The Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health was known as the Department of Epidemiology before July 1, 2022.
Submissions from 2025
High-Resolution Geospatial Database: National Criteria-Air-Pollutant Concentrations in the Contiguous U.S., 2016–2020, Tianjun Lu, Sun-Young Kim, and Julian D. Marshall
Submissions from 2024
Willingness to utilize a mobile treatment unit in five counties at the epicenter of the US rural opioid epidemic., Snigdha R. Peddireddy, Melvin D. Livingston III, April M. Young, Patricia R. Freeman, Umedjon Ibragimov, Kelli A. Komro, Michelle R. Lofwall, Carrie B. Oser, Michele Staton, and Hannah L. F. Cooper
Barriers to opioid use disorder treatment among people who use drugs in the rural United States: A qualitative, multi-site study., T. J. Stopka, A. T. Estadt, G. Leichtling, J. C. Schleicher, L. S. Mixson, J. Bresett, E. Romo, P. Dowd, S. M. Walters, A. M. Young, W. Zule, P. D. Friedmann, V. F. Go, R. Baker, and R. J. Fredericksen
A multi-ancestry genetic study of pain intensity in 598,339 veterans., Sylvanus Toikumo, Rachel Vickers-Smith, Zeal Jinwala, Heng Xu, Divya Saini, Emily E Hartwell, Mirko Pavicic, Kyle A Sullivan, Ke Xu, Daniel A Jacobson, Joel Gelernter, Christopher T Rentsch, Million Veteran Program, Eli Stahl, Martin Cheatle, Hang Zhou, Stephen G Waxman, Amy C Justice, Rachel L Kember, and Henry R Kranzler
A 2‑Year Longitudinal Randomized Control Trial of Speed of Processing Cognitive Training in Aging Adults with HIV‑Associated Neurocognitive Disorder: Results of the Think Fast Study, David E. Vance, Pariya L. Fazeli, Andres Azuero, Jennifer S. Frank, Virginia G. Wadley, James L. Raper, Caitlin N. Pope, and Karlene K. Ball
Submissions from 2023
Houselessness and syringe service program utilization among people who inject drugs in eight rural areas across the USA: a cross-sectional analysis., April M. Ballard, Dylan Falk, Harris Greenwood, Paige Gugerty, Judith Feinberg, Peter D. Friedmann, Vivian F. Go, Wiley D. Jenkins, P. Todd Korthuis, William C. Miller, Mai T. Pho, David W. Seal, Gordon S. Smith, Thomas J. Stopka, Ryan P. Westergaard, William A. Zule, April M. Young, and Hannah L. F. Cooper
Contraception and Healthcare Utilization by Reproductive-Age Women Who Use Drugs in Rural Communities: a Cross-Sectional Survey., Ximena A. Levander, Canyon A. Foot, Sara L. Magnusson, Ryan R. Cook, Jerel M. Ezell, Judith Feinberg, Vivian F. Go, Kathryn E. Lancaster, Elizabeth Salisbury-Afshar, Gordon S. Smith, Ryan P. Westergaard, April M. Young, Judith I. Tsui, and P. Todd Korthuis
Participant engagement to develop report-back materials for personal air monitoring, Patrick H. Ryan, Chris Wolfe, Allison Parsons, Cole Brokamp, Ashley Turner, and Erin N. Haynes
Submissions from 2022
Maternal proximity to mountain-top removal mining and birth defects in Appalachian Kentucky, 1997–2003, Daniel B. Cooper, Courtney J. Walker, and W. Jay Christian
An evaluation of injurious falls and Fall-Risk-Increasing-Drug (FRID) prescribing in ambulatory care in older adults, Taylor R. Elliott, Susan Westneat, Shama D. Karanth, Erin L. Abner, Anna M. Kucharska‑Newton, and Daniela C. Moga
A Qualitative Study on Pharmacy Policies toward Over-the-Counter Syringe Sales in a Rural Epicenter of US Drug-Related Epidemics, Monica Fadanelli, Hannah L. F. Cooper, Patricia R. Freeman, April M. Ballard, Umed Ibragimov, and April M. Young
Rare Coding Variants in RCN3 Are Associated with Blood Pressure, Karen Y. He, Tanika N. Kelly, Heming Wang, Jingjing Liang, Luke Zhu, Brian E. Cade, Themistocles L. Assimes, Lewis C. Becker, Amber L. Beitelshees, Lawrence F. Bielak, Adam P. Bress, Jennifer A. Brody, Yen-Pei Christy Chang, Yi-Cheng Chang, Paul S. de Vries, Ravindranath Duggirala, Ervin R. Fox, Nora Franceschini, Anna L. Furniss, Yan Gao, and Donna K. Arnett
Combined Driving: Task-Specific Position Impacts Grip Strength of Equestrian Athletes, Michaela M. Keener, Kimberly I. Tumlin, and Nicholas R. Heebner
A cross-sectional examination of the early-onset hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and industrial emissions of toxic metals using Kentucky birth records, 2008–2017, Courtney J. Walker, W. Jay Christian, Anna M. Kucharska-Newton, and Steven R. Browning
Submissions from 2021
Association of Body Composition with Odds of Breast Cancer by Molecular Subtype: Analysis of the Mechanisms for Established and Novel Risk Factors for Breast Cancer in Nigerian Women (MEND) Study, Tomi Akinyemiju, Kelley Jones, Anjali Gupta, Taofik Oyekunle, Veeral Saraiya, April Deveaux, Omolola Salako, Allison Hall, Olusegun Alatise, Gabriel Ogun, Adewale Adeniyi, Omobolaji Ayandipo, Thomas Olajide, Olalekan Olasehinde, Olukayode Arowolo, Adewale Adisa, Oludolapo Afuwape, Aralola Olusanya, Aderemi Adegoke, Trygve O. Tollefsbol, Donna K. Arnett, H3 Africa Kidney Research Network, and Adetola Daramola
Genetic Contributors of Incident Stroke in 10,700 African Americans with Hypertension: A Meta-Analysis from the Genetics of Hypertension Associated Treatments and Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke Studies, Nicole D. Armstrong, Vinodh Srinivasasainagendra, Amit Patki, Rikki M. Tanner, Bertha A. Hidalgo, Hemant K. Tiwari, Nita A. Limdi, Ethan M. Lange, Leslie A. Lange, Donna K. Arnett, and Marguerite R. Irvin
Epigenome-Wide Association Study of Kidney Function Identifies Trans-Ethnic and Ethnic-Specific Loci, Charles E. Breeze; Anna Batorsky; Mi Kyeong Lee; Mindy D. Szeto; Xiaoguang Xu; Daniel L. McCartney; Rong Jiang; Amit Patki; Holly J. Kramer; James M. Eales; Laura Raffield; Leslie Lange; Ethan Lange; Peter Durda; Yongmei Liu; Russ P. Tracy; David Van Den Berg; NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Consortium, TOPMed MESA Multi-Omics Working Group; Kathryn L. Evans; William E. Kraus; and Donna K. Arnett
Persistent Disparities in Smoking among Rural Appalachians: Evidence from the Mountain Air Project, Kathryn Cardarelli, Susan C. Westneat, Madeline Dunfee, Beverly May, Nancy Schoenberg, and Steven R. Browning
Vitamin D Supplementation among Bangladeshi Children under-Five Years of Age Hospitalised for Severe Pneumonia: A Randomised Placebo Controlled Trial, Fahmida Chowdhury, Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayeem Bin Shahid, Mosharrat Tabassum, Irin Parvin, Probir Kumar Ghosh, Mohammad Iqbal Hossain, Nur Haque Alam, A. S. G. Faruque, Sayeeda Huq, Lubaba Shahrin, Nusrat Homaira, Zakiul Hassan, Zubair Akhtar, S. Mah-E-Muneer, George J. Fuchs III, Tahmeed Ahmed, and Mohammod Jobayer Chisti
Exploring COVID-19 Case Fatality in Relation to the Prevalence of Chronic Conditions and Health Behaviors in Appalachian Kentucky, W. Jay Christian
Estimating the Population Attributable Fraction of Asthma Due to Electronic Cigarette Use and Other Risk Factors Using Kentucky Behavioral Risk Factor Survey Data, 2016-2017, W. Jay Christian and Courtney J. Walker
Protecting P-Glycoprotein at the Blood-Brain Barrier from Degradation in an Alzheimer's Disease Mouse Model, Yujie Ding, Yu Zhong, Andrea Baldeshwiler, Erin L. Abner, Björn Bauer, and Anika M. S. Hartz
Case Report: The Complexities of Managing Medications and the Importance of Deprescribing Anticholinergics in Older Adults, Taylor Elliott, Lynne Eckmann, and Daniela C. Moga
APOBEC Mutagenesis Is Concordant between Tumor and Viral Genomes in HPV-Positive Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma, Daniel L. Faden, Krystle A. Lang Kuhs, Maoxuan Lin, Adam Langenbucher, Maisa Pinheiro, Meredith Yeager, Michael Cullen, Joseph F. Boland, Mia Steinberg, Sara Bass, James S. Lewis, Michael S. Lawrence, Robert L. Ferris, and Lisa Mirabello
Diversity in Alzheimer's Disease Drug Trials: The Importance of Eligibility Criteria, Sanne Franzen, Jade Emily Smith, Esther van den Berg, Monica Rivera Mindt, Rozemarijn L. van Bruchem-Visser, Erin L. Abner, Lon S. Schneider, Niels D. Prins, Ganesh M. Babulal, and Janne M. Papma
