Faculty Highlights Archive

Courtney Blondino, assistant professor of health studies, published “Latent Classes of Comorbid Substance Use and Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms and Their Stability in U.S. Adults Over Time: Findings from the PATH Study Waves 1–3 (2013–2016)” in Substance Use & Misuse.

Rick Mayes, professor of health policy, presented “Medicare Advantage’s Role in Accelerating the Expansion of ‘Big Med’” at the Interdisciplinary Association of Population Health Sciences (IAPHS) 2024 Annual Meeting.

Rick Mayes, professor of health policy, presented “Social and Environmental Drivers of Health” for Shenandoah University’s Physician Assistant Program.

Rick Mayes, professor of health policy, presented “5 Key Facts about U.S. Healthcare and Their Ethical Implications” for the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science.

Kathryn Jacobsen, William E. Cooper Distinguished University Chair and professor of health studies published “The burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors by state in the USA, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021,” as part of the Global Burden of Disease Collaborators in The Lancet.

Kathryn Jacobsen, William E. Cooper Distinguished University Chair and professor of health studies published “Global, regional, and national burden of HIV/AIDS, 1990–2021, and forecasts to 2050, for 204 countries and territories: the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021” as part of the Global Burden of Disease Collaborators in The Lancet HIV.

Nigel James, assistant professor of health studies, published "Epidemic preparedness and response capacity against infectious disease outbreaks in 186 countries, 2018-2022" in BMC Infectious Diseases.

Nigel James, assistant professor of health studies, presented “Quality of Care and Health Insurance Uptake in Namibia” at the Interdisciplinary Association of Population Health Sciences (IAPHS) 2024 Annual Meeting.

Nigel James, assistant professor of health studies, presented “Quality of care and health insurance uptake in Namibia: A geospatial analysis” at the American Public Health Association (APHA) 2024 Annual Meeting and Expo.

Courtney Blondino, Assistant Professor of Health Studies, published "Utilizing natural language processing to analyze student narrative reflections for medical curriculum improvement" in Med Teach.

Kathryn Jacobsen, William E. Cooper Distinguished University Chair and professor of health studies, published  “Planetary health learning objectives: foundational knowledge for global health education in an era of climate change” in The Lancet Planetary Health.

Kathryn Jacobsen, William E. Cooper Distinguished University Chair and professor of health studies, published five Global Burden of Disease capstone papers on life expectancy, causes of death, nonfatal illnesses, risk factors, and interventions in The Lancet.