Title:  Associate Professor

Department: Department of Health Sciences

School/Center:  School of Health Professions

Office Location:  316 Robinson Hall

Phone:  617-373-3485

Fax:  617-373-2968

Email:  al.lincoln@neu.edu

Education:  MPH, PhD

Certification: 

Specializations: 

Research:  public health, mental health, substance abuse, homelessness, health and social disparities, literacy, community-based participatory action research

Public Service:  Member of the BEST (Boston Emergency Services Team) Advisory Board (2003 - )

BEST provides publicly funded psychiatric emergency care for the Metro-Boston area.

Executive Board Member, Consumer Quality Initiatives (CQI), Boston, MA (2001 - )

Consumer Quality Initiatives, Inc. (CQI) is a mental health consumer-directed and staffed quality improvement and research organization based in Massachusetts. CQI’s mission is to give consumers a greater voice and an integral role in evaluating their treatment and to initiate changes based on data collected. 

Board Member, Driscoll Extended Day Program, Brookline, MA (2005 - )

Driscoll Extended Day Program is a non-profit organization providing after school care for children in the Brookline Public Schools. 

Courses: 

Publications: 

MANUSCRIPTS CURRENTLY UNDER REVIEW

B. Heidi Ellis; Helen Z. Macdonald, Alisa Lincoln, Howard Cabral. The Association of Trauma, Immigration factors and Post-resettlement stressors with Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms in Somali adolescent Refugees.  Currently under review Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Lincoln A, White A, Johnson P: A Re-Examination of Frequent Users of Psychiatric Emergency Services, currently under review in Administration and Policy in Mental Health Services and Mental Health Services Research.

Lincoln A: A Re-examination of Race and Involuntary Commitment: the changing meaning of social control. Currently revise and resubmit to, Journal of Health and Social Behavior.

Lincoln A, Espejo D, Johnson P, et. al: “BMC ACCESS Project: the development and evaluation of an enhanced safe haven shelter”, currently revise and resubmit Journal of Behavioral Health Services and Research.

Lincoln A, Delman J, Hagan M, et al:  “The Boston Community-Academic Mental Health Partnership: Developing a Mechanism for Community-Based Participatory Mental Health Research”, currently under review Journal of Behavioral Health Services and Research.

Smith MV, Lincoln A: “Emerging Concepts of Postpartum Depression in the Scientific and Medical Literature From 1960-2005”, currently revise and resubmit, Social Science and Medicine.

Lincoln A, Espejo D, Johnson P, Paasche-Orlow M, Webber T, Speckman J, White R: Limited Literacy and Psychiatric Disorders: An examination of literacy among users of an urban safety-net hospital behavioral health clinic, conditionally accepted,  Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease.

MANUSCRIPTS IN-PRESS AND PUBLISHED

Ellis BH, Keating MK, Yusuf S, Lincoln A and Nur A (2007):  Ethical research in refugee communities and the use of community participatory methods. Transcultural Psychiatry. 44(3):490-512.

Piwowarczyk L, Keane T and Lincoln A: HUNGER: The Silent Epidemic Among Asylum Seekers and Resettled Refugees.  In-press, Journal of International Immigration.

Lincoln A, Liebshutz J, Chernoff M, Nguyen D and Amaro H: “The Development and Validation of a Brief Screen for Co-occurring Disorder among Women Entering Substance Abuse Treatment”, Journal of Substance Abuse Prevention, Treatment and Policy 2006; 1:26.

Koenen K, Lincoln A, Appleton A (2006): Women’s status and child well-being: A state-level analysis. Social Science and Medicine 63:2999-3012.

Lincoln A, Paasche-Orlow M, Cheng D et al.: “The Impact of Health Literacy on Depressive Symptoms and Mental Health-related Quality of Life.” Journal of General Internal Medicine, 21:818-822, Aug. 2006.

Shanahan, C, Lincoln A, Horton N, Saitz R, Winter M, and Samet J: “Relationship of Depressive Symptoms and Mental Health to Repeat Detoxification”, Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 29(2), 117-123, Sept. 2005.

Lincoln A (2006): “Psychiatric Emergency Room Decision-Making, Social Control, and              the ‘Undeserving Sick’”. Sociology of Health and Illness. 28:1; 54-75.

Lincoln, A and Allen M: “The Influence of Collateral Informants on Psychiatric Emergency Service Disposition and Access to Inpatient Care.” International Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation. 6: 93-101, 2002.

Fisher WH, Barreira PJ, Lincoln AK, Simon LJ, White AW, Roy-Bujnowski K, Sudders M. “Insurance Status and Length of Stay for Involuntarily Hospitalized Patients.” J. of Behavioral Health Services and Research. 28:(3): 334-346, 2001.

Fisher WH, Barreira PJ, Geller JL, White AW, Lincoln AK, Sudder M. “Long-stay patients in state psychiatric hospitals at the end of the 20th Century.” Psychiatric Services. 52:(8): 1051-1056, 2001.

Schwartz S, Lincoln A, Levav I: Is Menstrual Cycle a Confounder in Psychiatric Research? Psychological Medicine 1997; 27 (6): 1435-1441.

Allen MH, Lincoln A: Emergency Psychiatric Review: Police Involvement and PES Decision Making, Emergency Psychiatry, Fall, 1995;55.