Highlights from the 2023 Public Health Showcase!
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Grace Mullikin: “Preliminary results of a randomized-controlled trial of a behavioral parent training intervention for families with deaf or hard of hearing children"
Christopher Otieno: “Equity Beyond the Health Care System”
Princess Magor Agbozo: “The Race of Health Workers as A Determinant of Black Women's Childbearing”
Hanan Yusuf: “Prevalence and Predictors of Substantial Postpartum Weight Retention Among Participants of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) in Southern California”
Megan Damico: “Health Impact Assessment (HIA) of Ford BlueOval SK Battery Plant in Glendale, Kentucky”
Sarah Jane Robbins: “Out of the Matrix: Utilizing Data Simulation for Public Health Research”
Meghan Steel: “Race- and Sex-Based Differences in the Increase of Emergency Department Visits for Stimulant-Induced Psychotic Disorder in Kentucky"
Taylor Estepp: “Associations of potential ADRD plasma biomarkers in cognitively normal volunteers”
Rena Wang: “Interrupted Time Series Design to Evaluate the Impact of the COVID-19 Stay- at-home Orders in Kentucky on the Statewide Trend of Emergency Department Visits for Traumatic Brain Injuries”
Gyeon Oh: “Association of gabapentin initiation and neurocognitive changes between adults with normal cognition and cognitive impairment”
Feitong Lei: “Urban-Rural Differences in Mortality among Patients Receiving Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder Treatment in Kentucky”
Gaixin Du: 1) “Group-based multi-trajectory modeling for classifying hospital performance”; 2) “Exploration of multivariate group-based trajectory modeling convergence issues”; and 3) “Application of singular BIC to the group-based multi-trajectory model”
Hyeeun Shin: “Examining Spirituality and Other Resilience Factors Among Children Experiencing Multiple Adverse Childhood Experiences"
Haritomane Nikolaou: “Placement Stability and Sleep in Child Welfare"
Olivia Allran: “Communicating Opioid Overdose Warnings: Needs of Local Officials"
Richard Charnigo
Biostatistics
Linda Kim
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