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Melissa Osborne, PhD, MPH

@mosbornephd.bsky.social

Asst. Prof. @wellstarcollege @kennesawstate | Epi studying pediatric violence and injury prevention (child maltreatment, firearm injury)

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#SAVIR2025 is finally here! Looking forward to an inspiring lineup of sessions and great conversations with colleagues. See you there!

07.04.2025 11:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Busy week! My students finished finals πŸ“, I was honored with a KSU Apex Award ⭐️, and (most of) my research team gathered for a celebration. πŸŽ‰ Also inspired by emails from former students who received grad school acceptances or job offers. πŸŽ“Seeing students go on to do great things is rewarding!

06.12.2024 21:45 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The presence of a gun increases the chance of a woman being murdered in domestic violence situations by 500%. Let’s work to disarm abusers and keep families safe.

21.11.2024 22:36 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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🌟Proud mentor moment 🌟 Javier and Reece did an excellent job presenting on the opportunities that immersive virtual reality can provide in improving home safety behaviors of parents. Great job presenting at the Symposium of Student Scholars!

21.11.2024 21:38 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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If guns made us safer, America would be the safest country in the world.

20.11.2024 16:19 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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KSU-area friends: Stop by the Symposium of Student Scholars on Thursday at 1pm and visit my students Javier and Reece who will be presenting a poster on our VR home safety program. See you there! @kennesawstate.bsky.social

20.11.2024 01:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Excited to connect with so many of my #GunViolence #FirearmViolence people on Bluesky this week. I also post about my work in #UnintentionalInjury and #ChildMaltreatment prevention. Let’s keep the conversation going on a different platform!

13.11.2024 20:55 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Adaptation of SafeCare, an evidence-based parenting program, for caregivers of infants in the neonatal intensive care unit While there are several parenting programs for NICU caregivers, no studies, to our knowledge, have developed parenting programs aimed at preventing ch…

NICU families may need more parenting support, and this pilot study found that SafeCare reduced parental stress among NICU parents. Grateful to be part of this work led by Dr. Rachel Culbreth
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

05.07.2024 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How does early violence exposure impact multiple firearm-related behaviors and experiences like carriage and threatening? We investigated these relationships in a new article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #firearms #violenceprevention

14.05.2024 00:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I'm back from a social media hiatus and wanted to share a new article on secure #firearm storage counseling among #homevisiting providers. (See infographic created by my awesome students) www.frontiersin.org/journals/pub...

19.04.2024 15:41 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Woo hoo! Slowly but surely finding my people on here.

03.12.2023 21:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

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