The Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health was known as the Department of Epidemiology before July 1, 2022.

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Submissions from 2025

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Chronic pain and subjective memory problems are dynamic risk factors for functional decline, Tyler R. Bell, Cynthia Felix, Nathalie Gider, George W. Rebok, Michael Crowe, Karlene Ball, Gail Wallace, Sheila Black, Kelsey R. Thomas, Katie M. Wheeler, Felix J. Kollasserry, Jeanine M. Parisi, and Caitlin A. Northcutt

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Assessing coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic impacts on the health of people who inject drugs using a novel data sharing model, Heather Bradley, Nicole Luisi, Anastasia Carter, Terri D. Pigott, Daniela Abramovitz, Sean T. Allen, Alice Asher, Chelsea Austin, Tyler S. Bartholomew, Marianna Baum, Amy Board, Basmattee Boodram, Annick Borquez, Kathryn A. Brookmeyer, Kate Buchacz, Janet Burnett, Hannah L.F. Cooper, Nicole Crepaz, Kora Debeck, Judith Feinberg, Chunki Fong, Edward Freeman, Nathan Woo Furukawa, Becky Genberg, Pamina Gorbach, Holly Hagan, Kanna Hayashi, and Emalie Huriaux

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Engagement and retention in a motivational, discovery, and transitional track based substance use disorder recovery program, Terry Lee Bunn, Robin Thompson, Madison Ashworth, and Ernest Fletcher

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Quantitative and Narrative Analysis of Dump Truck-Related Injuries and Fatalities in the United States, Terry L. Bunn, Caitlin A. Northcutt, Rebecca Honaker, and Patrick Maloney

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Nonfatal injury emergency department visits and inpatient hospitalizations among persons under age 65 with an intellectual and developmental disability or deaf or hard of hearing disability, Terry L. Bunn, Jacqueline Seals, Dana Quesinberry, Alaina Murphy, and Julia F. Costich

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Barriers and facilitating factors for COVID-19 vaccination in rural appalachia, Kathryn M. Cardarelli, Rachel Gillespie, Anna Goodman Hoover, Diane B. Francis, and Marc T. Kiviniemi

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Prospective cohort study of fentanyl test strip use and distribution in three states, Janet E Childerhose, Kitty Gelberg, Rachel Vickers-Smith, Megan E Dzurec, Emmanuel Oga, Mallory Harris, Rachel Caspar, Denise C Babineau, Megan E Hall, Beth S Linas, Katherine E Marks, Amanda Fallin-Bennett, Laura C Fanucchi, Louisa Gilbert, James L David, Mary Russo, Kathryn E Lancaster, Soledad Fernandez, Michael Konstan, Redonna K Chandler, Carter Roeber, Jennifer Villani, Rebecca D Jackson, Bridget Freisthler, Sharon L Walsh, and Nabila El-Bassel

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Prospective cohort study of fentanyl test strip use and distribution in three states, Janet E. Childerhose, Kitty Gelberg, Rachel Vickers-Smith, Megan E. Dzurec, Emmanuel Oga, Mallory Harris, Rachel Caspar, Denise C. Babineau, Megan E. Hall, Beth S. Linas, Katherine E. Marks, Amanda Fallin-Bennett, Laura C. Fanucchi, Louisa Gilbert, James L. David, Mary Russo, Kathryn E. Lancaster, Soledad Fernandez, Michael Konstan, Redonna K. Chandler, Carter Roeber, Jennifer Villani, Rebecca D. Jackson, Bridget Freisthler, Sharon L. Walsh, and Nabila El-Bassel

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Storage-dependent variability in Alzheimer disease-related plasma biomarker results using the Fujirebio Lumipulse G1200 platform, Ibrahim Choucair, Tiffany L. Lee, Linda J. Van Eldik, Jeffrey L. Dage, Brian T. Gold, Erin L. Abner, Gregory A. Jicha, and Peter T. Nelson

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Multi-ancestry genome-wide association meta-analysis of buprenorphine treatment response, Christal N Davis, Yousef Khan, Richard C Crist, Rachel Vickers-Smith, Emily E Hartwell, Joel Gelernter, Kyle Kampman, Rachel L Kember, Anne Le Moigne, Celine M Laffont, and Henry R Kranzler

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Abuse-deterrent formulations and opioid-related harms in North Carolina, 2010-2018, Bethany L. DiPrete, Nabarun Dasgupta, G. Yeon Oh, Daniela C. Moga, Svetla Slavova, Emily Slade, Chris Delcher, Brian W. Pence, and Shabbar I. Ranapurwala

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Associations of hepatitis C virus (HCV) antibody positivity with opioid, stimulant, and polysubstance injection among people who inject drugs (PWID) in rural U.S. communities, Angela T. Estadt, William C. Miller, David Kline, Bridget M. Whitney, April M. Young, P. Todd Korthuis, Thomas J. Stopka, Judith Feinberg, William A. Zule, Mai T. Pho, Peter D. Friedmann, Ryan P. Westergaard, Kellene V. Eagen, Andrew Seaman, Jimmy Ma, Vivian F. Go, and Kathryn E. Lancaster

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Tobacco marketing exposure and lifetime and current nicotine pouch use among US youth, 2022, Saber Feizy, Delvon T. Mattingly, Melinda Ickes, Mary Kay Rayens, W. Jay Christian, Melissa Abadi, Seth Himelhoch, and Shyanika W. Rose

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FAIREHR, Karen S. Galea, Finlay Brooker, Shahzad Rashid, Michael Bader, Yu Ait Bamai, Jos Bessems, Embialle Mengistie Beyene, Alison Connolly, Carla Costa, Pravina Deligannu, Radu Corneliu Duca, Kaoutar Chbihi, Kasahun Eba, Manosij Ghosh, Melissa Gonzales, Stuart Harrad, Erin N. Haynes, Nancy B. Hopf, Po Chin Huang, Kate Jones, Konstantinos M. Kasiotis, Ming Kei Chung, Jihyon Kil, Holger Koch, Jung Hwan Kwon, Elizabeth Ziying Lin, Henriqueta Louro, and Kyriaki Machera

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Association of fentanyl test strip results and change in drug use behaviors, Kitty H Gelberg, Nabila El-Bassel, Denise C Babineau, Rachel A Vickers-Smith, Laura C Fanucchi, Janet E Childerhose, Megan E Hall, Megan E Dzurec, Jennifer Villani, Mary R Russo, Patricia LeBaron, Katherine R Marks, Kathyrn E Lancaster, Louisa Gilbert, James L David, Barry S Eggleston, Carter A Roeber, Emmanuel A Oga, Redonna K Chandler, and Sharon L Walsh

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Association of fentanyl test strip results and change in drug use behaviors, Kitty H. Gelberg, Nabila El-Bassel, Denise C. Babineau, Rachel A. Vickers-Smith, Laura C. Fanucchi, Janet E. Childerhose, Megan E. Hall, Megan E. Dzurec, Jennifer Villani, Mary R. Russo, Patricia LeBaron, Katherine R. Marks, Kathyrn E. Lancaster, Louisa Gilbert, James L. David, Barry S. Eggleston, Carter A. Roeber, Emmanuel A. Oga, Redonna K. Chandler, and Sharon L. Walsh

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The Neighborhoods Study, Grace C. George, Sarah A. Keller, Erin Abner, Sara Adar, Michael L. Alosco, Liana G. Apostolova, Kelly Bakulski, Lisa L. Barnes, James R. Bateman, Stuart Batterman, Thomas G. Beach, Barbara B. Bendlin, David A. Bennett, Tobey J. Betthauser, James Brewer, William Buckingham, Carmen I. Carrión, Joshua Chodosh, Suzanne Craft, Raina Croff, Anthony Fabio, Sarah Tomaszewski Farias, Eva L. Feldman, Felicia Goldstein, Stephen A. Goutman, Gina Green-Harris, Victor Henderson, and Thomas K. Karikari

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Implementing and documenting cultural adaption of evidence-based practice strategies to reduce opioid overdose deaths, Erin B Gibson, LaShawn Glasgow, Monica Nouvong, Margaret McGladrey, Darcy Freedman, Deborah Chassler, Rachel Vickers-Smith, Madeline D'Onfro, Dawn A Goddard-Eckrich, Timothy Hunt, Avik Chatterjee, JaNae Holloway, Katie Fain, Rachel Sword Cruz, and Linda Sprague Martinez

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Evaluation of real-world evidence to assess health outcomes related to deprescribing medications in older adults, Kaleen N. Hayes, Joshua David Niznik, Danijela Gnjidic, Frank Moriarty, Nha Tran, Antoinette B. Coe, Andrew R. Zullo, Sirui Zhang, Matthew Alcusky, Dimitri Bennett, Sirpa Hartikainen, Marie Laure Laroche, Xiaojuan Li, Joshua K. Lin, Jennifer L. Lund, Maurizio Sessa, Shahar Shmuel, Caroline Sirois, Denis Talbot, Miia Tiihonen, Xuerong Wen, Mouna J. Sawan, and Daniela C. Moga

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The Reporting and Methodological Recommendations for Observational Studies Estimating the Effects of Deprescribing Medications (REMROSE-D) ISPE-Endorsed Guidance, Kaleen N. Hayes, Joshua D. Niznik, Danijela Gnjidic, Frank Moriarty, Dimitri Bennett, Marie Laure Laroche, Denis Talbot, Matthew Alcusky, Maurizio Sessa, Antoinette B. Coe, Caroline Sirois, Andrew R. Zullo, Xiaojuan Li, Sri Harsha Chalasani, Jehath Syed, Mouna Sawan, and Daniela C. Moga

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Detecting spatial clusters of Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever in Iraq in 2023, Hanan Abdulghafoor Khaleel, Riyadh Abdulameer Alhilfi, and Sabrina Brown

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Adverse Birth Outcomes Associated with Heat Stress and Wildfire Smoke Exposure During Preconception and Pregnancy, Roxana Khalili, Yisi Liu, Yan Xu, Karl O’Sharkey, Nathan Pavlovic, Crystal McClure, Fred Lurmann, Tingyu Yang, Xinci Chen, Mario Vigil, Brendan Grubbs, Layla Al Marayati, Deborah Lerner, Nathana Lurvey, Carmen J. Marsit, Jill Johnston, Theresa M. Bastain, Carrie V. Breton, Shohreh F. Farzan, and Rima Habre

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Impact of manganese and metal mixtures in blood, hair, and soil on child adaptive behaviors in Southeast Side Chicago, Christine Kim, Timothy J. Hilbert, Kelly J. Brunst, Anthony A. Mangino, W. Jay Christian, Patrick J. Parsons, Christopher D. Palmer, Julio Landero, Susan Westneat, Ian Papautsky, Kim N. Dietrich, and Erin N. Haynes

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Using the Practical, Robust Implementation and Sustainability Model to identify implementation determinants of a statewide diabetes learning collaborative in Kentucky, Aaron J. Kruse-Diehr, Borsika A. Rabin, Jessica Elliott, Vance Drakeford, Laura Wright, Brent McKune, Russell E. Glasgow, Key C. Douthitt, James W. Keck, and Mary E. Lacy

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Comparison of the association between COVID-19 and new onset diabetes in a regional and national dataset, Mary E. Lacy, Aaron P. Smith, Lindsey R. Hammerslag, Kory R. Heier, James Aaron, Alicia Fields, John L. Fowlkes, Simon J. Fisher, Jeffery Talbert, and Philip A. Kern