O’Dell Johnson

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Researcher

UAMS primary University of Arkansas

Also affiliated: Arkansas Department of Health (2023–2025)

Faculty Researcher

4 h-index 10 pubs 86 cited

Research Areas

Biomedical Subjects

OverviewAI-generated summary

O’Dell Johnson's research focuses on public health issues related to substance use disorders, mental health services, and societal attitudes. Johnson has published work examining public opinion on opioid use in the United States, utilizing latent class analysis to identify distinct attitudinal profiles. Further research investigates the role of racial attitudes, political affiliation, and opioid stigma in supporting evidence-informed opioid policies and interventions. Johnson's work also addresses the availability and characteristics of mental health treatment services, particularly in relation to court-ordered treatment and the racial/ethnic composition of clientele. Additionally, Johnson has explored the relationship between substance use stigma and vaccine hesitancy during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as assessing social stigma towards various substance use disorders. Johnson's scholarship includes a randomized controlled trial focused on a community network-driven COVID-19 testing and vaccination intervention for vulnerable populations.

Metrics

h-index: 4
Publications: 10
Citations: 86

Selected Publications

Effectiveness Outcomes from a Social Network Diffusion Intervention to Increase COVID-19 Testing and Vaccination among Individuals Impacted by the Criminal Legal System in Urban U.S. Cities (2026)

Journal of Urban Health DOI OpenAlex
A community network-driven COVID-19 testing and vaccination intervention for vulnerable populations in the Central United States: results from a Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics Underserved Populations randomized controlled trial (2025)

Journal of Public Health 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
COVID-19 prevention behaviors are congruent within social networks of disenfranchised Hispanic and criminal legal involved community members (2025)

Scientific Reports DOI OpenAlex
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)

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
Comprehensive and Integrated Services in Specialty Mental Health Treatment Facilities in the US: Differences by the Racial/Ethnic Composition of the Facility’s Clientele, 2020 (2023)

Community Mental Health Journal 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
The Relationship between Substance Use Stigma and COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy (2023)

Vaccines 4 citations DOI OpenAlex
Assessing Social Stigma Towards Drug Use Disorders Related to Opioids, Methamphetamines, Crack Cocaine and Alcohol (2023)

SSRN Electronic Journal 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
A National Portrait of Public Attitudes toward Opioid Use in the US: A Latent Class Analysis (2023)

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 12 citations DOI OpenAlex
Stakeholder-engaged research is necessary across the criminal-legal spectrum (2022)

Journal of Clinical and Translational Science 15 citations DOI OpenAlex