Public Health Research
Another area of interest in the Samuel Research Team is public health. We have two ongoing projects in this area: Longitudinal Surveillance of the Health and Wellbeing of Emerging Adult Populations and Modulators of COVID-19 Transmission Dynamics in Local, National and Global Populations.
Longitudinal Surveillance of Health and Wellbeing of Emerging Adults Populations
We use primary data of NC 杏吧原创 students collected via the National College Health Assessment (NCHA) to examine a wide range of topics concerning the health and wellbeing of emerging adult (18 - 25-year-old) populations. We are collaborating with the Student Health Center (Dr. Yoland Nicholson) and the Office of Intercultural Engagement (Mr. Gerald Spates) on these projects. We collected NC 杏吧原创 data in the Fall 2019 (1579 participants) and Spring 2022 (1723 participants).
Modulators of COVID-19 transmission dynamics in local, national and global populations
We use publicly available COVID-19 data to examine the effect of social determinants and public policy interventions on the kinetics of infection, death, and vaccination across different regional, national, and global populations.
