Dr. Lauren Clay
Research Interests: Community, household, and individual health consequences of disasters and public health emergencies; food environment disruption and food and nutrition insecurity following disasters; stress and mental health; individual and household capital; community resilience
Current Projects:
- CAREER: Bolstering Food System Resilience to Reduce the Human Impacts of Disasters:The focus of this Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program award is to advance the science of food environments and enhance the mitigation and adaptation of social and built environment systems to disasters by bolstering food security and the resilience of food systems.
- Developing a Disaster Food Security Scale: This study looks at how we can better measure food insecurity following disasters – when you experience other barriers to food security besides not having enough money.
- National Food Access and COVID Research Team (NFACT) – New York: This study looks at the experience of New Yorkers with accessing food, the impact of COVID-19 on their households, and strategies used to cope and adapt. New York is one of 15 states contributing to the national NFACT team.
- RAPID: Understanding Evacuation, Sheltering, and Re-entry decisions & Weather Ready Research: This project seeks to understand how households made decisions about evacuating for Hurricane Laura amid COVID-19 risk and how local emergency managers made decisions about how to manage evacuation and shelters during the dual hazards of a hurricane and a pandemic.
- Developing a Culturally Relevant NAAN Food Security Scale: The goal of this project is to understand the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Native American community on meeting their individual and community food needs. Understanding the impacts will inform the development of a culturally relevant measure of food security.
Gary Williams, Jr.
Research Interests: Stress responses/reactions in paramedic students during high fidelity simulations.
Current Projects:
Prior Research:
- National Science Foundation: Kleinsmith, Andrea (Principal), Levy, Jennifer (Co-Principal), Williams, Gary B (Supporting), “REU supplemental for CHS: Small: Non-Acted Affective Body Expression Recognition for Simulation Training with Paramedics,” Grant (Funded), Sponsored by National Science Foundation, Federal, $7,000.00. (June 27, 2019 – July 2026).
- National Science Foundation: Kleinsmith, Andrea (Principal), Mentis, Helena M (Co-Principal), Levy, Jennifer (Co-Principal), Williams, Gary B (Supporting), “CHS:Small: Stress Reflection Systems in Medical Team Training,” Grant (Funded), Sponsored by National Science Foundation, Federal, $369,643.00. (September 1, 2018 – 2021).