Publications

IFSAN core faculty members conduct research and publish their findings regularly. These contributions advance knowledge of foodborne disease and nutrition insecurity. Additionally, it aids in the creation of evidence-based solutions to important public health issues.

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Food & Nutrition Policy, Law & Governance

• Factors affecting antenatal corticosteroid use in low- and middle-income countries: Facility characteristics, structural readiness, and past performance of CEmONC signal functions
• Antenatal corticosteroids for pregnant women at risk of preterm labour in low- and middle-income countries: utilisation and facility readiness
• We Want to Eat and be Healthy just like Everybody Else:" How Social Infrastructures Affect Nutrition Equity in a Racialized Urban Community in the United States
• Integration and coordination across public benefit programs: Insights from state and local government leaders in the United States
• Vitamin D and toxic metals in pregnancy - A biological perspective
• Cannabis Use and Food Insecurity Risk Among U.S. Adults With And Without Children
• Estimating the Impact of WIC on Diet Quality Among Children 2 to 5 Years of Age Who Participated in the Infant and Toddler Feeding Practices Study-2
• Associations of early life phthalate exposures with adolescent lipid levels and insulin resistance: The HOME Study
• Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and bone mineral content in early adolescence: Modification by diet and physical activity
• Associations of pre- and postnatal per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance exposure with adolescents' eating behaviors
• Prematurity, neonatal complications, and the development of childhood hypertension
• Center-specific variation in outcomes for extremely premature, extremely low birth weight neonates
• Applying mixtures methodology to analyze how exposure to structural racism and economic disadvantage affect perinatal health outcomes: an ECHO study
• Bystanders to a Public Health Crisis | Columbia Journal of Environmental Law
• Impact of California SB27 on AMR in human E. coli — Study protocol
• Measuring social desirability bias in a multi-ethnic cohort sample: its relationship with self-reported physical activity, dietary habits, and factor structure
• The LvL UP trial: Protocol for a sequential, multiple assignment, randomised controlled trial to assess the effectiveness of a blended mobile lifestyle intervention
• Then, Now, Next: Unpacking the Shifting Trajectory of Social Determinants of Health
• What’s in Your Social Determinants of Health Teaching Toolbox? Nursing Pedagogical Considerations

Food Safety

• Healthcare costs of foodborne diseases in the United States: an analysis using electronic health records
• Dietary, socioeconomic, and maize handling practices associated with aflatoxin and fumonisin exposure among women tortilla makers in 5 departments in Guatemala
• Inactivation of Salmonella enterica, Escherichia coli O157:H7, and Campylobacter jejuni in a Restructured Beef Jerky Developed for Production in Ethiopia
• Ranking Food Safety Priorities of the Fresh Produce Industry in the United States
• Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Foodborne Disease Healthcare-Seeking Behavior and Diagnoses at a Large Academic Medical System
• A generalized linear mixed model approach to assess associations between Certified Food Protection Managers and inspection performance in Franklin County, Ohio
• Healthcare costs of foodborne diseases in the United States: an analysis using electronic health records
• Detection of gastrointestinal pathogens in stool samples using a rapid multiplex PCR test at a large tertiary pediatric hospital
• Gastrointestinal Symptoms in Collegiate Division I American Football Athletes
• Prevalence of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli, Salmonella, and Campylobacter species among diarrheal patients from three major hospitals in Ethiopia
• The heterogeneous association between education and the adoption of safe food handling practices in Ethiopia
• A Systematic Review on Preharvest Interventions Used to Control Salmonella in Poultry Rearing in the United States
• A Proposed Framework for Ranking and Prioritizing Food Safety Risks in Low Resource Settings Using Foodborne Disease Burden Metrics: A Case Study in Ethiopia
• Whose Burden Is it Anyway? A Comprehensive Proposal to Reshape Food Safety Review by Treating Food as Medicine
• Bystanders to a Public Health Crisis | Columbia Journal of Environmental Law
• FDA-Approved: How PFAS-laden Food Contact Materials are Poisoning Consumers and What to do About it
• Would You Like PFAS with That? The Poison Experts Are Allowing into Your Food Every Day
• Pediatric urinary tract infections caused by poultry-associated E. coli
• Distance and destination of retail meat alter multidrug-resistant contamination in U.S. food system
• An Exploratory Survey of Food Safety Practices for Food Delivery Affiliated with Ohio Foodservice Businesses

Nutrition Security & Diet Quality

• “I Was Thinking About Food All the Time, I Didn’t Have Enough”: Understanding the Multidimensional Nature of Food Insecurity Among Undergraduates at an Urban U.S. Campus
• Understanding Factors that Influence Parents’ Provision of Beverages to Their Children: A Qualitative Evidence Synthesis - Natalie Vallone, Morgan Drake, Adam Dawer, Rachel Brill, Allison C. Sylvetsky, 2025
• Nonsugar Sweeteners – Time for Transparency and Caution
• Mothers’ experiences during the 2022 Infant Formula Shortage in Washington D.C.
• The MILK Study: Investigating Intergenerational Transmission of Low-calorie Sweeteners in Breast Milk. Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications
• Effects of Low-Calorie Sweetener Restriction on Glycemic Variability and Cardiometabolic Health in Children with Type 1 Diabetes: Findings of a Pilot and Feasibility Study
• The widespread presence of non-nutritive sweeteners challenges adherence to beverage guidance for children
• Non-sugar sweeteners: helpful or harmful? The challenge of developing intake recommendations with the available research
• Consumption of sucralose- and acesulfame-potassium-containing diet soda alters the relative abundance of microbial taxa at the species level: findings of two pilot studies
• Behavioral Patterns of Sugary Drink Consumption among African American Adolescents: A Pilot and Feasibility Study Using Ecological Momentary Assessment
• Gastrointestinal Symptoms in Collegiate Division I American Football Athletes
• The Gastrointestinal Symptom Rating Scale has a Good Test–Retest Reliability in Well-Trained Athletes With and Without Previously Self-Identified Gastrointestinal Complaints
• Multi-Omics Integration for Personalized Healthcare
• GI complaints, well-being, and gut microbiota in athletes
• Contribution of Maternal Adherence to the Effect of Multiple Micronutrient Supplementation During Pregnancy: A Systematic Review and Individual Participant Data Meta-analysis
• Single-blinded, stratified, dose ranging trial to assess pharmacokinetics and identify optimal dose of vitamin B12 in pregnancy in Tanzania
• Protocol for the Redefining Maternal Anemia in Pregnancy and Postpartum (ReMAPP) study: A multisite, international, population-based cohort study to establish global hemoglobin thresholds for maternal anemia
• Multiple micronutrient supplementation for maternal anemia prevention (MMS-MAP): an individually randomized trial of higher-dose iron (60 mg, 45 mg) compared to low-dose iron (30 mg) in multiple micronutrient supplements in pregnancy
• Contribution of maternal adherence to the effect of multiple micronutrient supplementation during pregnancy: a systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis
• "We Want to Eat and be Healthy just like Everybody Else:" How Social Infrastructures Affect Nutrition Equity in a Racialized Urban Community in the United States - PubMed
• A Systematic Review: The Impact of COVID-19 Policy Flexibilities on SNAP and WIC Programmatic Outcomes
• Cannabis Use and Food Insecurity Risk Among U.S. Adults With And Without Children
• Associations of endocrine disrupting chemical biomarkers and their mixture with vitamin D biomarker concentrations in childhood: The HOME Study
• Associations of early life phthalate exposures with adolescent lipid levels and insulin resistance: The HOME Study
• Vitamin D and toxic metals in pregnancy - A biological perspective
• Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and bone mineral content in early adolescence: Modification by diet and physical activity
• Associations of pre- and postnatal per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance exposure with adolescents' eating behaviors
• Gestational exposures to mixtures of multiple chemical classes and autism spectrum disorder in the MARBLES study
• Associations Between Sociodemographic Factors and Adolescent Food Consumption During Independent Eating Occasions
• Middle-aged Central American Men’s Perceptions of Healthy Body Weight & Chronic Disease
• Perceptions Regarding Healthy Eating & Facilitators for Healthy Choices Among Middle-Aged Central American Men
• Eating and Drinking Behaviors Considered “Healthy” Among Overweight or Obese Central American Men
• Food Parenting Practices Mediate Relationships Between Parent Sex and Adolescent Food Intake During Independent Eating Occasions
• Obesity and Severe Obesity Among WIC Children 24–48 Months by Race/Ethnicity
• Hispanic Caregivers’ Preferences for Nutrition Education in Preschool Settings
• Factors Influencing Children’s Exits from WIC: A Systematic Review
• Parenting Practices Are Associated With Adolescent Food Choices During Independent Eating Occasions
• Adolescent Independent Eating Occasions, Dietary Intake, and Parenting Practices During COVID-19
• Can gender transformative agroecological interventions improve women’s autonomy
• Migrant Women’s Food Insecurity Experiences in the Breadbasket of Ghana
• Examining the Impact of Participatory Agroecology on Health in Smallholder Farming Communities
• Food Insecurity and Sleep Duration Among Adults in Manitoba and Saskatchewan: Evidence from the 2015-16 Canadian Community Health Survey
• Alcohol misuse as a social determinant of food insecurity among smallholder farmers
• Effectiveness of an Incentives-Enhanced Stepped Care Intervention Program in Diabetes Prevention in a Multiethnic Asian Prediabetes Cohort: Results From the Pre-DICTED Randomized Controlled Trial
• Plant-based Diet Index and Risk of Pancreatic Cancer: Findings from a Prospective Cohort Study
• Coffee drinking timing and mortality in US adults
• Coffee and cardiovascular disease
• Plant-based diet index and risk of hepatocellular carcinoma: Findings from a prospective cohort study
• Association between plasma polyunsaturated fatty acids and metabolic syndrome risk: A prospective and mediation study in a multiethnic Asian population
• An empirical dietary inflammatory pattern increases the incidence of the metabolic syndrome in a multi-ethnic Asian population
• Movement and dietary behaviours and mental health among university students: the Health@NUS study
• Plasma Proteomic Signatures of Adiposity Are Associated With Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Type 2 Diabetes Risk in a Multiethnic Asian Population
• Circulating Proteomic Profiles Are Associated With Incident Type 2 Diabetes in Asian Populations
• Diet, physical activity, and sleep in relation to postprandial glucose responses under free-living conditions: an intensive longitudinal observational study
• Characterising the extent and nature of digital food and beverage marketing in Singapore: a descriptive study
• Development of a Diabetes Dietary Quality Index: Reproducibility and Associations with Measures of Insulin Resistance, Beta Cell Function, and Hyperglycemia
• Worldwide trends in diabetes prevalence and treatment from 1990 to 2022: a pooled analysis of 1108 population-representative studies with 141 million participants
• The LvL UP trial: Protocol for a sequential, multiple assignment, randomised controlled trial to assess the effectiveness of a blended mobile lifestyle intervention. Contemp Clin Trials.
• Genetic drivers of heterogeneity in type 2 diabetes pathophysiology
• Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022: a pooled analysis of 3663 population-representative studies with 222 million children, adolescents, and adults
• Ecological momentary assessment of digital food and beverage marketing exposure and impact in young adults: A feasibility study
• Dietary Patterns and Cardiovascular Diseases in Asia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
• Rationale, Design, and Baseline Characteristics of Participants in the Health@NUS mHealth Augmented Cohort Study Examining Student-to-Work Life Transition: Protocol for a Prospective Cohort Study
• Meat consumption and incident type 2 diabetes: an individual-participant federated meta-analysis of 1·97 million adults with 100 000 incident cases from 31 cohorts in 20 countries
• General and abdominal adiposity and hypertension in eight world regions: a pooled analysis of 837 population-based studies with 7·5 million participants
• Coffee Consumption and Incidence of Cardiovascular and Microvascular Diseases in Never-Smoking Adults with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
• Device-Measured Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior in Relation to Cardiovascular Diseases and All-Cause Mortality: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Prospective Cohort Studies
• Association of diet quality with hand grip strength weakness and asymmetry in a multi-ethnic Asian cohort
• Gene-educational attainment interactions in a multi-population genome-wide meta-analysis identify novel lipid loci
• Effectiveness of holistic mobile health interventions on diet, and physical, and mental health outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis
• Development and validation of a lifestyle risk index to screen for metabolic syndrome and its components in two multi-ethnic cohorts
• Genome-Wide Interaction Analysis With DASH Diet Score Identified Novel Loci for Systolic Blood Pressure
• Acculturation as a Determinant of Obesity and Related Lifestyle Behaviors in a Multi-Ethnic Asian Population
• Risk prediction models for type 2 diabetes using either fasting plasma glucose or HbA1c in Chinese, Malay, and Indians: Results from three multi-ethnic Singapore cohorts
• Differences in type 2 diabetes risk between East, South, and Southeast Asians living in Singapore: the multi-ethnic cohort
• Effects of dietary quality, physical activity and weight loss on glucose homeostasis in persons with and without prediabetes in the PREMIER trial
• Development of "LvL UP 1.0": a smartphone-based, conversational agent-delivered holistic lifestyle intervention for the prevention of non-communicable diseases and common mental disorders
• Association between nutrition and cognition in a multi-ethnic cohort from Singapore
• Diminishing benefits of urban living for children and adolescents' growth and development
• An atlas of genetic scores to predict multi-omic traits
• Isocaloric Substitution of Plant-Based Protein for Animal-Based Protein and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in a Multiethnic Asian Population
• Dietary Patterns and Risk of Colorectal Cancer: A Systematic Review
• Plant-Based Diets and Their Associations with Physical Performance in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging
• Proteomic analysis identifies novel biological pathways that may link dietary quality to type 2 diabetes risk: evidence from African American and Asian cohorts
• Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Growth, Body Composition, and Risk of Obesity: A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis
• Beverage Patterns and Growth, Body Composition, and Risk of Obesity: A Systematic Review
• Dairy Milk and Milk Alternatives and Growth, Body Composition, and Risk of Obesity: A Systematic Review
• Low- and No-Calorie Sweetened Beverages and Growth, Body Composition, and Risk of Obesity: A Systematic Review
• Dietary Patterns and Risk of Cognitive Decline, Dementia, Alzheimer's Disease, and Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Systematic Review
• Dietary Patterns and Growth, Body Composition, and Risk of Obesity: A Systematic Review
• Food Sources of Saturated Fat and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease: A Systematic Review
• Dietary Patterns and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease: A Systematic Review
• Concordance Between DASH Diet and Coronary Artery Calcification: Results From the Mediators of Atherosclerosis in South Asians Living in America (MASALA) Prospective Cohort Study
• Dietary patterns in the Mediators of Atherosclerosis in South Asians Living in America (MASALA) study: comparisons across methodologies
• Interpersonal Communication Strategies to Increase Iron-Folic Acid Supplement Consumption: Reduction in Anemia Through Normative Innovations (RANI) Project
• Associations between dietary indices and hearing status among middle-older aged adults - results from the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging
• Adherence to the healthy eating index-2010 and alternative healthy eating index-2010 in relation to metabolic syndrome among African Americans in the Jackson heart study
• Dietary Intakes of Community-Dwelling Adults in the United States across Older Adulthood: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2015-March 2020
• Plant-based diets and the gut microbiome: findings from the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging
• Plant Protein but Not Animal Protein Consumption Is Associated with Frailty through Plasma Metabolites
• Concordance between Dash Diet and Hypertension: Results from the Mediators of Atherosclerosis in South Asians Living in America (MASALA) Study
• Development of a Food List to Assess the Diet of South Asians Living in the U.S.: Preliminary Results From a Formative Study
• Cardiovascular health assessed using Life's Essential 8 is associated with all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality among community-dwelling older men and women in the InCHIANTI study
• Cardiovascular health, measured using Life's Essential 8, is associated with reduced dementia risk among older men and women
• Association of cardiovascular health with subclinical coronary atherosclerosis progression among five racial and ethnic groups: The MASALA and MESA studies
• Social and psychosocial determinants of racial and ethnic differences in cardiovascular health: The MASALA and MESA studies
• Cardiovascular Health by Life's Essential 8 and Associations With Coronary Artery Calcium in South Asian American Adults in the MASALA Study
• Proteomic Mediators of Overall Cardiovascular Health on All-Cause Mortality

One Health

• Impact of a Statewide Livestock Antibiotic Use Policy on Resistance in Human Urine Escherichia coli Isolates: A Synthetic Control Analysis
• Using source-associated mobile genetic elements to identify zoonotic extraintestinal E. coli infections
• A Quantitative Assessment of Staphylococcus aureus Community Carriage in Yuma, Arizona
• Plugging the leaks: antibiotic resistance at human–animal interfaces in low-resource settings
• Integrating Sample Similarities into Latent Class Analysis: A Tree-Structured Shrinkage Approach
• Association of Oral Microbiome With Oral Human Papillomavirus Infection: A Population Study of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2009-2012
• Effects of patient beliefs regarding the need for antibiotics and prescribing outcomes on patient satisfaction in urgent-care settings
• Design and validation of Dolosigranulum pigrum specific PCR primers using the bacterial core genome
• Antibiotic Prescribing Patterns for Pediatric Urgent Care Clinicians
• Association of Oral Microbiome With Oral Human Papillomavirus Infection: A Population Study of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2009-2012
• Capturing diversity within the human nasal microbiota
• Efficacy of priming and commitment posters on urgent care patients’ antibiotic expectations and knowledge: a cluster randomized trial
• Penile microbiome: decoding its impact on HIV risk
• The nasal microbiome modulates risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection by influencing expression of key host entry factors
• The Impact of Breastfeeding on the Development of the Infant Gut and Nasal Microbiomes
• Adverse maternal, fetal, and newborn outcomes among pregnant women with SARS-CoV-2 infection: an individual participant data meta-analysis
• Clinical risk factors of adverse outcomes among women with COVID-19 in the pregnancy and postpartum period: a sequential, prospective meta-analysis
• Evaluating the association between longitudinal exposure to a PFAS mixture and adolescent cardiometabolic risk in the HOME Study
• Whose Burden Is it Anyway? A Comprehensive Proposal to Reshape Food Safety Review by Treating Food as Medicine
• A "One Health" Approach to Healthy Food
• Zoonotic Escherichia coli and urinary tract infections in Southern California
• The nasal microbiome modulates risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection
• Staphylococci in high resolution: Capturing diversity within the human nasal microbiota
• Gut microbiome predictors of Escherichia coli ST131 colonization and loss
• Predicting sepsis mortality through modeling in the era of pandrug-resistant E. coli
• E. coli ST117: Exploring the zoonotic hypothesis
• Using source-associated mobile genetic elements to identify zoonotic extraintestinal E. coli
• Design and validation of Dolosigranulum pigrum PCR primers
• Plugging the leaks: antibiotic resistance at human–animal interfaces
• ClimaWATCH: A new interactive tool for community heat-health vulnerability assessments.
• Sociodemographic Disparities in Mercury Exposure from United States Coal-Fired Power Plants

Sustainability & Systems Science

• The association between lead exposure and crime: A systematic review. PLOS Glob Public Health 3 (8): e0002177
• Cannabis Use and Food Insecurity Risk Among U.S. Adults With And Without Children
• Associations of Organophosphate Ester Flame Retardant Exposures during Pregnancy with Gestational Duration and Fetal Growth: The Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program
• Estimating effects of longitudinal and cumulative exposure to PFAS mixtures on early adolescent body composition
• Lifetime postnatal exposure to a PFAS mixture and DNA methylation at twelve years of age
• Exposures to organophosphate esters and respiratory morbidity among school-aged children with asthma
• Associations of maternal gestational urinary environmental phenols concentrations with bone mineral density among 12-year-old children in the HOME Study
• Racial and ethnic differences in prenatal exposure to environmental phenols and parabens in the ECHO Cohort
• Exposed and Vulnerable: Sources and Health Implications of Chemical Exposures in Neonatal, Pediatric, and Cardiac Intensive Care Units
• Cyclohexanone and metabolites exposure in critically Ill neonates and children
• Associations of endocrine disrupting chemical biomarkers and their mixture with vitamin D biomarker concentrations in childhood: The HOME Study
• Maternal serum polybrominated diphenyl ether concentrations during pregnancy and adolescent bone mineral density at age 12 years
• Urinary concentrations of phthalate metabolites in relation to preeclampsia and other hypertensive disorders of pregnancy in the environmental influences on child health outcomes (ECHO) program
• Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and bone mineral content in early adolescence: Modification by diet and physical activity
• Associations of pre- and postnatal per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance exposure with adolescents' eating behaviors
• Associations of a toenail metal mixture with attention and memory in the Gulf long-term follow-up (GuLF) study
• Gestational exposures to mixtures of multiple chemical classes and autism spectrum disorder in the MARBLES study
• Prematurity, neonatal complications, and the development of childhood hypertension
• Determinants of mechanized technology adoption in smallholder agriculture: Implications for agricultural policy
• Nature-inspired solutions for food loss prevention: exploring smallholder farmers' willingness to adopt solar-powered cold storage
• Lost harvest: examining the association between postharvest food loss and food insecurity in semi-arid Ghana
• Nature-inspired solutions for food loss prevention: exploring smallholder farmers' willingness to adopt solar-powered cold storage
• Associations between oral processing, saliva, and bolus properties on daily glucose excursions amongst people at risk of type-2 diabetes
• Proteomic Predictors of Incident Diabetes: Results From the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study
• Impact of Comprehensive Lifestyle Interventions on Plasma Branched-Chain Amino Acid Concentrations: A Randomized Trial
• Plasma branched-chain amino acid and cardiovascular disease risk factors: a longitudinal analysis of a lifestyle trial
• A point-based cognitive impairment scoring system for Southeast Asian adults
• Substituting animal protein foods with plant protein foods influences vitamin B12 and folate statuses in a multiethnic Asian population
• Proteomic analysis identifies novel biological pathways that may link dietary quality to type 2 diabetes risk: evidence from African American and Asian cohorts
• Where are we now and where do we go from here? A structured literature review analyzing the current state of breast density research trends and discussions

Water

• Environmental risk factors associated with community diarrheal disease in Ethiopia
• The Utility of Machine Learning Models for Predicting Chemical Contaminants in Drinking Water: Promise, Challenges, and Opportunities
• Equity in wastewater monitoring: Differences in the demographics and social vulnerability of sewered and unsewered populations across North Carolina.
• Separating signal from noise in wastewater data: An algorithm to identify community-level COVID-19 surges in real time
• A Call for a Unified Database to Address Exposure Disparities in the United States
• Sociodemographic disparities in exposures to inorganic contaminants in United States public water systems

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Janet Buffer

• An Exploratory Survey of Food Safety Practices for Food Delivery Affiliated with Ohio Foodservice Businesses
• A Proposed Framework for Ranking and Prioritizing Food Safety Risks in Low Resource Settings Using Foodborne Disease Burden Metrics: A Case Study in Ethiopia

Katya Cronin

• Whose Burden Is it Anyway? A Comprehensive Proposal to Reshape Food Safety Review by Treating Food as Medicine
• A "One Health" Approach to Healthy Food
• Bystanders to a Public Health Crisis | Columbia Journal of Environmental Law
• FDA-Approved: How PFAS-laden Food Contact Materials are Poisoning Consumers and What to do About it
• Would You Like PFAS with That? The Poison Experts Are Allowing into Your Food Every Day

Sherrie Flynt Wallington

• Then, Now, Next: Unpacking the Shifting Trajectory of Social Determinants of Health
• What’s in Your Social Determinants of Health Teaching Toolbox? Nursing Pedagogical Considerations
• Where are we now and where do we go from here? A structured literature review analyzing the current state of breast density research trends and discussions

Gabby Headrick

• “I Was Thinking About Food All the Time, I Didn’t Have Enough”: Understanding the Multidimensional Nature of Food Insecurity Among Undergraduates at an Urban U.S. Campus
• We Want to Eat and be Healthy just like Everybody Else:" How Social Infrastructures Affect Nutrition Equity in a Racialized Urban Community in the United States
• Integration and coordination across public benefit programs: Insights from state and local government leaders in the United States
• A Systematic Review: The Impact of COVID-19 Policy Flexibilities on SNAP and WIC Programmatic Outcomes
• Cannabis Use and Food Insecurity Risk Among U.S. Adults With And Without Children

Xindi (Cindy) Hu

• ClimaWATCH: A new interactive tool for community heat-health vulnerability assessments.
• Sociodemographic Disparities in Mercury Exposure from United States Coal-Fired Power Plants
• The Utility of Machine Learning Models for Predicting Chemical Contaminants in Drinking Water: Promise, Challenges, and Opportunities
• Equity in wastewater monitoring: Differences in the demographics and social vulnerability of sewered and unsewered populations across North Carolina.
• Separating signal from noise in wastewater data: An algorithm to identify community-level COVID-19 surges in real time
• A Call for a Unified Database to Address Exposure Disparities in the United States
• Sociodemographic disparities in exposures to inorganic contaminants in United States public water systems

Moses Kansanga

• Can gender transformative agroecological interventions improve women’s autonomy
• Migrant Women’s Food Insecurity Experiences in the Breadbasket of Ghana
• Examining the Impact of Participatory Agroecology on Health in Smallholder Farming Communities
• Food Insecurity and Sleep Duration Among Adults in Manitoba and Saskatchewan: Evidence from the 2015-16 Canadian Community Health Survey
• Alcohol misuse as a social determinant of food insecurity among smallholder farmers
• Determinants of mechanized technology adoption in smallholder agriculture: Implications for agricultural policy
• Nature-inspired solutions for food loss prevention: exploring smallholder farmers' willingness to adopt solar-powered cold storage
• Lost harvest: examining the association between postharvest food loss and food insecurity in semi-arid Ghana
• Nature-inspired solutions for food loss prevention: exploring smallholder farmers' willingness to adopt solar-powered cold storage

Barbara Kowalcyk

• Patterns of gastrointestinal pathogen co-detection in pediatric stool samples identified by rapid multiplex PCR
• Healthcare costs of foodborne diseases in the United States: an analysis using electronic health records
• Dietary, socioeconomic, and maize handling practices associated with aflatoxin and fumonisin exposure among women tortilla makers in 5 departments in Guatemala
• Inactivation of Salmonella enterica, Escherichia coli O157:H7, and Campylobacter jejuni in a Restructured Beef Jerky Developed for Production in Ethiopia
• Ranking Food Safety Priorities of the Fresh Produce Industry in the United States
• Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Foodborne Disease Healthcare-Seeking Behavior and Diagnoses at a Large Academic Medical System
• A generalized linear mixed model approach to assess associations between Certified Food Protection Managers and inspection performance in Franklin County, Ohio
• Healthcare costs of foodborne diseases in the United States: an analysis using electronic health records
• Detection of gastrointestinal pathogens in stool samples using a rapid multiplex PCR test at a large tertiary pediatric hospital
• Gastrointestinal Symptoms in Collegiate Division I American Football Athletes
• An Exploratory Survey of Food Safety Practices for Food Delivery Affiliated with Ohio Foodservice Businesses
• A Proposed Framework for Ranking and Prioritizing Food Safety Risks in Low Resource Settings Using Foodborne Disease Burden Metrics: A Case Study in Ethiopia

Jordan Kuiper

• Associations of early life phthalate exposures with adolescent lipid levels and insulin resistance: The HOME Study
• Vitamin D and toxic metals in pregnancy - A biological perspective
• Urinary concentrations of phthalate metabolites in relation to preeclampsia and other hypertensive disorders of pregnancy in the environmental influences on child health outcomes (ECHO) program
• Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and bone mineral content in early adolescence: Modification by diet and physical activity
• Associations of pre- and postnatal per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance exposure with adolescents' eating behaviors
• Associations of a toenail metal mixture with attention and memory in the Gulf long-term follow-up (GuLF) study
• Gestational exposures to mixtures of multiple chemical classes and autism spectrum disorder in the MARBLES study
• Prematurity, neonatal complications, and the development of childhood hypertension
• Center-specific variation in outcomes for extremely premature, extremely low birth weight neonates
• Applying mixtures methodology to analyze how exposure to structural racism and economic disadvantage affect perinatal health outcomes: an ECHO study
• Associations of endocrine disrupting chemical biomarkers and their mixture with vitamin D biomarker concentrations in childhood: The HOME Study
• Maternal serum polybrominated diphenyl ether concentrations during pregnancy and adolescent bone mineral density at age 12 years
• Associations of Organophosphate Ester Flame Retardant Exposures during Pregnancy with Gestational Duration and Fetal Growth: The Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program
• Estimating effects of longitudinal and cumulative exposure to PFAS mixtures on early adolescent body composition
• Lifetime postnatal exposure to a PFAS mixture and DNA methylation at twelve years of age
• Exposures to organophosphate esters and respiratory morbidity among school-aged children with asthma
• Associations of maternal gestational urinary environmental phenols concentrations with bone mineral density among 12-year-old children in the HOME Study
• Racial and ethnic differences in prenatal exposure to environmental phenols and parabens in the ECHO Cohort
• Exposed and Vulnerable: Sources and Health Implications of Chemical Exposures in Neonatal, Pediatric, and Cardiac Intensive Care Units
• Cyclohexanone and metabolites exposure in critically Ill neonates and children
• Evaluating the association between longitudinal exposure to a PFAS mixture and adolescent cardiometabolic risk in the HOME Study
• Assessing Environmental Justice in Mexico: How Polluting Industries and Healthcare Disparities Impact Congenital Heart Defects
• Estimating the Impact of WIC on Diet Quality Among Children 2 to 5 Years of Age Who Participated in the Infant and Toddler Feeding Practices Study-2

Devin LaPolt

• Environmental risk factors associated with community diarrheal disease in Ethiopia
• Prevalence of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli, Salmonella, and Campylobacter species among diarrheal patients from three major hospitals in Ethiopia
• The heterogeneous association between education and the adoption of safe food handling practices in Ethiopia

Cindy Liu

• Impact of a Statewide Livestock Antibiotic Use Policy on Resistance in Human Urine Escherichia coli Isolates: A Synthetic Control Analysis
• Using source-associated mobile genetic elements to identify zoonotic extraintestinal E. coli infections
• A Quantitative Assessment of Staphylococcus aureus Community Carriage in Yuma, Arizona
• Plugging the leaks: antibiotic resistance at human–animal interfaces in low-resource settings
• Integrating Sample Similarities into Latent Class Analysis: A Tree-Structured Shrinkage Approach
• Association of Oral Microbiome With Oral Human Papillomavirus Infection: A Population Study of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2009-2012
• Effects of patient beliefs regarding the need for antibiotics and prescribing outcomes on patient satisfaction in urgent-care settings
• Design and validation of Dolosigranulum pigrum specific PCR primers using the bacterial core genome
• Antibiotic Prescribing Patterns for Pediatric Urgent Care Clinicians
• Association of Oral Microbiome With Oral Human Papillomavirus Infection: A Population Study of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2009-2012
• Capturing diversity within the human nasal microbiota
• Efficacy of priming and commitment posters on urgent care patients’ antibiotic expectations and knowledge: a cluster randomized trial
• Penile microbiome: decoding its impact on HIV risk
• The nasal microbiome modulates risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection by influencing expression of key host entry factors
• The Impact of Breastfeeding on the Development of the Infant Gut and Nasal Microbiomes

Karina R. Lora

• Estimating the Impact of WIC on Diet Quality Among Children 2 to 5 Years of Age Who Participated in the Infant and Toddler Feeding Practices Study-2
• Associations Between Sociodemographic Factors and Adolescent Food Consumption During Independent Eating Occasions
• Middle-aged Central American Men’s Perceptions of Healthy Body Weight & Chronic Disease
• Perceptions Regarding Healthy Eating & Facilitators for Healthy Choices Among Middle-Aged Central American Men
• Eating and Drinking Behaviors Considered “Healthy” Among Overweight or Obese Central American Men
• Food Parenting Practices Mediate Relationships Between Parent Sex and Adolescent Food Intake During Independent Eating Occasions
• Obesity and Severe Obesity Among WIC Children 24–48 Months by Race/Ethnicity
• Hispanic Caregivers’ Preferences for Nutrition Education in Preschool Settings
• Factors Influencing Children’s Exits from WIC: A Systematic Review
• Parenting Practices Are Associated With Adolescent Food Choices During Independent Eating Occasions
• Adolescent Independent Eating Occasions, Dietary Intake, and Parenting Practices During COVID-19

Carmen Ortega-Santos

• Gastrointestinal Symptoms in Collegiate Division I American Football Athletes
• The Gastrointestinal Symptom Rating Scale has a Good Test–Retest Reliability in Well-Trained Athletes With and Without Previously Self-Identified Gastrointestinal Complaints
• Multi-Omics Integration for Personalized Healthcare
• GI complaints, well-being, and gut microbiota in athletes

Lance B. Price

• Pediatric urinary tract infections caused by poultry-associated E. coli
• Distance and destination of retail meat alter multidrug-resistant contamination in U.S. food system
• Impact of California SB27 on AMR in human E. coli — Study protocol
• Zoonotic Escherichia coli and urinary tract infections in Southern California
• The nasal microbiome modulates risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection
• Staphylococci in high resolution: Capturing diversity within the human nasal microbiota
• Gut microbiome predictors of Escherichia coli ST131 colonization and loss
• Predicting sepsis mortality through modeling in the era of pandrug-resistant E. coli
• E. coli ST117: Exploring the zoonotic hypothesis
• Using source-associated mobile genetic elements to identify zoonotic extraintestinal E. coli
• Design and validation of Dolosigranulum pigrum PCR primers
• Plugging the leaks: antibiotic resistance at human–animal interfaces

Emily R. Smith

• Factors affecting antenatal corticosteroid use in low- and middle-income countries: Facility characteristics, structural readiness, and past performance of CEmONC signal functions
• Antenatal corticosteroids for pregnant women at risk of preterm labour in low- and middle-income countries: utilisation and facility readiness
• The association between lead exposure and crime: A systematic review. PLOS Glob Public Health 3 (8): e0002177
• Adverse maternal, fetal, and newborn outcomes among pregnant women with SARS-CoV-2 infection: an individual participant data meta-analysis
• Clinical risk factors of adverse outcomes among women with COVID-19 in the pregnancy and postpartum period: a sequential, prospective meta-analysis
• Contribution of Maternal Adherence to the Effect of Multiple Micronutrient Supplementation During Pregnancy: A Systematic Review and Individual Participant Data Meta-analysis
• Single-blinded, stratified, dose ranging trial to assess pharmacokinetics and identify optimal dose of vitamin B12 in pregnancy in Tanzania
• Multiple micronutrient supplementation for maternal anemia prevention (MMS-MAP): an individually randomized trial of higher-dose iron (60 mg, 45 mg) compared to low-dose iron (30 mg) in multiple micronutrient supplements in pregnancy | Trials
• Effects of Vitamin D Supplementation During Pregnancy on Maternal, Neonatal, and Infant Health: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis | Nutrition Reviews | Oxford Academic
• Corrigendum to ‘Nutritious Supplemental Foods for Pregnant Women from Food Insecure Settings: Types, Nutritional Composition, and Relationships to Health Outcomes’[Curr. Dev …
• Mothers’ Experiences During the 2022 Infant Formula Shortage in Washington D.C. | Maternal and Child Health Journal

Kathryn Stolte-Carroll

• A Systematic Review on Preharvest Interventions Used to Control Salmonella in Poultry Rearing in the United States
• A Proposed Framework for Ranking and Prioritizing Food Safety Risks in Low Resource Settings Using Foodborne Disease Burden Metrics: A Case Study in Ethiopia

Allison Sylvetsky*

• *Research published as part of GW tenure
• Understanding Factors that Influence Parents’ Provision of Beverages to Their Children: A Qualitative Evidence Synthesis - Natalie Vallone, Morgan Drake, Adam Dawer, Rachel Brill, Allison C. Sylvetsky, 2025
• Nonsugar Sweeteners – Time for Transparency and Caution
• Mothers’ experiences during the 2022 Infant Formula Shortage in Washington D.C.
• The MILK Study: Investigating Intergenerational Transmission of Low-calorie Sweeteners in Breast Milk. Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications
• Effects of Low-Calorie Sweetener Restriction on Glycemic Variability and Cardiometabolic Health in Children with Type 1 Diabetes: Findings of a Pilot and Feasibility Study
• The widespread presence of non-nutritive sweeteners challenges adherence to beverage guidance for children
• Non-sugar sweeteners: helpful or harmful? The challenge of developing intake recommendations with the available research
• Consumption of sucralose- and acesulfame-potassium-containing diet soda alters the relative abundance of microbial taxa at the species level: findings of two pilot studies
• Behavioral Patterns of Sugary Drink Consumption among African American Adolescents: A Pilot and Feasibility Study Using Ecological Momentary Assessment

Sameera Talegawkar

• Dietary Patterns and Risk of Colorectal Cancer: A Systematic Review
• Plant-Based Diets and Their Associations with Physical Performance in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging
• Proteomic analysis identifies novel biological pathways that may link dietary quality to type 2 diabetes risk: evidence from African American and Asian cohorts
• Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Growth, Body Composition, and Risk of Obesity: A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis
• Beverage Patterns and Growth, Body Composition, and Risk of Obesity: A Systematic Review
• Dairy Milk and Milk Alternatives and Growth, Body Composition, and Risk of Obesity: A Systematic Review
• Low- and No-Calorie Sweetened Beverages and Growth, Body Composition, and Risk of Obesity: A Systematic Review
• Dietary Patterns and Risk of Cognitive Decline, Dementia, Alzheimer's Disease, and Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Systematic Review
• Dietary Patterns and Growth, Body Composition, and Risk of Obesity: A Systematic Review
• Food Sources of Saturated Fat and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease: A Systematic Review
• Dietary Patterns and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease: A Systematic Review
• Concordance Between DASH Diet and Coronary Artery Calcification: Results From the Mediators of Atherosclerosis in South Asians Living in America (MASALA) Prospective Cohort Study
• Dietary patterns in the Mediators of Atherosclerosis in South Asians Living in America (MASALA) study: comparisons across methodologies
• Interpersonal Communication Strategies to Increase Iron-Folic Acid Supplement Consumption: Reduction in Anemia Through Normative Innovations (RANI) Project
• Associations between dietary indices and hearing status among middle-older aged adults - results from the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging
• Adherence to the healthy eating index-2010 and alternative healthy eating index-2010 in relation to metabolic syndrome among African Americans in the Jackson heart study
• Dietary Intakes of Community-Dwelling Adults in the United States across Older Adulthood: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2015-March 2020
• Plant-based diets and the gut microbiome: findings from the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging
• Plant Protein but Not Animal Protein Consumption Is Associated with Frailty through Plasma Metabolites
• Concordance between Dash Diet and Hypertension: Results from the Mediators of Atherosclerosis in South Asians Living in America (MASALA) Study
• Development of a Food List to Assess the Diet of South Asians Living in the U.S.: Preliminary Results From a Formative Study
• Cardiovascular health assessed using Life's Essential 8 is associated with all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality among community-dwelling older men and women in the InCHIANTI study
• Cardiovascular health, measured using Life's Essential 8, is associated with reduced dementia risk among older men and women
• Association of cardiovascular health with subclinical coronary atherosclerosis progression among five racial and ethnic groups: The MASALA and MESA studies
• Social and psychosocial determinants of racial and ethnic differences in cardiovascular health: The MASALA and MESA studies
• Cardiovascular Health by Life's Essential 8 and Associations With Coronary Artery Calcium in South Asian American Adults in the MASALA Study
• Proteomic Mediators of Overall Cardiovascular Health on All-Cause Mortality

Robert Van Dam

• Associations between oral processing, saliva, and bolus properties on daily glucose excursions amongst people at risk of type-2 diabetes
• Proteomic Predictors of Incident Diabetes: Results From the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study
• Measuring social desirability bias in a multi-ethnic cohort sample: its relationship with self-reported physical activity, dietary habits, and factor structure
• Impact of Comprehensive Lifestyle Interventions on Plasma Branched-Chain Amino Acid Concentrations: A Randomized Trial
• Plasma branched-chain amino acid and cardiovascular disease risk factors: a longitudinal analysis of a lifestyle trial
• Effectiveness of an Incentives-Enhanced Stepped Care Intervention Program in Diabetes Prevention in a Multiethnic Asian Prediabetes Cohort: Results From the Pre-DICTED Randomized Controlled Trial
• Plant-based Diet Index and Risk of Pancreatic Cancer: Findings from a Prospective Cohort Study
• Coffee drinking timing and mortality in US adults
• A point-based cognitive impairment scoring system for Southeast Asian adults
• The LvL UP trial: Protocol for a sequential, multiple assignment, randomised controlled trial to assess the effectiveness of a blended mobile lifestyle intervention
• Coffee and cardiovascular disease
• Plant-based diet index and risk of hepatocellular carcinoma: Findings from a prospective cohort study
• Association between plasma polyunsaturated fatty acids and metabolic syndrome risk: A prospective and mediation study in a multiethnic Asian population
• An empirical dietary inflammatory pattern increases the incidence of the metabolic syndrome in a multi-ethnic Asian population
• Movement and dietary behaviours and mental health among university students: the Health@NUS study
• Substituting animal protein foods with plant protein foods influences vitamin B12 and folate statuses in a multiethnic Asian population
• Proteomic analysis identifies novel biological pathways that may link dietary quality to type 2 diabetes risk: evidence from African American and Asian cohorts
• Plasma Proteomic Signatures of Adiposity Are Associated With Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Type 2 Diabetes Risk in a Multiethnic Asian Population
• Circulating Proteomic Profiles Are Associated With Incident Type 2 Diabetes in Asian Populations
• Diet, physical activity, and sleep in relation to postprandial glucose responses under free-living conditions: an intensive longitudinal observational study
• Characterising the extent and nature of digital food and beverage marketing in Singapore: a descriptive study
• Development of a Diabetes Dietary Quality Index: Reproducibility and Associations with Measures of Insulin Resistance, Beta Cell Function, and Hyperglycemia
• Worldwide trends in diabetes prevalence and treatment from 1990 to 2022: a pooled analysis of 1108 population-representative studies with 141 million participants
• Volatility, correlation and risk spillover effect between freight rates in BCI and BPI markets: Evidence from static and dynamic GARCH-Copula and dynamic CoVaR models
• The LvL UP trial: Protocol for a sequential, multiple assignment, randomised controlled trial to assess the effectiveness of a blended mobile lifestyle intervention. Contemp Clin Trials.
• Genetic drivers of heterogeneity in type 2 diabetes pathophysiology
• Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022: a pooled analysis of 3663 population-representative studies with 222 million children, adolescents, and adults
• Ecological momentary assessment of digital food and beverage marketing exposure and impact in young adults: A feasibility study
• Dietary Patterns and Cardiovascular Diseases in Asia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
• Rationale, Design, and Baseline Characteristics of Participants in the Health@NUS mHealth Augmented Cohort Study Examining Student-to-Work Life Transition: Protocol for a Prospective Cohort Study
• Meat consumption and incident type 2 diabetes: an individual-participant federated meta-analysis of 1·97 million adults with 100 000 incident cases from 31 cohorts in 20 countries
• General and abdominal adiposity and hypertension in eight world regions: a pooled analysis of 837 population-based studies with 7·5 million participants
• Coffee Consumption and Incidence of Cardiovascular and Microvascular Diseases in Never-Smoking Adults with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
• Device-Measured Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior in Relation to Cardiovascular Diseases and All-Cause Mortality: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Prospective Cohort Studies
• Association of diet quality with hand grip strength weakness and asymmetry in a multi-ethnic Asian cohort
• Gene-educational attainment interactions in a multi-population genome-wide meta-analysis identify novel lipid loci
• Effectiveness of holistic mobile health interventions on diet, and physical, and mental health outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis
• Development and validation of a lifestyle risk index to screen for metabolic syndrome and its components in two multi-ethnic cohorts
• Genome-Wide Interaction Analysis With DASH Diet Score Identified Novel Loci for Systolic Blood Pressure
• Acculturation as a Determinant of Obesity and Related Lifestyle Behaviors in a Multi-Ethnic Asian Population
• Risk prediction models for type 2 diabetes using either fasting plasma glucose or HbA1c in Chinese, Malay, and Indians: Results from three multi-ethnic Singapore cohorts
• Differences in type 2 diabetes risk between East, South, and Southeast Asians living in Singapore: the multi-ethnic cohort
• Effects of dietary quality, physical activity and weight loss on glucose homeostasis in persons with and without prediabetes in the PREMIER trial
• Development of "LvL UP 1.0": a smartphone-based, conversational agent-delivered holistic lifestyle intervention for the prevention of non-communicable diseases and common mental disorders
• Association between nutrition and cognition in a multi-ethnic cohort from Singapore
• Diminishing benefits of urban living for children and adolescents' growth and development
• An atlas of genetic scores to predict multi-omic traits
• Isocaloric Substitution of Plant-Based Protein for Animal-Based Protein and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in a Multiethnic Asian Population