About

Caroline Chandler, MPH, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Maternal and Child Health at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. She is trained in maternal and child health and community-based participatory research, with a focus on the social-emotional and behavioral health of young children and adolescents, as well as injury prevention. Her current work examines the utilization of concrete and clinical services among families with young children involved with child protective services, resilience-promoting factors among young children, and adolescent peer mental health support models. Dr. Chandler works closely with community partners to design and implement research and evaluation plans.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Medicine
• Psychology
• Public relations
• Nursing
• Sociology
• Medical education
• Management
• Clinical psychology
• Pedagogy
• Environmental health
• Gender studies
• Psychiatry
• Law

Selected publications

• Equity-centered leadership training found to be both relevant and impactful by interprofessional teams of health-care clinicians: Recommendations for workforce-development efforts to update leadership training.

  Consulting psychology journal · 2022 · 7 citations

  • Political Science
  • Psychology
  • Nursing
  PublisherDOI

• Training Public Health Students in Racial Justice and Health Equity

  Public Health Reports · 2021 · 47 citations

  1st authorCorresponding
  • Sociology
  • Political Science
  • Public relations

  In an attempt to move the field of public health from documenting health disparities to acting to rectify them, in 2001, the American Public Health Association (APHA) recognized racism as a fundamental cause of racial health disparities. Both APHA and the Council on Education for Public Health have moved to incorporate new competencies in health equity for public health professionals. As schools and programs of public health work to establish curricular offerings in race and racism, a need exists to identify approaches currently in use that can be replicated, adapted, and scaled. This systematic review sought to identify pedagogical methods and curricula that exist to support the training of US public health students in understanding racism as a structural determinant of health. We found 11 examples from peer-reviewed literature of curricula, lessons, and competencies that have been developed by public health faculty and departments since 2006. The articles discussed a range of approaches to teaching about structural racism in public health, suggesting that little consensus may exist on how to best teach this material. Furthermore, we found little rigorous evaluation of these teaching methods and curricula. The results of this review suggest future research is needed on public health pedagogy on structural racism.

  DOI

• Association of Housing Stress With Child Maltreatment: A Systematic Review

  Trauma Violence & Abuse · 2020 · 56 citations

  1st authorCorresponding
  • Political Science
  • Psychology
  • Medicine

  Child maltreatment is a significant public health issue in the United States. Understanding key risk factors for child maltreatment is critical to informing effective prevention. Poverty is an established risk factor for child maltreatment. However, recent research indicates that material hardship (i.e., difficulties meeting basic needs) may serve as a more direct measure of the way in which poverty affects daily life. One form of material hardship that is common among families is housing stress. Previous reviews have summarized the existing literature regarding the association of economic insecurity with child maltreatment, but no reviews have synthesized and critically evaluated the literature specific to the association of various types of housing stress with child maltreatment. We conducted a systematic search of multiple electronic databases to identify peer-reviewed studies conducted in the U.S. regarding the association of housing stress with child maltreatment. We identified 21 articles that used nine distinct measures of housing stress including homelessness or eviction, homeless or emergency shelter stays, foreclosure filing, housing instability, inadequate housing, physical housing risk, living doubled-up, housing unaffordability, and composite housing stress indicators. Overall, results from this body of literature indicate that housing stress is associated with an increased likelihood of caregiver or child self-reported maltreatment, child protective services (CPS) reports, investigated and substantiated CPS reports, out-of-home placements, and maltreatment death. Additional theory-driven research is needed to further our understanding of the contribution of specific types of housing stress to risk for specific types of maltreatment.

  DOI

Frequent coauthors

• Meghan E. Shanahan

  4 shared

• Kristin Reed

  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  4 shared

• Rohit Ramaswamy

  4 shared

• Brittany S. Cook

  3 shared

• Rumana Rabbani

  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  3 shared

• Tara Carr

  3 shared

• Paul Howard

  3 shared

• Anna E. Austin

  2 shared

Awards & honors

• Delta Omega Theta Chapter Service Award 2022
• Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2021-2022
• Injury and Violence Prevention Fellow, 2020-2022
• Predoctoral Trainee, Carolina Consortium on Human Developmen…
• Community Engagement Fellowship, Carolina Center for Public…

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