Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion

Profile

Dr. Dodge’s research interests include: family-inclusive mental health care, peer supported mental health interventions, mixed methodological analytical approaches, and implementation science. Her program of research focuses on the implementation of equitable family-inclusive mental health care for military families including both active duty service members and Veterans. Dr. Dodge also works with others to support them in using mixed methodological approaches for their own respective research. Her work has been featured in JAMA Open, Journal of Family Violence, Journal of General Internal Medicine, and the Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. She co-leads the international All Things Configured VA research group where scientists across the world meet up virtually to discuss and teach Configurational Comparative Methods, including Coincidence Analysis.  Additionally, Dr. Dodge serves on several grants as a configurational methodologist and is currently on an National Institute of Health F31 dissertation training grant as an expert in mixed methods and Consolidated Framework for Implementation Science (CFIR) specialist with the expectation to train and teach.

Jessica R. Dodge, PhD, MPH, LLMSW, received her masters in public health from the University of Michigan School of Public Health in the Health Behavior and Health Education department. She received her masters and PhD of Social Work from the University of Southern California from the Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work.