Erika L Austin

Biographic Data

ID79736
NAMEErika L Austin
GIVEN NAMESErika L
FAMILY NAMEAustin
SIGNATUREAUSTIN E L
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS14
TOTAL CITATIONS109
AUTHOR COUNT14
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX3

  • Building leadership skills through applied learning in an MPH program

    Open AccessSophie Wenzel, Sophie G Wenzel et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Strong leadership capacity, including both knowledge of leadership theories and having the requisite leadership skills, is essential for effective public health practice in an increasingly complex and politically challenging environment. Master of Public Health programs are well-positioned to provide this leadership training to future leaders. Using high impact educational practices and principles of adult learning, Virginia Tech’s Public Health …

  • Sexual healthcare and at-home STI test collection

    Open AccessOlivia T Van Gerwen, Erika L Austin et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    Background: HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) disproportionally affect transgender women in the United States, particularly in the Southeast where rates of HIV and bacterial STIs are especially high. Despite the high HIV/STI burden among transgender women, their engagement in sexual healthcare services, including HIV/STI testing, is low. Understanding reasons for this disconnect is essential in developing HIV/STI prevention efforts f…

  • Insights for conducting large-scale surveys with veterans who have experienced homelessness

    Aerin J Derussy, Audrey L Jones et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social Distress and…2023

    001). Compared to non-respondents, respondents were older, less likely to have mental health, drug, or alcohol conditions, and had fewer VA housing and emergency service visits. Collectively, our results indicated a national mailed survey approach is feasible and successful for reaching VA patients who have recently experienced homelessness. These findings offer insight into how health systems can obtain perspectives of socially disadvantaged gro…

  • What do Veterans with homeless experience want us to know that we are not asking? A qualitative content analysis of comments from a national survey of healthcare experience

    Open AccessAllyson L Varley, April Hoge et al.ARTICLEHealth & Social Care in the…2022References: 1

    Surveys of people who experience homelessness can portray their life and healthcare experiences with a level of statistical precision; however, few have explored how the very same surveys can deliver qualitative insights as well. In responding to surveys, people experiencing homelessness can use the margins to highlight health and social concerns that investigators failed to anticipate that standard question batteries miss. This study describes t…

  • Perceptions of Care Coordination Among Homeless Veterans Receiving Medical Care in the Veterans Health Administration and Community Care Settings

    Audrey L Jones, Adam J Gordon et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2021References: 42

    BACKGROUND: Initiatives to expand Veterans' access to purchased health care outside Veterans Health Administration (VHA) facilities ("community care") present care coordination challenges for Veterans experiencing homelessness. OBJECTIVE: Among Veterans with homeless experiences, to evaluate community care use and satisfaction, and compare perceptions of care coordination among Veterans using VHA services and community care to those using VHA ser…

  • Comparison of Patient Experience Between Primary Care Settings Tailored for Homeless Clientele and Mainstream Care Settings

    Stefan G Kertesz, Aerin J Derussy et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2021References: 40

    BACKGROUND: More than 1 million Americans receive primary care from federal homeless health care programs yearly. Vulnerabilities that can make care challenging include pain, addiction, psychological distress, and a lack of shelter. Research on the effectiveness of tailoring services for this population is limited. OBJECTIVE: The aim was to examine whether homeless-tailored primary care programs offer a superior patient experience compared with n…

  • Veterans’ assignment to single-site versus scattered-site permanent supportive housing

    Open AccessAnn Elizabeth Montgomery, Dorota Szymkowiak et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Orthopsychiatry2020

    To address homelessness among Veterans, a growing proportion of permanent supportive housing units supported by the U.S. Departments of Housing and Urban Development and Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (HUD-VASH) program are allocated to programs where multiple Veterans with a history of homelessness live in a particular building, referred to as single-site housing. This mixed-methods study-including administrative data from Veterans who move…

  • Exploring Quality of Primary Care for Patients Who Experience Homelessness and the Clinicians Who Serve Them

    Open AccessAllyson L Varley, Ann Elizabeth Montgomery et al.ARTICLEQualitative Health Research2020Cited by: 4References: 42

    To develop and evaluate an effective model of patient-centered, high-quality, homeless-focused primary care, our team explored key domains of primary care that may be important to patients. We anchored our conceptual framework in two reports from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) that defined components of primary care and quality of care. Using questions developed from this framework, we conducted semistructured interviews with 36 homeless-experie…

  • Applying the Housing First approach to single-site permanent supportive housing

    Ann Elizabeth Montgomery, Sonya Gabrielian et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social Distress and…2019

    This study explored how the U.S. Departments of Housing and Urban Development-Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (HUD-VASH) program applies Housing First principles in the context of ten single-site programs. Focus group discussions with 64 HUD-VASH staff and community partners explored how the programs were influenced by Housing First principles and specific strategies to implement these principles in a single-site setting. Focus group responde…

  • Sexual Orientation and Sexual and Reproductive Health among African American Sexual Minority Women in the U.S. South

    Open AccessMadina Agénor, B Austin et al.ARTICLEWomen s Health Issues2016

  • Development of the Primary Care Quality-Homeless (PCQ-H) Instrument

    Stefan G Kertesz, David E Pollio et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2014References: 16

    BACKGROUND: Homeless patients face unique challenges in obtaining primary care responsive to their needs and context. Patient experience questionnaires could permit assessment of patient-centered medical homes for this population, but standard instruments may not reflect homeless patients' priorities and concerns. OBJECTIVES: This report describes (a) the content and psychometric properties of a new primary care questionnaire for homeless patient…

  • Comparing Homeless Persons’ Care Experiences in Tailored Versus Nontailored Primary Care Programs

    Stefan G Kertesz, Cheryl L Holt et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2013Cited by: 10References: 37

    Objectives. We compared homeless patients’ experiences of care in health care organizations that differed in their degree of primary care design service tailoring. Methods. We surveyed homeless-experienced patients (either recently or currently homeless) at 3 Veterans Affairs (VA) mainstream primary care settings in Pennsylvania and Alabama, a homeless-tailored VA clinic in California, and a highly tailored non-VA Health Care for the Homeless Pro…

  • Suicide Ideation and Suicide Attempts Among White Southern Lesbians

    Jay A Irwin, Erika L AustinARTICLEJournal of Gay & Lesbian Mental…2012

    Several studies find suicide behaviors to be more prevalent among lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) populations than their heterosexual counterparts. Studies of non-LGB populations reveal 13% prevalence of lifetime ideation and 4% prevalence of lifetime attempts. This study analyzed data from the Lesbian Social Life (LSL) study, a primarily online, survey-based research project focusing on lesbians living in the southern United States, and found t…

  • Sexual Orientation, Parental Support, and Health During the Transition to Young Adulthood

    Open AccessB L Needham, Erika L AustinARTICLEJournal of Youth and Adolescence2010Cited by: 95References: 2