Jayna Moceri-Brooks

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Jayna Moceri-Brooks

PhD RN FAAN

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433 First Ave
New York, NY 10010
United States

Jayna Moceri-Brooks, PhD, RN, is a Clinical Assistant Professor. Her research focuses on firearm injury prevention, combat-related traumatic brain injuries, and risk factors for suicidal thoughts and behaviors among service members and Veterans, with a particular focus on military culture. Findings from her research have shaped federal policies aimed at reforming the care and recognition of service members with traumatic brain injuries.

Prof. Moceri-Brooks is a member of the Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium at the Rockefeller Institute of Government and serves on the community advisory board of the Harvard/Massachusetts General ReBlast research team. She has also maintained her practice as an Emergency Nurse for over 16 years.

Moceri-Brooks is currently engaged in research projects that examine factors influencing firearm storage practices among Veterans. She also continues to collaborate with members of Congress on policies related to blast overpressure injuries and firearm injury prevention within the military.

Prior to joining the faculty at NYU Meyers, Moceri-Brooks was a post-doctoral fellow at the New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center at Rutgers University where she focused on firearm injury prevention among civilian and military populations and worked across a portfolio of Department of Defense-funded suicide prevention research projects.

PHD, Duquesne University
MN, University of Washington
BSN, Seattle Pacific University
Phi Kappa Phi
Sigma Theta Tau
Transcultural Nursing Society
Society for Prevention Research
The Society of Federal Health Professionals (AMSUS)
American Nurses Association
NYU Meyers Dean's Excellence in Policy Advocacy Award (2025)
Duquesne University’s Distinguished Dissertation Honorable Mention Award (2024)
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society (2021)
Order of Saint Joan D’Arc (2020)
Order of the Family Spur, Fort Cavazos, TX (2020)
Soldier Family Readiness Group (SFRG) Awards for Volunteer Work (2007) (2008) (2012) (2019) (2020)
Duquesne School of Nursing PhD Scholarship (2019)
SFRG Distinguished Service Award, Fort Cavazos, TX (2019)
SFRG Volunteer of the Month, Fort Cavazos, TX (2019)
Daisy Award for Excellence in Patient Care Delivery (2012)

Firearm safety behaviors in military families with children: A mixed-methods study with U.S. service members and spouses.

Paruk, J., Limbacher, S. A., Brooks-Russell, A., Finn, J., Eisenhauer, I. F., Moceri-Brooks, J., & Stanley, I. (2026).
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Pediatric Nurses’ Lived Experiences with Firearm Injury Prevention: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis.

Goldman, G., Colbert, A., Karakachian, A., & Moceri-Brooks, J. (2026).
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Veterans’ beliefs about  temporarily storing firearms outside of the home: Results from a national sample of U.S. Veterans.

Moceri-Brooks, J., Paruk, J., Bond, A. E., Bandel, S. L., & Anestis, M. D. (2026).
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We are still shouting from the rooftops, can anyone hear us?

Moceri-Brooks, J., & Rocklein, K. (2026).
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Who do service members and Veterans tell?: Patterns of disclosing suicidal thoughts prior to firearm suicide death

Bond, A., Tanguay, K., Daruwala, S., Moceri-Brooks, J., & Anestis, M. D. (2026).
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Alignment between self- and perceived peer support for specific firearm policies : Results from a representative survey of adults in nine U.S. states

Anestis, M. D., Paruk, J., Moceri-Brooks, J., Bandel, S. L., Bond, A. E., & Semenza, D. C. (2025). In Preventive Medicine Reports (Vols. 54). 10.1016/j.pmedr.2025.103104
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Objective: Despite widespread support for various firearm policies, minimal progress has been made in enacting these policies. One potential explanation is the misperception of peer support for firearm policies among individuals with differing political beliefs. Methods: A representative sample (n = 7529) of adults from nine states was recruited via KnowledgePanel and completed a self-report survey between June 13 and July 10, 2023. Results: There was bipartisan support for several firearm policies regulating the acquisition and use of firearms, although liberal participants more heavily supported restrictive policies. Minimal differences emerged in terms of perceived peer support for specific policies among supporters of those policies. For example, 96.1 % of liberals, 87.2 % of moderates, and 86.0 % of conservatives supported background check laws (p < .001; V = 0.10). Of those that supported background check laws, 65.7 % of liberals, 67.7 % of moderates, and 69.7 % of conservatives believed that their peers supported background checks as much as they did (p = .146). Conclusions: Misperceptions about peer support for firearm policies may not explain the gap between the reported bipartisan support for firearm regulations and the lack of demand for such policies. Without greater clarity on the obstacles to bipartisan vocal demand for firearm regulations, such policies are unlikely to pass, despite broad bipartisan support for many such policies. Future work must identify mechanisms driving this disparity in order to provide a path for policy progress.

Alignment between self- and perceived peer support for specific firearm policies: Results from a representative survey of adults in nine U.S. states

Moceri-Brooks, J., Anestis, M. D., Paruk, J., Moceri-Brooks, J., Bandel, S. L., Bond, A. E., & Semenza, D. C. (2025). In Preventive medicine reports (Vols. 54, p. 103104).
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Despite widespread support for various firearm policies, minimal progress has been made in enacting these policies. One potential explanation is the misperception of peer support for firearm policies among individuals with differing political beliefs.

The Blast Overpressure Safety Act

Moceri-Brooks, J., Rocklein, K., Larkin, F., Ernst, J., & Warren, E. (2025). (Issue H.R. 5009).
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Bold questions, breakthrough discoveries: How nursing research shaped federal policy

Moceri-Brooks, J. (2025).
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Critical analyses of the Warfighter Brain Health Initiative and Longitudinal Blast Overpressure Study: Implications for future research and treatment of blast exposed Special Operations personnel.

Rocklein, K., & Moceri-Brooks, J. (2025).
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