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Two new papers, authored by teams headed by DUPRI's Jennifer Lansford and using data from the Parenting Across Cultures study, examine the effects of pre-pandemic predictors on individuals' compliance with COVID mitigation strategies and vaccine hesitancy and with their mental well-being and substance use. Both papers also explore how confidence in government handling of the pandemic influences these behaviors.

The National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN) was recently renewed as the one Administration for Children, Youth, and Families-funded repository for data on child abuse and neglect, as well as Child Protectives Services contact.

In a new paper published in Housing Policy Debate titled "Racial Disparities in COVID-19 Case Positivity and Social Context: The Role of Housing, Neighborhood, and Health Insurance," a group of researchers, including Anna Gassman-Pines, Elizabeth Gifford, and Marcos Rangel examine the housing, neighborhood, and health insurance explain disparities in case positivity between and within racial-ethnic groups in Durham County, North Carolina.

DUPRI's Chris Wildeman, along with collaborators Sarah Font (Pennsylvania State University), Yo Jackson (Pennsylvania State University), Lonnie Berger (University of Wisconsin), and Kristin Turney (University of California, Irvine), has been awarded an NIH grant to study "Implications of Parental Incarceration for Child Health and Wellbeing".

With pilot support from DPRC, a team of researchers recently published a paper in Biological Psychiatry titled "Polygenic Liability to Depression Is Associated With Multiple Medical Conditions in the Electronic Health Record: Phenome-wide Association Study of 46,782 Individuals". The results of their work can inform the biological links between depression and both mental and systemic diseases.

A broader look at family finances can lead to better-designed programs that address child wellbeing.

The project, led by DUPRI's Jennifer Lansford, will build a developmental model of young adult adjustment and maladjustment at the individual, family, and culture levels using a diverse multi-national sample, and will examine the impact of COVID-related disruptions in education, work, and other important domains on subsequent adjustment.

The SEHAT (Survey of Health Trends) Project, led by Mohanan, investigates the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on health outcomes, focusing on mental health. It uses data from the Consume Pyramids Household Survey (CPHS), the world's largest household panel survey.

Three DUPRI scholars, Christina Gibson-Davis, Lisa Gennetian, and Lisa Keister, were recently awarded an R21 grant by NICHD called "Net worth poverty and children’s development." The research examines how net worth poverty, distinct from income poverty, is associated with children’s cognitive and behavioral development.

An interdisciplinary team of researchers, led by PI Charles Nunn and Co-PI James Moody, aims to understand what factors turn a local outbreak into a global pandemic by focusing on human connections at a local, regional and global scales.