Research Projects & Grants

For Profit Organization

  • Responding to a Community’s Call for Action: Studying the Health Effects of an Intermodal Railyard in San Bernardino, Role: Other Professional, BP America, Inc., (11/2010 - 06/2013) Status: Closed

Internal

  • Coping, Resilience, and Post-Traumatic Growth Among Colorado Public Health Workers: A Qualitative Study, Role: Investigator, LLU Center for Nutrition, Healthy Lifestyles, and Disease Prevention, (01/2023) Status: Approved
  • Lifestyle and Infectious Disease Study (LID), Role: Investigator, LLU Center for Nutrition, Healthy Lifestyles, and Disease Prevention, (04/2021 - 04/2022) Status: Approved
  • Developing Service Learning objectives for the LLU School of Dentistry and the School of Public Health, establishing and piloting post-COVID-19 disease transmission prevention protocols, Role: Other Significant Contributor, LLU School of Dentistry, (04/2021 - 03/2024) Status: Closed
  • Children's whole health initiative, Role: PI, LLU Center for Community Resilience, (08/2016 - 08/2017) Status: Completed
  • Obesity and Metabolic Disruption in Children Study (OyMeDiCS), Role: Co-Investigator, LLU School of Public Health, (08/2014 - 02/2018) Status: Closed
  • Responding to a community's call for action: Studying the health effects of an intermodal railyard in San Bernardino (phase 1), Role: Investigator, LLU Dept. of Environmental & Occupational Health, (10/2012 - 10/2013) Status: Completed
  • Association between low back pain and fatigue in commercial drivers (pilot study), Role: PI, LLU Dept. of Environmental & Occupational Health, (06/2011) Status: Completed
  • Risk of hand and forearm injury and over-sized fingernails in clerical workers (pilot study), Role: PI, LLU Dept. of Environmental & Occupational Health, (05/2011) Status: Completed
  • Impact of Dietary Protein Intake and Sunlight Exposure on Serum Fibroblast Growth Factor 23, Role: Principal Investigator, LLU Center for Health Research, (01/2011 - 01/2013) Status: Closed

Non-Profit Organization

  • Can Religion/Spirituality and Lifestyle Buffer the Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Health?, Role: PD/PI, Ardmore Institute of Health, (09/2019 - 08/2020) Status: Closed
  • Blue Region resiliency among Adventist seniors, Role: PI, Ardmore Foundation, (08/2019 - 08/2023) Status: Completed
  • Responding to a community's call for action: studying the health effects of an intermodal railyard in San Bernardino (community-based health assessment) - Phase 2, Role: Investigator, BP / South Coast Air Quality Management District, (07/2013 - 07/2014) Status: Completed
  • Responding to a community's call for action: studying the health effects of an intermodal railyard in San Bernardino (Phase 3), Role: Investigator, BP / South Coast Air Quality Management District, (08/2012 - 08/2013) Status: Completed

State

  • Community air monitoring training curriculum, Role: Co-Investigator, California Air Resources Board, (03/2022 - 03/2025) Status: Awarded
  • Loma Linda University Asthma Program, Role: PI, First 5 (Children & Families Commission) of Riverside County, (01/2015 - 01/2016) Status: Completed
  • Project ACE (Asthma Care Everywhere): Servicing Children’s Asthma Needs in Riverside County (13101 AS), Role: Principal Investigator, First 5 (Children & Families Commission) of Riverside County, (07/2012 - 06/2017) Status: Closed