Danya E Keene
Biographic Data
| ID | 3976098 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Danya E Keene |
| GIVEN NAMES | Danya E |
| FAMILY NAME | Keene |
| SIGNATURE | KEENE D E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Yale School of Public Health |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 153 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Rental assistance impacts on diabetes: Insights from a longitudinal mixed-methods analysis
The U.S. faces a persistent shortage of affordable housing, forcing many low-income individuals with chronic illnesses such as diabetes to navigate trade-offs between housing, healthcare, and basic needs essential for disease management. Rental assistance may alleviate these pressures by increasing housing stability, reducing financial strain, and enabling safer medication storage and food preparation. However, only a fraction of eligible househo…
‘ If I wouldn’t have had them, I would’ve been lost ’: Tenant Right to Counsel in Cleveland
As eviction filings begin to surpass pre-pandemic levels and the consequences of eviction for health, well-being, and stability become increasingly recognized, legal assistance has emerged as a growing strategy to prevent evictions and their well-documented negative sequelae. Between July 2017 and December 2025, 27 U.S. jurisdictions passed right to counsel (RTC) legislation, formally establishing a right to legal counsel for tenants in eviction …
Associations between greenness change and mental distress prevalence change by housing tenure: An analysis of 109 U.S. metropolitan areas
Structural Racism, the Social Determination of Health, and Health Inequities: The Intersecting Impacts of Housing and Mass Incarceration
Public health researchers have directed increasing attention to structural racism and its implications for health equity. The conceptualization of racism as historically rooted in systems, structures, and institutions of US society has important implications for addressing social determinants of health (SDOH). It requires theorizing SDOH as embedded in and expressions of racially oppressive historical structures that are manifested in and maintai…
A Little Bit of a Security Blanket”: Renter Experiences with Covid-19–Era Eviction Moratoriums
Policy makers at the federal, state, and local levels responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with a broad array of policies that were intended to prevent housing instability among renters. Eviction moratoriums were an important part of this policy landscape. Recent evidence indicates that these moratoriums were effective in reducing eviction-filing rates, but many questions remain about the impacts of these policies. Drawing on qualitative interviews…
The Squeaky Wheel Gets the Grease: Rental Assistance Applicants' Quests for a Rationed and Scarce Resource
In 2016, only one in five eligible U.S. households received rental assistance and waiting lists averaged two years nationally. The gap between available rental assistance and need requires systems to allocate this scarce resource. The way potential rental assistance recipients experience and navigate these systems is likely to shape who ultimately receives assistance. We draw on repeated qualitative interviews (N=238) with low-income New Haven re…
Police shootings, now that seems to be the main issue” – Black pregnant women’s anticipation of police brutality towards their children
Interactions between Black people and police on a personal, familial, community, and societal level influenced how Black pregnant women understand the potential for police brutality towards their children. Anticipated police brutality is a source of stress during pregnancy, which may adversely influence maternal and infant health outcomes. Police brutality must be addressed in all communities to prevent harming the health of birthing people and t…
Minority stress, psychosocial health, and survival among gay and bisexual men before, during, and after incarceration
Black Pregnant Women “Get the Most Judgment: A Qualitative Study of the Experiences of Black Women at the Intersection of Race, Gender, and Pregnancy
Sex, status, competition, and exclusion: Intraminority stress from within the gay community and gay and bisexual men’s mental health
252). Overall, these experiments provide partial support for the possibility that gay and bisexual men's status concerns underlie their experience of gay community stress. Together, these studies advance psychological and sociological accounts of gay and bisexual men's mental health beyond minority stress theory, with implications for intervention. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)
Stigma, housing and identity after prison
Existing research suggests that individuals who are released from prison face considerable challenges in obtaining access to safe, stable, and affordable places to live and call home. This article draws on repeated qualitative interviews (conducted every 6 months over a period of 3 years) with 44 formerly incarcerated individuals, to understand how these individuals experience the search for a home after their prison release. The interviews show …
There's a Difference—I Own This”: Negotiating Social and Financial Services under Threat of Mortgage Foreclosure
Although national housing markets have recovered from the Great Recession, communities hardest hit by the foreclosure crisis remain immersed in mortgage trouble. Nineteen percent of homeowners are underwater on their mortgages and communities of color are overrepresented among zip codes still experiencing default in rising numbers. The social services needs of homeowners at risk of foreclosure show few signs of abating. High levels of market risk…
Reactivity to a Spouse’s Interpersonal Suffering in Late Life Marriage: A Mixed-Methods Approach
Spouses' interpersonal suffering may negatively affect both men and women's cardiovascular health, and older husbands may be particularly affected
Getting sick and falling behind: Health and the risk of mortgage default and home foreclosure
BACKGROUND: An emerging literature shows that mortgage strain can lead to poor health outcomes, but less work has focused on whether and how health shocks influence mortgage distress. We examine the link between changes in health status and default/foreclosure risk among older middle-aged adults. METHOD: We used National Longitudinal Study of Youth 1979 data and multivariate logistic regression models to examine the relationship between changes i…
When You’re in a Crisis Like That, You Don’t Want People to Know”: Mortgage Strain, Stigma, and Mental Health
Objectives. We analyzed experiences of stigmatization, concealment, and isolation among African American homeowners who were experiencing mortgage strain. Methods. We conducted semistructured interviews between March 2012 and May 2013 with 28 African American homeowners in a northeastern US city who were experiencing mortgage strain. We coded all of the transcripts and reviewed data for codes relating to stigma, sharing information, social suppor…
Fragile health and fragile wealth: Mortgage strain among African American homeowners
Everyone called me grandma”: Public housing demolition and relocation among older adults in Atlanta
Black Pregnant Women “Get the Most Judgment: A Qualitative Study of the Experiences of Black Women at the Intersection of Race, Gender, and Pregnancy
Everyone called me grandma”: Public housing demolition and relocation among older adults in Atlanta
Sex, status, competition, and exclusion: Intraminority stress from within the gay community and gay and bisexual men’s mental health
252). Overall, these experiments provide partial support for the possibility that gay and bisexual men's status concerns underlie their experience of gay community stress. Together, these studies advance psychological and sociological accounts of gay and bisexual men's mental health beyond minority stress theory, with implications for intervention. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)
Stigma, housing and identity after prison
Existing research suggests that individuals who are released from prison face considerable challenges in obtaining access to safe, stable, and affordable places to live and call home. This article draws on repeated qualitative interviews (conducted every 6 months over a period of 3 years) with 44 formerly incarcerated individuals, to understand how these individuals experience the search for a home after their prison release. The interviews show …
Fragile health and fragile wealth: Mortgage strain among African American homeowners
Getting sick and falling behind: Health and the risk of mortgage default and home foreclosure
BACKGROUND: An emerging literature shows that mortgage strain can lead to poor health outcomes, but less work has focused on whether and how health shocks influence mortgage distress. We examine the link between changes in health status and default/foreclosure risk among older middle-aged adults. METHOD: We used National Longitudinal Study of Youth 1979 data and multivariate logistic regression models to examine the relationship between changes i…
When You’re in a Crisis Like That, You Don’t Want People to Know”: Mortgage Strain, Stigma, and Mental Health
Objectives. We analyzed experiences of stigmatization, concealment, and isolation among African American homeowners who were experiencing mortgage strain. Methods. We conducted semistructured interviews between March 2012 and May 2013 with 28 African American homeowners in a northeastern US city who were experiencing mortgage strain. We coded all of the transcripts and reviewed data for codes relating to stigma, sharing information, social suppor…
Structural Racism, the Social Determination of Health, and Health Inequities: The Intersecting Impacts of Housing and Mass Incarceration
Public health researchers have directed increasing attention to structural racism and its implications for health equity. The conceptualization of racism as historically rooted in systems, structures, and institutions of US society has important implications for addressing social determinants of health (SDOH). It requires theorizing SDOH as embedded in and expressions of racially oppressive historical structures that are manifested in and maintai…
The Squeaky Wheel Gets the Grease: Rental Assistance Applicants' Quests for a Rationed and Scarce Resource
In 2016, only one in five eligible U.S. households received rental assistance and waiting lists averaged two years nationally. The gap between available rental assistance and need requires systems to allocate this scarce resource. The way potential rental assistance recipients experience and navigate these systems is likely to shape who ultimately receives assistance. We draw on repeated qualitative interviews (N=238) with low-income New Haven re…
A Little Bit of a Security Blanket”: Renter Experiences with Covid-19–Era Eviction Moratoriums
Policy makers at the federal, state, and local levels responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with a broad array of policies that were intended to prevent housing instability among renters. Eviction moratoriums were an important part of this policy landscape. Recent evidence indicates that these moratoriums were effective in reducing eviction-filing rates, but many questions remain about the impacts of these policies. Drawing on qualitative interviews…
Minority stress, psychosocial health, and survival among gay and bisexual men before, during, and after incarceration
There's a Difference—I Own This”: Negotiating Social and Financial Services under Threat of Mortgage Foreclosure
Although national housing markets have recovered from the Great Recession, communities hardest hit by the foreclosure crisis remain immersed in mortgage trouble. Nineteen percent of homeowners are underwater on their mortgages and communities of color are overrepresented among zip codes still experiencing default in rising numbers. The social services needs of homeowners at risk of foreclosure show few signs of abating. High levels of market risk…
Everyone called me grandma”: Public housing demolition and relocation among older adults in Atlanta
Fragile health and fragile wealth: Mortgage strain among African American homeowners
Reactivity to a Spouse’s Interpersonal Suffering in Late Life Marriage: A Mixed-Methods Approach
Spouses' interpersonal suffering may negatively affect both men and women's cardiovascular health, and older husbands may be particularly affected
Getting sick and falling behind: Health and the risk of mortgage default and home foreclosure
BACKGROUND: An emerging literature shows that mortgage strain can lead to poor health outcomes, but less work has focused on whether and how health shocks influence mortgage distress. We examine the link between changes in health status and default/foreclosure risk among older middle-aged adults. METHOD: We used National Longitudinal Study of Youth 1979 data and multivariate logistic regression models to examine the relationship between changes i…
When You’re in a Crisis Like That, You Don’t Want People to Know”: Mortgage Strain, Stigma, and Mental Health
Objectives. We analyzed experiences of stigmatization, concealment, and isolation among African American homeowners who were experiencing mortgage strain. Methods. We conducted semistructured interviews between March 2012 and May 2013 with 28 African American homeowners in a northeastern US city who were experiencing mortgage strain. We coded all of the transcripts and reviewed data for codes relating to stigma, sharing information, social suppor…
There's a Difference—I Own This”: Negotiating Social and Financial Services under Threat of Mortgage Foreclosure
Although national housing markets have recovered from the Great Recession, communities hardest hit by the foreclosure crisis remain immersed in mortgage trouble. Nineteen percent of homeowners are underwater on their mortgages and communities of color are overrepresented among zip codes still experiencing default in rising numbers. The social services needs of homeowners at risk of foreclosure show few signs of abating. High levels of market risk…
Stigma, housing and identity after prison
Existing research suggests that individuals who are released from prison face considerable challenges in obtaining access to safe, stable, and affordable places to live and call home. This article draws on repeated qualitative interviews (conducted every 6 months over a period of 3 years) with 44 formerly incarcerated individuals, to understand how these individuals experience the search for a home after their prison release. The interviews show …
Black Pregnant Women “Get the Most Judgment: A Qualitative Study of the Experiences of Black Women at the Intersection of Race, Gender, and Pregnancy
Sex, status, competition, and exclusion: Intraminority stress from within the gay community and gay and bisexual men’s mental health
252). Overall, these experiments provide partial support for the possibility that gay and bisexual men's status concerns underlie their experience of gay community stress. Together, these studies advance psychological and sociological accounts of gay and bisexual men's mental health beyond minority stress theory, with implications for intervention. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)
Minority stress, psychosocial health, and survival among gay and bisexual men before, during, and after incarceration
Police shootings, now that seems to be the main issue” – Black pregnant women’s anticipation of police brutality towards their children
Interactions between Black people and police on a personal, familial, community, and societal level influenced how Black pregnant women understand the potential for police brutality towards their children. Anticipated police brutality is a source of stress during pregnancy, which may adversely influence maternal and infant health outcomes. Police brutality must be addressed in all communities to prevent harming the health of birthing people and t…
Structural Racism, the Social Determination of Health, and Health Inequities: The Intersecting Impacts of Housing and Mass Incarceration
Public health researchers have directed increasing attention to structural racism and its implications for health equity. The conceptualization of racism as historically rooted in systems, structures, and institutions of US society has important implications for addressing social determinants of health (SDOH). It requires theorizing SDOH as embedded in and expressions of racially oppressive historical structures that are manifested in and maintai…
A Little Bit of a Security Blanket”: Renter Experiences with Covid-19–Era Eviction Moratoriums
Policy makers at the federal, state, and local levels responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with a broad array of policies that were intended to prevent housing instability among renters. Eviction moratoriums were an important part of this policy landscape. Recent evidence indicates that these moratoriums were effective in reducing eviction-filing rates, but many questions remain about the impacts of these policies. Drawing on qualitative interviews…
The Squeaky Wheel Gets the Grease: Rental Assistance Applicants' Quests for a Rationed and Scarce Resource
In 2016, only one in five eligible U.S. households received rental assistance and waiting lists averaged two years nationally. The gap between available rental assistance and need requires systems to allocate this scarce resource. The way potential rental assistance recipients experience and navigate these systems is likely to shape who ultimately receives assistance. We draw on repeated qualitative interviews (N=238) with low-income New Haven re…
Rental assistance impacts on diabetes: Insights from a longitudinal mixed-methods analysis
The U.S. faces a persistent shortage of affordable housing, forcing many low-income individuals with chronic illnesses such as diabetes to navigate trade-offs between housing, healthcare, and basic needs essential for disease management. Rental assistance may alleviate these pressures by increasing housing stability, reducing financial strain, and enabling safer medication storage and food preparation. However, only a fraction of eligible househo…
‘ If I wouldn’t have had them, I would’ve been lost ’: Tenant Right to Counsel in Cleveland
As eviction filings begin to surpass pre-pandemic levels and the consequences of eviction for health, well-being, and stability become increasingly recognized, legal assistance has emerged as a growing strategy to prevent evictions and their well-documented negative sequelae. Between July 2017 and December 2025, 27 U.S. jurisdictions passed right to counsel (RTC) legislation, formally establishing a right to legal counsel for tenants in eviction …
Associations between greenness change and mental distress prevalence change by housing tenure: An analysis of 109 U.S. metropolitan areas
Medicine (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works)