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Last published 2025
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Yvette Murphy-Erby

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9 h-index 20 pubs 210 cited

  • Adult
  • Humans
  • Socioeconomic Factors
  • COVID-19
  • Adolescent
  • Black or African American
  • Female
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Rural Population
  • Focus Groups
  • Domestic Violence
  • Community-Based Participatory Research
  • Young Adult
  • Food Security

Biography and Research Information

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Yvette Murphy-Erby's research investigates the intersection of socioeconomic factors, race, and gender, particularly within rural populations. Her work has explored the experiences of women participating in an empowerment-based entrepreneurial program, examining the challenges and policy implications of rural poverty research through an intersectional lens. Murphy-Erby has also focused on adolescent sexual health, studying predictors of communication frequency among early adolescent youth in rural Arkansas and exploring the contextual experiences of rural Latino parents and youth regarding parent-child communication on sexual health.

Her research extends to understanding the experiences of African Americans in rural communities, specifically concerning domestic violence. Murphy-Erby has contributed to the literature on advanced practice with racial and ethnic populations by proposing a multi-systems life course perspective. She has served as Co-PI on federal grants, including a $249,026 NIH/National Institute of General Medical Sciences award for STEAM education and training for underrepresented students and teachers in the Arkansas Delta, and a $1,000,000 NSF award for the ADVANCE Adaptation: University of Arkansas Empowering Networked Groups for Arkansas Gender Equity (ENGAGE) initiative. Murphy-Erby's scholarship metrics include an h-index of 9 and 20 total publications with 208 citations.

Metrics

  • h-index: 9
  • Publications: 20
  • Citations: 210

Selected Publications

  • Marshallese Child Development Account Program: An Exploratory Study Using the Status Attainment Framework (2025)
    The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare DOI OpenAlex
  • Food Security in the Time of COVID-19 for a Marshallese Community (2023)
    International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 5 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • An Exploratory Study of African American Men’s Perspectives of Intraracial, Heterosexual Intimate Partner Violence Using a Multisystems Life Course Framework (2018)
    Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research 7 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Savings Program Participation and Outcomes for Hispanics (2017)
    Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • African American Perspectives and Experiences of Domestic Violence in a Rural Community (2016)
    Journal of Interpersonal Violence 15 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • The Family Festival Prevention Model: findings from a pilot of a teenage pregnancy prevention programme conceptualised by and for Mexican American communities (2015)
    Sex Education 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Mentorship Efforts to Support Part-time Social Work Faculty Members (2014)
    Mentoring & Tutoring Partnership in Learning 5 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Preparing Children for Success (2013)
    Journal of Family Issues 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • A Participant-Informed Model for Preventing Teen Pregnancy in a Rural Latino Community (2013)
    Journal of Family Social Work 9 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Examining Relationships Between Financial Capital and Personal Well-Being (2013)
    Journal of Poverty 5 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • An Intersectional Exploration: The Experiences of Southern, Rural, Black and White Women Participating in an Empowerment-Based Entrepreneurial Program (2013)
    The Journal of Macrodynamic Analysis (Memorial University of Newfoundland) 10 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • “It’s All About Security to Me” (2012)
    SAGE Open 9 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Predictors of Frequency of Sexual Health Communication: Perceptions from Early Adolescent Youth in Rural Arkansas (2012)
    Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal 32 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Implementing and evaluating a rural community-based sexual abstinence program: challenges and solutions (2011)
    Sex Education 9 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Voices of Latino parents and teens: Tailored strategies for parent–child communication related to sex (2011)
    Journal of Children and Poverty 24 citations DOI OpenAlex

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Federal Grants 2 $1,249,026 total

NIH Co-PI Aug 2022 - May 2025

STEAM Education and Training for Underrepresented Students and Teachers in the Arkansas Delta

National Institute of General Medical Sciences $249,026 R25

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