Jayna Moceri-Brooks

Faculty

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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)

Determining who military service members deem credible to discuss firearm safety for suicide prevention

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Examining racial and sex differences among ranking of credible sources to discuss secure firearm storage for suicide prevention by military service members

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Exploring the use of the Interpersonal Needs Questionnaire to examine suicidal thoughts and behaviors among Post-9/11 U.S. Combat Veterans: An integrative review

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Firearm Access and Gun Violence Exposure Among American Indian or Alaska Native and Black Adults

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Improving traumatic brain injury recognition to reduce firearm suicide risk in military populations.

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Military community engagement to prevent firearm-related violence: adaptation of project safe guard for service members

Moceri-Brooks, J., Kennedy, S. R. R., Buck-Atkinson, J., Moceri-Brooks, J., Johnson, M. L., Anestis, M. D., Carrington, M., Baker, J. C., Fisher, M. E., Nease, D. E., Bryan, A. O., Bryan, C. J., & Betz, M. E. (2024). In Injury epidemiology (Vols. 11, Issue 1, p. 7).
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Suicide, especially by firearm, remains a leading cause of death in military populations in the USA. Reducing access to firearms, especially during high risk times, may help prevent suicide and other forms of violence. The purpose of this study was to adapt a promising existing lethal means safety intervention (Project Safe Guard, PSG) for cross-cutting violence prevention and peer support in active-duty service communities using community engagement methods.

Military spouse and key stakeholder perspectives of effective messaging for US service members on secure storage of personal firearms : A qualitative study

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Military spouse and key stakeholder perspectives of effective messaging for US service members on secure storage of personal firearms: a qualitative study

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Perceptions of the utility of secure firearm storage methods as a suicide prevention tool among firearm owners who currently store their firearms loaded and unlocked

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Project Safe Guard: Challenges and opportunities of a universal rollout of peer-delivered lethal means safety counseling at a US military installation

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