Michael Niño Data-verified

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Researcher

University of Arkansas

Last publication 2025 Last refreshed 2026-05-22

faculty

11 h-index 38 pubs 688 cited

Research Areas

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OverviewAI-generated summary

Michael Niño's research investigates health disparities and outcomes, particularly focusing on the influences of race, ethnicity, and gender on health behaviors and experiences. His work examines factors such as mask-wearing adherence during the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccine intentions, and perceived racial/ethnic discrimination among various populations, including immigrant young adults.

His research also explores the co-occurrence of adverse childhood experiences and mental health challenges, the long-term consequences of school disciplinary actions on mental well-being, and the relationship between socioeconomic factors like poverty and material hardship and physiological markers such as telomere length in children. Niño's scholarship includes studies on stress and allostatic load within Latina/o communities and the role of social and psychological resources in mediating COVID-19 related fear and worry.

Niño is a faculty member at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. His scholarship metrics include an h-index of 11, 38 total publications, and 675 total citations. He has received $343,163 in federal funding as a Co-PI on an NSF REU Site grant focused on crime analytics. Key collaborators include Kevin M. Fitzpatrick, Alexia Angton, Grant Drawve, and Kayla D. Allison, all from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.

Metrics

h-index: 11
Publications: 38
Citations: 688

Selected Publications

Extreme weather events, climate change attitudes, and preparedness on self-rated health and depressive symptoms (2025)

1 citation DOI OpenAlex
Coping at the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Differences in Psychological Distress by Race/Ethnicity and Educational Attainment (2025)

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Intersections of crime and health: structural inequalities, spatial dynamics, and policy (2025)

2 citations DOI OpenAlex
The Long Arm of School Punishment: The Role of School Suspension on Self-Rated Health from Adolescence to Midlife (2024)

2 citations DOI OpenAlex
The long-term consequences of school suspension and expulsion on depressive symptoms (2024)

7 citations DOI OpenAlex
Political Views, Race and Ethnicity, and Social Isolation: Evidence from the General Social Survey (2023)

1 citation DOI OpenAlex
Perceived Racial/Ethnic Discrimination, Citizenship Status, and Self-Rated Health Among Immigrant Young Adults (2023)

8 citations DOI OpenAlex
The racial/ethnic health consequences of the U.S. criminal justice system: How consequential is probation and other justice system contact for self-rated and chronic conditions? (2023)

3 citations DOI OpenAlex
Loneliness and Psychological Distress Among Older Californians: The Moderating Roles of Citizenship Status and English Proficiency (2023)

5 citations DOI OpenAlex
The co-occurrence of adverse childhood experiences and mental health among Latina/o adults: A latent class analysis approach (2023)

9 citations DOI OpenAlex
Justice System Contact and Health: Do Immigrants Fair Better or Worse than the Native-Born after Arrest, Probation, or Incarceration? (2023)

1 citation DOI OpenAlex
Social and psychological resources and COVID-19 related fear, threat and worry (2022)

6 citations DOI OpenAlex
Paternal Incarceration, Race and Ethnicity, and Maternal Health (2022)

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Examining disparities in the early adoption of Covid-19 personal mitigation across family structures (2022)

1 citation DOI OpenAlex
Problematic alcohol use history among persons experiencing homelessness in Northwest Arkansas (2022)

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