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
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
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
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
Modeling Non-Normal Distributions with Mixed Third-Order Polynomials of Standard Normal and Logistic Variables, Mohan D. Pant, Aditya Chakraborty, and Ismail El Moudden
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
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