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Avanti Adhia
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aadhia@uw.edu

Assistant Professor

Child, Family, and Population Health Nursing

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Assistant Professor, Department of Child, Family, and Population Health Nursing
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Affiliate, Firearm Injury & Policy Research Program
Affiliate, Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology

Dr. Avanti Adhia is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Child, Family, and Population Health Nursing and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology. The goal of her research is to prevent interpersonal violence by (1) understanding its causes and consequences and (2) evaluating the role of laws, policies and interventions in reducing violence. Dr. Adhia uses multiple, interdisciplinary methods to examine the social and structural determinants of intimate partner violence and sexual violence, primarily among adolescents and young adults. She is an interdisciplinary researcher committed to conducting research that promotes social justice, maximizes human well-being, and engages communities to enhance the health of marginalized populations.
  • Research Interests: violence prevention, gender-based violence, social determinants of health, public health
  • Health Equity
  • Innovative Interventions
  • D.Sc., Harvard University, 2018
  • B.Sc., Columbia University, 2011
Publications
  • Richey, Ann, McMahon, Sarah, Adhia, Avanti. "A multi-state examination of school district policies to address teen dating violence." Journal of Interpersonal Violence (2024): 8862605241284082.
  • Kafka, Julie, Adhia, Avanti, Martin, David, Mustafa, Ayah, Rowhani-Rahbar, Ali, Rivara, Frederick. "Deaths related to domestic violence in Washington State." JAMA Network Open 7 (2024): e2429974.
  • Adhia, Avanti, Lucas, Ruby, Richey, Ann, Rogers, Megan, Van, Wagner,, Dils, Laurie, Rivara, Frederick, Bekemeier, Betty. "School district leader perspectives on surveying middle school youth about sexual violence." Journal of School Health (2024).
  • Heidari, Omeid, Adhia, Avanti, Gondwe, Kaboni, Shin, Michelle, Suarez-Baquero, Daniel, Ward, Teresa. "Experiences of recruitment and retention in academia: A collaborative autoethnography of early-career faculty members of color." Nursing Outlook 72 (2024): 102200.
  • Moe, Caitlin, Iverson, Katherine, Asa, Nicole, Lyons, Vivian, Adhia, Avanti. "Gender differences in characteristics and consequences of nonfatal firearm abuse in intimate partner violence." Violence and Gender 11 (2024): 72--80.
  • Adhia, Avanti, Richey, Ann, McMahon, Sarah, Temple, Jeff, Rothman, Emily. "Societal factors and teen dating violence: A scoping review." Current Epidemiology Reports 11 (2024): 96--109.
  • Adhia, Avanti, Roy, Paladhi,, Ellyson, Alice. "State laws addressing teen dating violence in US high schools: A difference-in-differences study." Preventive Medicine 182 (2024): 107937.
  • Bender, Anna, Adhia, Avanti, Ross, Rachel, Gallagher, Amy, Mustafa, Ayah, Kroshus, Emily, Ellyson, Alice. "Developing and implementing survivor-centred approaches for college student-athletes: Perspectives from athletic department, Title IX, and campus advocacy personnel." European Journal of Psychotraumatology 15 (2024): 2334587.
  • Adhia, Avanti, Pugh, Dylan, Lucas, Ruby, Rogers, Megan, Kelley, Jessi, Bekemeier, Betty. "Improving school environments for preventing sexual violence among LGBTQ+ youth." Journal of School Health 94 (2024): 243--250.
  • Ellyson, Alice, Adhia, Avanti, Mustafa, Ayah, Lyons, Vivian, Shanahan, Sandra, Rowhani-Rahbar, Ali. "Threats, violence, and weapon use against children in Domestic Violence Protection Orders." Pediatrics 153 (2024): e2023062293.
  • Adhia, Avanti, Ellyson, Alice, Mustafa, Ayah, Conrick, Kelsey, Kroshus, Emily. "Structural and sport-related barriers to formally reporting sexual violence among undergraduate student-athletes." Journal of Family Violence 39 (2024): 889--898.
  • Adhia, Avanti, Casanova, Nicole, Rogers, Megan, Bekemeier, Betty. "Using cognitive interviews to adapt interpersonal violence measures for use with middle school youth." Journal of Interpersonal Violence 39 (2024): 897--909.
  • Conrick, Kelsey, Adhia, Avanti, Ellyson, Alice, Haviland, Miriam, Lyons, Vivian, Mills, Brianna, Rowhani-Rahbar, Ali. "Race, structural racism and racial disparities in firearm homicide victimisation." Injury Prevention 29 (2023): 290--295.
  • Lyons, Vivian, Adhia, Avanti, Asa, Nicole, Cunningham, Rebecca, Rowhani-Rahbar, Ali, Rivara, Frederick. "Adult help seeking behaviors following firearm-related IPV and threats to a child: Results of a national survey." Journal of Family Violence 38 (2023): 775--790.
  • Alsinai, Aisha, Reygers, Max, DiMascolo, Lisa, Kafka, Julie, Rowhani-Rahbar, Ali, Adhia, Avanti, Bowen, Deirdre, Shanahan, Sandra, Dalve, Kimberly, Ellyson, Alice. "Use of immigration status for coercive control in domestic violence protection orders." Frontiers in Sociology 8 (2023): 1146102.
  • Adhia, Avanti, Rebbe, Rebecca, Lane, Eastman,, Foust, Regan, Putnam-Hornstein, Emily. "Intimate partner violence-related emergency department and hospital visits in California following the ICD-10-CM transition, 2016-2018." Journal of Interpersonal Violence 38 (2023): 6230--6241.
  • Adhia, Avanti, Ellyson, Alice, Kroshus, Emily. "Prevalence and formal reporting of sexual violence among undergraduate student-athletes: A multi-state study." Journal of Interpersonal Violence 38 (2023): NP418--NP442.
  • Ellyson, Alice, Adhia, Avanti, Kroshus, Emily, Wright, Davene. "Student-athlete preferences for sexual violence reporting: A discrete choice experiment." The Patient - Patient-Centered Outcomes Research 16 (2023): 77--88.
  • Lyons, Vivian, Seiler, Jessie, Rowhani-Rahbar, Ali, Adhia, Avanti. "Lessons learned from integrating anti-oppression pedagogy in a graduate-level course in epidemiology." American Journal of Epidemiology 192 (2023): 1231--1237.
  • Rebbe, Rebecca, Adhia, Avanti, Eastman, Andrea, Chen, May, Winn, Jade. "The measurement of intimate partner violence using International Classification of Diseases diagnostic codes: A systematic review." Trauma, Violence & Abuse 24 (2023): 2165--2180. : .
  • Ellyson, Alice, Adhia, Avanti, Shanahan, Sandra, Alsinai, Aisha, DiMascolo, Lisa, Reygers, Maxmilliaan, Bowen, Deirdre, Rowhani-Rahbar, Ali. "Firearm restrictions in domestic violence protection orders: Implementation, vetting, compliance, and enforcement." Criminology & Public Policy n/a (2023): . : .
  • Adhia, Avanti, Schleimer, Julia, Mazza, James. "Trends in secondary school practices related to violence prevention, 2012-2018." Journal of School Health 92 (2022): 882--887.
  • Adhia, Avanti, Kray, Melanie, Bowen, Deirdre, Kernic, Mary, Miller, Elizabeth. "Assessment of variation in US state laws addressing the prevention of and response to teen dating violence in secondary schools." JAMA Pediatrics 176 (2022): 797--803.
  • Edmonds, Amy, Moe, Caitlin, Adhia, Avanti, Mooney, Stephen, Rivara, Frederick, Hill, Heather, Rowhani-Rahbar, Ali. "The Earned Income Tax Credit and intimate partner violence." Journal of Interpersonal Violence 37 (2022): NP12519--NP12541.
  • Rebbe, Rebecca, Eastman, Andrea, Adhia, Avanti, Foust, Regan, Putnam-Hornstein, Emily. "Co-reporting of child maltreatment and intimate partner violence: The likelihood of substantiations and foster care placements." Child Maltreatment 26 (2021): 431--440.
  • Lyons, Vivian, Adhia, Avanti, Moe, Caitlin, Kernic, Mary, Schiller, Madeline, Bowen, Andrew, Rivara, Frederick, Rowhani-Rahbar, Ali. "Risk factors for child death during an intimate partner homicide: A case- control study." Child Maltreatment 26 (2021): 356--362.
  • Adhia, Avanti, Lyons, Vivian, Moe, Caitlin, Rowhani-Rahbar, Ali, Rivara, Frederick. "Nonfatal use of firearms in intimate partner violence: Results of a national survey." Preventive Medicine 147 (2021): 106500.
  • Matson, Pamela, Ridenour, Ty, Chung, Shang-En, Adhia, Avanti, Grieb, Suzanne, Poole, Eddie, Huettner, Steven, Rothman, Emily, Bair-Merritt, Megan. "Adolescent and young women's daily reports of emotional context and episodes of dating violence." Journal of Family Violence 36 (2021): 271--279.
  • Adhia, Avanti, Gordon, Allegra, Roberts, Andrea, Fitzmaurice, Garrett, Hemenway, David, Austin, S. "Childhood gender nonconformity and intimate partner violence in adolescence and young adulthood." Journal of Interpersonal Violence 36 (2021): NP3130--NP3152.
  • Ellyson, Alice, Adhia, Avanti, Lyons, Vivian, Rivara, Frederick. "Prevalence, age of initiation, and patterns of co-occurrence of digital dating abuse behaviors nationwide." Children and Youth Services Review 122 (2021): 105921.
  • Shawon, Riffat, Adhia, Avanti, DeCou, Christopher, Rowhani-Rahbar, Ali. "Characteristics and patterns of older adult homicides in the United States." Injury Epidemiology 8 (2021): 5.
  • Lyons, Vivian, Haviland, Miriam, Azrael, Deborah, Adhia, Avanti, Bellenger, M, Ellyson, Alice, Rowhani-Rahbar, Ali, Rivara, Frederick. "Firearm purchasing and storage during the COVID-19 pandemic." Injury Prevention 27 (2021): 87--92.
  • Lyons, Vivian, Adhia, Avanti, Moe, Caitlin, Kernic, Mary, Rowhani-Rahbar, Ali, Rivara, Frederick. "Firearms and protective orders in intimate partner homicides." Journal of Family Violence 36 (2021): 587--596.
  • Jeong, Joshua, Bhatia, Amiya, Skeen, Sarah, Adhia, Avanti. "From fathers to peers: Association between paternal violence victimization and peer violence perpetration among youth in Malawi, Nigeria, and Zambia." Social Science & Medicine 278 (2021): 113943. : .
  • Adhia, Avanti, Bair-Merritt, Megan, Broder-Fingert, Sarabeth, Nunez, Pepen,, Suarez-Rocha, Annieliesa, Rothman, Emily. "The critical lack of data on alcohol and marijuana use by adolescents on the autism spectrum." Autism in Adulthood 2 (2020): 282--288.
  • Moe, Caitlin, Adhia, Avanti, Mooney, Stephen, Hill, Heather, Rivara, Frederick, Rowhani-Rahbar, Ali. "State Earned Income Tax Credit policies and intimate partner homicide in the USA, 1990-2016." Injury Prevention 26 (2020): 562--565.
  • Lyons, Vivian, Rowhani-Rahbar, Ali, Adhia, Avanti, Weiss, Noel. "Selection bias and misclassification in case-control studies conducted using the National Violent Death Reporting System." Injury Prevention 26 (2020): 566--568.
  • Adhia, Avanti, Lyons, Vivian, Cohen-Cline, Hannah, Rowhani-Rahbar, Ali. "Life experiences associated with change in perpetration of domestic violence." Injury Epidemiology 7 (2020): 37.
  • Jeong, Joshua, Adhia, Avanti, Bhatia, Amiya, McCoy, Dana, Yousafzai, Aisha. "Intimate partner violence, maternal and paternal parenting, and early child development." Pediatrics 145 (2020): e20192955.
  • Adhia, Avanti, Goddard, Jaron, Kernic, Mary, Fan, Mary, Vavilala, Monica, Rivara, Frederick. "Variation in state laws on access to civil protection orders for adolescents experiencing intimate partner violence." Journal of Adolescent Health 66 (2020): 610--615.
  • Adhia, Avanti, Bhatia, Amiya, Dawson-Hahn, Elizabeth. "Violence against immigrant youth in Canada: Why more research is needed." JAMA Network Open 3 (2020): e201456.
  • Brady, Keri, Durham, Michelle, Francoeur, Alex, Henneberg, Cameron, Adhia, Avanti, Morley, Debra, Tamene, Mahader, Singerman, Amanda, Morris, Anita, Fortuna, Lisa, Feinberg, Emily, Bair-Merritt, Megan. "Barriers and facilitators to integrating behavioral health services and pediatric primary care." Clinical Practice in Pediatric Psychology (2020).
  • Adhia, Avanti, DeCou, Christopher, Huppert, Tierney, Ayyagari, Rajiv. "Murder-suicides perpetrated by adolescents: Findings from the National Violent Death Reporting System." Suicide & Life-Threatening Behavior 50 (2020): 534--544. : .
  • Adhia, Avanti, Gordon, Allegra, Roberts, Andrea, Fitzmaurice, Garrett, Hemenway, David, Austin, S. "Longitudinal associations between bullying and intimate partner violence among adolescents and young adults." Violence and Victims 34 (2019): 1011--1029.
  • Adhia, Avanti, Drolette, Linda, Vander, Stoep,, Valencia, Esteban, Kernic, Mary. "The impact of exposure to parental intimate partner violence on adolescent precocious transitions to adulthood." Journal of Adolescence 77 (2019): 179--187.
  • Rivara, Frederick, Adhia, Avanti, Lyons, Vivian, Massey, Anne, Mills, Brianna, Morgan, Erin, Simckes, Maayan, Rowhani-Rahbar, Ali. "The effects of violence on health." Health Affairs 38 (2019): 1622--1629.
  • Hippel, Christiana, Adhia, Avanti, Rosenberg, Shoshana, Austin, S, Partridge, Ann, Tamimi, Rulla. "Sexual function among women in midlife: Findings from the Nurses' Health Study II." Women's Health Issues 29 (2019): 291--298.
  • Adhia, Avanti, Kernic, Mary, Hemenway, David, Vavilala, Monica, Rivara, Frederick. "Intimate partner homicide of adolescents." JAMA Pediatrics 173 (2019): 571--577.
  • Adhia, Avanti, Austin, S, Fitzmaurice, Garrett, Hemenway, David. "The role of intimate partner violence in homicides of children aged 2-14 years." American Journal of Preventive Medicine 56 (2019): 38--46.
  • Adhia, Avanti, Gelaye, Bizu, Friedman, Lauren, Marlow, L, Mercy, James, Williams, Michelle. "Workplace interventions for intimate partner violence: A systematic review." Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health 34 (2019): 149--166.
  • Adhia, Avanti, Jeong, Joshua. "Fathers' perpetration of intimate partner violence and parenting during early childhood: Results from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study." Child Abuse & Neglect 96 (2019): 104103. : .
  • Rothman, Emily, Adhia, Avanti, Tiffany, Christensen, Jennifer, Paruk, Jessica, Alder, Nicole, Daley. "A pornography literacy class for youth: Results of a feasibility and efficacy pilot study." American Journal of Sexuality Education 13 (2018): 1--17.
  • Adhia, Avanti, Potter, Sharon, Stapleton, Jane, Zuckerman, Barry, Phan, Nicole, Bair-Merritt, Megan. "Encouraging bystanders to promote positive parenting and prevent child maltreatment in retail settings: Results of an exploratory qualitative study." Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma 26 (2017): 276--296. : .
  • Rothman, Emily, Adhia, Avanti. "Adolescent pornography use and dating violence among a sample of primarily Black and Hispanic, urban-residing, underage youth." Behavioral Sciences 6 (2015): E1.
  • Hernandez, Rohini, Adhia, Avanti, Wade, Sally, O'Connor, Emily, Arellano, Jorge, Francis, Kevin, Alvrtsyan, Hasmik, Million, Ryan, Liede, Alexander. "Prevalence of bone metastases and bone-targeting agent use among solid tumor patients in the United States." Clinical Epidemiology 7 (2015): 335--345.
Classes
  • EPI 585: PRINCIPLES OF INJURY RESEARCH AND PREVENTION
  • NURS 499: Special Electives
  • SOC WL 582: Research Practicum
Grants
  • Supporting the implementation of prevention strategies by public health nurses to reduce intimate partner violence in Alaska, National Institute of Nursing Research
  • , National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
  • Assessing the impact and implementation of state laws for adolescent intimate partner violence, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
  • , National Institute of Nursing Research
  • , Tides Foundation
  • Implementation of Sexual Violence Prevention Programming in US Schools, Tides Foundation