U.S. Jails and fatal drug overdoses: patterns, predictors and the role of rehabilitative contexts
Health & Justice
2025

Victor St. John, Tasha Perdue and colleagues examine predictors of drug- and opioid-related deaths among incarcerated individuals nationwide.

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Research Brief: Supporting Students Experiencing Homelessness Involved in the Criminal Justice System
f the National Evaluation and Technical Assistance Center for the Education of Children and Youth Who Are Neglected, Delinquent, or At-risk (NDTAC)
2023

Victor St. John’s brief explains how homelessness affects students’ education and involvement in the criminal justice system, and how Title I, Part D coordinators can collaborate with McKinney-Vento program staff to better support these students.

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Did the emergence of Ohio charter schools help or harm students who remained in district schools?
Thomas B. Fordham Institute
2024

Stéphane Lavertu analyzes the expansion of Ohio charter schools, finding that increased school choice slightly improved graduation and attendance rates in traditional districts without harming test scores.

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Self-affirmed for saving energy in the United States: Cognition, intention, and behavior
Energy Research & Social Science
2024

Stephanie Moulton, along with her colleagues, introduces a self-affirmation intervention to test whether writing down personal values can enhance energy-saving attitudes and behaviors, finding it boosts positive cognitive outcomes especially among lower-income individuals, though it does not increase actual energy-saving actions.

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Collaboration strategies affecting implementation of a cross-systems intervention for child welfare and substance use treatment: a mixed methods analysis
Implementation Science Communications
2024

Amanda M. Girth, along with her colleagues, identifies collaboration strategies and contextual conditions that influenced the implementation fidelity of the Ohio Sobriety Treatment and Recovery Teams (START) cross-systems intervention integrating child welfare and behavioral health services.

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Categorizing Stigma as a Barrier to Support Following Nonfatal Overdose: A Qualitative Study
Journal of Addiction Medicine
2025

Tasha Perdue, along with her colleagues, uses the Stigma and Health Discrimination Framework to examine how enacted, anticipated, internalized and structural stigma shape the experiences of people who use drugs in Dayton, Ohio following an overdose and influence the effectiveness of postoverdose interventions.

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Type 2 Diabetes and Financial Outcomes
JAMA
2025

PhD graduate Patthew Pesavento and professors Cäzilia Loibl and Stephanie Moulton published an economic evaluation study of 166,285 adult patients finding a higher probability of adverse financial outcomes among patients with type 2 diabetes.

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Thinking Outside the Credit Box: Strategies to Advance Equity in the Housing Finance System
Housing Policy Debate
2025

In this article, Dr. Stephanie Moulton and a team of housing policy experts draw from recent research to propose changes to the housing finance system that would improve access to mortgages while enabling homeownership stability for low wealth households in the U.S.

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