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Overview

Desmond K. Runyan is affiliated with the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and medicine, with a particular focus on clinical psychology and health professions. Key subfields of study include clinical psychology, general health professions, public health, environmental and occupational health, and epidemiology.

The main topics addressed in Runyan's work involve child abuse and trauma, homelessness and social issues, intimate partner and family violence, research on Down syndrome and intellectual disabilities, chronic disease management strategies, homicide, infanticide, and child abuse, as well as child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development.

Runyan has contributed to multiple publication venues, frequently publishing in UNC Libraries, the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, and also contributing to the International Journal on Child Maltreatment Research Policy and Practice, Preventive Medicine, and Children.

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Runyan include:

  • The Association of Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Units and Reports of Child Abuse and Neglect, 2022, American Journal of Preventive Medicine
  • Low Rates of Preventive Healthcare Service Utilization Among Adolescents and Adults With Down Syndrome, 2020, American Journal of Preventive Medicine
  • Affordable Housing Through the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program and Intimate Partner Violence-Related Homicide, 2021, Preventive Medicine
  • Lack of Maternal Social Capital Increases the Likelihood of Harsh Parenting, 2022, Children
  • Affordable Housing Through the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program and Opioid Overdose Emergency Department Visits, 2023, Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment

Runyan collaborates regularly with a number of researchers, including Christine Piette Durrance, Richard Thompson, Alan J. Litrownik, Dallas R. English, and Howard Dubowitz.

Best Publications

  • Identification of child maltreatment with the Parent–Child Conflict Tactics Scales: Development and psychometric data for a national sample of American parents.

    Murray A Straus;Sherry L Hamby;David Finkelhor;David W Moore

  • A population-based study of inflicted traumatic brain injury in young children.

    Heather T. Keenan;Desmond K. Runyan;Stephen W. Marshall;Mary Alice Nocera

  • Children who prosper in unfavorable environments: the relationship to social capital

    Desmond K. Runyan;Wanda M. Hunter;Rebecca R. S. Socolar;Lisa Amaya-Jackson

  • Child abuse and neglect by parents and other caregivers.

    Runyan D;Wattam C;Ikeda R;Hassan F

  • Maltreatment's Wake: The Relationship of Maltreatment Dimensions to Child Outcomes.

    Diana J. English;Mukund P. Upadhyaya;Alan J. Litrownik;Jane M. Marshall

  • Adverse Childhood Experiences and Child Health in Early Adolescence

    Emalee G. Flaherty;Emalee G. Flaherty;Richard Thompson;Howard Dubowitz;Elizabeth M. Harvey

  • Longscan: A consortium for longitudinal studies of maltreatment and the life course of children

    Desmond Kimo Runyan;Patrick A. Curtis;Wanda M. Hunter;Maureen M. Black

  • Epidemiologic Features of the Physical and Sexual Maltreatment of Children in the Carolinas

    Adrea D. Theodore;Jen Jen Chang;Desmond Kimo Runyan;Wanda M. Hunter

  • ISPCAN Child Abuse Screening Tool Children's Version (ICAST-C): Instrument development and multi-national pilot testing

    Adam J. Zolotor;Desmond Kimo Runyan;Michael P. Dunne;Dipty Jain

  • Effect of early childhood adversity on child health.

    Emalee G. Flaherty;Richard Thompson;Alan J. Litrownik;Adrea Theodore

  • Father involvement and children's functioning at age 6 years: a multisite study.

    Howard Dubowitz;Maureen M. Black;Christine E. Cox;Mia A. Kerr

  • Importance of early neglect for childhood aggression.

    Jonathan B. Kotch;Terri Lewis;Jon M. Hussey;Diana English

  • A Population-Based Comparison of Clinical and Outcome Characteristics of Young Children With Serious Inflicted and Noninflicted Traumatic Brain Injury

    Heather T. Keenan;Desmond K. Runyan;Stephen W. Marshall;Mary Alice Nocera

  • Corporal Punishment of Children in Nine Countries as a Function of Child Gender and Parent Gender

    Jennifer E Lansford;Liane Peña Alampay;Suha M Al-Hassan;Dario Bacchini

  • Speak softly--and forget the stick. Corporal punishment and child physical abuse.

    Adam J. Zolotor;Adrea D. Theodore;Jen Jen Chang;Molly Curtin Berkoff

  • Risk factors for chronic lung disease in infants with birth weights of 751 to 1000 grams.

    Ernest N. Kraybill;Desmond K. Runyan;Carl L. Bose;Jamil H. Khan

  • Impact of legal intervention on sexually abused children.

    Desmond K. Runyan;Mark D. Everson;Gail A. Edelsohn;Wanda M. Hunter

  • Adverse Childhood Exposures and Reported Child Health at Age 12

    Emalee G. Flaherty;Richard Thompson;Alan J. Litrownik;Adam J. Zolotor

  • Methodological lessons from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being: The first three years of the USA's first national probability study of children and families investigated for abuse and neglect

    Richard P. Barth;Paul Biemer;Desmond Runyan;Mary Bruce Webb

  • ISPCAN Child Abuse Screening Tools Retrospective version (ICAST-R): Delphi study and field testing in seven countries

    Michael P. Dunne;Adam J. Zolotor;Desmond K. Runyan;Inna Andreva-Miller

Frequent Co-Authors

Howard Dubowitz
Howard Dubowitz University of Maryland, Baltimore
Alan J. Litrownik
Alan J. Litrownik San Diego State University
Diana J. English
Diana J. English University of Washington
Richard Thompson
Richard Thompson Juvenile Protective Association
Jonathan B. Kotch
Jonathan B. Kotch University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Terri L. Lewis
Terri L. Lewis McMaster University
Michael P. Dunne
Michael P. Dunne Queensland University of Technology
Maureen M. Black
Maureen M. Black University of Maryland, Baltimore
Sandra L. Martin
Sandra L. Martin University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Lisa Amaya-Jackson
Lisa Amaya-Jackson Duke University

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