Tiffany Haynes

Associate Professor

UAMS

Also affiliated: Overlook Medical Center (2023–2025); Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System (2012–2014); Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Centers (2012); South Central VA Health Care Network (2014); Arkansas Department of Health (2021–2025)

Faculty Researcher

Health Behavior & Health Education, College of Public Health

12 h-index 52 pubs 730 cited

Research Areas

Biomedical Subjects

Links

ORCID Lab Website UAMS TRI Profile

OverviewAI-generated summary

Tiffany Haynes researches health disparities and community-based interventions, with a particular focus on mental health and substance use disorder recovery. Her work has investigated the needs of specific populations, including Hispanic faith communities and African American clergy, to inform research agendas and public health strategies. Haynes has examined trends in mental health treatment accessibility, such as downward national trends in Spanish-language mental health services. She also studies the implementation of public health initiatives, including formative evaluations of programs like Zero Suicide in emergency departments. Her research utilizes qualitative methods to explore women's experiences in substance use disorder recovery and characterizes injury patterns among young Black men. Haynes has published 52 papers, with 722 citations, and holds an h-index of 11. She collaborates with researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.

Metrics

h-index: 12
Publications: 52
Citations: 730

Selected Publications

Barbershop talk: a hybrid-2 trial examining the effectiveness of a barbershop-placed screening, brief intervention, and referral (SBIRT) intervention (2026)

BMC Public Health DOI OpenAlex
Enhancing Community Engagement in Research: A Premortem Analysis for Community-Engaged Research (2025)

American Journal of Public Health 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
Place-based access to integrated mental health services within substance use disorder treatment facilities in the US (2025)

Social Science & Medicine 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
Downward National Trends in Mental Health Treatment Offered in Spanish: State Differences by Proportion of Hispanic Residents (2022)

Psychiatric Services 38 citations DOI OpenAlex
Formative evaluation of Zero Suicide in the emergency department: Identifying strategies to overcome implementation barriers (2022)

Evaluation and Program Planning 11 citations DOI OpenAlex
Identifying community needs of the Hispanic faith community to develop a research agenda (2021)

Public Health Nursing 5 citations DOI OpenAlex
African American Clergy Recommendations to Enhance the Federal Plan to End the HIV Epidemic: A Qualitative Study (2021)

AIDS and Behavior 5 citations DOI OpenAlex
Characterizing Firearm Assault Injury Among Young Black Men Using Arkansas Hospital Discharge Data (2021)

Journal of Interpersonal Violence 5 citations DOI OpenAlex
An Exploratory Study of the Acceptability and Feasibility of Yoga Among Women in Substance Use Disorder Recovery (2020)

The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 11 citations DOI OpenAlex
Abstract A018: Using qualitative methods to develop health messages aimed to reduce secondhand smoke exposure among African American breast cancer survivors in a rural state (2020)

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention DOI OpenAlex
Lessons learned from using an audience response system in a community setting for research data collection (2018)

Public Health Nursing 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
Using Deliberative and Qualitative Methods to Mobilize Community Around the Mental Health Needs of Rural African Americans (2017)

Health Systems & Reform 6 citations DOI OpenAlex
Reducing depressive symptoms through behavioral activation in churches: A Hybrid-2 randomized effectiveness-implementation design (2017)

Contemporary Clinical Trials 7 citations DOI OpenAlex
Measuring HIV-related stigma among healthcare providers: a systematic review (2017)

AIDS Care 73 citations DOI OpenAlex
Addressing Mental Health Needs: Perspectives of African Americans Living in the Rural South (2017)

Psychiatric Services 62 citations DOI OpenAlex

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Grants & Funding

As listed on this researcher's institutional profile.

Rural Stakeholders Building Competence and Capacity to Mitigate Pressing Mental Health Issues through CER Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute via Northern Neck Health, Inc. Principal Investigator
Development of the Arkansas Faith-Academic Initiatives for Transforming Health (FAITH) Network Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Co-Investigator
Arkansas Center for Health Disparities (ARCHD): An NIMHD COE NIH Co-Investigator
The Impact of COVID-19 on the Mental Health of High-Risk Populations Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Principal Investigator
Engage for Equity PLUS Subaward UNM Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute via University of New Mexico Principal Investigator
Community network driven COVID-19 testing among most vulnerable populations in the Central United States NIH/Nat. Inst. on Drug Abuse via University of Chicago Principal Investigator
FAITH Network Research Advocates - COVID-19-Related Enhancement Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Co-Investigator
Addressing Mental Health Needs of Rural African Americans Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Principal Investigator