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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

Researcher: Lainie Ross, MD, PhD

 Researcher: Kimberly Vanorden, PhD

Researcher: Maria Quiñones-Cordero, PhD

Researcher: Nikesha Gilmore, PhD

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

Researcher: Sandhya Seshadri, PhD, MA, MS

 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

Researcher: Laura Stamm, PhD

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

Researcher: Jennifer West, PhD

Researcher: Elaine Hill, PhD

Researcher Diane Morse, MD

Researcher: Ashley Jenkins, MD, MSc

Researcher: Jeffrey Yaeger, MD, MPH

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

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

Researcher: Jonathan Herington, PhD

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

Researcher: Elaine Hill, PhD

Researcher: Cynthia Rand, MD, MPH

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

Researcher: Diane Morse, MD

Researcher: Elaine Hill, PhD

Researcher: Stephanie Hollenbach, MD, MS 

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

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

 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

Researcher: Ashley Jenkins, MD, MSc

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

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

Researcher: Elaine Hill, PhD

Researchers: Bryanna Moore, PhD, Jonathan Herington, PhD

Researcher: Jonathan Herington, PhD

Researcher: Tim Dye, PhD

Researcher: Olga Astapova, MD, PhD

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

Researcher: Nicole Wilson, PhD, MD

Researcher: Lainie Ross, MD, PhD


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

Researcher: Cynthia Rand, MD, MPH

Researcher: Nicole Wilson, MD