Bonnie Marquez

Email:
bm496​@nau.edu

Emery Eaves

Email:
Emery. Eaves​@nau.edu
Call:
928-523-6281

Rapid assessment of immediate and potential long-term implications of changing telehealth regulations for substance use treatment in the context of COVID-19

What is this study about?

The goals of this one-year project are to use rapid assessment, response and evaluation (RARE) methods to document online care delivery program barriers and facilitators as well as to provide local communities with information about local equity, acceptability and feasibility of potential telehealth and mHealth interventions during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

“There is a national discussion about whether to make the guideline changes for medication-assisted treatment (MAT) implemented during COVID-19 permanent,” said Emery Eaves, associate professor in NAU’s Department of Anthropology. “Our project is very important because it will enable us to study how the guideline changes have actually been experienced by people in treatment and treatment providers.”

Study title: Rapid Assessment of Immediate and Potential Long-term Implications of Changing Telehealth Regulations for Substance Use Treatment in the Context of COVID-19 Specific Aims
Funding: The study is funded by NIMHD/NIH 3U54MD012388-04S4
IRB project number: 1653276-2

About the investigators

Emery Eaves

Emery Eaves, PhD

Project Lead
Associate Professor Department of Anthropology

Research interests: Medical anthropology; qualitative & ethnographic interpretation; chronic pain & opioid use; maternal substance use; integrated healthcare

Eck Doerry, PhD

Co-Investigator
Professor, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems
Email: Eck.Doerry@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-9377
Research interests: Research informatics, mobile and cloud computing, groupware systems, data-driven portals, international engineering education, interdisciplinary design

Robert T. Trotter, III, PhD

Co-Investigator
Regents’ Professor, Emeritus
Phone: 928-523-6566
Research interests: Ethnographic research design and methods, community based participatory design, social network analysis, qualitative sampling reliability and validity, health care systems research, cross-cultural applicability research design

Julie Baldwin

Julie Baldwin, PhD

Principal Investigator, SHERC
Administrative Core Lead
Recruitment Core Lead
Principal Investigator, SHERC Administrative Supplements
Director, Center for Health Equity Research (CHER)
Regents’ Professor, Department of Health Sciences
Phone: 928-523-6566
Research interests: Community-based participatory research, HIV/AIDS & substance abuse prevention, chronic disease prevention, diverse & rural populations

Kathryn M. Kruithoff

Research Partner
Master of Social Work
Research interests: Public health, health equity, mental health, substance use disorders, public child welfare, institutional betrayal, trauma informed care, intersectionality of disrupted attachment and substance use disorders

Kate Compton-Gore

Research Associate
Interdisciplinary Health Doctoral Student
Research interests: Public health, medical anthropology, infectious disease, health equity

David Kofi Mensah

Research Assistant
Interdisciplinary Health Doctoral Student
Phone: 928-523-6566
Research interests: Medical anthropology (mental healthcare), mental health and drug addiction care and treatment, care and stigma, visual ethnography, ethnographic research methods, cross-cultural research

Bonnie Marquez

Project Coordinator
MA in Medical Anthropology
Research interests: Maternal and child health, women’s reproductive health, prenatal care, substance use disorders and health equity

Kayla Negron

Intern
BA in Public Health
Research interests: Public health, health equity, infectious disease, global health, substance abuse, health disparities

Kaitlyn Dykman

Intern
BS in Public Health
Research interests: Global health, public health, health education, mental health, infectious disease
The Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative is a grant-funded initiative of the Center for Health Equity Research at Northern Arizona University. SHERC is supported by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number 3U54MD012388-04S4.

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Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative
Location
Room 120 Building 56
Applied Research & Development
1395 S Knoles Dr.
Flagstaff, Arizona 86011
Mailing Address
PO Box 4065
Flagstaff, Arizona 86011