Nathaniel H. Taylor

Doctor of Public Health (DrPH)

Nate Taylor is a Doctor of Public Health student (2023 cohort) in the Department of Health Policy and Management. He also works full time as a program manager and health economist in the Center for Communication and Media Impact at RTI International where his work focuses on evaluation of public health education media campaigns. Prior to joining RTI, he worked as a research analyst in the Economic Evaluation Research Group at UGA.

Mr. Taylor has more than 10 years of experience in public health program evaluation and applied research. He is certified in health education (CHES, 2011) and public health (CPH, 2013). His current research interests are in improving the efficacy of communication related to gun safety and firearm-related violence prevention for public health education media campaigns.

Education

MPH, Health Policy and Management, University of Georgia, 2013
BS, Health Promotion, University of Georgia, 2011

Areas of Expertise

Evaluation of public health education media campaigns

Honors, Awards, and Achievements

UGA Foundation Scholar Award, 2024
FDA Center for Tobacco Products Honor Award, 2023
Lockheed Martin STEM Award, 2023
RTI International, Highly Published Author Award (2nd award), 2023
RTI International, Early Career Author Award, 2019
Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health, 2015
Outstanding Health Policy Student, 2013

Affiliations

RTI International Firearm IR&D Steering Committee
National Association for Doctors of Public Health
Georgia Public Health Association
Society for the Advancement of Violence and Injury Research

Research Interests

Improving the efficacy of communication related to gun safety and firearm-related violence prevention for public health education media campaigns

Selected Publications

Pepper, J. K., Malterud, A. S., Farrelly, M. C., Taylor, N. H., Nonnemaker, J. M., Petrun Sayers, E. L. (2023). The impact of social media use and gaming on initiation of smokeless tobacco use among rural male youth. Journal of Adolescent Health,72(3):383-389. doi:10.1016/j.jadohealth.2022.09.025.

Bennett, M., Speer, J., Taylor, N. (2022). Changes in e-cigarette use among youth and young adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: insights into risk perceptions and reasons for changing use behavior. Nicotine & Tobacco Research, https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntac136.

Vigorita, M. W., Smith, A., Farrelly, M., Taylor, N., Spinks, J. G. (2022). Predictive validity of the original and expanded susceptibility scales for smokeless tobacco. Addictive Behaviors, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2022.107286.

Farrelly, M. C., Taylor, N. H., Nonnemaker, J. M., Smith, A. A., Delahanty, J. C., Zhao, X. (2021). “The Real Cost” Smokeless campaign: changes in beliefs about smokeless tobacco among rural boys, a longitudinal randomized controlled field trial. BMC Public Health, 21:2282. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-12356-6.

Corso, P. S., Chambers, A., & Taylor, N. (2017). Economic burden of child maltreatment. In Research in child maltreatment prevention: Definitions of abuse and prevention (Vol. 1). STM Learning.

Corso, P. S., & Taylor, N. (2015). The economic costs of violence. In P. Donnelly, & C. Ward (Eds.), Oxford textbook of violence prevention: Epidemiology, evidence, and policy (pp. 111-116). Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.

Corso, P., Taylor, N., Bennett, J., Ingels, J., Self-Brown, S., & Whitaker, D. (2014). Marginal cost analysis of two train-the-trainer models for implementing SafeCare®. Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, 15(5), 623–626. doi:10.5811/westjem.2014.4.21422.

Corso, P. S., Ingels, J. B., Taylor, N. H., & Desai, S. (2014). Linking costs to health outcomes for allocating scarce public health resources. eGEMs, 2(4), 1–7. doi:10.13063/2327-9214.1128.