Gia Barboza-Salerno

Gia Barboza-Salerno studies child maltreatment, family and community violence, and health disparities affecting vulnerable populations such as foster youth, homeless individuals, and older adults. Much of the recent work uses spatial and statistical modeling (geospatial analysis, network analysis, Bayesian methods) to examine how neighborhood conditions, trauma, and systemic factors like racism and economic inequality shape outcomes such as substance use, violence exposure, and child mortality. This research combines public health, criminology, and psychology approaches to understand and address social problems affecting at-risk groups.

Publication output was minimal before 2020 but has grown substantially since, rising from a handful of papers per year to a peak of 16 in 2025, indicating an increasingly active and productive recent period.

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