Positions

Selected Publications

Academic Article

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2021 Developing a virtual assessment protocol for the AMPLIFI Randomized Controlled Trial due to COVID-19: From assessing participants' preference to preparing the teamContemporary Clinical Trials.  111. 2021
2021 Features that middle-aged and older cancer survivors want in web-based healthy lifestyle interventions: Qualitative descriptive studyJMIR Cancer.  7. 2021
2021 Confronting COVID-19 in under-resourced, African American neighborhoods: a qualitative study examining community member and stakeholders’ perceptionsEthnicity and Health.  26:49-67. 2021
2020 Features That Middle-aged and Older Cancer Survivors Want in Web-Based Healthy Lifestyle Interventions: Qualitative Descriptive Study (Preprint) 2020
2020 Research on freshman and sleeping habits: A text message-based sleep interventionJournal of American College Health.  68:864-871. 2020
2019 Perspectives on conversations about costs of cancer care of breast cancer survivors and cancer center staff: A qualitative studyACP journal club.  170:S54-S61. 2019
2019 Texting Older Sisters to Step: The TOSS StudyWestern Journal of Nursing Research.  41:388-408. 2019
2018 African American Men's Health: Research, Practice, and PolicyAmerican Journal of Preventive Medicine.  55:S1-S4. 2018
2018 Barriers and facilitators to HPV vaccination among rural Alabama adolescents and their caregiversVaccine.  36:4126-4133. 2018
2017 Empowering one community at a time for policy, system and environmental changes to impact Obesity 2017
2017 Examining neighborhood social cohesion in the context of community-based participatory research: Descriptive findings from an academic-community partnership 2017
2017 Introduction: Impacting the social determinants of health through a regional academiccommunity partnership: The experience of the mid-south transdisciplinary collaborative center for health disparities research 2017
2017 Factors Perceived to Influence the Decision for African Americans to Become Registered Organ Donors at the Department of Motorized VehiclesJournal of the National Medical Association.  109:287-293. 2017
2016 Patient-centered outcome evaluation of the Rural Breast Cancer Survivors InterventionSupportive Care in Cancer.  24:1841-1848. 2016
2015 Older Adult Health in Alabama’s Black Belt RegionJournal of Cancer Education.  30:642-647. 2015
2015 Text Messaging as a Method for Health Ministry Leaders to Disseminate Cancer InformationJournal of Cancer Education.  30:636-641. 2015
2015 Adapting an evidence-based survivorship intervention for Latina breast cancer survivorsWomen's Health.  11:109-119. 2015
2014 Evaluation of a Computer-Tailored Osteoporosis Prevention Intervention in Young WomenAmerican Journal of Health Education.  45:3-11. 2014
2013 Addressing the unexpected: Lessons learned from a randomized controlled trial conducted in partnership with a low- income, rural communityJournal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved.  24:1624-1635. 2013
2013 Crowdsourced peer-versus expert-written smoking-cessation messagesAmerican Journal of Preventive Medicine.  45:543-550. 2013
2013 Acceptability of delivering and accessing health information through text messaging among community health advisorsJMIR mHealth and uHealth.  1. 2013
2012 Exploring pre-school vision screening in primary care offices in AlabamaOptometry and Vision Science.  89. 2012
2012 'Too much trouble for what I get out of it': Acceptability of cancer screening tests among low-income rural men and women in the Deep SouthPublic Health.  126:64-66. 2012
2011 Medication adherence among rural, low-income hypertensive adults: A randomized trial of a multimedia community-based interventionAmerican Journal of Health Promotion.  25:372-378. 2011
2011 Predictors of retention of African American women in a walking programAmerican Journal of Health Behavior.  35:40-50. 2011
2010 Taking less than prescribed: Medication nonadherence and provider-patient relationships in lower-income, rural minority adults with hypertensionJournal of the CardioMetabolic Syndrome.  12:706-713. 2010
2008 Correlates of transitions in stage of change for quitting among adolescent smokersAddictive Behaviors.  33:1615-1618. 2008
2008 Effectiveness evaluation of the N-O-T smoking cessation program for adolescentsAmerican Journal of Health Behavior.  32:368-379. 2008

Investigator On

  • 3/3 Morehouse School of Medicine/Tuskegee University/University of Alabama at Birmingham O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center Partnership  awarded by National Cancer Institute/NIH/DHHS
  • Adapting MultiPLe Behavior Interventions that eFfectively Improve (AMPLIFI) Cancer Survivor Health  awarded by National Cancer Institute/NIH/DHHS
  • Adapting MultiPLe Behavior Interventions that eFfectively Improve (AMPLIFI) Cancer Survivor Health - ADI Core  awarded by National Cancer Institute/NIH/DHHS
  • Adapting MultiPLe Behavior Interventions that eFfectively Improve (AMPLIFI) Cancer Survivor Health - Recruitment Core  awarded by National Cancer Institute/NIH/DHHS
  • Birmingham Metro Alabama Personal Responsibility Education Program  awarded by ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH
  • CITY Health II - The Center for the Study of Community Health  awarded by National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention & Health Promo./CDC/DHHS
  • Comprehensive Minority and Health Disparities Research Center - Phase III - Community Engagement Core  awarded by NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON MINORITY HEALTH AND HEALTH DISPARITIES/NIH/DHHS
  • Designing a Plan of Action for Better Access and Quality of Surgery for African-Americans with Gastrointestinal Cancers in the Deep South  awarded by NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON MINORITY HEALTH AND HEALTH DISPARITIES/NIH/DHHS
  • Diversifying, Expanding and Tracking Patient Engagement in Arthritis Research  awarded by GLOBAL HEALTHY LIVING FOUNDATION
  • EMPaCT: Phase II  awarded by University of Minnesota
  • Increasing African American Organ Donation: Donor Registration and Family Consent  awarded by National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases/NIH/DHHS
  • Increasing Recruitment of Underrepresented Cancer Survivors with Awareness Enhancing Interventions (RUN AWEI)  awarded by UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER (MEMPHIS)
  • Let's Talk About the Cost of Cancer Care: Finding the Best Method for Patients and Providers  awarded by Johnson (Robert Wood) Foundation
  • Mid-South Transdisciplinary Collaborative Center for Health Disparities Research  awarded by NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON MINORITY HEALTH AND HEALTH DISPARITIES/NIH/DHHS
  • National Transdisciplinary Collaborative Center for African American Men's Health  awarded by University of Minnesota
  • National Transdisciplinary Collaborative Center for African American Men's Health  awarded by NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON MINORITY HEALTH AND HEALTH DISPARITIES/NIH/DHHS
  • Obesity Health Disparities Research Center (OHDRC)  awarded by NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON MINORITY HEALTH AND HEALTH DISPARITIES/NIH/DHHS
  • Obesity Health Disparities Research Center (OHDRC) - Administrative Core  awarded by NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON MINORITY HEALTH AND HEALTH DISPARITIES/NIH/DHHS
  • Obesity Health Disparities Research Center (OHDRC) - Community Engagement and Dissemination Core  awarded by NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON MINORITY HEALTH AND HEALTH DISPARITIES/NIH/DHHS
  • Rural Breast Cancer Survivors Intervention  awarded by National Cancer Institute/NIH/DHHS
  • Social Emotional Learning for Students in Vulnerable Communities: An Evaluation of the Lion’s Quest Curriculum  awarded by LIONS CLUB INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION
  • Education And Training

  • Doctor of Philosophy in Public Health Education and Promotion, University of Alabama at Birmingham 2005
  • Master of Public Health in International Public Health / International Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham 2001
  • Bachelor's Degree in Biomedical Sciences, University of South Alabama 1997
  • Full Name

  • Yu-Mei Schoenberger-Godwin