Kathryn Jacobsen, William E. Cooper Distinguished University Chair and professor of health studies was promoted to Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Principal Collaborator at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. The position is the highest tier within the GBD Collaborator Network.
Courtney Blondino, assistant professor of health studies, published "Latent Structure of Past 12-Month Tobacco Use in Wave 6 of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health: Examining for Differential Substructure by Generational Status" in Substance Use and Misuse with students, Fernanda Moya Quezada, ’26, and Caitlyn Hall, ’26.
Kathryn Jacobsen, William E. Cooper Distinguished University Chair and professor of health studies published “Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific burden of diarrhoeal diseases, their risk factors, and aetiologies, 1990–2021, for 204 countries and territories: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021” in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
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 “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 “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.
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.