Population Health

Journal articles

A selection of scientific publications supported by the Population Health Initiative include:

2024

November 19, 2024 – “Mom-and-Pop” Landlords and Regulatory Backlash: A Seattle Case Study – Socius
November 15, 2024 – First Steps Toward a Participatory Research Program: Early Intervention Perspectives on SLP Services for Children of Diverse Backgrounds – Seminars in Speech and Language
November 11, 2024 – Opportunities for Implementation of Disaster Risk Management Strategies among Public Housing Authorities – Journal of Planning Education and Research
November 6, 2024 – Uncovering migration systems through spatio-temporal tensor co-clustering – Scientific Reports
October 29, 2024 – Mental Health and Victimization Among LGBTQ+ Youth: Future Directions for Support in Schools – Journal of School Health
October 28, 2024 – A community pharmacist intervention for people living with epilepsy – Journal of the American Pharmacists Association
October 25, 2024 – Evading the eviction moratorium: Changing patterns in formal and informal evictions and eviction tactics during the COVID-19 pandemic – Journal of Urban Affairs
October 23, 2024 – Advancing Active Transportation Through Mobility Justice and Centering Community – Health Equity
October 21, 2024 – Navigating Turbulent Waves of Emotions: Multi-Level Stress and Coping Among Chinese Men Who Have Sex with Men Living with HIV – Global Qualitative Nursing Research
September 14, 2024 – Machine Learning Enables Reliable Colorimetric Detection of pH and Glucose in Wearable Sweat Sensors – Advanced Materials Technologies
September 4, 2024 – Innovating a Community-driven Enumeration and Needs Assessment of People Experiencing Homelessness: A Network Sampling Approach for the HUD-Mandated Point-in-Time Count – American Journal of Epidemiology
September 2024 – Community Pharmacist-Centered training program improves confidence in delivering epilepsy care – Epilepsy & Behavior
August 22, 2024 – Unsupervised clustering analysis of trauma/non-trauma centers using hospital features including surgical care – PLOS One
August 14, 2024 – Uncovering effects of climate-sensitive health risks on historically marginalized youth in Washington State: creating opportunities for maximum involvement – Environmental Research: Health
August 1, 2024 – Timing of surgical intervention after firearm-related spinal cord injury – Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine
July 28, 2024 – Pursuing Equitable Implementation of State Paid Family Leave Policies: A Case Study From Washington State on the Role of Tribal Engagement and Sovereignty – Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services
July 19, 2024 – Creating the vaccination improvement potential index – Heliyon
July 8, 2024 – Utilization of Low- and High-Value Health Care by Individuals With and Without Cognitive Impairment – The American Journal of Managed Care
June 10, 2024 – Technology-forcing to reduce environmental noise pollution: a prospectus – Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology
June 2024 – Relational One Health: A more-than-biomedical framework for more-than-human health, and lessons learned from Brazil, Ethiopia, and Israel – One Health
May 29, 2024 – Abortion Provision and Delays to Care in a Clinic Network in Washington State After Dobbs – JAMA Network Open
May 9, 2024 – Population health implications of exposure to pervasive military aircraft noise pollution – Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology
May 2024 – Disparities in telemedicine use among Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander individuals insured through Medicaid – Health Affairs Scholar
April 24, 2024 – Exposure to Smoke From Wildfire, Prescribed, and Agricultural Burns Among At-Risk Populations Across Washington, Oregon, and California – GeoHealth
April 18, 2024 – Insights from Developing and Implementing a Novel School Community Collaborative Model to Promote School Safety – Journal of School Health
March 14, 2024 – A mixed methods analysis of youth mental health intervention feasibility and acceptability in a North American city: Perspectives from Seattle, Washington – PLOS ONE
March 13, 2024 – Shifting the Focus: A Photovoice exploration of the benefits and barriers of having a pet while experiencing homelessness – PLOS ONE
March 2, 2024 – Amigas Latinas Motivando el Alma: Participant Perspectives on an In-Person and Online Implementation of an Intervention to Promote Mental Health in Latina Immigrant Women – Community Mental Health Journal
February 15, 2024 – Development of a source-specific biomass burning emissions inventory for Washington, Oregon, and California – Atmospheric Environment
February 2024 – Gentrification Yields Racial And Ethnic Disparities In Exposure To Contextual Determinants Of Health – Health Affairs
February 2024 – Gene Therapy Versus Common Care for Eligible Individuals With Sickle Cell Disease in the United States : A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis – Annals of Internal Medicine
January/February 2024 – Achieving Equity in Childhood Vaccination: A Mixed-Methods Study of Immunization Programs, Policies, and Coverage in 3 US States – Journal of Public Health Management & Practice
January 24, 2024 – Perceived need for a faith-based trauma-focused treatment in a sample of forcibly displaced Muslims – Cogent Mental Health
January 2024 – Using design thinking to strengthen the community pharmacist’s role in epilepsy care – Epilepsy & Behavior

December 10, 2023 – Islamic trauma healing (ITH): A scalable, community-based program for trauma: Cluster randomized control trial design and method – Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications
November 17, 2023 – Factors Influencing COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake among Spanish-Speaking Pregnant People – Vaccines
November 8, 2023 – Utilization of rehabilitation services in violent versus nonviolent traumatic spinal cord injury – PM&R
November 2023 – Assessing the roles and responsibilities of public housing authorities in state-level disaster plans – International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
September 28, 2023 – Economic resilience during COVID-19: the case of food retail businesses in Seattle, Washington – Frontiers in Built Environment
September 22, 2023 – Selective and deceptive citation in the construction of dueling consensuses – Science Advances
September 13, 2023 – Temperature affects predation of schistosome-competent snails by a novel invader, the marbled crayfish Procambarus virginalis – PLOS One
July 17, 2023 – A Mother’s Dilemma: The 5-P Model for Vaccine Decision-Making in Pregnancy – Vaccines
June 29, 2023 – Readying Community Pharmacies to Participate in COVID-19 Testing and Vaccination – Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness
June 23, 2023 – Small Area Estimation for Demographic Analysis – Recent Trends in Demographic Data
June 21, 2023 – Learning to live with smoke: characterizing wildland fire and prescribed fire smoke risk communication in rural Washington – Environmental Research: Health
June 16, 2023 – Managing and minimizing online survey questionnaire fraud: lessons from the Triple C project – International Journal of Social Research Methodology
June 16, 2023 – COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy among English-Speaking Pregnant Women Living in Rural Western United States – Vaccines
May 16, 2023 – Preventing Health Disparities during COVID through Perinatal Home Screening as Black Authoritative Knowledge – Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
April 21, 2023 – Influence of Water Hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) on Concentration and Distribution of Escherichia coli in Water Surrounding an Informal Floating Community in Iquitos, Peru – GeoHealth
April 4, 2023 – Enhancing Mental Health and Medication Adherence Among Men Who Have Sex With Men Recently Diagnosed With HIV With a Dialectical Behavior Therapy–Informed Intervention Incorporating mHealth, Online Skills Training, and Phone Coaching: Development Study Using Human-Centered Design Approach – JMIR Formative Research
March 21, 2023 – Integrating patient voices into the extraction of social determinants of health from clinical notes: ethical considerations and recommendations – Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
March 16, 2023 – Long-Term Survival with Sickle Cell Disease: A Nationwide Cohort Study of Medicare and Medicaid Beneficiaries – Blood Advances
March 2023 – Promoting mental health in Latina immigrant women: Results from the Amigas Latinas Motivando el Alma intervention trial – Social Science & Medicine
February 9, 2023 – Uprooting urban garden contamination – Environmental Science & Policy
February 2, 2023 – Health, Economic, and Social Disparities among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Sexually Diverse Adults: Results from a Population-Based Study – Behavioral Medicine
February 1, 2023 – Perspectives: Ethnoforestry, ecosystem wellbeing, and collaborative learning in the Pacific Northwest – Forest Ecology and Management
February 2023 – Changes in Precarious Employment and Health in the United States Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic – Preventive Medicine Reports
January 23, 2023 – Leveraging interactive voice response technology to mitigate COVID-19 risk in refugee settlements in Uganda: Lessons learned implementing “Dial-COVID” a toll-free mobile phone symptom surveillance and information dissemination tool – PLOS One
January 8, 2023 – The Role of Trust in Older Adult Service Provision at the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic – Journal of Gerontological Social Work

December 20, 2022 – “When people see me, they know me; they trust what I say”: characterizing the role of trusted sources for smoke risk communication in the Okanogan River Airshed Emphasis Area – BMC Public Health
December 7, 2022 – Early Pandemic Access to COVID-19 Testing in the Somali Community in King County, Washington, USA: a Mixed-Methods Evaluation – Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
November 11, 2022 – Meeting Older Adults’ Food Needs During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons And Challenges from Washington State – Journal of Aging & Social Policy
November 1, 2022 – Place-Based Improvements for Public Safety: Private Investment, Public Code Enforcement, and Changes in Crime at Microplaces across Six U.S. Cities – Justice Quarterly
October 22, 2022 – Impact of Online Learning in the Context of COVID-19 on Undergraduates with Disabilities and Mental Health Concerns – ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing
October 12, 2022 – Amigas Latinas Motivando el Alma: In-Person and Online Delivery of an Intervention to Promote Mental Health Among Latina Immigrant Women – Journal of Integrative and Complementary Medicine
September 16, 2022 – A Review of Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response (PHEPR) Curricula in US CEPH-Accredited Schools and Programs of Public Health – Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness
September 2022 – Patient-centered mobile tuberculosis treatment support tools (TB-TSTs) to improve treatment adherence: A pilot randomized controlled trial exploring feasibility, acceptability and refinement needs – The Lancet Regional Health – Americas
August 31, 2022 – Gentrification, Mobility, and Exposure to Contextual Determinants of Health – Housing Policy Debate
August 11, 2022 – Quality of Mobile Apps for Child Development Support: Search in App Stores and Content Analysis – JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting
August 10, 2022 – Examining Employment Conditions During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Pasifika Communities – Health Equity
August 4, 2022 – No One Should Feel Like They’re Unsafe: Mobility Justice Photovoice as a Youth Advocacy Tool for Equitable Community Mobility – Family and Community Health
June 30, 2022 – The effect of weather and climate on dengue outbreak risk in Peru, 200-2018: A time-series analysis – PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
June 23, 2022 – One Vax Two Lives: a social media campaign and research program to address COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in pregnancy – American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
June 14, 2022 – Comparison of Screening Colonoscopy Rates After Positive Noninvasive Testing for Colorectal Cancer in States With and Without Cost-Sharing – JAMA Network
June 10, 2022 – mHealth Technology Design and Evaluation for Early Childhood Health Promotion: Systematic Literature Review – JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting
June 8, 2022 – Hotels as Noncongregate Emergency Shelters: An Analysis of Investments in Hotels as Emergency Shelter in King County, Washington During the COVID-19 Pandemic – Housing Policy Debate
June 2022 – Physical activity monitoring data following disasters – Sustainable Cities and Societies
May 22, 2022 – Climate to COVID, global to local, policies to people: a biopsychosocial ecological framework for syndemic prevention and response in behavioral medicine – Translational Behavioral Medicine
May 17, 2022 – Behavioral Health Integration in Community Health Centers and Emergency Department Use – Psychiatric Services
May 15, 2022 – Passively sensing SARS-CoV-2 RNA in public transit buses – Science of the Total Environment
March 7, 2022 – The Impact of Pet Ownership on Healthcare-Seeking Behavior in Individuals Experiencing Homelessness – Anthrozoös
February 10, 2022 – Development and Validation of the Skimmed Milk Pellet Extraction Protocol for SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater Surveillance – Food Environ Virol.
February 9, 2022 – Health, economic and social disparities among transgender women, transgender men and transgender nonbinary adults: Results from a population-based study – Preventive Medicine
February 2022 – Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology – EP Lab Digest
February 2022 – How do single-family homeowners value residential and commercial density? It depends – Land Use Policy
January 25, 2022 – Fitness, Parks, and Active Transportation Organizations Support Community Recovery and Physical Activity After Disasters – Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion: Population Health Research Brief Series
January 18, 2022 – Maternal Mental Health and Child Adjustment Problems in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Families Experiencing Economic Disadvantage – Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
January 2022 – Housing cost burden and life satisfaction – Journal of Housing and the Built Environment

December 31, 2021 – Identifying Risk of Adverse Outcomes in COVID-19 Patients via Artificial Intelligence-Powered Analysis of 12-Lead Intake Electrocardiogram – Cardiovascular Digital Health Journal
December 17, 2021 – Tropical deforestation accelerates local warming and loss of safe outdoor working hours – One Earth
December 1, 2021 – Stakeholder perceptions of community pharmacist population health management of people living with epilepsy – Epilepsy & Behavior
November 17, 2021 – Decolonising the global to local movement: Time for a new paradigm – Global Public Health
November 11, 2021 – The effect of deforestation and climate change on all-cause mortality and unsafe work conditions due to heat exposure in Berau, Indonesia: a modelling study – The Lancet Planetary Health
November 1, 2021 – A Multi-Site Analysis of the Prevalence of Food Insecurity in the United States, before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic – Current Developments in Nutrition
October 27, 2021 – Religious coping, perceived discrimination, and posttraumatic growth in an international sample of forcibly displaced Muslims – Mental Health, Religion and Culture
October 21, 2021 – Coping With COVID-19: The Impact of the Pandemic on Latina Immigrant Women’s Mental Health and Well-being – Health Education and Behavior
October 20, 2021 – The effect of social interaction quantity and quality on depressed mood and loneliness: A daily diary study – Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
October 14, 2021 – Sociodemographic and clinical features predictive of SARS-CoV-2 test positivity across healthcare visit-types – PLOS ONE
October 6, 2021 – Developing a Concept of Operations Template to Guide Collaborative Disaster Research Response Between Academic Public Health and Public Health Agencies – Disaster Medicine and Public Health Response
October 2021 – A Brief, Mobile Intervention to Decrease Depression and Loneliness and Improve Relationship Quality During the Covid-19 Pandemic – Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology
September 22, 2021 – Control of SARS-CoV-2 infection after Spike DNA or Spike DNA plus Protein co-immunization in rhesus macaques – PLOS Pathogens
September 21, 2021 – The Role of Social Connectedness in Buffering the Effects of Discrimination on Post-Trauma Cognitions in Forcibly Displaced Muslims – Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy
September 2, 2021 – Health and safety risk perceptions and needs of app-based drivers during COVID-19 – American Journal of Industrial Medicine
August 25, 2021 – The hidden influence of communities in collaborative funding of clinical science – Royal Society Open Science
August 21, 2021 – A novel approach to modeling epidemic vulnerability, applied to Aedes aegypti-vectored diseases in Perú – BMC Infectious Diseases
August 3, 2021 – Creating a Digital Bridge: Lessons and Policy Implications from a Technology Access and Distribution Program for Low-income Job Seekers – TPRC49: The 49th Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy
August 2021 – Perspectives of Fitness, Parks, and Active Transportation Organizations on Factors Influencing Physical Activity and Wellbeing during Disaster Recovery – International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disaster
July 30, 2021 – Discovery and Characterization of Spike N-Terminal Domain-Binding Aptamers for Rapid SARS-CoV-2 Detection – Angewandte Chemie International Edition
July 7, 2021 – Distress among undergraduates: Marginality, stressors and resilience resources – Journal of American College Health
July 1, 2021 – Higher severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection rate in pregnant patients – American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
July 1, 2021 – Disease severity, pregnancy outcomes, and maternal deaths among pregnant patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection in Washington State – American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
June 29, 2021 – Landscape of Preterm Birth Therapeutics and a Path Forward – Journal of Clinical Medicine
June 28, 2021 – College from home during COVID-19: A mixed-methods study of heterogeneous experiences – PLOS ONE
June 25, 2021 – Seeking justice, eating toxics: overlooked contaminants in urban community gardens – Agriculture and Human Values
June 21, 2021 – A low-intensity behavioral intervention for depression in older adults delivered by lay coaches: proof-of-concept trial – Aging and Mental Health
June 14, 2021 – Cumulative Impacts and COVID-19: Implications for Low-Income, Minoritized, and health-Compromised Communities in King County, WA – Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
June 2, 2021 – Reaching the Unreached: Bridging Islam and Science to Treat the Mental Wounds of War – Frontiers in Psychiatry
May 15, 2021 – Survey of rapid development of environmental surveillance methods for SARS-CoV-2 detection in wastewater – Sci Total Environ.
May 2021 – Islamic Trauma Healing: Integrating Faith and Empirically Supported Principles in a Community-Based Program – Cognitive and Behavioral Practice
April 1, 2021 – Community pharmacists’ role in caring for people living with epilepsy: A scoping review – Epilepsy & Behavior
March 15, 2021 – A comparison of SARS-CoV-2 wastewater concentration methods for environmental surveillance – Science of the Total Environment
March 11, 2021 – Warming from tropical deforestation reduces worker productivity in rural communities – Nature Communications
March 9, 2021 – Not quite a block party: COVID-19 street reallocation programs in Seattle, WA and Vancouver, BC – SSM – Population Health
March 2021 – COVID-19 Rapid Response: Design Determinants of Seattle Food Retail Business Continuity – 106th ACSA Annual Meeting Proceedings, The Ethical Imperative
February 28, 2021 – Information needs and priority use cases of population health researchers to improve preparedness for future hurricanes and floods – Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
January 27, 2021 – Self-Care Needs and Technology Preferences Among Parents in Marginalized Communities: Participatory Design Study – JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting
Jaunary 2021 – Differences in Posttraumatic and Psychosocial Outcomes Among Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Internally Displaced Persons – Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

December 18, 2020 – Community-Level Factors Associated with COVID-19 Cases and Testing Equity in King County, Washington – International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
December 4, 2020 – COVID-19 Contact Tracing and Privacy: A Longitudinal Study of Public Opinion – Digital Threats: Research and Practice
December 11, 2020 – Making seafood accessible to low-income and nutritionally vulnerable populations on the U.S. West Coast – Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development
October 14, 2020 – Understanding and Addressing Latinx COVID-19 Disparities in Washington State – Health Education & Behavior
October 13, 2020 – Modernizing Training in Psychotherapy Competencies With Adaptive Learning Systems: Proof of Concept – Research on Social Work Practice
October 1, 2020 – Emotional Dysregulation, Depression, and Functional Impairment at Baseline and 6-Month Follow up in Youth Admitted to an Inpatient Psychiatric Unit for Aggression or Depression – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
September 23, 2020 – Owning vs. Renting: the benefits of residential stability? – Housing Studies
July 17, 2020 – Large scale tropical deforestation drives extreme warming – Environmental Research Letters
June 25, 2020 – Lethal Means Assessment in Psychiatric Emergency Services: Frequency and Characteristics of Assessment – Archives of Suicide Research
April 25, 2020 – A Wizard-of-Oz Interface and Persona-based Methodology for Collecting Health Counseling Dialog – CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
April 25, 2020 – Participatory Design of a Tailored Self-Management Program for Caregivers of Children – Western Institute of Nursing Annual Communicating Nursing Research Conference

November 28, 2019 – Crowdfunding and global health disparities: an exploratory conceptual and empirical analysis – Global Health
August 8, 2019 – Daily Bicycle and Pedestrian Activity as an Indicator of Disaster Recovery: A Hurricane Harvey Case Study – International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
July 18, 2019 – Usual Care for Emergency Department Patients Who Present with Suicide Risk: A Survey of Hospital Procedures in Washington State – Archives of Suicide Research
June 24, 2019 – Mitigating the Health Consequences for Youth in Families Affected by Immigration Policy Changes: Opportunities for Health Care Professionals and Health Systems – JAMA Pediatrics
June, 2019 – Sparking interest: A design framework for mobile technologies to promote children’s interest in nature – International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction
March 5, 2019 – A theoretical framework for investigating the context for creating employment success in information technology for individuals with autism – Journal of Management & Organization

Oct. – Dec. 2018 – Epidemiology, landscape architecture, “one health,” and innovation: experience in an Amazonian community – Rev Peru Med Exp Salud Publica