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Submissions from 2023
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
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
Effects of Educational Interventions in Facilitating Mammography Screening Among Asian American Women: A Meta-Analysis, Li-Ting Huang Longcoy, Chun-Yi Tai, Joshua Longcoy, Judy Huei-yu Wang, Jingjing Yin, Logan Cowan, and Kelly L. Sullivan
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
Net Benefit of Diagnostic Tests for Multistate Diseases: an Indicator Variables Approach, Hani Samawi, Ferdous Ahmeda, Gene Pennello, and Jingjing Yin
Submissions from 2022
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
Crossover Trends in Current Cigarette Smoking Between Racial and Ethnic Groups of US Adolescents Aged 12–19 Years Old, 1999–2018, Samuel Nwaobi, Holly L. Richmond, Doyinsola Babatunde, Felix Twum, Arshpreet Malhi, Yudan Wei, and Jian Zhang
Air Quality and Cancer Prevalence Trends across the Sub-Saharan African Regions during 2005–2020, Omolola Okunromade, Jingjing Yin, Clara Ray, and Atin Adhikari
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
Socioeconomic status and other factors associated with HIV status among OVC in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Gulzar H. Shah, Gina D. Etheredge, Lievain Maluantesa, Kristie Cason Waterfield, Osaremhen Ikhile, Elodie Engetele, Astrid Mulenga, Alice Tabala, and Bernard Bossiky
Hospital Characteristics and Other Factors Associated with the Risk of Postpartum Hemorrhage in the United States, Zahra Shahin, Gulzar H. Shah, William A. Mase, and Bettye Apenteng
Stakeholder Perceptions for Supporting Main Street Revitalization In a Small South Georgia City, RoShonda J. Welch, Alexis Smith, Linda Kimsey, and Andrew R. Hansen
Submissions from 2021
Assessing Public Health Workforce Informatics Competencies: A Study of 3 District Health Departments in Georgia, Olatanwa Adewale, Bettye Apenteng, Gulzar H. Shah, and William Mase
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
Addressing the Social Needs of Medicaid Enrollees Through Managed Care: Lessons and Promising Practices from the Field, Bettye A. Apenteng, Linda Kimsey, Samuel T. Opoku, Charles F. Owens, Angela Peden, and William A. Mase
Strategic Implications of COVID-19: Considerations for Georgia’s Rural Health Providers, Bettye A. Apenteng, Linda Kimsey, Charles Owens, Samuel T. Opoku, Angela Peden, and William Mase
Assessment of the Financial Health of Rural Hospitals After Implementation of the Georgia Rural Hospital Tax Credit Program, Bettye Apenteng, Samuel Opoku, Charles Owens, Emmanuel Akowuah, Linda Kimsey, and Angela Peden
On Kernel-based Quantile Estimation Using Different Stratified Sampling Schemes With Optimal Allocation, Abbas Eftekharian and Hani Samawi
HIV clinical stage progression of patients at 241 outpatient clinics in Democratic Republic of Congo: Disparities by gender, TB status and rurality, Gina D. Etheredge, Raimi Ewetola, Gulzar H. Shah, L. Maluantesa, Kristie C. Waterfield, A. Mulenga, and A. Kilundu
Disparities in HIV Clinical Stages Progression of Patients at Outpatient Clinics in Democratic Republic of Congo, Raimi Ewetola, Gulzar H. Shah, Lievain Maluantesa, Gina D. Etheredge, Kristie C. Waterfield, Astrid Mulenga, and Apolinaire Kilundu
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
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
Assessing Hotel Employee Knowledge on Risk Factors and Risk Management Procedures for Microbial Contamination of Hotel Water Distribution Systems, Brandon Leftwich, Samuel T. Opoku, Jingjing Yin, and Atin Adhikari
Changes in the Association Between Overweight and Depression Across Three Major Ethnic Groups, Between 2005 – 2018, Arshpreet Malhi, Kelly L. Sullivan, and Jian Zhang
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
Impact of Teachers’ Classroom Manners, Teaching Strategies, and Parents’ Socioeconomic Status on Students’ Performance, Maham Muzamil, Gulzar H. Shah, and Kamran James
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
Social Media Usage and Transitioning into Online Classes During COVID-19- A Survey of Undergraduate Students in Georgia, United States, Sylvia Ofori, Janet Choongo, Mario Kekop, Gulzar H. Shah, Haresh Rochani, and Joseph Telfair
Publication bias using R and Stata, Hani Samawi
Ranked Simulated Resampling: A More Efficient and Accurate Resampling Approximations for Bootstrap Inference, Hani Samawi and Ding-Geng Chen
Medical Diagnostics Accuracy Measures and Cut-point Selection: An Innovative Approach Based on Relative Net Benefit, Hani Samawi, Ding-Geng Chen, Ferdous Ahmed, and Jing X. Kersey
Post-Test Diagnostic Accuracy Measures of a Continuous Test With a Disease of Ordinal Multistages, Hani Samawi, Jingjing Yin, Haresh Rochani, Chen Mo, and Jing Kersey
Joint Confidence Region Estimation on Predictive Values, Braydon J. Schaible and Jingjing Yin
Health Reporting Characteristics among Journalists in Nepal Utilizing a One Health Framework, Jessica S. Schwind, Stephanie A. Norman, Munshi Khaledur Rahman, Holly L. Richmond, Sameer M. Dixit, Rajesh M. Rajbhandari, Sarah K. Wagner, and Dibesh Karmacharya
Public Health Education and Changing Public Health Realities in the Public Health 3.0 Era, Gulzar H. Shah
Risk Factors for TB/HIV Coinfection and Consequences for Patient Outcomes: Evidence from 241 Clinics in the Democratic Republic of Cong, Gulzar H. Shah, Raimi Ewetola, Gina D. Etheredge, Lievain Maluantesa, Kristie C. Waterfield, Elodie Engetele, and Apolinaire Kilundu
TB/HIV coinfection and patient outcomes: Evidence from 241 clinics in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gulzar H. Shah, Raimi Ewetola, Gina D. Etheredge, L. Maluantesa, Kristie C. Waterfield, and L.-K. Lukusa
Perceived Benefits Matter the Most in COVID-19 Preventive Behaviors: Empirical Evidence from Okara District, Pakistan, Gulzar H. Shah, Ansar Ali Faraz, Hina Khan, and Kristie Cason Waterfield
HIV Viral Suppression among People Living with HIV on Antiretroviral Therapy in Haut-Katanga and Kinshasa Provinces of Democratic Republic of Congo, Gulzar H. Shah, Lievain Maluantesa, Gina D. Etheredge, Kristie C. Waterfield, Osaremhen Ikhile, Roger Beni, Elodie Engetele, and Astrid Mulenga
The Administration and Management of COVID-19 Contact Tracing Programs: A Descriptive Study of the Experiences of US State & Local Health Departments, Gulzar H. Shah, Angela Peden, Bettye Apenteng, Samuel T. Opoku, Kristie C. Waterfield, and Osaremhen Ikhile
College Students' Experiences of Race-Related Bias or Hatred in Their Lifetimes and COVID-19 Era, Gulzar H. Shah, Haresh Rochani, Joseph Telfair, Elizabeth Ayangunna, and Gemma C. Skuraton
Low Acceptance of Helmet-Use and Injuries from Motorcycle Accidents in Rawalpindi and Abbottabad, Pakistan, Maryam Siddiqa, Gulzar H. Shah, and A. Munam
Chapter 3 - Families and Health, Joseph Telfair, Joanne Chopak-Foss, Janet Choongo, and K. Harris
Chapter 19 - Program Monitoring and Evaluation, Joseph Telfair, A. K. Kelly, and G. Dave
Retention and predictors of attrition among children living with HIV on antiretroviral therapy (ART) in Côte d’Ivoire between 2012 and 2016, F. Traore-Toure, Gina D. Etheredge, Gulzar H. Shah, and C. Brennan
Personal Mastery and All-Cause Mortality among Older Americans Living with Diabetes, Ho-Jui Tung, Ming-Chin Yeh, Randall Ford, and Gulzar H. Shah
Consequences of COVID-19 Crisis for Persons with HIV: The Impact of Social Determinants of Health, Kristie Cason Waterfield, Gulzar H. Shah, Gina D. Etheredge, and Osaremhen Ikhile
Public Health Employees’ Perceptions about the Impact of Emerging Public Health Trends on Their Day-to-Day Work: Effects of Organizational Climate and Culture, Kristie Cason Waterfield, Gulzar H. Shah, Linda Kimsey, William A. Mase, and Jingjing Yin
Stigma Is Associated with Widening Health Inequities: Challenges from the Current COVID19 Pandemic, Ming-Chin Yeh and Ho-Jui Tung
Meta-Analysis for Evaluating Diagnostic Accuracy, Jingjing Yin and Jing Kersey
Joint hypothesis testing of the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve and the Youden index, Jingjing Yin, Fedelis Mutiso, and Lili Tian
Joint Inference About the AUC and Youden Index for Paired Biomarkers, Jingjing Yin, Hani M. Samawi, and Lili Tian
Submissions from 2020
Introduction to Spatiotemporal Variations of Ambient Air Pollutants and Related Public Health Impacts, Atin Adhikari
Short-Term Effects of Ambient Ozone, PM2. 5, and Meteorological Factors on COVID-19 Confirmed Cases and Deaths in Queens, New York., Atin Adhikari and Jingjing Yin
Using Twitter to Track Unplanned School Closures: Georgia Public Schools, Jennifer O. Ahweyevu, Ngozi Pearl Chukwudebe, Brittany Morgan Buchanan, Jingjing Yin, Atin Adhikari, Xiaolu Zhou, Zion Tsz Ho Tse, Gerardo Chowell, Martin I. Meltzer, and Isaac Fung
Weight Misperception and Cigarette Smoking among Healthy Weight Adolescents in the U. S: NHANES 2005–2014, Toyin O. Akomolafe, Andrew Hansen, Amy Hackney, Wei Wang, Daniella R. Thorne Williams Mrs., and Jian Zhang
Tattnall County Community Needs Assessment, A. Alston, T. Clark, J. Lewis, A. McGee, S. Sherpa, Q. Smith, I. Thomas, Denisha Allicock, and Tilicia Mayo-Gamble
Sources of Microbiological Contamination in Sachet Water From Ghana, Asli Aslan, Haresh Rochani, Oghenekpaobor Oyibo, J. Edward Dotherow, Kendall W. Anderson, Christina J. Beslin, Asheley Chapman, Brittny Thomas, Alicia Brown, Akwasi Ampofo-Yeboah, and Evans Afriyie-Gyawu
Sewage Monitoring in Rural Communities: A Powerful Strategy for COVID-19 Surveillance, Asli Aslan, Gulzar H. Shah, Vinoth Sittaramane, and Padmini Shankar Ph.D.
Auspicious Symbols of Rank and Status, Byron Breedlove and Isaac Fung
Effective Practices and Recommendations for Drive-Through Clinic Points of Dispensing: A Systematic Review, Brian Holt Buck, Logan Cowan, Lisa P. Smith, Emily Duncan, Jodi Bazemore, and Jessica S. Schwind
Effect of Influenza Vaccination on Mortality and Risk of Hospitalization in Elderly Individuals with and without Disabilities: A Nationwide, Population-Based Cohort Study, Yu-Chia Chang, Ho-Jui Tung, Yu-Tung Huang, Chin-Te Lu, Ernawaty Ernawaty, and Szu-Yuan Wu
The WHO STEPwise Approach to Surveillance; Fact sheet on tobacco and electronic cigarette use, cessation, and secondhand smoke in Ukraine, 2019, Angela Ciobanu, Ivo Rakovac, and Yelena N. Tarasenko
Triggering of cardiovascular disease by infection type: The atherosclerosis risk in communities study (ARIC), Logan Cowan, Brian Buck, Jessica S. Schwind, Pamela L. Lutsey, James S. Pankow, Kunihiro Matsushita, and Kamakshi Lakshminarayan
Endodontic therapy and incident cardiovascular disease: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study, Logan Cowan, Kamakshi Lakshminarayan, Pamela L. Lutsey, James Beck, Steven Offenbacher, and James S. Pankow
Formative Research to Design a Culturally-appropriate Cancer Clinical Trial Education Program to Increase Participation of African American and Latino Communities, Jennifer Cunningham-Erves, Claudia Barajas, Tilicia Mayo-Gamble, Caree R. McAfee, Pamela Hull, Maureen Sanderson, Juan Canedo, Katina Beard, and Consuelo H. Wilkins
Mixed Methods in Public Health Case Studies: Applying a Sequential QUAN → Qual Design to Identify Factors Associated With Black Mothers’ Intention to Vaccinate Their Daughters Aged 9 to 12 for HPV, Jennifer Cunningham-Erves, Nataliya Ivankova, and Tilicia Mayo-Gamble
Engagement of Community Stakeholders to Develop a Framework to Guide Research Dissemination to Communities, Jennifer Cunningham-Erves, Tilicia Mayo-Gamble, Yolanda Vaughn, Jim Hawk, Mike Helms, Claudia Barajas, and Yvonne Joosten
A Call for Consistency in the Official Naming of the Disease Caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 in Non-English Languages, Lu Dong, Zhe Li, and Isaac Fung
Fleas (Siphonaptera) Parasitizing Peridomestic and Indigenous Mammals in Panamá and Screening of Selected Fleas for Vector-Borne Bacterial Pathogens, Lance A. Durden, Sergio Bermúdez, Géminis A . Vargas, Boris E. Sanjur, Laura Gillen, Lisa D. Brown, Stephen E. Greiman, and Marina Eremeeva
Detection of Rickettsia asembonensis in Fleas (Siphonaptera: Pulicidae, Ceratophyllidae) Collected in Five Counties in Georgia, United States, Marina Eremeeva; Danielle Capps; Cynthia Logan McBride; Amanda J. Williams-Newkirk; Gregory A. Dasch; Johanna S. Salzer; Lorenza Beati; and Lance A, Durden
Molecular typing of Rickettsia akari, Marina E. Eremeeva
Rickettsialpox – a Rare but Not Extinct Disease: a Review of the Literature and New Directions, Marina Eremeeva and Kamalich Muniz-Rodriguez
SARS-CoV-2 Viral and Serological Testing When College Campuses Reopen: Some Practical Considerations, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, Chi-Ngai Cheung, and Andreas Handel
Publication of data collection forms from NHLBI funded sickle cell disease implementation consortium (SCDIC) registry, Jeffrey Glassberg, Elizabeth A. Linton, Katrina Burson, Tabitha Hendershot, Joseph Telfair, Julie Kanter, Victor R. Gordeuk, Allison A. King, Cathy L. Melvin, Nirmish Shah, Jane S. Hankins, Axel Yannick Epié, and Lynne D. Richardson
Trends in US Adults With Overweight and Obesity Reporting Being Notified by Doctors About Body Weight Status, 1999–2016, Andrew Hansen, Christopher Rustin, Samuel T. Opoku, Gauri Shevatekar, Jeffery A. Jones, and Jian Zhang
Kernel density estimation based on progressive type-II censoring, Amal Helu, Hani Samawi, Haresh Rochani, Jingjing Yin, and Robert Vogel
Epidemiology of Cancers in Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM): A Protocol for Umbrella Review of Systematic Reviews, Manoj Kumar Honaryar, Yelena Tarasenko, Maribel Almonte, and Vitaly Smelov
Incident Hospitalization with Major Cardiovascular Diseases and Subsequent Risk of ESKD: Implications for Cardiorenal Syndrome, Junichi Ishigami, Logan Cowan, Ryan T. Demmer, Morgan E. Grams, Pamela L. Lutsey, Juan-Jesus Carrero, Josef Coresh, and Kunihiro Matsushita
Hospitalization With Major Infection and Incidence of End-Stage Renal Disease: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study, Junichi Ishigami, Logan Cowan, Ryan T. Demmer, Morgan E. Grams, Pamela L. Lutsey, Josef Coresh, and Kunihiro Matsushita
Identification of Unplanned Closure of K-12 Schools via Twitter and Online Systematic Search: a Pilot Study of Public Schools in Michigan, September 2015 – June 2016, Ashley M. Jackson, Lindsay Mullican, Zion Tsz Ho Tse, Jingjing Yin, Xiaolu Zhou, Dharamendra Kumar, and Isaac Fung
2020 Community Health Needs Assessment for Evans County, Georgia, A. Jennings, E. Ochieng, A. Riggins, and Tilicia Mayo-Gamble
Public Health Implications of Early Marriage, Prachi Joshi and Tilicia Mayo-Gamble
Building Informatics Capacity of Local Health Departments to Combat COVID-19: A Call to Action, Anjum Khurshid, Gulzar H. Shah, Tran Nguyen, and Jeffery A. Jones
Evaluating the importation of yellow fever cases into China in 2016 and strategies used to prevent and control the spread of the disease, Chao Li, Dan Li, Shirley JoAnn Smart, Lei Zhou, Peng Yang, Jianming Ou, Yi He, Ruiqi Ren, Tao Ma, Nijuan Xiang, Haitian Sui, Yali Wang, Jian Zhao, Chaonan Wang, Yeping Wang, Daxin Ni, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, Dexin Li, Yangmu Huang, and Qun Li
