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Kristine Ria Hearld

Professor of Health Services Administration, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Chapter Member: Alabama SSN
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About Kristine

Ria's primary research has focused on health care of vulnerable populations; global health; maternal and child health; health disparities; and mental health outcomes. Her research has benefited from sociological and economic perspectives gained through training in an interdisciplinary program; and from six years of experience working in the private sector as a consultant to physicians associated with hospital systems. Prior to joining UAB; she worked for Medical Advantage Group in East Lansing; Michigan; where she served as a consultant and manager for a 200-member independent physician association and a 140-member physician-hospital organization.

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Contributions

Challenging Assumptions about the Use of Contraception by U.S. Muslim Women

  • Henna Budhwani
Key Findings Brief,

Publications

"Muslim Women's Experiences with Stigma, Abuse, and Depression: Results of a Sample Study Conducted in the United States" (with Henna Budhwani). Journal of Women's Health 26, no. 5 (2017).

Explores associations between internalized stigma, exposure to physical abuse, experiences with sexual abuse, and depression in Muslim women residing in the United States.

"Transgender Female Sex Workers; HIV Knowledge, Experienced Stigma, and Condom Use in the Dominican Republic" (with Henna Budhwani, Julia Hasbun, Rebecca Charow, Santo Rosario, Louise Tillotson, Elaine McGlaughlin, and John Waters). Public Library of Science One (2017).

Assesses associations between their HIV knowledge, experienced stigma, and condom use across three partner types.

"Transgender Women's Experiences with Stigma, Trauma, and Attempted Suicide in the Dominican Republic" (with Henna Budhwani, Adrienne N. Milner, Rebecca Charow, Elaine M. McGlaughlin, Mayra Rodriguez-Lauzurique, Santo Rosario, and Robert Paulino-Ramirez). Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior (2017).

Examines the relationships between stigma, trauma, and suicide attempts in a national sample of transgender women from the Dominican Republic.

"Muslim Women's Use of Contraception in the United States" (with Henna Budhwani and Jami Anderson). Reproductive Health 15, no. 1 (2018).

Examines American Muslim women's contraception utilization patterns. Suggests that American Muslim women's contraception utilization patterns share certain similarities with both American women in general and disadvantaged racial and ethnic minority groups in the United States, implying that factors that influence American Muslim women's use of contraceptives are possibly countervailing and likely multifaceted.

"Transgender Women's Drug Use in the Dominican Republic" (with Henna Budhwani, Adrienne N. Milner, Elaine McGlaughlin, Rebecca Charow, Mayra Rodriguez-Lauzurique, Santo Rosario, and Robert Paulino-Ramirez). Transgender Health 2, no. 1 (2017).

Examines associations between stigma, trauma, and drug use in a national sample of transgender women from the Dominican Republic.