Social & Behavioral Interventions

SBI Research article of the week

• September 18
  Pamela J. Surkan, Kwame S. Sakyi, Donna M. Strobino, Sucheta Mehra, Alain Labrique, Hasmot Ali, Barkat Ullah, Lee Wu, Rolf Klemm, Mahbubur Rashid, Keith P. West, Parul Christian. Depressive symptoms in mothers after perinatal and early infant loss in rural Bangladesh: a population-based study. Ann Epidemiol 2016;26(7):467-473. doi: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2016.06.001
• September 11
  Laureen M. Lopez, Thomas W. Grey, Mario Chen, Julie A. Denison, Gretchen Stuart. Behavioral interventions for improving contraceptive use among women living with HIV. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2016 2016(8):CD010243. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD010243.pub3
• September 4
  Karina Christiansen, Preety Gadhoke, Marla Pardilla, Joel Gittelsohn. Work, worksites, and wellbeing among North American Indian women: a qualitative study. Ethn Health 2017:1-20. doi: 10.1080/13557858.2017.1313964
• August 28
  Sania Ashraf, Fosiul A. Nizame, Mahfuza Islam, Notan C. Dutta, Dalia Yeasmin, Sadika Akhter, Jaynal Abedin, Peter J. Winch, Pavani K. Ram, Leanne Unicomb, Elli Leontsini, Stephen P. Luby. Nonrandomized Trial of Feasibility and Acceptability of Strategies for Promotion of Soapy Water as a Handwashing Agent in Rural Bangladesh. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2017;96(2):421-429. doi:  10.4269/ajtmh.16-0304
• August 21
  Haneefa T. Saleem, Pamela J. Surkan, Deanna Kerrigan, Caitlin E. Kennedy. Childbearing Experiences Following an HIV Diagnosis in Iringa, Tanzania. Qual Health Res 2016;26(11):1473-1482. doi: 10.1177/1049732315605273
• August 14
  Lauren Tingey, Rachel Chambers, Novalene Goklish, Francene Larzelere-Hinton, Angelita Lee, Rosemarie Suttle, Summer Rosenstock, Kristin Lake, Allison Barlow. Rigorous evaluation of a pregnancy prevention program for American Indian youth and adolescents: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials 2017;18(1):109. doi.org: 10.1186/s13063-017-1842-6
• August 7
  Melissa K. Melby, Goro Yamada, Pamela J. Surkan. Inadequate gestational weight gain increases risk of small-for-gestational-age term birth in girls in Japan: A population-based cohort study. Am J Hum Biol 2016;28(5):714-720. doi: 10.1002/ajhb.22855
• July 24
  Peter J. Winch, Elizabeth D. Thomas. Harnessing the power of emotional drivers to promote behaviour change. The Lancet Global Health 2016;4(12):e881-e882. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(16)30310-2
• July 17
  Julia Diez, Paloma Conde, Maria Sandin, Maria Urtasun, Remedios Lopez, Jose Luis Carrero, Joel Gittelsohn, Manuel Franco. Understanding the local food environment: A participatory photovoice project in a low-income area in Madrid, Spain. Health Place. 2017 Jan;43:95-103. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2016.11.012. Epub 2016 Dec 13.
• July 3
  Larissa Jennings, Audrey Pettifor, Erica Hamilton, Tiarney D. Ritchwood, F. Xavier Gomez-Olive, Catherine MacPhail, James Hughes, Amanda Selin, Kathleen Kahn. Economic Resources and HIV Preventive Behaviors Among School-Enrolled Young Women in Rural South Africa (HPTN 068). AIDS Behav (2017) 21: 665. doi:10.1007/s10461-016-1435-5 
• June 26
  Bright C. Orji, Namratha Rao, Elizabeth Thompson, William R. Brieger, Emmanuel Dipo Otolorin. Community health workers provide integrated community case management using malaria rapid diagnostic test kits. Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy 2017;13(4):875-879. doi.org/10.1016/j.sapharm.2016.09.006
• June 19
  Margaret K. Storm, Kendra N. Williams, Elinor M. Shetter, Julia Kaminsky, Caitlin M. Lowery, Stephanie V. Caldas, Peter J. Winch. Sink or Swim: Promoting Youth Development Through Aquatics Programs in Baltimore, Maryland. Journal of Park and Recreation Administration 2017;35(1):66-79. doi: 10.18666/JPRA-2017-V35-I1-7295
• June 12
  Mary F. Cwik, Lauren Tingey, Angelita Lee, Rosemarie Suttle, Kristin Lake, John T. Walkup, Allison Barlow. Development and piloting of a brief intervention for suicidal American Indian adolescents. American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research 2016;23(1):105-124. doi: 10.5820/aian.2301.2016.105
• June 5
  Kevin R. O'Reilly, Erica d'Aquila, Virginia Fonner, Caitlin E. Kennedy, Michael Sweat. Can Policy Interventions Affect HIV-Related Behaviors? A Systematic Review of the Evidence from Low- and Middle-Income Countries. AIDS Behav (2017) 21: 626. doi:10.1007/s10461-016-1615-3
• May 30
  Gwen M. Chodur, Ye Shen, Stephen Kodish, Vanessa M. Oddo, Daniel A. Antiporta, Brittany Jock, Jessica C. Jones-Smith. Food Environments around American Indian Reservations: A Mixed Methods Study. PLoS One 2016;11(8):e0161132. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0161132
• May 22
  Donaldson F. Conserve, Larissa Jennings, Carolina Aguiar, Grace Shin, Lara Handler, Suzanne Maman. Systematic review of mobile health behavioural interventions to improve uptake of HIV testing for vulnerable and key populations. J Telemed Telecare. 2017 Feb;23(2):347-359. doi: 10.1177/1357633X16639186. Epub 2016 Jul 9.
• May 15
  Stephanie V. Caldas, Elena T. Broaddus, Peter J. Winch. Measuring conflict management, emotional self-efficacy, and problem solving confidence in an evaluation of outdoor programs for inner-city youth in Baltimore, Maryland. Eval Program Plann 2016;57:64-71. doi: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2016.04.003
• May 8
  Pamela J. Surkan, Maryam J. Tabrizi, Ryan M. Lee, Anne M. Palmer, Kevin D. Frick. Eat Right-Live Well! Supermarket Intervention Impact on Sales of Healthy Foods in a Low-Income Neighborhood. J Nutr Educ Behav 2016;48(2):112-121.e111.
• May 1
  Hector H. Garcia, Armando E. Gonzalez, Victor C. Tsang, Seth E. O'Neal, Fernando Llanos-Zavalaga, Guillermo Gonzalvez, Jaime Romero, Silvia Rodriguez, Luz M. Moyano, Viterbo Ayvar, Andre Diaz, Allen Hightower, Philip S. Craig, Marshall W. Lightowlers, Charles G. Gauci, Elli Leontsini, Robert H. Gilman. Elimination of Taenia solium Transmission in Northern Peru. N Engl J Med 2016;374(24):2335-2344. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1515520
• April 24
  Rachel Chambers, Lauren Tingey, Britta Mullany, Sean Parker, Angelita Lee, Allison Barlow. Exploring sexual risk taking among American Indian adolescents through protection motivation theory. AIDS Care 2016;2 (9):1089-1096. doi: 10.1080/09540121.2016.1164289
• April 17
  Laura Gauer Bermudez, Larissa Jennings, Fred M. Ssewamala, Proscovia Nabunya, Claude Mellins, Mary McKay. Equity in adherence to antiretroviral therapy among economically vulnerable adolescents living with HIV in Uganda. AIDS Care 2016;28 Suppl 2:83-91. doi: 10.1080/09540121.2016.1176681
• April 10
  Elaine Roman, Augustine Ngindu, Bright Orji, Jérémie Zoungrana, Sarah Robbins, William Brieger. Evolution of malaria in pregnancy control: Jhpiego's 10-year contribution. Int J Gynaecol Obstet 2015;130 Suppl 2:S62-67. doi: 10.1016/j.ijgo.2015.03.009
• April 3
  Kiely T. Houston, Abina Shrestha, Hari Maya Kafle, Sonal Singh, Luke Mullany, Lily Thapa, Pamela J. Surkan. Social isolation and health in widowhood: A qualitative study of Nepali widows' experiences. Health Care Women Int 2016;37(12):1277-1288. doi: 10.1080/07399332.2016.1142546
• March 27
  Anne Kenney, Rachel A. Chambers, Summer Rosenstock, Nicole Neault, Jennifer Richards, Raymond Reid, Leonela Nelson, Marissa Begay, Ryan Grass, Sean Parker, Allison Barlow. The Impact of a Home-Based Diabetes Prevention and Management Program on High-Risk American Indian Youth. Diabetes Educ 2016;42(5):585-595. doi: 10.1177/0145721716658357
• March 20
  Meredith C. Klein, Steven A. Harvey, Niélé Hawa Diarra, Emily A. Hurley, Namratha Rao, Samba I. Diop, Seydou O. Doumbia. "There is no free here, you have to pay": actual and perceived costs as barriers to intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy in Mali. Malar J 2016;15:158. doi: 10.1186/s12936-016-1210-0
• March 13
  Olivier Koole, Julie A. Denison, Joris Menten, Sharon Tsui, Fred Wabwire-Mangen, Gideon Kwesigabo, Modest Mulenga, Andrew Auld, Simon Agolory, Ya Diul Mukadi, Eric van Praag, Kwasi Torpey, Seymour Williams, Jonathan Kaplan, Aaron Zee, David R. Bangsberg, Robert Colebunders. Reasons for Missing Antiretroviral Therapy: Results from a Multi-Country Study in Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. PLoS One 2016;11(1):e0147309. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0147309
• March 6
  Namrita S. Singh, Nino Jakhaia, Nino Amonashvili, Peter J. Winch. "Finding a way out": Case histories of mental health care-seeking and recovery among long-term internally displaced persons in Georgia. Transcult Psychiatry 2016;53(2):234-256. doi: 10.1177/1363461515618813
• February 27
  Bryan Shaw, Agbessi Amouzou, Nathan P. Miller, Mengistu Tafesse, Jennifer Bryce, Pamela J. Surkan. Access to integrated community case management of childhood illnesses services in rural Ethiopia: a qualitative study of the perspectives and experiences of caregivers. Health Policy Plan 2016;31(5):656-666. doi: 10.1093/heapol/czv115
• February 20
  Stephen R. Kodish, Joel Gittelsohn, Vanessa M. Oddo, Jessica C. Jones-Smith. Impacts of casinos on key pathways to health: qualitative findings from American Indian gaming communities in California. BMC Public Health 2016;16:621. doi:  10.1186/s12889-016-3279-3
• FEBRuARY 13 
  Nasreen Jessani, Caitlin E. Kennedy, Sara Bennett. The Human Capital of Knowledge Brokers: An analysis of attributes, capacities and skills of academic teaching and research faculty at Kenyan schools of public health. Health Research Policy and Systems 2016;14(1):58. doi: 10.1186/s12961-016-0133-0
• February 6
  Sarah L. Dalglish, Daniela C. Rodríguez, Abdoutan Harouna, Pamela J. Surkan. Knowledge and power in policy-making for child survival in Niger. Social Science & Medicine 2017;177:150-157. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.01.056
• January 30
  Jessica D. Rothstein, Larissa Jennings, Anitha Moorthy, Fan Yang, Lisa Gee, Karen Romano, David Hutchful, Alain B. Labrique, Amnesty E. LeFevre, Qualitative Assessment of the Feasibility, Usability, and Acceptability of a Mobile Client Data App for Community-Based Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Care in Rural Ghana, International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications, vol. 2016, Article ID 2515420, 14 pages, 2016. doi:10.1155/2016/2515420
• January 23
  Lauren Tingey, Mary F. Cwik, Summer Rosenstock, Novalene Goklish, Francene Larzelere-Hinton, Angelita Lee, Rosemarie Suttle, Melanie Alchesay, Kirk Massey & Allison Barlow (2016) Risk and protective factors for heavy binge alcohol use among American Indian adolescents utilizing emergency health services, The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 42:6, 715-725, doi: 10.1080/00952990.2016.1181762
• January 16
  Shivani A. Patel, Pamela J. Surkan. Unwanted childbearing and household food insecurity in the United States. Maternal & child nutrition 2016;12:362-72. doi: 10.1111/mcn.12143
• January 2
  Shannon A. McMahon, Lara S. Ho, Hannah Brown, Laura Miller, Rashid Ansumana, Caitlin E. Kennedy. Healthcare providers on the frontlines: a qualitative investigation of the social and emotional impact of delivering health services during Sierra Leone's Ebola epidemic. Health policy and planning. 2016. doi: 10.1093/heapol/czw055 [epub ahead of print]
• December 19
  Fosiul A. Nizame, Elli Leontsini, Stephen P. Luby, Md. Nuruzzaman, Shahana Parveen, Peter J. Winch, Pavani K. Ram, Leanne Unicomb. Hygiene Practices During Food Preparation in Rural Bangladesh: Opportunities to Improve the Impact of Handwashing Interventions. The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 2016;95:288-97. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.15-0377
• December 12
  Allison Ruark, Caitlin E. Kennedy, Nonhlanhla Mazibuko, Lunga Dlamini, Amy Nunn, Edward C. Green, Pamela J. Surkan. From first love to marriage and maturity: a life-course perspective on HIV risk among young Swazi adults. Culture, health & sexuality 2016;18:812-25. doi: 10.1080/13691058.2015.1134811
• November 28
  Stephen R. Kodish, Nancy J. Aburto, Mutinta Nseluke Hambayi, Filippo Dibari, Joel Gittelsohn. Patterns and determinants of small-quantity LNS utilization in rural Malawi and Mozambique: considerations for interventions with specialized nutritious foods. Maternal & child nutrition 2016. [epub ahead of print]. doi: 10.1111/mcn.12234
• November 21
  Huaqing Guo, Benjamin F. Hobbs, Molly E. Lasater, Cindy L. Parker, Peter J. Winch. System dynamics-based evaluation of interventions to promote appropriate waste disposal behaviors in low-income urban areas: A Baltimore case study. Waste management (New York, NY) 2016;56:547-60. doi: 10.1016/j.wasman.2016.05.019
• November 14
  Emily A. Hurley, Steven A. Harvey, Namratha Rao, Niélé Hawa Diarra, Meredith C. Klein, Samba I. Diop, Seydou O. Doumbia. Underreporting and Missed Opportunities for Uptake of Intermittent Preventative Treatment of Malaria in Pregnancy (IPTp) in Mali. PLoS One 2016;11:e0160008. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0160008
• November 7
  Virginia A. Fonner, Sarah L. Dalglish, Caitlin E. Kennedy, Rachel Baggaley, Kevin R. O'Reilly, Florence M. Koechlin, Michelle Rodolph, Ioannis Hodges-Mameletzis, Robert M. Grant. Effectiveness and safety of oral HIV preexposure prophylaxis for all populations. AIDS 2016;30:1973-83. doi: 10.1097/QAD.0000000000001145
• October 31
  Rachel P. Chase, Shannon A. McMahon, Peter J. Winch. "Tell Me What You Don't Remember": Care-Seeking Facilitators and Barriers in the Decade Following Repetitive Blast Exposure Among Army Combat Veterans. Military medicine 2016;181:116-22. doi: 10.7205/MILMED-D-14-00471.
• October 24
  Mary F. Cwik, Lauren Tingey, Rebecca Wilkinson, Novalene Goklish, Francene Larzelere-Hinton, Allison Barlow. Suicide Prevention Gatekeeper Training: Can They Advance Prevention in Indian Country? Archives of suicide research: official journal of the International Academy for Suicide Research 2016;20:402-11. doi: 10.1080/13811118.2015.1033122
• OCTOBER 17
  Haneefa T. Saleem, Pamela J. Surkan, Deanna Kerrigan, and Caitlin E. Kennedy. Application of an ecological framework to examine barriers to the adoption of safer conception strategies by HIV-affected couples. AIDS Care 2016;2 (2):197-204. doi: 10.1080/09540121.2015.1074652
• October 10
  Elisa L. Pehlke, Paola Letona, Manuel Ramirez-Zea, Joel Gittelsohn. Healthy casetas: A potential strategy to improve the food environment in low-income schools to reduce obesity in children in Guatemala City. Ecology of food and nutrition. 2016;55(3):324-38. doi: 10.1080/03670244.2016.1161618
• October 3
  Andrew A. Adjei, Peter Winch, Amos Laar, David J. Sullivan Jr., Kwame S. Sakyi, Judith K. Stephens, George O. Adjei, Isaac A. Boateng, Vivian N. Ama Aubyn, Chrysantus Kubio, Julliette Tuakli, Linda Vanotoo, Bernard B. Bortei, Maame Amo-Addae, Felix Sorvor, Nathaniel Coleman, Sarah Dalglish, Richmond Owusu, Tsega Gebreyesus, Edward Essuman, Rebecca Greene, Ezekiel Ankomah, Kiely Houston, Constance Bart-Plange, Samuel Salamat, Ebenezer A. Addison and Isabella A. Quakyi. Insights into the Affordable Medicines Facility-malaria in Ghana: the role of caregivers and licensed chemical sellers in four regions. Malaria journal 2016;15:263. doi: 10.1186/s12936-016-1307-5
• September 26
  Larissa Jennings, Nicole Lee, Deborah Shore, Nancy Strohminger, Burgundi Allison, Donaldson F. Conserve & Lawrence J. Cheskin. U.S. Minority Homeless Youth's Access to and Use of Mobile Phones: Implications for mHealth Intervention Design. J Health Commun. 2016 Jul;21(7):725-33. doi: 10.1080/10810730.2015.1103331. Epub 2016 May 27.
• September 12
  Katherine Wingert, Drew A. Zachary, Monica Fox, Joel Gittelsohn, Pamela J. Surkan. Child as change agent: The potential of children’s influence to increase healthy food purchasing. Appetite. 2014 Oct;81:330-6. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2014.06.104. Epub 2014 Jul 1.  
• September 5
  Jessica D. Rothstein, Elli Leontsini, Maribel Paredes Olortegui, Pablo Peñataro Yori, Pamela J. Surkan and Margaret Kosek. Determinants of Caregivers' Use and Adoption of Household Water Chlorination: A Qualitative Study with Peri-Urban Communities in the Peruvian Amazon. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2015 93(3): 626-635 doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.14-0654
• August 29
  Sarah L Dalglish, Asha George, Jessica C Shearer and Sara Bennett (2015). Epistemic communities in global health and the development of child survival policy: a case study of iCCM. Health Policy Plan. 2015 Dec;30 Suppl 2:ii12-ii25. doi: 10.1093/heapol/czv043.   
• May 23
  Doreen Tuhebwe, Elly Tumushabe, Elli Leontsini, Rhoda K Wanyenze. Pneumonia among children under five in Uganda: symptom recognition and actions taken by caretakers. Afr Health Sci. 2014 Dec;14(4):993-1000. doi: 10.4314/ahs.v14i4.31.
• May 16
  Larissa Jennings, Fan Yang, Easmon Otupiri, Ambrose Akinlo, Michael Okunlola, Michelle Hindin. Association of household savings and expected future means on delivery with a skilled birth attendant in Ghana and Nigeria: a cross-sectional analysis. Matern Child Health J. 2016 Jul 27. [Epub ahead of print]. doi: 10.1007/s10995-016-2097-7    
• May 9
  Sabine Gabrysch, Shannon A. McMahon, Katja Siling, Michael G. Kenward, and Oona M. R. Campbell. Autonomy dimensions and care seeking for delivery in Zambia; the prevailing importance of cluster-level measurement. Sci Rep. 2016; 6: 22578. doi: 10.1038/srep22578
• April 4
  Haneefa T. Saleema, Pamela J. Surkana, Deanna Kerriganb & Caitlin E. Kennedya. Application of an ecological framework to examine barriers to the adoption of safer conception strategies by HIV-affected couples. AIDS Care. 2016 Feb;28(2):197-204. doi: 10.1080/09540121.2015.1074652. Epub 2015 Aug 19.
• March 28
  Chase, Rachel P. BSc; Nevin, Remington L. MD, MPH. Population estimates of undocumented incident traumatic brain injuries among combat-deployed US military personnel. J. Head Trauma Rehabil. 2015;30:E57–64. doi: 10.1097/HTR.0000000000000061
• March 21
  Kennedy, Caitlin E.; Fonner, Virginia A.; Armstrong, Kevin A.; O’Reilly, Kevin R.; Sweat, Michael D. Increasing HIV serostatus disclosure in low and middle-income countries: a systematic review of intervention evaluations. AIDS. 2015 Jun;29 Suppl 1:S7-S23. doi: 10.1097/QAD.0000000000000671. 
• March 14
  Rachel P. Chase, Shannon A. McMahon, Peter J. Winch. Injury careers after blast exposure among combat veterans deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan. Soc Sci Med. 2015 Dec;147:309-16. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.11.015. Epub 2015 Nov 17. 
• March 7
  Larissa Jennings, Audrey Pettifor, Erica Hamilton, Tiarney D. Ritchwood, F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Catherine MacPhail, James Hughes, Amanda Selin, Kathleen Kahn, The HPTN 068 Study Team. Economic resources and HIV preventive behaviors among school-enrolled young women in rural South Africa (HPTN 068). AIDS and Behavior 2016 Jun 3. doi: 10.1007/s10461-016-1435-5
• February 29
  Haneefa T. Saleema, Dorothy Mushi, Saria Hassan, R. Douglas Bruce, Alexis Cooke, Jessie Mbwambo, Barrot H. Lambdin. "Can't you initiate me here?": Challenges to timely initiation on antiretroviral therapy among methadone clients in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Int J Drug Policy. 2015 Dec 19. pii: S0955-3959(15)00362-X. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2015.12.009. [Epub ahead of print]. doi:10.1016/j.drugpo.2015.12.009
• February 22
  Meghan A. Bohren, Joshua P. Vogel, Erin C. Hunter, Olha Lutsiv, Suprita K. Makh, et al. (2015). The Mistreatment of Women during Childbirth in Health Facilities Globally: A Mixed-Methods Systematic Review. PLoS Med 12(6): e1001847. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001847
• February 15
  Rachel P. Chase, Shannon A. McMahon, Peter J. Winch. "Tell Me What You Don't Remember": Care-Seeking Facilitators and Barriers in the Decade Following Repetitive Blast Exposure Among Army Combat Veterans. Mil Med. 2016 Feb;181(2):116-22. doi: 10.7205/MILMED-D-14-00471. PubMed PMID: 26837079.
• February 8
  Sarah L Dalglish, Pamela J Surkan, Aïssa Diarra, Abdoutan Harouna and Sara Bennett. Power and pro-poor policies: the case of iCCM in Niger. Health Policy Plan. 2015 Dec;30 Suppl 2:ii84-ii94. doi: 10.1093/heapol/czv064.
• December 28
  Lauren Tingey, Rachel Strom, Ranelda Hastings, Anthony Parker, Allison Barlow, Anne Rompalo, Charlotte Gaydos. (2015). Self-Administered Sample Collection for Screening of Sexually Transmitted Infection Among Reservation-Based American Indian Youth. Int J STD AIDS. 2015 Aug;26(9):661-6. PMID: 25228666. doi:10.1177/0956462414552139
• December 21
  Stephen Kodish, Nancy Aburto, Mutinta Nseluke Hambayi, Caitlin Kennedy, Joel Gittelsohn. Identifying the Sociocultural Barriers and Facilitating Factors to Nutrition-related Behavior Change: Formative Research for a Stunting Prevention Program in Ntchisi, Malawi. Food Nutr Bull. 2015 Jun;36(2):138-53. doi: 10.1177/0379572115586784. 
• December 14
  Melissa N. Poulsen, Kristyna R. S. Hulland, Carolyn A. Gulas, Hieu Pham, Sarah L. Dalglish, Rebecca K. Wilkinson and Peter J. Winch. Growing an urban oasis: A qualitative study of the perceived benefits of community gardening in Baltimore. Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment, 2014; 36(2).  DOI: 10.1111/cuag.12035
• December 7
  Lauren Tingey, Britta Mullany, Rachel Chambers, Ranelda Hastings, Angelita Lee, Anthony Parker, Allison Barlow & Anne Rompalo (2015). Respecting the Circle of life: One Year Outcomes from a Randomized Controlled Comparison of an HIV Risk Reduction Intervention for American Indian Adolescents. AIDS Care. 2015 Sep;27(9):1087-97. doi: 10.1080/09540121.2015.1028879. Epub 2015 Apr 2.
• November 30
  Larissa Jennings, Fred M. Ssewamala & Proscovia Nabunya. Effect of savings-led economic empowerment on HIV preventive practices among orphaned adolescents in rural Uganda: results from the Suubi-Maka randomized experiment. AIDS Care. 2015 Nov 7:1-10. [Epub ahead of print] doi: 10.1080/09540121.2015.1109585
• November 23
  Allison Barlow, Britta Mullany, Nicole Neault, Novalene Goklish, Trudy Billy, Ranelda Hastings, Sherilynn LorenzoCrystal Kee, Kristin Lake, Cleve Redmond, Alice Carter, John T. Walkup. Paraprofessional-delivered home-visiting intervention for American Indian teen mothers and children: 3-year outcomes from a randomized controlled trial. Am J Psychiatry. 2015 Feb 1;172(2):154-62. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2014.14030332. Epub 2014 Oct 31. PMID: 25321149   
• November 16
  Melissa N. Poulsen, Marie L. Spiker, and Peter J. Winch. Conceptualizing community buy-in and its application to urban farming. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2014; 5(1):161-178. doi: 10.5304/jafscd.2014.051.014
• November 9
  Lauren Tingeya, Britta Mullany, Rachel Chambers, Ranelda Hastings, Allison Barlow & Anne Rompalo (2015). The Respecting the Circle of Life Trial for American Indian Adolescents: Rationale, Design, Methods and Baseline Characteristics. AIDS Care. 27 (7), 885-891. PMID: 25714127 doi:10.1080/09540121.2015.1015481 
• November 2
  Larissa Jenningsa, Deborah Shoreb, Nancy Strohmingerc, Burgundi Allisond. Entrepreneurial development for U.S. minority homeless and unstably housed youth: A qualitative inquiry on value, barriers, and impact on health. Children and Youth Services Review 2015; 49: 39-47. doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2014.12.018
• October 26
  Haneefa T. Saleema, Pamela J. Surkan, Deanna Kerrigan & Caitlin E. Kennedy. Application of an ecological framework to examine barriers to the adoption of safer conception strategies by HIV-affected couples. AIDS Care. 2015 Aug 19:1-8. [Epub ahead of print] doi:10.1080/09540121.2015.1074652
• October 19
  Donaldson F Conserve, Larissa Jennings, Carolina Aguiar, Grace Shin, Lara Handler, Suzanne Maman. Systematic narrative review of mobile health behavioral interventions to improve uptake of HIV testing for vulnerable and key populations. J Telemed Telecare. 2016 Apr 6. pii: 1357633X16639186. [Epub ahead of print]. doi: 10.1177/1357633X16639186 
• October 12
  Azal Ahmadi. Recreating Virginity in Iran: Hymenoplasty as a Form of Resistance. Med Anthropol Q. 2015 Feb 27. doi: 10.1111/maq.12202. [Epub ahead of print]. 
• October 5
  Angela C. B. Trude, Anna Kharmats, Brittany Jock, Debra Liu, Katherine Lee, Paula Andrea Martins, Marla Pardilla, Jaqueline Swartz & Joel Gittelsohn. Patterns of food consumption are associated with obesity, self-reported diabetes and cardiovascular disease in five American Indian communities. Ecol Food Nutr. 2015;54(5):437-54. Epub 2015 Jun 2. doi: 10.1080/03670244.2014.922070
• September 28
  Julie A Denison, Harry Banda, Alexis C Dennis, Catherine Packer, Namakau Nyambe, Randy M Stalter, Jonathan K Mwansa, Patrick Katayamoyo, and Donna R McCarraher. "The sky is the limit": adhering to antiretroviral therapy and HIV self-management from the perspectives of adolescents living with HIV and their adult caregivers. J Int AIDS Soc. 2015; 18(1): 19358. doi: 10.7448/IAS.18.1.19358
• September 21
  Mohammad Karamouzian, Zohre Foroozanfar, Azal Ahmadi, Ali Akbar Haghdoost, Joanna Vogeld & Farzaneh Zolala. How sex work becomes an option: Experiences of female sex workers in Kerman, Iran. Cult Health Sex. 2015 Aug 28:1-13. [Epub ahead of print] doi:10.1080/13691058.2015.1059487
• September 14
  Larissa Jennings, Fred M. Ssewamala & Proscovia Nabunya. Effect of savings-led economic empowerment on HIV preventive practices among orphaned adolescents in rural Uganda: results from the Suubi-Maka randomized experiment. AIDS Care. 2015 Nov 7:1-10. [Epub ahead of print] doi:10.1080/09540121.2015.1109585
• September 7
  Ahyoung Shin, Pamela J. Surkan, Anastasia J. Coutinho, Sonali R. Suratkar, Rebecca K. Campbell, Megan Rowan, Sangita Sharma, Lauren A. Dennisuk, Micaela Karlsen, Anthony Gass, Joel Gittelsohn. Impact of Baltimore Healthy Eating Zones: An environmental intervention to reduce obesity and obesity-related factors among African-American youth. Health Education and Behavior, 2015 Apr;42(1 Suppl):97S-105S. doi: 10.1177/1090198115571362.  PMID: 25829124
• August 17
  Jessica D. Rothstein, Elli Leontsini, Maribel Paredes Olortegui, Pablo Peñataro Yori, Pamela J. Surkan and Margaret Kosek. Use and Adoption of Household Water Chlorination: A Qualitative Study with Peri-urban Communities in the Peruvian Amazon. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Published online July 14, 2015 , doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.14-0654. 
• August 10
  Kendra N Williams, Amanda L Northcross & Jay P Graham. Health impacts of household energy use: indicators of exposure to air pollution and other risks. Bull World Health Organ. 2015; 93: 507-508. doi: 10.2471/BLT.14.144923.
• August 3
  Asha George, Kerry Scotta, Surekha Garimella, Shinjini Mondal, Rajani Ved, Kabir Sheikh. Anchoring contextual analysis in health policy and systems research: A narrative review of contextual factors influencing health committees in low and middle income countries. Soc Sci Med. 2015 May;133:159-67. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.03.049
• July 27
  Catherine Campbell, Kerry Scott, Zivai Mupambireyi, Mercy Nhamo, Constance Nyamukapa, Morten Skovdal and Simon Gregson. Community resistance to a peer education programme in Zimbabwe. BMC Health Services Research 2014, 14:574  doi:10.1186/s12913-014-0574-5
• July 20
  Larissa Jennings, Muzi Na, Megan Cherewick, Michelle Hindin, Britta Mullany and Saifuddin Ahmed. Women's empowerment and male involvement in antenatal care: analyses of Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) in selected African countries. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2014 Aug 30;14:297. doi: 10.1186/1471-2393-14-297.
• July 13
  Meghan A Bohren, Erin C Hunter, Heather M Munthe-Kaas, João Paulo Souza, Joshua P Voge and A Metin Gülmezoglu. Facilitators and barriers to facility-based delivery in low- and middle-income countries: a qualitative evidence synthesis. BMC Reprod Health. 2014;11:71. doi: 10.1186/1742-4755-11-71
• July 6
  Erin C. Hunter, Jennifer A. Callaghan-Koru, Abdullah Al Mahmud, Rashed Shah, Azadeh Farzin, Elizabeth A. Cristofalo, Sadika Akhter, Abdullah H. Baqui. Newborn care practices in rural Bangladesh: Implications for the adaptation of kangaroo mother care for community-based interventions, Social Science & Medicine, Volume 122, December 2014, Pages 21-30. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.10.006. Epub 2014 Oct 2.
• June 29
  Kwame S. Sakyi, Pamela J. Surkan, Eric Fombonne, Aude Chollet, Maria Melchior. Childhood friendships and psychological difficulties in young adulthood: an 18-year follow-up study. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2014 Oct 15. doi: 10.1007/s00787-014-0626-8
• June 22
  Lisa Wexler, Michael Chandler, Joseph P. Gone, Mary Cwik, Laurence J. Kirmayer, Teresa LaFromboise, Teresa Brockie, Victoria O’Keefe, John Walkup, and James Allen. Advancing suicide prevention research with rural American Indian and Alaska Native populations. Am J Public Health. 2015 May;105(5):891-9. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.302517
• June 15
  Erica H. Layer , Caitlin E. Kennedy, Sarah W. Beckham, Jessie K. Mbwambo, Samuel Likindikoki, Wendy W. Davis, Deanna L. Kerrigan, Heena Brahmbhatt, the LTC Tanzania Collaborative Study Team. Multi-level factors affecting entry into and engagement in the HIV continuum of care in Iringa, Tanzania. PLoS One. 2014 Aug 13;9(8): e104961. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0104961
• June 8
  Larissa Jennings. Do men need empowering too? A systematic review of entrepreneurial education and microenterprise development on health disparities among inner-city black male youth. J Urban Health. 2014 Oct;9 (5):836-50. doi: 10.1007/s11524-014-9898-z.
• June 1
  Elizabeth D. Ballard, Rashelle J. Musci, Lauren Tingey, Novalene Goklish, Francene Larzelere-Hinton, Allison Barlow, and Mary Cwik. Latent class analysis of substance use and aggressive behavior in reservation-based American Indian youth who attempted suicide. Am Indian Alsk Native Ment Health Res. 2015;22(1):77-94. doi: 10.5820/aian.2201.2015.77.
• May25
  Rebecca Fielding-Miller, Zandile Mnisi, Darrin Adams, Stefan Baral, and Caitlin Kennedy. “There is hunger in my community”: a qualitative study of food security as a cyclical force in sex work in Swaziland. BMC Public Health. 2014; 14: 79. doi:  10.1186/1471-2458-14-79
• May 18
  Virginia A. Fonner, Deanna Kerrigan, Zandile Mnisi, Sosthenes Ketende, Caitlin E. Kennedy, and Stefan Baral. Social Cohesion, Social Participation, and HIV Related Risk among Female Sex Workers in Swaziland. PLoS One. 2014; 9(1): e87527. doi:  10.1371/journal.pone.0087527
• May 11
  Larissa Jennings, Adetayo Omoni, Adekunle Akerele, Yisa Ibrahim Y, Ekpenyong Ekanem. Disparities in mobile phone use and maternal health service utilization in Nigeria: a population-based survey. International Journal of Medical Informatics 2015; 84: 341-48.
• May 4
  Elli Leontsini, Peter J Winch. Increasing handwashing with soap: emotional drivers or social norms? Lancet Glob Health. 2014 Mar;2(3):e118-9. doi:10.1016/S2214-109X(14)70030-0.
• April 27
  Anna Y Kharmats, Jessica C Jones-Smith, Yun Sang Cheah, Nadine Budd, Laura Flamm, Alison Cuccia, Yeeli Mui, Angela Trude, and Joel Gittelsohn. Relation between the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program cycle and dietary quality in low-income African Americans in Baltimore, Maryland. Am J Clin Nutr 2014;99:1006–14. doi: 10.3945/ajcn.113.075994.
• April 20
  Sarah W. Beckham, Catherine R. Shembilu, Heena Brahmbhatt, Peter J. Winch, Chris Beyrer and Deanna L. Kerrigan. Female sex workers' experiences with intended pregnancy and antenatal care services in southern Tanzania. Stud Fam Plann 2015; 46(1): 55-71.  
• April 13
  Pamela J Surkan, Anna K Ettinger, Rebecca S Hock, Saifuddin Ahmed, Donna M Strobino and Cynthia S Minkovitz. Early maternal depressive symptoms and child growth trajectories: a longitudinal analysis of a nationally representative US birth cohort. BMC Pediatrics 2014, 14:185. doi:10.1186/1471-2431-14-185.
• April 6
  Kathryn R Millar, Jennifer McCutcheon, Eugenie H Coakley, William Brieger, Mohammed A Ibrahim, Zainab Mohammed, Amos Bassi and William Sambisa. Patterns and predictors of malaria care-seeking, diagnostic testing, and artemisinin-based combination therapy for children under five with fever in Northern Nigeria: a cross-sectional study. Malaria Journal 2014, 13:447.  doi:10.1186/1475-2875-13-447