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Submissions from 2017

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Understanding Obesity and Self-Esteem: What Your Weight in Middle School Says About You Now, Etinosa Oghogho and Helen W. Bland

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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

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Description of State Laws Governing Administration of Naloxone for Opioid Emergency Treatment, Eniola Olatunji, Julie Reagan, and Yelena N. Tarasenko

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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

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EMS 2020: A Multi-Year SWOT and Financial Analysis of Georgia’s Emergency Medical Services System, Charles F. Owens

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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

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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

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Hot Deck Imputation for Mixed Typed Datasets using Model Based Clustering, Sarbesh Raj Pandeya and Haresh Rochani

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Characteristics of Local Health Departments Involved in Climate Change Mitigation, John Peden and Gulzar H. Shah

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Developing and Implementing an Emergency Preparedness Course for Masters of Public Health (MPH) Program Core Curriculum to Promote Workforce Development, Sara S. Plaspohl

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Climate Change and CHNAs of Georgia Not-For-Profit Hospitals: A Missed Opportunity, Julie Reagan, Linda G. Kimsey, Alan Kattlemann, and Patricia Diaz

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Efficient Sampling Design for Making Inference on Mean Estimation in Longitudinal Data, Haresh Rochani, Daniel F. Linder, Hani Samawi, and Viral Panchal

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Assessing the Feasibility of the Employer as a Health Advisor for Obesity Prevention, Siddhartha Roy, Andrew R. Hansen, Levi Ross, and Rebecca Larson

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Kernel Density Estimation Based on Progressive Type-II Censoring, Hani Samawi, Amal Helu, Haresh Rochani, Jingjing Yin, and Robert L. Vogel

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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

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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

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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

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Public Health Agencies’ Health Informatics Capacity and Its Impact on Activities to Address Health Disparities, Gulzar H. Shah, William A. Mase, and Kristie Waterfield

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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

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HIV Prevention among MSM of Color in Rural Areas, Stacy W. Smallwood

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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

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Sleep Duration and Feeling Rested Are Differentially Associated With Having Children Among Men and Women, Kelly L. Sullivan

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Blending Pedagogical Approaches in Public Health Education: The A.D.O.P.T. Model, McKinley Thomas, Lesley Clack, and Sara S. Plaspohl

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Public Health Agencies’ Health Informatics Capacity and Its Impact on Activities to Address Health Disparities, Kristie Waterfield, Gulzar H. Shah, and William A. Mase

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Confidence Intervals for Differences Between Volumes Under ROC Surfaces and Generalized Youden Indices, Jingjing Yin

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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

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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

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The Spike-and-Slab Lasso Cox Model for Survival Prediction and Associated Genes Detection, Xinyan Zhang, Zaixiang Tang, Yueping Shen, and Nengjun Yi

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#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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Effect of Hospital Closure on the Financial Performance of Neighboring Surviving Rural Hospitals, Emmanuel A. Akowuah, Bettye A. Apenteng, and Samuel T. Opoku

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Assessment of Prescription Patterns of Nurse Practitioners in Emergency Departments, Emmanuel A. Akowuah, Samuel T. Opoku, and Bettye A. Apenteng

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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

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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

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Service Learning and Habitat for Humanity: The Downtown Statesboro, GA Redevelopment Project, Moya L. Alfonso

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Service-Learning for Georgia Southern's Public Health Students, Moya L. Alfonso and Blair E. Baker

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Results from an Educational Needs Assessment Conducted in a Former Slave Community: Implications for Public Health Policy, Moya L. Alfonso and Shannon Hardy

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Measuring Community Capacity and Coalition Functioning: A Review and Case Study of a Violence Prevention Program, Moya L. Alfonso and Sherri Reynolds

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Addressing Violence in Our Schools: Approaches to Program Development and Evaluation, Moya L. Alfonso, Sherri Reynolds, Paul Sutton, and Hannah Covel

Molecular Identification of the Sources of Non-Point Pollution and Microbial Risk Assessment upon Exposure to Recreational Waters at Jekyll Island Beaches, Asli Aslan

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Sources of Enterococci and Their Relation with Environmental Factors at an Inland Beach, Asli Aslan

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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