Jennifer S Carrera
Biographic Data
| ID | 119168 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer S Carrera |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer S |
| FAMILY NAME | Carrera |
| SIGNATURE | CARRERA J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4730-6894 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
A Community Engaged Approach to the Development of the Social Determinants of Health Solutions Lab
SDOH are critical to the reduction and ultimate eradication of health disparities. Creating SDOH focused groups, initiatives, and events utilizing a community engaged approach is critical to building the governance, leadership and direction needed to establish a SDOH community agenda. Cross-disciplinary partnerships are essential to this work
Impact of Preceptors
Background Proliferation of Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) programs has increased the demand for quality preceptors. This program evaluation project was developed to identify alumni perspectives of their precepted experience. DNP graduates offered insights that could be a future foundation for further exploration of the essential nature of the preceptor role in the DNP student experience. Method Individual interviews of graduates ( n = 30) were…
The Flint Public Health Youth Academy (FPHYA) Model for Youth Engaged Writing and Publishing
Youth engagement in the writing process prepares youth for success in scientific career field trajectories and increases the potential for workforce development
Flint Public Health Youth Academy
While residents of Flint face persistent health and socioeconomic disparities, Flint’s residents have been working to rescue, uplift, and empower themselves for decades. The Flint Public Health Youth Academy (FPHYA) has established a transferable model for advancing just social change through leveraging community leadership in science. In this article, we describe the development of FPHYA from Flint’s strong foundation in community based particip…
Youth Perspectives on the Flint Water Crisis and Its Health Effects
Youth expressed concern about current and long-term health sequelae of the water crisis. Further work is needed to monitor the consequences of the crisis and to identify resident-informed approaches to mitigate its effects and rebuild trust
Flint community science leadership
At the ten-year anniversary of the Flint water crisis, Flint residents continue to work to improve the well-being of their community and advance community leadership in science. While the water crisis is remembered by most as just an egregious example of government mismanagement, a lesser told story is that of the ongoing leadership and mobilization of Flint residents. Our paper reflects on a collaborative project as part of a larger, sustained p…
Introduction
This special Forum presents three articles that demonstrate efforts at participatory knowledge co-production. The three experiences were successful in the modest sense that they provided meaningful agency for participants and their knowledge roles, though in different ways. All three articles comment on the participatory turn that emphasizes an increasing role in public participation in scientific and policy data knowledge production and acknowle…
Advancing Equity Through Centering Societal Values to Operationalize Racism as a Public Health Crisis
Background: The past two decades have been marked by increased efforts to advance equity in various disciplines, including social sciences, public health, environmental health, and medicine. In 2020, a national movement of municipalities declared racism a public health crisis. These efforts have coincided and likely shaped a growing sphere of federal and philanthropic funding for health equity, which frequently calls for practical interventions t…
Advancing Du Bois’s legacy through emancipatory environmental sociology
Environmental sociology, while dedicating significant scholarship to issues of environmental racism and environmental justice, remains a predominately white subdiscipline that has not enjoyed general relevance across sociology. One of the drivers of the dominance of white perspectives in the subdiscipline is the lack of a core theoretical pillar that anchors the importance of racism to structuring inequitable environments. W.E.B. Du Bois not only…
Conceptualizing trust and distrust as alternative stable states
Despite the universally recognized importance of fostering trust and avoiding distrust in governance relationships, there remains considerable debate on core questions like the relation between (dis)trust and the evaluations of the characteristics that make a governance agent appear (un)worthy of trust. In particular, it remains unclear whether levels of (dis)trust simply follow levels of (dis)trustworthiness-such that building trust is primarily…
Community Science as Resistance to Neoliberal Scientific Praxis
Through CDR, Flint residents work in direct resistance to the tacit integration of neoliberal values into science and alternatively advance community organizing as a key aspect of science toward environmental justice
Deconstructing citizenship and the growth of Detroit's green renaissance
Detroit is in the midst of a contemporary urban renewal project that is being carried out through green gentrification. The displacement of residents is happening through the discursive and political management of the water system, which produces conditions that leave residents with few options for remaining in the city. In this article, I explore how resource management, particularly water and wastewater infrastructure, has been used to degrade …
Challenging the white spaces of environmental sociology
In 2015, Dorceta Taylor received the Fred Buttel Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Environmental Sociology Award at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA). At a bu
Flint Residents’ Hygienic Practices Did Not Place Them at Greater Risk of Contracting Shigella Than Surrounding Michigan Residents
Understanding the Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations Associated with Community Gardening to Improve Environmental Public Health Prevention and Intervention
Considering that community members continue to garden in and near environments impacted by pollutants known to negatively impact human health, this paper seeks to characterize the intrinsic and extrinsic motivations of a gardener and elucidate their perception of soil quality and environmental responsibility, awareness of past land use, and gardening behavior. Via semi-structured interviews with community gardeners in the Boston area ( N = 17), m…
Community Science as a Pathway for Resilience in Response to a Public Health Crisis in Flint, Michigan
While the story of the Flint water crisis has frequently been told, even sympathetic analyses have largely worked to make invisible the significant actions of Flint residents to protect and advocate for their community. Leaving the voices of these stakeholders out of narratives about the crisis has served to deepen distrust in the community. Our project responds to these silences through a community-driven research study aimed explicitly at eleva…
Gone Goose
Research altruism as motivation for participation in community-centered environmental health research
Sanitation Inequity and the Cumulative Effects of Racism in Colorblind Public Health Policies
A majority of Lowndes County, Alabama, residents live without properly functioning, legal, basic sanitation infrastructure. We describe the contemporary racialization of sanitation inequality in the county. We trace structural dimensions of race in land tenure through the heir property system, housing availability, and public health enforcement. Our analysis shows how cumulative effects of colorblind policies overlain on explicitly racist foundat…
Volume 13, Number 2
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Basics Inequality
In light of 2014-2016 media coverage about the inadequate water and sanitation services for households in places like Flint and Detroit, Michigan and the Central Valley of California, this paper asks whether places with majority non-White residents in the United States disproportionately lack access to these most basic of services. Investigating this issue through the combined lenses of structural racism, environmental justice, and the human righ…
The Coal‐Corn Divide
The emergence of concerns about “peak oil,” the fallout from the I raq War in terms of renewed calls for “energy security,” and the development of new technology to gain access to fossil fuels and gas long off‐limits because of economic and environmental concerns has led to a boom of multiple kinds of energy development in and around rural communities in the U nited S tates. This article uses the lens of treadmill‐of‐production and growth‐machine…
Domestic Violence Against Married Women in Cambodia
We evaluate the effects of marital resources and early-life experiences on recent domestic violence and attitudes about wife abuse among 2,074 married Cambodian women. Household standard of living was negatively associated with physical domestic violence. Women with 8–13 fewer years of schooling than their husbands more often experienced physical and psychological domestic violence. Women with more living children more often experienced physical …
Female Genital Cutting and Reproductive Experience in Minya, Egypt
In African populations practicing female genital cutting (FGC), beliefs exist that these procedures enhance reproduction and that their medicalization may diminish adverse effects, yet available findings are mixed in part for methodological reasons. We use data from a representative sample of ever-married women aged 17-55 years in Minya, Egypt, to examine the effects of type of FGC and type of circumciser on a woman's risks of primary infertility…
Research altruism as motivation for participation in community-centered environmental health research
Domestic Violence Against Married Women in Cambodia
We evaluate the effects of marital resources and early-life experiences on recent domestic violence and attitudes about wife abuse among 2,074 married Cambodian women. Household standard of living was negatively associated with physical domestic violence. Women with 8–13 fewer years of schooling than their husbands more often experienced physical and psychological domestic violence. Women with more living children more often experienced physical …
Basics Inequality
In light of 2014-2016 media coverage about the inadequate water and sanitation services for households in places like Flint and Detroit, Michigan and the Central Valley of California, this paper asks whether places with majority non-White residents in the United States disproportionately lack access to these most basic of services. Investigating this issue through the combined lenses of structural racism, environmental justice, and the human righ…
The Coal‐Corn Divide
The emergence of concerns about “peak oil,” the fallout from the I raq War in terms of renewed calls for “energy security,” and the development of new technology to gain access to fossil fuels and gas long off‐limits because of economic and environmental concerns has led to a boom of multiple kinds of energy development in and around rural communities in the U nited S tates. This article uses the lens of treadmill‐of‐production and growth‐machine…
Female Genital Cutting and Reproductive Experience in Minya, Egypt
In African populations practicing female genital cutting (FGC), beliefs exist that these procedures enhance reproduction and that their medicalization may diminish adverse effects, yet available findings are mixed in part for methodological reasons. We use data from a representative sample of ever-married women aged 17-55 years in Minya, Egypt, to examine the effects of type of FGC and type of circumciser on a woman's risks of primary infertility…
Community Science as a Pathway for Resilience in Response to a Public Health Crisis in Flint, Michigan
While the story of the Flint water crisis has frequently been told, even sympathetic analyses have largely worked to make invisible the significant actions of Flint residents to protect and advocate for their community. Leaving the voices of these stakeholders out of narratives about the crisis has served to deepen distrust in the community. Our project responds to these silences through a community-driven research study aimed explicitly at eleva…
Advancing Du Bois’s legacy through emancipatory environmental sociology
Environmental sociology, while dedicating significant scholarship to issues of environmental racism and environmental justice, remains a predominately white subdiscipline that has not enjoyed general relevance across sociology. One of the drivers of the dominance of white perspectives in the subdiscipline is the lack of a core theoretical pillar that anchors the importance of racism to structuring inequitable environments. W.E.B. Du Bois not only…
Challenging the white spaces of environmental sociology
In 2015, Dorceta Taylor received the Fred Buttel Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Environmental Sociology Award at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA). At a bu
Sanitation Inequity and the Cumulative Effects of Racism in Colorblind Public Health Policies
A majority of Lowndes County, Alabama, residents live without properly functioning, legal, basic sanitation infrastructure. We describe the contemporary racialization of sanitation inequality in the county. We trace structural dimensions of race in land tenure through the heir property system, housing availability, and public health enforcement. Our analysis shows how cumulative effects of colorblind policies overlain on explicitly racist foundat…
Flint community science leadership
At the ten-year anniversary of the Flint water crisis, Flint residents continue to work to improve the well-being of their community and advance community leadership in science. While the water crisis is remembered by most as just an egregious example of government mismanagement, a lesser told story is that of the ongoing leadership and mobilization of Flint residents. Our paper reflects on a collaborative project as part of a larger, sustained p…
Conceptualizing trust and distrust as alternative stable states
Despite the universally recognized importance of fostering trust and avoiding distrust in governance relationships, there remains considerable debate on core questions like the relation between (dis)trust and the evaluations of the characteristics that make a governance agent appear (un)worthy of trust. In particular, it remains unclear whether levels of (dis)trust simply follow levels of (dis)trustworthiness-such that building trust is primarily…
Flint Residents’ Hygienic Practices Did Not Place Them at Greater Risk of Contracting Shigella Than Surrounding Michigan Residents
Domestic Violence Against Married Women in Cambodia
We evaluate the effects of marital resources and early-life experiences on recent domestic violence and attitudes about wife abuse among 2,074 married Cambodian women. Household standard of living was negatively associated with physical domestic violence. Women with 8–13 fewer years of schooling than their husbands more often experienced physical and psychological domestic violence. Women with more living children more often experienced physical …
Female Genital Cutting and Reproductive Experience in Minya, Egypt
In African populations practicing female genital cutting (FGC), beliefs exist that these procedures enhance reproduction and that their medicalization may diminish adverse effects, yet available findings are mixed in part for methodological reasons. We use data from a representative sample of ever-married women aged 17-55 years in Minya, Egypt, to examine the effects of type of FGC and type of circumciser on a woman's risks of primary infertility…
The Coal‐Corn Divide
The emergence of concerns about “peak oil,” the fallout from the I raq War in terms of renewed calls for “energy security,” and the development of new technology to gain access to fossil fuels and gas long off‐limits because of economic and environmental concerns has led to a boom of multiple kinds of energy development in and around rural communities in the U nited S tates. This article uses the lens of treadmill‐of‐production and growth‐machine…
Volume 13, Number 2
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Basics Inequality
In light of 2014-2016 media coverage about the inadequate water and sanitation services for households in places like Flint and Detroit, Michigan and the Central Valley of California, this paper asks whether places with majority non-White residents in the United States disproportionately lack access to these most basic of services. Investigating this issue through the combined lenses of structural racism, environmental justice, and the human righ…
Research altruism as motivation for participation in community-centered environmental health research
Sanitation Inequity and the Cumulative Effects of Racism in Colorblind Public Health Policies
A majority of Lowndes County, Alabama, residents live without properly functioning, legal, basic sanitation infrastructure. We describe the contemporary racialization of sanitation inequality in the county. We trace structural dimensions of race in land tenure through the heir property system, housing availability, and public health enforcement. Our analysis shows how cumulative effects of colorblind policies overlain on explicitly racist foundat…
Understanding the Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations Associated with Community Gardening to Improve Environmental Public Health Prevention and Intervention
Considering that community members continue to garden in and near environments impacted by pollutants known to negatively impact human health, this paper seeks to characterize the intrinsic and extrinsic motivations of a gardener and elucidate their perception of soil quality and environmental responsibility, awareness of past land use, and gardening behavior. Via semi-structured interviews with community gardeners in the Boston area ( N = 17), m…
Community Science as a Pathway for Resilience in Response to a Public Health Crisis in Flint, Michigan
While the story of the Flint water crisis has frequently been told, even sympathetic analyses have largely worked to make invisible the significant actions of Flint residents to protect and advocate for their community. Leaving the voices of these stakeholders out of narratives about the crisis has served to deepen distrust in the community. Our project responds to these silences through a community-driven research study aimed explicitly at eleva…
Gone Goose
Flint Residents’ Hygienic Practices Did Not Place Them at Greater Risk of Contracting Shigella Than Surrounding Michigan Residents
Challenging the white spaces of environmental sociology
In 2015, Dorceta Taylor received the Fred Buttel Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Environmental Sociology Award at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA). At a bu
Community Science as Resistance to Neoliberal Scientific Praxis
Through CDR, Flint residents work in direct resistance to the tacit integration of neoliberal values into science and alternatively advance community organizing as a key aspect of science toward environmental justice
Deconstructing citizenship and the growth of Detroit's green renaissance
Detroit is in the midst of a contemporary urban renewal project that is being carried out through green gentrification. The displacement of residents is happening through the discursive and political management of the water system, which produces conditions that leave residents with few options for remaining in the city. In this article, I explore how resource management, particularly water and wastewater infrastructure, has been used to degrade …
Advancing Equity Through Centering Societal Values to Operationalize Racism as a Public Health Crisis
Background: The past two decades have been marked by increased efforts to advance equity in various disciplines, including social sciences, public health, environmental health, and medicine. In 2020, a national movement of municipalities declared racism a public health crisis. These efforts have coincided and likely shaped a growing sphere of federal and philanthropic funding for health equity, which frequently calls for practical interventions t…
Advancing Du Bois’s legacy through emancipatory environmental sociology
Environmental sociology, while dedicating significant scholarship to issues of environmental racism and environmental justice, remains a predominately white subdiscipline that has not enjoyed general relevance across sociology. One of the drivers of the dominance of white perspectives in the subdiscipline is the lack of a core theoretical pillar that anchors the importance of racism to structuring inequitable environments. W.E.B. Du Bois not only…
Conceptualizing trust and distrust as alternative stable states
Despite the universally recognized importance of fostering trust and avoiding distrust in governance relationships, there remains considerable debate on core questions like the relation between (dis)trust and the evaluations of the characteristics that make a governance agent appear (un)worthy of trust. In particular, it remains unclear whether levels of (dis)trust simply follow levels of (dis)trustworthiness-such that building trust is primarily…
Flint Public Health Youth Academy
While residents of Flint face persistent health and socioeconomic disparities, Flint’s residents have been working to rescue, uplift, and empower themselves for decades. The Flint Public Health Youth Academy (FPHYA) has established a transferable model for advancing just social change through leveraging community leadership in science. In this article, we describe the development of FPHYA from Flint’s strong foundation in community based particip…
Youth Perspectives on the Flint Water Crisis and Its Health Effects
Youth expressed concern about current and long-term health sequelae of the water crisis. Further work is needed to monitor the consequences of the crisis and to identify resident-informed approaches to mitigate its effects and rebuild trust
Flint community science leadership
At the ten-year anniversary of the Flint water crisis, Flint residents continue to work to improve the well-being of their community and advance community leadership in science. While the water crisis is remembered by most as just an egregious example of government mismanagement, a lesser told story is that of the ongoing leadership and mobilization of Flint residents. Our paper reflects on a collaborative project as part of a larger, sustained p…
Introduction
This special Forum presents three articles that demonstrate efforts at participatory knowledge co-production. The three experiences were successful in the modest sense that they provided meaningful agency for participants and their knowledge roles, though in different ways. All three articles comment on the participatory turn that emphasizes an increasing role in public participation in scientific and policy data knowledge production and acknowle…
Impact of Preceptors
Background Proliferation of Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) programs has increased the demand for quality preceptors. This program evaluation project was developed to identify alumni perspectives of their precepted experience. DNP graduates offered insights that could be a future foundation for further exploration of the essential nature of the preceptor role in the DNP student experience. Method Individual interviews of graduates ( n = 30) were…
The Flint Public Health Youth Academy (FPHYA) Model for Youth Engaged Writing and Publishing
Youth engagement in the writing process prepares youth for success in scientific career field trajectories and increases the potential for workforce development
A Community Engaged Approach to the Development of the Social Determinants of Health Solutions Lab
SDOH are critical to the reduction and ultimate eradication of health disparities. Creating SDOH focused groups, initiatives, and events utilizing a community engaged approach is critical to building the governance, leadership and direction needed to establish a SDOH community agenda. Cross-disciplinary partnerships are essential to this work
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (12 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Health Policy Implementation Science (6 works) · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities (5 works) · Public health (5 works) · Public relations (5 works)