Nakita Lovelady

Biographic Data

ID6652240
NAMENakita Lovelady
GIVEN NAMESNakita
FAMILY NAMELovelady
SIGNATURELOVELADY N
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
ORCID0000-0002-3614-1599
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Barbershop talk

    Open AccessTerry Haynes, Tiffany Haynes et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2026

    Black men who report unhealthy drinking experience more severe health outcomes and negative social consequences than other racialized groups. Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) is an evidence-based, multilevel, integrated public health approach to delivering early intervention services for individuals at risk for unhealthy drinking, as well as the timely referral to more intensive treatment. SBIRTs have been implemen…

  • Violent Firearm Injury and Homelessness

    Open AccessWilliam Wical, Lea Marineau et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Men s Health2025

    Both experiencing homelessness and having survived a violent firearm injury are well-known risk factors for being a victim of violence. Despite there being significant racial disparities in these factors, there is no qualitative research examining the experiences of Black men who survive a gunshot wound and were homeless after their injury. Drawing on over a year of ethnographic research at the two busiest hospital-based violence intervention pro…

  • Using Concept Mapping to Identify Community Partners’ and Researchers’ Perceptions of Social Justice

    Open AccessEric K Soule, D M Jones et al.ARTICLEHealth Equity2024

    Background: A social justice framework can be used to inform healthy equity-focused research, and operationalizing social justice can inform strategic planning for research and practice models. This study aimed to develop a working definition of social justice based on input from a diverse group of collaborators to better inform the work conducted within the Center for Research, Health, and Social Justice. Methods: A concept mapping study was con…

  • I am a survivor!”

    Open AccessNazsa S Baker, Cortney R VanHook et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Health2024References: 7

    Self-appraisal after a life-altering event is a critical process for individuals, often comprised by assigned labels that may not align with an individuals' perceptions of themselves or of their situation. Existing research within this victim-survivor dichotomy largely rests in the interpersonal violence space, with a victim assuming legal recourse and wrongdoing, and a survivor associating with positive personal characteristics like grit and res…

  • Firearm injuries and death

    Open AccessKristen L Mueller, Nakita Lovelady et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Firearm injuries and death are an eminently preventable public health epidemic in the United States (U.S.). Globally, for the last several decades, U.S. firearm homicide rates far outpaced those of other high-income countries, with more than 45,000 people killed by firearms in the U.S. in 2020 alone-greater than in any previous year on record U.S. children are 11 times more likely to die of a firearm injury than children in other high-income coun…

  • Qualitative content analysis of public responses to an FDA inquiry on the impact of scheduling changes to kratom

    Open AccessJulia Tobacyk, Brian J Parks et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Drug…2022

  • Community Building Community

    J Rick Turner, Johnny Smith et al.ARTICLEProgress in community health…2017References: 3

    Engaging communities to build each other's research capacity is a potentially valuable strategy