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Submissions from 2020
Sewage Monitoring in Rural Communities: A Powerful Strategy for COVID-19 Surveillance, Asli Aslan, Gulzar H. Shah, Vinoth Sittaramane, and Padmini Shankar Ph.D.
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
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
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
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
Effingham Senior Living Market Analysis, Linda Kimsey, Bettye A. Apenteng, Samuel T. Opoku, Charles F. Owens, Angela Peden, and Blerta Shehaj
A Role For Scenario Planning In Rural Hospitals, Linda Kimsey, Bettye Apenteng, Anna Rose Moore, and Angela Peden
Feasibility of Long Acting Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) in Rural Communities, William A. Mase and Ellie Purdy
Engaging Individuals with Sickle Cell Disease in Patient-Centered Outcomes Research: A Community Health Ambassador Training Model, Tilicia Mayo-Gamble, Velma McBride Murry, Jennifer Cunningham-Erves, Robert M. Cronin, Nabilah Lari, Alexis Gorden, Lametra Scott, Michael R. Debaun, and Trevor Thompson
Local Health Departments' Engagement in Activities to Address Opioid Use and Abuse: The Influence of Surveillance Systems' Use, Tran Nguyen, Gulzar H. Shah, Anjum Khurshid, and Maria I. Olivas
An Analysis of Local Health Departments' Responsiveness to Community Segregation in Their Efforts to Address Health Disparities, Maria I. Olivas, Deborah Kanda, Rakhi Trivedi, Gulzar H. Shah, and Kristie C. Waterfield
Georgia Rural Hospital Tax Credit: Perspectives of Rural Health Executives, Samuel T. Opoku, Bettye A. Apenteng, Charles Owens, Linda G. Kimsey, Angela Peden, Imaobong Ekpo, William Mase, and Emmanuel Akowuah
SNAPSHOT: Financial and Operational Performance Benchmarking Report, 2014-2019, Samuel T. Opoku, Bettye Apenteng, Linda Kimsey, Charles F. Owens, Angela H. Peden, and William A. Mase
The Use of Religion in the Management of Depression in Sickle Cell Disease: A Systematic Review, Delores P. Quasie-Woode, Jennifer Cunningham-Erves, and Tilicia Mayo-Gamble
Association Between Accreditation Engagement and Using The Community Guide for Preventive Services by Local Health Departments, Assegid A. Roba, Brianna Williams, Kristie C. Waterfield, and Gulzar H. Shah
Book Review: Statistics With R: Solving Problems Using Real-World Data by Jenine K. Harris, Gulzar H. Shah
Gaps in Public Health Workers' Awareness of Emerging Public Health Trends, Gulzar H. Shah, Kyle Bogaert, Jingjing Yin, Elizabeth Gould, and JP Leider
Maternal Mortality among African American Women in the State of Georgia, Causes, Policy, and Ethical Considerations, Zahra Shahin, Isabella M. Hardwick, Nancy Jeffery, JaLisa Jordan, and William Mase
A scoping review of theoretical models and conceptual frameworks used in Public Health Services and Systems Research (PHSSR) literature, Zahra Shahin, Anna Messick, Jenna Harris, Kristie C. Waterfield, and Gulzar H. Shah
Difference in Prevalence of Edentulism Between Foreign-Born and US-born Older Americans, Ho-Jui Tung, Randall Ford, and Ming-Chin Yeh
Sources of Information in Regard to HPV and Vaccination Among Hispanic/Latino College Students, Wei-Chen Tung, Itzel Corral, and Ho-Jui Tung
Occurrence of a Human-associated Microbial Source Tracking Marker and Its Relationship With Faecal Indicator Bacteria in an Urban Estuary, Sibel Zeki, Asli Aslan, Selmin Burak, and J.B. Rose
Submissions from 2019
The Ethics of Parental Refusal to Vaccinate: Costs, Community Safety, and Individual Rights, Olatanwa Adewale, Carla Cooper, Pascal Felix, Ashley K. Mitchell, Justin Savage, and William A. Mase
A Need for Patient-Friendly Language for those with Low Health Literacy in Advanced Care Planning, Denisha Allicock, Addison Mickens, and Tilicia Mayo-Gamble
Crisp Regional Hospital Employee Engagement Assessment Report, Bettye Apenteng, Emmanuel Akowuah, Samuel T. Opoku, and Kwabena G. Boakye
Effingham Health System: Community Health Needs Assessment: 2019-2021, Bettye A. Apenteng, Samuel T. Opoku, Charles F. Owens, Linda Kimsey, and Angela Peden
Evans Memorial Hospital Community Needs Assessment Report, Bettye Apenteng, Charles F. Owens, Samuel T. Opoku, and Linda Kimsey
Temporal distribution of opportunistic pathogens in household systems in Evans County, Asli Aslan, J. Edward Dotherow, and Robert Vogel
The Impact of Interpersonal Support, Supervisory Support, and Employee Engagement on Employee Turnover Intentions: Differences Between Financially Distressed and Highly Financially Distressed Hospitals, Kwabena G. Boakye, Bettye A. Apenteng, Mark Hanna, Linda G. Kimsey, William A. Mase, Samuel T. Opoku, Charles F. Owens, and Angela Peden
Safe Sleep Environment Focus Group Report, Joanne Chopak-Foss, Nandi Marshall, R. Ewesesan, Michela Hizine, and A. Moore
Understanding the Dynamics of Diversity in the Public Health Workforce, Fátima Coronado, Angela J. Beck, Gulzar H. Shah, Jessica L. Owens-Young, Katie Sellers, and JP Leider
Factors Influencing Parental Trust in Medical Researchers for Child and Adolescent Patients’ Clinical Trial Participation, Jennifer Cunningham-Erves, Jason Deakings, Tilicia Mayo-Gamble, Kendria Kelly-Taylor, and Stephania T. Miller
E-Waste Disposal from Major Ports: Policies & Ethical Considerations, L. Davis, Joshua Dufresne, and William A. Mase
Land Use and Environmental Variables Influence Tetracycline-Resistant Bacteria Occurrence in Southeastern Coastal Plain Streams, Jason A. Duff, Asli Aslan, and Risa A. Cohen
Adopting YouTube to Promote Health: Analysis of State Health Departments, Carmen H. Duke, Jingjing Yin, Xinyan Zhang, Elizabeth Blankenship, Sewuese Akuse, Gulzar H. Shah, Chung-Hong Chan, King-Wa Fu, Zion Tsz-Ho Tse, and Isaac Fung
Characteristics of the Health Information Technology Workforce in Georgia, Imaobong Ekpo, Emmanuel Akowuah, Bettye Apenteng, and Samuel T. Opoku
Presence of Antibiotic Resistant Escherichia Coli in Wastewater Treatment Plant Effluents Utilized as Water Reuse for Irrigation, Tiong Gim Aw, Mano Sivaganesan, Shannon Briggs, Erin Dreelin, Asli Aslan, Samuel Dorevitch, Abhilasha Shrestha, Natasha Isaacs, Julie Kinzelman, Greg Kleinheinz, Rachel Noble, Rick Rediske, Brian Scull, Susan Rosenberg, Barbara Weberman, Tami Sivy, Ben Southwell, Shawn Siefring, Kevin Oshima, and Richard Haugland
Associations Among Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Toward Palliative Care Consultation Service in Healthcare Staffs: A Cross-sectional Study, Li-Chun Huang, Ho-Jui Tung, and Pei-Chao Lin
Clinch Memorial Hospital: Strategic Plan: 2019-2021, Linda Kimsey, Bettye A. Apenteng, William Mase, Samuel T. Opoku, Charles Owens, and Angela Peden
Clinch Memorial Hospital Community Needs Assessment Report, Linda G. Kimsey, Bettye Apenteng, Samuel T. Opoku, Charles F. Owens, Angela Peden, Devin Hatchett, Imaobong Ekpo, Michela Hizine, and Oluwadamilola Onifade
Environmental Scan and Outmigration Analysis, Linda G. Kimsey, Samuel T. Opoku, Bettye A. Apenteng, William A. Mase, Charles F. Owens, and Angela Peden
Hancock County Community Based Participatory SWOT Analysis: Community-Clinical Linkages, Linda G. Kimsey, Angela Peden, John Peden, Thomas Sweeney, Deborah Harvey, Michela Hizine, Oluwadamilola Onifade, Devin Hatchett, and Samantha Finn
Decision Making, Analytics, and Communications in Health Organizations, Gerald R. Ledlow and James H. Stephens
It’s Not a One Size Fits All Approach: Best Practices for Engaging Minorities with SCD in Health Research, Tilicia Mayo-Gamble
Leveraging Technology to Address Patient-Centered Outcomes in Sickle Cell Disease, Tilicia Mayo-Gamble and Delores P. Quasie-Woode
Sickle Cell Carriers' Unmet Information Needs: Beyond Knowing Trait Status, Tilicia Mayo-Gamble, David G. Schlundt, Jennifer Cunningham-Erves, Velma McBride Murry, Kemberlee R. Bonnet, Delores P. Quasie-Woode, and Charles P. Mouton
Ethical Approaches to Mandating Influenza Vaccinations for Local Health Department Workforce in Georgia, Melicent R. Miller, Maureen K. Akubu-Odero, LaShauna L. Hunt, Stephanie L. Irvin, Catherine T. Palmer, and William A. Mase
Factors Associated with Continuous Improvement by Local Boards of Health, Tran Ha Nguyen, Gulzar H. Shah, Rachel D. Schwartz, and Jeffery A. Jones
Georgia Rural Hospital Tax Credit, Samuel Opoku, Bettye Apenteng, Charles F. Owens, Linda Kimsey, Imaobong B. Ekpo, Emmanuel Akowuah, Michela Hizine, Oluwadamilola Onifade, and Bill Mase
SNAPSHOT: Financial and Operational Performance Benchmarking Report, 2014-2018, Samuel T. Opoku, Bettye Apenteng, Linda Kimsey, Charles Owens, Angela Peden, and William Mase
Hancock County Community Based Participatory SWOT Analysis: Nutrition Strategy, Angela Peden, Linda Kimsey, John Peden, Thomas Sweeney, Deborah Harvey, Michela Hizine, and Imaobong B. Ekpo
North Central Health District Supervisor Evaluation Results, Angela Peden, Charles F. Owens, Michela Hizine, and A. Moore
Diversifying Data: A Precision Medicine Approach to Improving Health Outcomes. Health Informatics Innovations and Applications Series, Kimberly Rodgers and Gulzar H. Shah
Evaluating Web-Based Platforms and Traditional Methods for Recruiting Tattoo Artists: Descriptive Survey Research Study, Jessica Sapp, Robert L. Vogel, Joseph Telfair, and Julie K. Reagan
The State of the US Governmental Public Health Workforce, 2014–2017, Katie Sellers, Jonathon P. Leider, Elizabeth Gould, Brian C. Castrucci, Angela J. Beck, Kyle Bogaert, Fátima Coronado, Gulzar H. Shah, Valerie A. Yeager, Leslie M. Beitsch, and Paul C. Erwin
Local Health Departments' Engagement in Addressing Health Disparities: The Effect of Health Informatics, Gulzar H. Shah, William A. Mase, and Kristie Waterfield
Publishing on Topics in Public Health Informatics for a Quarter Century, Gulzar H. Shah and Valerie N. Rogers
Health Informatics and Smart Health Communities: Podcast With Valerie Rogers, Gulzar H. Shah, Valerie N. Rogers, and Kristie C. Waterfield
Role of Data in Promoting Diversity & Inclusion in Public Health Institutions of Higher Education, Gulzar H. Shah and Kristie C. Waterfield
Promoting Social Determinants of Health Services: Informatics is the Answer, Gulzar H. Shah and Kristie Cason Waterfield
Data travels at the speed of trust: Population health informatics for population health. Health Informatics Innovations and Applications Series, Gulzar H. Shah, Kristie Cason Waterfield, and Anjum Khurshid
Employee Perceptions about Public Health Agencies’ Desired Involvement in Impacting Health Equity and Other Social Determinants of Health, Gulzar H. Shah, Jingjing Yin, Jessica L. Owens-Young, and Kristie Cason Waterfield
Standardized Data Quality Acceptance Criteria for a Rapid E. Coli Qpcr Method (Draft Method C) for Water Quality Monitoring at Recreational Beaches, Mano Sivaganesan, Tiong Gim Aw, Shannon Briggs, Erin Dreelin, Asli Aslan, Samuel Dorevitch, Abhilasha Shrestha, Natasha Isaccs, Julie Kinzelman, Greg Kleinheinz, Rachel Noble, Rick Rediske, Brian Scull, Susan Rosenberg, Barbara Weberman, Tami Sivy, Ben Southwell, Shawn Siefring, Kevin Oshima, and Richard Haugland
Hancock County Community Based Participatory SWOT Analysis: Physical Activity Strategy, Thomas P. Sweeney, John Peden, Angela H. Peden, Linda G. Kimsey, Deborah Harvey, Michela Hizine, and Stephanie Riddle
Effectiveness of a Post-Acute Rehabilitative Care Program on Swallowing Ability, Nutrition Status, and Health-related Quality of Life Among Recovering Stoke Patients, Ho-Jui Tung, Ang-Wei Lu, and Ming-Chin Yeh
Association Between Influenza Vaccination and All-cause Mortality Among the Elderly With Disability in Taiwan - A Population-based Study, Ho-Jui Tung and Ming-Chin Yeh
Personal Mastery and All-cause Mortality Among Patients With Diabetes, Ho-Jui Tung and Ming-Chin Yeh
Differences in Survival Status Between the Foreign-born and Native-born Diabetes Patients Over a 13-year Period, Ho-Jui Tung, Ming-Chin Yeh, and Yu-Chia Chang
Impacts of a Changing Earth on Microbial Dynamics and Human Health Risks in the Continuum Between Beach Water and Sand, Chelsea Weiskerger, Joao C. S. Brandão, Warish Ahmed, Asli Aslan, Lindsay Avolio, Brian Badgley, Alexandria Boehm, Thomas A. Edge, Jay Fleisher, Christopher Heaney, Luisa Jordao, Julie Kinzelman, James S. Klaus, Greg Kleinheinz, Päivi Meriläinen, Jean-Pierre Nshimyimana, Mantha Phanikumar, Alan Piggot, Tarja Pitkänen, Clare Robinson, Michael Sadowsky, Chris Staley, Zachery Staley, Erin Symonds, Laura Vogel, Kevan Yamahara, Richard Whitman, Helena Solo-Gabriele, and Valerie J. Harwood
Issue of Compliance with Use of Personal Protective Equipment among Wastewater Workers across the Southeast Region of the United States, Tamara L. Wright, Atin Adhikari, Jingjing Yin, Robert L. Vogel, Stacy W. Smallwood, and Gulzar H. Shah
Submissions from 2018
Exploring Childhood Obesity Perceptions Among Caregivers of African American Children, Dayna Alexander, Moya L. Alfonso, and Dziyana Nazaruk
Assessing Child Body Mass Index Perceptions Among African American Caregivers in a Rural Community, Dayna S. Alexander, Moya L. Alfonso, Chunhua Cao, and Andrew R. Hansen
Bacon County Hospital and Health System: 2019-2022 Strategic Plan, Bettye A. Apenteng, Linda Kimsey, Samuel T. Opoku, and Charles Owens
2018 Assessment of Employee Engagement at Crisp Regional Hospital, Bettye Apenteng, Emmanuel Akowuah, Samuel T. Opoku, and Kwabena G. Boakye
The Effect of Power Outages on In-Facility Mortality in Healthcare Facilities: Evidence From Ghana, Bettye A. Apenteng, Samuel T. Opoku, Daniel Ansong, Emmanuel A. Akowuah, and Evans Afriyie-Gyawu
Flex Financial and Operational Improvement Grant Year Three, Bettye Apenteng, Kwabena G. Boakye, Mark D. Hanna, Linda Kimsey, Bill Mase, Samuel T. Opoku, Charles Owens, and Stuart Tedders
Understanding Epidemiologists Who Serve as Preceptors, Jessica Arrazola, Gulzar H. Shah, Jeffery A. Jones, Jingjing Yin, and Elizabeth Harper
What We Know About Students in Recovery: Meta-Synthesis of Collegiate Recovery, Robert D. Ashford, Austin M. Brown, Emily Eisenhart, Anne Thompson-Heller, and Brenda Curtis
The Impact of Tides on Microbial Water Quality at an Inland River Beach, Asli Aslan, Kendell W. Anderson, and Asheley Chapman
Presence of Antibiotic-Resistant Escherichia coli in Wastewater Treatment Plant Effluents Utilized as Water Reuse for Irrigation, Asli Aslan, Zach A. Coles, Anunay Bhattacharya, and Oghenekpaobor Oyibo
Beach Quality Information Boards on Jekyll Island, Asli Aslan and Jeffery A. Jones
Molecular identification of the sources of non-point pollution and microbial risk assessment upon exposure to recreational waters at Jekyll Island Beaches, Phase II: Microbial Risk Assessment, Asli Aslan and Jeffery A. Jones
Correlation Between Personal Health History and Depression Self-Care Practices and Depression Screening Among African Americans With Chronic Conditions, Priscilla A. Barnes, Tilicia Mayo-Gamble, Doshia Harris, and David Townsend
YouTube as a Source of Information on Skin Bleaching: A Content Analysis, Corey H. Basch, A. A. Brown, M. Dottington Fullwood, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, and Jingjing Yin
Public Online Information About Tinnitus: A Cross-Sectional Study of Youtube Videos, Corey H. Basch, Jingjing Yin, Betty Kollia, Adeyemi Adedokun, Stephanie Trusty, Felicia Yeboah, and Isaac Chun-Hai Fung
Health Care Disparities Among Octogenarians and Nonagenarians With Stage III Lung Cancer, Richard J. Cassidy, Xinyan Zhang, Jeffrey M. Switchenko, Pretesh R. Patel, Joseph W. Shelton, Sibo Tian, Ronica H. Nanda, Conor E. Steuer, Rathi N. Pillai, Taofeek K. Owonikoko, Suresh S. Ramalingam, Felix G. Fernandez, Seth D. Force, Theresa W. Gillespie, Walter J. Curran, and Kristin A. Higgins
Analysis of Food Service Operation Risk Classification and Associated Food Safety Violation Frequency, Patrick Chang, Haresh Rochani, William A. Mase, Jeffery A. Jones, and Asli Aslan
Adapting Medical Guidelines to Be Patient-centered Using a Patient-driven Process for Individuals With Sickle Cell Disease and Their Caregivers, Robert M. Cronin, Tilicia Mayo-Gamble, Sarah-Jo Stimpson, Sherif M. Badawy, Lori E. Crosby, Jeannie Byrd, Emmanuel J. Volanakis, Adetola A. Kassim, Jean L. Raphael, Velma McBride Murry, and Michael DeBaun
Black Mother's Intention to Vaccinate Daughters Against HPV: A Mixed Methods Approach to Identify Opportunities for Targeted Communication, Jennifer Cunningham-Erves, Laura Forbes, Nataliya Ivankova, Tilicia Mayo-Gamble, Kendria Kelly-Taylor, and Jason Deakings
A Physician’s Recommendation for HPV Vaccination: What Makes African American Mothers Compliant?, Jennifer Cunningham-Erves, Kendria Kelly-Taylor, Tilicia Mayo-Gamble, Jason Deakings, and Laura L. Talbott-Forbes
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The Sickle Cell Disease Implementation Consortium: Translating Evidence‐based Guidelines Into Practice for Sickle Cell Disease, Lisa D. DiMartino, Ana A. Baumann, Lewis Hsu, Julie Kanter, Victor R. Gordeuk, Jeffrey Glassberg, Marsha J. Treadwell, Cathy L. Melvin, Joseph Telfair, Lisa M. Klesges, Allison King, Ted Wun, Nirmish Shah, Robert Gibson, and Jane S. Hankins
Toward a National Conversation on Health: Disruptive Intervention and the Transformation from Health Care to Health, Kevin A. Dorrance, Dennis A. Robbins, Linda Kimsey, Jeffrey S. LaRochelle, and Steven J. Durning
Student Perspectives on Managing Sickle Cell Disease at School, Naeha Haridasa, Michael DeBaun, Maureen Sanger, and Tilicia Mayo-Gamble
Methods Improving the Estimate of Diagnostic Odds Ratio, Yisong Huang, Jingjing Yin, and Hani M. Samawi
Jekyll Island Beach Water Quality Study, Jeffery A. Jones
