A selection of faculty publications from the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, & Environmental Health, Joint School of Public Health at Old Dominion University and Norfolk State University.
Submissions from 2025
Readiness to the Privatization of the Health System in Saudi Arabia: Translation and Factor Analysis of Readiness to Organizational Change (ROC) Scale, Ahmed Ali Alasiri and Qi Zhang
Impacts of Ramadan Fasting During Pregnancy on Pregnancy and Birth Outcomes: An Umbrella Review, Abdullah Al-Taiar, Md Estiar Rahman, May Salama, Ali H. Ziyab, and Wilfried Karmaus
Anemia in Pregnant Women: Findings from Kuwait Birth Cohort Study, Abdullah Al-Taiar, Ali H. Ziyab, Majeda S. Hammoud, Reem Al-Sabah, and Saeed Akhtar
An Analytical Prior Selection Procedure for Empirical Bayesian Analysis Using Resampling Techniques: A Simulation-Based Approach Using the Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma Data from the SEER Database, Aditya Chakraborty and Mohan D. Pant
Analyzing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Mortality Data Using Weekly Exceedance in Mortality Count and Weekly Change in Mortality Indicator: A Time Series Study, Aditya Chakraborty and Mohan D. Pant
Machine Learning Models for Pancreatic Cancer Survival Prediction: A Multi-Model Analysis Across Stages and Treatments Using the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Database, Aditya Chakraborty and Mohan D. Pant
A Modern Optimization Approach with Data-Driven Analytical Modeling for the Healthcare Business Segment (HBS) from the S&P 500, Aditya Chakraborty and Chris Tsokos
Pediatric Cancer Incidence, Temporal Trends, and Mortality in the United States by Health Disparities Indicators, SEER (1973-2014), Prachi P. Chavan and Laurens Holmes Jr.
Frailty and Sleep in Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer: A Childhood Cancer Survivor Study Report, Lauren C. Daniel, Margaret M. Lubas, Huiqi Wang, Mariana Szklo-Coxe, Kirsten K. Ness, AnnaLynn M. Williams, Daniel A. Mulrooney, Rebecca Howell, Wendy Leisenring, Yutaka Yasui, Leslie L. Robinson, Gregory T. Armstrong, Eric J. Chow, Kevin R. Krull, and Tara M. Brinkman
Disparities in Cardiovascular Disease Outcomes and Economic Burdens Among Minorities in Southeastern Virginia, Ismail El Moudden, Asra Amidi, Reem Sharaf Alddin, Michael Bittner, and Qi Zhang
Politics in Public Health: Growing Partisan Divides in COVID-19 Vaccine Attitudes and Uptake Post-2021 Presidential Inauguration, Hongbin Fan, Zhongliang Zhou, Guanping Liu, Chi Shen, and Qi Zhang
Forecasting COVID-19 Cases, Hospital Admissions, and Deaths Based on Wastewater SARS-CoV-2 Surveillance Using Gaussian Copula Time Series Marginal Regression Model, Hueiwang Anna Jeng, Norou Diawara, Cynthia Jackson, Rekha Singh, Kyle Curtis, Raul Gonzalez, David Jurgens, and Sasanka Adikari
The Use of Motivational Interviewing in Preventing Dental Caries Among Young Children, Denise C. McKinney, Melissa L. Sullivan, and Futun Alkhalifah
Modeling Non-Normal Distributions with Mixed Third-Order Polynomials of Standard Normal and Logistic Variables, Mohan D. Pant, Aditya Chakraborty, and Ismail El Moudden
Pilot Study on the Use of Multimorbidity Index in Patients Receiving Home Parenteral Nutrition, Michael M. Rothkopf, Mohan Pant, Zachary Rothkopf, Rebecca Brown RDN, Jaime Haselhorst RDN, Debbie L. Stevenson RDN, Andrew DePalma MBA, and Michael Saracco
The Role of Doulas in the Health Care Continuum for Pregnant People with Substance Use Disorder: Perspectives of Patients, Doulas, and Healthcare Providers, DaShaunda Taylor, Derek A. Chapman, Caitlin E. Martin, Cynthia C. F. Romero, and Gerard Moeller
Psychometric Validation of EQ-5D-5L In Individuals With Chronic Spinal Cord Injury in China, Haixia Xie, Qi Zhang, Rong Jin, Jianhui He, Xinxing Hu, Yixuan Zhang, Xiaoping Shao, Xiaohong Li, Hua Zhai, and Fengshui Chang
The Association Between Food Benefit Online Ordering and Redemptions: Evidence from the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, Junzhou Zhang, Chuanyi Tang, Kayoung Park, and Qi Zhang
Consumption of the Food Groups with the Revised Benefits in the New WIC Food Package: A Scoping Review, Qi Zhang, Priyanka T. Patel, Bidusha Neupane, Caitlin M. Lowery, Futun Alkhalifah, Faezeh Mahdavi, and Esther May Sarino
Submissions from 2024
A Stock Optimization Problem in Finance: Understanding Financial and Economic Indicators Through Analytical Predictive Modeling, Aditya Chakraborty and Chris Tsokos