Providence College

Assessing Public Health and Preventative Health Needs of Underserved Communities in Rhode Island.

BACKGROUND: In the United States, significant disparities exist in preventative health among underserved communities, including African American/Black (AA/B), Hispanic/Latino (H/L) and lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender/ queer (LGBTQ+) individuals. We explored the influence of soci...

Disclosure of Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors Among Adolescent Psychiatric Inpatients: Differences by Sexual and Gender Minority Status.

Rates of adolescent suicide have risen over the last 10 years, creating a public health crisis. Disclosure of suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBs) is one help-seeking strategy available to adolescents. Estimates from prior studies on the frequency of youth STB disclosure vary c...

The Fox Versus the Hedgehog: Firm Survival During Unprecedented Crises

This paper examines how sales channel diversification influences firm resilience during the COVID crisis. Drawing on a series of logit regressions analyzing 11,662 firms across 31 developing countries, we find that firms embodying an open mind-set and a diverse array of sales cha...

Mamdani’s Mending Story: Rescaling Democratic Peoplehood in an Age of Interregnum

Abstract Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral win in New York City has sparked debates about the replicability of democratic socialism. This article instead compares how Mamdani’s deployment of stories of peoplehood diverges from the strategies used by ideological peers like Alexandria Ocasi...