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Hebert-Beirne, J., Gonzalez, S., Chrusfield, M., Holloway, A., Lopez, J.P., Castañeda, D. (2023). Demystifying How Academic-Community Partnerships Use Reflexivity and Praxis to Promote Participatory Research Principles of Equity and Justice. In: Anderson, E.E. (eds) Ethical Issues in Community and Patient Stakeholder–Engaged Health Research. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 146. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40379-8_5
Grant A.K., Felner J.K., Castañeda Y., Pratap P., Hebert-Beirne J. Leveraging Key Informant Interviews to Inform Intervention Development: The Greater Lawndale Healthy Work Project. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. 2023;0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/2752535X231196395
Bonney, T., Rospenda, K. M., Forst, L., Conroy, L. M., Castañeda, D., Avelar, S., … & Hebert-Beirne, J. (2022). Employment precarity and increased risk of hazardous occupational exposures among residents of high socioeconomic hardship neighborhoods. Annals of work exposures and health, 66(9), 1122-1135.
Hebert-Beirne, Felner, J. K., Berumen, T., Gonzalez, S., Chrusfield, M. M., Pratap, P., & Conroy, L. M. (2021). Community Resident Perceptions of and Experiences with Precarious Work at the Neighborhood Level: The Greater Lawndale Healthy Work Project. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(21), 11101–. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182111101
Velonis, A. J., Hebert-Beirne, J., Conroy, L. M., Hernandez, M., Castaneda, D., & Forst, L. (2020). Impact of precarious work on neighborhood health: Concept mapping by a community/academic partnership. American journal of industrial medicine, 63(1), 23–35. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajim.23055
Forst L, Grant, A, Hebert‐Beirne, J. (2020). Work as a social determinant of health; a landscape assessment of employers in two historically disinvested urban communities. American Journal of Industrial Medicine., 63(11), 1038–1046. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajim.23174
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Bonney, T., Rospenda, K. M., Forst, L., Conroy, L. M., Castañeda, D., Avelar, S., … & Hebert-Beirne, J. (2022). Employment precarity and increased risk of hazardous occupational exposures among residents of high socioeconomic hardship neighborhoods. Center for Healthy Work University of Illinois Chicago; Chicago, IL.
Hebert-Beirne, J; Felner, J.; Berumen, T.; Gonzalez, S.; Mosley Chrusfield, M.; Pratap, P.; Conroy, L. (2021). Community Resident Perceptions of and Experiences with Precarious Work at the Neighborhood Level: The Greater Lawndale Healthy Work Project. Center for Healthy Work University of Illinois Chicago; Chicago, IL.
Forst, L.; Grant, A.; Hebert-Beirne, J. (2020). Work as a Social Determinant of Health: a landscape assessment of employers in two historically disinvested urban communities. Center for Healthy Work University of Illinois Chicago; Chicago, IL.
Velonis, A; Hebert-Beirne, J.; Conroy, L.; Hernandez, M; Castaneda, D; Forst, L. (2020) Impact of precarious work on neighborhood health: Concept mapping by a community-academic partnership. Center for Healthy Work University of Illinois Chicago; Chicago, IL.
Greater Lawndale Healthy Work Project (2021). A Systematic Analysis of Census and Labor Data to Create a Community Profile of Work. Center for Health Work. University of Illinois Chicago; Chicago, IL.
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Forst, L., Weisman, J., Kaplan, S., Chaudhry, A., Favela, R., Post, M., … Bonney, T. (2022). Protecting Temporary Staffing Workers in Illinois: A Policy Analysis. University of Illinois at Chicago. Report. https://healthywork.uic.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/452/2022/12/Temp_Workers_v5.pdf
Kaplan, S., McPherson, J., Unzueta, M., Wallace, R., Izquierdo, S., Favela, R., et al. (2021). Policy Analysis to Support Informal Workers in Greater Lawndale. University of Illinois at Chicago. Report. https://doi.org/10.25417/uic.17035850.v1
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Rospenda, K.M., Hebert-Beirne, J., Conroy, L., Castaneda, D., Gonzalez, S. Berumen, T., Forst, L., and The Greater Lawndale healthy Work Project Research Team. (November 9, 2019). Precarious employment and community health in a high hardship community: Data from the Greater Lawndale Healthy Work Survey. Poster to be presented at Work, Stress, and Health 2019, Philadelphia, PA.
Velonis, A. J., Hebert‐Beirne, J., Conroy, L. M., Hernandez, M., Castaneda, D., & Forst, L. (2020). Impact of precarious work on neighborhood health: Concept mapping by a community/academic partnership. American journal of industrial medicine, 63(1), 23-35.
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Sandra Avelar. (2022). Greater Lawndale Lotería: an evidence-informed, historically grounded and worker justice themed card game to promote awareness of precarious work at the neighborhood level [Poster Presentation].
Dolores Castañeda Vera. (2019). Promoting Healthy Work in the Informal Work Sector: A Health Assessment of Street Vendors in Little Village [Poster Presentation].
Marcella Hernández. (2019).Understanding Precarious Work from a Community Perceptive Utilizing Concept Mapping [Poster Presentation].
Journie Raulston. (2019). Chicago Community and Workers’ Rights: An Intervention to Precarious Work in Little Village. [Poster Presentation].
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Purpose of Focus Groups: To engage residents in a facilitated discussion around a set of questions to explore how work is experienced in the community and how it impacts community health in order to identify community-level interventions to promote healthy work.
Research Questions: How to residents in the Greater Lawndale area experience work? How do the experiences of work of residents impact health at the community level?
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Hebert-Beirne, J., Felner, J. K., Kennelly, J., Eldeirawi, K., Mayer, A., Alexander, S., … & Birman, D. (2018). Partner development praxis: The use of transformative communication spaces in a community-academic participatory action research effort in a Mexican ethnic enclave in Chicago. Action Research, 16(4), 414-436
Hebert-Beirne, J., Hernandez, S. G., Felner, J., Schwiesow, J., Mayer, A., Rak, K., … & Kennelly, J. (2018). Using community-driven, participatory qualitative inquiry to discern nuanced community health needs and assets of Chicago’s La Villita, a Mexican immigrant neighborhood. Journal of community health, 43(4), 775-786.
Hernandez, S. G., Genkova, A., Castañeda, Y., Alexander, S., & Hebert-Beirne, J. (2017). Oral histories as critical qualitative inquiry in community health assessment. Health Education & Behavior, 44(5), 705-715.