Suzanne Randolph Cunningham
Biographic Data
| ID | 95976 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Suzanne Randolph Cunningham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Suzanne Randolph |
| FAMILY NAME | Cunningham |
| SIGNATURE | CUNNINGHAM S R |
| AFFILIATIONS | MayaTech (United States) |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5021-2480 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
When Being Alone Matters: How Perceived Isolation Shapes the Impact of Support on Black Men’s Mental Health
Prior research highlights the detrimental effects of loneliness and social isolation on health, yet Black men’s mental health in this context remains underexplored. This study examines how loneliness-related stress relates to anxiety and depression symptoms, and whether social support moderates these effects among Black men. Using cross-sectional data from 690 participants in The Association of Black Psychologists’ COVID-19 and Black Mental Healt…
Black/Africana Mental Health During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Stressors and the Role of Support
The disproportionate burden of COVID-19 on Black/Africana mental health necessitates more attention to identifying stressors adversely associated with Black/Africana mental health and whether informal and formal support can mitigate these deleterious associations. Study aims were to (a) identify stressors associated with mental health outcomes (depressive and anxiety symptoms and well-being) among Blacks/Africanas; and (b) examine the potential r…
Sociocultural Factors Related to Covid Vaccine Status in African Americans
Despite the widespread vaccine rollout, vaccine hesitancy remains high among African Americans. This study explored vaccine hesitancy, intention, and receipt of the COVID-19 vaccine using secondary data from The Association of Black Psychologists' multi-state needs assessment of 2480 African American adults. The first aim was to examine the relationship between cultural mistrust, general COVID worry, and race-related COVID worry to vaccine status…
Prevention is a privilege: Implementing drug-free community coalitions in Black communities
Community-based interventions for youth substance use prevention require high levels of capacity to organize and coordinate community resources to support youth development and create opportunities to prevent youth substance use. This project aimed to better understand what Black prevention practitioners perceive as the requirements for a successful drug-free community coalition. Black prevention practitioners, who were engaged in drug-free commu…
Dual Pandemics: Race-Related Covid Stress and Mental Health Outcomes in Black Individuals
Peer-Led Focus Groups Identify Barriers to Healthy Lifestyle in African American Adolescents from Baltimore City
Engagement of Black youth in CBPR projects can yield valuable data to design more culturally responsive and developmentally appropriate interventions. Youth are competent collectors of information to identify needed changes in their schools/communities and about the use of technology/social media to facilitate improved health practices among their peers and should be involved early in the process of developing targeted obesity prevention interven…
Engaging Human Services and Behavioral Health Professionals in Youth-led, Adult-guided Social Action Initiatives
Professional and community leaders in Washington, DC have expressed the need for more capacity building and increased resources to address health inequities in the city’s underserved African American communities. Inequities (“food deserts,” community decay, and limited youth opportunities) require equity-informed approaches. Disparities (disproportionate substance use/behavioral health disorders) also require system-level approaches. In response,…
Applying culturalist methodologies to discern Covid‐19's impact on communities of color
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has disproportionately impacted communities of color (CoC) amid increasing incidents of racial injustices and racism. In this article, we describe our culturalist methodologies for designing and implementing a multi-ethnic, interdisciplinary national needs assessment developed in partnership with CoC. Instead of a typical western-centric social science approach that typically ignores and perpetuate…
The Covid‐19/racial injustice syndemic and mental health among Black Americans: The roles of general and race‐related Covid worry, cultural mistrust, and perceived discrimination
This study explored intersecting concerns about COVID-19 and racial injustice against Black people in the United States using a syndemic perspective. Findings from a multistate COVID-19 needs assessment project examined the association of general and race-related concerns about COVID-19 and concerns about police violence against Black people with mental health symptoms in a sample of 2480 Black Americans. The role of cultural mistrust in vaccinat…
Evaluating Research Centers in Minority Institutions: Framework, Metrics, Best Practices, and Challenges
The NIH-funded Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) program is currently funding 18 academic institutions to strengthen the research environment and contribution to health disparities research. The purpose of this multiphase mixed-methods study was to establish a uniform evaluation framework for demonstrating the collective success of this research consortium. Methods included discussions of aims and logic models at the RCMI Evaluator…
Two Faces of Intentionality
Theories of intentionality need to account for non-cognitive states like emotions as well as cognitive states like beliefs. When certain non-cognitive states are included, one can formulate a feasible physicalist account of intentionality that highlights its evolutionary roots. I argue that recent experimental data support just such a move
Perception, meaning, and mind
Representation: Rorty vs. Husserl
Perceptual Meaning and Husserl
To be conscious is to be conscious of something. This widely accepted claim expresses what Husserl referred to as the intentional structure of consciousness. A primary goal of Husserl's phenomenology was to analyze and clarify the various elements that function this intentional structure. Early his work, Ideas I' (1913), Husserl distinguishes two of these central elements: noesis and noema (pl. noeses and noemata). The former, the noetic element,…
Husserl and Private Languages: A Response to Hutcheson
In a recent article (Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, September, i98i),' Peter Hutcheson offers several objections to my views on the relationship between private language and the phenomenological reductions of Edmund Husserl.' Before responding to each of Hutcheson's major points, I would like to set out some of the background against which his objections should be understood. Early in Cartesian Meditations Husserl makes the following c…
Language and the Phenomenological Reductions of Edumund Husserl
The Covid‐19/racial injustice syndemic and mental health among Black Americans: The roles of general and race‐related Covid worry, cultural mistrust, and perceived discrimination
This study explored intersecting concerns about COVID-19 and racial injustice against Black people in the United States using a syndemic perspective. Findings from a multistate COVID-19 needs assessment project examined the association of general and race-related concerns about COVID-19 and concerns about police violence against Black people with mental health symptoms in a sample of 2480 Black Americans. The role of cultural mistrust in vaccinat…
Applying culturalist methodologies to discern Covid‐19's impact on communities of color
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has disproportionately impacted communities of color (CoC) amid increasing incidents of racial injustices and racism. In this article, we describe our culturalist methodologies for designing and implementing a multi-ethnic, interdisciplinary national needs assessment developed in partnership with CoC. Instead of a typical western-centric social science approach that typically ignores and perpetuate…
Dual Pandemics: Race-Related Covid Stress and Mental Health Outcomes in Black Individuals
Black/Africana Mental Health During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Stressors and the Role of Support
The disproportionate burden of COVID-19 on Black/Africana mental health necessitates more attention to identifying stressors adversely associated with Black/Africana mental health and whether informal and formal support can mitigate these deleterious associations. Study aims were to (a) identify stressors associated with mental health outcomes (depressive and anxiety symptoms and well-being) among Blacks/Africanas; and (b) examine the potential r…
Language and the Phenomenological Reductions of Edumund Husserl
Husserl and Private Languages: A Response to Hutcheson
In a recent article (Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, September, i98i),' Peter Hutcheson offers several objections to my views on the relationship between private language and the phenomenological reductions of Edmund Husserl.' Before responding to each of Hutcheson's major points, I would like to set out some of the background against which his objections should be understood. Early in Cartesian Meditations Husserl makes the following c…
Perceptual Meaning and Husserl
To be conscious is to be conscious of something. This widely accepted claim expresses what Husserl referred to as the intentional structure of consciousness. A primary goal of Husserl's phenomenology was to analyze and clarify the various elements that function this intentional structure. Early his work, Ideas I' (1913), Husserl distinguishes two of these central elements: noesis and noema (pl. noeses and noemata). The former, the noetic element,…
Representation: Rorty vs. Husserl
Perception, meaning, and mind
Two Faces of Intentionality
Theories of intentionality need to account for non-cognitive states like emotions as well as cognitive states like beliefs. When certain non-cognitive states are included, one can formulate a feasible physicalist account of intentionality that highlights its evolutionary roots. I argue that recent experimental data support just such a move
Evaluating Research Centers in Minority Institutions: Framework, Metrics, Best Practices, and Challenges
The NIH-funded Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) program is currently funding 18 academic institutions to strengthen the research environment and contribution to health disparities research. The purpose of this multiphase mixed-methods study was to establish a uniform evaluation framework for demonstrating the collective success of this research consortium. Methods included discussions of aims and logic models at the RCMI Evaluator…
The Covid‐19/racial injustice syndemic and mental health among Black Americans: The roles of general and race‐related Covid worry, cultural mistrust, and perceived discrimination
This study explored intersecting concerns about COVID-19 and racial injustice against Black people in the United States using a syndemic perspective. Findings from a multistate COVID-19 needs assessment project examined the association of general and race-related concerns about COVID-19 and concerns about police violence against Black people with mental health symptoms in a sample of 2480 Black Americans. The role of cultural mistrust in vaccinat…
Applying culturalist methodologies to discern Covid‐19's impact on communities of color
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has disproportionately impacted communities of color (CoC) amid increasing incidents of racial injustices and racism. In this article, we describe our culturalist methodologies for designing and implementing a multi-ethnic, interdisciplinary national needs assessment developed in partnership with CoC. Instead of a typical western-centric social science approach that typically ignores and perpetuate…
Peer-Led Focus Groups Identify Barriers to Healthy Lifestyle in African American Adolescents from Baltimore City
Engagement of Black youth in CBPR projects can yield valuable data to design more culturally responsive and developmentally appropriate interventions. Youth are competent collectors of information to identify needed changes in their schools/communities and about the use of technology/social media to facilitate improved health practices among their peers and should be involved early in the process of developing targeted obesity prevention interven…
Engaging Human Services and Behavioral Health Professionals in Youth-led, Adult-guided Social Action Initiatives
Professional and community leaders in Washington, DC have expressed the need for more capacity building and increased resources to address health inequities in the city’s underserved African American communities. Inequities (“food deserts,” community decay, and limited youth opportunities) require equity-informed approaches. Disparities (disproportionate substance use/behavioral health disorders) also require system-level approaches. In response,…
Prevention is a privilege: Implementing drug-free community coalitions in Black communities
Community-based interventions for youth substance use prevention require high levels of capacity to organize and coordinate community resources to support youth development and create opportunities to prevent youth substance use. This project aimed to better understand what Black prevention practitioners perceive as the requirements for a successful drug-free community coalition. Black prevention practitioners, who were engaged in drug-free commu…
Dual Pandemics: Race-Related Covid Stress and Mental Health Outcomes in Black Individuals
Black/Africana Mental Health During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Stressors and the Role of Support
The disproportionate burden of COVID-19 on Black/Africana mental health necessitates more attention to identifying stressors adversely associated with Black/Africana mental health and whether informal and formal support can mitigate these deleterious associations. Study aims were to (a) identify stressors associated with mental health outcomes (depressive and anxiety symptoms and well-being) among Blacks/Africanas; and (b) examine the potential r…
Sociocultural Factors Related to Covid Vaccine Status in African Americans
Despite the widespread vaccine rollout, vaccine hesitancy remains high among African Americans. This study explored vaccine hesitancy, intention, and receipt of the COVID-19 vaccine using secondary data from The Association of Black Psychologists' multi-state needs assessment of 2480 African American adults. The first aim was to examine the relationship between cultural mistrust, general COVID worry, and race-related COVID worry to vaccine status…
When Being Alone Matters: How Perceived Isolation Shapes the Impact of Support on Black Men’s Mental Health
Prior research highlights the detrimental effects of loneliness and social isolation on health, yet Black men’s mental health in this context remains underexplored. This study examines how loneliness-related stress relates to anxiety and depression symptoms, and whether social support moderates these effects among Black men. Using cross-sectional data from 690 participants in The Association of Black Psychologists’ COVID-19 and Black Mental Healt…
Psychology (12 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Cognitive science (4 works) · Mental health (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychiatry (4 works) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (4 works) · Sociology (4 works)