdsIntimate partner violence (IPV) victimizationBaselineOne-fifthPartner violenceMeeting the Moment by Vaccinating Prison Staff Against COVID-19
Meyer, J. P., King, J., & Rosenberg, A. (2022, March). Meeting the Moment by Vaccinating Prison Staff Against COVID-19. In JAMA Health Forum (Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. e220107-e220107). American Medical AssociationCommentaries, Editorials and Letters
News
News
- April 14, 2022
Welcome New Members of the Department of Internal Medicine (April 2022)
- April 29, 2020Source: Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health
Staying Home Without a Home: The Housing Crisis and COVID-19
- January 23, 2020Source: Stat News
‘Traumatic as hell’: Patients describe what it’s like to be restrained in the ER
- January 23, 2020Source: MD Mag
ED Patient Restraints Foster Healthcare Distrust