Faculty/Staff Edmund M. Ricci, PhD, MLitt

Professor of Sociology in Public Health
Director, Institute for Evaluation Science in Community Health

Graduate School of Public Health
207A Parran Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15261

Phone: 412-624-6393
Fax: 412-383-3792
E-mail: emricci@pitt.edu

RESEARCH

My primary technical areas are evaluation and survey research methods. Most recently, my work has focused on the areas of minority health disparities, long-term care services and institutions, emergency and disaster medicine, and substance abuse intervention programs. I have designed, directed, or participated in more than 250 evaluation studies, dealing with a wide range of health and human service programs and organizations.

TEACHING

I teach the doctoral seminar in advanced evaluation techniques and the course Evaluation Methods Applied to Disasters.

SERVICE

I have served as a member of the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council, committee on emergency medical services, and chair of the Health Services Research Training Study Section of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality from 1999 to 2003. I serve as a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Health and Social Policy. I am a member of the Behavioral Sciences Council, Association of Schools of Public Health, and the scientific advisory committee for the International Resuscitation Research Center. I have been a visiting faculty member at the Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Lisbon, Portugal; and the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. I also serve as a member of the Board of Examiners, Sir Venkateswara University, Andhra Pradesh, India.

MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Schwaderer, Proctor, Slack, Martz, Ricci: “Evaluation of Patient Navigation in a Community Radiation Oncology Center Involved in Disparities Studies: A Time to Completion of Treatment Study.” Journal of Oncology Practice, in press for publication July, 2008. 

• Berget RJ, Reynolds CF, Ricci EM, Quinn SC, Mawson AR, Payton M, and Thomas SB: “A Plan to Facilitate the Early Career Development of Minority Scholars in the Health Sciences”, Journal of Health and Social Policy.  Vol. 25 (2) 2008.

• B. Ling; J.M. Trauth; M.J. Fine; M.K. Mor; R. Abby; C.H. Braddock; S. Bereknyei; J. Weissfeld, R. Schoen; EM Ricci; and J. Whittle.  Informed Decision-Making and Colorectal Cancer Screening: Is it occurring in primary care?  Medical Care.  In Press for publication Dec. 2008. 

• Lin CC, Schwaderer K, Morganlander K, Ricci EM, Hoffman J, Martz E, Cosgrove R, Heron D. “Factors Associated with Patient Navigators’ Time Spent on Reducing Barriers to Cancer Treatment”.  Journal of the National Medical Association, publication scheduled, November 2008 (100). 

• Nowalk M, Zimmerman RK, Lin CJ, Raymund M, Tabbarah M, Wilson SA, McGaffey A, Wahrenberger JT, Block B, Hall DG, Fox DE, Ricci EM.  Raising Adult Vaccination Rates over 4 Years Among Racially Diverse Patients from Inner City Health Centers. J Am Geriatr Soc.2008. 2008:56:1177-1182.

• Bangs R, Ricci EM, Davis L, eds. Racial Disparity in Mental Health Services: Why Race Still Matters.  The Haworth Press, Binghamton, New York (June 2008). (also appears as special issue of the Journal of Social Work in Public Health.2007; Vol. 23 Numbers 2/3)

• Ragin D, Ricci EM, Rhodes R, Richardson L.  Defining “Community” in Community Consultation for Emergency Research: Findings from the Community VOICES Study.  Social Science and Medicine. 2008; 66: 1379-1392.

  Lin CC, Block B, Nowalk MP, Woods M, Ricci EM, Morganlander K, Herron D.   Breast Cancer Risk Assessment in Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Urban Communities.  Journal of the National Medical Association.  2007;99(7):752-756.

• Miller M, Degenholtz H, Gazmararian J, Lin CJ, Ricci EM & Sereika S.  “Identifying Elderly at Greatest Risk of Inadequate Literacy: A Predictive Model for Population Health Decision-Makers”. Journal of Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy.  2007;3(1):70-85

• Zimmerman RK, Tabbarah M, Nowalk MP, Raymund M, Wilson SA, McGaffey A, Wahrenberger JT, Block B, Ricci EM.  Impact of the 2004 Influenza Vaccine Shortage on Patients from Inner City Health Centers.  Journal of Urban Health.  2007;84:389-399.