Index Catalog // Emory Theses and Dissertations

1. Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu (“A person is a person because of others”): A Cross-Sectional Multilevel Analysis Evaluating Social Cohesion as a Protective Factor Against Depression Among South African Adults

Student Name:: Nasser, Jeanine I.
Date Uploaded:: 05/02/2024
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Epidemiology and Health Sciences, Mental Health
Department or Specialty:: Epidemiology

2. Calculating the Age Distributions and Reproduction Numbers (R0) of Infection with Enteric Pathogens among Children in Low- and Middle-Income Country Settings.

Student Name:: Sivakumar, Ritesh
Date Uploaded:: 04/25/2024
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Epidemiology
Department or Specialty:: Epidemiology

3. Associations between Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Combat Exposure, and COVID-19 Post Acute Sequalae among War Veterans

Student Name:: Hess, Thomas
Date Uploaded:: 04/25/2024
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Epidemiology and Health Sciences, Public Health
Department or Specialty:: Epidemiology

4. The Predictive Ability of a Partial Pneumonia Severity Index Score on the Receipt of Corticosteroids Outside of the Hospital for Pneumonia in Immunocompetent U.S. Adult

Student Name:: Wood, Charles
Date Uploaded:: 04/24/2024
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health
Department or Specialty:: Health Policy and Management

5. Correlates of STI Uptake and Diagnoses among Transfeminine People

Student Name:: Wei, Adriana
Date Uploaded:: 04/24/2024
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Epidemiology and Health Sciences, Public Health
Department or Specialty:: Epidemiology

6. Algorithm Selection for Estimating Causal Effects: An example using the Nulliparous Pregnancy Outcomes Study: Monitoring Mothers to Be

Student Name:: Zeng, Zhaohua
Date Uploaded:: 04/24/2024
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Epidemiology and Health Sciences, Public Health
Department or Specialty:: Epidemiology

7. Early childhood exposures in relation to fragile X-associated primary ovarian insufficiency (FXPOI)

Student Name:: Varnell, Jessica
Date Uploaded:: 04/24/2024
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Epidemiology, Health Sciences, Public Health, and Environmental Health
Department or Specialty:: Epidemiology

8. The Association of COVID-19-Related Financial Difficulties and Adjuvant Endocrine Therapy Adherence in Women with Early-Stage Breast Cancer

Student Name:: Arshad, Sara
Date Uploaded:: 04/24/2024
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health
Department or Specialty:: Health Policy and Management

9. Self-Reported on Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) Without Detectable Antiretrovirals (ARVs): Implications for Adherence in Zimbabwe based on the Zimbabwe Population-based HIV Impact Assessment (ZIMPHIA), 2015-2016 and 2020

Student Name:: Schwartz, Sydney
Date Uploaded:: 04/24/2024
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health
Department or Specialty:: Epidemiology

10. Sexual Orientation, Healthcare Access, and Structural Stigma

Student Name:: Tao, Haoran
Date Uploaded:: 04/23/2024
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health, Health Sciences, Mental Health, and Scandinavian Studies
Department or Specialty:: Health Policy and Management

11. Urban-Rural Difference In Childhood Weight Change In The United States

Student Name:: Liang, Wanwei
Date Uploaded:: 04/23/2024
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Epidemiology and Health Sciences, Public Health
Department or Specialty:: Epidemiology

12. Characteristics of Skilled Nursing Facilities Associated with Healthcare-Associated Infections Requiring Hospitalization, October 1, 2020 - September 31, 2021

Student Name:: Walker, Lindsey
Date Uploaded:: 04/22/2024
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Epidemiology and Health Sciences, Public Health
Department or Specialty:: Epidemiology

13. Unraveling the Impact of Fuzzy Similarity Algorithms on Missing Data Imputation of Heart Bypass Surgery Cohort

Student Name:: Shen, Hong-Jui
Date Uploaded:: 04/08/2024
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

14. A Bayesian Hierarchical Excess Mortality Model to Assess the Total Impact of COVID-19 on Opioid Users

Student Name:: Peterkin, Cyen
Date Uploaded:: 04/08/2024
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Epidemiology, Health Sciences, Public Health, and Statistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

15. Modeling and Statistical Analyses Probing the Heterogeneity in Individual Change Points in Longitudinal Cognitive Outcomes

Student Name:: Pan, Yuzhou
Date Uploaded:: 04/08/2024
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics and Health Sciences, Public Health
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

16. Investigating Missing Data Mechanisms in Substance Abuse Research: Analyzing the Missing-Not-At-Random (MNAR) Pattern of ‘Return to Use’ Data

Student Name:: Tan, Carissa
Date Uploaded:: 04/08/2024
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics and Psychology, Behavioral Sciences
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

17. Assessing the Impact of Misclassification in Case-Control Studies: An Examination of Bayesian Credible Intervals

Student Name:: Lu, Jiali
Date Uploaded:: 04/08/2024
Research Field:: Epistemology and Statistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

18. Estimation of Cognitive Ability in Longitudinal IRT using Univariate Composite Likelihood: Application to the Emory Healthy Brain Study

Student Name:: Howard, Nicholas
Date Uploaded:: 04/08/2024
Research Field:: Statistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

19. Identification of Spatially Variable Genes (SVGs)

Student Name:: Ma,Yanru
Date Uploaded:: 04/08/2024
Research Field:: Health Sciences, General, Statistics, and Biology, Genetics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

20. Machine learning for estimating and comparing clinical rules for treating diarrheal illness with antibiotics

Student Name:: Codi, Allison
Date Uploaded:: 04/08/2024
Research Field:: Statistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

21. Correlation between biomarkers associated with Alzheimer's disease and the cognitive practice effect

Student Name:: Ruan, Anyue
Date Uploaded:: 04/08/2024
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health, Statistics, and Health Sciences, Aging
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

22. Spatial Associations between Measures of Public Transportation and Diabetic Foot Ulcer Outcomes in the State of Georgia – 2016-2019

Student Name:: Vanasse, Lauren
Date Uploaded:: 04/07/2024
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics, Health Sciences, Epidemiology, and Health Sciences, Public Health
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

23. Kidney Function: Outdoor vs. Indoor Hispanic Agricultural Workers

Student Name:: Zhuang, Cathy
Date Uploaded:: 04/06/2024
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

24. A Density Ratio Super Learner

Student Name:: Wu, Wencheng
Date Uploaded:: 04/04/2024
Research Field:: Statistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

25. Evaluation of Missing Data and Imputation Methods in Environmental Mixtures Analyses using Weighted Quantile Sum regression and Quantile g-computation

Student Name:: Grieco, Megan
Date Uploaded:: 04/03/2024
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Epidemiology, Statistics, and Environmental Health
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

26. Efficient quantification of pattern similarity between spatial genomics and cell morphology

Student Name:: Yang, Yefeng
Date Uploaded:: 04/02/2024
Research Field:: Biology, Genetics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

27. Time-series Analysis of Seasonal Influenza Activity and Preterm Birth in Atlanta, Georgia from 2010 to 2015

Student Name:: Wang, Tingyu
Date Uploaded:: 04/11/2022
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

28. Discrepancies in Measured Ethylene Oxide Levels at a Georgia Sampling Site

Student Name:: Bayles, Madelyn
Date Uploaded:: 12/05/2023
Research Field:: Environmental Health
Department or Specialty:: Environmental Health

29. Increasing States’ Minimum Wage Rates: Do Increased Opportunity Costs Affect Informal Elder Caregivers?

Student Name:: Sroczynski, Nolan
Date Uploaded:: 07/23/2019
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health, Economics, Labor, and Gerontology
Department or Specialty:: Health Policy and Management

30. The Relationship Between Energy Burden and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality in Georgia between 2018 and 2020

Student Name:: Kendrick, D'Anndria
Date Uploaded:: 04/20/2023
Research Field:: Environmental Health, Health Sciences, Epidemiology, and Health Sciences, Public Health
Department or Specialty:: Environmental Health

31. Characteristics of Vasectomy Recipients in the United States During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Student Name:: Lawton, Samuel
Date Uploaded:: 04/20/2023
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Epidemiology and Statistics
Department or Specialty:: Epidemiology

32. Dynamic prediction of survival status in patients undergoing cardiac catheterization using a joint modeling approach

Student Name:: Xia, Derun
Date Uploaded:: 04/09/2023
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health and Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

33. Selection bias and permutation tests in fMRI

Student Name:: Wang, Liangkang
Date Uploaded:: 04/10/2023
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics and Biology, Neuroscience
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

34. Association between Fine Particulate Matter Exposure and Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers of Alzheimer’s Disease among a Cognitively Healthy Population-based Brain Cohort

Student Name:: Casey, Emma
Date Uploaded:: 04/21/2023
Research Field:: Environmental Health and Health Sciences, Epidemiology
Department or Specialty:: Epidemiology

35. Assessing the Air Quality and Health Impacts of Decarbonization Strategies in Connecticut

Student Name:: Dong, Danni
Date Uploaded:: 04/20/2023
Research Field:: Environmental Health, Economics, Environmental, and Health Sciences, Public Health
Department or Specialty:: Environmental Health

36. Exploring the Associations of Playing Surface and Lower Extremity Injuries Among National Football League Players

Student Name:: Bushnell, Juliana Y.
Date Uploaded:: 04/20/2023
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Epidemiology
Department or Specialty:: Epidemiology

37. Analysis of Relationship between Participant Characteristics and Phenotypic Resistance to Second-Line Anti-Tuberculosis Drugs in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Student Name:: Ripper, Nicholas
Date Uploaded:: 04/20/2023
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health and Health Sciences, Epidemiology
Department or Specialty:: Epidemiology

38. Characterizing the microbial load on the hands of children and students: a Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis

Student Name:: Espinoza, Joel
Date Uploaded:: 04/20/2023
Research Field:: Biology, Microbiology, Health Sciences, Epidemiology, and Health Sciences, Public Health
Department or Specialty:: Epidemiology

39. The Association between Ambient Heat Exposure and Pediatric Mental Health, Modified by Individual Socioeconomic Status

Student Name:: Lockwood, Sophie
Date Uploaded:: 04/20/2023
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health
Department or Specialty:: Epidemiology

40. The Long-Term Impact of Subclinical Shigella Infections on Environmental Enteropathy in Children Under 2

Student Name:: Liakakos, Haley
Date Uploaded:: 04/19/2023
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health and Health Sciences, Epidemiology
Department or Specialty:: Epidemiology

41. Acculturation and Asthma Management and Outcome Among Californian Hispanic Adults

Student Name:: Han, Muxin
Date Uploaded:: 04/17/2023
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health
Department or Specialty:: Health Policy and Management

42. Modelling the Interplay between Responsive Individual Vaccination Decisions and the Spread of SARS-CoV-2

Student Name:: Wallrafen-Sam, Karina
Date Uploaded:: 04/17/2023
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Epidemiology
Department or Specialty:: Epidemiology

43. COVID-19 Associated Changes in Pediatric Preventive Care Utilization

Student Name:: Chen, Min-Hsuan
Date Uploaded:: 04/17/2023
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health and Pacific Rim Studies
Department or Specialty:: Health Policy and Management

44. Association Study between Diseases and Human Tissue-Specific Epigenomes

Student Name:: Yang, Yixin
Date Uploaded:: 04/14/2023
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics and Biology, Bioinformatics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

45. Application of Machine Learning Algorithms for Estimating Daily PM2.5 Concentrations

Student Name:: Huo, Runing
Date Uploaded:: 04/14/2023
Research Field:: Environmental Health and Statistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

46. The association between neighborhood deprivation and DNA methylation in an autopsy cohort

Student Name:: Pett, Lindsay
Date Uploaded:: 04/14/2023
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Aging, Health Sciences, Epidemiology, and Statistics
Department or Specialty:: Epidemiology

47. Acculturation and diabetes care utilization among Asian Americans with diabetes

Student Name:: Ying, Xiuru
Date Uploaded:: 04/13/2023
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health
Department or Specialty:: Health Policy and Management

48. Genome-wide TWAS of brain and blood tissues identifies novel risk genes for Alzheimer’s disease dementia

Student Name:: Guo, Shuyi
Date Uploaded:: 04/13/2023
Research Field:: Biology, Genetics and Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

49. Multi-tissue differential expression analyses between proxy case and control samples

Student Name:: Liu, Yutong
Date Uploaded:: 04/10/2023
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics and Biology, Bioinformatics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

50. Clustering the Liver Measures of Women Living with HIV

Student Name:: Gerig, Logan
Date Uploaded:: 04/10/2023
Research Field:: Statistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

51. A benchmark of rare cell type detection methods for single-cell RNA sequencing data

Student Name:: Liu, Jiahui
Date Uploaded:: 04/10/2023
Research Field:: Biology, Genetics, Biology, Biostatistics, and Biology, Bioinformatics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

52. Bias in Vaccine Effectiveness Estimation Under Changing Testing Probabilities When Using the Test-Negative Design

Student Name:: Shi, Evelyn
Date Uploaded:: 04/10/2023
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

53. Adjusting for selective attrition in a longitudinal study assessing the rate of cognitive decline

Student Name:: Jia, Yishi
Date Uploaded:: 04/09/2023
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

54. Evaluating the performance of maximum likelihood estimation in a discriminant function framework to account for non-detectable exposure measurements in matched case-control studies

Student Name:: Sun, Huiqing
Date Uploaded:: 04/09/2023
Research Field:: Statistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

55. Assessing differential loss to follow-up and future implementation of a sexual health app intervention for men who have sex with men: a secondary survival analysis of a randomized control trial

Student Name:: Mancuso, Noah
Date Uploaded:: 04/07/2023
Research Field:: GLBT Studies, Health Sciences, Public Health, and Health Sciences, Epidemiology
Department or Specialty:: Epidemiology

56. The Application of Spatial Regression Analysis in Examining the Relationship Between Drinking Water Contaminants and Cancer Incidence Rates in Iowa and Illinois

Student Name:: Munir, Sabah
Date Uploaded:: 04/26/2021
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics and Health Sciences, Epidemiology
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

57. TIGAR-V2 with nonparametric Bayesian eQTL weights estimated from GTEx V8 & Leveraging multiple reference panels to improve TWAS power by ensemble machine learning

Student Name:: Parrish, Randy
Date Uploaded:: 04/26/2021
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics and Biology, Genetics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

58. Temporal Trends in Ciguatera Fish Poisoning in the Caribbean: 2005-2016

Student Name:: Troeger, Tory
Date Uploaded:: 10/17/2019
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health, Environmental Health, and Health Sciences, Epidemiology
Department or Specialty:: Environmental Health

59. Polybrominated biphenyl exposure and diabetes outcome in the Michigan PBB Research Registry

Student Name:: Stuart, Meghan
Date Uploaded:: 10/07/2019
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health, Environmental Health, and Health Sciences, Epidemiology
Department or Specialty:: Environmental Health

60. Characterizing Neighborhood Demographics, Socioeconomic Conditions, Water and Sanitation Infrastructure and Practices, and Fecal Contamination in Four Low-Income Neighborhoods in Accra, Ghana

Student Name:: Schmitz, Michelle Morgan
Date Uploaded:: 10/07/2019
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health and Health Sciences, Epidemiology
Department or Specialty:: Epidemiology

61. Effect of Polybrominated Biphenyl Exposure on Rate of Digestive Cancer Diagnosis in the Michigan Cohort

Student Name:: Rosen, Emma
Date Uploaded:: 10/07/2019
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health, Environmental Health, and Health Sciences, Epidemiology
Department or Specialty:: Environmental Health

62. Determinants of Uncontrolled Blood Pressure among African Americans using Electronic Medical Records, 2008-2011

Student Name:: Chou, Yi-Ting
Date Uploaded:: 10/07/2019
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health
Department or Specialty:: Epidemiology

63. Systematic Evaluation of The Impact of DNA Sequence Variants on The in vivo Binding Affinity at Transcription Factor Binding Sites

Student Name:: Jin, Yutong
Date Uploaded:: 04/09/2018
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

64. Adaptive Bayesian Phase I Clinical Trials Designs for Estimating the Maximum Tolerated Doses for Two Drugs while Fully Utilizing all Toxicity Information

Student Name:: Zhang, Yuzi
Date Uploaded:: 04/01/2018
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

65. Associations between short-term exposure to ambient air pollution and emergency department visits for cardiovascular diseases in thirteen U.S. cities

Student Name:: Guan,Kexin
Date Uploaded:: 11/30/2022
Research Field:: Environmental Health
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

66. Adverse Outcomes Associated with Beers List Medications Following Total Knee Replacement

Student Name:: Liu, Mofei
Date Uploaded:: 04/17/2020
Research Field:: Statistics, Health Sciences, Surgery, and Health Sciences, Public Health
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

67. Safety And Efficacy of Direct Oral Anticoagulants Versus Warfarin for the Treatment of Left Ventricular Thrombus

Student Name:: Liu, Haoran
Date Uploaded:: 04/16/2020
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

68. Biomarker-driven Phase 2 study of Nivolumab in Advanced Metastatic NSCLC

Student Name:: Yang, Yilin
Date Uploaded:: 04/15/2020
Research Field:: Biology, Cell and Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

69. Association between Lung Dose and Incidence of Pulmonary Toxicity after Total Body Irradiation

Student Name:: Yu, Mengda
Date Uploaded:: 04/18/2020
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

70. Consensus clustering of subclone structure for multi-sample sequencing data

Student Name:: Zheng, Hanyi
Date Uploaded:: 04/20/2020
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

71. Stochastic Modeling of TCDD Suppression of Terminal Differentiation of B Lymphocytes into Antibody-Secreting Cells

Student Name:: Yuan, Jingchan
Date Uploaded:: 04/29/2020
Research Field:: Environmental Health
Department or Specialty:: Environmental Health

72. Prediction of CBC Hemoglobin Levels for Preterm Infants: Evaluation of Anatomic Regions for Smartphone Photos

Student Name:: Wang, Xinzhu
Date Uploaded:: 04/13/2022
Research Field:: Statistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

73. Risk Stratification for Overall Survival among Metastatic Prostate Cancer Patients Treated by ADT as the First Line Treatment

Student Name:: Ji,Yuhan
Date Uploaded:: 07/29/2020
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Oncology and Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

74. Assessing Indicators of State Capacity for Harmful Algal Bloom Reporting Since the Launch of the CDC One Health Harmful Algal Bloom System in 2016

Student Name:: Verlander, Sarah
Date Uploaded:: 05/04/2022
Research Field:: Environmental Health and Health Sciences, Public Health
Department or Specialty:: Environmental Health

75. The Association Between the Orphan Drug Tax Credit Reduction and the Orphan Drug Pipeline

Student Name:: Yang, Nuo
Date Uploaded:: 04/27/2022
Research Field:: Economics, General and Health Sciences, Public Health
Department or Specialty:: Health Policy and Management

76. Obesity and COVID-19: An analysis of the relationship between obesity and outcomes of tracheostomy secondary to COVID-19

Student Name:: Spychalski, Julia
Date Uploaded:: 04/22/2022
Research Field:: Biology, General and Biology, Virology
Department or Specialty:: Epidemiology

77. Neighborhood Accessibility as a Socio-Environmental Determinant in Kidney Transplant Health Services

Student Name:: Gunasti, Jonathan
Date Uploaded:: 04/21/2022
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Epidemiology, Environmental Health, and Health Sciences, Medicine and Surgery
Department or Specialty:: Environmental Health

78. Cervical Cancer Mortality & Screening: Two Analyses using BRFSS Data

Student Name:: Fuchs, Hannah
Date Uploaded:: 04/21/2022
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health, GLBT Studies, and Health Sciences, Epidemiology
Department or Specialty:: Epidemiology

79. Molecular Epidemiology of a Type 4 Dengue Virus Outbreak in Paraguay, 2019-2020

Student Name:: Shen, John
Date Uploaded:: 04/21/2022
Research Field:: Biology, Genetics, Health Sciences, Public Health, and Biology, Virology
Department or Specialty:: Epidemiology

80. Entomological impact of targeted indoor residual spraying on Aedes aegypti density and age structure

Student Name:: Culquichicon, Carlos
Date Uploaded:: 04/21/2022
Research Field:: Environmental Health
Department or Specialty:: Environmental Health

81. Vulnerability, Resilience, and Disaster Response in a Warming World: Considering Climate Adaptation Finance and Humanitarian Aid in Tandem

Student Name:: Walawender, Maria
Date Uploaded:: 04/21/2022
Research Field:: Environmental Health and Climate Change
Department or Specialty:: Environmental Health

82. Heat Exposure and Emergency Department Visits for Sepsis in Phoenix, Arizona

Student Name:: Englund, Bailey
Date Uploaded:: 04/21/2022
Research Field:: Environmental Health, Health Sciences, Epidemiology, and Climate Change
Department or Specialty:: Environmental Health

83. Determining Safe NPI Relaxation Strategy in India During the Delta and Omicron Waves of COVID-19: Findings from a Two-Strain COVID-19 Transmission model

Student Name:: Wu, Ting-Hsuan
Date Uploaded:: 04/21/2022
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health and Health Sciences, Epidemiology
Department or Specialty:: Epidemiology

84. Rotavirus Genotypes over Time in Vaccine-Introducing and Non-Introducing Countries

Student Name:: Liu, Zihao
Date Uploaded:: 04/20/2022
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health and Health Sciences, Epidemiology
Department or Specialty:: Epidemiology

85. Enteric Disease Incidence in Georgia Following Extreme Rain and Drought Events

Student Name:: Noble, Emma
Date Uploaded:: 04/20/2022
Research Field:: Environmental Health
Department or Specialty:: Environmental Health

86. Association of safety and security, privacy, and health with sanitation-related withholding and suppression among women in urban Uganda and India

Student Name:: Sinclair, Elaina
Date Uploaded:: 04/20/2022
Research Field:: History, European, Health Sciences, Public Health, and Health Sciences, Epidemiology
Department or Specialty:: Epidemiology

87. Implications of broadband internet access for telehealth provision at outpatient mental health facilities

Student Name:: Neenan, Rachel
Date Uploaded:: 04/20/2022
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health and Health Sciences, Mental Health
Department or Specialty:: Health Policy and Management

88. The Association Between Residential Segregation and Hospital Readmissions Penalties

Student Name:: Henry, Antonio
Date Uploaded:: 04/19/2022
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health
Department or Specialty:: Health Policy and Management

89. Risk Perception and Vaccine Uptake: An analysis of changes in vaccination coverage and new vaccinations before and after the US COVID-19 Delta-Surge

Student Name:: Hancuh, Molly
Date Uploaded:: 04/19/2022
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health and Health Sciences, Epidemiology
Department or Specialty:: Epidemiology

90. Racial and Socioeconomic Differences in Infection Control Quality at Dialysis Centers

Student Name:: Thomas, Jacob
Date Uploaded:: 04/19/2022
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health
Department or Specialty:: Health Policy and Management

91. Bayesian Functional Genome-wide Association Study using Standardized Individual-level and Summary-level GWAS Data

Student Name:: Wang, Lei
Date Uploaded:: 04/11/2022
Research Field:: Biology, Genetics, Biology, Bioinformatics, and Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

92. The Impact of COVID-19 on Education Experiences of High School Students in Semi-Rural Georgia

Student Name:: Ashta, Jasleen
Date Uploaded:: 05/03/2021
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health and Education, Secondary
Department or Specialty:: Epidemiology

93. Development of Statistical Tool TIGAR for Transcriptome-Integrated Genetic Association Resource

Student Name:: Meng, Xiaoran
Date Uploaded:: 04/09/2019
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

94. Impacts and Improvement in Delineation of the Lumpectomy Cavity Boost Volume by using 3-D Implantable Tissue Markers

Student Name:: Xu, Tianyi
Date Uploaded:: 04/01/2018
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

95. Impacts of gestational age uncertainty in estimating associations between preterm birth and ambient air pollution

Student Name:: Nealy, Benjamin
Date Uploaded:: 03/28/2018
Research Field:: Environmental Studies, Health Sciences, Public Health, and Statistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

96. Gamification on Obese Children’s BMI-derivative Outcomes, Physical Activity, and Sugar Sweetened Beverage Consumption

Student Name:: Chang, Audrey
Date Uploaded:: 04/17/2020
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health, Health Sciences, Nutrition, and Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

97. Cell-type-specific analysis in Alzheimer’s disease

Student Name:: Li, Can
Date Uploaded:: 04/15/2020
Research Field:: Statistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

98. Placental Expression of Imprinted Genes and Early Childhood Neurobehavioral Performance

Student Name:: Menz, Sarah
Date Uploaded:: 04/15/2019
Research Field:: Environmental Health
Department or Specialty:: Environmental Health

99. Characteristics of Skilled Nursing Facilities Associated with Resident COVID-19 Cumulative Incidence Rate in Georgia, USA: May 31, 2020 – January 31, 2021

Student Name:: Ashton, Cameron
Date Uploaded:: 05/03/2021
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health and Health Sciences, Epidemiology
Department or Specialty:: Epidemiology

100. Dermatologic Diseases Prediction Using Deep Learning Method on Facial Images

Student Name:: Weng, Xisha
Date Uploaded:: 04/04/2019
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health and Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

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1. Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu (“A person is a person because of others”): A Cross-Sectional Multilevel Analysis Evaluating Social Cohesion as a Protective Factor Against Depression Among South African Adults

2. Calculating the Age Distributions and Reproduction Numbers (R0) of Infection with Enteric Pathogens among Children in Low- and Middle-Income Country Settings.

3. Associations between Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Combat Exposure, and COVID-19 Post Acute Sequalae among War Veterans

4. The Predictive Ability of a Partial Pneumonia Severity Index Score on the Receipt of Corticosteroids Outside of the Hospital for Pneumonia in Immunocompetent U.S. Adult

5. Correlates of STI Uptake and Diagnoses among Transfeminine People

6. Algorithm Selection for Estimating Causal Effects: An example using the Nulliparous Pregnancy Outcomes Study: Monitoring Mothers to Be

7. Early childhood exposures in relation to fragile X-associated primary ovarian insufficiency (FXPOI)

8. The Association of COVID-19-Related Financial Difficulties and Adjuvant Endocrine Therapy Adherence in Women with Early-Stage Breast Cancer

9. Self-Reported on Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) Without Detectable Antiretrovirals (ARVs): Implications for Adherence in Zimbabwe based on the Zimbabwe Population-based HIV Impact Assessment (ZIMPHIA), 2015-2016 and 2020

10. Sexual Orientation, Healthcare Access, and Structural Stigma

11. Urban-Rural Difference In Childhood Weight Change In The United States

12. Characteristics of Skilled Nursing Facilities Associated with Healthcare-Associated Infections Requiring Hospitalization, October 1, 2020 - September 31, 2021

13. Unraveling the Impact of Fuzzy Similarity Algorithms on Missing Data Imputation of Heart Bypass Surgery Cohort

14. A Bayesian Hierarchical Excess Mortality Model to Assess the Total Impact of COVID-19 on Opioid Users

15. Modeling and Statistical Analyses Probing the Heterogeneity in Individual Change Points in Longitudinal Cognitive Outcomes

16. Investigating Missing Data Mechanisms in Substance Abuse Research: Analyzing the Missing-Not-At-Random (MNAR) Pattern of ‘Return to Use’ Data

17. Assessing the Impact of Misclassification in Case-Control Studies: An Examination of Bayesian Credible Intervals

18. Estimation of Cognitive Ability in Longitudinal IRT using Univariate Composite Likelihood: Application to the Emory Healthy Brain Study

19. Identification of Spatially Variable Genes (SVGs)

20. Machine learning for estimating and comparing clinical rules for treating diarrheal illness with antibiotics

21. Correlation between biomarkers associated with Alzheimer's disease and the cognitive practice effect

22. Spatial Associations between Measures of Public Transportation and Diabetic Foot Ulcer Outcomes in the State of Georgia – 2016-2019

23. Kidney Function: Outdoor vs. Indoor Hispanic Agricultural Workers

24. A Density Ratio Super Learner

25. Evaluation of Missing Data and Imputation Methods in Environmental Mixtures Analyses using Weighted Quantile Sum regression and Quantile g-computation

26. Efficient quantification of pattern similarity between spatial genomics and cell morphology

27. Time-series Analysis of Seasonal Influenza Activity and Preterm Birth in Atlanta, Georgia from 2010 to 2015

28. Discrepancies in Measured Ethylene Oxide Levels at a Georgia Sampling Site

29. Increasing States’ Minimum Wage Rates: Do Increased Opportunity Costs Affect Informal Elder Caregivers?

30. The Relationship Between Energy Burden and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality in Georgia between 2018 and 2020

31. Characteristics of Vasectomy Recipients in the United States During the COVID-19 Pandemic

32. Dynamic prediction of survival status in patients undergoing cardiac catheterization using a joint modeling approach

33. Selection bias and permutation tests in fMRI

34. Association between Fine Particulate Matter Exposure and Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers of Alzheimer’s Disease among a Cognitively Healthy Population-based Brain Cohort

35. Assessing the Air Quality and Health Impacts of Decarbonization Strategies in Connecticut

36. Exploring the Associations of Playing Surface and Lower Extremity Injuries Among National Football League Players

37. Analysis of Relationship between Participant Characteristics and Phenotypic Resistance to Second-Line Anti-Tuberculosis Drugs in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

38. Characterizing the microbial load on the hands of children and students: a Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis

39. The Association between Ambient Heat Exposure and Pediatric Mental Health, Modified by Individual Socioeconomic Status

40. The Long-Term Impact of Subclinical Shigella Infections on Environmental Enteropathy in Children Under 2

41. Acculturation and Asthma Management and Outcome Among Californian Hispanic Adults

42. Modelling the Interplay between Responsive Individual Vaccination Decisions and the Spread of SARS-CoV-2

43. COVID-19 Associated Changes in Pediatric Preventive Care Utilization

44. Association Study between Diseases and Human Tissue-Specific Epigenomes

45. Application of Machine Learning Algorithms for Estimating Daily PM2.5 Concentrations

46. The association between neighborhood deprivation and DNA methylation in an autopsy cohort

47. Acculturation and diabetes care utilization among Asian Americans with diabetes

48. Genome-wide TWAS of brain and blood tissues identifies novel risk genes for Alzheimer’s disease dementia

49. Multi-tissue differential expression analyses between proxy case and control samples

50. Clustering the Liver Measures of Women Living with HIV

51. A benchmark of rare cell type detection methods for single-cell RNA sequencing data

52. Bias in Vaccine Effectiveness Estimation Under Changing Testing Probabilities When Using the Test-Negative Design

53. Adjusting for selective attrition in a longitudinal study assessing the rate of cognitive decline

54. Evaluating the performance of maximum likelihood estimation in a discriminant function framework to account for non-detectable exposure measurements in matched case-control studies

55. Assessing differential loss to follow-up and future implementation of a sexual health app intervention for men who have sex with men: a secondary survival analysis of a randomized control trial

56. The Application of Spatial Regression Analysis in Examining the Relationship Between Drinking Water Contaminants and Cancer Incidence Rates in Iowa and Illinois

57. TIGAR-V2 with nonparametric Bayesian eQTL weights estimated from GTEx V8 & Leveraging multiple reference panels to improve TWAS power by ensemble machine learning

58. Temporal Trends in Ciguatera Fish Poisoning in the Caribbean: 2005-2016

59. Polybrominated biphenyl exposure and diabetes outcome in the Michigan PBB Research Registry

60. Characterizing Neighborhood Demographics, Socioeconomic Conditions, Water and Sanitation Infrastructure and Practices, and Fecal Contamination in Four Low-Income Neighborhoods in Accra, Ghana

61. Effect of Polybrominated Biphenyl Exposure on Rate of Digestive Cancer Diagnosis in the Michigan Cohort

62. Determinants of Uncontrolled Blood Pressure among African Americans using Electronic Medical Records, 2008-2011

63. Systematic Evaluation of The Impact of DNA Sequence Variants on The in vivo Binding Affinity at Transcription Factor Binding Sites

64. Adaptive Bayesian Phase I Clinical Trials Designs for Estimating the Maximum Tolerated Doses for Two Drugs while Fully Utilizing all Toxicity Information

65. Associations between short-term exposure to ambient air pollution and emergency department visits for cardiovascular diseases in thirteen U.S. cities

66. Adverse Outcomes Associated with Beers List Medications Following Total Knee Replacement

67. Safety And Efficacy of Direct Oral Anticoagulants Versus Warfarin for the Treatment of Left Ventricular Thrombus

68. Biomarker-driven Phase 2 study of Nivolumab in Advanced Metastatic NSCLC

69. Association between Lung Dose and Incidence of Pulmonary Toxicity after Total Body Irradiation

70. Consensus clustering of subclone structure for multi-sample sequencing data

71. Stochastic Modeling of TCDD Suppression of Terminal Differentiation of B Lymphocytes into Antibody-Secreting Cells

72. Prediction of CBC Hemoglobin Levels for Preterm Infants: Evaluation of Anatomic Regions for Smartphone Photos

73. Risk Stratification for Overall Survival among Metastatic Prostate Cancer Patients Treated by ADT as the First Line Treatment

74. Assessing Indicators of State Capacity for Harmful Algal Bloom Reporting Since the Launch of the CDC One Health Harmful Algal Bloom System in 2016

75. The Association Between the Orphan Drug Tax Credit Reduction and the Orphan Drug Pipeline

76. Obesity and COVID-19: An analysis of the relationship between obesity and outcomes of tracheostomy secondary to COVID-19

77. Neighborhood Accessibility as a Socio-Environmental Determinant in Kidney Transplant Health Services

78. Cervical Cancer Mortality & Screening: Two Analyses using BRFSS Data