Current Projects
Studies in progress
Project 01 · Nuclear and Energy Workforce
Nuclear Behavioral Readiness™ Framework
The advanced nuclear buildout will require hundreds of thousands of new workers, and every one of them is a human factor. Plant performance, safety culture, and regulatory confidence all run through workforce behavior.
The Nuclear Behavioral Readiness™ Framework is JNP's behavioral science approach to workforce readiness for the nuclear sector, built from the start for worker protection and trust. Development is underway, with research and stakeholder engagement advancing in New York State.
Project 02 · Behavioral Health · Military and Veterans
Clinical Decision Support for PTSD Screening
Building on our published recalibration work, this R&D effort designs a clinical decision-support layer that helps frontline clinicians interpret standard PTSD screeners and prioritize follow-up. The tool is in design and development, intended to reduce missed cases and false positives at the point of intake, and is being pursued in collaboration with academic trauma-research partners.
Project 03 · Behavioral Health
Loneliness, Cognitive Lapses, and Suicide Risk in Older Adults
Ongoing fieldwork in Brownsville, Brooklyn tracks daily patterns of loneliness, memory lapses, and mood among older adults living alone. Early observations indicate that cognitive lapses often precede increases in suicidal thinking. The study combines digital check-ins with in-person contact to test practical ways to detect warning signs before a crisis point.
Project 04 · Public Safety and Justice
Consistency and Variance in Immigration Adjudication
This study examines whether immigration adjudication outcomes vary with factors beyond the legal merits of a case, such as applicant background or adjudicator caseload. It is currently in protocol and design phase, pairing a structured evidence review with a planned method for detecting and documenting such variance. The goal is to give agencies transparent, defensible tools for identifying inconsistency in high-volume decision-making.
Project 05 · Public Safety and Justice
Police Response and the 911 Service Gap
THRESHOLD is accountability and policy study, currently in design, examining whether New York City's 911 system actually delivers police response in Brownsville and Ocean Hill. The design pairs a resident survey with public 911 dispatch and complaint data to surface three things the City's own data does not: calls that never receive a response, incidents that go undocumented, and response that varies by block, including between NYCHA developments and the surrounding streets. A distinctive aim is reaching residents who have stopped calling 911 altogether, a group absent from every administrative record. The goal is a clearer public picture of police service delivery and a stronger case for call-level transparency in how the city accounts for emergency response.
Project 06 · Behavioral Health · Public Safety and Justice
Mental Health Under Surveillance: Neighborhood Voices NYC
Neighborhood Voices is a community-based study examining how expanding surveillance technologies affect the daily lives and mental wellbeing of New Yorkers. Through surveys and data analysis, the project measures how residents experience safety, privacy, and trust as monitoring tools spread citywide.