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Rebecca M. Cunningham is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily within social sciences, medicine, and psychology. The scientist's work covers a range of subfields, including health, clinical psychology, general health professions, public health, environmental and occupational health, and sociology and political science.

The primary topics of Cunningham's research include gun ownership and violence research, suicide and self-harm studies, injury epidemiology and prevention, substance abuse treatment and outcomes, crime patterns and interventions, homelessness and social issues, and intimate partner and family violence.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with this researcher include Patrick M. Carter, Maureen A. Walton, Marc A. Zimmerman, Jason E. Goldstick, and Jessica Roche.

Rebecca M. Cunningham has published numerous papers in several notable venues. The most common publication outlets are Preventive Medicine, Injury Prevention, Abstracts, Drug and Alcohol Dependence, and PEDIATRICS.

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Cunningham include:

  • Current Causes of Death in Children and Adolescents in the United States, 2022, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Prevention of sexual violence among college students: Current challenges and future directions, 2020, Journal of American College Health
  • Moving academic research forward during COVID-19, 2020, Science
  • Current Epidemiological Trends in Firearm Mortality in the United States, 2020, JAMA Psychiatry
  • Prescription opioid misuse among adolescents and emerging adults in the United States: A scoping review, 2020, Preventive Medicine

Best Publications

  • Current Causes of Death in Children and Adolescents in the United States.

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  • The Major Causes of Death in Children and Adolescents in the United States.

    Rebecca M. Cunningham;Maureen A. Walton;Patrick M. Carter

  • Effects of a Brief Intervention for Reducing Violence and Alcohol Misuse Among Adolescents: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    Maureen A. Walton;Stephen T. Chermack;Jean T. Shope;C. Raymond Bingham

  • The Impact of Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral for Treatment on Emergency Department Patients' Alcohol Use

    Edward Bernstein;Judith Bernstein;James Feldman;William G Fernandez

  • The Continuum of Community Engagement in Research: A Roadmap for Understanding and Assessing Progress.

    Kent D. Key;Debra Furr-Holden;E. Yvonne Lewis;Rebecca Cunningham

  • Uninsured adults presenting to US emergency departments: assumptions vs data.

    Manya F. Newton;Carla C. Keirns;Rebecca Cunningham;Rodney A. Hayward

  • Clinician Attitudes, Screening Practices, and Interventions to Reduce Firearm-Related Injury

    Paul J. D. Roszko;Jonathan Ameli;Patrick M. Carter;Rebecca M. Cunningham

  • Rates of maternal depression in pediatric emergency department and relationship to child service utilization.

    Heather A Flynn;Matthew Davis;Sheila M Marcus;Rebecca Cunningham

  • Before and After the Trauma Bay: The Prevention of Violent Injury Among Youth

    Rebecca Cunningham;Lynda Knox;Joel Fein;Stephanie Harrison

  • Violent reinjury and mortality among youth seeking emergency department care for assault-related injury: a 2-year prospective cohort study

    Rebecca M. Cunningham;Patrick M. Carter;Megan Ranney;Marc A. Zimmerman

  • Brief Motivational Interviewing Intervention for Peer Violence and Alcohol Use in Teens: One-Year Follow-up

    Rebecca M. Cunningham;Stephen T. Chermack;Marc A. Zimmerman;Jean T. Shope

  • A Systematic Intervention To Improve Serious Illness Communication In Primary Care.

    Joshua R. Lakin;Luca A. Koritsanszky;Rebecca Cunningham;Francine L. Maloney

  • Firearm Violence Among High-Risk Emergency Department Youth After an Assault Injury

    Patrick M. Carter;Maureen A. Walton;Douglas R. Roehler;Jason Goldstick

  • Workplace violence in emergency medicine: current knowledge and future directions.

    Terry Kowalenko;Rebecca Cunningham;Carolyn J. Sachs;Robert Gore

  • Improving Communication About Serious Illness in Primary Care: A Review

    Joshua R. Lakin;Susan D. Block;J. Andrew Billings;Luca A. Koritsanszky

  • An evidence based alcohol screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment (SBIRT) curriculum for emergency department (ED) providers improves skills and utilization

    Edward Bernstein;Judith Bernstein;James Feldman;William Fernandez

  • A pilot randomized clinical trial of an intervention to reduce overdose risk behaviors among emergency department patients at risk for prescription opioid overdose.

    Amy S.B. Bohnert;Erin E. Bonar;Rebecca Cunningham;Mark K. Greenwald

  • Alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs: future directions for screening and intervention in the emergency department.

    Rebecca M. Cunningham;Steven L. Bernstein;Maureen A. Walton;Kerry Broderick

  • Adolescent Suicide Risk Screening in the Emergency Department

    Cheryl A. King;Roisin M. O’Mara;Charles N. Hayward;Rebecca M. Cunningham

  • What are the long-term consequences of youth exposure to firearm injury, and how do we prevent them? A scoping review

    Megan Ranney;Rebecca Karb;Peter Ehrlich;Kira Bromwich

  • Proceedings from the Medical Summit on Firearm Injury Prevention: A Public Health Approach to Reduce Death and Disability in the US.

    Eileen M. Bulger;Eileen M. Bulger;Deborah A. Kuhls;Deborah A. Kuhls;Brendan T. Campbell;Brendan T. Campbell;Stephanie Bonne;Stephanie Bonne

  • The Relationship Between Cumulative Risk and Promotive Factors and Violent Behavior Among Urban Adolescents

    Sarah A. Stoddard;Lauren Whiteside;Marc A. Zimmerman;Rebecca M. Cunningham

  • Brief alcohol intervention in the emergency department: moderators of effectiveness.

    Maureen A Walton;Abby L Goldstein;Abby L Goldstein;Stephen T Chermack;Ryan J McCammon

  • Busy Streets Theory: The Effects of Community-engaged Greening on Violence.

    Justin E. Heinze;Allison Krusky‐Morey;Kevin J. Vagi;Thomas M. Reischl

Frequent Co-Authors

Maureen A. Walton
Maureen A. Walton University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Marc A. Zimmerman
Marc A. Zimmerman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Stephen T. Chermack
Stephen T. Chermack University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Brenda M. Booth
Brenda M. Booth University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Amy S.B. Bohnert
Amy S.B. Bohnert University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
C. Raymond Bingham
C. Raymond Bingham University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Vijay P. Singh
Vijay P. Singh Texas A&M University
Jean T. Shope
Jean T. Shope University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Anthony Spirito
Anthony Spirito Brown University
Abby L. Goldstein
Abby L. Goldstein University of Toronto

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