Emily D Lemon
Biographic Data
| ID | 906246 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emily D Lemon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emily D |
| FAMILY NAME | Lemon |
| SIGNATURE | LEMON E D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emory University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7383-5151 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Understanding Hispanic and Latino Perceptions on Ancestry-Targeted Screening for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Syndrome via Democratic Deliberation
Guided by the community empowerment theory, this study utilized the Democratic Deliberation (DD) approach to gather informed opinions from communities of Hispanic and Latino ancestry to understand barriers and facilitators for targeted screening for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Syndrome (HBOC) screening. We recruited 33 Spanish-speaking Hispanic and Latino community members living in the state of Georgia and conducted a half-day, in-perso…
Together we are stronger”: Ypar and Latinx immigrant youth resilience and resistance to oppressive immigration policies
Latinx adolescents, representing 25% of the U.S. child population, face significant mental health challenges due to aggressive immigration enforcement and policies rooted in racism, nativism, and ethnocentrism. These systemic issues contribute to increased rates of sadness, hopelessness, and suicidal behaviors among Latinx adolescents. Addressing this crisis requires interventions that mitigate the harms of these policies and promote youth voice …
Just Being Connected, It's Like a Way of Resisting: Latinx Youth Strengthening Cultural Ties as Resilience and Resistance in the Deep South
Over the last decade, a range of research has demonstrated the detrimental impacts of policies criminalizing migration (“crimmigration”) on Latinx mental health. In this study, we seek to examine youth perspectives on how crimmigration policies affect Latinx adolescents' connections to Latinx identity, culture, and communities and the implications for Latinx youth mental health. We explored how immigration enforcement policies affect Latinx youth…
“I Can Never Feel Safe”: Latinx Youth Voices on Psychosocial Impacts of 287(g) in Georgia
Increasingly, immigration policies are understood as structural determinants, rooted in racism, nativism, and ethnocentrism, which raise serious public health concerns for Latinx adolescents’ mental health. Our objective was to examine how immigration policy enforcement affects mental health of Latinx youth raised in a county with an aggressive interior immigration enforcement program. From 2009 to 2021, Gwinnett County, GA, led the nation in dep…
Migration-related trauma and PTSD among Latinx parents in the southeast during Covid-19
Results from our CBPR study highlight the need for policies and practices that address compounding effects of migration-related trauma, policy vulnerability, and the COVID-19 pandemic to promote mental health equity among Latinx immigrant families. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)
Facing a dual threat: Pandemic stress and immigration policy vulnerability on mental health among Latinx immigrant parents
BACKGROUND: Exclusionary immigration policies rooted in structural racism threaten the wellbeing of Latinx families, increasing stress, anxiety, depression, and distress among immigrant parents. The COVID-19 pandemic has had devastating and disproportionate impacts on communities of color with unique impacts on Latinx immigrant parents in mixed-status families. AIMS: From a syndemic theory lens, we explored the convergence of structural racism an…
The Impact of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Benefit Requirements and Sanctions on Maternal Material Hardship, Mental Health, and Parental Aggravation
The toll of the Covid-19 pandemic on Latinx mixed-status immigrant families in a restrictive immigration policy climate in the Southeast
Depressive Symptoms in Relation to Adverse Childhood Experiences, Discrimination, Hope, and Social Support in a Diverse Sample of College Students
BACKGROUND: Young adulthood is a critical transitory period, with various factors impacting mental health and longer-term health outcomes, particularly among racial/ethnic minorities. Drawing from minority stress theory, this study examined correlates of depressive symptoms, specifically adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), racial/ethnic discrimination, hope, social support, and their interactive effects, among a diverse sample of college studen…
Women’s Lived Experiences with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (Tanf): How Tanf Can Better Support Women’s Wellbeing and Reduce Intimate Partner Violence
Women experiencing poverty are more likely to face intimate partner violence (IPV), poor health, and stigma. IPV survivors are overrepresented among those who receive Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), a conditional cash program serving families experiencing poverty. More generous TANF policies may be protective against IPV, but a greater insight into TANF's effect could be gleaned through a contemporaneous study that examines inters…
Racial and Ethnic Abortion Disparities Following Georgia's 22-Week Gestational Age Limit
Abortion Trends in Georgia Following Enactment of the 22-Week Gestational Age Limit, 2007–2017
Objectives. To measure trends before, during, and after implementation of Georgia House Bill 954, a limit on abortion at 22 or more weeks of gestation passed in 2012, in total abortions and abortions by gestational age and state residence. Methods. We analyzed aggregate year-level induced termination of pregnancy data from the Georgia Department of Public Health from 2007 to 2017. We used linear regression to describe annual trends in the number …
Implementation of Evidence-Based HIV Interventions for Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men
Pathways to adolescent childbearing among Kaqchikel women in Guatemala
One-in-five children in Guatemala is born to a mother aged 15-19 years, which poses social, economic and health risks to both mother and child. In Guatemala, adolescent childbearing is directly associated with education, ethnicity and poverty, which increases vulnerability among Indigenous young women living in poverty. This study examines the context and experiences of adolescent childbearing from the perspectives of young mothers in the Kaqchik…
The percentage of HIV treatment and prevention services in Kenya provided by faith-based health providers
Although the percentage of health services provided by the faith-based sector in sub-Saharan Africa is often cited along a range from 30% to 70%, depending on the country, such citations tend to be anecdotal and without reference to actual analysis of health service data. This article reports on a secondary analysis of health service data in Kenya to determine the percentage of HIV services provided by faith-based health providers. It then discus…
Together we are stronger”: Ypar and Latinx immigrant youth resilience and resistance to oppressive immigration policies
Latinx adolescents, representing 25% of the U.S. child population, face significant mental health challenges due to aggressive immigration enforcement and policies rooted in racism, nativism, and ethnocentrism. These systemic issues contribute to increased rates of sadness, hopelessness, and suicidal behaviors among Latinx adolescents. Addressing this crisis requires interventions that mitigate the harms of these policies and promote youth voice …
Abortion Trends in Georgia Following Enactment of the 22-Week Gestational Age Limit, 2007–2017
Objectives. To measure trends before, during, and after implementation of Georgia House Bill 954, a limit on abortion at 22 or more weeks of gestation passed in 2012, in total abortions and abortions by gestational age and state residence. Methods. We analyzed aggregate year-level induced termination of pregnancy data from the Georgia Department of Public Health from 2007 to 2017. We used linear regression to describe annual trends in the number …
The percentage of HIV treatment and prevention services in Kenya provided by faith-based health providers
Although the percentage of health services provided by the faith-based sector in sub-Saharan Africa is often cited along a range from 30% to 70%, depending on the country, such citations tend to be anecdotal and without reference to actual analysis of health service data. This article reports on a secondary analysis of health service data in Kenya to determine the percentage of HIV services provided by faith-based health providers. It then discus…
Implementation of Evidence-Based HIV Interventions for Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men
Pathways to adolescent childbearing among Kaqchikel women in Guatemala
One-in-five children in Guatemala is born to a mother aged 15-19 years, which poses social, economic and health risks to both mother and child. In Guatemala, adolescent childbearing is directly associated with education, ethnicity and poverty, which increases vulnerability among Indigenous young women living in poverty. This study examines the context and experiences of adolescent childbearing from the perspectives of young mothers in the Kaqchik…
The percentage of HIV treatment and prevention services in Kenya provided by faith-based health providers
Although the percentage of health services provided by the faith-based sector in sub-Saharan Africa is often cited along a range from 30% to 70%, depending on the country, such citations tend to be anecdotal and without reference to actual analysis of health service data. This article reports on a secondary analysis of health service data in Kenya to determine the percentage of HIV services provided by faith-based health providers. It then discus…
Abortion Trends in Georgia Following Enactment of the 22-Week Gestational Age Limit, 2007–2017
Objectives. To measure trends before, during, and after implementation of Georgia House Bill 954, a limit on abortion at 22 or more weeks of gestation passed in 2012, in total abortions and abortions by gestational age and state residence. Methods. We analyzed aggregate year-level induced termination of pregnancy data from the Georgia Department of Public Health from 2007 to 2017. We used linear regression to describe annual trends in the number …
Racial and Ethnic Abortion Disparities Following Georgia's 22-Week Gestational Age Limit
Depressive Symptoms in Relation to Adverse Childhood Experiences, Discrimination, Hope, and Social Support in a Diverse Sample of College Students
BACKGROUND: Young adulthood is a critical transitory period, with various factors impacting mental health and longer-term health outcomes, particularly among racial/ethnic minorities. Drawing from minority stress theory, this study examined correlates of depressive symptoms, specifically adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), racial/ethnic discrimination, hope, social support, and their interactive effects, among a diverse sample of college studen…
Women’s Lived Experiences with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (Tanf): How Tanf Can Better Support Women’s Wellbeing and Reduce Intimate Partner Violence
Women experiencing poverty are more likely to face intimate partner violence (IPV), poor health, and stigma. IPV survivors are overrepresented among those who receive Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), a conditional cash program serving families experiencing poverty. More generous TANF policies may be protective against IPV, but a greater insight into TANF's effect could be gleaned through a contemporaneous study that examines inters…
Facing a dual threat: Pandemic stress and immigration policy vulnerability on mental health among Latinx immigrant parents
BACKGROUND: Exclusionary immigration policies rooted in structural racism threaten the wellbeing of Latinx families, increasing stress, anxiety, depression, and distress among immigrant parents. The COVID-19 pandemic has had devastating and disproportionate impacts on communities of color with unique impacts on Latinx immigrant parents in mixed-status families. AIMS: From a syndemic theory lens, we explored the convergence of structural racism an…
The Impact of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Benefit Requirements and Sanctions on Maternal Material Hardship, Mental Health, and Parental Aggravation
The toll of the Covid-19 pandemic on Latinx mixed-status immigrant families in a restrictive immigration policy climate in the Southeast
“I Can Never Feel Safe”: Latinx Youth Voices on Psychosocial Impacts of 287(g) in Georgia
Increasingly, immigration policies are understood as structural determinants, rooted in racism, nativism, and ethnocentrism, which raise serious public health concerns for Latinx adolescents’ mental health. Our objective was to examine how immigration policy enforcement affects mental health of Latinx youth raised in a county with an aggressive interior immigration enforcement program. From 2009 to 2021, Gwinnett County, GA, led the nation in dep…
Migration-related trauma and PTSD among Latinx parents in the southeast during Covid-19
Results from our CBPR study highlight the need for policies and practices that address compounding effects of migration-related trauma, policy vulnerability, and the COVID-19 pandemic to promote mental health equity among Latinx immigrant families. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)
Together we are stronger”: Ypar and Latinx immigrant youth resilience and resistance to oppressive immigration policies
Latinx adolescents, representing 25% of the U.S. child population, face significant mental health challenges due to aggressive immigration enforcement and policies rooted in racism, nativism, and ethnocentrism. These systemic issues contribute to increased rates of sadness, hopelessness, and suicidal behaviors among Latinx adolescents. Addressing this crisis requires interventions that mitigate the harms of these policies and promote youth voice …
Just Being Connected, It's Like a Way of Resisting: Latinx Youth Strengthening Cultural Ties as Resilience and Resistance in the Deep South
Over the last decade, a range of research has demonstrated the detrimental impacts of policies criminalizing migration (“crimmigration”) on Latinx mental health. In this study, we seek to examine youth perspectives on how crimmigration policies affect Latinx adolescents' connections to Latinx identity, culture, and communities and the implications for Latinx youth mental health. We explored how immigration enforcement policies affect Latinx youth…
Understanding Hispanic and Latino Perceptions on Ancestry-Targeted Screening for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Syndrome via Democratic Deliberation
Guided by the community empowerment theory, this study utilized the Democratic Deliberation (DD) approach to gather informed opinions from communities of Hispanic and Latino ancestry to understand barriers and facilitators for targeted screening for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Syndrome (HBOC) screening. We recruited 33 Spanish-speaking Hispanic and Latino community members living in the state of Georgia and conducted a half-day, in-perso…
Medicine (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (6 works) · Psychiatry (6 works) · Mental health (5 works) · Public health (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Immigration (4 works)