Patterns of Institutional Trust During COVID-19
To explore patterns of institutional trust among adults in the United States Gulf Coast region, we utilized data from the Survey of Trauma, Resilience, and Opportunity among Neighborhoods in the Gulf.
Alyson Harding is an associate policy researcher at RAND. With a background in epidemiology and public health, her work broadly examines the environmental impacts health. Her research interests include disasters and climate change, occupational safety and health, transportation, housing and the built environment, and injury and violence prevention.
She has worked on interdisciplinary projects related to walkability and the built environment, mental health of firefighters, impacts of climate change, community interventions to address adverse childhood experiences, and firearm violence. Her dissertation work focused on California wildfires and the health impacts of public safety power shutoffs. While at RAND, she has worked across divisions on projects quantifying costs of harmful behaviors in the Army, managing a scoping review for the World Trade Center Health Program, examining health and health care in Puerto Rico, and assessing disaster impacts among older adults in the U.S. Gulf Coast.
Education
Ph.D. in environmental health sciences, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities; M.P.H. in epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus; B.A. in chemistry, North Carolina State University at Raleigh; B.A. in anthropology, North Carolina State University at Raleigh
Selected Work
- Harding AB, Tarr GAM, Berman JD, Erickson DJ, Ramirez MR, "The association of Public Safety Power Shutoffs and motor vehicle crashes," Journal of Safety Research, 93, 2025
- Finucane, Melissa L., Noreen Clancy, Andrew M. Parker, Jessica Welburn Paige, Karishma V. Patel, Devin Tierney, Michael T. Wilson, Peggy Wilcox, Tucker Reese, Jhacova Williams, Jordan R. Reimer, Thomas Goode, Sam Morales, and Alyson B. Harding, How Do We Know Whether Federal Disaster Programs Are Equitable? An Initial Methodology for Evaluating Social Equity Performance of the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities Mitigation Grant Program, RAND Corporation (RR-A2145-2), 2023
- Harding AB, Ramirez MR, Ryan A, Xiong BN, Rosebush CE, Woods-Jaeger B., "Impacts of COVID-19 on stress in middle school teachers and staff in Minnesota: An exploratory study using random forest analysis," International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(17), 2023
- DeMoulin D, Jacobs S, Nam YS, Harding AB, Moskowitz AF, Shi Y, Kim H., "Mental Health Among Firefighters: Understanding the Mental Health Risks, Treatment Barriers, and Coping Strategies," Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 64(11), 2022
- Kim H, Ryan A, Harding AB, Moskowitz AF, Passe AI, Kawazu EC, "Health Risks of Climate Change in the 21 Pacific Island States and Noted Gaps in Scientific Evidence," The Journal of Climate Change and Health, 2022
- Rosso AL, Harding AB, Clarke PJ, Studenski SA, Rosano C., "Associations of Neighborhood Walkability and Walking Behaviors by Cognitive Trajectory in Older Adults," The Gerontologist, 2021
Authored by Alyson B. Harding
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