Nakita Lovelady

Federal Grant PI

Assistant Professor

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

faculty

PSY Psychiatry, College of Medicine

7 h-index 18 pubs 136 cited

Research Areas

Injury Epidemiology and Prevention Health Policy Implementation Science Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes Health disparities and outcomes Behavioral Health and Interventions Racial and Ethnic Identity Research SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research Health and Medical Research Impacts

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Nakita Lovelady, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, conducts research focused on public health, violence intervention, and substance use disorder recovery. Her work investigates firearm injuries and deaths as a public health issue, exploring solutions and characterizing injury patterns, particularly among young Black men in Arkansas.

Lovelady leads federally funded initiatives aimed at community violence prevention. She has received two NIH/NIH Office of the Director grants totaling $2,758,585 for "The HVIP+ Community Model: A Community Violence Prevention Program in a Southern State." Her research also examines emergent barriers to hospital-based violence intervention programming, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, and explores community partners' and researchers' perceptions of social justice in the context of chronic disease disparities.

Her scholarly output includes publications on qualitative content analysis of public responses to FDA inquiries, women's experiences in substance use disorder recovery, and the impact of labeling on violently injured Black men. Lovelady has an h-index of 7, with 18 total publications and 136 citations. She collaborates with several researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, including Nicholas Zaller and Margaret M. Gorvine.

Metrics

  • h-index: 7
  • Publications: 18
  • Citations: 136

Selected Publications

  • Healthcare Utilization in the Year Before Death By Suicide: A Multinomial Approach (2025) DOI
  • Violent Firearm Injury and Homelessness: Examining the Experiences of Black Men Participating in Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Programs (2025) DOI
  • Corrigendum to “Healthcare provider recommendations for COVID-19 vaccination: Prevalence, disparities, and correlates” [Patient Educ Couns 130 (2025) 108481] (2025) DOI
  • Healthcare provider recommendations for COVID-19 vaccination: Prevalence, disparities, and correlates (2024) DOI
  • Using Concept Mapping to Identify Community Partners’ and Researchers’ Perceptions of Social Justice: A Path Toward Eliminating Chronic Disease Disparities (2024) DOI
  • “I am a survivor!”: Violently Injured Black Men’s Perceptions of Labeling After a Violent Firearm Injury (2024) DOI
  • National and state-level trends in the availability of mental health treatment services tailored to individuals ordered to treatment by a court: United States, 2016, 2018, and 2020 (2024) DOI
  • Evidence-Based Quality Improvement (EBQI) in the pre-implementation phase: key steps and activities (2023) DOI
  • Firearm injuries and death: A United States epidemic with public health solutions (2023) DOI
  • 148 A Feasibility Study for the Implementation of a Hospital-based Violence Intervention Program in the Rural South (2023) DOI
  • Qualitative content analysis of public responses to an FDA inquiry on the impact of scheduling changes to kratom (2022) DOI
  • Exploring emergent barriers to hospital-based violence intervention programming during the COVID-19 pandemic (2022) DOI
  • Characterizing Firearm Assault Injury Among Young Black Men Using Arkansas Hospital Discharge Data (2021) DOI

Federal Grants 2 $2,758,585 total

NIH/NIH Office of the Director Contact PI Sep 2023 - Jun 2025

The HVIP+ Community Model: A Community Violence Prevention Program in a Southern State

NIH Office of the Director $1,420,789 UG3
NIH/NIH Office of the Director Contact PI Sep 2023 - Jun 2028

The HVIP+ Community Model: A Community Violence Prevention Program in a Southern State

NIH Office of the Director $1,337,796 UH3

Grants & Funding

  • The HVIP+ Community Model: A Community Violence Prevention Program in a Southern State NIH/National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities Principal Investigator
  • Rural Stakeholders Building Competence and Capacity to Mitigate Pressing Mental Health Issues through CER Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute - Pass Through: Northern Neck Health, Inc. Principal Investigator
  • Determination of antihypertensive, anti-inflammatory and chymase inhibitory efficacy of sweet potato and rice bran extract US Department of Agriculture - Pass Through: University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Principal Investigator
  • The HVIP+ Community Model: A Community Violence Prevention Program in a Southern State NIH/National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities Principal Investigator
  • Center for Research, Health and Society NIH Co-Investigator
  • FAITH Network PCOR Training for Researchers Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Principal Investigator
  • UAMS Project Heal: A Hospital-based Violence Intervention Program US Department of the Treasury - Pass Through: City of Little Rock Arkansas Principal Investigator
  • UAMS Project Heal - Everytown Support Grant Everytown for Gun Safety Fund Principal Investigator

Collaborators

Researchers in the database who share publications

Nicholas Zaller University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences 3 shared publications Margaret M. Gorvine University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences 3 shared publications Austin Porter University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences 2 shared publications Tiffany Haynes University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences 2 shared publications Rachel S. Purvis University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences 2 shared publications Ramey Moore University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences 2 shared publications Michael D. Macechko University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences 2 shared publications Michael D. Macechko University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences 2 shared publications

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