Alycia Santilli
Biographic Data
| ID | 1743089 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alycia Santilli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alycia |
| FAMILY NAME | Santilli |
| SIGNATURE | SANTILLI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern Connecticut State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Advancing Health Equity
The CRF program demonstrated that community members are well-suited, well-positioned, and eager to engage in and inform public health research. CRFs bring capacity and valuable perspective to research teams. The CRF training program offers an innovative approach to address power imbalances in research and to move towards more equitable community-university partnerships for improved health outcomes
Coalition Building and Food Insecurity
Food insecurity is widespread in the United States. The COVID-19 pandemic intensified the need for food assistance and created opportunities for collaboration among historically-siloed organizations. Research has demonstrated the importance of coalition building and community organizing in Policy, Systems, and Environmental (PSE) change and its potential to address equitable access to food, ultimately improving population health outcomes. In New …
The Effects of Length of Residence and Exposure to Violence on Perceptions of Neighborhood Safety in an Urban Sample
Intersectional experiences of discrimination in a low‐resource urban community
There have been increasing calls for the application of an intersectionality framework to understand and address discrimination and health inequities among diverse communities. Yet there have been theoretical debates regarding to whom intersectionality applies and how intersectional experiences of discrimination are associated with health outcomes. The current study aimed to contribute to these theoretical debates and inform practical application…
Bridging the Response to Mass Shootings and Urban Violence
We have described self-reported exposure to gun violence in an urban community of color to inform the movement toward a public health approach to gun violence prevention. The Community Alliance for Research and Engagement at Yale School of Public Health conducted community health needs assessments to document chronic disease prevalence and risk, including exposure to gun violence. We conducted surveys with residents in six low-income neighborhood…
Applying Community Organizing Principles to Assess Health Needs in New Haven, Connecticut
The Affordable Care Act added requirements for nonprofit hospitals to conduct community health needs assessments. Guidelines are minimal; however, they require input and representation from the broader community. This call echoes 2 decades of literature on the importance of including community members in all aspects of research design, a tenet of community organizing. We describe a community-engaged research approach to a community health needs a…
Everyday discrimination and physical health
Goals of this study were to examine the mental health processes whereby everyday discrimination is associated with physical health outcomes. Data are drawn from a community health survey conducted with 1299 US adults in a low-resource urban area. Frequency of everyday discrimination was associated with overall self-rated health, use of the emergency department, and one or more chronic diseases via stress and depressive symptoms operating in seria…
Organizing With Communities to Benefit Public Health
The article discusses community organizing by the group Community Alliance for Research and Engagement (CARE) of the Yale School of Public Health in the West River neighborhood of New Haven, Connecticut. Efforts to develop a community garden known as the Little Red Hen garden in the neighborhood are addressed in relation to public health in the neighborhood. Health disparities in the city are noted
Santilli et al. Respond
The MAPSCorps project sounds like an excellent community initiative with similar yet distinct features from the CARE (Community Alliance for Research and Engagement) initiative. The goal of CARE’s asset mapping and Community Interventions for Health is to focus on assets associated with obesogenic environments.1,2 Therefore, we directed our resources toward features of the built environment that could directly impact diet and physical activity: s…
The importance of full-time work for urban adults' mental and physical health
Urban Youths Go 3000 Miles
In 2009, CARE (Community Alliance for Research and Engagement at Yale University) launched a multisectoral chronic disease prevention initiative that conducts baseline data collection, interventions, and follow-up data collection to measure change. Data collection includes asset mapping to assess environmental determinants of chronic disease risk factors in neighborhoods and around schools. CARE hired 7 local high school students to conduct asset…
Everyday discrimination and physical health
Goals of this study were to examine the mental health processes whereby everyday discrimination is associated with physical health outcomes. Data are drawn from a community health survey conducted with 1299 US adults in a low-resource urban area. Frequency of everyday discrimination was associated with overall self-rated health, use of the emergency department, and one or more chronic diseases via stress and depressive symptoms operating in seria…
Intersectional experiences of discrimination in a low‐resource urban community
There have been increasing calls for the application of an intersectionality framework to understand and address discrimination and health inequities among diverse communities. Yet there have been theoretical debates regarding to whom intersectionality applies and how intersectional experiences of discrimination are associated with health outcomes. The current study aimed to contribute to these theoretical debates and inform practical application…
The importance of full-time work for urban adults' mental and physical health
The Effects of Length of Residence and Exposure to Violence on Perceptions of Neighborhood Safety in an Urban Sample
Urban Youths Go 3000 Miles
In 2009, CARE (Community Alliance for Research and Engagement at Yale University) launched a multisectoral chronic disease prevention initiative that conducts baseline data collection, interventions, and follow-up data collection to measure change. Data collection includes asset mapping to assess environmental determinants of chronic disease risk factors in neighborhoods and around schools. CARE hired 7 local high school students to conduct asset…
Bridging the Response to Mass Shootings and Urban Violence
We have described self-reported exposure to gun violence in an urban community of color to inform the movement toward a public health approach to gun violence prevention. The Community Alliance for Research and Engagement at Yale School of Public Health conducted community health needs assessments to document chronic disease prevalence and risk, including exposure to gun violence. We conducted surveys with residents in six low-income neighborhood…
Applying Community Organizing Principles to Assess Health Needs in New Haven, Connecticut
The Affordable Care Act added requirements for nonprofit hospitals to conduct community health needs assessments. Guidelines are minimal; however, they require input and representation from the broader community. This call echoes 2 decades of literature on the importance of including community members in all aspects of research design, a tenet of community organizing. We describe a community-engaged research approach to a community health needs a…
Organizing With Communities to Benefit Public Health
The article discusses community organizing by the group Community Alliance for Research and Engagement (CARE) of the Yale School of Public Health in the West River neighborhood of New Haven, Connecticut. Efforts to develop a community garden known as the Little Red Hen garden in the neighborhood are addressed in relation to public health in the neighborhood. Health disparities in the city are noted
Urban Youths Go 3000 Miles
In 2009, CARE (Community Alliance for Research and Engagement at Yale University) launched a multisectoral chronic disease prevention initiative that conducts baseline data collection, interventions, and follow-up data collection to measure change. Data collection includes asset mapping to assess environmental determinants of chronic disease risk factors in neighborhoods and around schools. CARE hired 7 local high school students to conduct asset…
Santilli et al. Respond
The MAPSCorps project sounds like an excellent community initiative with similar yet distinct features from the CARE (Community Alliance for Research and Engagement) initiative. The goal of CARE’s asset mapping and Community Interventions for Health is to focus on assets associated with obesogenic environments.1,2 Therefore, we directed our resources toward features of the built environment that could directly impact diet and physical activity: s…
The importance of full-time work for urban adults' mental and physical health
Organizing With Communities to Benefit Public Health
The article discusses community organizing by the group Community Alliance for Research and Engagement (CARE) of the Yale School of Public Health in the West River neighborhood of New Haven, Connecticut. Efforts to develop a community garden known as the Little Red Hen garden in the neighborhood are addressed in relation to public health in the neighborhood. Health disparities in the city are noted
Applying Community Organizing Principles to Assess Health Needs in New Haven, Connecticut
The Affordable Care Act added requirements for nonprofit hospitals to conduct community health needs assessments. Guidelines are minimal; however, they require input and representation from the broader community. This call echoes 2 decades of literature on the importance of including community members in all aspects of research design, a tenet of community organizing. We describe a community-engaged research approach to a community health needs a…
Everyday discrimination and physical health
Goals of this study were to examine the mental health processes whereby everyday discrimination is associated with physical health outcomes. Data are drawn from a community health survey conducted with 1299 US adults in a low-resource urban area. Frequency of everyday discrimination was associated with overall self-rated health, use of the emergency department, and one or more chronic diseases via stress and depressive symptoms operating in seria…
Bridging the Response to Mass Shootings and Urban Violence
We have described self-reported exposure to gun violence in an urban community of color to inform the movement toward a public health approach to gun violence prevention. The Community Alliance for Research and Engagement at Yale School of Public Health conducted community health needs assessments to document chronic disease prevalence and risk, including exposure to gun violence. We conducted surveys with residents in six low-income neighborhood…
The Effects of Length of Residence and Exposure to Violence on Perceptions of Neighborhood Safety in an Urban Sample
Intersectional experiences of discrimination in a low‐resource urban community
There have been increasing calls for the application of an intersectionality framework to understand and address discrimination and health inequities among diverse communities. Yet there have been theoretical debates regarding to whom intersectionality applies and how intersectional experiences of discrimination are associated with health outcomes. The current study aimed to contribute to these theoretical debates and inform practical application…
Coalition Building and Food Insecurity
Food insecurity is widespread in the United States. The COVID-19 pandemic intensified the need for food assistance and created opportunities for collaboration among historically-siloed organizations. Research has demonstrated the importance of coalition building and community organizing in Policy, Systems, and Environmental (PSE) change and its potential to address equitable access to food, ultimately improving population health outcomes. In New …
Advancing Health Equity
The CRF program demonstrated that community members are well-suited, well-positioned, and eager to engage in and inform public health research. CRFs bring capacity and valuable perspective to research teams. The CRF training program offers an innovative approach to address power imbalances in research and to move towards more equitable community-university partnerships for improved health outcomes
Medicine (11 works) · Environmental health (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Gerontology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Public health (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Nursing (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychological intervention (5 works)