Scholars@Duke
Charity S Watkins

Charity S Watkins

Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Obstetrics and Gynecology

Selected Publications

Moving from Principle to Practice: A Researcher's Guide to Co-Leading Engaged Research with Community Partners and Patients with Lived Experience to Reduce Maternal Mortality and Morbidity for Maternal Sepsis.

Journal Article Matern Child Health J · August 2024 OBJECTIVES: Maternal mortality and morbidity disproportionately affect birthing people from racialized populations. Unfortunately, researchers can often compound these poor outcomes through a lack of authentic community engagement in research beyond the ro ... Full text Link to item Cite

Applying an Ecological Systems Framework: How a Historically Black University, a Predominately White Institution, and a Public School System Created a Collaborative Undergraduate Research Experience

Journal Article Children and Schools · January 1, 2023 Guided by the National Association of Social Workers’ Code of Ethics and measures of competence provided by the Council on Social Work Education, the social work field serves as a model for strategies that promote collaboration across difference, strengths ... Full text Cite

Social work education in the shadow of confederate statues and the specter of white supremacy

Journal Article Advances in Social Work · January 1, 2021 Driven by our code of ethics and our call to reckon with our embeddedness within a white supremacist institution in the US South, the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Social Work re-visioned our approach to the MSW curriculum. Using case study methods, we trace o ... Full text Cite

Rural Community Engagement for Health Disparities Research: The Unique Role of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

Journal Article Int J Environ Res Public Health · December 23, 2020 Reducing health disparities in rural communities of color remains a national concern. Efforts to reduce health disparities often center on community engagement, which is historically the strategy used to provide rural minority populations with support to a ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Vile vigilance: An integrated theoretical framework for understanding the state of Black surveillance

Journal Article Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment · May 18, 2016 The family is the principal source of socialization and protection against racism for many Blacks. Transmitting values, norms, morals, and beliefs (i.e., racial socialization) to successive generations is done to promote racial awareness and to prepare an ... Full text Cite

Supporting prosocial development through school-based mental health services: A multisite evaluation of social and behavioral outcomes across one academic year

Journal Article Social Work in Mental Health · January 2, 2016 Unaddressed behavioral and socioemotional difficulties impact the mental health, educational attainment, and future outcomes of children to such an extent that it is imperative to identify effective strategies for early intervention and treatment. School-b ... Full text Cite

Teen Pregnancy

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Educational success among elementary school children from low socioeconomic status families: A systematic review of research assessing parenting factors

Journal Article Journal of Children and Poverty · January 1, 2015 Prior research has focused primarily on the educational benefits of high socioeconomic status (SES). Little is known about educationally successful youth from low-SES backgrounds, and no published review has systematically evaluated the methodological char ... Full text Cite