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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

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

MANUSCRIPTS IN PROCESS

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

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.”

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

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.

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.

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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