Emma Lathan-Powell, PhD

Integrating a trauma recovery center into an urban hospital setting serving multiply marginalized patients in the Southeastern United States - BMC Health Services Research Background Few interpersonal violence survivors receive psychosocial services, and those who are multiply marginalized are among the least likely to receive needed care. Trauma recovery centers (TRCs)...

🏥 Learn about development and implementation of the Grady Trauma Recovery Center, the first in the southeastern USA! @drpowerslott.bsky.social @emoryuniversity.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

This is an analysis of non-primary outcomes from an ongoing clinical trial (clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT046...). Thank you to the PIs @negarfani.bsky.social and Greg Siegle for their leadership and to the large co-authorship team! @allieguelfo.bsky.social @emmaclathanphd.bsky.social

📣Read our new @pppl-journal.bsky.social paper examining how personal connection to sexual assault influences conviction decisions in rape cases in a representative sample of mock jurors: psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

Looking for a post-bac job? The BRAINS Lab at Auburn University is hiring to work on a NIDA-supported clinical trial for folks with Cannabis Use Disorder! Links to the job posting and lab website are below. Feel free to reach out to me with any questions!

So well deserved🤩

We found that cases labeled “suspicious circumstances” contained 1.5x more statements indicating victim credibility concerns. When submitted for forensic testing, however, these cases were just as likely to hit in CODIS. Officers’ biases about “real rape” cases have no forensic bearing.

Rape by any other name… Comparing sexual assault cases labeled “suspicious circumstances” to those labeled sex crimes In sexual assault cases, the presence of victim- and case-level factors that align with rape myth beliefs are thought to influence law enforcement per…

🚨In our new Journal of Criminal Justice study, we compared case narratives and forensic outcomes in 200 backlogged sexual assault kits labeled “suspicious circumstances” vs. sex crimes. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Bear suits him 🥹😭 he doesn’t even look real!🐻

Okay but most importantly — WHAT IS PUPPY’S NAME😍😍😍

You can check out the full ~open-access~ paper here 💃🏻 journals.lww.com/jfmpc/fullte...

Health care providers’ comfort caring for trauma-exposed... : Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care sis, to (1) document HCPs’ trauma-related comfort levels and factors contributing to discomfort and (2) examine the associations between provider-level factors and comfort. Materials and Methods: D...

My bluesky debut coincided with our newest publication🤗 perhaps unsurprisingly, primary care providers were least comfortable working with patients with sexual assault, childhood trauma, and intimate partner violence histories (vs other types of trauma)

Created an IPV, Sexual Assault, & Violence Research starter pack! Let me know if you’d like to be added 😊

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Yes, please!🤩

Would love to be added🤗