Our developing program is organized around six domains of public health research. In considering what research to pursue, we ask how emerging genomic knowledge could inform innovative interventions that promote advancement in these domains.
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R21CA238356, McBride (PI), Guan (Co-I)
Testing a Low Cost Population- and Theory-Based Outreach Intervention to Engage Ovarian Cancer Survivors and their Close Relatives to Consider Genetic Services
U01CA240581, McBride (PI), Guan (Co-I), Escoffery (Co-I)
Examining Multilevel Barriers and Facilitators to Implementation of Genetic Risk-Stratified Breast Cancer Screening Guideline.
Emory Winship Invest Grant, Guan (PI), Escoffery (Co-I)
Assessing Non-Inferiority of a Scalable Cancer-Focused Client Outreach Telegenetic Service Program
The Marcus Foundation, Guan (Co-PI), Grizaid (Co-PI), McBride
Rollins School of Public Health Dean’s Pilot and Innovation Grant (2022), Guan (PI)
Evaluating an Evidence-based Family History Screening Program Adapted to Increase Reach and Uptake for BRCA-Associated Cancers in Rural Public Health Clinics
National Cancer Institute, Guan (PI)
Enhancing Ethiopian Youths’ Understanding About Joint Contributions of Gene & Environment in Health
U01, NHGRI-H3 Africa, McBride (Co-I), 2014-2017
Exploring Result Understanding and Mammography Screening Behavior among Women at Low Risk for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer
Winship Cancer Institute Pilot Fund, BELLCROSS/MCBRIDE, 2016-2017
Exploring the Role of Community Health Workers in Improving Uptake of Family Health History Assessment Among Patients and Providers
Emory-Georgia Tech Healthcare Innovation Program in Partnership with the Georgia Clinical and Translational Science Alliance, Allen, McKinney, Lawrence, 2018-2019
Testing Theory-Based Persuasive Communication Strategies to Foster Women’s Willingness to Reduce Low-Value Mammography Screening
BSHES & Winship Intervention Development, Dissemination, and Implementation (IDDI Shared Resource), Guan (PI), McBride (Co-I), Escoffery (Co-I)
Guan, Y., Pathak, S., Ballard, D., Veluswamy, J. K., McCullough, L. E., McBride, C. M., & Gornick, M. C. (2022). Testing a deliberative democracy method with citizens of African ancestry to weigh pros and cons of targeted screening for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer risk. Frontiers in public health, 10, 984926. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.984926 (Pubmed, PDF)
McBride, C. M., Campbell, G. P., Zhao, J., Pentz, R. D., Escoffery, C., Komonos, M., Cannova, K., Byrne, J. L. B., Paris, N. M., Shepperd, J. R., & Guan, Y. (2022). Applying citizen science to engage families affected by ovarian cancer in developing genetic service outreach strategies. PloS one, 17(2), e0262575. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0262575 (Pubmed, PDF)
Zhao, J., Guan, Y., & McBride, C. M. (2022). A systematic review of theory-informed strategies used in interventions fostering family genetic risk communication. Patient education and counseling, 105(7), 1953–1962. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2022.03.009 (Pubmed, PDF)
Roberts, M. C., Fohner, A. E., Landry, L., Olstad, D. L., Smit, A. K., Turbitt, E., & Allen, C. G. (2021). Advancing precision public health using human genomics: examples from the field and future research opportunities. Genome medicine, 13(1), 97. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13073-021-00911-0 (Pubmed, PDF)
Allen, C. G., Bethea, B. J., McKinney, L. P., Escoffery, C., Akintobi, T. H., McCray, G. G., & McBride, C. M. (2021). Exploring the Role of Community Health Workers in Improving the Collection of Family Health History: A Pilot Study. Health promotion practice, 15248399211019980. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/15248399211019980 (Pubmed, PDF)
Guan, Y., McBride, C. M., Rogers, H., Zhao, J., Allen, C. G., & Escoffery, C. (2021). Initiatives to Scale Up and Expand Reach of Cancer Genomic Services Outside of Specialty Clinical Settings: A Systematic Review. American journal of preventive medicine, 60(2), e85–e94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2020.08.029 (Pubmed, PDF)
Allen, C. G., Peterson, S., Khoury, M. J., Brody, L. C., & McBride, C. M. (2021). A scoping review of social and behavioral science research to translate genomic discoveries into population health impact. Translational behavioral medicine, 11(4), 901–911. https://doi.org/10.1093/tbm/ibaa076 (Pubmed, PDF)
Allen, C. G., Duquette, D., Guan, Y., & McBride, C. M. (2020). Applying theory to characterize impediments to dissemination of community-facing family health history tools: a review of the literature. Journal of community genetics, 11(2), 147–159. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12687-019-00424-9 (Pubmed, PDF)
Guan, Y., Maloney, K. A., & Pollin, T. I. (2020). Patient perspectives on the diagnostic journey to a monogenic diabetes diagnosis: Barriers and facilitators. Journal of genetic counseling, 29(6), 1106–1113. https://doi.org/10.1002/jgc4.1247 (Pubmed, PDF)
Klein, W., McBride, C. M., Allen, C. G., Arredondo, E. M., Bloss, C. S., Kaphingst, K. A., Sturm, A. C., & Wang, C. (2019). Optimal Integration of Behavioral Medicine into Clinical Genetics and Genomics. American journal of human genetics, 104(2), 193–196. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2019.01.011 (Pubmed, PDF)
McBride, C. M., Graves, K. D., Kaphingst, K. A., Allen, C. G., Wang, C., Arredondo, E., & Klein, W. (2019). Behavioral and social scientists’ reflections on genomics: a systematic evaluation within the Society of Behavioral Medicine. Translational behavioral medicine, 9(6), 1012–1019. https://doi.org/10.1093/tbm/ibz044 (Pubmed, PDF)
McBride, C. M., Comeau, D. L., Mastin, A. E., & Cooper, H. (2019). A Public Health of Consequence: Shifting the Cultural Narrative From Churning Grants to a Scholarship of Consequence. American journal of public health, 109(11), 1535–1538. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2019.305266 (Pubmed, PDF)
McBride, C. M., Guan, Y., & Hay, J. L. (2019). Regarding the Yin and Yang of Precision Cancer- Screening and Treatment: Are We Creating a Neglected Majority?. International journal of environmental research and public health, 16(21), 4168. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16214168 (Pubmed, PDF)
Guan, Y., Condit, C. M., Escoffery, C., Bellcross, C. A., & McBride, C. M. (2019). Do Women who Receive a Negative BRCA1/2 Risk Result Understand the Implications for Breast Cancer Risk?. Public health genomics, 22(3-4), 102–109. https://doi.org/10.1159/000503129 (Pubmed, PDF)
Guan, Y., Nehl, E., Pencea, I., Condit, C. M., Escoffery, C., Bellcross, C. A., & McBride, C. M. (2019). Willingness to decrease mammogram frequency among women at low risk for hereditary breast cancer. Scientific reports, 9(1), 9599. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-45967-6 (Pubmed, PDF)
Allen, C. G., Roberts, M., & Guan, Y. (2019). Exploring Predictors of Genetic Counseling and Testing for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer: Findings from the 2015 U.S. National Health Interview Survey. Journal of personalized medicine, 9(2), 26. https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm9020026 (Pubmed, PDF)
Allen, C. G., Fohner, A. E., Landry, L., Paul, J. L., Smith, S. G., Turbitt, E., & Roberts, M. C. (2019). Perspectives From Early Career Investigators Who Are “Staying in the Game” of Precision Public Health Research. American journal of public health, 109(9), 1186–1187. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2019.305199 (Pubmed, PDF)
Allen, C. G., Fohner, A. E., Landry, L., Paul, J., Smith, S. G., Turbitt, E., & Roberts, M. C. (2019). Early career investigators and precision public health. Lancet (London, England), 394(10196), 382–383. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(19)30498-2 (Pubmed, PDF)
Allen, C. G., McBride, C. M., Engdawork, K., Ayode, D., & Tadele, G. (2019). Applying Mental Model Methods to Characterize Understanding of Gene-Environment Influences: The Case of Podoconiosis in Ethiopia. Critical public health, 29(1), 84–99. https://doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2017.1409885 (Pubmed, PDF)
Guan, Y., Roter, D. L., Erby, L. H., Wolff, J. L., Gitlin, L. N., Roberts, J. S., Green, R. C., & Christensen, K. D. (2018). Communication Predictors of Patient and Companion Satisfaction with Alzheimer’s Genetic Risk Disclosure. Journal of health communication, 23(8), 807–814. https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2018.1528319 (Pubmed, PDF)
Guan, Y., Maloney, K. A., Roter, D. L., & Pollin, T. I. (2018). Evaluation of the Informational Content, Readability and Comprehensibility of Online Health Information on Monogenic Diabetes. Journal of genetic counseling, 27(3), 608–615. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10897-017-0155-y (Pubmed, PDF)
Guan, Y., Roter, D. L., Wolff, J. L., Gitlin, L. N., Christensen, K. D., Roberts, J. S., Green, R. C., & Erby, L. H. (2018). The impact of genetic counselors’ use of facilitative strategies on cognitive and emotional processing of genetic risk disclosure for Alzheimer’s disease. Patient education and counseling, 101(5), 817–823. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2017.11.019 (Pubmed, PDF)
Allen, C. G., Escoffery, C., Haardörfer, R., & McBride, C. M. (2018). Factors Influencing Not Perceiving Family Health History Assessments as Important: Opportunities to Improve Dissemination of Evidence-Based Population Screening for Cancer. Public health genomics, 21(3-4), 144–153. https://doi.org/10.1159/000499125 (Pubmed, PDF)
Engdawork, K., McBride, C. M., Ayode, D., Allen, C. G., Davey, G., & Tadele, G. (2018). Rural youths’ understanding of gene x environmental contributors to heritable health conditions: The case of podoconiosis in Ethiopia. PLoS neglected tropical diseases, 12(9), e0006763. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006763 (Pubmed, PDF)
Guan, Y., Roter, D. L., Erby, L. H., Wolff, J. L., Gitlin, L. N., Roberts, J. S., Green, R. C., & Christensen, K. D. (2017). Disclosing genetic risk of Alzheimer’s disease to cognitively impaired patients and visit companions: Findings from the REVEAL Study. Patient education and counseling, 100(5), 927–935. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2016.12.005 (Pubmed, PDF)
Human Genome Mapped: Public Health Benefits?
Speaker: Dr. Colleen McBride
The John F. Morgan, Sr Distinguished Faculty Lecturer 2023 Award, Emory University
Tuesday, February 7, 2023 at 6 p.m. EST
View the recording of the lecture here
Constructing Strategies To Address And Access Equity, Outreach, And Impact
Lead by Drs. Yue Guan, Amy Lemke
ELSIconversations on Population Genetic Screening Programs
Friday, January 27, 2023 at 12 p.m. EST
Presented by Jingsong Zhao, MPH
The 43rd Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, April 6-9, 2022
Led by Dr. Yue Guan
The 43rd Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, April 6-9, 2022
Presented by Dr. Colleen McBride
PPH Virtual Speaker Series Tuesday, March 1, 2022 at 12 p.m. EST
Speaker: Dr. Yue Guan
The Georgia Cancer Summit, January 21, 2022
Panel Members: Drs. Colleen M. McBride, Caitlin G. Allen, Linda Rainey, Yue Guan
The 16th International Congress of Behavioural Medicine, Thursday 15th – Sunday 18th July 2021 at the SEC, Glasgow, UK.
