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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
Private Well Water Stewardship In Rural Georgia, J. Edward Dotherow, Bettye Apenteng, Andrew Hansen, and Asli Aslan
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
Using Marketing Strategies to Promote Maternal Health: An International Students’ Collaboration, Dziyana Nazaruk, L. Pardo, Ana Palacios, and Joanne Chopak-Foss
A Quasi-Experimental Study Assessing the Effectiveness of a Community-Based Egg Intervention in the Nutritional and Health Status of Young Children from Rural Honduras, Ana Palacios, Mario Keko, Haresh Rochani, Dziyana Nazaruk, Asli Aslan, Joana Tome, Tilicia Mayo-Gamble, Gisela Ramos, and Laura Manship
Toward a Beloved Community: Facilitated Group Listening as a Tool for Community Development and Civic Engagement, Stacy Smallwood, Kristina Patterson, Kathryn Kaufmann, Tanesha Slocumb, Janice Cawthorn, Anne O. Odusanya, and Danyel Addes
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
Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders: Exploring the Care Deficit, Alexandria Alford, Joanne Chopak-Foss, Alisha Riggins, Tobi Oloyede, Emmanuela Nwaonumah, and Sarah Sejoro
Addressing Racial Disparities in Maternal Health through Policy, Alexandria Alford, Alisha Riggins, Joanne Chopak-Foss, Sarah Sejoro, Tobi Oloyede, and Mambwe Mutiti
Examining the Relationship Between Rural Residents’ Satisfaction with Local Hospital’s COVID-19 Response and Intention to Use the Hospital, Bettye Apenteng, Aishat Adewoye, Charles Owens, Samuel T. Opoku, Linda Kimsey, and Blerta Shehaj
Letters: Authors’ Response, Bettye Apenteng, Samuel T. Opoku, and Tawanna Brown
A Pilot Water Dashboard for Coastal Georgia, Asli Aslan
A Pilot Water Dashboard for Coastal Georgia, Asli Aslan
Is the Public Aware of Water Quality Monitoring and Safety Notifications on Beaches?, Asli Aslan, Jeffery A. Jones, Dziyana Nazaruk, and Sibel Zeki
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
Social Ecological Approach to Factors Influencing Perinatal Mental Health Service Provision Among Providers in Bulloch County, GA, Janet Choongo, Bettye Apenteng, Stanley Nkemjika, and Joseph Telfair
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
COVID-19 Travel Policies for People from China and Discrimination, Guiqing He, Jeffery Jones, and Wenjie Sun
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
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats of a Community-based Egg Program in Rural Honduras, Lilly Karsa, Dziyana Nazaruk, G. Ramos, L. Manship, and Ana M. Palacios
Knowledge, Attitude, and Behavioral Intention About Oral Cancer Among Public Health Students in Southeast Georgia, Ravneet Kaur and Gulzar H. Shah
The Effects of Multiple Micronutrient Fortified Beverage and Responsive Caregiving Interventions on Early Childhood Development, Hemoglobin, and Ferritin among Infants in Rural Guatemala, Alysse J. Kowalski, Victor Alfonso Mayen, Silvia de Ponce, Kaley B. Lambden, Nick Tilton, Lisa M. Villanueva, Ana M. Palacios, Greg A. Reinhart, Kristen M. Hurley, and Maureen M. Black
The Impact of Gloves and Occupational Tasks on Handgrip Strength in Structural Firefighters, Sarah N. Lanham, Emily L. Langford, Haresh Rochani, Bridget F. Melton, Stephen J. Rossi, and Mark G. Abel
Improving Healthcare Experiences for Transgender and Intersex Populations, Destiny S. J. Lee and Joanne Chopak-Foss
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
Transformative Approach to Developing a Sustainable Interprofessional Education Program, Tilicia Mayo-Gamble, Jane Nester, Paula Tillman, Sandhya Lohani, Padmini Shankar, and Pamela Mahan
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
Parental Knowledge and Perceptions on Prevention of Sudden Unexpected Infant Death and Infant Care, Dziyana Nazaruk, Ana M. Palacios, Joanne Chopak-Foss, Tilicia Mayo-Gamble, and Nandi A. Marshall
An Integrated Evidence-based Approach to Provide a Practicum-based Learning Experience to Students, Dziyana Nazaruk, Joseph Telfair, Jamie S. Cromley, Joanne Chopak-Foss, and Ana M. Palacios
The Influence of E-cigarette Warning Labels on Youths’ Use Intentions – A Mediation Analysis of Role of Perceived Harm, Tran Ha Nguyen, Gulzar H. Shah, and Amanda C. Barefield
A Refreshing Change: Safeguarding Mothers and Children from PFAS Exposure, Emmanuela Nwaonumah, Alisha Riggins, Emmanuel Azu, Oluwatoyin Ayo-Farai, Joanne Chopak-Foss, Logan Cowan, and Atin Adhikari
Age-Stratified Model to Assess Health Outcomes of COVID-19 Vaccination Strategies, Ghana, Sylvia Ofori, Jessica S. Schwind, Kelly L. Sullivan, Gerardo Chowell, Benjamin Cowling, and Isaac Fung
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
P24-096-23 Hens Hatching Hope: A Community-Based Egg Project Aiming To Improve Nutritional and Health Status of Young Children in Rural Honduras, Ana M. Palacios, Mario Keko, Gisela Ramos, Laura Manship, Dziyana Nazaruk, Haresh Rochani, Tilicia Mayo-Gamble, Joseph Telfair, and Asli Aslan
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
A Breakthrough in Accessibility: Over-the-Counter Oral Contraceptives, Alisha Riggins, Emmanuela Nwaonumah, Tobi Oloyede, Joanne Chopak-Foss, Logan Cowan, and Elizabeth Olayinka
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
COVID-19 Vaccination Hesitancy in Autoimmune Disease Patients: Policy Action and Ethical Considerations, Nardeen Shafik, Jennifer E. Akpo, Kristie C. Waterfield, and William Mase
COVID-19, Health Inequities, and Behavioral Health Issues Facing Children, Gulzar H. Shah
Editorial: Assessing and Addressing Health Inequities and Disparities: The Role of Health Informatics, Gulzar H. Shah, Anjum Khurshid, and Joanne Chopak-Foss
A Nationwide Study of the “July Effect” Concerning Postpartum Hemorrhage and Its Risk Factors at Teaching Hospitals across the United States, Zahra Shahin, Gulzar H. Shah, Bettye Apenteng, Kristie Cason Waterfield, and Hani M. Samawi
Determinants of Child Stunting, Wasting, and Underweight: Evidence from 2017 to 2018 Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey, Maryam Siddiqa, Gulzar H. Shah, Tilicia Mayo-Gamble, and Amber Zubair
The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: HIV/AIDS Myths and Misinformation in the Rural United States, Stacy Smallwood and Fayth M. Parks
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
Incident Edentulism and Number of Comorbidities Among Middle-aged and Older Americans, Ho-Jui Tung and Randall Ford
Use of Advance Directives in US Veterans and Non-Veterans: Findings from the Decedents of the Health and Retirement Study 1992–2014, Ho-Jui Tung and Ming-Chin Yeh
Implications for Home Health Care: Perceived HPV Vaccination Barriers and Recommended Sources among Hispanic/Latino College Students, Wei-Chen Tung, Itzel Corral Gonzalez, Denise Dawkins, and Ho-Jui Tung
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
Effectiveness of Telemedicine in Diabetes Management: A Retrospective Study in an Urban Medically Underserved Population Area (UMUPA), Lisa Ariellah Ward, Gulzar H. Shah, Jeffery A. Jones, Linda Kimsey, and Hani M. Samawi
Clinical and Demographic Attributes of Patients with Diabetes Associated with the Utilization of Telemedicine in an Urban Medically Underserved Population Area, Lisa Ariellah Ward, Gulzar H. Shah, and Kristie C. Waterfield
The Trend in Density of Skilled Health Personnel in BRICS Countries: Implication for China and India, Fei Yan, Hongxia Li, Wei Wang, and Jian Zhang
Evaluation of Feasibility and Acceptability of a Web-based Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) for Diabetes Risk Reduction in Chinese Americans in New York City, Ming-Chin Yeh, Wincy Lau, Claire Anselmo Keady, Margrethe Horlyck-Romanovsky, Ho-Jui Tung, Lu Hu, Grace X. Ma, and Judith Wylie-Rosett
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
Association between Serum Lycopene and Lung Cancer Mortality: An 18-Year Follow-up Study of a National Cohort, Evans Afriyie-Gyawu, Padmini Shankar, Gulzar H. Shah, Alicia A. Brown, Shannon Cearley, Akwasi Ampofo-Yeboah, Nathaniel Abrams, and Jian Zhang
Expanding implementation of cultural competence in health communication to reduce stigma, Alexandria Alford, Joanne Chopak-Foss, and Katie M. Mercer
Research Outlines Promising Practices for Addressing the Social Needs of Medicaid Enrollees via Managed Care, Bettye A. Apenteng, Samuel T. Opoku, Charles Owens, and Maura Dugan
Flex Financial and Operational Improvement Grant, 2019-2024 Year Three Report, Bettye Apenteng, Kwabena G. Boakye, Linda Kimsey, William Mase, Samuel T. Opoku, Charles Owens, and Angela Peden
2021 Georgia Critical Access Hospital Employee Engagement Assessment Reports, Bettye Apenteng, Linda Kimsey, Samuel T. Opoku, Charles Owens, Angela Peden, and William A. Mase
Evans Memorial Hospital Community Health Needs Assessment and Implementation Plan, Bettye Apenteng, Charles Owens, Linda Kimsey, Samuel T. Opoku, Angela Peden, Aishat Adewoye, Blerta Shehaj, and T. Bratton
Effingham Health System Community Needs Assessment Report, Bettye Apenteng, Charles Owens, Linda Kimsey, Samuel T. Opoku, Angela Peden, Blerta Shehaj, Karabi Barai, and Aishat Adewoye
Bacon County Hospital and Health System Community Needs Assessment Report, Bettye Apenteng, Charles Owens, Samuel T. Opoku, Linda Kimsey, Angela Peden, Karabi Barai, and Blerta Shehaj
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
Local Health Department Engagement in Access to Mental Health Services and Mental Health Policy or Advocacy Activities, Abraham Ater, Sushma Kurella, Gulzar H. Shah, and Kristie C. Waterfield
Factors Associated With Cost Conversations in Oral Health Care Settings, Tawanna Brown, Bettye A. Apenteng, and Samuel T. Opoku
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
The Cost-effectiveness of Collegiate Recovery Programs, Sierra Castedo de Martell, Lori Holleran Steiker, Andrew Springer, Jeffery A. Jones, Emily Eisenhart, and Henry S. Brown III
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
Using a Measurement Model to Reconceptualize the Church Experiences of Black Men who have Sex with Men, Tiffany M. Eden, Stacy Smallwood, and Derrick D. Matthews
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
Psychometric Testing of the Daily Spiritual Experiences Scale (DSES) Among Black Gay, Bisexual, and Other Sexual Minority Men (SMM) and Black Transwomen in the Deep South: The MARI Study, DeMarc A. Hickson, Ying He, Anne O. Odusanya, Adam E. Smith, Adedotun Ogunbajo, and Stacy Smallwood
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
A Case for Menstrual Health Disparities as a Part of Public Health Discourse, Mykala Jackson, Sandhya Lohani, Joanne Chopak-Foss, and Tilicia L. Mayo-Gamble
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
