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Justin D. Smith is affiliated with the University of Utah in the United States with a research focus primarily in health professions and medicine. Their work spans numerous subfields including general health professions, public health, environmental and occupational health, clinical psychology, pediatrics, perinatology, child health, and economics and econometrics.

Their scientific contributions engage with several main topics such as health policy implementation science, primary care and health outcomes, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, child and adolescent health, mental health and patient involvement, health sciences research and education, and health systems, economic evaluations, and quality of life.

Justin D. Smith has published extensively in several venues, most frequently in:

  • Implementation Science Communications
  • Implementation Science
  • Families Systems & Health
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Prevention Science

Their recent papers reflect a focus on implementation science and health management, including:

  • The Implementation Research Logic Model: a method for planning, executing, reporting, and synthesizing implementation projects (2020, Implementation Science)
  • Prevention and Management of Childhood Obesity and Its Psychological and Health Comorbidities (2020, Annual Review of Clinical Psychology)
  • Reflections on 10 years of effectiveness-implementation hybrid studies (2022, Frontiers in Health Services)
  • Implementation strategies for digital mental health interventions in health care settings (2020, American Psychologist)
  • Network interventions for managing the COVID-19 pandemic and sustaining economy (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

Their work involves collaboration with multiple frequent co-authors including:

  • Allison J. Carroll
  • Neil Jordan
  • David Cella
  • James L. Merle
  • Sofia F. Garcia

Best Publications

  • Media and Young Minds

    Jenny Radesky;Dimitri Christakis;David Hill;Nusheen Ameenuddin

  • Single-case experimental designs: a systematic review of published research and current standards.

    Justin D. Smith

  • Prevention and Management of Childhood Obesity and Its Psychological and Health Comorbidities.

    Justin D. Smith;Emily Fu;Marissa A. Kobayashi

  • Coercive family process and early-onset conduct problems from age 2 to school entry.

    Justin D. Smith;Thomas J. Dishion;Daniel S. Shaw;Melvin N. Wilson

  • Implementation strategies for digital mental health interventions in health care settings.

    Andrea K Graham;Emily G Lattie;Byron J Powell;Aaron R Lyon

  • Design and analysis in dissemination and implementation research

    John Landsverk;C. Hendricks Brown;Justin D. Smith;Patricia Chamberlain

  • Implementation Research Methodologies for Achieving Scientific Equity and Health Equity

    Moira McNulty;J D Smith;Juan Villamar;Inger Burnett-Zeigler

  • Reducing Cardiovascular Disparities Through Community-Engaged Implementation Research: A National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Workshop Report.

    George A. Mensah;Richard S. Cooper;Anna Maria Siega-Riz;Lisa A. Cooper

  • Future Directions for Early Childhood Prevention of Mental Disorders: A Road Map to Mental Health, Earlier

    Lauren S Wakschlag;Megan York Roberts;Rachel Flynn;J D Smith

  • Indirect effects of fidelity to the family check-up on changes in parenting and early childhood problem behaviors.

    Justin D. Smith;Thomas J. Dishion;Daniel S. Shaw;Melvin N. Wilson

  • Geographic and Individual Associations with PrEP Stigma: Results from the RADAR Cohort of Diverse Young Men Who have Sex with Men and Transgender Women

    Brian Mustanski;Daniel T. Ryan;Christina Hayford;Gregory Lee Phillips

  • Therapeutic assessment for preadolescent boys with oppositional defiant disorder: a replicated single-case time-series design.

    Justin D. Smith;Leonard Handler;Michael R. Nash

  • Preventing Weight Gain and Obesity: Indirect Effects of the Family Check-Up in Early Childhood

    Justin D. Smith;Justin D. Smith;Zorash Montaño;Thomas J. Dishion;Thomas J. Dishion;Daniel S. Shaw

  • Network interventions for managing the COVID-19 pandemic and sustaining economy.

    Akihiro Nishi;George Dewey;Akira Endo;Sophia Neman

  • Designs and methods for implementation research: Advancing the mission of the CTSA program

    Soohyun Hwang;Sarah A. Birken;Cathy L. Melvin;Catherine L. Rohweder

  • Memantine augmentation in clozapine-refractory schizophrenia: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover study.

    S. R. T. Veerman;P. F. J. Schulte;J. D. Smith;L. de Haan

  • Longitudinal relations between observed parenting behaviors and dietary quality of meals from ages 2 to 5.

    Zorash Montaño;Justin D. Smith;Thomas J. Dishion;Daniel S. Shaw

  • Attachment status and mother–preschooler parasympathetic response to the strange situation procedure

    Justin D. Smith;Susan S. Woodhouse;Caron A.C. Clark;Elizabeth A. Skowron

  • Therapeutic assessment promotes treatment readiness but does not affect symptom change in patients with personality disorders: Findings from a randomized clinical trial

    Hilde De Saeger;Jan H. Kamphuis;Stephen E. Finn;Justin D. Smith

  • Virtual interview training for autistic transition age youth: A randomized controlled feasibility and effectiveness trial.

    Matthew J Smith;Kari Sherwood;Brittany Ross;Justin D Smith

  • Testing the Effectiveness of Family Therapeutic Assessment: A Case Study Using a Time-Series Design

    Justin D. Smith;Nicole J. Wolf;Leonard Handler;Michael R. Nash

  • Parenting Interventions in Pediatric Primary Care: A Systematic Review.

    Justin D. Smith;Gracelyn H. Cruden;Lourdes M. Rojas;Mark Van Ryzin

  • An individually tailored family-centered intervention for pediatric obesity in primary care: study protocol of a randomized type II hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial (Raising Healthy Children study).

    Justin D. Smith;Cady Berkel;Neil Jordan;David C. Atkins

  • Effects of video feedback on early coercive parent-child interactions: the intervening role of caregivers' relational schemas.

    Justin D. Smith;Thomas J. Dishion;Kevin J. Moore;Daniel S. Shaw

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas J. Dishion
Thomas J. Dishion Arizona State University
Melvin N. Wilson
Melvin N. Wilson University of Virginia
Daniel S. Shaw
Daniel S. Shaw University of Pittsburgh
Lauren S. Wakschlag
Lauren S. Wakschlag Northwestern University
Garnett W. Bryant
Garnett W. Bryant National Institute of Standards and Technology
Brian Mustanski
Brian Mustanski Northwestern University
Elizabeth A. Stormshak
Elizabeth A. Stormshak University of Oregon
Kevin J. Grimm
Kevin J. Grimm Arizona State University
Guillermo Prado
Guillermo Prado University of Miami
Michael E. Newcomb
Michael E. Newcomb Northwestern University

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