Faculty Profiles

Ekren, E. M., Maleki, S., Shakya, K., & Villagran, M. M. (n.d.). Mental health and individual resilience in contexts of social vulnerability: Evidence from rural Texas. Community Mental Health Journal. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-026-01653-2

Ekren, E. M., Adhikari, S., Maleki, S., Sexton, J. K., Aubert, C., Tomasso, M. E., … Villagran, M. M. (2026). Profiles of non-medical drivers and health burden associated with care seeking among rural women. Journal of Primary Care and Community Health, 17. https://doi.org/10.1177/21501319261432462

Ekren, E. M., Maleki, S., Curran, C. M., Watkins, C. L., & Villagran, M. M. (2025). Health differences between rural and non-rural Texas counties based on 2023 County Health Rankings. BMC Health Services Research, 25(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-024-12109-2

Ekren, E. M., Maleki, S., Lee, L., & Villagran, M. M. (2025). Understanding health challenges in rural East Texas communities: How qualities of people and places shape access to care. Texas State University. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10877/21778

Ekren, E. M., Hall, R., Pierdolla, E. L., Barnes, V., Jarzombek-Torralva, A., Morrish, D. G., & Martinez-Prather, K. E. (2025). Crime prevention through environmental design in public school career and technical education facilities: Principals’ perceptions of security enhancement. Safety Science, 184. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2025.106781

Ekren, E. M., Tomasso, M. E., & Villagran, M. M. (2024). Resilience as a concept for convergence across health, systems, and well-being: An AI-augmented mapping of 50 years of resilience research. Sustainability, 16(23). https://doi.org/10.3390/su162310333

Maleki, S., Dede-Bamfo, N., Ekren, E. M., Mohammadalizadehkorde, M., & Villagran, M. M. (2024). Mapping access to children’s hospitals in Texas. Environmental Research and Public Health, 21(2), 140. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph21020140

Goebel, H., Morrish, D. G., Pierdolla, E. L., Ekren, E. M., Barnes, V. R., Jarzombek-Torralva, A., & Martinez-Prather, K. E. (2024). Secondary administrators’ perceptions of crime prevention through environmental design principles (CPTED) in schools with agriculture, food, and natural resource programs (Vol. 43).

Valerio, L., Vaughn, M. A., Ekren, E. M., & Barnes, V. R. (2024). A content analysis of memoranda of understanding between Texas public school districts and law enforcement agencies. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, 18, paae019. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1093/police/paae019

Ekren, E. M. (2021). Agency, opportunity structure and empowerment in everyday refugee life: Enduring and overcoming challenges of daily living in Cologne refugee shelters. Bonn, Germany: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn. Retrieved from https://bonndoc.ulb.uni-bonn.de/xmlui/handle/20.500.11811/9416

Al Munajed, D., & Ekren, E. M. (2020). Exploring the impact of multidimensional refugee vulnerability on distancing as a protective measure against COVID-19: The case of Syrian refugees in Lebanon and Turkey. Journal of Migration and Health, 1–2, 100023. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmh.2020.100023

Ekren, E. M. (2018). Obstacles to refugees’ self-reliance in Germany. Forced Migration Review, 58, 30–32. Retrieved from https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:782c2f1f-2f51-4188-9c97-f5334aab6d93

Ekren, E. M. (2018). How can theories of institutional design and everyday innovation reveal agency for change in refugee communities? International Journal of Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies, 3(2), 5–18. Retrieved from https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/ijssis/issue/55413/759791#article_cite