Ph.D. Student Profile

Kiana Bess, MPH

Kiana Bess, MPH

  • Doctoral Candidate
  • Cognate: Urban Planning Policy

Education

  • MPH, Health Promotion, The George Washington University
  • BS, Health Science, James Madison University

Research Interests & Projects

  • Urban Health Equity
  • Neighborhood Environments & Housing
  • Poverty & Material Hardship
  • Child Health (i.e. behavior, stress, obesity)

Selected Publications

  • Bess, KD., Miller, AM, & Mehdipanah, R. (2022).  The effects of housing insecurity on children's health: a scoping review. Health Promotion International. daac006.
  • Sokol, RL., Mehdipanah, R., Bess, KD, Mohammed, L., & Miller, AM. (2021) When families do not request help: assessing a social determinants of health screening tool in practice. Journal of Pediatric Health Care. 35(5). 471-478.
  • Bess, KD., Andrews, M. & Lopez, WD. (2021). Teaching social determinants of health as the world burns down: strategies learned from teaching in a pandemic. Pedagogy in health promotion.
  • Mehdipanah, R., Bess, KD., Tomkowiak, S., Richardson, A., Stokes, C., Perkins, DW., Cleage, S., Israel, BA., & Schulz, AJ. (2020).  Residential racial and socioeconomic segregation as predictors of housing discrimination in Detroit metropolitan area. Sustainability. 12(24).