Michael Yonas
Biographic Data
| ID | 6093778 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Yonas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Yonas |
| SIGNATURE | YONAS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 88 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Youth and the Juvenile Court System
The staggeringly disproportionate numbers of youth of color in the juvenile court system in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, compelled the Pittsburgh Foundation to launch the Youth Voices Juvenile Justice Pilot project. The initiative sought to learn from youth who have firsthand knowledge of the juvenile court system and from those at risk of such an experience in order to inform the foundation’s efforts to improve outcomes for youth. This articl…
Beyond the Manuscript
Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action - Volume 12, Issue 3, Fall 2018
It's like you don't have a roadmap really’
Background: Cancer patients can experience healthcare system-related challenges during the course of their treatment. Yet, little is known about how these challenges might affect the quality and completion of cancer treatment for all patients, and particularly for patients of color. Accountability for Cancer Care through Undoing Racism and Equity is a multi-component, community-based participatory research intervention to reduce Black-White cance…
Identifying how to Engage Men in Domestic Violence Research
Using Concept Mapping to Explore and Engage Parent and Youth Residents of an Economically Underserved Minority Community around Children's Asthma
Engaging community residents as experts provided a deeper understanding of the issues around children's asthma in the community, which can contribute to the design of a more effective intervention
Podcast Interview Transcript
Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action - Volume 11, Issue 4, Winter 2017
Using Concept Mapping to Explore and Engage Parent and Youth Residents of an Economically Underserved Minority Community around Children's Asthma
Using Concept Mapping to Explore and Engage Parent and Youth Residents of an Economically Underserved Minority Community around Children's Asthma Michael Yonas, DrPH, MPH, Anita Zuberi, PhD, Anna Kasunic, MA, Patricia Bamwine, Stephanie Boddie, PhD, Shannah Tharp-Gilliam, PhD, and John Wallace, PhD COMMUNITY/POLICY BRIEF What is the Purpose of the Study? Our study engages residents of an economically underserved, minority community around the iss…
Community-Guided Focus Group Analysis to Examine Cancer Disparities
A collaborative qualitative data analysis process strengthened the capacity of our community-medical-academic partnership, enriched our research moving forward, and enhanced the transparency and accountability of our research approach
Community Partnered Research Ethics Training in Practice
This report describes the development and implementation of a tailored research ethics training for academic investigators and community research partners (CRP). The Community Partnered Research Ethics Training (CPRET) and Certification is a free and publicly available model and resource created by a university and community partnership to ensure that traditional and non-traditional research partners may study, define, and apply principles of hum…
Conceptualization of Intimate Partner Violence
Podcast Interview Transcript
Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action - Volume 9, Issue 3, Fall 2015
Identifying Perceived Neighborhood Stressors Across Diverse Communities in New York City
There is growing interest in the role of psychosocial stress in health disparities. Identifying which social stressors are most important to community residents is critical for accurately incorporating stressor exposures into health research. Using a community‐academic partnered approach, we designed a multi‐community study across the five boroughs of New York City to characterize resident perceptions of key neighborhood stressors. We conducted 1…
Associations Between Race, Ethnicity, Religion, and Waterpipe Tobacco Smoking
We surveyed a random sample of 852 students at a large university in 2010-2011 to clarify associations between waterpipe tobacco smoking (WTS), ethnicity, and religion. Current (past 30 day) WTS was reported by 116 (14%) students, and 331 (39%) reported ever WTS. Middle Eastern ethnicity was associated with current WTS (odds ratio [OR] = 2.37; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.06, 5.34) and ever WTS (OR = 2.59; 95% CI = 1.22, 5.47). South Asian et…
Exploring the impact of a community hospital closure on older adults
Translating Community-Based Participatory Research Principles Into Practice
Translating Community-Based Participatory Research Principles Into Practice Jessica G. Burke, Sally Hess, Kamden Hoffmann, Lisa Guizzetti, Ellyn Loy, Andrea Gielen, Maryanne Bailey, Adrienne Walnoha, Genevieve Barbee, and Michael Yonas What Is the Purpose of This Study? • This project was designed to increase capacity to conduct community-based participatory research (CBPR). • This article provides an overview of CBPR workshops that we held for a…
Translating Community-Based Participatory Research Principles Into Practice
Translating CBPR principles into common, action-oriented language is a useful first step when building a new academic-community research partnership
A qualitative exploration of the role of social networks in educating urban African American adolescents about sex
African American adolescents' social networks were described by parents and adolescents as dense, complex, and routinely involved in educating adolescents about sex
Perceptions of Prominent Neighborhood Individuals Regarding Neighborhood Factors and Intimate Partner Violence
Intimate partner violence among HIV-positive persons in an urban clinic
While the intersection of HIV/AIDS and intimate partner violence (IPV) has gained increased attention, little focus has been given to the relationship among minority men and men who have sex with men (MSM). This pilot study, conducted at an urban clinic, explores the IPV experiences of HIV-positive persons involved in both heterosexual and homosexual relationships. Fifty-six HIV-positive individuals were interviewed to assess for verbal, physical…
A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words
The youth participants identified a range of issues related to community factors, community safety, and violence. Such topics included the role of schools and social networks within the community as safe places and corner stores and abandoned houses as unsafe places. Visual Voices is a creative research method that provides a unique opportunity for youth to generate a range of ideas through access to the multiple creative methods provided. It is …
Dismantling institutional racism
Despite a strong commitment to promoting social change and liberation, there are few community psychology models for creating systems change to address oppression. Given how embedded racism is in institutions such as healthcare, a significant shift in the system's policies, practices, and procedures is required to address institutional racism and create organizational and institutional change. This paper describes a systemic intervention to addre…
The Art and Science of Integrating Undoing Racism with CBPR
Urban Youth Violence
Dismantling institutional racism
Despite a strong commitment to promoting social change and liberation, there are few community psychology models for creating systems change to address oppression. Given how embedded racism is in institutions such as healthcare, a significant shift in the system's policies, practices, and procedures is required to address institutional racism and create organizational and institutional change. This paper describes a systemic intervention to addre…
The Art and Science of Integrating Undoing Racism with CBPR
Identifying Perceived Neighborhood Stressors Across Diverse Communities in New York City
There is growing interest in the role of psychosocial stress in health disparities. Identifying which social stressors are most important to community residents is critical for accurately incorporating stressor exposures into health research. Using a community‐academic partnered approach, we designed a multi‐community study across the five boroughs of New York City to characterize resident perceptions of key neighborhood stressors. We conducted 1…
Translating Community-Based Participatory Research Principles Into Practice
Translating CBPR principles into common, action-oriented language is a useful first step when building a new academic-community research partnership
A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words
The youth participants identified a range of issues related to community factors, community safety, and violence. Such topics included the role of schools and social networks within the community as safe places and corner stores and abandoned houses as unsafe places. Visual Voices is a creative research method that provides a unique opportunity for youth to generate a range of ideas through access to the multiple creative methods provided. It is …
Urban Youth Violence
Conceptualization of Intimate Partner Violence
Community-Guided Focus Group Analysis to Examine Cancer Disparities
A collaborative qualitative data analysis process strengthened the capacity of our community-medical-academic partnership, enriched our research moving forward, and enhanced the transparency and accountability of our research approach
Community Partnered Research Ethics Training in Practice
This report describes the development and implementation of a tailored research ethics training for academic investigators and community research partners (CRP). The Community Partnered Research Ethics Training (CPRET) and Certification is a free and publicly available model and resource created by a university and community partnership to ensure that traditional and non-traditional research partners may study, define, and apply principles of hum…
Translating Community-Based Participatory Research Principles Into Practice
Translating Community-Based Participatory Research Principles Into Practice Jessica G. Burke, Sally Hess, Kamden Hoffmann, Lisa Guizzetti, Ellyn Loy, Andrea Gielen, Maryanne Bailey, Adrienne Walnoha, Genevieve Barbee, and Michael Yonas What Is the Purpose of This Study? • This project was designed to increase capacity to conduct community-based participatory research (CBPR). • This article provides an overview of CBPR workshops that we held for a…
Perceptions of Prominent Neighborhood Individuals Regarding Neighborhood Factors and Intimate Partner Violence
Exploring the impact of a community hospital closure on older adults
A qualitative exploration of the role of social networks in educating urban African American adolescents about sex
African American adolescents' social networks were described by parents and adolescents as dense, complex, and routinely involved in educating adolescents about sex
Youth and the Juvenile Court System
The staggeringly disproportionate numbers of youth of color in the juvenile court system in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, compelled the Pittsburgh Foundation to launch the Youth Voices Juvenile Justice Pilot project. The initiative sought to learn from youth who have firsthand knowledge of the juvenile court system and from those at risk of such an experience in order to inform the foundation’s efforts to improve outcomes for youth. This articl…
Identifying how to Engage Men in Domestic Violence Research
Urban Youth Violence
The Art and Science of Integrating Undoing Racism with CBPR
Dismantling institutional racism
Despite a strong commitment to promoting social change and liberation, there are few community psychology models for creating systems change to address oppression. Given how embedded racism is in institutions such as healthcare, a significant shift in the system's policies, practices, and procedures is required to address institutional racism and create organizational and institutional change. This paper describes a systemic intervention to addre…
A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words
The youth participants identified a range of issues related to community factors, community safety, and violence. Such topics included the role of schools and social networks within the community as safe places and corner stores and abandoned houses as unsafe places. Visual Voices is a creative research method that provides a unique opportunity for youth to generate a range of ideas through access to the multiple creative methods provided. It is …
Intimate partner violence among HIV-positive persons in an urban clinic
While the intersection of HIV/AIDS and intimate partner violence (IPV) has gained increased attention, little focus has been given to the relationship among minority men and men who have sex with men (MSM). This pilot study, conducted at an urban clinic, explores the IPV experiences of HIV-positive persons involved in both heterosexual and homosexual relationships. Fifty-six HIV-positive individuals were interviewed to assess for verbal, physical…
Perceptions of Prominent Neighborhood Individuals Regarding Neighborhood Factors and Intimate Partner Violence
A qualitative exploration of the role of social networks in educating urban African American adolescents about sex
African American adolescents' social networks were described by parents and adolescents as dense, complex, and routinely involved in educating adolescents about sex
Translating Community-Based Participatory Research Principles Into Practice
Translating Community-Based Participatory Research Principles Into Practice Jessica G. Burke, Sally Hess, Kamden Hoffmann, Lisa Guizzetti, Ellyn Loy, Andrea Gielen, Maryanne Bailey, Adrienne Walnoha, Genevieve Barbee, and Michael Yonas What Is the Purpose of This Study? • This project was designed to increase capacity to conduct community-based participatory research (CBPR). • This article provides an overview of CBPR workshops that we held for a…
Translating Community-Based Participatory Research Principles Into Practice
Translating CBPR principles into common, action-oriented language is a useful first step when building a new academic-community research partnership
Associations Between Race, Ethnicity, Religion, and Waterpipe Tobacco Smoking
We surveyed a random sample of 852 students at a large university in 2010-2011 to clarify associations between waterpipe tobacco smoking (WTS), ethnicity, and religion. Current (past 30 day) WTS was reported by 116 (14%) students, and 331 (39%) reported ever WTS. Middle Eastern ethnicity was associated with current WTS (odds ratio [OR] = 2.37; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.06, 5.34) and ever WTS (OR = 2.59; 95% CI = 1.22, 5.47). South Asian et…
Exploring the impact of a community hospital closure on older adults
Podcast Interview Transcript
Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action - Volume 9, Issue 3, Fall 2015
Identifying Perceived Neighborhood Stressors Across Diverse Communities in New York City
There is growing interest in the role of psychosocial stress in health disparities. Identifying which social stressors are most important to community residents is critical for accurately incorporating stressor exposures into health research. Using a community‐academic partnered approach, we designed a multi‐community study across the five boroughs of New York City to characterize resident perceptions of key neighborhood stressors. We conducted 1…
Community-Guided Focus Group Analysis to Examine Cancer Disparities
A collaborative qualitative data analysis process strengthened the capacity of our community-medical-academic partnership, enriched our research moving forward, and enhanced the transparency and accountability of our research approach
Community Partnered Research Ethics Training in Practice
This report describes the development and implementation of a tailored research ethics training for academic investigators and community research partners (CRP). The Community Partnered Research Ethics Training (CPRET) and Certification is a free and publicly available model and resource created by a university and community partnership to ensure that traditional and non-traditional research partners may study, define, and apply principles of hum…
Conceptualization of Intimate Partner Violence
Using Concept Mapping to Explore and Engage Parent and Youth Residents of an Economically Underserved Minority Community around Children's Asthma
Engaging community residents as experts provided a deeper understanding of the issues around children's asthma in the community, which can contribute to the design of a more effective intervention
Podcast Interview Transcript
Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action - Volume 11, Issue 4, Winter 2017
Using Concept Mapping to Explore and Engage Parent and Youth Residents of an Economically Underserved Minority Community around Children's Asthma
Using Concept Mapping to Explore and Engage Parent and Youth Residents of an Economically Underserved Minority Community around Children's Asthma Michael Yonas, DrPH, MPH, Anita Zuberi, PhD, Anna Kasunic, MA, Patricia Bamwine, Stephanie Boddie, PhD, Shannah Tharp-Gilliam, PhD, and John Wallace, PhD COMMUNITY/POLICY BRIEF What is the Purpose of the Study? Our study engages residents of an economically underserved, minority community around the iss…
Beyond the Manuscript
Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action - Volume 12, Issue 3, Fall 2018
It's like you don't have a roadmap really’
Background: Cancer patients can experience healthcare system-related challenges during the course of their treatment. Yet, little is known about how these challenges might affect the quality and completion of cancer treatment for all patients, and particularly for patients of color. Accountability for Cancer Care through Undoing Racism and Equity is a multi-component, community-based participatory research intervention to reduce Black-White cance…
Identifying how to Engage Men in Domestic Violence Research
Youth and the Juvenile Court System
The staggeringly disproportionate numbers of youth of color in the juvenile court system in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, compelled the Pittsburgh Foundation to launch the Youth Voices Juvenile Justice Pilot project. The initiative sought to learn from youth who have firsthand knowledge of the juvenile court system and from those at risk of such an experience in order to inform the foundation’s efforts to improve outcomes for youth. This articl…
Psychology (18 works) · Medicine (17 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Political science (13 works) · Public relations (8 works) · Health Policy Implementation Science (7 works) · Participatory action research (7 works) · Community Health and Development (6 works) · Community-based participatory research (6 works) · Law (6 works)