Linda S Sprague Martinez
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4100578 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Linda S Sprague Martinez |
| NOMBRES | Linda S Sprague |
| APELLIDO | Martinez |
| FIRMA | MARTINEZ L S S |
| AFILIACIONES | Boston University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5070-7640 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 63 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 104 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 63 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2011 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Community Advisory Board Members Speak Out
INTRODUCTION: Incorporating the knowledge of people who use/have used drugs into academic research presents the possibility of new ways of understanding drug use, increasing opportunities for equitable outcomes. Community Advisory Boards (CAB) are part of the community-engaged research continuum offering community members clearly defined roles and a structure to advise academic researchers. Acting in an advisory capacity, CAB members have a platf…
Reimagining Mentoring in Social Work Doctoral Programs
Mentoring plays an essential role in cultivating current and prospective social work scholars, educators, and practitioners by fostering supportive relationships that promote skill development, degree completion, and career advancement. However, mentoring relationships in social work doctoral programs are subject to interlocking systems of power and oppression reproduced in the academy including settler colonialism, white supremacy, and neolibera…
Community Engagement in Long Covid
BACKGROUND: In 2021, the National Institutes of Health launched a multi-centre observational study on long Covid: Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER). Six Boston academic medical centres joined community partners to become the Boston COVID Recovery Cohort (BCRC), a consortium of RECOVER sites. Our consortium developed a community engagement model, and this manuscript shares lessons and recommendations. DESIGN AND PARTICIPANTS: The BCR…
The Use of Community Engagement in Implementation
INTRODUCTION: Black women are disproportionately impacted by HIV in the United States, yet Black women are rarely called upon to engage in intervention development, implementation and evaluation. As a result, interventions continuously fail to reflect their priorities and needs. Incorporating the meaningful involvement of Black women with HIV and community organisations that serve them into implementation processes is necessary if interventions a…
Work Really Is Being Done and It's Very Worthwhile
Background: The federally-funded four-state HEALing Communities Study (HCS) aims to reduce fatal opioid overdoses. Each state was required to establish a Community Advisory Board (CAB). CABs have the potential to shape research priorities, ensuring relevance to affected communities. Objectives: Describe personal and professional benefits of Massachusetts HCS CAB participation. Discuss strategies that promote HCS-MA CAB member benefits. Methods: N…
Beyond Survival
Objectives. To evaluate the sustainability of bundled interventions aimed at expanding the delivery and utilization of HIV care and treatment services, tackling socio cultural health determinants, and improving health outcomes for Black women with HIV. Methods. We used quantitative data from the Program Sustainability Assessment Tool (PSAT) to examine sustainability capacity across sites in the United States. Qualitative data from monthly call fo…
Critical Reflections From the Black Women First Initiative
In 2020, the Health Resources and Services Administration launched the first initiative focused on Black women in nearly 40 years of the HIV epidemic: the Black Women First initiative. A critical step toward advancing racial equity, the initiative addressed the health and social needs of diverse Black women in HIV care and treatment. In this essay, we posit that the disproportionate burden of HIV/AIDS experienced by Black women is rooted in racis…
Intersectional HIV Stigma Among Black Women
Objectives. To explore intersectional stigma and sociodemographic characteristics, with consideration of US regional differences, among Black women with HIV enrolled in the Black Women First (BWF) initiative. Methods. In this prospective, nonrandomized study, participants’ stigma scale responses and sociodemographic data were collected between May 2021 and August 2023. Participants participated in bundled interventions tailored to Black women’s n…
The Process and Cost of Developing a Community Advisory Board Focused on Opioid Overdose Deaths
Background: We describe the Community Advisory Board (CAB) development and costing processes employed by The Helping to End Addiction Long-term (HEALing) Communities Study, Massachusetts (HCS-MA). The actual process and costs associated with establishing a CAB representative of people who use drugs have not been published. Methods: A participatory process was used to identify and recruit CAB members. Health economics costing strategies were used …
Social vulnerability shapes the experiences of climate migrants displaced by Hurricane Maria
Climate change-related shocks and stresses are prompting the movement of hundreds of thousands. The purpose of this study is to understand the experiences of climate change migrants, people displaced from these crises from the initial impacts of the hazard to their recent arrivals in a new location. To do so we draw on focus group discussions with Puerto Ricans in South and Central Florida displaced by 2017 hurricane Maria. We document the factor…
Interrogation, Negotiation, and Subversion of Power Differentials in Community-Based Participatory Research
Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action - Volume 18, Number 2, Summer 2024
Interrogation, Negotiation, and Subversion of Power Differentials in Community-Based Participatory Research
Objectives: To review empirical and peer-reviewed scholarly articles incorporating community-based participatory research approaches and examining discourses of how power differentials are interrogated, negotiated, and redressed within the partnerships using scoping review methodology following The Joanna Briggs Institute framework and Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA). Data Sources: Articles were identif…
Long Covid impacts
There is a need for multilingual, accessible information about Long COVID symptoms, improved outreach and healthcare delivery, and increased ease of enrollment in long-term disability and economic support programs
Communities catalyzing change with data to mitigate an invisible menace, traffic-related air pollution
CBPR affords communities the ability to environmental health efforts in a way that is locally meaningful, leveraging their respective strengths. External facilitation can support the continuity and sustainment of community led CBPR efforts
Photography in Social Work and Social Change
Journal Article Photography in Social Work and Social Change: Theory and Applications for Practice and Research. Matthias J. Naleppa, Kristina M. Hash, and Anissa T. Rogers Get access Photography in Social Work and Social Change: Theory and Applications for Practice and Research. Matthias J. Naleppa, Kristina M. Hash, and Anissa T. Rogers. Oxford University Press, 2022. 200 pages. ISBN: 9780197518014. $61.00 hardcover. Linda Sprague Martinez, PhD…
We Continue to Keep This Crisis in the Forefront
Homicide has an effect on the community, as family members are left to grapple with the loss. The Women Survivors of Homicide Movement (WSOHM) is a grassroots effort aimed at empowering women of color to advocate for themselves as a homicide survivor. A systematic analysis was conducted to examine how power and privilege impact the groups' approach to change-making. Mixed research methods were employed including key informant interviews and docum…
Advancing Environmental Justice in the Community Using Charrette
Boston Chinatown residents reaffirmed their investment in the community by highlighting concerns about TRAP within the context of other health-related concerns. Charrettes offer a vehicle to advance environmental justice in communities through collective problem-solving and decision making
Adapting an In-Home Randomized Intervention Trial Protocol for Covid-19 Precautions
We needed to be flexible, creative, and calm when collaborating with community members, the IRB, and the universities, while repeatedly adjusting to changing guidelines as we determined what worked and what did not for in-home data collection. We learned that high-quality air monitoring data could be collected with minimal in-person contact and without compromising the integrity of the trial. Furthermore, we were able to collect blood pressure an…
Nuestra Recuperación [Our Recovery]
The experiences and voices of the Latinx community are crucial to drive discussions that advance policy (e.g., housing stability and access), enhance providers' understanding of Latinx Spanish-speakers' substance use disorder recovery, and inform culturally and linguistically appropriate services. This study demonstrated that photovoice is highly acceptable and feasible among Latinx clients receiving substance use disorder services. Visual images…
Project AquiLá
There are advantages in employing a community engaged transdisciplinary team-based approach to the study of transnationalism, culture and health
Beyond the Manuscript
Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action - Volume 17, Number 4, Winter 2023
Notes from the field
Medical mistrust among the public was amplified during the COVID-19 pandemic due to racial and social inequities in infection rates and misinformation in the media. In Boston, two initiatives were launched by the Boston University Clinical Translational Science Institute (BU CTSI), Boston Medical Center (BMC), community health centers (CHCs), and community organizations to establish longitudinal and authentic partnerships with community-research …
Critical Reflections From Doctoral Students Engaging in Local and Transnational Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) Approaches to Health Promotion
Social work scholars have increasingly adopted Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) approaches to center community voice in research and action to promote youth's healthy development. While valuable contributions have emerged to engage in further dialectical learning processes, limited research has examined in depth the participation, critical reflection, and training of social work graduate students pursuing CBPR. This article emphasize…
Virtual Reality Simulated Learning Environments
PURPOSE: Physician assistants (PAs) and medical degree students (MDs) often lack training in addressing the social determinants of health (SDOH). Social work students (SWs), meanwhile, have extensive SDOH training; however, few medical professionals have opportunities to engage in interprofessional training with SWs. This study examined the feasibility, acceptability, and students' perceptions of an interprofessional virtual reality (VR) simulate…
Advancing Covid-19 Response through Community Participation
COVID-19 has cast a spotlight on the essential need for meaningful community participation in the public health response to a pandemic. In the midst of the global pandemic, community-academic and community-public health partnerships quickly pivoted and expanded their reach to ensure response efforts that reflected community health priorities. The publications in this special issue are instructive reporting on some of the lessons learned and best …
Participatory Research Approaches with Youth
In this manuscript, we explore the promise and challenges of youth participatory action research (YPAR), paying particular attention to ethical issues and power dynamics that emerge in the context of research partnerships between youth and adults. We begin by reviewing the key tenets of YPAR and then go on to discuss how these tenets are often at odds with dominant approaches to research. We describe the tension between the values of YPAR and the…
Community-Engaged Pedagogy
Using a community-engaged pedagogical approach helps to model respect, reciprocity, and power sharing, core principles of CBPR. Although community partners appreciate this approach, traditionally trained academics may find this method unfamiliar and uncomfortable
The Power of Prevention and Youth Voice
The opening plenary session at the 2017 Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work and Research, which focused on ensuring healthy youth development, highlighted the need to include young people as partners in research and evaluation. In doing so, the conference participants joined the voices of a growing group of social work scholars committed to youth participation and engagement, who have also highlighted the importance of youth voice in…
How to Be an Antiracist
This study is part of a larger Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) project engaging youth of color (YOC; aged 16–24 years) in a planning a multilevel health promotion campaign for a large safety net hospital. Analyses focus on youths’ conceptualizations of antiracism, and their recommendations on how to facilitate an intentionally antiracist YPAR. We answer the following questions: (a) How do YOC engaged in a YPAR project conceptualize and…
Critical Discourse, Applied Inquiry and Public Health Action with Urban Middle School Students
The Nuestro Futuro Saludable partnership designed a critical service-learning intervention focused on health equity and action. The ten-week afterschool intervention was implemented in a Boston middle school. Youths who took part in the intervention were knowledgeable about the social determinants of health in their communities, as well as to the barriers to health. Our findings indicate that engaging young people in a meaningful way will be crit…
Creating a Culture of Empowerment in Research
Academic partners who want to work with community partners need to acknowledge these power imbalances and be intentional about shifting these power dynamics. Capacity-building programs can help to shift these power imbalances because they help community partners acquire the confidence, knowledge and skills to advocate for more equitable research relationships
Youth participation in policy advocacy
All Public Health Is Local Revisiting the Importance of Local Sanitation Through the Eyes of Youth
The article reports on Nuestro Futuro Saludable, an afternoon intervention program for Black and Latin students in Boston, Massachusetts between the ages of 11 and 15 that was developed to encourage students to explore the relationship between their living environments, health behaviors and stress. A discussion of the results of the program, which asked the students to record visual impressions of their environment and factors in it which caused …
Team-Building Activities as Strategies for Improving Community-University Partnerships
Team-building activities provide a useful tool for developing supportive environments that encourage open dialogue
Just Research
The Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) created its Research Capacity and Development Committee in 2017 to build research capacity across the careers of social work scholars. The committee has initiated multiple conferences and webinar sessions that have increasingly focused on antiracist and antioppressive (ARAO) research, including "Mentorship for Antiracist and Inclusive Research" and "Strategies for Supporting Antiracist Pedagogy & Sc…
Adult Reflection on Engaging Youth of Color in Research and Action
With the proliferation of participatory approaches to promoting youth development such as Youth-Led Participatory Action Research (YPAR), it is more important than ever that researchers and practitioners understand how to create curriculum that will authentically engage youth of color. To that end, there are important lessons public health researchers can learn from the fields of community psychology, education, and social work, among others. We …
A democratic university–community administrative body dedicated to expanding community-engaged research
The benefits and challenges of community-engaged research (CEnR) partnerships are well documented. The barriers to building sustainable university--community partnerships are many, ranging from a lack of institutional support, historical conflicts, differing time scales, and divergent philosophies to lack of infrastructure on both sides. In order to promote CEnR partnerships and provide a forum to address the challenges of community research part…
Nuestro furturo saludable
Caribbean Latinos are the largest Latino group in Boston, primarily located in the Jamaica Plain (JP) neighborhood. There are various macro-level public health issues that result from the built environment in JP, factors which can create and sustain health disparities. Caribbean Latino youth are a priority group in JP, and it is important to address the causes of disparities early in life to promote good health. Presented here is an integrated re…
Notes from the field
Medical mistrust among the public was amplified during the COVID-19 pandemic due to racial and social inequities in infection rates and misinformation in the media. In Boston, two initiatives were launched by the Boston University Clinical Translational Science Institute (BU CTSI), Boston Medical Center (BMC), community health centers (CHCs), and community organizations to establish longitudinal and authentic partnerships with community-research …
Partnering with immigrant families to promote language justice and equity in education
Despite US federal legislation mandates institutions to provide meaningful access and participation to students and families in educational settings, culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) families and caregivers of children in special education experience cultural and linguistic barriers. A Community Advisory Team (CAT) of parents, advocates, community interpreters and translators, researchers, and teachers explored CLD families' experience…
Priorities, concerns and unmet needs among H aitians in B oston after the 2010 earthquake
In January 2010, a massive earthquake struck Haiti. The devastation not only affected those living in Haiti at the time but also those Haitians living in the United States (U.S.). Few studies have assessed the degree of impact of the earthquake in U.S. Haitian communities. The purpose of this study was to elicit information about health priorities, concerns and resources needed to improve the delivery of health and social care for Haitians in Bos…
Placing Racial Equity at the Center of Substance Use Research
How Is Covid-19 Impacting You? A Community-Based Photovoice Workshop
Let’s Make Space for Young People to Lead
Arts programming can amplify youth voice, creative self-expression, and promote civic engagement and social change. This paper describes a case study of a youth participatory action research at an arts organization in the northeast of the U.S. that promoted youth participation, critical reflection, and action. Field observations and individual interviews with adult and youth staff were conducted and analyzed using thematic analysis. Findings sugg…
Don’t Shoot, I Want to Grow Up”
CBPR presents promising approaches to engage youth meaningfully in health promotion initiatives providing the opportunities for youth researchers to document accurately nuanced understandings of social determinants of health impacting the health and well-being of youth of color
Sprague Martinez and Peréa Respond
The benefits of engaging community stakeholders in research have been well documented.1,2 Community-engaged research has the potential to yield local level data needed to inform the design of interventions reflective of community priorities and assets.1–3 We have found that partnering with community advances the research and can benefit community and academic stakeholders.4–6 However, we are sensitive to the challenges of research partnerships. T…
Nuestro furturo saludable
Caribbean Latinos are the largest Latino group in Boston, primarily located in the Jamaica Plain (JP) neighborhood. There are various macro-level public health issues that result from the built environment in JP, factors which can create and sustain health disparities. Caribbean Latino youth are a priority group in JP, and it is important to address the causes of disparities early in life to promote good health. Presented here is an integrated re…
Research as Curriculum
Community residents in the classroom provided insights that strengthened the research process and helped to develop our understanding of contextual factors that influence health and well-being. This model provides a mechanism by which to fully incorporate undergraduate students in interdisciplinary partnership research for health
Team-Building Activities as Strategies for Improving Community-University Partnerships
Team-building activities provide a useful tool for developing supportive environments that encourage open dialogue
Community-Engaged Pedagogy
Using a community-engaged pedagogical approach helps to model respect, reciprocity, and power sharing, core principles of CBPR. Although community partners appreciate this approach, traditionally trained academics may find this method unfamiliar and uncomfortable
All Public Health Is Local Revisiting the Importance of Local Sanitation Through the Eyes of Youth
The article reports on Nuestro Futuro Saludable, an afternoon intervention program for Black and Latin students in Boston, Massachusetts between the ages of 11 and 15 that was developed to encourage students to explore the relationship between their living environments, health behaviors and stress. A discussion of the results of the program, which asked the students to record visual impressions of their environment and factors in it which caused …
Sprague Martinez and Peréa Respond
The benefits of engaging community stakeholders in research have been well documented.1,2 Community-engaged research has the potential to yield local level data needed to inform the design of interventions reflective of community priorities and assets.1–3 We have found that partnering with community advances the research and can benefit community and academic stakeholders.4–6 However, we are sensitive to the challenges of research partnerships. T…
Employing a Community Based Participatory Research Approach to Bear Witness
A democratic university–community administrative body dedicated to expanding community-engaged research
The benefits and challenges of community-engaged research (CEnR) partnerships are well documented. The barriers to building sustainable university--community partnerships are many, ranging from a lack of institutional support, historical conflicts, differing time scales, and divergent philosophies to lack of infrastructure on both sides. In order to promote CEnR partnerships and provide a forum to address the challenges of community research part…
Priorities, concerns and unmet needs among H aitians in B oston after the 2010 earthquake
In January 2010, a massive earthquake struck Haiti. The devastation not only affected those living in Haiti at the time but also those Haitians living in the United States (U.S.). Few studies have assessed the degree of impact of the earthquake in U.S. Haitian communities. The purpose of this study was to elicit information about health priorities, concerns and resources needed to improve the delivery of health and social care for Haitians in Bos…
Longitudinal Trajectories of Food Insecurity Among Children of Immigrants
Creating a Culture of Empowerment in Research
Academic partners who want to work with community partners need to acknowledge these power imbalances and be intentional about shifting these power dynamics. Capacity-building programs can help to shift these power imbalances because they help community partners acquire the confidence, knowledge and skills to advocate for more equitable research relationships
Participatory Democracy, Community Organizing and the Community Assessment of Freeway Exposure and Health (Cafeh) Partnership
Background: Conflicting interests, power imbalance and relationships characterized by distrust are just a few of the many challenges community-academic research partnerships face. In addition, the time it takes to build relationships is often overlooked, which further complicates matters and can leave well-intentioned individuals re-creating oppressive conditions through inauthentic partnerships. This paper presents a novel approach of using meet…
Critical Discourse, Applied Inquiry and Public Health Action with Urban Middle School Students
The Nuestro Futuro Saludable partnership designed a critical service-learning intervention focused on health equity and action. The ten-week afterschool intervention was implemented in a Boston middle school. Youths who took part in the intervention were knowledgeable about the social determinants of health in their communities, as well as to the barriers to health. Our findings indicate that engaging young people in a meaningful way will be crit…
Context Matters
Social work is uniquely poised to lead in the development and implementation of multilevel strategies to both address substance use disorders (SUDs) and tackle existing inequities in SUD treatment. It is critical that there be an explicit focus on context, racial justice, and community empowerment in educational efforts designed to train graduate social work students when preparing them for professional work in the behavioral health field. This a…
The Power of Prevention and Youth Voice
The opening plenary session at the 2017 Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work and Research, which focused on ensuring healthy youth development, highlighted the need to include young people as partners in research and evaluation. In doing so, the conference participants joined the voices of a growing group of social work scholars committed to youth participation and engagement, who have also highlighted the importance of youth voice in…
There You Enjoy Life, Here You Work’
Structural inequalities in the U.S. work environment place most immigrants in low paying, high-risk jobs. Understanding how work experiences and influence the health of different immigrant populations is essential to address disparities. This article explores how Brazilian and Dominican immigrants feel about their experiences working in the U.S. and how the relationship between work and culture might impact their health. In partnership with the D…
Mejorando Nuestras Oportunidades”
Youth can be valuable partners in community health improvement efforts. Latino youth from Lawrence, MA were engaged in research and health promotion over an 11-month period. Utilizing their knowledge of the community, youth assessed local parks and carried out evidence-based health promotion efforts to communicate community resources to encourage physical activity, nurture community ownership of parks, and advocate for park improvements. Health p…
Youth participation in policy advocacy
Implementing an EHR-based Screening and Referral System to Address Social Determinants of Health in Primary Care
BACKGROUND: Social determinants affect health, yet there are few systematic clinical strategies in primary care that leverage electronic health record (EHR) automation to facilitate screening for social needs and resource referrals. An EHR-based social determinants of health (SDOH) screening and referral model, adapted from the WE CARE model for pediatrics, was implemented in urban adult primary care. OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to: (1) understa…
From Consultation to Shared Decision‐Making
BACKGROUND: The benefits of youth engagement are well documented. In this paper, we examine youth engagement in America's Promise Alliance's Every School Healthy initiative, a part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Together for Healthy and Successful Schools Initiative (THSS). METHODS: Six community acceleration sites were selected through a competitive grant-making process. Sites were required to describe youth engagement strategies. A cas…
Two communities, one highway and the fight for clean air
The ISF was helpful in informing the team's thinking related to systems and structures needed to translate research to practice. However, although municipal stakeholders are increasingly sympathetic to and aware of the health impacts of TRAP, there was not a local legislative or regulatory precedent on how to move some of the proposed TRAP-related policies into practice. As such, we found that pairing the ISF with a community organizing framework…
Adult Reflection on Engaging Youth of Color in Research and Action
With the proliferation of participatory approaches to promoting youth development such as Youth-Led Participatory Action Research (YPAR), it is more important than ever that researchers and practitioners understand how to create curriculum that will authentically engage youth of color. To that end, there are important lessons public health researchers can learn from the fields of community psychology, education, and social work, among others. We …
Visual Ethnography
Visual Ethnography: Decriminalization and Stable Housing Equals Motivation, Stability, and Recovery Among Latinx Populations Linda Sprague Martinez PhD, Deborah Chassler MSW, Myrna Alfaro Cortes MD, Michelle Baum BA, Genessis Guzman-Betancourt MSW, Daniela Reyes MSW, Luz M. Lopez PhD, MSW, MPH, Maylid Roberts BA, Diliana De Jesus MTS, Emily Stewart BA, and Jordana Muroff PhD, MSW Affiliation Linda Sprague Martinez, Deborah Chassler, Myrna Alfaro …
A Participatory Curricula for Community Health Workers and Supervisors to Increase HIV Health Outcomes
Community Health Workers (CHWs) are becoming essential members of the HIV workforce as emerging evidence demonstrates their effectiveness in engaging people with HIV into care and treatment. In 2018, among the estimated 37,000 persons who received an HIV diagnosis, the majority were from racial ethnic minority communities. CHWs serve as a bridge between the community and health care system and have the potential to address structural inequities a…
Ending the HIV Epidemic
Memphis, Tennessee and its surrounding counties have been profoundly affected by the HIV epidemic. Using a participatory research approach this study identified from a community perspective: 1) the barriers and facilitators for providing support to achieve viral suppression to the most at-risk groups living with HIV in the Memphis Transitional Grant Area and 2) opportunities to strengthen the health care system through the use of community health…
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