Publications from 2020
Short-term Forecasts of the COVID-19 Epidemic in Guangdong and Zhejiang, China: February 13–23, 2020, Kimberly Roosa, Yiseul Lee, Ruiyan Luo, Alexander Kirpich, Richard Rothenberg, J. M. Hyman, Ping Yan, and Gerardo Chowell
Publications from 2018
Problem Drinking, Alcohol-Related Violence, and Homelessness Among Youth Living in the Slums of Kampala, Uganda, Monica Swahn, Rachel Culbreth, Nazarius Mbona Tumwesigye, Volkan Topalli, Eric R. Wright, and Rogers Kasirye
Publications from 2016
Principles of Tobacco Control: Extinguishing The Habit, Michael Eriksen, Carrie F. Whitney, and Ellie Faustino
A Novel Method for Quantifying the Inhaled Dose of Air Pollutants Based on Heart Rate, Breathing Rate and Forced Vital Capacity, Roby Greenwald, Matthew Hayat, Jerusha Barton, and Anastasia Lopukhin
Blood Transcriptomics and Metabolomics for Mersonalized Medicine, Shuzhao Li, Andrei Todor, and Ruiyan Luo
An Analysis of Global Youth Tobacco Survey for Developing a Comprehensive National Smoking Policy in Timor-Leste, Decio Ribeiro Sarmento and Degninou Yehadji
Associations between Self-Reported Gastrointestinal Illness and Water System Characteristics in Community Water Supplies in Rural Alabama: A Cross-Sectional Study, Christine E. Stauber, Jessica C. Wedgworth, Pauline Johnson, Julie B. Olson, Tracy Ayers, Mark Elliot, and Joe Brown
Publications from 2015
Characteristics and Antibiotic Use Associated With Short-Term Risk of Clostridium difficile Infection Among Hospitalized Patients, Sol del Mar Aldrete; Mathew J. Magee; Rachel J. Friedman-Moraco,; Austin W. Chan; Grier G. Banks; Eileen M. Burd; and Colleen S. Craft
Psychosocial Stress and Changes in Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate Among Adults with Diabetes Mellitus, Francis B. Annor, Katherine E. Masyn, Ike S. Okosun, Douglas W. Roblin, and Michael Goodman
Contacts of Retreatment Tuberculosis Cases with a Prior Poor Treatment Outcome are at Increased Risk of Latent Tuberculosis Infection, Davit Baliashvili, Mathew J. Magee, Russell R. Kempker, Giorgi Kuchukhidze, Ana Aslanikashvili, and Henry M. Blumberg
Disaggregating Health Inequalities Within Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2002-2010, by Applying an Urban Health Inequality Index, Martin Botz, Megumi Kano, Heribert Ramroth, Christovam Barcellos, Scott R. Weaver, Richard Rothenberg, and Monica Magalhães
A Pilot Study to Examine the Disparities in Water Quality between Predominantly Haitian Neighborhoods and Dominican Neighborhoods in Two Cities in the Dominican Republic, Jessica Brown, Ryan Johnson, Dominique Smith, and Kim Ramsey-White
Reduction of Acid-Fast and Non-Acid-Fast Bacteria by Point of Use Coagulation-Flocculation-Disinfection, Lisa Casanova and Mark Sobsey
Changes in Georgia Restaurant and Bar Smoking Policies From 2006 to 2012, Rachna D. Chandora, Carrie L. Whitney, Scott R. Weaver, and Michael P. Eriksen
Transmission characteristics of MERS and SARS in the healthcare setting: a comparative study, Gerardo Chowell, Fatima Abdirizak, Sunmi Lee, Jonggul Lee, Eunok Jung, Hiroshi Nishiura, and Cecile Viboud
Characterizing the Transmission Dynamics and Control of Ebola Virus Disease, Gerardo Chowell and Hiroshi Nishiura
The Western Africa Ebola Virus Disease Epidemic Exhibits Both Global Exponential and Local Polynomial Growth Rates, Gerardo Chowell, Cecile Viboud, James M. Hyman, and Lone Simonsen
Investigation of E. coli and Virus Reductions Using Replicate, Bench-Scale Biosand Filter Columns and Two Filter Media, Mark Elliott, Christine E. Stauber, Francis A. DiGiano, Anna Fabiszewski de Aceituno, and Mark D. Sobsey
Investigation of E. coli and Virus Reductions Using Replicate, Bench-Scale Biosand Filter Columns and Two Filter Media, Mark Elliott, Christine E. Stauber, Francis A. DiGiano, Anna Fabiszewski de Aceituno, and Mark Sobsey
Prevalence and Risk Factors for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in an HIV-Positive Cohort, Jason E. Farley, Matthew Hayat, Paul L. Sacamano, Tracy Ross, and Karen Carroll
Protobacco Media Exposure and Youth Susceptibility to Smoking Cigarettes, Cigarette Experimentation, and Current Tobacco Use among US Youth, Erika B. Fulmer, Torsten B. Neilands, Shanta R. Dube, Nicole M. Kuiper, Rene A. Arrazola, and Stanton A. Glantz
Tobacco Smoking and Tuberculosis Treatment Outcomes: A Prospective Cohort Study in Georgia, Medea Gegia, Mathew J. Magee, Russell R. Kempker, Iagor Kalandadze, Tsira Chakhaia, Jonathan E. Golub, and Henry M. Blumberg
Disassortative Age-Mixing Does Not Explain Differences in HIV Prevalence between Young White and Black MSM: Findings from Four Studies, Jeremy Alexander Grey, Richard Rothenberg, Patrick S. Sullivan, and Eli S. Rosenberg
Alcohol Policies and Alcoholic Cirrhosis Mortality in the United States, Scott E. Hadland, Ziming Xuan, Jason G. Blanchette, Timothy C. Heeren, Monica H. Swahn, and Timothy S. Naimi
Administrative Data Linkage to Evaluate a Quality Improvement Program in Acute Stroke Care, Georgia, 2006–2009, Moges Seyoum Ido, Rana Bayakly, Michael Frankel, Rodney S. Lyn, and Ike S. Okosun
Urinary F2-Isoprostanes and Metabolic Markers of Fat Oxidation, Dora Il'yasova, Lynne E. Wagenknecht, Ivan Spasojevic, Steven Watkins, Donald Bowden, Frances Wang, and Ralph B. D'Agostino Jr.
Targeted Sequencing in Chromosome 17q Linkage Region Identifies Familial Glioma Candidates in the Gliogene Consortium, Ali Jalali, E. Susan Amirian, Matthew N. Bainbridge, Georgina N. Armstrong, Yanhong Liu, Spyros Tsavachidis, Shalini N. Jhangiani, Sharon E. Plon, Ching C. Lau, Elizabeth B. Claus, Jill S. Barnholtz-Sloan, Dora Il'yasova, Joellen Schildkraut, Francis Ali-Osman, Siegal Sadetzki, Christoffer Johansen, Richard S. Houlston, Robert B. Jenkins, Daniel Lachance, Sara H. Olson, Jonine L. Bernstein, Ryan T. Merrell, Margaret R. Wrensch, Faith G. Davis, Rose Lai, Sanjay Shete, Kenneth Aldape, Christopher I. Amos, Donna M. Muzny, Richard A. Gibbs, Beatrice S. Melin, and Melissa L. Bondy
Smoking Cessation for Chinese Men and Prevention for Women, Jeffrey Koplan and Michael Eriksen
Knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding cervical cancer and screening among Ethiopian health care workers, Catherine M. Kress, Lisa Sharling, Ashli Owen-Smith, Dawit Desalegn, Henry M. Blumberg, and Jennifer Goedken
Whooping Cough Dynamics in Chile (1932-2010): DiseaseTemporal Fluctuations Across a North-South Gradient, Mauricio Lima, Sergio Estay, Rodrigo Fuentes, Paola Rubilar, Hélène Broutin, and Gerardo Chowell
NOTES2: Networks-of-Traces for Epidemic Spread Simulations, Sicong Liu, Yash Garg, K. Selçuk Candan, Maria Luisa Sapino, and Gerardo Chowell
Assessing the Risk of Observing Multiple Generations of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) Cases Given an Imported Case, Nishiura H. Miyamatsu, Y. Miyamatsu, Gerardo Chowell, and M Saitoh
Real-time Characterization of Risks of Death Associated With the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in the Republic of Korea, 2015, Kenji Mizumoto, Akira Endo, Gerardo Chowell, Yuichiro Miyamatsu, Masaya Saitoh, and Hiroshi Nishiura
Estimating the Risk of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) Death During the Course of the Outbreak in the Republic of Korea, Kenji Mizumoto, Masaya Saitoh, Gerardo Chowell, Nishiura H. Miyamatsu, and Hiroshi Nishiura
United States Health Policies and Late-stage Breast and Colorectal Cancer Diagnosis: Why Such Disparities by Age?, Lee R. Mobley and Tzy-Mey Kuo
Commingling Effect of Gynoid and Android Fat Patterns on Cardiometabolic Dysregulation in Normal Weight American adults, Ike S. Okosun, JP Seale, and Rodney S. Lyn
Multiple Trigger Points for Quantifying Heat-Health Impacts: New Evidence from a Hot Climate, Diana B. Petitti, David M. Hondula, Shuo Yang, Sharon L. Harlan, and Gerardo Chowell
Urban Health Indicators and Indices- Current Status,, Richard Rothenberg, Christine E. Stauber, Scott Weaver, Dajun Dai, Amit Prasad, and Megumi Kano
Impact of School Cycles and Environmental Forcing on the Timing of Pandemic Influenza Activity in Mexican States, May-December 2009, James Tamerius, Cecile Viboud, Jeffrey Shaman, and Gerardo Chowell
Temporal Heterogeneity of Water Quality from Rural Water Supplies in Alabama, Jessica C. Wedgworth, Joe Brown, Julie B. Olson, Pauline D. Johnson, Mark Elliott, and Phillip Grammer
The First Human Infection with Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome Virus in Shaanxi Province, China, Jing Wei, Shen Li, Jian-Hua Dong, Hui Tian, Gerardo Chowell, Huai-Yu Tian, Wen Lv, Zong-Qi Han, Bing Xu, Peng-Bo Yu, and Jing-Jun Wang
Compassionate Use of Experimental Therapies: Who Should Decide?, Patricia J. Zettler
Mortality Rates and the Causes of Death Related to Diabetes mellitus in Shanghai Songjiang District: an 11-year Retrospective Analysis of Death Certificates, Meiying Zhu, Jiang Li, Zhiyuan Li, Wei Luo, Dajun Dai, Scott Weaver, Christine E. Stauber, Ruiyan Luo, and Hua Fu
Publications from 2014
Assessing the Microbial Quality of “Improved’ Drinking Water Sources: Results from the Dominican Republic., Rachel Baum, Georgia Kayser, Christine E. Stauber, and Mark Sobsey
Intentions to Smoke Cigarettes Among Never-Smoking US Middle and High School Electronic Cigarette Users: National Youth Tobacco Survey, 2011–2013, Rebecca E. Bunnell, Israel T. Agaku, René A. Arrazola, Benjamin J. Apelberg, Ralph S. Caraballo, Catherine G. Corey, Blair N. Coleman, Shanta R. Dube, and Brian A. King
Death Patterns during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Chile, Gerardo Chowell, Lone Simonsen, Jose Flores, Mark A. Miller, and Cecile Viboud
Rates of Influenza-like Illness and Winter School Breaks, Chile, 2004–2010, Gerardo Chowell, Sherry Towers, Cecile Viboud, Rodrigo Fuentes, and Viviana Sotomayor
Cigar Smoking Among U.S. Students: Reported Use After Adding Brands to Survey Items, Catherine G. Corey, Shanta R. Dube, Bridget K. Ambrose, Brian A. King, Benjamin J. Apelberg, and Corinne G. Husten
Marginal Cost Analysis of Two Train-the-Trainer Models for Implementing SafeCare, Phaedra S. Corso, Nathaniel Taylor, Jordan Bennett, Justin Ingels, Shannon Self-Brown, and Daniel J. Whitaker
Technology-Based Innovations in Child Maltreatment Prevention Programs: Examples from SafeCare®, Melissa A. Cowart, Matthew Jackson, Elizabeth Chege, Evander Baker, Daniel J. Whitaker, and Shannon Self-Brown
Acceptability of Condoms, Circumcision and PrEP among Young Black Men Who Have Sex with Men: A Descriptive Study Based on Effectiveness and Cost, Richard A. Crosby, Angelica Geter, Ralph DiClemente, and Laura F. Salazar
Substantial morbidity and mortality associated with pandemic A/H1N1 influenza in Mexico, winter 2013-2014: Gradual age shift and severity., Javier Dávila, Gerardo Chowell, Victor Hugo Borja Aburto, Cecile Viboud, Concepcion Grajales Muñiz, and Mark A. Miller
Can Social Networking Be Used to Promote Engagement in Child Maltreatment Prevention Programs? Two Pilot Studies, Anna Edwards-Guara, Daniel J. Whitaker, and Shannon Self-Brown
Healthcare for Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disability in the Community, David A. Ervin, Brian Hennan, Joav Merrick, and Mohammed Morad
Intellectual and Developmental Disability: Healthcare Financing, David A. Ervin and Joav Merrick
Primary Care: Mental and Behavioral Health and Persons With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, David A. Ervin, Ashley Williams, and Joav Merrick
Workplace Social Capital and Mental Health among Chinese Employees: A Multi-Level, Cross-Sectional Study, Junling Gao, Scott Weaver, Jumming Dai, Yingnan Jia, Xingdi Liu, Kezhi Jin, and Hua Fu
Does Workplace Social Capital Associate with Hazardous Drinking Among Chinese Rural-Urban Migrant Workers?, Junling Gao, Scott R. Weaver, Hua Fua, and Zhigang Pan
Newborn Care: What We Can Learn from the Kangaroo Mother, Donald E. Greydanus and Joav Merrick
Heat-Related Deaths in Hot Cities: Estimates of Human Tolerance to High Temperature Thresholds, Sharon L. Harlan, Gerardo Chowell, Shuo Yang, Diana B. Petitti, Emmanuel J. Morales, Benjamin L. Ruddell, and Darren M. Ruddell
Donor-specific Cell-based Assays in Studying Sensitivity to Low-dose Radiation: A Population-based Perspective, Dora Il'yasova, Alexander Kinev, C. David Melton, and Faith G. Davis
Factors associated with support for smoke-free policies among government workers in six Chinese cities: a cross- sectional study, Michelle C. Kegler, Xinwei Hua, Madeleine Solomon, Yiqun Wu, Pin Pin Zheng, and Michael Eriksen
Trends in Awareness and Use of Electronic Cigarettes Among US Adults, 2010–2013, Brian A. King, Roshni Patel, Kimberly H. Nguyen, and Shanta R. Dube
Very Small p-values, Thomas R. Knapp and Matt Hayat
The Impact of Medicaid Peer Support Utilization on Cost, Glenn Landers and Mei Zhou
A Three-Dimensional Computational Model of Collagen Network Mechanics, Byoungkoo Lee, Xin Zhou, Kristin Riching, Kevin W. Eliceiri, Patricia J. Keely, Scott A. Guelcher, Alissa M. Weaver, and Yi Jiang
Time-Specific Ecologic Niche Models Forecast the Risk of Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome in Dongting Lake District, China, 2005–2010, Hai-Ning Liu, Li-Dong Gao, Gerardo Chowell, Shi-Xiong Hu, Xiao-Ling Lin, Xiu-Jun Li, Gui-Hua Ma, Ru Huang, Hui-Suo Yang, Huaiyu Tian, and Hong Xiao
Changes in antidepressant use by young people and suicidal behavior after FDA warnings and media coverage: quasi-experimental study, Christine Y. Lu, Fang Zhang, Matthew D. Lakoma, Jeanne M. Madden, Donna Rusinak, Robert B. Penfold, Gregory E. Simon, Brian K. Ahmedani, Gregory Clarke, Enid M. Hunkeler, Beth E. Waitzfelder, Ashli Owen-Smith, Marsha A. Raebel, Rebecca C. Rossom, Karen J. Coleman, Laurel Copeland, and Stephen Soumerai
Effects of Exposure to Community Violence and Family Violence on School Functioning Problems among Urban Youth: The Potential Mediating Role of Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms, Tia M. McGill, Shannon Self-Brown, Betty S. Lai, Melissa A. Cowart-Osborne, Ashwini Tiwari, Monique LeBlanc, and Mary Lou Kelley
Authors’ reply: Feedback from modelling to surveillance of Ebola virus disease, Hiroshi Nishiura and Gerardo Chowell
The role of cities in reducing smoking in China, Pamela Redmon, Jeffrey Koplan, Michael Eriksen, Shuyang Li, and Wang Kean
The Role of Cities in Reducing Smoking in China, Pamela Redmon, Jeffrey Koplan, Michael Eriksen, Shuyang Li, and Wang Kean
Lack of Awareness of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection: Problems and Solutions With Self-reported HIV Serostatus of Men Who Have Sex With Men, Travis H. Sanchez, Colleen F. Kelley, Eli S. Rosenberg, Nicole Luisi, Brandon O'Hara, Rodriques Lambert, Raphael Coleman, Paula Frew, Laura F. Salazar, Sijia Tao, William Clarke, Carlos del Rio, and Patrick S. Sullivan
Traditional Birth Attendance (TBA) in a health system: what are the roles, benefits and challenges: A case study of incorporated TBA in Timor-Leste, Decio Ribeiro Sarmento
Understanding Racial HIV/STI Disparities in Black and White Men Who Have Sex with Men: A Multilevel Approach, Patrick S. Sullivan, John Peterson, Eli S. Rosenberg, Colleen F. Kelley, Hannah Cooper, Adam Vaughan, Laura F. Salazar, Paula Frew, Gina Wingood, Ralph DiClemente, Carlos del Rio, Mark Mulligan, and Travis H. Sanchez
Adaptation of the African Couples HIV Testing and Counseling Model for Men who have Sex with Men in the United States: an Application of the ADAPT-ITT Framework, Patrick S. Sullivan, Rob Stephenson, Beau Grazter, Gina Wingood, Ralph DiClemente, Susan Allen, Colleen Hoff, Laura F. Salazar, Lamont Scales, Jeanne Montgomery, Ann Schwartz, Jasper Barnes, and Kristina Grabbe
Demographic and Psychosocial Correlates of Mobile Phone Ownership and Usage among Youth Living in the Slums of Kampala, Uganda, Monica Swahn, Sarah Braunstein, and Rogers Kasirye
The Urban Health Index: A Handbook for its Calculation and Use, Scott Weaver, Dajun Dai, Christine E. Stauber, and Riuyan Luo
Associations between Perceptions of Drinking Water Service Delivery and Measured Drinking Water Quality in Rural Alabama, Jessica C. Wedgworth, Joe Brown, Pauline Johnson, Julie B. Olson, Mark Elliott, Rick Forehand, and Christine E. Stauber
Publications from 2013
From the Guest Editors: Special issue dedicated to Carlos Castillo-Chavez on his 60th birthday, Gerardo Chowell, Zhilan Feng, and Baojun Song
The Basic Reproduction Number ℛ0 and Effectiveness of Reactive Interventions during Dengue Epidemics: The 2002 Dengue Outbreak in Easter Island, Chile, Gerardo Chowell, Rodrigo Fuentes, A Olea, X. Aguilera, Hans Nesse, and J. M. Hyman
Climate change and influenza: the likelihood of early and severe influenza seasons following warmer than average winters., Gerardo Chowell, Sherry Towers, Rasheed Hameed, Mathew Jastrebski, Maryam Khan, Jonathan Meeks, and George Harris
A Data-Driven Mathematical Model of CA-MRSA Transmission among Age Groups: Evaluating the Effect of Control Interventions, Gerardo Chowell, Xiaoxia Wang, and Sarada Panchanathan
Skip the Trip: Air Travelers’ Behavioral Responses to Pandemic Influenza, Eli P. Fenichel, Nicolai V. Kuminoff, and Gerardo Chowell
An Examination of Bullying in Georgia Schools: Demographic and School Climate Factors Associated with Willingness to Intervene in Bullying Situations, Lori Goldammer, Monica H. Swahn, Sheryl M. Strasser, Jeff Ashby, and Joel Meyers
Smoking Experimentation among Elementary School Students in China: Influences from Peers, Families, and the School Environment, Cheng Huang, Jeffrey Koplan, Shaohua Yu, Changwei Li, Chaoran Guo, Jing Liu, Hui Li, Michelle C. Kegler, Pamela Redmon, and Michael Eriksen
Nutrition and Physical Activity in Child Care Centers: the Impact of a Wellness Policy Initiative on Environment and Policy Assessment and Observation Outcomes, 2011, Rodney S. Lyn, Joyce Maalouf, Sarah Evers, Justin Davis, and Monica Griffin
Occupation and Environmental Heat-Associated Deaths in Maricopa County, Arizona: A Case-Control Study, Diana B. Petitti, Sharon L. Harlan, Gerardo Chowell, and Darren M. Ruddell
Child Maltreatment and Disaster Prevention: Qualitative Study of Community Agency Perspectives, Shannon Self-Brown, Page L. Anderson, Shannan M. Edwards, and Tia M. McGill
Global Mortality Estimates for the 2009 Influenza Pandemic from the GLaMOR Project: A Modeling Study, Lone Simonsen, Peter Spreeuwenberg, Roger Lustig, Robert J. Taylor, Douglas M. Fleming, Madelon Kroneman, Maria D. Van Kerkhove, Anthony W. Mounts, W. John Paget, and Gerardo Chowell
Bacterial Contamination on Household Toys and Association with Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Conditions in Honduras, Christine E. Stauber, Adam Walters, Anna M. Fabiszewski de Aceituno, and Mark D. Sobsey
Exposure to celebrity- endorsed small cigar promotions and susceptibility to use among young adult cigarette smokers, Kymberle L. Sterling, Roland S. Moore, Nicole Pitts, Melissa T. Duong, Kentya H. Ford, and Michael Eriksen
Exposure to Celebrity-Endorsed Small Cigar Promotions and Susceptibility to Use among Young Adult Cigarette Smokers, Kymberle L. Sterling, Roland S. Moore, Nicole Pitts, Melissa T. Duong, Kentya H. Ford, and Michael Eriksen
Screening for Elder Mistreatment among Older Adults Seeking Legal Assistance Services, Sheryl M. Strasser, Megan Smith, Scott Weaver, Shimin Zheng, and Yan Cao
Co-Occurring Physical Fighting and Suicide Attempts among U.S. High School Students: Examining Patterns of Early Alcohol Use Initiation and Current Binge Drinking, Monica H. Swahn, Robert Bossarte, Jane B. Palmier, and Huang Yao
The Prevalence of Very Frequent Physical Fighting among Boys and Girls in 27 Countries and Cities: Regional and Gender Differences, Monica H. Swahn, Lindsay Gressard, Jane B. Palmier, Huang Yao, and Melissa Haberlen
Alcohol Exposures, Alcohol Marketing, and Their Associations with Problem Drinking and Drunkenness among Youth Living in the Slums of Kampala, Uganda, Monica H. Swahn, Jane B. Palmier, and Rogers Kasirye
The Added Value of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Interventions to Mass Drug Administration for Reducing the Prevalence of Trachoma: A Systematic Review Examining, Anyess R. Travers, Sheryl M. Strasser, Stephanie L. Palmer, and Christine E. Stauber
A Population Based Study of Seasonality of Skin and Soft Tissue Infections: Implications for the Spread of CA-MRSA, Xiaoxia Wang, Sherry Towers, Sarada Panchanathan, and Gerardo Chowell
Publications from 2012
Dynamic Adaptation Process to Implement an Evidence-based Child Maltreatment Intervention, Gregory A. Aarons, Amy E. Green, Lawrence A. Palinkas, Shannon Self-Brown, Daniel J. Whitaker, John R. Lutzker, Jane F. Silovsky, Debra B. Hecht, and Mark J. Chaffin