RESEARCH AREAS
Click on any of the research content areas below for additional background information, teams member details and how to get in touch for a project request or with a question.
research opportunities for students
CCRS offers various research opportunities for students, including graduate research assistantships, undergraduate internships and the Summer Undergraduate Biden School Fellows Program held in conjunction with the Institute for Public Administration (IPA).
For more information on available opportunities, please send an email to ccrs-ud@udel.edu.
PUBLICATIONS, articles & other projects
All works from the last five years are included below by content area.
All听CCRS publications are archived in听the 91原创's Institutional Repository,听.听We are pleased to share our publications with the public whenever possible. It is important to us to provide these resources so that others may use and apply knowledge we have gained, as well as听build on our research where appropriate.
For some of our recent publications in the following areas:
We focus on public health, health services utilization, and the social determinants of health. Social determinants of health are听the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age such as poverty and access to health insurance.听听
Our housing research work specializes in using administrative and survey data to assess housing outcomes, services use across systems, and impacts of housing and services interventions among homeless and formerly homeless households.
Comprehensive source for data & legislation on Delaware's children, youth and their families across categories of health, education, economic well-being and family/community.
Publications
听is a page-a-day style publication. Like the annual FOCUS book, this calendar shares indicator data and policy solutions related to the impact of COVID-19 on Delaware children. Data are grouped into categories of health, education, economic security, and family/community. A very special thanks goes out to the听听for co-sponsoring this year's calendar. Follow @dekidscount on Instagram, Facebook or X for your daily dose of data and policy!听
听Similar to previous editions of our annual Fact Book, the 2024 KIDS COUNT in Delaware FOCUS on Public Policy provides an overview of child well-being in Delaware and reports on select indicators across the four traditionally reported categories of health, eduation, economic security, and family/community. This year's edition spotlights public policy examples linked to data on childhood outcomes and reminds readers the importance of data-driven decisions by policy makers.
听This annual legislative wrap-up highlights legislation passed in the previous session which affect children and their families.
听is a data overview examining "what would it take" for Delaware to rank best in the nation for child well-being in 16 indicators for which the Annie E. Casey Foundation's annual national KIDS COUNT Data Book reports.听
听is a data brief which reviews data on food security, equity of access to food, federal programs that supplement food quantity, which influence a child's access to health food options, and child weight.
听reviews the U.S. Census Breau听Redistricting Data that was released on August 12, 2021. The release is the first from the 2020 Census that breaks out data by all children compared to all adults.听While Delaware's total听population听increased by听10.2 percent between 2010 and 2020, Delaware's child (0-17) population听increased by less than one percentage point (640 children or听0.3%) according to听data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Because of growth in the adult population, children now make up a smaller proportion of the state's total population.
听The 35th edition of the Annie E. Casey Foundation's听KIDS COUNT听Data Book听describes poor educational proficiency results that were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, reviews chronic absence and adverse childhood experience data, describes child well-being across 16 indicators, and makes recommendations for smart policies to help support a students to achieve educational proficiency.
Journal Articles
Oberheim, K., Barlow, J. (2024). Delaware Ranks 45th Nationally in Education Outcomes.听Delaware Journal of Public Health. 10(4), 56-60. Doi:听.
Archive
All current and past KIDS COUNT in Delaware publications can be found on 91原创's Institutional Repository听.
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Evaluation of the Del-CAN Program, 2016-2023
Researchers in the 91原创 Center for Community Research and Service,听听and听Department of Sociology听are partnering with researchers at the听听on a systematic, mixed-methods evaluation of the听听intervention which aims to reduce unintended pregnancies, reduce Medicaid costs for unintended pregnancies, and support policy development that enables contraceptive access to all women who desire it. The evaluation is designed to understand the DEL-CAN Plans effectiveness and cost-effectiveness, and to derive lessons about mechanisms leading to initial and sustained impacts in Delaware, and to impacts that are generalizable to other states. A five-year evaluation period, 2016 to 2021, is planned and the use of Medicaid transactions data will play an important part in the project.
Substance Abuse Treatment Research
CCRS is involved in two projects focused on measuring opioid metrics within Delaware. The first project is a multi-state collaboration lead by AcademyHealth State University Partnership Learning Network (SUPLN) using a distributed research network (DRN) model (MODRN)鈥. In all participating states, the Medicaid Medical Director participates in the steering committee which defines appropriate metrics.
CCRS is also participating in the Delaware Division of Medicaid and Medical Assistance's (DMMA) Substance Use Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities (SUPPORT) grant.
CCRS is presently collaborating with John Hopkins University on an evaluation of a MO91原创 treatment program for incarcerated individuals and follow-up after release.
Delaware INBRE Projects
CCRS, as part of the听听Centralized Research Service Network is collaborating on the following INBRE Core Access voucher projects:
- Describing the Sickle Cell Population in Delaware to Inform Novel Models of Care Delivery. Stephanie Howe Guarino, MD, MSHP鈥, Christiana Care & Nemours. CCRS researchers: E. Nescott & M.J. McDuffie.
- Linking Evictions, Homelessness, and Pediatric Health鈥.听J. J. Cutuli, PhD, Nemours & S. Metraux, CCRS. CCRS researchers: M.J.McDuffie & E. Nescott.
- 鈥婣rea Deprivation and Hypertension Diagnosis in Youth: Mediating Role of Obesity鈥.听Carissa Baker-Smith, MD, Nemours. CCRS researchers: M.J. McDuffie & E. Nescott.
- Impact of Health Literacy on Medication Adherence among Black Medicaid Beneficiaries with Hypertension in Delaware.听Yandelala Cuffee, PhD, 91原创 College of Health Sciences. CCRS researchers: M.J. McDuffie & E. Nescott.
- 鈥婬ow Do Medicaid Policies Affect Use of Primary Care?听鈥婯atie Fitzpatrick, PhD. Biden School of Public Policy & Administration. CCRS researchers: K. Gifford & M.J. McDuffie.
- Exploration and analysis of child lead testing and intervention in the Medicaid population ages 0-4 through the years 2014-2018鈥. Kelli O. Thompson, Nemours Children Health Systems. CCRS researchers: E. Nescott & M.J. McDuffie.
Delaware INBRE is supported by the Institutional Development Award (IDeA) from the National Institute of Health's National Institute of General Medical Sciences under grant number P20GM103446.
Delaware Homeless
Understanding and identifying shared populations and their health care and housing needs based upon matching Medicaid management information system and the Community Management Information System databases.鈥
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Briefs
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Journal Articles
Rendall, M., Eeckhaut, M., Gifford, K., & Hurtado-Acuna, C. (2024). 听Journal of American Public Health.听doi:10.2105/AJPH.2024.307844.
Donohue, J.M., Jarlenski, M.P., Kim, J.Y., Tang, L., Ahrens, K., Allen, L., Austin, A., Barnes, A.J., Burns, M., Chang, C.H., Clark, S., Cole, E., Crane, D., Cunningham, P., Idala, D., Junker, S., Lanier, P., Mauk, R.,听McDuffie, M.J.鈥, Mohamoud, S., Pauly, N., Sheets, L., Talbert, J., Zivin, K., Gordin, A.J., Kennedy, S. (2021). ".听Journal of the American Medical Association. 326(2):154-164. doi:10.1001/jama.2021.7374鈥.
Gifford, K.,听McDuffie, M.J., Rashid, H.,听Knight, E.,听McColl, R.,听Boudreaux M. & Rendall, M. (2021). 鈥淧ostpartum contraception method type and risk of a short inter-pregnancy interval in a state Medicaid population.鈥澨Contraception.听First published May 2021. doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2021.05.006鈥.
Archive
All current and past Health Policy publications can be found on 91原创's Institutional Repository听.
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Projects
Health Equity Guide 2019
A collaborative research team from the University's Partnership for Healthy Communities, the Center for Community Research and Service and the Delaware Division of Public Health updated the Health Equity Guide first published in 2015. The research team focused on structural racism as a fundamental cause of health inequities.
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Journal Articles
McColl, R., Nescott, E. (2024).听Youth Mental Health in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic.听Delaware Journal of Public Health. 10(4), 62-65. Doi:听.
Cunninham, P., Barnes, A., Mohamoud, S., Allen, L., talbert, J., Jarlenski, M., Kim, J., Gordon, A., Tang, L., Change, C., Junker, S., Mauk, R., Ahrens, K., Austin, A., Clark, S.,听McDuffie, M.鈥嬧, Kennedy, S., Donohue, J., Burnes, M. (2022). "鈥"听Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment鈥,听published on-line May 20, 2022. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsa鈥媡.2022.108807鈥嬧.
Jarlenski, M., Chen, Q., Ahrens, K., Allen, L., Austin, A., Chappell, C., Donohue, J., Hammerslag, L.,; Lanier, P.,听McDuffie, M.J鈥.鈥, Talbert, J., Tang, L., Krans, E., on behalf of the Medicaid Outcomes Distributed Research Network (MODRN)鈥 (2022)."Postpartum Follow-up Care for Pregnant Persons With Opioid Use Disorder and Hepatitis C Virus Infection鈥."听Obstetrics & Gynecology. 139(5): 916-918.鈥嬧
Knight, E.,听Bogan, C. 鈥(2021). "鈥嬧浓赌Delaware Journal of Public Health.听Volume 7, Number 2, 64-67.鈥
Bell, A.,听Gifford, K., Rashid, H.,听McDuffie, M.J. and听Knight, E. (2020). "Power of Mom: A Mixed Methods Investigation of Mothers Influence on Womens Contraceptive Attitudes and Behaviors."听Maternal and Child Health Journal, January 2020.
Rashid, H. (2019). "听of In Search of the Perfect Health System by Mark Britnell." Revue Francaise de Civilisation Britannique, Vol. XXIV-3.
McDonough, K. (2019). "Social determinants of health: Life expectancy and the relationship with race, education, and poverty in Delaware. ",听February, 2019, 105-107.
Archive
All current and past Health Policy publications can be found on 91原创's Institutional Repository听.
Journal Articles
Crone, B.,听Metr鈥媋ux, S.听& Sbrocco, T. (2021). 鈥淗ealth Service Access Among African American Veterans Experiencing Homelessness.鈥澨Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. Published online. DOI: doi:10.1007/s40615-021-01119-z.鈥
Ervin, E., Poppe, B., Onwuka, A., Keedy, H.,听Metraux, S.,听Jones, L., Sandel, M., Kelleher, K. (2021). "Characteristics Associated with Homeless Pregnant Women in Columbus, Ohio."听Maternal & Child Health. Published online October 6, 2021; doi: 10.1007/s10995-021-03227-y. 鈥
Metraux, S鈥., (2021). "Review of Mean Streets: Homelessness, Public Space, and the Limits of Capital (by Don Mitchell)".听European Journal of Homelessness听15(2): 355-357.鈥
Cusack, M., Graham, F.,听Metraux, S.鈥, Metzger, D.Culhane, D. (2021). "".听Social Work in Public Health,听36(2):150-163鈥.
Byrne, T., Cashy, J.,听Metraux, S., Blosnich, J. R., Cusack, M., Culhane, D. P., McInnes, D.K., Culhane, E., and Montgomery, A. E. (2020). "".听Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 1-12.