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March 2025

Collaborators: Brian E. Dixon, Thomas J. Duszynski, William F. Fadel. Interim Estimates of 2024–2025 COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness Among Adults Aged≥ 18 Years—VISION and IVY Networks, September 2024–January 2025. MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 74, dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7406a1.
Frutos, A. M., Dixon, B. E. (2025). Interim Estimates of 2024–2025 Seasonal Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness—Four Vaccine Effectiveness Networks, United States, October 2024–February 2025. MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 74, dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7406a2.
Soni, A., & Blackburn, J. (2025, March). Health Characteristics of Adults Unable to Complete Medicaid Renewal During the Unwinding Period. In JAMA Health Forum (Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. e250092-e250092). American Medical Association, doi:10.1001/jamahealthforum.2025.0092.
Burns, A., Vest, J. R., Menachemi, N., Mazurenko, O., Musey Jr, P. I., Salyers, M. P., & Yeager, V. A. (2024). Availability of behavioral health crisis care and associated changes in emergency department utilization. Health Services Research, doi.org/10.1111/1475-6773.14368.
Liu, C., Wongsonegoro, H., Sheng, T., Fan, H., & Zhang, J. (2025). Associations between serum micronutrients and all-cause, cancer, and cardiovascular mortality in a national representative population: Mediated by inflammatory biomarkers. Redox Biology, 103573, doi.org/10.1016/j.redox.2025.103573.
Fahrmann, J. F., Yip-Schneider, M., Vykoukal, J., Spencer, R., Dennison, J. B., Do, K., Long, J. P., Maitra, A., Zhang, J., Schmidt, C. M., Hanash, S. & Irajizad, E. (2025). Lead time trajectory of blood-based protein biomarkers for detection of pancreatic cancer based on repeat testing. Cancer Letters, 612, 217450, doi.org/10.1016/j.canlet.2025.217450.
Akonde, M., Alberg, A. J., Johnson, C., Bandera, E. V., Collin, L. J., Cote, M. L., Hastert, T. A., Peres, L. C., Peters, E. S., Qin, B., Terry, P. D., Lawson, A. B. & Schildkraut, J. M. (2025). Cigarette smoking in relation to survival in Black women with ovarian cancer: Evidence from the African American Cancer Epidemiology Study (AACES). Annals of Epidemiology, doi.org/10.1016/j.annepidem.2025.02.011.
Blanchard, B. E., Austin, E. J., Chase, E., Rouvere, J., Sharma, V., Johnson, M., Sams, N., Williams, F., Frost, M. C., Leyde, S., Tsui, J. I., Collins, S. E. & Fortney, J. C. (2025). Primary Care Patient and Clinician Perspectives on Safer Use Strategies for Opioids and/or Stimulants: A Mixed-Method Study. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 1-9, doi.org/10.1007/s11606-025-09418-5.
Finlayson, T. L., Malcarne, V. L., Ayala, G. X., Schiaffino, M. K., Hoeft, K. S., Garcia-Alcaraz, C., Ryder, M., Gansky, S. A., Martinez, L. S., Yang, M., Dougherty, E., Maupomé, G., Stamm, N. & Shue, B. (2025). Development of new bilingual oral health behavior social support (OHBSS) scales in English and Spanish. PloS one, 20(3), e0317133, doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0317133.

February 2025

Gee, M., Taylor, H., & Yeager, V. A. (2025). Competency Gaps Among Governmental Public Health Employees With and Without a Formal Public Health Degree: Where Are We Now?. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 10-1097, 10.1097/PHH.0000000000002104.
Mazurenko, O., O'Brien, E., Beug, A., Smith, S. M., & McCarthy, C. (2024). Recommendations for managing adults with chronic non‐cancer pain in primary care: A systematic clinical guideline review. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, doi.org/10.1111/jep.14118.
Soni, A., & Griffith, K. N. (2025). The Protective Role of Medicaid Expansion for Low‐Income People During the COVID‐19 Pandemic. Health Services Research, e14444, doi.org/10.1111/1475-6773.14444.
Abouzaid, R., & Rotthoff, K. W. (2025). Income, obesity, and gender: unravelling the obesity Kuznets curve. Applied Economics Letters, 1-4, doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2024.2449146.
Vest, J. R., McNamee, C., & Musey Jr, P. I. (2025). Health-Related Social Needs, Methods, and Concerns for a Polysocial Risk Score: An Expert Panel. American Journal of Managed Care, 31(2), 10.37765/ajmc.2025.89676.
Naleway, A. L., Crane, B., Irving, S. A., Daley, M. F., Dixon, B., Donahue, J., Fuller, C. C., Fuller, S., Getahun, D., Glenn, S., Hambidge, S. J., Jackson, L. A., Kharbanda, E. O., Klein, N. P., Schmidt, T., Sznajder, K., Weinfield, N. S., Williams, J. & Zerbo, O. (2025). Vaccination During Pregnancy in the Vaccine Safety Datalink, 2002–2022. The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, 44(2S), S105-S107, 10.1097/INF.0000000000004607.
Rowley, E., Mitchell, P. K., Duck-Hye, Y., Lewis, N., Dixon, B. E., Vazquez-Benitez, G., Fadel, W. F., Essien, I. J., Naleway, A. L., Stenehjem, E., Ong, T. C., Gaglani, M., Natarajan, K., Embi, P., Wiegand, R. E., Link-Gelles, R., Tenforde, M. W. & Fireman, B. (2025). Methods to Adjust for Confounding in Test-Negative Design COVID-19 Effectiveness Studies: Simulation Study. JMIR Formative Research, 9, e58981, 10.2196/58981.
Rajamani, S., Leider, J. P., Gunashekar, D. R., & Dixon, B. E. (2025). Public health informatics specialists in state and local public health workforce: insights from public health workforce interests and needs survey. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, ocaf019, doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocaf019
Pan, J., Li, Z., Ye, C., Zhang, X., Yang, Q., Zhang, X., Zhou, Y. & Zhang, J. (2025). Mesalazine-Induced Acute Pancreatitis in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients: A Systematic Review. Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management, 113-123.

January 2025

Kuhn, D., Harrison, N. E., Musey Jr, P. I., Crandall, D. J., Pang, P. S., Welch, J. L., & Harle, C. A. (2025). Preliminary findings regarding the association between patient demographics and ED experience scores across a regional health system: A cross sectional study using natural language processing of patient comments. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 195, doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2024.105748.
Liu, C., Reger, M., Fan, H., Wang, J., & Zhang, J. (2024). Dietary intake of isoflavones and coumestrol and risk of pancreatic cancer in the prostate, lung, colorectal, and ovarian cancer screening trial. British Journal of Cancer, 1-10, doi.org/10.1038/s41416-024-02929-8.
Vest, J. R., & Mendonca, E. A. (2024). Presence of Children in Household Is Associated With Increased Health-Related Social Need Burden. Pediatrics Open Science, doi.org/10.1542/pedsos.2024-000165.
Mazurenko, O., Hirsh, A. T., Harle, C. A., McNamee, C., & Vest, J. R. (2024). A Clinical Decision Support System for Addressing Health-Related Social Needs in Emergency Department: Defining End User Needs and Preferences. Applied Clinical Informatics, 15(05), 1097-1106, DOI: 10.1055/s-0044-1791816.
Gregory, M. E., Kasthurirathne, S. N., Magoc, T., McNamee, C., Harle, C. A., & Vest, J. R. (2025). Development and validation of computable social phenotypes for health-related social needs. JAMIA open, 8(1), ooae150, doi.org/10.1093/jamiaopen/ooae150.
Fahrmann, J. F., Yip-Schneider, M., Vykoukal, J., Spencer, R., Dennison, J. B., Do, K. A., Long, J. P., Maitra, A., Zhang, J., Schmidt, C. M., Hanash, S., Irajizad, E. (2025). Lead time trajectory of blood-based protein biomarkers for detection of pancreatic cancer based on repeat testing. Cancer Letters, 217450, doi.org/10.1016/j.canlet.2025.217450.
Kuhn, D., Pang, P. S., Mazurenko, O., Globe, N. K., Lardaro, T. A., Li, X., Harle, C. A., Musey Jr, P. I. (2025). Use of Hallway Beds, Radiology Studies, and Patients in Pain on Arrival to the Emergency Department Are Associated With Patient Experience. Annals of Emergency Medicine, doi.org/10.1016/j.annemergmed.2024.11.020
Burns, A., Kampman, H., Karnik, H., Leider, J. P., & Yeager, V. A. (2025). Accredited public health department characteristics associated with workforce gaps identified in workforce development plans. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 31(2), 204-212, DOI: 10.1097/PHH.0000000000002046.
Sheng, T., Dokmanovich, B., Yu, Y., Liu, C., Fan, H., Prizment, A., Anderson, K., and Zhang, J.Associations between intake of carotenoids and tocopherols with risk of pancreatic cancer in a population-based case-control study. Journal of the American Nutrition Association, 2024 Sep 20:1-9, doi.org/10.1080/27697061.2024.2404578.
McCord, E., Menachemi, N., & Blackburn, J. (2024). Contributing Factors to Health Administration Male-Female Salary Differences over Time: An Oaxaca-Blinder Decomposition Approach. Journal of Health Administration Education, 40(4), 653-674.
Brumitt, G. M., Mazurenko, O., Blackburn, J. L., Menachemi, N., & Vest, J. R. (2025). Home Health Agencies’ Ownership Type, Chain Affiliation and Financial Performance. Home Health Care Management & Practice, 10848223241305392, doi.org/10.1177/10848223241305392.
Zhao, X., Zhang, S., Nan, D., Han, J., & Kim, J. H. (2024, December). Human–Computer Interaction in Healthcare: A Bibliometric Analysis with CiteSpace. In Healthcare (Vol. 12, No. 23, p. 2467). MDPI, doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12232467.
Martinez, L. S., Devi, A., Maupomé, G., Schiaffino, M. K., Ayala, G. X., Malcarne, V. L., Hoeft, K. S. & Finlayson, T. L. (2024). Using a Social Network Approach to Characterize Oral Health Behavior Social Support Among Mexican-Origin Young Adults. Journal of Health Communication, 1-16, doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2024.2433528.
Delgado-Pérez, V. J., Patiño-Marín, N., Rueda-Ibarra, V., Márquez-Rodríguez, S., Casanova-Rosado, A. J., Casanova-Rosado, J. F., Acuña-González, G. R., López-Gómez, S. A., Medina-Solís, C. E. & Maupomé, G. (2024). Epidemiological and oral public health aspects of dental pain: a narrative review. Cureus, 16(12), e74908, DOI: 10.7759/cureus.74908 .
Blackburn, J., Sen, B., Rahim, J., Sharma, , P., Brisendine, A., Morrisey, M. A., McDougal, J. & Becker, D. J. (2025). Use of Telehealth for Follow-up Care After Children’s Mental Health Hospitalizations. Hospital Pediatrics, e2024008031, doi.org/10.1542/hpeds.2024-008031.
Ojinnaka, C. O., Johnstun, L., Adepoju, O. E., Nordstrom, L., & Yuh, S. (2025). The Influence of Structural Factors and Telemedicine on Missed Appointments Among Medicaid-Insured Patients. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 1-7, doi.org/10.1007/s40615-025-02289-w.

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