Kim E. Radda, RN, MA

Director of Research Administration
860-278-2044 ext. 285

kim.radda@icrweb.org

Kim E. Radda, RN, MA, is an anthropologist and registered nurse. She has conducted extensive community-based research on substance abuse, HIV risk, and the health and mental health of older adults, as well as research on rural women’s social and economic roles in Mexico. She is currently ICR’s IRB Administrator, and a Co-Investigator on a study of female condom accessibility and a university/community collaborative research infrastructure grant to address disparities in oral health among low income and minority community dwelling adults residing in senior housing. Kim holds an appointment of Clinical Instructor in the Department of Community Medicine and Health Care, UCONN School of Medicine, serves as an IRB member at the UCONN Health Center, and is the Community Boundary Spanner for the Connecticut Institute for Clinical and Translational Science. Her research interests include HIV prevention, substance abuse, research ethics, arts-based interventions, and health disparities among older adults.

Radda, K. E., & Schensul, J. J. (2011). Building Living Alliances: Community Engagement and community-based partnerships to address the health of community elders. Annals of Anthropological Practice, 32(2), 154-173.

Robison, J., Schensul, J.J., Coman, E., Diefenbach, G.J., Radda, K.E., Gaztambide, S., & Disch, W.B. Mental health in senior housing: Racial/ethnic patterns and correlates of major depressive disorder. Aging And Mental Health (2009).

Schensul, J.J., Radda, K.E., Coman, E., & Vazquez, E. Multi-level intervention to prevent influenza infection in older minority adults. In Special Issue on Multi-Level Intervention Science, J.J. Schensul & E. Trickett (Eds.), American Journal of Community Psychology (2009).

Weeks, M.R., Convey, M., Dickson-Gomez, J., Li, J., Radda, K., Martinez, M. and Robles, R. Changing drug users' risk environments: Peer Health Advocates as multi-level community change agents. American Journal of Community Psychology, 43 (3/4): 330-344 (2009).

Weeks, M.R., Li, J.H., Dickson-Gomez, J., Convey, M., Martinez, M., Radda, K., & Clair, S. Outcomes of a peer HIV prevention program with injection drug and crack users: The Risk Avoidance Partnership. Substance Use and Misuse, 44:253-281 (2009).

Radda, K.E., Schensul, JJ. Building Living Alliances: Community Engagement and Community-Based Partnerships to Address the Health of Community Elders (manuscript)   

Disch, W.B., Schensul, J.J., Radda, K.E., & Robison, J.T. Environmental stress and quality of life in older, low income, minority urban adults. In H. Mollenkopf & A. Walker (Eds.), Quality of life in old age: International and multi-disciplinary perspectives. (2007).

Schensul, J.J., Robison, J., Reyes, C., Radda, K., Gaztambide, S., & Disch, W. Building interdisciplinary and intersectoral research partnerships for community-based research: Research on depression and barriers to care with older minority adults. Journal of Community Psychology (2006).

Dickson-Gomez, J, Weeks, M., Martinez, M., Radda, K. Reciprocity and exploitation: Social dynamics in private drug use sites. Journal of Drug Issues, 34 (4): 913-932 (2004).

Radda, K. E., Schensul, J. J., Disch, W.B., Levy, J. A., Reyes, C.Y. Assessing human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) risk among older urban adults: A model for community-based research partnership. Family and Community Health (2003).

Schensul, J. J., Radda, K., Weeks, M. R., & Clair, S. Ethnicity, Social Networks and HIV Risk in Older Drug Users. In J. A. Levy & B. A. Pescosolida (Eds.), Social Networks and Health, 8:167-197. Amsterdam: JAI (2002).

Weeks, M.R., Clair, S., Borgatti, S.P., Radda, K. & Schensul, J.J. Social networks of drug users in high risk sites: Finding the connections. AIDS and Behavior (2002). 

Weeks, M.R., Clair, S., Singer, M., Radda, K., Schensul, J.J., Wilson, D.S., Martinez, M., Scott, G., Knight, G. High risk drug use sites, meaning and practice: Implications for AIDS prevention. Journal of Drug Issues (2001)

Singer, M., Marshall, P.L., Trotter, R.T., Schensul, J.J., Weeks, M.R., Simmons, J.E., Radda. K.E. Ethics, ethnography, drug use, and AIDS: Dilemmas and standards in federally funded research. In: Singer, M., Marshall, P.L., Clatts, M.C., eds., Integrating cultural, observational, and epidemiological approaches in the prevention of drug abuse and HIV/AIDS: Current status and future prospects (1999)

Weeks, M.R., Grier, M., Radda, K., McKinley, D. AIDS and social relations of power: Urban African American women’s discourse on the contexts of risk and prevention. In: W. Elwood, ed., Power in the blood: A handbook on AIDS, politics, and communication (1999)

Weeks, M.R., Singer, M., Himmelgreen, D.A., Richmond, P., Grier, M., Radda, K. Drug use patterns of substance abusing women: Gender and ethnic differences in an AIDS prevention program. Drugs & Society (1998)

Singer, M., Horowitz, S., Radda, K.E., Weeks, M.R. Syringe exchange programs are effective. American Anthropological Association Anthropology Newsletter (1998)

Singer, M., Himmelgreen, D., Weeks, M.R., Radda, K., Martinez, R. Changing the environment of AIDS risk: Findings on syringe exchange and pharmacy sale of syringes in Hartford, CT. Medical Anthropology (1997)