Elizabeth Lynch
Biographic Data
| ID | 166765 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Lynch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Lynch |
| SIGNATURE | LYNCH E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rush University Medical Center |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0575-711X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 134 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Community-driven secondary distribution of Covid-19 rapid antigen home tests in high-vulnerability Chicago neighborhoods: A community case study
African American communities on Chicago’s South and West Sides, many facing high levels of social vulnerability, experienced disproportionate COVID-19 burden driven in part by limited access to diagnostic testing early in the pandemic. In partnership with the Alive Faith Network (AFN), a longstanding coalition of African American churches and academic partners, we implemented a participant-driven model to expand access to rapid antigen home tests…
Implementing a Covid-19 Testing Intervention in African American Testing Deserts in Chicago: An Academic-Community Partnership to Promote Covid-19 Health Equity
Understanding System-Level Experiences Impacting Black Americans’ Adherence to Antihypertensive Medication
Collaborators in Health: Redefining Research–Community Partnerships, Chicago, 2022–2024
Effective community-engaged research is critical for designing and testing solutions to decrease the 10-year life expectancy gap between Black and non-Black residents of Chicago, Illinois. In community listening sessions, the Chicago Chronic Conditions Engagement Network found that community members’ highest priority health issues were social determinants of health and that there is a strong mistrust of research. Conversations with leaders of com…
Delivering Covid-19 Vaccine via Trusted Social Services: Program Evaluation Results from the Chicagoland Ceal Program
Clustering of Social Determinants of Health as an Indicator of Meaningful Subgroups within an African American Population: Application of Latent Class Analysis
The findings support the utility of analytically determining meaningful subgroups among a sample of AA people and their social determinants of health. Understanding the differences within an underserved population may contribute to future interventions to eliminate health disparities
Effective Messages to Reduce Stigma among People Newly Diagnosed with HIV during Rapid ART Initiation
HIV stigma has a negative influence on antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation and persistence and viral suppression. Immediate access to ART (RAPID ART) has been shown to accelerate viral suppression (VS) that is sustained up to one year after HIV diagnosis. Little is known about the role of RAPID ART in reducing individual-level stigma. We explored how stigma manifests in RAPID ART encounters and whether RAPID ART interventions influence indivi…
The Impact of Language on Hospital Outcomes for Covid-19 Patients: A Study of Non-English Speaking Hispanic Patients
You Just Have to Keep It Movin: Perceptions of Physical Function Limitations in an African American Health Ministry
Racial Differences in the Effect of HIV Status on Motor and Pulmonary Function and Mobility Disability in Older Adults
Racial and Ethnic Differences in Hospital Admissions of Emergency Department Covid-19 Patients
BACKGROUND: Several studies have found that among patients testing positive for COVID-19 within a health care system, non-Hispanic Black and Hispanic patients are more likely than non-Hispanic White patients to be hospitalized. However, previous studies have looked at odds of being admitted using all positive tests in the system and not only those seeking care in the emergency department (ED). OBJECTIVE: This study examined racial/ethnic differen…
Ground in Stone: Landscape, Social Identity, and Ritual Space on the High Plains
In Ground in Stone: Landscape, Social Identity, and Ritual Space on the High Plains, Elizabeth Lynch examines the insights and challenges of bedrock ground stone research in archaeological inquiry. Ground in Stone includes analyses of case studies to illustrate field data collection techniques as well as the rich social lives of ground in stone on the Chaquaqua Plateau. Lynch argues that the bedrock features in southeastern Colorado offer valuabl…
High Blood Pressure Medication Adherence Among Urban, African Americans in the Midwest United States
Trauma exposure, PTSD symptoms, and tobacco use: Does church attendance buffer negative effects
Traumatic stress and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are overrepresented in urban African American communities, and associated with health risk behaviors such as tobacco use. Support and resources provided by churches may reduce trauma-related health risks. In the current study, we assessed weekly church attendance as a moderator of relations between (a) traumatic event exposure and probable PTSD, and (b) probable PTSD and tobacco use. Data …
Beyond the Manuscript: Results of Alive
Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action - Volume 13, Issue 1, Spring 2019
Results of Alive: A Faith-Based Pilot Intervention to Improve Diet Among African American Church Members
The ALIVE intervention was flexibly adapted by a range of churches; successfully implemented by pastors, deacons, and church leaders; and rigorously evaluated across a range of church settings. Further study of this intervention is warranted given the evidence for potential efficacy and a high level of external validity
Results of Alive: A Faith-Based Pilot Intervention to Improve Diet Among African American Church Members
Results of ALIVE: A Faith-Based Pilot Intervention to Improve Diet Among African American Church Members Elizabeth Lynch, PhD, Erin Emery-Tiburcio, PhD, Sheila Dugan, MD, Francine Stark White, MDiv, Clayton Thomason, JD, LaDawne Jenkins, MA, Catherine Feit, Elizabeth Avery-Mamer, MA, Yamin Wang, MA, Laurin Mack, PhD, and Alan Ragland, DMin What Is the Purpose of This Study? • The ALIVE intervention is a church-based dietary intervention to increa…
Association of community-level inequities and premature mortality: Chicago, 2011–2015
Background Substantial disparities in life expectancy exist between Chicago’s 77 defined community areas, ranging from approximately 69 to 85 years. Prior work in New York City and Boston has shown that community-level racial and economic segregation as measured by the Index of Concentration at the Extremes (ICE) is strongly related to premature mortality. This novel metric allows for the joint assessment of area-based income and racial polarisat…
Delay discounting and intake of ready-to-eat and away-from-home foods in overweight and obese women
Folkecology, Cultural Epidemiology, and the Spirit of the Commons: A Garden Experiment in the Maya Lowlands, 19912001
Using a variation on an experimental approach from biology, we distinguish the influence of sociocultural factors from that of economic, demographic, and ecological factors in environmental management and maintenance. This is important to issues of global environmental change, where there is little empirical research into cultural effects on deforestation and land use. Findings with three groups who live in the same rainforest habitat and manifes…
Folkbiology doesn't Come from Folkpsychology: Evidence from Yukatek Maya in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Nearly all psychological research on basic cognitive processes of category formation and reasoning uses sample populations associated with large research institutions in technologically-advanced societies. Lopsided attention to a select participant pool risks biasing interpretation, no matter how large the sample or how statistically reliable the results. The experiments in this article address this limitation. Earlier research with urban-USA chi…
Are There Kinds of Concepts
Past research on concepts has focused almost exclusively on noun-object concepts. This paper discusses recent research demonstrating that useful distinctions may be made among kinds of concepts, including both object and nonobject concepts. We discuss three types of criteria, based on structure, process, and content, that may be used to distinguish among kinds of concepts. The paper then reviews a number of possible candidates for kinds based on …
Categorization and Reasoning among Tree Experts: Do All Roads Lead to Rome?
Setters and samoyeds: The emergence of subordinate level categories as a basis for inductive inference in preschool-age children
Basic level categories are a rich source of inductive inference for children and adults. These 3 experiments examine how preschool-age children partition their inductively rich basic level categories to form subordinate level categories and whether these have inductive potential. Children were taught a novel property about an individual member of a familiar basic level category (e.g., a collie). Then, children's extensions of that property to oth…
The role of social cognition in comprehension monitoring
Two studies were conducted to examine the effect of children's social cognitions on their ability to monitor their comprehension in the referential communication paradigm. Specifically, it was hypo thesized that children's beliefs about the intentions and cooperative- ness of speakers prevent them from accurately evaluating messages. In Experiment 1, it was found that children who were made aware of the possibility that speakers themselves (rathe…
Folkecology, Cultural Epidemiology, and the Spirit of the Commons: A Garden Experiment in the Maya Lowlands, 19912001
Using a variation on an experimental approach from biology, we distinguish the influence of sociocultural factors from that of economic, demographic, and ecological factors in environmental management and maintenance. This is important to issues of global environmental change, where there is little empirical research into cultural effects on deforestation and land use. Findings with three groups who live in the same rainforest habitat and manifes…
Delay discounting and intake of ready-to-eat and away-from-home foods in overweight and obese women
Are There Kinds of Concepts
Past research on concepts has focused almost exclusively on noun-object concepts. This paper discusses recent research demonstrating that useful distinctions may be made among kinds of concepts, including both object and nonobject concepts. We discuss three types of criteria, based on structure, process, and content, that may be used to distinguish among kinds of concepts. The paper then reviews a number of possible candidates for kinds based on …
Folkbiology doesn't Come from Folkpsychology: Evidence from Yukatek Maya in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Nearly all psychological research on basic cognitive processes of category formation and reasoning uses sample populations associated with large research institutions in technologically-advanced societies. Lopsided attention to a select participant pool risks biasing interpretation, no matter how large the sample or how statistically reliable the results. The experiments in this article address this limitation. Earlier research with urban-USA chi…
Setters and samoyeds: The emergence of subordinate level categories as a basis for inductive inference in preschool-age children
Basic level categories are a rich source of inductive inference for children and adults. These 3 experiments examine how preschool-age children partition their inductively rich basic level categories to form subordinate level categories and whether these have inductive potential. Children were taught a novel property about an individual member of a familiar basic level category (e.g., a collie). Then, children's extensions of that property to oth…
Association of community-level inequities and premature mortality: Chicago, 2011–2015
Background Substantial disparities in life expectancy exist between Chicago’s 77 defined community areas, ranging from approximately 69 to 85 years. Prior work in New York City and Boston has shown that community-level racial and economic segregation as measured by the Index of Concentration at the Extremes (ICE) is strongly related to premature mortality. This novel metric allows for the joint assessment of area-based income and racial polarisat…
Ground in Stone: Landscape, Social Identity, and Ritual Space on the High Plains
In Ground in Stone: Landscape, Social Identity, and Ritual Space on the High Plains, Elizabeth Lynch examines the insights and challenges of bedrock ground stone research in archaeological inquiry. Ground in Stone includes analyses of case studies to illustrate field data collection techniques as well as the rich social lives of ground in stone on the Chaquaqua Plateau. Lynch argues that the bedrock features in southeastern Colorado offer valuabl…
Results of Alive: A Faith-Based Pilot Intervention to Improve Diet Among African American Church Members
The ALIVE intervention was flexibly adapted by a range of churches; successfully implemented by pastors, deacons, and church leaders; and rigorously evaluated across a range of church settings. Further study of this intervention is warranted given the evidence for potential efficacy and a high level of external validity
The role of social cognition in comprehension monitoring
Two studies were conducted to examine the effect of children's social cognitions on their ability to monitor their comprehension in the referential communication paradigm. Specifically, it was hypo thesized that children's beliefs about the intentions and cooperative- ness of speakers prevent them from accurately evaluating messages. In Experiment 1, it was found that children who were made aware of the possibility that speakers themselves (rathe…
Categorization and Reasoning among Tree Experts: Do All Roads Lead to Rome?
Setters and samoyeds: The emergence of subordinate level categories as a basis for inductive inference in preschool-age children
Basic level categories are a rich source of inductive inference for children and adults. These 3 experiments examine how preschool-age children partition their inductively rich basic level categories to form subordinate level categories and whether these have inductive potential. Children were taught a novel property about an individual member of a familiar basic level category (e.g., a collie). Then, children's extensions of that property to oth…
Are There Kinds of Concepts
Past research on concepts has focused almost exclusively on noun-object concepts. This paper discusses recent research demonstrating that useful distinctions may be made among kinds of concepts, including both object and nonobject concepts. We discuss three types of criteria, based on structure, process, and content, that may be used to distinguish among kinds of concepts. The paper then reviews a number of possible candidates for kinds based on …
Folkbiology doesn't Come from Folkpsychology: Evidence from Yukatek Maya in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Nearly all psychological research on basic cognitive processes of category formation and reasoning uses sample populations associated with large research institutions in technologically-advanced societies. Lopsided attention to a select participant pool risks biasing interpretation, no matter how large the sample or how statistically reliable the results. The experiments in this article address this limitation. Earlier research with urban-USA chi…
Folkecology, Cultural Epidemiology, and the Spirit of the Commons: A Garden Experiment in the Maya Lowlands, 19912001
Using a variation on an experimental approach from biology, we distinguish the influence of sociocultural factors from that of economic, demographic, and ecological factors in environmental management and maintenance. This is important to issues of global environmental change, where there is little empirical research into cultural effects on deforestation and land use. Findings with three groups who live in the same rainforest habitat and manifes…
Delay discounting and intake of ready-to-eat and away-from-home foods in overweight and obese women
Association of community-level inequities and premature mortality: Chicago, 2011–2015
Background Substantial disparities in life expectancy exist between Chicago’s 77 defined community areas, ranging from approximately 69 to 85 years. Prior work in New York City and Boston has shown that community-level racial and economic segregation as measured by the Index of Concentration at the Extremes (ICE) is strongly related to premature mortality. This novel metric allows for the joint assessment of area-based income and racial polarisat…
Beyond the Manuscript: Results of Alive
Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action - Volume 13, Issue 1, Spring 2019
Results of Alive: A Faith-Based Pilot Intervention to Improve Diet Among African American Church Members
The ALIVE intervention was flexibly adapted by a range of churches; successfully implemented by pastors, deacons, and church leaders; and rigorously evaluated across a range of church settings. Further study of this intervention is warranted given the evidence for potential efficacy and a high level of external validity
Results of Alive: A Faith-Based Pilot Intervention to Improve Diet Among African American Church Members
Results of ALIVE: A Faith-Based Pilot Intervention to Improve Diet Among African American Church Members Elizabeth Lynch, PhD, Erin Emery-Tiburcio, PhD, Sheila Dugan, MD, Francine Stark White, MDiv, Clayton Thomason, JD, LaDawne Jenkins, MA, Catherine Feit, Elizabeth Avery-Mamer, MA, Yamin Wang, MA, Laurin Mack, PhD, and Alan Ragland, DMin What Is the Purpose of This Study? • The ALIVE intervention is a church-based dietary intervention to increa…
High Blood Pressure Medication Adherence Among Urban, African Americans in the Midwest United States
Trauma exposure, PTSD symptoms, and tobacco use: Does church attendance buffer negative effects
Traumatic stress and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are overrepresented in urban African American communities, and associated with health risk behaviors such as tobacco use. Support and resources provided by churches may reduce trauma-related health risks. In the current study, we assessed weekly church attendance as a moderator of relations between (a) traumatic event exposure and probable PTSD, and (b) probable PTSD and tobacco use. Data …
Ground in Stone: Landscape, Social Identity, and Ritual Space on the High Plains
In Ground in Stone: Landscape, Social Identity, and Ritual Space on the High Plains, Elizabeth Lynch examines the insights and challenges of bedrock ground stone research in archaeological inquiry. Ground in Stone includes analyses of case studies to illustrate field data collection techniques as well as the rich social lives of ground in stone on the Chaquaqua Plateau. Lynch argues that the bedrock features in southeastern Colorado offer valuabl…
Racial Differences in the Effect of HIV Status on Motor and Pulmonary Function and Mobility Disability in Older Adults
Racial and Ethnic Differences in Hospital Admissions of Emergency Department Covid-19 Patients
BACKGROUND: Several studies have found that among patients testing positive for COVID-19 within a health care system, non-Hispanic Black and Hispanic patients are more likely than non-Hispanic White patients to be hospitalized. However, previous studies have looked at odds of being admitted using all positive tests in the system and not only those seeking care in the emergency department (ED). OBJECTIVE: This study examined racial/ethnic differen…
Delivering Covid-19 Vaccine via Trusted Social Services: Program Evaluation Results from the Chicagoland Ceal Program
Clustering of Social Determinants of Health as an Indicator of Meaningful Subgroups within an African American Population: Application of Latent Class Analysis
The findings support the utility of analytically determining meaningful subgroups among a sample of AA people and their social determinants of health. Understanding the differences within an underserved population may contribute to future interventions to eliminate health disparities
Effective Messages to Reduce Stigma among People Newly Diagnosed with HIV during Rapid ART Initiation
HIV stigma has a negative influence on antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation and persistence and viral suppression. Immediate access to ART (RAPID ART) has been shown to accelerate viral suppression (VS) that is sustained up to one year after HIV diagnosis. Little is known about the role of RAPID ART in reducing individual-level stigma. We explored how stigma manifests in RAPID ART encounters and whether RAPID ART interventions influence indivi…
The Impact of Language on Hospital Outcomes for Covid-19 Patients: A Study of Non-English Speaking Hispanic Patients
You Just Have to Keep It Movin: Perceptions of Physical Function Limitations in an African American Health Ministry
Understanding System-Level Experiences Impacting Black Americans’ Adherence to Antihypertensive Medication
Collaborators in Health: Redefining Research–Community Partnerships, Chicago, 2022–2024
Effective community-engaged research is critical for designing and testing solutions to decrease the 10-year life expectancy gap between Black and non-Black residents of Chicago, Illinois. In community listening sessions, the Chicago Chronic Conditions Engagement Network found that community members’ highest priority health issues were social determinants of health and that there is a strong mistrust of research. Conversations with leaders of com…
Community-driven secondary distribution of Covid-19 rapid antigen home tests in high-vulnerability Chicago neighborhoods: A community case study
African American communities on Chicago’s South and West Sides, many facing high levels of social vulnerability, experienced disproportionate COVID-19 burden driven in part by limited access to diagnostic testing early in the pandemic. In partnership with the Alive Faith Network (AFN), a longstanding coalition of African American churches and academic partners, we implemented a participant-driven model to expand access to rapid antigen home tests…
Implementing a Covid-19 Testing Intervention in African American Testing Deserts in Chicago: An Academic-Community Partnership to Promote Covid-19 Health Equity
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