Research
Behavioral Health
MA GX, Tan Y, Lee M, Hanlon AL, Feng Z, Shireman TI, Rhee J, Wei Z, Wong FY, Koh HS, Kim C, York Q. Efficacy of a community-based participatory intervention to enhance hepatitis B screening and vaccination in underserved Korean Americans. Cancer, 2018; 124(5): 973-982.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1002%2Fcncr.31134
Millender E, Valentine K, Eggenberger T, Lucier C, Sandala H, Bruneau D. Implementing interprofessional collaboration to improve patient outcomes: A caring and social approach to integrated nurse-led community based-care. International Journal for Human Caring, 2019; 24(1), 1-13.
http://dx.doi.org/10.20467/1091-5710.24.1.1
Park, Park H, Faith M. Body weight perception and health-related behaviors among U.S. adolescents: Mediating effects of body weight control behaviors. The Journal of School Nursing; Published online March 24, 2021.
https://doi.org/10.1177/10598405211003800
Wong JA, Dang LH, Ngoc PT, Le T, Vu NC, Vu TD, James S, Katona P, Katona L, Rosen J, Wong FY, Nguyen CK. Effectiveness of an automated errors checking and feedback system to improve text message reporting for disease surveillance in Vietnam. Telemedicine and e-Health, Published online July 14, 2020.
https://doi.org/10.1089/tmj.2020.0065
Heart Health
Ding Y, Lin H, Liu X, Zhang Y, Wong FY, Sun YV, Marconi VC, He N. Hypertension in HIV-infected adults compared with similar but uninfected adults in China: body mass index-dependent effects of nadir CD4 count. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses, 2017; 33(11): 1117-1125.
https://doi.org/10.1089/aid.2017.0008
Millender E,Barile JP, Bagneris J*, Harris R*, De Faria L, Wong FY, Crusto C, Taylor JY. Associations between social determinants of health, perceived discrimination, and body mass index on symptoms of depression among young African American mothers. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing; 2021; 35(1): 94-101.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apnu.2020.09.014
Xu X, Lin H, Chen X, Zhu B, Shen W, Ning C, Qian X, Xu X, Shi R, Liu X, Wong FY, He N, Ding Y. Differences in hypertension and prehypertension among adults with and without HIV infection in China: role of HIV infection and antiretroviral therapy. HIV Medicine; Published online November 29, 2020. doi: 10.1111/hiv.13040
Mental Health
Millender E. Stress experienced by Guatemala-Mayan Immigrants. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 2010; 24(3), 212-214. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apnu.2009.04.001
Simoni JM, Safren SA, Manhart LE, Lyda K, Grossman CI, Rao D, Mimiaga MJ, Wong FY, Catz SL, Blank M, DiClemente RJ, Wilson IR. Challenges in addressing depression in HIV research: Assessment, cultural context, and methods. AIDS & Behavior, 2011; 15(2): 376-388.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10461-010-9836-3
Sexual Health
Hall CD*, Ibragimov U*, Luu M*, Wong FY. “Actives,” passives, and power: Heteronormative gender norms and their implications for intimate partner violence among men who have sex with men in Tajikistan. Culture, Health and Sexuality; 2019; 22(6): 630-645.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2019.1623913
Lin H, He N, Zhou S, Ding Y**, Qiu D, Zhang T, Wong FY. Behavioral and molecular tracing of risky contacts in a sample of Chinese HIV-infected men who have sex with men. American Journal of Epidemiology, 2013; 177(4): 343-350.
http://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kws256
Wang L, Barile JP, Simoni JM, Harris R, Yue Q, Fu J, Huang Z, Ning Z, Wong FY. Intimate partner violence among transwomen in Shanghai, China: Associations with sexual risk behaviors and HIV testing. Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Published online October 13, 2020.
https://doi.org/10.1097/olq.0000000000001317
Burns PA, Hall CX, Poteat T, Mena LA, Wong FY. Living while Black, gay, and poor: Race, neighborhood structural disadvantage, and PrEP utilization among a sample of Black men who wave sex with men in the Deep South. AIDS Education and Prevention, 2021, 33(5): 395-410.
doi: 10.1521/aeap.2021.33.5.395
Active Research Support
Frank (“Frankie”) Y. Wong
2021-2023
Building Resilience to Minority Stress and HIV-related Stigma for Promoting Positive Sexual Health among Vietnamese High-risk Men (R21TW011759-01A1): PI (Contact)
National Institutes of Health
2021-2026
The Lotus Project: Improving Trauma-informed Care and Prevention for Asian Children and Families (1H79SM085087-01): Consultant (PI: Tooru Nemoto)
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration
2021-2026
Fostering Institutional Resources for Science Transformation: The FLORIDA-FIRST Health-science Brigade (U54CA267730-01): PI (Contact)
National Institutes of Health
2020-2023
Identifying the Influence of Genetic and Social Epigenomic Factors on Long-term Comorbid Outcomes on Depression and Cardiovascular Disease (043846):Co-I (PI: Eugenia Millender)
Health Data Science Institute, VP Office of Research,
Florida State University
2019-2020
Disparities for HV-related Hypertension in African-American and Asian/Pacific-American MSM (3R01MD013501-02S1): PI (Contact)
National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities
2018-2023
Disparities for HIV-related Hypertension in African-American and Asian/Pacific-American MSM (R01MD013501): PI (Contact)
National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities
Eugenia Millender
2019-2020
Talking Circle for Young Adults (TC4YA; 042333): Co-PI
Hillman Foundation
2019-2024
The UF-FSU Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA; 2UL1TR01427-05): Advisory Steering Committee Member (Co-PIs: Joyce and Muszynski)
National Institutes of Health
2020-2021
Assessment of HIV/AIDS and Mental Health Risk Behaviors and Acceptability of Precision Health Among Native Americans Living Along the Eastern and Southern Seaboard of the U.S. (R25MH084565 awarded to Walters, Pearson, & Duran): PI for a Pilot Study
National Institute of Mental Health
2020-2022
Impact of Sociocultural Determinants, Depression, and Anxiety Risk on Alcohol Misuse and COVID-19 Experiences Among Native Americans Living Along the Eastern and Southern Seaboard of the U.S. (5P60AA026112-04 awarded to Manson): PI for a Pilot Study
National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
2020-2022
Identifying the Influence of Genetic and Social Epigenomic Factors on Long-term Comorbid Outcomes on Depression and Cardiovascular Disease (Project #:043846): PI
Health Data Science Institute, VP Office of Research,
Florida State University
2020-2022
Impact of Stress, Depression, Coping and DNA Methylation on Blood Pressure among African American Women (NIH Loan Repayment Program): PI
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute