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Submissions from 2021
Health Reporting Characteristics among Journalists in Nepal Utilizing a One Health Framework, Jessica S. Schwind, Stephanie A. Norman, Munshi Khaledur Rahman, Holly L. Richmond, Sameer M. Dixit, Rajesh M. Rajbhandari, Sarah K. Wagner, and Dibesh Karmacharya
Public Health Education and Changing Public Health Realities in the Public Health 3.0 Era, Gulzar H. Shah
Risk Factors for TB/HIV Coinfection and Consequences for Patient Outcomes: Evidence from 241 Clinics in the Democratic Republic of Cong, Gulzar H. Shah, Raimi Ewetola, Gina D. Etheredge, Lievain Maluantesa, Kristie C. Waterfield, Elodie Engetele, and Apolinaire Kilundu
TB/HIV coinfection and patient outcomes: Evidence from 241 clinics in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gulzar H. Shah, Raimi Ewetola, Gina D. Etheredge, L. Maluantesa, Kristie C. Waterfield, and L.-K. Lukusa
Perceived Benefits Matter the Most in COVID-19 Preventive Behaviors: Empirical Evidence from Okara District, Pakistan, Gulzar H. Shah, Ansar Ali Faraz, Hina Khan, and Kristie Cason Waterfield
HIV Viral Suppression among People Living with HIV on Antiretroviral Therapy in Haut-Katanga and Kinshasa Provinces of Democratic Republic of Congo, Gulzar H. Shah, Lievain Maluantesa, Gina D. Etheredge, Kristie C. Waterfield, Osaremhen Ikhile, Roger Beni, Elodie Engetele, and Astrid Mulenga
Behavioral Health Needs Assessment, Gulzar H. Shah, Samuel T. Opoku, Bettye Apenteng, Charles F. Owens, Linda Kimsey, and Angela H. Peden
The Administration and Management of COVID-19 Contact Tracing Programs: A Descriptive Study of the Experiences of US State & Local Health Departments, Gulzar H. Shah, Angela Peden, Bettye Apenteng, Samuel T. Opoku, Kristie C. Waterfield, and Osaremhen Ikhile
College Students' Experiences of Race-Related Bias or Hatred in Their Lifetimes and COVID-19 Era, Gulzar H. Shah, Haresh Rochani, Joseph Telfair, Elizabeth Ayangunna, and Gemma C. Skuraton
Parental Substance Use and its Impact on Children’s Health and Safety. Increased Need for Collaboration and Multidisciplinary Efforts, Blerta Shehaj and Joanne Chopak-Foss
Low Acceptance of Helmet-Use and Injuries from Motorcycle Accidents in Rawalpindi and Abbottabad, Pakistan, Maryam Siddiqa, Gulzar H. Shah, and A. Munam
Chapter 3 - Families and Health, Joseph Telfair, Joanne Chopak-Foss, Janet Choongo, and K. Harris
Chapter 19 - Program Monitoring and Evaluation, Joseph Telfair, A. K. Kelly, and G. Dave
Retention and predictors of attrition among children living with HIV on antiretroviral therapy (ART) in Côte d’Ivoire between 2012 and 2016, F. Traore-Toure, Gina D. Etheredge, Gulzar H. Shah, and C. Brennan
Personal Mastery and All-Cause Mortality among Older Americans Living with Diabetes, Ho-Jui Tung, Ming-Chin Yeh, Randall Ford, and Gulzar H. Shah
Consequences of COVID-19 Crisis for Persons with HIV: The Impact of Social Determinants of Health, Kristie Cason Waterfield, Gulzar H. Shah, Gina D. Etheredge, and Osaremhen Ikhile
Public Health Employees’ Perceptions about the Impact of Emerging Public Health Trends on Their Day-to-Day Work: Effects of Organizational Climate and Culture, Kristie Cason Waterfield, Gulzar H. Shah, Linda Kimsey, William A. Mase, and Jingjing Yin
Stigma Is Associated with Widening Health Inequities: Challenges from the Current COVID19 Pandemic, Ming-Chin Yeh and Ho-Jui Tung
Meta-Analysis for Evaluating Diagnostic Accuracy, Jingjing Yin and Jing Kersey
Joint hypothesis testing of the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve and the Youden index, Jingjing Yin, Fedelis Mutiso, and Lili Tian
Joint Inference About the AUC and Youden Index for Paired Biomarkers, Jingjing Yin, Hani M. Samawi, and Lili Tian
Network Meta-Analysis, Lili Yu and Xinyan Zhang
Submissions from 2020
Introduction to Spatiotemporal Variations of Ambient Air Pollutants and Related Public Health Impacts, Atin Adhikari
Short-Term Effects of Ambient Ozone, PM2. 5, and Meteorological Factors on COVID-19 Confirmed Cases and Deaths in Queens, New York., Atin Adhikari and Jingjing Yin
Using Twitter to Track Unplanned School Closures: Georgia Public Schools, Jennifer O. Ahweyevu, Ngozi Pearl Chukwudebe, Brittany Morgan Buchanan, Jingjing Yin, Atin Adhikari, Xiaolu Zhou, Zion Tsz Ho Tse, Gerardo Chowell, Martin I. Meltzer, and Isaac Fung
Weight Misperception and Cigarette Smoking among Healthy Weight Adolescents in the U. S: NHANES 2005–2014, Toyin O. Akomolafe, Andrew Hansen, Amy Hackney, Wei Wang, Daniella R. Thorne Williams Mrs., and Jian Zhang
Tattnall County Community Needs Assessment, A. Alston, T. Clark, J. Lewis, A. McGee, S. Sherpa, Q. Smith, I. Thomas, Denisha Allicock, and Tilicia Mayo-Gamble
Flex Financial and Operational Improvement Grant, 2019-2024 Year One Report, Bettye Apenteng, Linda Kimsey, William A. Mase, Samuel T. Opoku, Charles Owens, and Angela H. Peden
2020 Georgia Critical Access Hospital Employee Engagement Assessment Reports, Bettye Apenteng, Linda Kimsey, Samuel T. Opoku, Charles Owens, Angela Peden, and William Mase
Telehealth – Delivering Health Care Safely During COVID-19 and Into the Future, Bettye Apenteng, Linda Kimsey, Samuel T. Opoku, Angela Peden, Charles Owens, and William Mase
Putnam General Hospital 2020 Employee Survey, Bettye Apenteng, Linda Kimsey, Angela Peden, William A. Mase, Samuel T. Opoku, Charles Owens, Emmanuel Akowuah, and Imaobong Ekpo
Wills Memorial Hospital 2020 Employee Survey, Bettye Apenteng, Linda Kimsey, Angela Peden, William A. Mase, Samuel T. Opoku, Charles Owens, Emmanuel Akowuah, and Imaobong Ekpo
Morgan Memorial Hospital 2020 Employee Survey, Bettye Apenteng, Linda Kimsey, Angela Peden, William Mase, Samuel T. Opoku, Emmanuel Akowuah, and Imaobong Ekpo
Flex Operational and Financial Improvement Grant: Year One Report, Bettye Apenteng, Linda Kimsey, Angela Peden, William Mase, Samuel T. Opoku, and Charles Owens
Candler County Hospital 2020 Employee Survey, Bettye Apenteng, Linda Kimsey, Angela Peden, William Mase, Samuel T. Opoku, Charles Owens, Emmanuel Akowuah, and Imaobong Ekpo
2020 Assessment of Employee Engagement at Crisp Regional Hospital, Bettye Apenteng, Samuel T. Opoku, and Kwabena G. Boakye
Sources of Microbiological Contamination in Sachet Water From Ghana, Asli Aslan, Haresh Rochani, Oghenekpaobor Oyibo, J. Edward Dotherow, Kendall W. Anderson, Christina J. Beslin, Asheley Chapman, Brittny Thomas, Alicia Brown, Akwasi Ampofo-Yeboah, and Evans Afriyie-Gyawu
Sewage Monitoring in Rural Communities: A Powerful Strategy for COVID-19 Surveillance, Asli Aslan, Gulzar H. Shah, Vinoth Sittaramane, and Padmini Shankar Ph.D.
Auspicious Symbols of Rank and Status, Byron Breedlove and Isaac Fung
Effective Practices and Recommendations for Drive-Through Clinic Points of Dispensing: A Systematic Review, Brian Holt Buck, Logan Cowan, Lisa P. Smith, Emily Duncan, Jodi Bazemore, and Jessica S. Schwind
Effect of Influenza Vaccination on Mortality and Risk of Hospitalization in Elderly Individuals with and without Disabilities: A Nationwide, Population-Based Cohort Study, Yu-Chia Chang, Ho-Jui Tung, Yu-Tung Huang, Chin-Te Lu, Ernawaty Ernawaty, and Szu-Yuan Wu
The WHO STEPwise Approach to Surveillance; Fact sheet on tobacco and electronic cigarette use, cessation, and secondhand smoke in Ukraine, 2019, Angela Ciobanu, Ivo Rakovac, and Yelena N. Tarasenko
Triggering of cardiovascular disease by infection type: The atherosclerosis risk in communities study (ARIC), Logan Cowan, Brian Buck, Jessica S. Schwind, Pamela L. Lutsey, James S. Pankow, Kunihiro Matsushita, and Kamakshi Lakshminarayan
Endodontic therapy and incident cardiovascular disease: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study, Logan Cowan, Kamakshi Lakshminarayan, Pamela L. Lutsey, James Beck, Steven Offenbacher, and James S. Pankow
Formative Research to Design a Culturally-appropriate Cancer Clinical Trial Education Program to Increase Participation of African American and Latino Communities, Jennifer Cunningham-Erves, Claudia Barajas, Tilicia Mayo-Gamble, Caree R. McAfee, Pamela Hull, Maureen Sanderson, Juan Canedo, Katina Beard, and Consuelo H. Wilkins
Mixed Methods in Public Health Case Studies: Applying a Sequential QUAN → Qual Design to Identify Factors Associated With Black Mothers’ Intention to Vaccinate Their Daughters Aged 9 to 12 for HPV, Jennifer Cunningham-Erves, Nataliya Ivankova, and Tilicia Mayo-Gamble
Engagement of Community Stakeholders to Develop a Framework to Guide Research Dissemination to Communities, Jennifer Cunningham-Erves, Tilicia Mayo-Gamble, Yolanda Vaughn, Jim Hawk, Mike Helms, Claudia Barajas, and Yvonne Joosten
A Call for Consistency in the Official Naming of the Disease Caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 in Non-English Languages, Lu Dong, Zhe Li, and Isaac Fung
Fleas (Siphonaptera) Parasitizing Peridomestic and Indigenous Mammals in Panamá and Screening of Selected Fleas for Vector-Borne Bacterial Pathogens, Lance A. Durden, Sergio Bermúdez, Géminis A . Vargas, Boris E. Sanjur, Laura Gillen, Lisa D. Brown, Stephen E. Greiman, and Marina Eremeeva
Detection of Rickettsia asembonensis in Fleas (Siphonaptera: Pulicidae, Ceratophyllidae) Collected in Five Counties in Georgia, United States, Marina Eremeeva; Danielle Capps; Cynthia Logan McBride; Amanda J. Williams-Newkirk; Gregory A. Dasch; Johanna S. Salzer; Lorenza Beati; and Lance A, Durden
Molecular typing of Rickettsia akari, Marina E. Eremeeva
Rickettsialpox – a Rare but Not Extinct Disease: a Review of the Literature and New Directions, Marina Eremeeva and Kamalich Muniz-Rodriguez
SARS-CoV-2 Viral and Serological Testing When College Campuses Reopen: Some Practical Considerations, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, Chi-Ngai Cheung, and Andreas Handel
Publication of data collection forms from NHLBI funded sickle cell disease implementation consortium (SCDIC) registry, Jeffrey Glassberg, Elizabeth A. Linton, Katrina Burson, Tabitha Hendershot, Joseph Telfair, Julie Kanter, Victor R. Gordeuk, Allison A. King, Cathy L. Melvin, Nirmish Shah, Jane S. Hankins, Axel Yannick Epié, and Lynne D. Richardson
Trends in US Adults With Overweight and Obesity Reporting Being Notified by Doctors About Body Weight Status, 1999–2016, Andrew Hansen, Christopher Rustin, Samuel T. Opoku, Gauri Shevatekar, Jeffery A. Jones, and Jian Zhang
Applying the Socio-Ecological Model to Improving Maternal Mental Health in Georgia, Kim Harris, Janet Choongo, and Joanne Chopak-Foss
Kernel density estimation based on progressive type-II censoring, Amal Helu, Hani Samawi, Haresh Rochani, Jingjing Yin, and Robert Vogel
Epidemiology of Cancers in Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM): A Protocol for Umbrella Review of Systematic Reviews, Manoj Kumar Honaryar, Yelena Tarasenko, Maribel Almonte, and Vitaly Smelov
Incident Hospitalization with Major Cardiovascular Diseases and Subsequent Risk of ESKD: Implications for Cardiorenal Syndrome, Junichi Ishigami, Logan Cowan, Ryan T. Demmer, Morgan E. Grams, Pamela L. Lutsey, Juan-Jesus Carrero, Josef Coresh, and Kunihiro Matsushita
Hospitalization With Major Infection and Incidence of End-Stage Renal Disease: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study, Junichi Ishigami, Logan Cowan, Ryan T. Demmer, Morgan E. Grams, Pamela L. Lutsey, Josef Coresh, and Kunihiro Matsushita
Unplanned Closure of Public Schools in Michigan, 2015-2016: Cross-Sectional Study on Rurality and Digital Data Harvesting, Ashley M. Jackson, Lindsay Mullican, Zion Tsz Ho Tse, Jingjing Yin, Xiaolu Zhou, Dharamendra Kumar, and Isaac Fung
2020 Community Health Needs Assessment for Evans County, Georgia, A. Jennings, E. Ochieng, A. Riggins, and Tilicia Mayo-Gamble
Significant Improvement of Somatic Symptom Disorder With Brief Psychoeducational Intervention by PMHNP in Primary Care, Kim K. Johnson, Carole Bennett, and Haresh Rochani
Public Health Implications of Early Marriage, Prachi Joshi and Tilicia Mayo-Gamble
Quality of Care Among Adolescents and Adults With Sickle Cell Disease in the United States: Analysis From the Sickle Cell Disease Implementation Consortium, Julie Kanter, Robert Gibson, Raymona H. Lawrence, Matthew P. Smeltzer, Norma L. Pugh, Jeffrey Glassberg, Rita V. Masese, Allison A. King, Cecelia Calhoun, Jane S. Hankins, and Marsha Treadwell
Building Informatics Capacity of Local Health Departments to Combat COVID-19: A Call to Action, Anjum Khurshid, Gulzar H. Shah, Tran Nguyen, and Jeffery A. Jones
Effingham Senior Living Market Analysis, Linda Kimsey, Bettye A. Apenteng, Samuel T. Opoku, Charles F. Owens, Angela Peden, and Blerta Shehaj
Monroe County Hospital 2021-2022 Strategic Plan, Linda Kimsey, William Mase, Bettye Apenteng, and Blerta Shehaj
Blood Transfusion: Knowledge, Perspectives, and Experiences of Individuals with Sickle Cell Disease, Raymona H. Lawrence, Ashley Singleton, and Jane Branscomb
Evaluating the importation of yellow fever cases into China in 2016 and strategies used to prevent and control the spread of the disease, Chao Li, Dan Li, Shirley JoAnn Smart, Lei Zhou, Peng Yang, Jianming Ou, Yi He, Ruiqi Ren, Tao Ma, Nijuan Xiang, Haitian Sui, Yali Wang, Jian Zhao, Chaonan Wang, Yeping Wang, Daxin Ni, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, Dexin Li, Yangmu Huang, and Qun Li
Hypertension and Diabetes Synergistically Strengthen the Association with Cataracts among Chinese: Implications for Clinical Practice and Public Health Policy, Jin-Jin Li, Mo-Dong Li, Jie Li, Xiao Yang, Dan Xia, Yu Li, Wei Wang, Fei Yan, and Jian Zhang
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: An Adaptive Hybrid Design for Clinical Development in Rare Diseases, Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: A Two-Stage Adaptive Design for Clinical Trials in Patients with COVID-19 High Risks, Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: A Two-Stage Adaptive Design for Clinical Trials with Chronic Conditions, Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Background, Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Blinded Data Review for Adaptive Estimands, Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Blinded Data Review for Adaptive Estimands (Part I), Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Blinded Data Review for Adaptive Estimands (Part II), Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Blinded Data Review for Adaptive Estimands (Part III), Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Confirmatory Adaptive Platform Trial (CAPT) Design for COVID-19 Treatment, Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Confirmatory Adaptive Platform Trial (CAPT) Design for COVID-19 Treatment (Part I), Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Confirmatory Adaptive Platform Trial (CAPT) Design for COVID-19 Treatment (Part II), Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Confirmatory Adaptive Platform Trial (CAPT) Design for COVID-19 Treatment (Part III), Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Impacts on Minimization Randomization and Mitigations, Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Impacts on Permuted Block Randomization and Mitigations, Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Independent DMC for Blinded Data Monitoring and Analysis, Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Integrated Analysis of Efficacy (IAE) with Adaptive Estimands, Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Interim Analysis with Adaptive Estimands Based, Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Natural History Controls for Survival Analysis, Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Natural History Controls for Survival Analysis (Part I), Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Natural History Controls for Survival Analysis (Part II), Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Natural History Controls for Survival Analysis (Part III), Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Steps for Mitigation, Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Unplanned Changes in Estimands with Two-Stage Adaptive Designs, Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Cluster analysis of urinary tobacco biomarkers among U.S. adults: Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) biomarker study (2013–2014), Ban Majeed, Daniel F. Linder, Thomas Eissenberg, Yelena Tarasenko, Danielle Smith, and David Ashley
Feasibility of Long Acting Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) in Rural Communities, William A. Mase and Ellie Purdy
Engaging Individuals with Sickle Cell Disease in Patient-Centered Outcomes Research: A Community Health Ambassador Training Model, Tilicia Mayo-Gamble, Velma McBride Murry, Jennifer Cunningham-Erves, Robert M. Cronin, Nabilah Lari, Alexis Gorden, Lametra Scott, Michael R. Debaun, and Trevor Thompson
Letter to the Editor: Broader trauma: Considerations for COVID-19 psychosocial interventions in Hong Kong, Adriana S. Miu, Chi-Ngai Cheung, Kitty K.Y. Tsang, Benedict S.B. Chan, Lap-Tak Poon, and Isaac Chun-Hai Fung
Doubling Time of the COVID-19 Epidemic by Province, China, Kamalich Muniz-Rodriguez, Gerardo Chowell, Chi-Hin Cheung, Dongyu Jia, Po-Ying Lai, Yiseul Lee, Manyun Liu, Sylvia Ofori, Kimberlyn M. Roosa, Lone Simonsen, Cecile Viboud, and Isaac Fung
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Transmission Potential, Iran, 2020, Kamalich Muniz-Rodriguez, Isaac Fung, Shayesteh R. Ferdosi, Sylvia Ofori, Yiseul Lee, Amna Tariq, and Gerardo Chowell
