Alina Schnake-Mahl
Biographic Data
| ID | 1725330 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alina Schnake-Mahl |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alina |
| FAMILY NAME | Schnake-Mahl |
| SIGNATURE | SCHNAKE-MAHL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7775-3022 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Measuring the Health of Philadelphia’s City Council Districts
Analyzing data by geopolitical districts, like congressional districts, is increasing in popularity in public health monitoring and evaluation but remains relatively rare compared to geographies such as census tracts and counties. In this study, we use city council districts in the City of Philadelphia to illustrate the utility and importance of investigating public health metrics by local political districts. We report on two metrics—tree canopy…
Epidemiologic approaches to policy research – examinations of single policies, policy clusters, and policy climates
Factors Influencing School‐Based Mental Health Program Selection
School mental health programs are an important component of the national response to the current student mental health crisis. However, evidence‐based programs often face numerous barriers to their selection, scale‐up, and sustainability in real‐world settings. In this study, we interviewed 15 educational stakeholders to examine what influences their selection of school‐based mental health programs. Interviews focused on factors influencing the s…
Court-mandated redistricting and disparities in infant mortality and deaths of despair
Understanding how disparities vary between and within districts after redistricting can inform our understanding of the relationships between geopolitical boundaries, election processes, and health disparities
A Call for Formal Reporting Standards for Legal Research in Public Health Studies
The impact of state safety net policies on perinatal birth outcomes by maternal race
The combination of state safety-net programs may imply important roles in reducing the prevalence of low birthweight and preterm birth
Establishing open science research priorities in health psychology
OBJECTIVE: Research on Open Science practices in Health Psychology is lacking. This meta-research study aimed to identify research question priorities and obtain consensus on the Top 5 prioritised research questions for Open Science in Health Psychology. METHODS AND MEASURES: An international Delphi consensus study was conducted. Twenty-three experts in Open Science and Health Psychology within the European Health Psychology Society (EHPS) sugges…
Expert Panel Consensus on State-Level Policies to Improve Engagement and Retention in Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder
The findings of this study may provide urgently needed consensus on policies for states to consider either adopting or deimplementing in their efforts to address the opioid overdose crisis
Tracking Covid-19 Inequities Across Jurisdictions Represented in the Big Cities Health Coalition (BCHC)
Objectives. To describe the creation of an interactive dashboard to advance the understanding of the COVID-19 pandemic from an equity and urban health perspective across 30 large US cities that are members of the Big Cities Health Coalition (BCHC). Methods. We leveraged the Drexel‒BCHC partnership to define the objectives and audience for the dashboard and developed an equity framework to conceptualize COVID-19 inequities across social groups, ne…
Covid-19 Outcomes Among the Hispanic Population of 27 Large US Cities, 2020–2021
Objectives. To examine racial/ethnic disparities in COVID-19 outcomes between Hispanics and Whites across 27 US jurisdictions whose health departments are members of the Big Cities Health Coalition (BCHC). Methods. Using surveillance data from the BCHC COVID-19 dashboard as of mid-June 2021, we computed crude incidence, age-adjusted hospitalization and mortality, and full vaccination coverage rates for Hispanics and Whites by city. We estimated r…
Effectiveness and implementability of state-level naloxone access policies
The Challenges of Conducting Intrastate Policy Surveillance
Policy surveillance is critical in examining the ways law functions as a structural and social determinant of health. To date, little policy surveillance research has focused on examining intrastate variations in the structure and health impact of laws. Intrastate policy surveillance poses unique methodological challenges because of the complex legal architecture within states and inefficient curation of local laws. We discuss our experience with…
Reporting Certainty of Evidence on E-Cigarette Use for Adult Smoking Cessation
La Ilustracion, el reformismo borbonico y la pugna entre el poder civil y el eclesiastico marcaron el tiempo de Campomanes
We Need a Taxonomy of State-Level Opioid Policies
The opioid crisis is an unprecedented national emergency.Societal costs from misuse of, addiction to, and overdose from prescription opioids, heroin, and synthetic opioids over the last 2 decades account for hundreds of thousands of deaths and billions of dollars in economic burden. 1 States have responded with wide-ranging policies that vary substantially in their key components and the opioid-crisis aspects targeted.Even nominally identical pol…
Effects of gentrification on health status after Hurricane Katrina
Community change and resident needs
The health implications of urban development, particularly in rapidly changing, low-income urban neighborhoods, are poorly understood. We describe the Healthy Neighborhoods Study (HNS), a Participatory Action Research study examining the relationship between neighborhood change and population health in nine Massachusetts neighborhoods. Baseline data from the HNS survey show that social factors, specifically income insecurity, food insecurity, soc…
Developing a Consort Extension for Interventions in Criminology, Education, Psychology, Public Health, and Social Work
Research on neighborhood effects on health in the United States
Peer review process completion rates and subsequent student perceptions within completely online versus blended modes of study
Supplemental materials
Involving stakeholders in programme theory specification
The use of explicit programme theory to guide evaluation is widely recommended. However, practitioners and other partnering stakeholders often initiate programmes based on implicit theories, leaving researchers to explicate them before commencing evaluation. The current study aimed to apply a systematic method to undertake this process. We integrated a Delphi process into a larger effort to engage stakeholders in the elucidation of a logic model …
Developing a Reporting Guideline for Social and Psychological Intervention Trials
Social and psychological interventions are often complex. Understanding randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of these complex interventions requires a detailed description of the interventions tested and the methods used to evaluate them; however, RCT reports often omit, or inadequately report, this information. Incomplete and inaccurate reporting hinders the optimal use of research, wastes resources, and fails to meet ethical obligations to resea…
Developing a Reporting Guideline for Social and Psychological Intervention Trials
Understanding randomized controlled trials of complex social and psychological interventions requires a detailed description of the interventions tested and the methods used to evaluate them. However, randomized controlled trial reports often omit, or inadequately report, this information. Incomplete and inaccurate reporting hinders the optimal use of research, wastes resources, and fails to meet ethical obligations to research participants and c…
Developing a Reporting Guideline for Social and Psychological Intervention Trials
Social and psychological interventions are often complex. Understanding randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of these complex interventions requires a detailed description of the interventions tested and the methods used to evaluate them; however, RCT reports often omit, or inadequately report, this information. Incomplete and inaccurate reporting hinders the optimal use of research, wastes resources, and fails to meet ethical obligations to resea…
Community change and resident needs
The health implications of urban development, particularly in rapidly changing, low-income urban neighborhoods, are poorly understood. We describe the Healthy Neighborhoods Study (HNS), a Participatory Action Research study examining the relationship between neighborhood change and population health in nine Massachusetts neighborhoods. Baseline data from the HNS survey show that social factors, specifically income insecurity, food insecurity, soc…
Effects of gentrification on health status after Hurricane Katrina
Covid-19 Outcomes Among the Hispanic Population of 27 Large US Cities, 2020–2021
Objectives. To examine racial/ethnic disparities in COVID-19 outcomes between Hispanics and Whites across 27 US jurisdictions whose health departments are members of the Big Cities Health Coalition (BCHC). Methods. Using surveillance data from the BCHC COVID-19 dashboard as of mid-June 2021, we computed crude incidence, age-adjusted hospitalization and mortality, and full vaccination coverage rates for Hispanics and Whites by city. We estimated r…
Developing a Reporting Guideline for Social and Psychological Intervention Trials
Social and psychological interventions are often complex. Understanding randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of these complex interventions requires a detailed description of the interventions tested and the methods used to evaluate them; however, RCT reports often omit, or inadequately report, this information. Incomplete and inaccurate reporting hinders the optimal use of research, wastes resources, and fails to meet ethical obligations to resea…
Involving stakeholders in programme theory specification
The use of explicit programme theory to guide evaluation is widely recommended. However, practitioners and other partnering stakeholders often initiate programmes based on implicit theories, leaving researchers to explicate them before commencing evaluation. The current study aimed to apply a systematic method to undertake this process. We integrated a Delphi process into a larger effort to engage stakeholders in the elucidation of a logic model …
Developing a Reporting Guideline for Social and Psychological Intervention Trials
Social and psychological interventions are often complex. Understanding randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of these complex interventions requires a detailed description of the interventions tested and the methods used to evaluate them; however, RCT reports often omit, or inadequately report, this information. Incomplete and inaccurate reporting hinders the optimal use of research, wastes resources, and fails to meet ethical obligations to resea…
Developing a Reporting Guideline for Social and Psychological Intervention Trials
Understanding randomized controlled trials of complex social and psychological interventions requires a detailed description of the interventions tested and the methods used to evaluate them. However, randomized controlled trial reports often omit, or inadequately report, this information. Incomplete and inaccurate reporting hinders the optimal use of research, wastes resources, and fails to meet ethical obligations to research participants and c…
Developing a Reporting Guideline for Social and Psychological Intervention Trials
Social and psychological interventions are often complex. Understanding randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of these complex interventions requires a detailed description of the interventions tested and the methods used to evaluate them; however, RCT reports often omit, or inadequately report, this information. Incomplete and inaccurate reporting hinders the optimal use of research, wastes resources, and fails to meet ethical obligations to resea…
Supplemental materials
Involving stakeholders in programme theory specification
The use of explicit programme theory to guide evaluation is widely recommended. However, practitioners and other partnering stakeholders often initiate programmes based on implicit theories, leaving researchers to explicate them before commencing evaluation. The current study aimed to apply a systematic method to undertake this process. We integrated a Delphi process into a larger effort to engage stakeholders in the elucidation of a logic model …
Research on neighborhood effects on health in the United States
Peer review process completion rates and subsequent student perceptions within completely online versus blended modes of study
Developing a Consort Extension for Interventions in Criminology, Education, Psychology, Public Health, and Social Work
Community change and resident needs
The health implications of urban development, particularly in rapidly changing, low-income urban neighborhoods, are poorly understood. We describe the Healthy Neighborhoods Study (HNS), a Participatory Action Research study examining the relationship between neighborhood change and population health in nine Massachusetts neighborhoods. Baseline data from the HNS survey show that social factors, specifically income insecurity, food insecurity, soc…
Effects of gentrification on health status after Hurricane Katrina
We Need a Taxonomy of State-Level Opioid Policies
The opioid crisis is an unprecedented national emergency.Societal costs from misuse of, addiction to, and overdose from prescription opioids, heroin, and synthetic opioids over the last 2 decades account for hundreds of thousands of deaths and billions of dollars in economic burden. 1 States have responded with wide-ranging policies that vary substantially in their key components and the opioid-crisis aspects targeted.Even nominally identical pol…
Effectiveness and implementability of state-level naloxone access policies
The Challenges of Conducting Intrastate Policy Surveillance
Policy surveillance is critical in examining the ways law functions as a structural and social determinant of health. To date, little policy surveillance research has focused on examining intrastate variations in the structure and health impact of laws. Intrastate policy surveillance poses unique methodological challenges because of the complex legal architecture within states and inefficient curation of local laws. We discuss our experience with…
Reporting Certainty of Evidence on E-Cigarette Use for Adult Smoking Cessation
La Ilustracion, el reformismo borbonico y la pugna entre el poder civil y el eclesiastico marcaron el tiempo de Campomanes
Expert Panel Consensus on State-Level Policies to Improve Engagement and Retention in Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder
The findings of this study may provide urgently needed consensus on policies for states to consider either adopting or deimplementing in their efforts to address the opioid overdose crisis
Tracking Covid-19 Inequities Across Jurisdictions Represented in the Big Cities Health Coalition (BCHC)
Objectives. To describe the creation of an interactive dashboard to advance the understanding of the COVID-19 pandemic from an equity and urban health perspective across 30 large US cities that are members of the Big Cities Health Coalition (BCHC). Methods. We leveraged the Drexel‒BCHC partnership to define the objectives and audience for the dashboard and developed an equity framework to conceptualize COVID-19 inequities across social groups, ne…
Covid-19 Outcomes Among the Hispanic Population of 27 Large US Cities, 2020–2021
Objectives. To examine racial/ethnic disparities in COVID-19 outcomes between Hispanics and Whites across 27 US jurisdictions whose health departments are members of the Big Cities Health Coalition (BCHC). Methods. Using surveillance data from the BCHC COVID-19 dashboard as of mid-June 2021, we computed crude incidence, age-adjusted hospitalization and mortality, and full vaccination coverage rates for Hispanics and Whites by city. We estimated r…
Establishing open science research priorities in health psychology
OBJECTIVE: Research on Open Science practices in Health Psychology is lacking. This meta-research study aimed to identify research question priorities and obtain consensus on the Top 5 prioritised research questions for Open Science in Health Psychology. METHODS AND MEASURES: An international Delphi consensus study was conducted. Twenty-three experts in Open Science and Health Psychology within the European Health Psychology Society (EHPS) sugges…
Factors Influencing School‐Based Mental Health Program Selection
School mental health programs are an important component of the national response to the current student mental health crisis. However, evidence‐based programs often face numerous barriers to their selection, scale‐up, and sustainability in real‐world settings. In this study, we interviewed 15 educational stakeholders to examine what influences their selection of school‐based mental health programs. Interviews focused on factors influencing the s…
Court-mandated redistricting and disparities in infant mortality and deaths of despair
Understanding how disparities vary between and within districts after redistricting can inform our understanding of the relationships between geopolitical boundaries, election processes, and health disparities
A Call for Formal Reporting Standards for Legal Research in Public Health Studies
The impact of state safety net policies on perinatal birth outcomes by maternal race
The combination of state safety-net programs may imply important roles in reducing the prevalence of low birthweight and preterm birth
Measuring the Health of Philadelphia’s City Council Districts
Analyzing data by geopolitical districts, like congressional districts, is increasing in popularity in public health monitoring and evaluation but remains relatively rare compared to geographies such as census tracts and counties. In this study, we use city council districts in the City of Philadelphia to illustrate the utility and importance of investigating public health metrics by local political districts. We report on two metrics—tree canopy…
Epidemiologic approaches to policy research – examinations of single policies, policy clusters, and policy climates
Medicine (14 works) · Political science (11 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Public health (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Health Policy Implementation Science (7 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (6 works) · Medical education (6 works) · Nursing (6 works) · Psychological intervention (6 works)