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Social epidemiology; Obesity; Social determinants of health; Population health
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Knapp EA, Kress AM, Ghidey R, Gorham TJ, Galdo B, Petrill SA, Aris IM, Bastain TM, Camargo CA Jr, Coccia MA, Cragoe N, Dabelea D, Dunlop AL, Gebretsadik T, Hartert T, Hipwell AE, Johnson CC, Karagas MR, LeWinn KZ, Maldonado LE, McEvoy CT, Mirzakhani H, O'Connor TG, O'Shea TM, Wang Z, Wright RJ, Ziegler K, Zhu Y, Bartlett CW, Lau B; Program Collaborators for Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes. A Latent Trait-based Measure as a Data Harmonization and Missing Data Solution Applied to the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes Cohort. Epidemiology. 2025 May 1;36(3):413-424. doi: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000001832. Epub 2025 Apr 1. PMID: 39884749; PMCID: PMC11991882.
Knapp EA, Dong Y, Dunlop AL, Aschner JL, Stanford JB, Hartert T, Teitelbaum SL, Hudak ML, Carroll K, O'Connor TG, McEvoy CT, O'Shea TM, Carnell S, Karagas MR, Herbstman JB, Dabelea D, Ganiban JM, Ferrara A, Hedderson M, Bekelman TA, Rundle AG, Alshawabkeh A, Gilbert-Diamond D, Fry RC, Chen Z, Gilliland FD, Wright RJ, Camargo CA, Jacobson L, Lester BM, Hockett CW, Hodges ML, Chandran A. Changes in BMI During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Pediatrics. 2022 Sep 1;150(3). doi: 10.1542/peds.2022-056552. PubMed PMID: 35768891; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9444980.
Aruna Chandran, Mohamad Burjak, Joshua Petimar, Ghassan Hamra, Melissa M Melough, Anne L Dunlop, Brittney M Snyder, Augusto A Litonjua, Tina Hartert, James Gern, Akram N Alshawabkeh, Judy Aschner, Carlos A Camargo, Dana Dabelea, Cristiane S Duarte, Assiamira Ferrara, Jody M Ganiban, Frank Gilliland, Diane R Gold, Monique Hedderson, Julie B Herbstman, Christine Hockett, Margaret R Karagas, Jean M Kerver, Kathleen A Lee-Sarwar, Barry Lester, Cindy T McEvoy, Zhongzheng Niu, Joseph B Stanford, Rosalind Wright, Emily Zimmerman, Shohreh Farzan, Zhumin Zhang, Emily Knapp. Changes in Body Mass Index Among School-Aged Youths Following Implementation of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010. JAMA Pediatr. 2023;177(4):401–409. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2022.5828
Knapp EA, Bilal U, Dean LT, Lazo M, Celentano DD. Economic Insecurity and Deaths of Despair in US Counties. Am J Epidemiol. 2019 Dec 31;188(12):2131-2139. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwz103. PubMed PMID: 31172197; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7212405.
Knapp EA, Bennett WL, Wilson RF, Zhang A, Tseng E, Cheskin LJ, Bass EB, Kharrazi H, Stuart EA. Methods and Risks of Bias in Natural Experiments in Obesity: Opportunities for the Future Informed by a Systematic Review. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2019 Dec;27(12):1950-1957. doi: 10.1002/oby.22645. Epub 2019 Nov 6. PubMed PMID: 31693802.