Public Health Research 

Another area of interest in the Samuel Research Team is public health. We have two ongoing projects in this area: Longitudinal Surveillance of the Health and Wellbeing of Emerging Adult Populations and Modulators of COVID-19 Transmission Dynamics in Local, National and Global Populations.

 Longitudinal Surveillance of Health and Wellbeing of Emerging Adults Populations 

We use primary data of NC A&T students collected via the National College Health Assessment (NCHA) to examine a wide range of topics concerning the health and wellbeing of emerging adult (18 - 25-year-old) populations. We are collaborating with the Student Health Center (Dr. Yoland Nicholson) and the Office of Intercultural Engagement (Mr. Gerald Spates) on these projects. We collected NC A&T data in the Fall 2019 (1579 participants) and Spring 2022 (1723 participants). 

Modulators of COVID-19 transmission dynamics in local, national and global populations 

We use publicly available COVID-19 data to examine the effect of social determinants and public policy interventions on the kinetics of infection, death, and vaccination across different regional, national, and global populations.