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Submissions from 2016
Quality Instructional Physical Activity Programs in Higher Education, Kevin Casebolt, Helen W. Bland, Jared Russell, and Bridget F. Melton
Gaining Our BSPH Focus: Transitioning from Bouquet to Single Flower, Joanne Chopak-Foss, Joseph Telfair, and Monica Brister
Factors Associated with Local Health Departments Assessing Their Staff Training Needs and Developing Their Staff Training Plans, Anna Cofie and Gulzar H. Shah
An Examination of Caregiver Frustration Among Families Caring for Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN), Gavin T. Colquitt, Ashley D. Walker, Theophile B. Dipita, Braydon Schaible, and Bethrand Ugwu
High Performance Compute Applications: Biostatistics, Curtis Combs and Jingjing Yin
Internal Professional Development Through Program Planning, Claudia Cornejo Happel and Rachel D. Schwartz
Molecular Epidemiology of Rickettsial Diseases, Marina E. Eremeeva
Rickettsiologist Pavel F. Zdrodovskii: Larger Than Life, and Not Just for His Famous Book, Marina E. Eremeeva, S. N. Shpynov, and I. V. Tarasevich
Public Health Implications of Social Media Use During Natural Disasters, Environmental Disasters, and Other Environmental Concerns, Kathryn C. Finch, Kassandra Snook, Carmen Duke, King-Wa Fu, Zion Tsz Ho Tse, Atin Adhikari, and Isaac Chun-Hai Fung
MERS and Twitter: South Korea, 2015, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, Jing Zeng, Chung-Hong Chan, Hai Liang, Jingjing Yin, Zhaochong Liu, Zion Tsz Ho Tse, and King-Wa Fu
Adolescent Perspective of Physical Activity and Nutrition in a Rural School Environment: Your Intervention Has an Uphill Climb, Andrew Hansen, Tony Pritchard, Irina Melnic, and Melissa Hester
Continuing the Conversation: Drug Diversion in Healthcare Facilities and Defining the Role of Public Health, Katrina E. Hansen, Elizabeth R. Daly, Nicole Bryan, David W. Birnbaum, Rachel Stricof, Julie Reagan, Lynne Mercedes, Catherine Cairns, and Marion A. Kainer
Psychometric Testing and Correlates of the Daily Spiritual Experiences Scale in a Sample of Black Men Who Have Sex with Men (BMSM) Heavily Impacted by Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV): The MARI Study, Ying He, Obie McNair, Angela Johnson, June Gipson, Darwin Thompson, Anne O. Odusanya, Stacy W. Smallwood, and DeMarc Hickson
Getting Elderly to Mover: The Impact of Physical Activity on Arthritis, M. Higgins, B. Smith, D. Waters, B. Babayemi, and Helen W. Bland
The Impact of Physical Activity on Arthritis, M. Higgins, B. Smith, D. Waters, B. Babayemi, and Helen W. Bland
More Efficient Treatment Comparison in Cross-Over Design by Allocating Subject Based on Ranked Auxiliary Variables, Yisong Huang and Hani M. Samawi
Complementary and Alternative Medicine Prevalence and Patterns in the Southeastern United States, Ashley M. Jackson, Lindsay Mullican, Jordan H. Grizzle, and Kelly L. Sullivan
Barriers and Facilitators of Substance Abuse Treatment in Ghana (West Africa): a Social-ecological Perspective Using Photovoice, Ahmed Kabore, Evans Afriyie-Gyawu, Ashley D. Walker, Melissa Hester, and Andrew R. Hansen
Risk and Protective Factors of Substance Abuse in Ghana: A Social-Ecological Perspective Using Photovoice, Ahmed Kabore, Ashley D. Walker, Evans Afriyie-Gyawu, Melissa Hester, and Andrew R. Hansen
Predictors of Having HPV Vaccination Among Young Adults: A BRFSS 2014 Study, Deborah Kanda, Kelly L. Sullivan, and Robert L. Vogel
The Impact of Physical Activity on Quality of Life for Addiction Recovery Program Participants, K. Keefe, C. Lathi, W. Thorton, E. Turkowsky, and Helen W. Bland
Does Universal Insurance Attenuate Racial Disparities in Trauma Outcomes?, L. M. Kodadek, Wei Jiang, Cheryl K. Zogg, Stuart R. Lipsitz, Joel S. Weissman, Zara Cooper, Ali Salim, Stephanie L. Nitzschke, Louis L. Nguyen, Lorens A. Helmchen, Linda G. Kimsey, Samuel Olaiya, Peter A. Learn, and Adil H. Haider
How Did Ebola Information Spread on Twitter?, Hai Liang, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, Zion Tsz Ho Tse, Jingjing Yin, Chung-Hong Chan, L. Pechta, B. Smith, Rolando J. Marquez, Martin Meltzer, K. Lubell, and King-Wa Fu
Multivariate Mean Estimation Under Efficient Sampling Designs, Daniel F. Linder, Haresh Rochani, Hani M. Samawi, and Viral Panchal
Adherence to Cervical Cancer Screening Guidelines Among Latina Immigrant Women in Coastal South Carolina, John S. Luque, Caroline Davila, Yelena N. Tarasenko, and Nicole Knight
Efficacy Study of a Group-Based Promotora Intervention to Increase Cervical Cancer Screening Among Immigrant Latina Women, John S. Luque, Yelena N. Tarasenko, Moya L. Alfonso, Claudia M. Reyes-Garcia, Laura Rebing, and Daron Ferris
Air Quality on Human Health, V. Manning and Sara S. Plaspohl
Large Group Games: Active, Fun, and DAP, Starla McCollum, Gavin T. Colquitt, and Tony A. Pritchard
Tactical Games Model in Elementary Physical Education, Starla McCollum, Chad R. Johnson, Tony A. Pritchard, and Gavin T. Colquitt
Distance Education: Implementing Design and Delivery Standards in an Online Program Area, Katie M. Mercer
Covert Observation in Public Health, Katie M. Mercer
A Systematic Review of Efforts to Monitor Reproductive Health Outcomes in Cancer Survivors, Anthony L. Moore, Chen Chen, and Yelena N. Tarasenko
Preterm Births in Cancer Survivors and Their Characteristics, 2004-2011 HCUP NIS, Anthony L. Moore, Chen Chen, and Yelena N. Tarasenko
Continuum of a Declining Trend in Correct Self-Perception of Body Weight among American Adults, Amber Morgan, Shannon Hardy, Stacy Carswell, Jian Zhang, and Andrew Hansen
Confidence Intervals for Differences Between Volumes Under ROC Surfaces and Generalized Youden Indices, Christos T. Nakas, Jingjing Yin, Lili Tian, and Benjamin Reiser
Impact of Local Health Departments' (LHDs) Budget Cuts and Staff Reduction on Service Changes, Bobbie Jo Newell and Gulzar H. Shah
“Not Another Ferguson”: A Community Group Effort, John Nwosu, Danyel Addes, Stacy W. Smallwood, Jane Page, and Wendy Denton
Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in People with Heart Disease in Southeast/Rural Georgia, Chimuanya Okoli, Sewuese Akuse, Sydney E. Carswell, and Kelly L. Sullivan
The Eco-Epidemiology of Pacific Coast Tick Fever in California, Kerry A. Padgett, Denise L. Bonilla, Marina E. Eremeeva, Carol A. Glaser, Robert S. Lane, Charsey Cole Porse, Martin B. Castro, Sharon L. Messenger, Alex Espinosa, Jill Hacker, Anne Kjemtrup, Bonnie Ryan, Jamesina J. Scott, Renjie Hu, Melissa Hardstone Yoshimizu, Gregory A. Dasch, and Vicki Kramer
The Bayesian Multivariate Regression for High Dimensional Longitudinal Data with Heavy-Tailed Errors, Viral Panchal, Daniel Linder, and Hani M. Samawi
Whys and Hows of Adverse Event Monitoring, Karl E. Peace
One in Five: A Latino HIV Seminar, Sara S. Plaspohl and F. Taiwo
Innovative Teaching Technique, Julie Reagan
State Return-to-Learn Youth Sports Concussion Laws, Julie Reagan, Nicholas G. Murray, Kelly L. Sullivan, Allison M. Drew, Patrick Chang, and Brandon Wilcher
A 13-County Rural Health District’s Journey to Strategic Planning, Gurleen Roberts, Amber Erickson, Angela Peden, and Gulzar H. Shah
MLEs for Diagnostic Measures of Accuracy by Log-Linear Models for Correction of Workup Bias, Haresh Rochani, Hani M. Samawi, Robert L. Vogel, and Jingjing Yin
A Preliminary Examination of Elevated Blood Lead Levels in a Rural Georgia County, R. Christopher Rustin, Yu Sun, Chris Calhoun, and Christy Kuriatnyk
Simpler Approach for Mediation Analysis for Dichotomous Mediators in Logistic Regression, Hani M. Samawi, Jingxian Cai, Haresh Rochani, and Daniel F. Linder
Notes on Kernel Based Mode Estimation Using More Efficient Sampling Designs, Hani M. Samawi, Haresh Rochani, Jingjing Yin, Daniel Linder, and Robert L. Vogel
More Efficient Survival Analysis Using Moving Extreme Ranked Auxiliary Covariate Sampling Method, Hani M. Samawi, Haresh Rochani, Lili Yu, and Robert L. Vogel
Predictors of Activity Limitations and Participation Restrictions Among Children With Cerebral Palsy, Braydon Schaible, Gavin T. Colquitt, Manuela C. Caciula, Li Li, and Matthew S. Moreau
Adequacy of Insurance Coverage and Impact on Employment Among Families Caring for a Child With Cerebral Palsy, Braydon Schaible, Gavin T. Colquitt, Li Li, and Manuela C. Caciula
Culturally-Appropriate, Contextually-Grounded CBPR Physical Activity Intervention for Rural Residents: Explaining Unanticipated Intervention Outcomes, Nancy E. Schoenberg, Aasha I. Hoogland, Charles E. Hoogland, Shoshana H. Bardach, and Yelena N. Tarasenko
An Assessment of Data Related to Inspections of Risk Factors for Public Swimming Pools, Shanita Shack, Maurice Redmond, and R. Christopher Rustin
Characterizing the Informatics Capacities and Needs of Local Health Departments in a Post-Affordable Care Act, Gulzar H. Shah, Jonathon P. Leider, Brian C. Castrucci, Karmen S. Williams, and Akrati Gupta
Levels of and Barriers to Interoperability of Information Systems Managed and Used by the Local Health Departments, Gulzar H. Shah, Jonathon P. Leider, Ravneet Kaur, and Huabin Luo
Developing and Applying a Taxonomy of Local Boards of Health: A Standardized Tool for Efficient Public Health Governance, Policy and Practice, Gulzar H. Shah, Jiali Ye, and Carolyn J. Leep
Rural/Urban Differences in Drunk Driving and Riding with a Drunk Driver among Students, Bryant Smalley, Jacob Warren, Yelena N. Tarasenko, and K. Nikki Barefoot
Examining the Relationships between Religiosity, Spirituality, Internalized Homonegativity, and Condom Use among African American MSM: The SHIFT Study, Stacy W. Smallwood
Differences in Risky Sexual Behaviors by HIV Serostatus among Black Men Who Have Sex with Men, Stacy W. Smallwood and Anne O. Odusanya
“Not Another Ferguson”: A Community Group Effort for Social Change, Stacy W. Smallwood and Anne O. Odusanya
Socioeconomic Status and Indoor Environmental Quality in a Rural Georgia Community, Errol Spence, Ferdous Ahmed, Gulzar H. Shah, and Atin Adhikari
Moving Beyond “Call Me Caitlyn”: Transgender Health in the American South, S. Melinda Spencer and Stacy W. Smallwood
Healthcare Reform in the United States: The Affordable Care Act, James H. Stephens
Assessment of Balance in Adults with Friedreich’s Ataxia, Jeannie Stephenson, Seok Hun Kim, Clifton Gooch, Kelly L. Sullivan, Israt Jahan, and Theresa A. Zesiewicz
Relationship Between Balance Deficits and Gait Variability in Adults With Friedreich’s Ataxia, Jeannie Stephenson, Seok Hun Kim, Clifton Gooch, Kelly L. Sullivan, and Theresa A. Zesiewicz
Sleep Deficiency is Associated with Lack of Exercise and Higher BMI among Community-Dwelling Older Adults, Kelly L. Sullivan
Sleep Deficiency Is Associated with Lack of Exercise and Higher BMI among Community-Dwelling Older Adults, Kelly L. Sullivan
EPI-743 for Friedreichs Ataxia Patients with Point Mutations, Kelly L. Sullivan, Mary Freeman, Jessica Shaw, Clifton Gooch, Yangxin Huang, Matthew Klein, Guy Miller, and Theresa A. Zesiewicz
Physical Activity and Mortality among Cancer Survivors in the United States, Yelena N. Tarasenko, Daniel F. Linder, and E. Miller
Developing Strategies to Advance Public Health Social Work, Joseph Telfair
Interprofessional Identity Development for Health & Social Sciences, Joseph Telfair
Multi-Disciplinary Collaborative Research, Joseph Telfair
Rapid Needs Assessment Community Health Analysis, Joseph Telfair
Where Are All the Physician Assistants in the Beehive State?, Virginia L. Valentine, Jennifer Coombs, and Jeffery A. Jones
Exploring Factors Impacting Adequate Care Coordination Among Families Caring for Children With Special Health Care Needs (CHSCN), Ashley D. Walker, Gavin T. Colquitt, Theophile B. Dipita, Braydon Schaible, and Bethrand Ugwu
Elements of Collaboration for Community Health Assessment and Planning, Karmen S. Williams, Gulzar H. Shah, and Nathalie Robin
Firearm Availability and Homicide Rates: An Evidence-Based Review, A. Wilson, G. Xiang, and Sara S. Plaspohl
Firearm Availability and Homicide Rates: An Evidence-Based Review, A. Wilson, G. Xiang, and Sara S. Plaspohl
Comparing Two Correlated Diagnostic Tests Based on Joint Testing of the AUC and the Youden Index, Jingjing Yin, Lili Tian, and Hani Samawi
Comparing Paired Diagnostic Tests Based on Joint Testing of the AUC and the Youden Index, Jingjing Yin, Lili Tian, and Hani M. Samawi
Homoscedastic test for the AFT model, Lili Yu, Liang Liu, and Ding-Geng Chen
EPI-743 Improves Motor Function and CNS Biomarkers in PD: Results From a Phase 2A Pilot Trial, Theresa A. Zesiewicz, Kevin Allison, Israt Jahan, Jessica Shaw, F. Murtagh, Tracy Jones, Clifton Gooch, Jason L. Salemi, Matthew Klein, Guy Miller, and Kelly L. Sullivan
Generational Shift of Weight Related Social Norms Causes, Impacts and Solutions, Jian Zhang
Racial Disparities in Emergency General Surgery: Do Differences in Outcomes Persist Among Universally Insured Military Patients?, Cheryl Zogg, Wei Jiang, Muhammed Ali Chaudhary, John Scott, Adil A. Shah, Stuart R. Lipsitz, Joel S. Weissman, Zara Cooper, Ali Salim, Stephanie L. Nitzschke, Louis L. Nguyen, Lorens A. Helmchen, Linda G. Kimsey, Samuel Olaiya, Peter A. Learn, and Adil H. Haider
Submissions from 2015
Geographic Variation in Medicare and the Military Healthcare System, Taiwo Adesoya, Linda G. Kimsey, Stuart R. Lipsitz, Lorens A. Helmchen, Louis L. Nguyen, Samuel Olaiya, Philip Goodney, and Joel S. Weissman
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
Guest lecture given for the Human Nutrition (NTFS 3534), Nutrition and Food Science Program, Health and Kinesiology Department at Georgia Southern University, Evans Afriyie-Gyawu
Influence of Serum Lycopene on Fatality among Lung Cancer Patients: An 18-Year Follow Up of a National Cohort, Evans Afriyie-Gyawu, Oreoluwa Adeyinka, Chimuanya Okoli, and Jian Zhang
Serum Levels of Vitamin A and its Precursors and Colorectal Cancer Fatality: An 18-yr Follow-Up Study of a National Cohort, Evans Afriyie-Gyawu, Titilope Ogunleke, Chimuanya Okoli, and Jian Zhang
Serum Levels of Vitamin A and its Precursors and Colorectal Cancer Fatality: An 18-yr Follow-Up Study of a National Cohort, Evans Afriyie-Gyawu, Titilope Ogunleke, Chimuanya Okoli, and Jian Zhang
Effects of Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Exercise on Biomarkers Associated with Cardiovascular Diseases, Suman Ahuja, Padmini Shankar, and Gulzar H. Shah
Childhood Obesity Perceptions Among African American Caregivers in a Rural Georgia Community: A Mixed Methods Approach, Dayna Alexander, Moya L. Alfonso, and Andrew R. Hansen
Measuring Coalition Functioning: A Review and Case Study, Moya L. Alfonso
Photovoice as a Service Learning Assessment Tool: Feasibility and Validity Evidence, Moya L. Alfonso
