December 2023 FXB Newsletter
Our December 2023 newsletter marked the 75th year since the UN General Assembly approved the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10, 1948, thenceforth marked as Human Rights Day. FXB Director, Mary Bassett, and Director of Research, Jacqueline Bhabha, reflect on this occasion. The newsletter also provides an update on recent writings and publications and an overview of open application calls for our summer programs, doctoral and post-doctoral fellowships, and recordings of past events. Read it here and sign up to subscribe here.
September 2023 FXB Center Newsletter
Our September 2023 newsletter welcomes everyone back after the summer break, introduces new members of the FXB community, and serves as an overview of recent work and activity as FXB celebrates 30 years, from the completion of our intensive summer courses on migration and refugee studies in Greece and social medicine in Palestine, to the publication of the FXB-IOM report on child trafficking and awards received by members of our team for their outstanding work. Read it here and sign up to subscribe here.
April 2023 FXB Center Newsletter
Our April 2023 newsletter provides an update on various upcoming events, including the 11th annual Roma Conference marking International Roma Day, and an overview of recent press and publications. It also highlights new members of the FXB team and student cohort and the accomplishments by FXB affiliates and fellows. Read it here and sign up to subscribe here.
FXB Center Writing in Other Publications
December
Predicting poor mental health amongst older Syrian refugees in Lebanon during the COVID-19 pandemic: a multi-wave longitudinal study, medRxiv 2023, December 26
Sawsan Abdulrahim (Co-Author)
Examining structural racism as the fundamental cause of health inequities among the Indigenous Māori, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Island peoples in the U.S. and Aotearoa New Zealand: Perspectives from key informant community leaders, SSM – Qualitative Research in Health, December 14 (online)
Jake Ryann C. Sumibcay (Author)
Epigenetic aging & embodying injustice: US My Body My Story and Multi-Ethnic Atherosclerosis Study, medRxiv, December 14
Nancy Krieger (Co-Author)
Making a Movement: The History and Future of Human Rights, Carr Center Human Rights for Policy, December 11
Natalia Linos (Contributor)
Characteristics of employment history and self-perceived barriers to healthcare access, European Journal of Public Health, December 9
Ichiro Kawachi (Co-Author)
An epigenome-wide analysis of DNA methylation, racialized and economic inequities, and air pollution, bioRxiv [Preprint], December 8
Nancy Krieger (Co-Author)
Slavery and the Journal — Reckoning with History and Complicity, The New England Journal of Medicine, December 7
Evelynn Hammonds (Co-Author)
The climate and health crisis: Heeding our responsibility in medical education research, Medical Education, December 7
Gaurab Basu (Co-Author)
A luta continua: the struggle for health continues, The Lancet, December 2
Mary T. Bassett (Author)
Racial and Ethnic Differences in Self-Reported COVID-19 Exposure Risks, Concerns, and Behaviors Among Diverse Participants in the Women’s Health Initiative Study, J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci, December 1
Monik C. Jiménez (Co-Author)
Excess mortality in U.S. prisons during the COVID-19 pandemic, Science Advances, December 1
Monik C. Jiménez (Co-Author)
November
Defining high confidence targets of differential CpG methylation in response to in utero arsenic exposure and implications for cancer risk, Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, November 27
Tabitha Lumour-Mensah (Co-Author)
Factors predicting different times for brushing teeth during the day: multilevel analyses, BMC Oral Health, November 24
Ichiro Kawachi (Co-Author)
Socioeconomic disparities in mammography screening in the United States from 2012 to 2020, Social Science & Medicine, November 23
Ichiro Kawachi (Co-Author)
Quantitative approaches to measuring structural cisgenderism, Social Science & Medicine, November 19
Dougie Zubizarreta, Mai-Han Trinh (Co-Authors)
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Childhood Lead Testing and Blood Lead Levels, Academic Pediatrics, November 15
Joseph Wilson (Co-Author)
State-level economic uncertainty and cardiovascular disease deaths: evidence from the United States, European Journal of Epidemiology, November 15
Ichiro Kawachi (Co-Author)
Instrumental Variable Analysis of Racial Discrimination and Blood Pressure in a Sample of Young Adults, American Journal of Epidemiology, November 10
Jourdyn Lawrence, Ichiro Kawachi, Mary T. Bassett (C0-Authors)
Portland’s Response to the Western North American Heatwave: A Brief Report, Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, November 3
Caleb Dresser (Co-Author)
Fairness of Machine Learning Algorithms for Predicting Foregone Preventive Dental Care for Adults, JAMA Network Open, November 1
Ichiro Kawachi (Co-Author)
Racial & ethnic disparities in geographic access to critical care in the United States: A geographic information systems analysis, PLoS One, November 1
David Mills (Co-Author)
Do disasters exacerbate socioeconomic inequalities in health among older people?, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, November 2023
Ichiro Kawachi (Co-Author)
October
Editorial: Climate and health education: defining the needs of society in a changing climate, Frontiers in Public Health, October 27
Gaurab Basu (Co-Author)
A standardised differential privacy framework for epidemiological modeling with mobile phone data, PLOS Digital Health, October 27
Satchit Balsari (Co-Author)
“21: Culturally Congruent Strategies to Build the Pediatric Health Workforce,” Untangling the Thread of Racism: A Primer for Pediatric Health Professionals, Edited by Maria Trent, Danielle G. Dooley, Jacqueline Dougé, American Academy of Pediatrics, October 2023
Marie Plaisime (Co-Author)
The Effect of Family Wealth on Physical Function Among Older Adults in Mpumalanga, South Africa: A Causal Network Analysis, International Journal of Public Health, October 25
Mary T. Bassett (Co-Author)
Equitable representation of American Indians and Alaska Natives in the physician workforce will take over 100 years without systemic change, The Lancet Regional Health – Americas, October 8
Victor A. Lopez-Carmen, Rohan Khazanchi (Co-Authors)
Loss and damage responses to climate change, BMJ, October 3
Rita Issa (Co-Author)
The Vinyasa Tool for mHealth Solutions: Supporting Human-Centered Design in Nascent Digital Health Ecosystems, JMIR Formative Research, October 2
Satchit Balsari (Co-Author)
E-cigarette use behaviors of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander youth in the contiguous United States: Insights from the Monitoring the Future Study (2018–2019), Preventive Medicine Reports, October 2023
Jake Ryann Sumibcay (Co-Author)
Legislating Inequity: Structural Racism In Groups Of State Laws And Associations With Premature Mortality Rates, Health Affairs, October 2023
Jaquelyn Jahn, Dougie Zubizarreta, Alecia J. McGregor (Co-Authors)
September
Cancer Care in Afghanistan: Perspectives on Health Services Under the Taliban Regime, JCO Global Oncology, September 2023
Faramarz Jahanbeen (Co-Author)
Racial and Economic Segregation Over the Lifecourse and Incident Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy among Black Women in California, American Journal of Epidemiology, September 28
Brittney Francis (Co-Author)
Towards a bidirectional decoloniality in academic global health: insights from settler colonialism and racial capitalism, The Lancet Global Health, September 2023
Bram Wispelwey and David Mills (Co-Authors)
The 2022 to 2023 Amoxicillin Shortage and Acute Otitis Media Treatment, Pediatrics, September 2023
Rohan Khazanchi (Co-Author)
A theory of change for community-initiated mental health care in the United States, Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health, September 11
Satchit Balsari (Co-Author)
Associations between weight discrimination and the use of potentially harmful dietary supplements during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, Social Science & Medicine, September 9
Destiny A. Jackson (Co-Author)
Extramural US Federal Research Grants For Health Outcomes Associated With Climate Change Inadequate, Too Narrow In Focus, Health Affairs, September 8
Caleb Dresser (Co-Author)
August
OP104 Development and validation of a model predicting poor mental health amongst older Syrian refugees in Lebanon during the COVID-19 pandemic: a repeated cross-sectional analysis, Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, August 24
Sawsan Abdulrahim (Co-Author)
Impact of family networks on uptake of health interventions: evidence from a community-randomized control trial aimed at increasing HIV testing in South Africa, Journal of the International AIDS Society, August 20
Mary T. Bassett (Co-Author)
A conceptual understanding of the impact of interconnected forms of racism on maternal hypertension through Black Women’s lived experiences, SSM – Qualitative Research in Health, August 17
Brittney Francis and Marie Plaisime (Co-Authors)
Sociopolitical Diagnostic Tools to Understand National and Local Response Capabilities and Vulnerabilities to Epidemics and Guide Research into How to Improve the Global Response to Pathogens, Pathogens, August 8
Justin Feldman (Co-Author)
The Vinyasa Tool for mHealth solutions: supporting human-centered design in nascent digital health ecosystems, JMIR Formative Research, August 2
Abhishek Bhatia and Satchit Balsari (Co-Authors)
Beyond Defibrillation During Immersion: Case Illustrates Value of Heatstroke Treatment Protocols, Annals of Emergency Medicine Correspondence, August 2023
Caleb Dresser, Catharina Giudice (Co-Authors)
July
School closures significantly reduced arrests of black and latinx urban youth, PLoS One, July 26
Tori Cowger (Co-Author)
‘White People are the default’: A qualitative analysis of medical trainees’ perceptions of cultural competency, medical culture, and racial bias, SSM – Qualitative Research in Health, July 16
Marie Plaisime (Co-Author)
Has the COVID-19 pandemic changed the utilization and provision of essential health care services from 2019 to 2020 in the primary health care network in Lebanon? Results from a nationwide representative cross-sectional survey, PLoS One, July 13
Jennifer Leaning (Co-Author)
Because its power remains naturalized: introducing the settler colonial determinants of health, Frontiers in Public Health, July 11
Bram Wispelwey, Osama Tanous, Yara Asi, Weeam Hammoudeh, and David Mills (Co-Authors)
Instrumental Variable Analysis of Discrimination and Blood Pressure in a Sample of Young Adults, American Journal of Epidemiology, July 3
Jourdyn Lawrence and Mary T. Bassett (Co-Authors)
Impacts of Climate Change and Health Inequity: Colliding Crises, The Journal of Climate Change and Health, July 3
Kimberly Humphrey (Co-Editor)
June
Global North learning from Global South: A community-led response to mpox in New York City, PLOS Global Public Health, June 28
Keletso Makofane (Co-Author)
Building capacity of healthcare professionals and community members to address climate and health threats in the Bahamas: Analysis of a green climate fund pilot workshop, Dialogues in Health, June 17
Caleb Dresser (Co-Author)
The impact of neighborhoods and friendships on interracial anxiety among medical students and residents: A report from the medical student CHANGES study, Health Services Research, June 13
Marie Plaisime (Co-Author)
Racial and Ethnic Differences in Self-Reported COVID-19 Exposure Risks, Concerns, and Behaviors Among Diverse Participants in the Women’s Health Initiative Study, The Journals of Gerontology: Series A, June 2
Monik C. Jiménez (Co-Author)
May
Missing Americans: Early death in the United States—1933–2021, PNAS Nexus, May 29
Mary T. Bassett (Co-Author)
Disaster Medicine in a Changing Climate, Ciottone’s Disaster Medicine (Third Edition), 2024, Pages 51-57, May 29
Caleb Dresser and Satchit Balsari (Co-Authors)
Towards anti-racist policies and strategies to reduce poor health outcomes in racialised communities: introducing the O’Neill–Lancet Commission on Racism, Structural Discrimination, and Global Health, The Lancet, May 18
Margareta Matache (Co-Author)
Extending critical race, racialization, and racism literatures to the adoption, implementation, and sustainability of data equity policies and data (dis)aggregation practices in health research, Health Services Research, May 18
Jake Ryann C. Sumibcay (Co-Author)
Structural racism and the health of Palestinian citizens of Israel, Global Public Health, May 11
Osama Tanous, Yara Asi, Weeam Hammoudeh, David Mills, and Bram Wispelwey (Co-Authors)
April
Implicit and explicit racial prejudice among medical professionals: updated estimates from a population-based study, The Lancet Regional Health – Americas, April 19
Marie Plaisime (Co-Author)
Racialized Housing Discrimination and Population Health: a Scoping Review and Research Agenda, Journal of Urban Health, April 14
Brittney Francis (Co-Author)
The Hidden Costs of Unaccompanied Child Migration, The International Journal of Children’s Rights, April 7
Vasileia Digidiki and Jacqueline Bhabha (Authors)
Wildfire Threat to Inpatient Health Care Facilities in California, 2022, American Journal of Public Health, April 5
Caleb Dresser and Satchit Balsari (Co-Authors)
Racism-Conscious Praxis: A Framework to Materialize Anti-Oppression in Medicine, Public Health, and Health Policy, The American Journal of Bioethics, April 3
Rohan Khazanchi (Co-Author)
March
BOOK REVIEW Health Rights for All: The Imperative of Including All Migrants, Health and Human Rights Journal, March 30
Jacqueline Bhabha
Black women in medicine in the USA: telling their stories, The Lancet, March 25
Mary T. Bassett
Bringing together climate-conscious health professionals – Creation of Climate and Health 2023, The Journal of Climate Change and Health, May-June 2023
Kimberly Humphrey (Co-Author)
Medical Algorithms Lack Compassion: How Race-Based Medicine Impacted the Rights of Incarcerated Individuals Seeking Compassionate Release During COVID-19, Stanford Technology Law Review, March 11
Rohan Khazanchi (Co-Author)
Geographically skewed recruitment and COVID-19 seroprevalence estimates: a cross-sectional serosurveillance study and mathematical modelling analysis, BMJ Open, March 7
Abhishek Bhatia, Satchit Balsari (Co-Authors)
“You, as of Now, Are Someone Else!”: Minoritization, Settler Colonialism, and Indigenous Health, Journal of Palestine Studies, March 2
Osama Tanous (Author)
February
Fairness and efficiency considerations in COVID-19 vaccine allocation strategies: A case study comparing front-line workers and 65–74 year olds in the United States, PLOS Global Public Health, February 6
Justin Feldman, Mary Bassett (Co-Authors)
January
Undiagnosed and Undertreated: The Suffocating Consequences of Racially-Biased Medical Devices During the COVID-19 Pandemic, American Journal of Epidemiology, January 25
Marie V. Plaisime
CrisisReady’s novel framework for transdisciplinary translation: Case-studies in wildfire and hurricane response, The Journal of Climate Change and Health, January – February 2023
Caleb Dresser and Satchit Balsari (Co-Authors)
Designing digital health applications for climate change mitigation and adaptation, The Medical Journal of Australia, January 10
Kimberly Humphrey (Co-Author)
Associations between punitive policies and legal barriers to consensual same-sex sexual acts and HIV among gay men and other men who have sex with men in sub-Saharan Africa: a multicountry, respondent-driven sampling survey, The Lancet HIV, January 6
Keletso Makofane (Co-Author)