Jaime Marie Kishpaugh
née Metzger
they/she/he
About Me
I'm a public health research coordinator from Media, PA.
My main interests are community-led initiatives and person-centered care for substance use. Public health systems need to be retooled to empower communities, as BIPOC and LGBTQ+ populations historically have not had enough power to protect themselves. I let my lived experience with substance use inform my research goals and my values. I aim to uplift the voices of people who want to speak on the indignity of care they have received.
I worked as a linguist before moving into the field of public health. Check out #Usatuvoz on Twitter to meet some of the Zapotec language activists with whom I had the pleasure of working!
Research
contributions to the field
2020-2025
Statewide Asthma Program
My organization, PHMC's Research & Evaluation Group, is the evaluator on PA Department of Health's CDC-funded Asthma Control Program work. I assist in planning the evaluation and carrying it out with a health equity lens.
2020
We The Village: pilot
I assisted with recruitment, management, and analysis for an online research study on CSO (Concerned Significant Other of someone who uses substances) intervention.
2019-2020
Contingency Management Project
My organization, PHMC's Research & Evaluation Group, evaluated a Contingency Management project at Prevention Point. This model pays people for accessing treatment and other services. I conducted interviews with participants and contributed to the data analysis and report.
2019-2023
SBIRT
SBIRT (Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral to Treatment) is an approach to identifying and addressing SUD early in the general population. I am a PHMC evaluator on Health Federation of Philadelphia's SAMHSA grant for expanding SBIRT in Philly-area FQHCs.
September 2019
Zapotec Mapped onto Spanish
Article describing how linguistic variation in Colonial Spanish documents reflects both second language acquisition and bilingual innovation based on Zapotec morphosyntax. For the upcoming Dialects & Bilingualism issue of "Unravel: the Accessible Linguistics Magazine."
May 2019
Testamentos coloniales de resistencia zapoteca: “Nada más mi palabra”
Thesis for Haverford College's Spanish department that analyzes the discursive genre of Zapotec-Spanish testamentos negotiating power dynamics between the imperial center and its peripheries using Bakhtin's dialogism.
January 2019
Colonial Valley Zapotec Effects on Bilingual Spanish
Thesis for Haverford College's Linguistics department. Zapotec grammar's influence on the bilingual Spanish found in Colonial manuscripts can be captured dynamically across time by way of data visualization and complementary present-day work, both of which this variationist language contact study begins and suggests.
2019
Community Life Links
Community Life Links is a Mental Health First Aid nonprofit based in my home town of Media, PA. As a volunteer with CLL, I have shared mental health news, run fundraisers, and filmed videos of students reflecting on their MHFA class experience.