Christianson, J., Frank, E., Keating, S., Chickering, M. (2025). Rapid Implementation of Open Access Pandemic Education for Global Frontline Healthcare Workers. BMC Research Notes, 18, 13(2025). Learn more
Kanabar, M., Chickering, M., Kofos, M., Kofos, L. A., Bhad, R., & Frank, E. (2024). The Digital World and Addiction Treatment. In Lifestyle Medicine (4th ed., pp. 9). CRC Press. Learn more
El Haddad, S., Chickering, M., Kofos, M., Evans, K., Nguyen, D., Kofos, L. A., & Frank, E. (2024). Psychosocial Interventions for the Treatment of Substance Use Disorders. In Lifestyle Medicine (4th ed., pp. 8). CRC Press. Learn more
Clair, V., Musau, A., Mutiso, V., Tele, A., Atkinson, K., Ndetei, D & Frank, E. (2023). Blended-eLearning Improves Alcohol Use Care in Kenya: Pragmatic Randomized Control Trials Results and Parallel Qualitative Study Implications. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction. Learn more
Olszewski, A., Rossa-Roccor, V., Clair, V., Tairyan, K. & Frank, E. (2023). A Revolution in Training Speech-Language Therapists in Sub-Saharan Countries and Globally. In Handbook of Speech-Language Therapy in Sub-Saharan Africa: Integrating Research and Practice (pp. 129-149). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
Clair, V., Rossa-Roccor, V., Mutiso, V., Musau, A., Rieders, A., Frank, E. & Ndetei, D. (2022). Blended-eLearning Impact on Health Worker Stigma Toward Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Psychoactive Substance Users. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction. Learn more
Clair, V., Atkinson, K., Musau, A., Mutiso, V., Bosire, E., Gitongo, I., Small, W., Ndetei, D. & Frank, E. (2022). Implementing and Sustaining Brief Addiction Medicine Interventions with the Support of a Quality Improvement Blended-eLearning Course: Learner Experiences and Meaningful Outcomes in Kenya. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction. Learn more
Frank, E. & Chickering, M. (2022). NMA, NextGenU.org, and Enhancing Diversity in Medical Education Through Pipeline and Parallel Programs. Journal of the National Medical Association. Learn more
World Health Organization. (2020). Call to Action: Addressing the 18 million health worker shortfall. Submission 2 (pgs 5-7). Learn more
Frank, E. (2020). NextGenU.org: The First Globally Free Degree, a Master’s in Public Health. European Journal of Public Health, 30, S5, ckaa165.023. Learn more
Ewing, H., Chickering, M., Burner, L., Keating, S.A., Berland, A. & Frank, E. (2020). Notes from the Field: ‘Nurses International’ Uses OER to Support Nurse Educators. J Learning for Development. 7(3), 459-466. Learn more
Clair, V., Rossa-Roccor, V., Mokaya, A.G., Mutiso, V., Musau, A., Tele, A., Ndetei, D. & Frank, E. (2019). Peer and Mentored Enhanced Web-Based Training on Substance Use Disorders: A Promising Approach in Low-Resource Settings to Teach Knowledge and Skills and Decrease Stigma. Psychiatric Services. Learn more
Tsuei, S. & Frank, E. (2019). Becoming a Health Advocate: An Interview with Erica Frank. Learn more
Heller, R., Madhok, R. & Frank E. (2018). Building Public Health Capacity through Online Global Learning. Open Praxis. Learn more
Rossa-Roccor, V., Malatskey, L. & Frank, E. (2017). NextGenU.org’s Free, Globally Available Online Training in Lifestyle Medicine. American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine. Learn more
Patel, V., Weobong, B., Weiss, H.A., et al. (2017). The Healthy Activity Program (HAP), a Lay Counsellor-delivered Brief Psychological Treatment for Severe Depression, in Primary Care in India: a Randomised Controlled Trial. Lancet (London, England). Learn more
Nadkarni, A., Weobong, B., Weiss, H.A., et al. (2017). Counselling for Alcohol Problems (CAP), a Lay Counsellor-delivered Brief Psychological Treatment for Harmful Drinking in Men, in Primary Care in India: a Randomised Controlled Trial. Lancet (London, England). Learn more
Frank, E., Tairyan, K., Everton, M., Chu, J., Goolsby, C., Hayes, A. & Hulton, A. (2016). A Test of the First Course (Emergency Medicine) that is Globally Available for Credit and for Free. Healthcare. Learn more
Clair, V., Mutiso, V., Musau, A., Frank, E. & Ndetei, D. (2016). Online Learning Improves Substance Use Care in Kenya: Randomized Control Trial Results and Implications. Annals of Global Health. Learn more
Coops, N., Marcus, J., Costrut, I., Frank, E., Kellett, R., Mazzi, E., Munro, A., Nesbit, S., Riseman, A., Schultz, A. & Sipos, Y. (2015). How an Entry-level, Interdisciplinary Sustainability Course Revealed the Benefits and Challenges of a University-wide Initiative for Sustainability Education. International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education. Learn more
Galway, L., Corbett, K., Takaro, T., Tairyan, K. & Frank, E. (2014). A Novel Integration of Online and Flipped Classroom Instructional Models in Public Health Higher Education. BMC Medical Education. Learn more
Frank, E. (2008). A New Way to Train and Support the World’s Health Workers. Medscape General Medicine; 10(9):219. Learn more[article and video]
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