Member Publications
Member Publications
Our Health Equity Research Core Investigators (HERCI) have co-authored multiple publications over the last several years. HERCI members and their publications are highlighted below under several categories, including Cancer and Other Chronic Disease, Mental and Behavioral Sciences, Pediatrics and Child Health, Infectious Diseases and Immunization, and more!
Researcher: Maria Quiñones-Cordero, PhD
- Invited Perspective on 'Daily Associations between Caregiving Time and Spousal Caregivers' Well-being: The Moderating Roles of Daily Marital Interactions.' The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jagp.2025.09.009.
Researcher: Ellenge Denton, PsyD, MS
- Self-injurious thoughts and behaviors in preteen youth: Risk factors, screening, and prevention. JAMA Psychiatry [In peer-review], 2026.
Researcher: Aileen Aldalur, PhD
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Treatment Seeking: Intervention Development and Empirical Findings. Journal of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbct.2025.100551.
Researcher: Lainie Ross, MD, PhD
- Toothless smiles are only cute in infants. The Journal of Pediatrics, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpeds.2025.114796.
Researcher: Kimberly Vanorden, PhD
- A Pilot Randomized Mobile Health Mindfulness Intervention for Older Adult Caregivers of Family Members with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias. Aging and Mental Health, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2025.2506774.
- Suicidal Ideation After Hip Fracture in Older Adults. Psychogeriatrics, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyg.70065.
Researcher: Maria Quiñones-Cordero, PhD
- A Scoping Review of Interventions for Hispanic Caregivers of Persons Living with Dementia. Alzheimer's & Dementia: Behavior & Socioeconomics of Aging, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1002/bsa3.70041.
- Exploring the Unmet Needs of Latino Dementia Caregivers: A Qualitative Study. The Gerontologist, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnaf191.
Researcher: Nikesha Gilmore, PhD
- Blood Clock Correlation Distance (BloodCCD) as a novel marker to detect circadian rhythm disruption in cancer survivors with insomnia. BJC Reports, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44276-025-00176-9.
Researcher: Silvia Sorensen, PhD
- Speed of Processing Training for Stress Adaptation in Caregivers of a Family Member with Dementia: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Innovations in Aging, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaf033.
Researcher: Robert Block, MD, MPH
- Estimating Very Low Ejection Fraction from the 12 Lead ECG Among Patients with Acute Heart Failure. Journal of Electrocardiology, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jelectrocard.2025.153878.
- Comprehensive Analysis of Heart Failure Subtypes Presenting at Emergency Department for Acute Heart Failure Management. Journal of Emergency Nursing, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jen.2025.03.002.
Researcher: Sandhya Seshadri, PhD, MA, MS
- Is Love a tender thing? Journal of Palliative Medicine, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2025.0288.
Researcher: Chen Zhang, PhD, MPH
- Low uptake of HIV self-testing among Black men who have sex with men living in a Southern U.S. city (Nashville, Tennessee): determinants and implications from a community-based study. AIDS Care, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540121.2025.2565431.
- Quantifying Structural Disadvantage in HIV Prevention: Development and Validation of the HIV-Specific Social and Structural Determinants Index in the United States. AIDS Patient Care and STD, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1177/10872914251374573.
- Unhealthy Alcohol Use Among Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men: A Concept Clarification.. Issues in Mental Health Nursing., 2025. https://doi.org/10.1080/01612840.2025.2549573.
Researcher: Tim Dye, PhD, JD
- Social determinants of access to health care among deaf people in the Dominican Republic: a qualitative study. BMC Global and Public Health, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1186/s44263-025-00207-0.
Researcher: Laura Stamm, PhD
- Disparities in the cancer continuum experienced by transgender and gender-diverse patients: A rapid review. Cancer, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1002/cncr.35788.
- "I'm just providing evidence-based medical care": Experiences of Distress in Queer and Queer-Adjacent Clinicians Providing Gender-Affirming Care. International Journal of Transgender Health, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1080/26895269.2025.2559310.
- Providers' Beliefs and Values: Understanding Their Approach to Gender-Affirming Care. Journal of Primary Care & Community Health, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1177/21501319241312574.
- Building Capacity and Trust through Community Engagement: Lessons Learned from a Research in Health Equity Symposium. Journal of Primary Care and Community Health, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1177/21501319251370612.
Researcher: Alexandra YamShchikov, MD
- Quantifying and Financing the Non-billable Workload of Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy (OPAT) - a Model for Assessing and Supporting Staffing Needs for OPAT Programs. Clinical infectious Diseases, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaf146.
Researcher: Brooke Levandowski, PhD, MPA
- Measuring Organizational Equity in Terms of Race, Ethnicity, Sexual Orientation, and Gender Identity: Tool Creation and Use. Health Equity, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1089/heq.2024.0119.
- Disrupting Structural Racism in LGBTQ+ Health Organizations Through Equity Committee Work. Health Promotion Practice, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1177/15248399251354954.
Researcher: Jennifer West, PhD
- Lethal means management innovations in community pharmacies A pre-implementation study in six states. Journal of American Pharmacists Association, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.japh.2025.102458.
Researcher: Elaine Hill, PhD
- Racial and urban-rural disparities in lung cancer care: Insight from a Latent Class Growth Analysis. Journal of Cancer Policy, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcpo.2025.100585.
Researcher Diane Morse, MD
- Barries and Facilitators to Quality Healthcare for African Americans with Incarceration Histories. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-024-09276-7.
Researcher: Ashley Jenkins, MD, MSc
- Research priorities for adult hospital medicine: A survey of US hospital medicine leaders. Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhm.70053.
Researcher: Jeffrey Yaeger, MD, MPH
- The lost humanity of listening deeply. Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhm.70152.
Researcher: Mechelle Sanders, PhD
- Feasibility and Effectiveness of an Urgent Care-Community Partnership to Reduce Disparities in Patient Portal Uptake: Quality Improvement Project. Journal of Participatory Medicine, 2025. https://doi.org/10.2196/69253.
- Understanding the Barriers and Facilitators of Implementing a Controlled Substance Safety Committee in a Primary Care Practice.. Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, 2025. https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2024.240220R3.
Researcher: Nicole Wilson, PhD, MD
- Association of Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Deceased Donor Kidney Transplant Graft Function. Journal of Surgical Research, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2025.02.030.
Researcher: Sandhya Seshadri, PhD, MA, MS
- Lessons Learned from a Parkinson's Research Patient Advisory Board Model with Academic Centers. Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1353/cpr.2025.a965357.
Researcher: Gretchen Roman, DPT, PhD
- Partnerships across healthcare teams and with Deaf community members: The Mindfulness Practices Project. Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action, 2025. https://preprint.press.jhu.edu/pchp/preprints/partnerships-across-healthcare-teams-and-deaf-community-members-mindfulness-practices
Researcher: Jonathan Herington, PhD
- A Justice-First Approach to Ambient Intelligence in Healthcare. The American Journal of Bioethics, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2025.2497972.
Researcher: John Cullen, PhD
- Engaging trusted messengers in public health response: Key strategies to building community trust among CDC'S prevention research center's vaccine confidence network. Vaccine, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2025.127474.
Researcher: Lainie Ross, MD, PhD
- Addressing vaccination coverage among pediatric solid organ transplant candidates and recipients in the post-coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic period of increased vaccine hesistancy. American Journal of Transplantation, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajt.2025.08.007.
- Ethical Basis of the Pediatric Vaccine Encounter-Correcting the Record. JAMA Pediatrics, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapediatrics.2025.4022.
Researcher: Elaine Hill, PhD
- Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection and Long COVID : A RECOVER program, Electronic Health Record-Based Cohort Study. Clinical Infectious Disease, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaf242.
- Long COVID after SARS-CoV-2 during pregnancy in the United States. Nature Communications, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-57849-9.
Researcher: Cynthia Rand, MD, MPH
- Commentary: Improving the vaccination experience for children and adults. Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2025.2546743.
- Video and Infographic Messages From Primary Care Physicians and Influenza Vaccination Rates: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Network Open, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.26514.
- A Bundled, Practice-Based Intervention to Increase HPV Vaccination. Pediatrics, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2024-068145.
- Cost Analysis of a Scalable Clinician Communication Intervention to Increase HPV Vaccine Initiation. Pediatrics, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2024-066742.
Researcher: Erica Bostick, MD
- Trends in Cervical Precancers Identified Through Population-Based Surveillance - Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Impact Monitoring Project, Five Sites, United States, 2008-2022. MMWR: Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2025. https://doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7406a4.
Researcher: Andrew Aligne, MD, MPH
- Malaria prevention in the age of climate change: A community survey in rural Senegal. PLOS One, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0313456.
Researcher: Diane Morse, MD
- Using ICD Codes Alone May Misclassify Overdoses Among Perinatal People American Journal of Preventive Medicine. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2024.12.001.
Researcher: Elaine Hill, PhD
- The Impact of Increased Medicaid Eligibility During Pregnancy on Medicaid Utilization and Gestational Age. Health Services Research, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6773.70037.
Bleeding through a Pandemic: Women's Lived Experiences with Heavy Menstrual Bleeding During the COVID-19 Pandemic. International Journal of Women's Health, 2025. https://doi.org/10.2147/ijwh.s476959.
Researcher: Tim Dye, PhD, JD
Regulating the Midwife: Power, Public Health, and the Decline of Traditional Midwifery in West Virginia, 1881-1929. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10995-025-04142-2.
Researcher: Christie Petrenko, PhD
- Emotion Awareness and Perceptions of Parental Response to Emotion in Children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: Development and Preliminary Testing of the Qualitative Emotion Interview. Advances in Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41252-025-00443-3.
- Preventing exclusionary discipline and adverse life experiences in FASD : teacher's ability to recognize students with FASD in the classroom and develop and implement preventative strategies to support learning and behavior. Alcohol, Clinical and Experimental Research, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1111/acer.70100.
- Feasibility trial of the My Health Coach app for adults with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2025.105053.
- Emotion socialization practices in non-biological parents of children with FASD. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2025.105011.
Researcher: Suzannah Iadarola, PhD
- Mindfulness and psychoeducation are associated with improved perceived and physiological health outcomes in caregivers of children with autism. American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1352/1944-7558-130.4.280.
Researcher: Kimberly VanOrden, PhD
- The 5D Indicators of Suicide Risk in Older Adults Who Are Lonely. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.15354.
- The Psychology of Social Isolation and Loneliness in Later Life. Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cger.2025.04.004.
- Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Effectiveness Trial of THRIVE Group and Peer Coaching to Promote Suicide Recovery in Crisis Stabilization Centers. Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conctc.2025.101511.
- The role of social connections on suicide attempts after heroin detoxification treatment in South Africa: A prospective study. International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1177/00207640251382623.
Researcher: Ellenge Denton, PsyD, MS
- The role of social connections on suicide attempts after heroin detoxification treatment in South Africa: A prospective study. International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1177/00207640251382623.
Researcher: Aileen Aldalur, PhD
- Psychotherapy research in the deaf community: pilot clinical trial lessons learned. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/jdsade/enaf007.
- Mental Health Treatment Engagement Among Deaf Individuals. Psychiatric Services, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.20240079.
Researcher: Eva Pressman, MD
- Characterization of iron status biomarkers and hematological indices among young adults of East Asian or Northern European ancestry: A cross-sectional analysis from the Iron Genes in East Asian and Northern European Adults Study (FeGenes). American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajcnut.2024.10.014.
- Iron regulatory hormones and their associations with iron status biomarkers among healthy adults of East Asian or Northern European ancestry: A cross-sectional comparison from the Iron Genes in East Asian and Northern European Adults Study (FeGenes). American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajcnut.2024.10.018
- Dietary intake in East Asian and Northern European participants from the FeGenes study. European Journal of Nutrition, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00394-025-03730-w.
- Differences in nonheme iron absorption between healthy adults of East Asian or Northern European ancestry from the Iron Genes in East Asian and Northern European Adults Study (FeGenes): A cross-sectional stable iron isotope study. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajcnut.2024.11.015.
Researcher: Robert Block, MD, MPH
- Prevention of acute systemic reaction during LDL apheresis post COVID-19 by icatibant pretreatment." Journal of Clinical Lipidology, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacl.2025.03.008
Researcher: Ashley Jenkins, MD, MSc
- Pediatric to Adult Care Transition in the Hospital Context (PATCH) Tool: A Novel Tool to Assess Pediatric Institutional Guidelines for Inpatient Care of Adults. Academic Pediatrics, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acap.2024.102625.
- Point-Counterpoint: Adult patients in children's hospitals. Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhm.70113.
Researcher: Christie Petrenko, PhD
- Results of a pilot randomized controlled trial of Tuning in to Kids for children with FASD in nonbiological parent care. Alcohol, Clinical and Experimental Research, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1111/acer.70153.
Researcher: Lainie Ross, MD, PhD
- Parental Communication with their Children about Cancer Risk and DTC Cascade Genetic Testing: Implications for Genetic Education and Counseling. American Journal of Medical Genetics, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajmg.a.64115.
- The Case Against Genomic Sequencing of Healthy Newborns [Einwände gegen die genomische Sequenzierung gesunder Neugeborener]. Ethik in der Medizin, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00481-025-00870-9.
Researcher: Danielle Alcena, PhD, RN
- Community Stakeholders' Perspectives on Recruiting Young Adolescents (Age 10-14) in Sexual Health Research. Healthcare, 2025. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare13141711.
Researcher: Tim Dye, PhD, JD
- Closing the Oral Health Divide: System-Level Care for Mothers and Young Children-A Forgotten Disparity in the United States, United Kingdom, and Sweden. JDR Clinical & Translational Research, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1177/23800844251372513.
- Preliminary development of the deaf childhood experiences scale. The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/jdsade/enaf029.
Researcher: Nicole Wilson, PhD, MD
- Understanding Imposterism in the Pediatric Surgeon. Journal of Surgical Education, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsurg.2024.103347.
- Increased Hospital System Utilization After Gastronomy in Children is Related to Neighborhood. Journal of Surgical Research, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2025.05.010.
- Neighborhood deprivation is a risk factor for severe child physical abuse: A multicenter cohort investigation. Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1097/TA.0000000000004560.
Researcher: Elaine Hill, PhD
- A Population-Based Study of Rates of Invasive Bacterial Infection (IBI) and Missed IBI in Febrile Infants 8-90 Days of Age. The Journal of Pediatrics, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpeds.2025.114578.
Researchers: Bryanna Moore, PhD, Jonathan Herington, PhD
- The Integration of Artificial Intelligence-Powered Psychotherapy Chatbots in Pediatric Care: Scaffold or Substitute?. The Journal of Pediatrics, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpeds.2025.114509
Researcher: Jonathan Herington, PhD
- Musicians' ethical concerns about AI: an interview study. AI and Society, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-025-02601-6.
Researcher: Tim Dye, PhD
- Assessing Historical Structural Oppression Worldwide via Rule-Guided Prompting of Large Language Models. arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.15216, 2025. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2509.15216.
- Locally adapting digital health technologies to address the global challenge of Parkinson's disease. Equity Neuroscience, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuros.2025.100010
Researcher: Olga Astapova, MD, PhD
- AR PROTACs for PCOS: A Long-Awaited Breakthrough?. Endocrinology, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1210/endocr/bqaf111
Researcher: Reza Yousefi-Nooraie, MSc, PhD
- Using Social Network Analysis to Inform Implementation Science Infrastructure Development. Global Implementation Research and Applications, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43477-025-00180-8.
- Using Social Media to Disseminate Behavior Change Interventions: Scoping Review of Systematic Reviews. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2025. https://doi.org/10.2196/57370.
Researcher: Sandhya Seshadri, PhD, MA, MS
- Perspective Mapping: Tutorial for Collecting Quantifiable Qualitative Interview Data. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2025. https://doi.org/10.2196/72622.
Researcher: Mechelle Sanders, PhD
- A case study on barriers to the research implementation of a novel technology in an academic medical center. PLOS Digital Health, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0001014
Researcher: Nicole Wilson, PhD, MD
- Photoacoustic Imaging for Image-Guided Gastric Tube Placement: Ex Vivo Characterization. Sensors, 2025. https://doi.org/10.3390/s25051597
Researcher: Lainie Ross, MD, PhD
- Defending Community Water Fluoridation: A Public Health Imperative Grounded in Evidence. The Journal of the American Dental Association, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adaj.2025.08.012.
Researcher: Christie Petrenko, PhD
- Understanding the intersection of prenatal alcohol exposure and postnatal adversity: A systematic review from a developmental psychopathology lens. Alcohol, Clinical and Experimental Research, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1111/acer.15483.
Researcher: Diane Morse, MD
- Lifestyle and mood correlates of cardiometabolic risk in people with serious mental illness on second-generation antipsychotic medications. PLoS ONE, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0306798.
Researcher: Cynthia Rand, MD, MPH
- Improving Firearm Screening and Safe Storage Counseling in a Primary Care Pediatric Practice. Clinical Pediatrics, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1177/00099228241306868.
Researcher: Nicole Wilson, MD
- Comparative Analysis of Indices for Social Determinants of Health in Pediatric Surgical Populations. JAMA Network Open, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.49672.