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Melissa L. Finucane — Publications

Aging and Emotional Well-Being After Disasters: Vulnerability and Resilience 2023
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 2023
An Initial Methodology for Evaluating Social Equity Performance in Disaster Mitigation Grants: The Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities Program 2023
The Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities Mitigation Grant Program: Incorporating Hazard Risk and Social Equity into Decisionmaking Processes 2022
Do Social Isolation and Neighborhood Walkability Influence Relationships Between COVID-19 Experiences and Wellbeing in Predominantly Black Urban Areas? 2022
Perceived Need for Mental Health Treatment and the Mental Health Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States 2022
Resilience in the Bayou 2022
Update on Findings of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2022
Assessing Social Equity in Disaster Preparation, Response, and Recovery 2021
How Disasters Drive Media Channel Preferences: Tracing News Consumption Before, During, and After Hurricane Harvey 2021
Human Health and Socioeconomic Effects of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico 2021
A Longitudinal Study of Psychological Distress in the United States Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic 2021
Nationally Representative Sample Shows an Increase in Domestic Conflict Early in the COVID-19 Pandemic 2021
A Scoping Literature Review on Indicators and Metrics for Assessing Racial Equity in Disaster Preparation, Response, and Recovery 2021
Advancing Community Resilience Research and Practice: Moving from "Me" to "We" to "3d" 2020
Building Community Resilience to Large Oil Spills: Findings and Recommendations from a Synthesis of Research on the Mental Health, Economic, and Community Distress Associated with the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill 2020
Developing Recovery Options for Puerto Rico's Economic and Disaster Recovery Plan: Process and Methodology 2020
Disaster Experience, Social Capitals, and Behavioral Health 2020
Emerging Infectious Disease, the Household Built Environment Characteristics, and Urban Planning: Evidence on Avian Influenza in Vietnam 2020
Fishing Households, Social Support, and Depression After the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill 2020
Framework for a Community Health Observing System for the Gulf of Mexico Region: Preparing for Future Disasters 2020
From Awareness to Action: Accounting for Infrastructure Interdependencies in Disaster Response and Recovery Planning 2020
Natech or Natural? An Analysis of Hazard Perceptions, Institutional Trust, and Future Storm Worry Following Hurricane Harvey 2020
Oil Spill Disruption and Problem Drinking: Assessing the Impact of Religious Context Among Gulf Coast Residents 2020
Persistent Risk-Related Worry as a Function of Recalled Exposure to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Prior Trauma 2020
Short-Term Solutions to a Long-Term Challenge: Rethinking Disaster Recovery Planning to Reduce Vulnerabilities and Inequities 2020
Database of Literature on Disaster Surveys 2019
Exposure to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Associated Resource Loss, and Long-Term Mental and Behavioral Outcomes 2019
On the Need for Prospective Disaster Survey Panels 2019
Reaching Vulnerable Populations in the Disaster-Prone US Gulf Coast: Communicating Across the Crisis Lifecycle 2019
What Words Convey: The Potential for Patient Narratives to Inform Quality Improvement 2019
A Framework for Conceptualizing How Narratives from Health-Care Consumers Might Improve or Impede the Use of Information About Provider Quality 2018
CAHPS and Comments: How Closed-Ended Survey Questions and Narrative Accounts Interact in the Assessment of Patient Experience 2017
Choosing Doctors Wisely: Can Assisted Choice Enhance Patients' Selection of Clinicians? 2017
Perceived Risk of Avian Influenza and Urbanization in Northern Vietnam 2017
The SelectMD 2.0 Provider Choice Experiment: Methodological Overview 2017
Using "Roll-up" Measures in Healthcare Quality Reports: Perspectives of Report Sponsors and National Alliances 2017
Breaking Narrative Ground: Innovative Methods for Rigorously Eliciting and Assessing Patient Narratives 2016
Evidence for the Convergence Model: The Emergence of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (H5N1) in Viet Nam 2015
Managing Water Quality in the Face of Uncertainty: A Robust Decision Making Demonstration for EPA's National Water Program 2015
Taking Patients' Narratives About Clinicians from Anecdote to Science 2015
An Exploration of How Perceptions of the Risk of Avian Influenza in Poultry Relate to Urbanization in Vietnam 2014
The Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force's Infrastructure Resilience Guidelines: An Initial Assessment of Implementation by Federal Agencies 2014