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RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS

RESEARCH EMPHASES

  • Dissertation – How Resilience and Disadvantage Shape Physical Health: Racial and Ethnic Variations Across the Life Course.

  • Long-term health outcomes and health inequalities related to:

    • Educational attainment.

    • Early-life circumstances (childhood SES; schooling; family structure; residence; disability).

  • How psychosocial resources (peer networks; parental relationships; psychological resilience) shape educational attainment, health, and well-being.

 

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Bruefach, Tyler, and John R. Reynolds. 2021. “Social Isolation and Achievement of Students with Learning Disabilities.” Social Science Research. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2021.102667. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0049089X21001447

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Bruefach, Tyler, Carr, Dawn C., and Natalie Sachs-Ericsson. 2022. "History of childhood mistreatment and the psychological health consequences of COVID-19 for older adults." Aging and Mental Health. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2022.2084713

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MANUSCRIPTS IN PROCESS

Bruefach, Tyler. (Under Review). "Racial and Ethnic Variations in the Associations Between Psychological Resilience and Physical Health."

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Bruefach, Tyler, Carr, Dawn C., Reynolds. John R., and Miles Taylor. (Under Review). “Personal and Parental Education: Early-Life Sources of Resilience and Health at Midlife.”

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Taylor, Miles, Bruefach, Tyler, and Dawn C. Carr. (Under Review) “Measuring Resilience in a Diverse US Population: Findings from HRS and Add Health.”

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APPLIED RESEARCH PROJECTS

Evaluating Pilot Programs to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Severe Maternal Morbidity through Telehealth (SMMT) in Duval and Orange Counties (2022-Present)

  • Collaborate with pilot program sites to define and address challenges to implementing the SMMT Pilot Program.

  • Tailor unique measures to assess success across two unique pilot program sites.

  • Draft reports assessing the relative challenges and successes of two different pilot program sites.

  • Consult pilot program sites on best practices related to survey design, data collection, and data analysis.

  • Communicate with pilot program sites and Department of Health to meet evaluation contract deadlines.

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Model Development for Assessing the Texas Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) (2021-2022)

  • Create automated algorithms and dynamic visualizations identifying potential fraud in the Texas SNAP recipients using SQL, SAS, and Tableau.

  • Advise Texas Health and Human Services (HHS) on how to measure risk factors identified by investigator accounts.

  • Apply sociological knowledge to build algorithms that combat systematic bias across race, ethnicity, sex, age and disability.

  • Collaborate with peer analysts to build composite risk score from developed algorithms.

  • Present findings to and troubleshoot data problems with partnered contractors and HHS staff.

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The Campus Recreation Employability Study (2017-2020)

The Campus Recreation Employability Study surveyed college students across 30 universities to gauge the employability of student who worked within Campus Recreation programs.

  • Wrangled and managed longitudinal data (3 waves) from 30 participating universities.

  • Assisted with preparation and presentation of project-related reports and results.

  • Interpreted participants’ qualitative responses in context of research aims.

  • Communicated research aims, methodology, and findings with university stakeholders and representatives in campus recreation programming.

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