Nakita Lovelady

Federal Grant PI

Assistant Professor

UAMS

Last publication 2026 Last refreshed 2026-05-22

faculty

PSY Psychiatry, College of Medicine

7 h-index 19 pubs 147 cited

Research Areas

Links

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Nakita Lovelady is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Her research focuses on public health solutions to firearm injuries and violence, with a particular emphasis on characterization and intervention programming. Lovelady has investigated firearm assault injury among young Black men in Arkansas, utilizing hospital discharge data. She also explores barriers to hospital-based violence intervention programs, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Her work extends to understanding community perceptions of social justice in efforts to eliminate chronic disease disparities. Lovelady has also examined women's experiences and resilience in substance use disorder recovery and analyzed public responses to regulatory inquiries regarding kratom. She is a Principal Investigator on two NIH-funded awards totaling over $2.7 million for community violence prevention programs.

Lovelady's scholarship metrics include an h-index of 7, with 18 total publications and 142 total citations. She collaborates with researchers primarily within the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, including Nicholas Zaller, Margaret M. Gorvine, Austin Porter, and Tiffany Haynes.

Metrics

h-index: 7
Publications: 19
Citations: 147

Selected Publications

Healthcare Utilization in the Year Before Death By Suicide: A Multinomial Approach (2025)

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Violent Firearm Injury and Homelessness: Examining the Experiences of Black Men Participating in Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Programs (2025)

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Corrigendum to “Healthcare provider recommendations for COVID-19 vaccination: Prevalence, disparities, and correlates” [Patient Educ Couns 130 (2025) 108481] (2025)

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Healthcare provider recommendations for COVID-19 vaccination: Prevalence, disparities, and correlates (2024)

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Using Concept Mapping to Identify Community Partners’ and Researchers’ Perceptions of Social Justice: A Path Toward Eliminating Chronic Disease Disparities (2024)

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“I am a survivor!”: Violently Injured Black Men’s Perceptions of Labeling After a Violent Firearm Injury (2024)

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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)

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Evidence-Based Quality Improvement (EBQI) in the pre-implementation phase: key steps and activities (2023)

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Firearm injuries and death: A United States epidemic with public health solutions (2023)

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148 A Feasibility Study for the Implementation of a Hospital-based Violence Intervention Program in the Rural South (2023)

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Qualitative content analysis of public responses to an FDA inquiry on the impact of scheduling changes to kratom (2022)

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Exploring emergent barriers to hospital-based violence intervention programming during the COVID-19 pandemic (2022)

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Characterizing Firearm Assault Injury Among Young Black Men Using Arkansas Hospital Discharge Data (2021)

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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