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Submissions from 2024
Public Health Impact of Paxlovid as Treatment for COVID-19, United States, Yuan Bai, Zhanwei Du, Lin Wang, Eric H. Y. Lau, Isaac Fung, Petter Holme, Ben Cowling, Alison Galvani, Robert Krug, and Lauren Ancel Meyers
Learning From One Another: Growing Critical Friendships Across Disciplines to Develop Our Professional Identities as Science Teacher Educators, Lacey Huffling, Heather Scott, Asli Aslan, Kelly Moore, Miranda Simmons, and Natalie Sumner
Different View Of The Diagnostics Test Accuracy Measures And Optimal Cut-off Point Selection Procedure Under Tree Or Umbrella Ordering, Jing Kersey, Hani Samawi, Marwan Alsharman, Mario Keko, Haresh Rochani, Lili Yu, Jingjing Yin, Kelly L. Sullivan, and Salaheddin Mustafa
Submissions from 2023
Macrosomia is Associated With Overweight in Childhood: A Follow-back of a Cohort Established in the Early Years of the Obesity Epidemic, Temitayo M. Adebile, Amarachukwu F. Orji, Felix Twum, and Jian Zhang
Exposure Levels of Airborne Fungi, Bacteria, and Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Cotton Farms during Cotton Harvesting and Evaluations of N95 Respirators against These Bioaerosols, Atin Adhikari, Pratik Banerjee, Taylor Thornton, Daleniece Higgins, Caleb Adeoye, and Sonam Sherpa
Childhood Asthma-Management Practices in Rural Nigeria: Exploring the Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Caregivers in Oyo State, Oyindamola Akinso, Atin Adhikari, Jingjing Yin, Joanne Chopak-Foss, and Gulzar H. Shah
A Pilot Water Dashboard for Coastal Georgia, Asli Aslan
A Pilot Water Dashboard for Coastal Georgia, Asli Aslan
The Spring: Quarterly Newsletter of the Institute for Water and Health, Asli Aslan and Luke Roberson
The Public Health Impact of Paxlovid COVID-19 Treatment in the United States, Yuan Bai, Zhanwei Du, Lin Wang, Eric H. Y. Lau, Isaac Fung, Petter Holme, Ben Cowling, Alison Galvani, Robert Krug, and Lauren Ancel Meyers
Mental Health, Physical Activity, and Sports Among Children With Cerebral Palsy, Cory Cribb, Mario Keko, Sarah Creveling, Haresh Rochani Dr., Christopher M. Modlesky, and Gavin T. Colquitt
Comparing Particulate Matter Exposures During Two Work Shifts in a Large University Dining Commons Kitchen, Shalom Emmanuel and Atin Adhikari
History and Current Status of Mediterranean Spotted Fever (MSF) in the Crimean Peninsula and Neighboring Regions along the Black Sea Coast, Muniver T. Gafarova and Marina E. Eremeeva
Hepatic Proteomic Assessment of Oral Ingestion of Titanium Dioxide Nano Fiber (TDNF) in Sprague Dawley Rats, Worlanyo E. Gato, Ji Wu, Isaac Appiah, Olivia Smith, and Haresh Rochani
Nurse Knowledge and Confidence in the Care of Mechanically Ventilated Patients in the Emergency Department, Susan S. Hendrix and Haresh Rochani
Effects of Educational Interventions in Facilitating Mammography Screening Among Asian American Women: A Meta-Analysis, Li-Ting Huang, Chun-Yi Tai, Joshua Longcoy, Judy H. Wang, Jingjing Yin, Logan Cowan, and Kelly L. Sullivan
Knowledge, Attitude, and Behavioral Intention About Oral Cancer Among Public Health Students in Southeast Georgia, Ravneet Kaur and Gulzar H. Shah
Increasing Character Strength Knowledge, Interest, and Skill: Preliminary Evidence for a Collaborative and Multimethod Assessment Procedure, Jeff J. Klibert, Michaela D. Simpson, Brandon J. Weiss, C. Thresa Yancey, Calla Pritulsky, Amy Luna, Hayley Houseman, and Hani M. Samawi
Turnover, COVID-19, and Reasons for Leaving and Staying Within Governmental Public Health, Jonathan P. Leider, Gulzar H. Shah, Valerie A. Yeager, Jingjing Yin, and Kusuma Madamala
Evolution of Physical Training in Police Academies: Comparing Fitness Variables, Bridget Frugoli Melton, Gregory Ryan, Victor Zuege, Haresh Rochani, Derick Anglin, and Joseph Dulla
Vernon River Watershed Management Plan, D. Mullins, S. Rosenquest, L. Walker, Asli Aslan, J. Jackson, M. Fricsher, L. Roberson, and K. Howard
Exploring Social Media Network Connections to Assist During Public Health Emergency Response: A Retrospective Case-Study of Hurricane Matthew and Twitter Users in Georgia, USA, Kamalich Muniz-Rodriguez, Jessica S. Schwind, Jingjing Yin, Hai Liang, Gerardo Chowell, and Isaac Fung
Total Outward Leakage of Half-mask Respirators and Surgical Masks Used for Source Control, Warren R. Myers, Weihua Yang, Kenneth Ryan, Michael Bergman, Edward Fisher, Jhy-Charm Soo, and Ziqing Zhuang
Impact of Public Health Policy and Mobility Change on Transmission Potential of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 in Rhode Island, March 2020 – November 2021, Chigozie Alexandra Ogwara, Jennifer W. Ronberg, Sierra Cox, Briana M. Wagner, Jacqueline W. Scotts, Gerardo Chowell, Anne C. Spaulding, and Isaac Fung
Effectiveness of Lactation Cookies on Human Milk Production Rates: A Randomized Controlled Trial, Ana M. Palacios, Michelle I. Cardel, Erik Parker, Stephanie Dickinson, Valerie R. Houin, Bridget Young, and David B. Allison
Chapter 23: Eco-epidemiology of Tick-Borne Pathogens: Role of Tick Vectors and Host Animal Community Composition in Their Circulation and Source of Infections, Rupika S. Rajakaruna and Marina E. Eremeeva
Net Benefit of Diagnostic Tests for Multistate Diseases: an Indicator Variables Approach, Hani Samawi, Ferdous Ahmeda, Gene Pennello, and Jingjing Yin
Post-test Diagnostic Accuracy Measures Under Tree Ordering of Disease Classes, Hani Samawi, Marwan Alsharmana, Mario Keko, and Jing Kersey
On Cox Proportional Hazards Model Performance Under Different Sampling Schemes, Hani Samawi, Lili Yu, and Jingjing Yin
Misclassification Simulation Extrapolation Method for a Weibull Accelerated Failure Time Model, Varadan Sevilimedu, Lili Yu, and Hani Samawi
148 Development of a test Method to Determine Inhalation Exposure of Microplastic Particles when Reusable Disposable Masks in Place, Jhy-Charm Soo, Rocio Perez, Atin Adhikari, and Yu-Cheng Chen
Assessment of Inhalation Exposure to Microplastic Particles When Disposable Masks Are Repeatedly Used, Jhy-Charm Soo, Chun-Hsuan Wei, Jen-Kun Chen, Guo-Chung Dong, Zhen-Shu Liu, Hsiu-Chuan Chou, Atin Adhikari, and Yu-Cheng Chen
Characteristics and Source-specific Health Risks of Ambient PM2.5-bound PAHs in an Urban City of Northern Taiwan, Yu-Chieh Ting, Chun-Hung Ku, Yu-Xuan Zou, Kai-Hsien Chi, Jhy-Charm Soo, Chin-Yu Hsu, and Yu-Cheng Chen
A Pharmacoepidemiological Study of Myocarditis and Pericarditis Following the First Dose of mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine in Europe, Joana Tome, Logan Cowan, and Isaac Fung
Letter to the Editor: An incorrect cutoff was used, leading to null results, Felix Twum, Arshpreet Kaur Mallhi, and Jian Zhang
The Diverging Trend in Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke Among US Children, Felix Twum, Joana Tome, Erica Ledel, Victoria Roy, Arshpreet Kaur Mallhi, Diana L. Aguirre, Yudan Wei, and Jian Zhang
Submissions from 2022
Review of the EPA’s Draft Fifth Contaminant Candidate List (CCL5), Craig Adams, Asli Aslan, Otakuye Conroy-Ben, James Englehardt, Selene Hernandez-Ruiz, Mark W. LeChevallier, Angela M. Leung, Rainer Lohmann, Sarah Page, Rebecca Sutton, and Felicia Wu
Assessing the Effectiveness of an Egg Intervention in the Nutritional and Food Security Status of Infants and Toddlers from Rural Honduras, Aishat Adewoye, Mario Keko, Luke Roberson, Dziyana Nazaruk, Gisela Ramos, Laura Manship, Haresh Rochani, Asli Aslan, and Ana M. Palacios
A Pilot Water Dashboard for Coastal Georgia, Asli Aslan
A Feasibility Study for Adopting Rapid Molecular Methods to Monitor Enterococci at Georgia Beaches, Asli Aslan and R. Cohen
Monitoring Different Social Media Platforms to Report Unplanned School Closures Due to Wildfires in California, October and December 2017, Brittany Morgan Buchanan, Haley I. Evans, Ngozi Pearl Chukwudebe, Emily A. Duncan, Jingjing Yin, Bishwa B. Adhikari, Xiaolu Zhou, Zion Tse, Gerardo Chowell, and Isaac Fung
Release of VOCs, Gasses, and Bacteria from Contaminated Landings and Creeks of Ogeechee River Basin, Victoria A. Clower, Melanie Sparrow, and Atin Adhikari
Changes in physical activity and risk of ischemic stroke: The ARIC study, Logan Cowan, Joana Tome, Arshpreet Kaur Mallhi, Yelena Tarasenko, Priya Palta, Kelly R. Evenson, and Kamakshi Lakshminarayan
Molecular Characterization of Rickettsial Agents in Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) from Sri Lanka, Gregory A. Dasch, Marina Eremeeva, Maria L. Zambrano, Ranjan Premaratna, and S. A. M. Kularatne
Respiratory, Neurological and Other Health Outcomes among Plastic Factory Workers in Gazipur, Bangladesh, Shobhan Das, Md. Masudur Rahman, Asmaul Husna, Margia Akter, Md. Matiur Rahaman, Md. Taohidul Islam, Md. Jamal Uddin, and Atin Adhikari
Pandemic fatigue impedes mitigation of COVID-19 in Hong Kong, Zhanwei Du, Lin Wang, Songwei Shan, Dickson Lam, Tim K. Tsang, Jingyi Xiao, Huizhi Gao, Bingyi Yang, Sheikh Taslim Ali, Sen Pei, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, Eric H. Y. Lau, Qiuyan Liao, Peng Wu, Lauren Ancel Meyers, Gabriel M. Leung, and Benjamin Cowling
On Kernel-Based Estimator of Odds Ratio Using Different Stratified Sampling Schemes, Abbas Eftekharian, Hani Samawi, and Haresh Rochani
On Kernel-based Estimation of Distribution Function and Its Quantiles Based on Ranked Set Sampling, Abbas Eftekharian, Hani W. Samawi, and Mandana Amiri
Winter Storms and Unplanned School Closure Announcements on Twitter: Comparison Between the States of Massachusetts and Georgia, 2017–2018, Haley Evans, Maya Handberry, Kamalich Muniz-Rodriguez, Jessica S. Schwind, Hai Liang, Bishwa B. Adhikari, Martin I. Meltzer, and Isaac Fung
A Prospective Double-Blinded Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing the Intraoperative Injection of Technetium Tc 99m Tilmanocept with Technetium Tc 99m Sulfur Colloid in Breast Cancer Lymphatic Mapping, Anyul Ferez-Pinzon, Samuel L. Corey, Haresh Rochani, Elena A. Rehl, and William E. Burak Jr
Model Parameters Estimation With Non-ignorable Missing Data Using Influential Exponential Tilting Resampling Approach, Kavita Gohil, Hani M. Samawi, Haresh Rochani Dr., and Lili Yu
Using cluster algorithms with a machine learning technique and PMF models to quantify local-specific origins of PM2.5 and associated metals in Taiwan, Chin-Yu Hsu, Jhy-Charm Soo, Sheng-Lun Lin, Chih-Da Wu, Kai Hsien Chi, Wen-Chang Hsu, Chun-Chieh Tseng, and Yu-Cheng Chen
Elevated COVID-19 Case Rates of Government Employees, District of Columbia, 2020–2022, Xinyi Hua, Jingjing Yin, and Isaac Chun-Hai Fung
Air Pollutant Levels and Asthma Emergency Room Visits in a Highly Populous US Urban County During 2018-19, Osaremhen Ikhile, Jingjing Yin, and Atin Adhikari
Genetic typing of isolates of Rickettsia typhi, Cecilia Y. Kato, Ida H. Chung, Lauren K. Robinson, Marina Eremeeva, and Gregory A. Dasch
Association Between Equipment Maintenance Violations in Food Service Establishments and Their Risk Level According to the Ohio Administrative Code in Cincinnati, Ohio, Mario Keko, Joana Tome, William A. Mase, and Haresh Rochani
On Diagnostic Accuracy Measure With Cut-points Criterion for Ordinal Disease Classification Based on Concordance and Discordance, Jing Kersey, Hani Samawi, Jingjing Yin, Haresh Rochani, and Xinyan Zhang
The Impact of COVID-19 on Water Consumption and Treatment Capacity in Tourism Area: Example of Bodrum, Feyyaz Keski̇n, Ahmet Demirak, Nedim Özdemir, Harika Özkan, Atilla Özkan, and Asli Aslan
Association between the Health Belief Model, Exercise, and Nutrition Behaviors during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Keagan Kiely, Bill Mase, Andrew R. Hansen, and Jessica S. Schwind
OSA and Subsequent Risk of Hospitalization With Pneumonia, Respiratory Infection, and Total Infection: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study, Pamela L. Lutsey, Islam Zineldin, Jeffrey R. Misialek, Kelsie M. Full, Kamakshi Lakshminarayan, Junichi Ishigami, Logan Cowan, Kunihiro Matsushita, and Ryan T. Demmer
Changes in the association between overweight and depression across three major ethnic groups, 2005–2018, Arshpreet Kaur Mallhi, Kelly L. Sullivan, and Jian Zhang
Trust Black Women: Using Photovoice to Amplify the Voices of Black Women to Identify and Address Barriers to Breastfeeding in Southeast Georgia, Nandi A. Marshall and Christina S. Cook
Examining the Impact of Increasing Vaccine Coverage and Nonpharmaceutical Interventions against Coronavirus Disease 2019 In Ghana using Mathematical Modeling, Sylvia Ofori, Jessica S. Schwind, Kelly L. Sullivan, Gerardo Chowell, Benjamin J. Cowling, and Isaac Chun-Hai Fung
Transmission Dynamics of COVID-19 in Ghana and the Impact of Public Health Interventions, Sylvia Ofori, Jessica S. Schwind, Kelly L. Sullivan, Benjamin J. Cowling, Gerardo Chowell, and Isaac Fung
Performance of Diagnostic Tests Based on Continuous Bivariate Markers, Hani M. Samawi, Ding-Geng Chen, Jingjing Yin, and Marwan Alsharmana
Mean Functional Estimation With Non-ignorable Missing Data Using Influential Exponential Tilting Resampling Approach, Hani Samawi, Haresh Rochani, and Kavita Gohil
Simulation Extrapolation Method for Measurement Error: A Review, Varadan Sevilimedu and Lili Yu
Misclassification Simulation Extrapolation Procedure for Interval-Censored Log-Logistic Accelerated Failure Time Model, Varadan Sevilimedu, Lili Yu, Ding-Geng Chen, and Y. L. Lio
Proteomic profiling identifies novel proteins for genetic risk of severe COVID-19: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study, Brian T. Steffen, James S. Pankow, Pamela L. Lutsey, Ryan T. Demmer, Jeffrey R. Misialek, Weihua Guan, Logan Cowan, Josef Coresh, Faye L. Norby, and Weihong Tang
Bayesian Methods for Geospatial Data Analysis, Wei Tu and Lili Yu
A Bootstrap Method for a Multiple-Imputation Variance Estimator in Survey Sampling, Lili Yu and Yichuan Zhao
Submissions from 2021
Variations of radon and airborne particulate matter near three large phosphogypsum stacks in Florida, Caleb Adeoye, Jayanta Gupta, Nora Demers, and Atin Adhikari
Lag Effects of Ozone, PM2.5, and Meteorological Factors on COVID-19 New Cases at the Disease Epicenter in Queens, New York, Atin Adhikari and Jingjing Yin
Perceptions of well water stewardship in Evans County, Asli Aslan and E. Dotherow
Conversing or Diffusing Information? An Examination of Public Health Twitter Chats, Lauren Bayliss, Yuner Zhu, King-Wa Fu, Lindsay Mullican, Ferdous Ahmeda, Hai Liang, Zion Tse, Nitin Saroha, Jingjing Yin, and Isaac Fung
On Kernel-based Quantile Estimation Using Different Stratified Sampling Schemes With Optimal Allocation, Abbas Eftekharian and Hani Samawi
People Count: Contact-Tracing Apps and Public Health, Isaac Fung and Benedict S.B. Chan
SARS-CoV-2 Transmission in Alberta, British Columbia, and Ontario, Canada, December 25, 2019, to December 1, 2020, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, Yuen Wai Hung, Sylvia Ofori, Kamalich Muniz-Rodriguez, Po-Ying Lai, and Gerardo Chowell
Assessing Early Heterogeneity in Doubling Times of the Covid-19 Epidemic Across Prefectures in Mainland China, January-February, 2020, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung and Xiaolu Zhou
High Intermediate Risk Pulmonary Embolism: The Use of Very Low Dose Catheter-Directed Ultrasound- Accelerated Thrombolysis, Lee W. Greenspon, Ryan D. Reber, Ravi Desai, Theodore J. Plush, Matthew Hegewald, Haresh Rochani, Peter A. Villas, and Joseph Bonn
Care coordination for rural residents with chronic disease: Predictors of improved outcomes, Andrew Hansen, Susan F. McLendon, and Haresh Rochani
Statistical Analysis Based on Adaptive Progressive Hybrid Censored Data From Lomax Distribution, Amal Helu and Hani Samawi
Chapter 38 - Sleep, Anxiety, and Depression, Li-Ting Huang and Kelly L. Sullivan
Perceived Discrimination and Racism on the Treatment and Medication Adherence of Hypertension in African Americans, Ifeoluwa Kayode, Daisy Tovar, and Logan Cowan
COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil: Clinical Manifestation and Effect of Comorbidities on Outcomes of Hospitalized SARI Cases, Mario Keko and Karl E. Peace
COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil: Clinical Manifestation and Effect of Comorbidities on Outcomes of Hospitalized SARI Cases, Mario Keko and Karl E. Peace
Changes in the Association Between Overweight and Depression Across Three Major Ethnic Groups, Between 2005 – 2018, Arshpreet Malhi, Kelly L. Sullivan, and Jian Zhang
Evaluation of a filtering facepiece respirator and a pleated particulate respirator in filtering ultrafine particles and submicron particles in welding and asphalt plant work environments, Aniruddha Mitra, Atin Adhikari, Clinton Martin, Gracia Dardano, Pascal Wagemaker, and Caleb Adeoye
Aggregating Twitter Text through Generalized Linear Regression Models for Tweet Popularity Prediction and Automatic Topic Classification, Chen Mo, Jingjing Yin, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, and Zion Tse
Time-varying reproduction numbers of COVID-19 in Georgia, USA, March 2-November 20, 2020, Kamalich Muniz-Rodriguez, Gerardo Chowell, Jessica S. Schwind, Randall Ford, Sylvia Ofori, Chigozie Alexandra Ogwara, Margaret R. Davies, Terrence Jacobs, Chi-Ngai Cheung, Logan Cowan, Andrew Hansen, and Isaac Fung
Community Characteristics and COVID-19 Outcomes: A Study of 159 Counties in Georgia, United States, Tran Ha Nguyen, Gulzar H. Shah, Jessica S. Schwind, and Holly L. Richmond
The mycobiomes and bacteriomes of sputum, saliva, and home dust, Christine Niemeier-Walsh, Patrick Ryan, Jarek Meller, Nicholas Ollberding, Atin Adhikari, Reshmi Indugula, and Tiina Reponen
Exposure to traffic-related air pollution and bacterial diversity in the lower respiratory tract of children, Christine Niemeier-Walsh, Patrick Ryan, Jaroslaw Meller, Nicholas Ollberding, Atin Adhikari, and Tiina Reponen
Economic Evaluations of Interventions Against Influenza at Workplaces: Systematic Review, Sylvia Ofori, Y. W. Hung, Jessica S. Schwind, Kadiatou Diallo, Doyinsola Babatunde, Samuel Nwaobi, Xinyi Hua, Kelly L. Sullivan, Benjamin J. Cowling, Gerardo Chowell, and Isaac Fung
Spatially Refined Time-Varying Reproduction Numbers of COVID-19 by Health District in Georgia, USA, March–December 2020, Chigozie A. Ogwara, Arshpreet Kaur Mallhi, Xinyi Hua, Kamalich Muniz-Rodriguez, Jessica S. Schwind, Xiaolu Zhou, Jeffery A. Jones, Joanne Chopak-Foss, Gerardo Chowell, and Isaac Chun-Hai Fung
Increased prevalence of indoor Aspergillus and Penicillium species is associated with indoor flooding and coastal proximity: a case study of 28 moldy buildings, Mayomi Omebeyinje, Adewale Adeluyi, Chandrani Mitra, Paramita Chakraborty, Gregory Gandee, Nalit Patel, Bindhu Verghese, Christine Farrance, Matthew Hull, Paramita Basu, Kwonmoo Lee, Atin Adhikari, Burcu Adivar, Jennifer Horney, and Anindya Chanda
The Pharmaceutical Industry Contributes to Public Health, Karl E. Peace and Mario Keko
Dopaminergic Therapy for Motor Symptoms in Early Parkinson Disease Practice Guideline Summary: A Report of the AAN Guideline Subcommittee, Tamara Pringsheim, Gregory S. Day, Don B. Smith, Alex Rae- Grant, Nicole Licking, Melissa J. Armstrong, Rob M. A. de Bie, Emmanuel Roze, Janis M. Miyasaki, Robert A. Hauser, Alberto J. Espay, Justin P. Martello, Julie Gurwell, Lori Billinghurst, Kelly L. Sullivan, Michael Fitts, Nicholas Cothros, Deborah A. Hall, Miriam Rafferty, Lynn Hagerbrant, Tara Hastings, Mary Dolan O’Brien, Heather Silsbee, Gary Gronseth, and Anthony E. Lang
COVID Round 2: Workplace Support and Compassion Fatigue in Emergency Workers, Carlene A. Robinson and Kelly L. Sullivan
Strategies to Handle Missing Data in Meta-Analysis, Haresh Rochani and Mario Keko
