Professor Chris Browning and colleagues received two rapid-response grants (National Science Foundation RAPID and a National Institute on Drug Abuse supplement) to collect mobility, COVID-19 and other wellbeing data on a subsample of adolescents and caregivers from their Columbus-area study (Adolescent Health and Development in Context).
Professor Sam Clark worked with the World Health Organization (WHO) to include COVID-19 questions in the WHO standard verbal autopsy questionnaire to enable assessment of the virus as a contributing factor to deaths. He also studied COVID-19 deaths in Ohio and collaborated with organizations in Colombia and Brazil to develop a COVID-19 Rapid Mortality Surveillance Tool.
Professor Elizabeth Cooksey directed the Center for Human Resource Research, which ran five COVID-19 surveys to date, gathering vital information on the impacts of COVID. These included questions regarding mask-wearing habits and views, how holidays were celebrated and thoughts regarding schools, among other questions.
Professor Rachel Dwyer was awarded a National Science Foundation grant for a collaboration with Jason Houle at Dartmouth College entitled “Collaborative Research: Debt and Insecurity Among Vulnerable Communities During the COVID-19 Crisis.”
Professor Vincent Roscigno, Dr. Anne McDaniel (Director of Research in the Office of Student Life and OSU Sociology Alumna), and five graduate students — Erick Axxe, Kate Smeraldo, James Tompsett, Jasmine Whiteside, and Ashley Wright — surveyed and interviewed first-generation students prior to and after the pandemic hit to identify pandemic-related vulnerabilities, mental health consequences, and family stressors among first-generation students.
Professor Kristi Williams and graduate student Lawrence Stacey published two fact sheets for The Council on Contemporary Families that summarize data on the effects of COVID-19 on households with children from the U.S. Census Bureau’s ongoing Household Pulse Survey.
Professors Mike Vuolo, Vincent Roscigno, and Bryan Kelly (Purdue) published an article on mask mandates as a worker’s rights issue. Professor Mike Vuolo also published an article on e-cigarette use and COVID and received supplemental funding from the National Science Foundation to study how people with criminal records are experiencing the pandemic.
