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Submissions from 2017
Understanding Obesity and Self-Esteem: What Your Weight in Middle School Says About You Now, Etinosa Oghogho and Helen W. Bland
Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in People with Cardiovascular Disease in Southeast Rural Georgia, Chimuanya Okoli, Sewuese Akuse, Stacy Carswell, and Kelly L. Sullivan
Description of State Laws Governing Administration of Naloxone for Opioid Emergency Treatment, Eniola Olatunji, Julie Reagan, and Yelena N. Tarasenko
An Ethnographic Analysis of Health Resources in the Willow Hill Community, Maria I. Olivas and Moya Alfonso PhD
Subjective Sleep Quality Among Residents of Southeast Georgia, C. O. Ordiah, Oluwaseun Oguntomole, A. Nikaj, and Kelly L. Sullivan
Association of Socioeconomic Factors and Breast, Cervical and Prostate Cancer Screening in Southeast Georgia, S. Oseghale, B. Okoro, B. Buchanan, and Kelly L. Sullivan
EMS 2020: A Multi-Year SWOT and Financial Analysis of Georgia’s Emergency Medical Services System, Charles F. Owens
Predictors and Respiratory Depositions of Airborne Endotoxin in Homes Using Biomass Fuels and LPG Gas for Cooking, Bijaya K. Padhi, Atin Adhikari, Prakasini Satapathy, Alok K. Patra, Dinesh Chandel, and Pinaki Panigrahi
Health Care Provider Practices around Emergency Contraception: An Analysis of a Nationwide Provider Survey, H. Pamela Pagano, James H. Stephens, Haresh Rochani, Julie Reagan, Lauren Zapata, Maura Whiteman, and Kate Curtis
Assessing the Feasibility of Capturing Treatment Information Needs Using an Electronic Question Prompt List: A Pilot Study of Localized Prostate Cancer Survivors, Sarbesh Pandeya, Abraham Deng, Jarrett Johnson, Andrew R. Hansen, and Levi Ross
Hot Deck Imputation for Mixed Typed Datasets using Model Based Clustering, Sarbesh Raj Pandeya and Haresh Rochani
Characteristics of Local Health Departments Involved in Climate Change Mitigation, John Peden and Gulzar H. Shah
Developing and Implementing an Emergency Preparedness Course for Masters of Public Health (MPH) Program Core Curriculum to Promote Workforce Development, Sara S. Plaspohl
Peer to Peer Education: Conduct of College Campus Health Fair, Sara S. Plaspohl
One in Five: A Latino HIV Seminar, Sara S. Plaspohl, M. Carpenter, and B. Youngberg
Student-Led Planning and Implementation of Peer Education: Campus Health Promotion Fair, Sara S. Plaspohl, Nandi A. Marshall, TimMarie Williams, McKinley Thomas, and Dziyana Nazaruk
Student-Led Planning and Implementation of Peer Education: Campus Health Promotion Fair, Sara S. Plaspohl, Nandi A. Marshall, TimMarie Williams, McKinley Thomas, and Dziyana Nazaruk
Case Study: Student-Led Initiative for Development of Public Health Leadership Skills Among College Students, Sara S. Plaspohl, Po'Teea Morris-Hunter, Vanessa Manning, Nandi A. Marshall, Lissette Badillo, and Victoria Baldwin
Emerging Adulthood and Homicide, A. Plotner, P. Patel, and Sara S. Plaspohl
Climate Change and CHNAs of Georgia Not-For-Profit Hospitals: A Missed Opportunity, Julie Reagan, Linda G. Kimsey, Alan Kattlemann, and Patricia Diaz
Efficient Sampling Design for Making Inference on Mean Estimation in Longitudinal Data, Haresh Rochani, Daniel F. Linder, Hani Samawi, and Viral Panchal
Assessing the Feasibility of the Employer as a Health Advisor for Obesity Prevention, Siddhartha Roy, Andrew R. Hansen, Levi Ross, and Rebecca Larson
Kernel Density Estimation Based on Progressive Type-II Censoring, Hani Samawi, Amal Helu, Haresh Rochani, Jingjing Yin, and Robert L. Vogel
A Simpler Approach for Mediation Analysis for Dichotomous Mediators in Logistic Regression, Hani M. Samawi, Jingxian Cai, Daniel F. Linder, Haresh Rochani, and Jingjing Yin
Notes on the Overlap Measure as an Alternative to the Youden Index: How Are They Related?, Hani M. Samawi, Jingjing Yin, Haresh Rochani, and Viral Panchal
Barriers to Accessing Reproductive Health Services for Sexually Active Women Ages 15-44, A. Sanders and Sara S. Plaspohl
Twitter Reactions to Global Health News Related to Five Different Countries: A Case Study of #Polio, Braydon J. Schaible, Kassandra R. Snook, Jingjing Yin, Ashley M. Jackson, Jennifer O. Ahweyevu, Zion Tsz Ho Tse, Hai Liang, King-Wa Fu, and Isaac Fung
Capacity Building in Public Health Through Strategic Interdisciplinary Partnerships, Jessica S. Schwind
Exploring the Importance of Health Journalism in Risk Communication from a One Health Perspective: A Case Study in Nepal, Jessica S. Schwind
Public Health Informatics, Jessica S. Schwind
Application of the Misclassification Simulation Extrapolation Procedure to Log-Logistic Accelerated Failure Time Models in Survival Analysis, Varadan Sevilimedu, Lili Yu, Hani Samawi, and Haresh Rochani
Interoperability of Environmental and Other Information Systems, Gulzar H. Shah
Nature of Change and Factors Associated With Change in Number of Patients Served by Local Health Departments in Their Clinics, Gulzar H. Shah, Victor Chukwu, Uche Okoro, and Kavita Goil
Public Health Agencies’ Health Informatics Capacity and Its Impact on Activities to Address Health Disparities, Gulzar H. Shah, William A. Mase, and Kristie Waterfield
Creating a Taxonomy of Local Boards of Health Based on Local Health Departments’ Perspectives, Gulzar H. Shah, Sergey Sotnikov, Carolyn J. Leep, Jiali Ye, and Timothy W. Van-Wave
Religion, Spirituality, and Health: A Unique Perspective, Stacy Smallwood
HIV Prevention among MSM of Color in Rural Areas, Stacy W. Smallwood
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Older Adults, Stacy W. Smallwood
Seeing the Invisible: Religion, Spirituality, and Sexual Health among African American MSM, Stacy W. Smallwood
Health Inequities at the Intersection of Race, Place, and LGBT Identity, Stacy W. Smallwood and S. Melinda Spencer
Barriers to a Quality Diet: Cultural and Socioeconomic Influences among Residents of Rural Southeast Georgia, M. Smith, Daneisha Hawkins, T. Madandola, and Kelly L. Sullivan
Association of Insufficient Sleep With Symptoms of Anxiety and Depression in the General Population, Kelly L. Sullivan
GSU Alumni Association, Invited Speaker, Kelly L. Sullivan
Sleep Duration and Feeling Rested Are Differentially Associated With Having Children Among Men and Women, Kelly L. Sullivan
Diagnostic Validity of Static and Dynamic Postural Assessments Within 24-48 Hours Post-Concussion, Brian Szekely, Nicholas G. Murray, Megan E. Mormile, Katelyn E. Grimes, Jingjing Yin, and Doug W. Powell
Social Determinants of Diabetes and Disease Management in Low and Middle Income Countries: Evidence from the Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health, Allan Tate, Logan T. Cowan, Rachel Ogilvie, Duke Appiah, and Benjamin D. Capistrant
A Brief Overview of the Delivery, Teaching and Use of Continuing Professional Development (CPD)/Continuing Education (CE) in the United States, Joseph Telfair
APHA, Affiliates responding to and shaping Public Health - Environmental Justice and Health Disparity, Joseph Telfair
APHA, Affiliates Responding to and Shaping Public Health in the US - Now and the Future, Joseph Telfair
Cultural Humility, Joseph Telfair
Development-Enhancement of the Assessment Monitoring and Evaluation - Knowledge and Skills, Joseph Telfair
More Than a Professional Association: The Link Between APHA, Academics, and Practice, Joseph Telfair
Navigating Uncertainty: Working Towards Achieving Health Equity, Joseph Telfair
Public Health, Social Work and Practice – The Person-Population Fit, Joseph Telfair
Social Research Methods in Rural Settings, Joseph Telfair
Campus Health Promotion Planning Using the National College Health Assessment (NCHA): Is There Value Added When Assessing Readiness to Change?, James Thomas, Andrew R. Hansen, Stacy W. Smallwood, and Levi Ross
Campus Health Promotion Planning Using the National College Health Assessment (NCHA): Is There Value Added When Assessing Readiness To Change?, James Thomas, Andrew Hansen, Stacy Smallwood, and Levi Ross
Blending Pedagogical Approaches in Public Health Education: The A.D.O.P.T. Model, McKinley Thomas, Lesley Clack, and Sara S. Plaspohl
Public Health Agencies’ Health Informatics Capacity and Its Impact on Activities to Address Health Disparities, Kristie Waterfield, Gulzar H. Shah, and William A. Mase
Confidence Intervals for Differences Between Volumes Under ROC Surfaces and Generalized Youden Indices, Jingjing Yin
Attributes of Videos Related to Cupping Therapy on YouTube, Jingjing Yin, Corey H. Basch, Md Mohiuddin Adnan, M. Dottington Fullwood, Anthony Menafro, and Isaac Chun-Hai Fung
Comparing Two Biomarkers for Disease of Three Categories, Jingjing Yin and Christos T. Nakas
HIV Prevention and Testing Strategies Among Racial Minorities: A Literature Review, B. Youngberg and Sara S. Plaspohl
Survival Data Analysis, Lili Yu
Weighted least squares method for AFT model, Lili Yu, Liang Liu, and Ding-Geng Chen
Quasi-likelihood Ratio Tests for Homoscedasticity of Variance in Linear Regression, Lili Yu, Varadan Sevilimedu, Hani Samawi, and Robert L. Vogel
EPI-743 (Alpha-Tocotrienol Quinone) Demonstrates Long-Term Improvement in Neurological Function and Disease Progression in Friedreich’s Ataxia, Theresa A. Zesiewicz, Susan Perlman, Kelly L. Sullivan, Jason Salemi, Yangxin Huang, Charles Isaacs, Matthew Klein, Jessica Shaw, Clifton Gooch, and David Lynch
The Spike-and-Slab Lasso Cox Model for Survival Prediction and Associated Genes Detection, Xinyan Zhang, Zaixiang Tang, Yueping Shen, and Nengjun Yi
#PublicHealthChat: An Analysis of a Twitter Health Communication Event, Yuner Zhu, King-Wa Fu, Lindsay Mullican, Ferdous Ahmed, Hai Liang, Zion Tsz Ho Tse, Jingjing Yin, Nitin Saroha, and Isaac Chun-Hai Fung
Submissions from 2016
Culturability of Bacillus Spores on Aerosol Collection Filters Exposed to Airborne Combustion Products of Al, Mg, and B·Ti., Atin Adhikari, Michael Yermakov, Reshmi Indugula, Tiina Reponen, Adam Driks, and Sergey A. Grinshpun
Guest Lecture given at Cultural Foods (NTFS 4630), Nutrition and Food Science Program, Health and Kinesiology Department at Georgia Southern University, Evans Afriyie-Gyawu
Guest Lecture given at Environmental Health (PUBH 6532), Environmental Health Sciences, JPHCOPH at Georgia Southern University, Evans Afriyie-Gyawu
Guest Lecture given at Principles of Environmental Health (PUBH 3136), Undergraduate program in (BSPH), Department of Community Health, JPHCOPH at Georgia Southern University, Evans Afriyie-Gyawu
Guest Lecture given at Principles of Environmental Health (PUBH 3136), Undergraduate program in (BSPH), Department of Community Health, JPHCOPH at Georgia Southern University, Evans Afriyie-Gyawu
Guest Lecture given at Toxicology (BIOL 5243), Biology Department at Georgia Southern University, Evans Afriyie-Gyawu
Guest lecture given for the Global Health (CHBE 9335), Department of Community Health, JPHCOPH at Georgia Southern University, Evans Afriyie-Gyawu
Influence of Serum Lypocene on Lung Cancer Mortality: An 18-Year Follow-Up Study of a National Cohort, Evans Afriyie-Gyawu, Sewuese Akuse, Oreoluwa Adeyinka, and Jian Zhang
Chemical Emissions via Smoke Produced Through Burning of Scrap Tires, Firewood and Liquefied Petroleum Gas as Fuel Sources for Singeing Meat in Ghana, Evans Afriyie-Gyawu, Alicia Brown, Rachel Barham, and Haresh Rochani
Serum Folate Levels and Fatality among Diabetic Adults: A 15-Y Follow-Up of a National Cohort, Evans Afriyie-Gyawu, Emeka Ifebi, Akwasi Ampofo-Yeboah, Brittany Kyte, Sambridhi Shrestha, and Jian Zhang
Serum Lycopene Levels and Prostate Cancer Mortality: An 18-Year Follow-Up Study of a National Cohort, Evans Afriyie-Gyawu, Deborah Kanda, and Jian Zhang
Influence of Serum Folate Levels on Fatality Among Diabetic Adults in the U.S. Using a 15-Year Follow-Up Cohort Study, Evans Afriyie-Gyawu, Brittany Bianca Kyte, Sambridhi Shrestha, Emeka Ifebi, and Jian Zhang
Effects of Serum Levels of Vitamin A and Its Precursors on Colorectal Cancer Mortality: An 18-Year Follow-Up Study of a National Cohort, Evans Afriyie-Gyawu, Titilope Ogunleke, Chimuanya Okoli, and Jian Zhang
Impacts of Obesity in Pregnancy: Lifestyle Intervention to Improve Outcomes, D. Ahmed and Sara S. Plaspohl
Effect of Hospital Closure on the Financial Performance of Neighboring Surviving Rural Hospitals, Emmanuel A. Akowuah, Bettye A. Apenteng, and Samuel T. Opoku
Assessment of Prescription Patterns of Nurse Practitioners in Emergency Departments, Emmanuel A. Akowuah, Samuel T. Opoku, and Bettye A. Apenteng
Variation in Emergency Department Wait Times Among Mental Health Patients, Emmanuel A. Akowuah, Samuel T. Opoku, and Bettye A. Apenteng
Psychometric Testing of the Childhood Obesity Perceptions (COP) Survey for Program Planners and Evaluators, Dayna S. Alexander, Moya L. Alfonso, and Chunhua Cao
Exploring Risk and Protective Factors for Alcohol and Tobacco Use Among Youth: An Innovative Approach, Moya Alfonso PhD and Akrati Gupta
Formative Evaluations Approaches to Identifying Target Segment, Moya L. Alfonso
Service Learning and Habitat for Humanity: The Downtown Statesboro, GA Redevelopment Project, Moya L. Alfonso
Service-Learning for Georgia Southern's Public Health Students, Moya L. Alfonso and Blair E. Baker
Results from an Educational Needs Assessment Conducted in a Former Slave Community: Implications for Public Health Policy, Moya L. Alfonso and Shannon Hardy
Measuring Community Capacity and Coalition Functioning: A Review and Case Study of a Violence Prevention Program, Moya L. Alfonso and Sherri Reynolds
Addressing Violence in Our Schools: Approaches to Program Development and Evaluation, Moya L. Alfonso, Sherri Reynolds, Paul Sutton, and Hannah Covel
Sources of Enterococci and Their Relation with Environmental Factors at an Inland Beach, Asli Aslan
Microbiological Assessment of Sachet Water in Ghana, West Africa, Asli Aslan, Christina J. Beslin, Asheley L. Poole, Kendall Anderson, Javier Gallard, Kathryn McGowan, Kevin Ofuri-Gyawu, Akmasi Ampofo-Yeboah, and Evans Afriyie-Gyawu
Evidence-Based Review of Contradictory Diet and Physical Health Attributes Among Low-Income Hispanic Children, L. Badillo and Sara S. Plaspohl
Influence of Social Media on the Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Southeast Georgia, Elizabeth B. Blankenship, Mary Elizabeth Goff, Jimmy C. Jenkins, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, and Kelly L. Sullivan
Evidence-Based Support for Self-Management of Hypertension Among Young Adults, K. M. Bollam and Sara S. Plaspohl
