Tamika Smith

Tamika Smith
Assistant Professor

Associate Scientist (C), Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS) , General Clinical Research Center
Assistant Professor (P), Health Behavior , School of Public Health

Overview

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Behavior in the School of Public Health (SOPH) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). I am also the Project Director for the core research project of UAB SOPH's Center for the Study of Community Heath, a CDC-funded Prevention Research Center.

Selected Publications

Academic Article

Year	Title	Altmetric
2020	CITY Health II - using entertainment education and social media to reduce HIV among emerging adults: A protocol paper for the Beat HIVe project. Contemporary Clinical Trials. 99. 2020
2019	Building global partnerships through shared curricula for an MPH programme in India and Sri Lanka. Global Public Health. 14:1360-1371. 2019
2019	Beyond efficacy: a qualitative organizational perspective on key implementation science constructs important to physical activity intervention translation to rural community cancer care sites. Journal of Cancer Survivorship. 13:537-546. 2019
2018	Melioidosis in India and Bangladesh: A review of case reports. Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine. 11:320-329. 2018
2018	Prenatal exposure to household air pollution and adverse birth outcomes among newborns in Sri Lanka 2018
2016	Parent–Child Aggression Risk in Expectant Mothers and Fathers: A Multimethod Theoretical Approach. Journal of Child and Family Studies. 25:3220-3235. 2016
2016	Multimethod prediction of physical parent-child aggression risk in expectant mothers and fathers with Social Information Processing theory. Child Abuse and Neglect. 51:106-119. 2016

Research Overview

My overarching research goal is to foster a successful research career as an independent behavior health investigator. Specifically, my research interest include understanding sexual health behavior and outcomes, program planning, child outcomes, and first-time parenting, HIV/STI among African American adolescents and emerging adults.

Investigator On

CHEER Center for the Study of Community Health awarded by CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/DHHS

CHEER Center for the Study of Community Health awarded by National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention & Health Promo./CDC/DHHS

CHEER Center for the Study of Community Health awarded by CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/DHHS

CHEER Center for the Study of Community Health - Admin Core awarded by CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/DHHS

CHEER Center for the Study of Community Health - Core A - Admin awarded by National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention & Health Promo./CDC/DHHS

CITY Health II - The Center for the Study of Community Health awarded by National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention & Health Promo./CDC/DHHS

Teaching Overview

My teaching experiences include online, in-class, and didactic formats including quality of life, health communication, program evaluation, and research methods to undergraduate and graduate students.