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PubMed Feed- Partner incarceration, maternal substance use, and the mediating role of social support: A longitudinal analysis using the future of families and child wellbeing study
- Establishing registry-based mental health research in Latin America
- Adverse childhood experiences among black sexually minoritized men and Black transgender women in Chicago
- Disadvantaged groups have greater spatial access to pharmacies in New York state
- Direct potable reuse and birth defects prevalence in Texas: An augmented synthetic control method analysis of data from a population-based birth defects registry
- Screening mammography frequency following dense breast notification among a predominantly Hispanic/Latina screening cohort
- Neighborhood violent crime exposure is associated with PrEP non-use among black sexually minoritized men and transgender women: A GPS Study
- Police Harassment and Psychiatric, Sexual, and Substance Use Risk Among Black Sexual Minority Men and Black Transgender Women in the HIV Prevention Trials 061 Cohort
- Interstate Highway Connections and Traced Gun Transfers Between the 48 Contiguous United States
- Population Neuroscience: Understanding Concepts of Generalizability and Transportability and Their Application to Improving the Public's Health
Author Archives: Andrew
Social support and intimate partner violence in rural Pakistan: a longitudinal investigation of the bi-directional relationship
While there are well-established links between social support and intimate partner violence (IPV), the directionality of this relationship has not been firmly established due to a dearth of longitudinal evidence. Using data from the Bachpan cohort study, a unique study … Continue reading
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Overflowing Disparities: Examining the Availability of Litter Bins in New York City
The 1980s marked the birth of the modern environmental justice movements thanks to civil rights activists’ concerns about the disproportionate placements of landfills in low-income and Black communities. (see our Environmental Justice Spotify playlist here) Similar environmental injustice concerns are … Continue reading
In New York City, pandemic policing reproduced familiar patterns of racial disparities
In the past month, New York City has rolled back most of the public health mandates first put in place to control the spread of COVID-19 in early 2020, such as social distancing and mask wearing mandates. Now, new research … Continue reading
The COVID-19 Pandemic as a Threat Multiplier for Childhood Health Disparities: Evidence from St. Louis, MO
In the United States, the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted and exacerbated socioeconomic and racial health disparities. For example, U.S.-based studies have found that the mortality rates for Black, Hispanic, Latino, and Indigenous communities from COVID-19 are double that of their … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood Adversity, COVID-19, Pandemic, Race, Stress, Urban Health
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Lessons Learned From Dear Pandemic, a Social Media–Based Science Communication Project Targeting the COVID-19 Infodemic
The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified excessive COVID-19-related information as a public health crisis, calling it an “infodemic.” The infodemic has been exacerbated by uncertainties inherent in an emerging infectious disease and the scientific process more generally. Together with … Continue reading
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Ridesharing is Associated with Assaults around Bars in NYC
Ridesharing companies such as Uber and Lyft have completed more than 20 billion rides globally since 2010. Studies have found that this change to transportation systems has affected health outcomes, including alcohol consumption and motor vehicle crashes. In research recently … Continue reading
Maintaining patient privacy while geocoding patient addresses: Do Not Use R to Geocode!
Imagine if a clinical researcher were to disclose a list of patient addresses to a third-party – government agency, for profit company or not-for-profit entity – that was outside of their hospital or health system. Imagine the researcher then publicly … Continue reading
Posted in Info-Graphix, Methods, Privacy
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The politics of depression: Associations between political beliefs and adolescent mental health
In a manuscript recently published in SSM Mental Health, Catherine Gimbrone and colleagues investigated the role that political beliefs play in shaping adolescent psychological wellbeing. After decades of relative stability, adolescent mental health has sharply declined over the past decade, … Continue reading
The impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on population mental health: An analysis of GPS and Google search volume data
Catherine Gimbrone and colleagues recently published a paper in the journal PLoS One exploring the effects of COVID-19 lockdowns on population mental health. Using novel data sources that allow for near-real-time analysis of population behavior and thought, they found that … Continue reading
Posted in Anxiety, COVID-19, Depression, Economic, Stress
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Rideshare Trips and Alcohol-Involved Motor Vehicle Crashes in Chicago
Morrison and colleagues recently published a paper reporting on a case-case analysis of rideshare activity near alcohol-involved and non-alcohol-involved car crashes in Chicago. The observed higher level of rideshare activity near crashes that did not involve alcohol suggests that ridesharing … Continue reading
Posted in Alcohol, Alcohol Consumption, Injury, Spatial Analysis
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