• PhD, Health Promotion & Behavior, University of Georgia College of Public Health, 2019
• MPH, Behavioral Sciences & Health Education, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, 2013
• BS, Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2010

• Digital health technologies and eHealth
• Adolescent health
• Sexual and reproductive health
• Violence prevention
• Health disparities

• 2020 K01 Grant Award, Impact Score: 10
• 2020-2021 Society of Adolescent Health and Medicine Research & Mentoring Program Fellow
• 2019-2021 Center for Reproductive Health Research in the Southeast (RISE) Postdoctoral Fellow
• 2019 University of Georgia College of Public Health Preceptor of the Year
• 2016-2019 ARCS Foundation Scholar

• American Public Health Association (APHA)
• Society of Adolescent Health and Medicine (SAHM)
• Society for the Advancement of Violence and Injury Research (SAVIR)

Dr. Lambert’s research focuses on assessing the prevalence and scope of unmet health needs among marginalized communities, especially in the South where social and economic inequalities are greatest, and testing the efficacy of eHealth interventions to increase linkages to evidence-based care. She is particularly interested in the use of digital technologies to improve epidemiologic surveys and studies and to improve the accessibility and quality of public health services. Dr. Lambert has expertise in online recruitment strategies, mobile application development, designing custom cloud-based data management systems, SMS and telemedicine-based interventions, geospatial locators, and data visualization.

Swartzendruber, A., Lambert, D.N (2020). A Web-Based Geolocated Directory of Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs) in the United States: Description of CPC Map Methods and Design Features and Analysis of Baseline Findings. JMIR Public Health & Surveillance, 6(1), e16726.

Lauckner, C., Warnock, C.A., Schipani-McLaughlin, A.M., Lambert, D.N., Muilenburg, J.L (2020). The Relationship Between Perceived Parental Leniency, Access to Alcohol at Home, and Alcohol Consumption and Consequences among Rural Adolescents. Journal of Rural Mental Health, 44(1), 26.

Piper, K., Fuller, T., Ayers., A., Lambert, D.N., Sales, J.M., Wingood, G.M. (2019). A Qualitative Exploration of Religion, Gender Norms, and Sexual Decision-Making Within African American Faith-Based Communities. Sex Roles, 1-17.

Lauckner, C., Truszczynski, N., Lambert, D. N., Kottamasu, V., Meherally, S., Schipani-McLaughlin, A. M., Taylor, E., Hansen, N. (2019). “Catfishing,” Cyberbullying, and Coercion: An Exploration of the Risk Associated with Dating App Use among Rural Sexual Minority Males. Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health, 1-18.

Wingood, G.M., Lambert, D. N., Renfro, T., Ali, M., DiClemente, R. (2019). A multi-level intervention with African American churches to enhance adoption of point-of-care HIV and Diabetes testing, 2014-2018. American Journal of Public Health: 109(S2), pp. S141-S144.

Renfro, T., Johnson, E., Lambert, D. N., Wingood, G. M., DiClemente, R. (2018) The MEDIA model: An innovative method for digitizing and training community members to facilitate an HIV prevention intervention. Translational Behavioral Medicine.

Lambert, D. N., Bishop, L., Guetig, S., Frew, P. A Formative Evaluation of Social Media Campaign to Reduce Adolescent Dating Violence. JMIR Res Protoc. 2014; 3(4):e64. DOI: 10.2196/resprot.3546