Current Projects 

Discrepancy in Regional Center Location by Zip Code vs. Health District as a Barrier to Services and Cause for Disparities for Individuals with Developmental Delay and Disabilities (PI: Christine Mirzaian)

Coffee Chat Network: Implementation of a novel technology-driven platform to connect (PI: Olivia Hsin)

Filipino Family Health Initiative: The Incredible Years for Parents of School Age Children (PI: Joyce Javier; Co-Investigator: Dean Coffey)

Standardization and Efficient Operationalization of Primary Care Based Developmental Screening for Latino Children in Community Federally Qualified Health Clinics (FQHC) (PI: Mona Patel Gera; Co-Investigators: Larry Yin, Alexis Deavenport-Saman)

Understanding Bilingual Latino Families’ Experiences of Autism Diagnosis and Services in Los Angeles (PI Amber Angell; Co-Investigators: Olga Solomon, Larry Yin)

A Pilot Study of the Incredible Years Parents and Babies Program in Primary Care (Joyce Javier, MD, MPH)

Creating a shared definition of Mental Health in the Filipino Community (PI: Joyce Javier, MD, MPH)

Evaluating Knowledge of Child Development Among Members of a Black Church Community (Olga Solomon, PhD, PI; Larry Yin, MD, MSPH, Alexis Deavenport-Saman, DrPH, Douglas Vanderbilt, MD, MS, Co-Investigators)

Academic achievement as a function of family engagement in children exposed to maltreatment (Alexis Deavenport-Saman, DrPH, PI; Doug Vanderbilt, MD, MS, Co-Investigator)

Evaluation of Parent Navigators in a General Pediatrics Clinic to Reduce Purchase of Service Disparities (PI: Christine Mirzaian, MD, MPH)

Disability and Poverty: A qualitative research on the perceptions of disability in rural areas of Cebu, Philippines. (PI: Aviril Sepulveda; Joyce Javier, Faculty Advisor)

Developing a Social Networking Intervention to Promote Retention of Immigrants in an Evidence-based Parenting Intervention (PI: Joyce Javier, MD, MPH)

A practical guide to normalizing race and ethnicity data from the EHR for secondary use research: The RECODE Framework (PI: Juan Espinoza, MD)

Development of a social determinants of health risk stratification algorithm for pediatric asthma (PI: Juan Espinoza, MD)

Crossing Cultural Boundaries: An Ethnographic Study (PI: Olga Solomon, MD)

Using Multi-Sector Strategies to Address Food Insecurity in Low-Income Settings (PI: Alexis Deavenport-Saman, DrPH)

Filipino Family Health Initiative: Engaging Immigrants in Preventive Parenting Interventions (PI: Joyce Javier, MD, MPH)

Increasing awareness of Regional Center services for Autism Spectrum Disorders in the African American community: a faith-based, community-partnered approach (PI: Olga Solomon, PhD)

Autism in urban context: Linking heterogeneity with health and service disparities CHLA(PI: Olga Solomon, PhD)

Evaluating Knowledge of Child Development Among Members of a Black Church Community

Academic achievement as a function of family engagement in children exposed to maltreatment

Publications 

Amutah, N., Omotola, A., Sullivan, K., Hutchinson, M. K., Jemmott, J. B., & Jemmott, L. S.,& Cederbaum, J. A. (2023). Maternal influence on substance use among black adolescent males. Journal of Child and Family Studies. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-022-02505-9

Castro, M.J., Rodriguez, R.J., Hudson, B., Weersing, V.R., Kipke, M., Peterson, B.S., et al.(2022) Delivery of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy With Diverse, Underresourced Youth Using Telehealth: Advancing Equity Through Consumer Perspectives. Evidence-Based Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 1-15 https://doi.org/10.1080/23794925.2022.2062687

Liu K, Ouyang L, Walker WO, Wiener JS, Woodward J, Castillo J, Wood HM, Tanaka ST, Adams R, Smith KA, O'Neil J, et al. Education and employment as young adults living with spina bifida transition to adulthood in the USA: a study of the National Spina Bifida Patient Registry. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1111/dmcn.15456.

Espinoza, J., Sikder, A. T., Dickhoner, J., & Lee, T. (2021). Assessing Health Data Security Risks in Global Health Partnerships: Development of a Conceptual Framework. JMIR formative research, 5(12), e25833. https://doi.org/10.2196/25833

Jrbashyan, N., Yeghiazaryan, N., Sikder, A., Nallasamy, S., Reid, M. W., Ohanesian, R., Lee, T. C., & Espinoza, J. (2022). Pattern and prevalence of eye disorders and diseases in school-aged children: findings from the Nationwide School Sight Sampling Survey in Armenia. BMJ open ophthalmology, 7(1), e000899. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjophth-2021-000899

Phuong, J., Zampino, E., Dobbins, N., Espinoza, J., Meeker, D., Spratt, H., Madlock-Brown, C., Weiskopf, N. G., & Wilcox, A. (2022). Extracting Patient-level Social Determinants of Health into the OMOP Common Data Model. AMIA.  Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium, 2021, 989–998.