Weekly Recap: Recent Publications

December 19, 2019

Rollins students and faculty are frequent authors and collaborators on articles that advance research, provoke thought, and inspire action. Below are a few of this week’s publication highlights.

Shakira F. Suglia, ScD, was an author on the article, “Childhood adversities and prior involvement with child protective services,” published in Injury Epidemiology.

Amy Webb Girard, PhD, was an author on the article, “Grandmothers as change agents: Developing a culturally appropriate program to improve maternal and child nutrition in Sierra Leone,” published in Current Developments in Nutrition.

Timothy L. Lash, DSc, was an author on the article, “Reflection on modern methods: five myths about measurement error in epidemiological research,” published in International Journal of Epidemiology.

Yuan Liu, PhD, was an author on the article, “An intra-tumoral niche maintains and differentiates stem-like CD8 T cells,” published in Nature.

Yang Liu, PhD, was an author on the article, “Exposure to respirable and fine dust particle over North-Central India: chemical characterization, source interpretation, and health risk analysis,” published in Environmental Geochemistry and Health.

Matthew Gribble, PhD, and Kyle Steenland, PhD, were authors on the article, “Arsenic Concentrations in Household Drinking Water: A Cross-Sectional Survey of Pregnant Women in Tacna, Peru, 2019,” published in Exposure and Health.

Kasra Moazzami, MD, Bruno Lima, MD, PhD, Mohammad Hammadah, MD, Amit Shah, MD, J. Douglas Bremner, MD, Michael Kutner, MD, Yan Sun, PhD, and Viola Vaccarino, MD, PhD, were authors on the article, “Association Between Change in Circulating Progenitor Cells During Exercise Stress and Risk of Adverse Cardiovascular Events in Patients With Coronary Artery Disease,” published in JAMA Cardiology.

Yuan Liu, PhD, was an author on the article, “SAS® Macros on Performing Competing Risks Survival Data: CIF Plot, Backward Elimination Fine & Gray’s Model and Cause-Specific Hazard Model,” published in Journal of Medical Statistics and Informatics.

Katie M. Lynch, MSPH, and Matthew O. Gribble, PhD, were authors on the article, “Temporal Trends in Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) of Indian River Lagoon, Florida and Charleston, South Carolina,” published in Environmental Science & Technology.

Jonathan P. Smith, MSPH, Neel R. Gandhi, MD, Sarita N. Shah, MD, Salim Allana, MD, Angela Campbell, MA, and Kristin N. Nelson, PhD, were authors on the article, “The Impact of Concurrent Antiretroviral Therapy and MDR-TB Treatment on Adverse Events,” published in Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes.

Thomas R. Gillespie, PhD, was an author on the article, “Altitude and human disturbance are associated with helminth diversity in an endangered primate, Procolobus gordonorum,” published in PLOS One.

Hao Wu, PhD, was an author on the article, “Differential methylation analysis for bisulfite sequencing using DSS,” published in Quantitative Biology.