Lerner Center Research Publications

 It finds that rural counties with higher ADS density have higher older adult vaccination rates.

This issue brief describes the influence of colonialism on AI/AN mental health and discusses how barriers to mental health treatment can be addressed by integrating AI/AN culture into traditional mental health services and increasing AI/AN presence in mental health occupations.

This brief shows that those who reported having emotional support from family and friends were less likely to report negative mental health effects from the COVID-19 pandemic (32.9%) compared to those without emotional support (50.2%). 

This brief summarizes the policy changes made in Virginia and describes how those changes improved child care subsidy stability and participation in that state.

This data slice uses data from the National Wellbeing Survey to examine resilience among U.S. working-age adults with and without PTSD by their relationship to the military.

One way aging adults may mitigate disease onset and progression is through increased consumption of plant-based foods.

This research brief describes these long-term sociodemographic changes and uses in-depth interviews conducted before the pandemic to illustrate nine specific ways grandparenting is shifting in the U.S.

This research brief examines Latino-white differences in COVID-19 mortality rates among older adults and describes how those disparities have reduced the Latino mortality advantage in this age group.

This research brief examines the association between several state policies and self-rated health among adults ages 45-64 from 1993 to 2016.

This data slice shows that third places are not evenly distributed across the U.S.

While the early months of the pandemic were marked by higher mortality rates among Whites in blue (Democratic governor) states, red states (Republican governor) experienced larger increases in 2021.

This brief examines several aspects of neighborhood context and their relationship to PTSD symptom severity following an injury.

This issue brief advocates for the implementation of safe consumption sites across the U.S. and calls for the revocation of the Crack House Statute to reduce the risks related to drug use and drug use mortality.

When COVID-19 began its initial wave in the United States in March 2020, gun sales surged across the country.

Across most outcomes, rural residents fared worse than their urban peers

While people of color have borne the brunt of lives lost throughout the pandemic, the growth in White deaths from COVID-19 outpaced deaths among other racial/ethnic groups in 2021.