Dr. Courtney Blondino
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Profile
Courtney Blondino is an assistant professor of health studies at the University of Richmond. She earned a Ph.D. in Epidemiology from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her dissertation research, Modeling Substance Use and Mental Disorder Comorbidity Using Latent Variable and Network Approaches, used complementary statistical methods to characterize co-occurring mental health and substance use in U.S. adults.
Dr. Blondino’s research includes community-based participatory research projects in the City of Richmond, injury and violence epidemiology, and mental health and substance use comorbidity. She has also worked as an epidemiology consultant for the American Medical Association, Venebio Group, and Mercer. Courtney volunteers on the Emerging Leaders Council for Richmond’s Health Brigade, Virginia’s oldest free and charitable clinic offering medical, mental health, community outreach and care coordination services for low-income and uninsured persons.
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Publications
Journal Articles
*Denotes co-first author.
Blondino, C. & Prom-Wormley, E.C. A Network Approach to Substance Use, Internalizing, and Externalizing Comorbidity in U.S. Adults. (2022). Addictive Behaviors. DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2022.107421
Chartier, K., Bares, C.B., Prom-Wormley, E.C., Blondino, C., Miles, K., Lee, A. G., & Karriker-Jaffe, K. J. (2022). Effects of family history of alcohol problems on alcohol consumption: Stronger for medically underserved men. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2022.107093
Liu, A.C., Cox C., Sankoh, M., Clifford, J., Blondino, C., Bea C., Miles C., Young, K., Gillison-Chew, S., Richardson-Lauve, J., Turner, C., & Prom-Wormley E. (2022). The Association between Loneliness with Increased Mental Health Problems and Substance Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Richmond, Virginia. Virginia Journal of Public Health, https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/vjph/vol6/iss1/8/
Clifford, J. S., Lu, J., Blondino, C. T., Do, E. K., & Prom-Wormley, E. C. (2021). The Association Between Health Literacy and Tobacco Use: Results from a Nationally Representative Survey. Journal of community health, 10.1007/s10900-021-01019-7.
Blondino, C. T., Clifford, J. S., Lu, J., & Prom-Wormley, E. C. (2021). The association between internalizing and externalizing severity with current use of cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and alcohol in adults: Wave 1 of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) study. Addictive behaviors, 119, 106890. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2021.106890
Usidame, B., McQueen Gibson, E., Diallo, A., Blondino, C., Clifford, J., Richmond Health and Wellness Community Advisory Board, Zanjani, F., Sargent, L., Price, E., Slattum, P., Parsons, P., & Prom-Wormley, E. (2021). Understanding the preference for receiving mental health and substance use support in African Americans 50 and older. Journal of prevention & intervention in the community, 1–19. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10852352.2021.1930820
Daly, N., Parsons, M., Blondino, C., Clifford, J., Prom-Wormley, E.C. (2021) Association between caregiver depression and child after-school program participation, Journal of Family Social Work, 24:3, 245-260.
Blondino, C.*, Gormley, M.*, Taylor, D.H., Lowery, E., Clifford, J., Burkart, B., Graves, W., Lu, J., & Prom-Wormley, E.C. The Influence of Co-Occurring Substance Use on the Effectiveness of Opiate Treatment Programs According to Intervention Type. Epidemiol Rev. 2020 Jan 31;42(1):57-78. doi: 10.1093/epirev/mxaa005. PMID: 32944731.
Gormley, M.*, Blondino C.*, Taylor, D., Lowery, E., Graves, W., Clifford, J.S., Prom-Wormley, E.C., & Lu, J. Assessment of Co-Occurring Substance Use During Opiate Treatment Programs in the United States, Epidemiologic Reviews, Volume 42, Issue 1, 2020, Pages 79–102
Park Y, Ryan MH, Santen SA, Sabo R, Blondino C, Magee ML. Nurturing the Student, Sustaining the Mission: 20 Years of the International/Inner-City/Rural Preceptorship Program. Fam Med. 2019;51(10):823-829.
Prom-Wormley, E.C., Clifford, J.S., Bourdon, J., Barr, P., Blondino, C., Ball, K. M., Montgomery, J., Davis, J. K., Real, J.E., Edwards, A., Thiselton, D., Wilson, D., Creighton, G.C., & Newbille, C. (2019). Developing community-based strategies with family health history education: Assessing the association between community resident family history and interest in health education. Social Science and Medicine.
Santen, S.A., Feldman, M., Weir, S., Blondino, C., Rawls, M., & DiGiovanni, S. (2018). Developing Comprehensive Strategies to Evaluate Medical School Curricula. Medical Science Educator. doi:10.1007/s40670-018-00640-x