2024 PUBLICATIONS
Our December 2024 newsletter discussed FXB updates and activities spanning both the summer and the fall 2024 semester. Among them, was latest report by the Roma Program for Health and Humans Rights on confronting major and everyday discrimination experienced by the Romani community in Canada’s greater Toronto-Hamilton area, an op-ed series resulting from the 2024 intensive summer course on migration and refugee studies in Greece, and a study on damage inflicted on hospitals in the Gaza Strip from October 7 to November 17, 2023. Read it here and sign up to subscribe here.
Our June 2024 newsletter marked the end of the 2023-2024 academic year with reflections by FXB Director, Mary Bassett, MD, MPH, and Director of Research, Jacqueline Bhabha, JD, MSc. This newsletter serves as an overview of recent FXB activity, including three newly-published reports, and includes links to virtual events since December 2023 as well as an announcement regarding the Health and Human Rights Journal’s June 2024 issue which commemorates the Journal’s 30th anniversary. Read it here and sign up to subscribe here.
FXB Center writing in other publications
December
A Graduate Medical Education Fellowship in Climate Change and Human Health: Experience and Outcomes From the First 5 Years, Journal of Graduate Medical Education, December 2024
Caleb Dresser, Tess Wiskel, Catharina Giudice, Kimberly Humphrey, Satchit Balsari (Co-Authors)
Identifying Settler Colonial Determinants of Indigenous Health Within the United States: A Discursive Paper, Public Health Nursing, December 31
Bram Wispelwey (Co-Author)
Ichiro Kawachi (Co-Author)
Uncertainty and Mental Health: A Qualitative Scoping Review, SSM – Qualitative Research in Health, December 30
Weeam Hammoudeh (Co-Author)
Dental Clinic Deserts in the US: Spatial Accessibility Analysis, JAMA Network Open, December 23
Ichiro Kawachi (Co-Author)
Alecia McGregor (Co-Author)
Culture as a Social Determinant of Health, Psychological Science in the Public Interest, December 19
Ichiro Kawachi (Co-Author)
From Theory to Action: Evaluation of a Longitudinal Project-Based Antiracism Course for Post-Graduate Physicians, Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development, December 11
Gaurab Basu (Co-Author)
Politicians, power, and the people’s health: US elections and state health outcomes, 2012–2024, Health Affairs Scholar, Volume 2, Issue 12, December 10
Nancy Krieger, Soroush Moallef, Ruchita Balasubramanian, Tori L. Cowger, Alecia J. McGregor, Mary T. Bassett (Co-Authors)
US health in historical context, The Lancet, December 7
Mary T. Bassett (Author)
Adapting and deploying a digital program for training non-specialist providers on a brief psychological intervention for depression in rural Gujarat, India, PLOS Global Public Health, December 5
Satchit Balsari (Co-Author)
Obstetric Care Access at Rural and Urban Hospitals in the United States, JAMA, December 4
Alecia McGregor (Co-Author)
Complex Multimorbidity and Trajectories of Functional Disabilities in the Last Three Years of Life: A Prospective Cohort Study of Older Adults in Japan, Journal of Applied Gerontology, December 4
Ichiro Kawachi (Co-Author)
Long-Term Trajectories of Cognitive Disability Among Older Adults Following a Major Disaster, JAMA Network Open, December 2
Ichiro Kawachi (Co-Author)
Racial discrimination and cognitive function: An instrumental variable analysis, Social Science & Medicine, December 2024
Jourdyn A. Lawrence, Ichiro Kawachi (Co-Authors)
Hidden in plain sight: Women and gendered dementia dynamics in the Australian Aged Care Royal Commission, Journal of Aging Studies, December 2024
Linda Steele (Co-Author)
November
Reparations for African Enslavement in the U.S. and Black Survival Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, American Journal of Epidemiology, November 29
Jourdyn A. Lawrence, Jaquelyn L. Jahn, Justin M. Feldman, Natalia Linos, Mary T. Bassett (Co-Authors)
‘The Compensation Is Changing the Future’: A Reparative Approach to Redressing Human Rights Violations Experienced by People Living with Dementia in Long Term Care, University of Oxford Human Rights Hub J. 1 , 2024
Linda Steele (Co-Author)
Israeli Attacks on Healthcare: The New Norm, Also in the West Bank, Institute of Palestine Studies, November 24
Osama Tanous (Co-Author)
Dental Coverage and Care When Transitioning From Medicaid to Medicare, JAMA Health Forum, November 22
Ichiro Kawachi (Co-Author)
Neonatal Mortality Rates With and Without a Minimum Threshold, JAMA Network Open, November 22
Ichiro Kawachi (Co-Author)
Frontline clinic perspectives on climate change, human health, and resilience: a national cross-sectional survey, BMC Primary Care, November 22
Tess Wiskel, Caleb Dresser (Co-Authors)
UNRWA’s work is at risk again, The Lancet, November 20
Yara M. Asi (Co-Author)
Taiso practice and risk of functional disability and dementia among older adults in Japan: the JAGES cohort study, SSM – Population Health, November 19
Ichiro Kawachi (Co-Author)
Nature’s New Frontier: Adapting Wilderness Medicine to a Changing Climate, Wilderness & Environmental Medicine, November 19
Caleb Dresser (Co-Author)
Section 1557 Rule Mandates Identification And Mitigation Of Discriminatory Clinical Algorithms, Health Affairs, November 14
Rohan Khazanchi (Co-Author)
Cannabis Policy Impacts Public Health and Health Equity, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine – Committee on the Public Health Consequences of Changes in the Cannabis Policy Landscape, November 14
Mary T. Bassett, Jasmin Graves cited (Uprooting Institutionalized Racism as Public Health Practice)
Associations between community social capital and posttraumatic growth among older survivors 11 years after a natural disaster, American Journal of Epidemiology, November 12
Ichiro Kawachi (Co-Author)
Carceral Systems and Mental Health Crises—Health Care, Not Handcuffs, JAMA Network Open, November 11
Rohan Khazanchi (Co-Author)
Resilience factors affecting long-term trajectories of depressive symptoms in the aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami among older adults, The Journals of Gerontology, November 9
Ichiro Kawachi (Co-Author)
Associations of objective and subjective relative deprivation with health, happiness, and life satisfaction, SSM – Population Health, November 9
Ichiro Kawachi (Co-Author)
Access to maternity care: challenges and solutions for improving equity across US communities, Obstetrics and Gynecology, November 5
Alecia McGregor (Co-Author)
Pre-disaster income inequality and post-disaster mental health: A natural experiment from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, Health & Place Vol. 90, November 2024
Ichiro Kawachi (Co-Author)
October
Talking About Incarceration History: Engaging Patients and Healthcare Providers in Communication, Journal of General Internal Medicine, October 31
Monik C. Botero (Co-Author)
“Communicating for well-being: Overlapping principles in peace and health communication.” Connaughton, S.L., & Pukallus, S. (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Conflict and Peace Communication (1st ed.). Routledge, October 28, 2024
Yara M. Asi (Chapter Author)
Child Health Policy With Science: The JAMA Pediatrics Health and the 2024 US Election Theme, JAMA Pediatrics, October 21
Rohan Khazanchi (Reference Article Co-Author)
Monik C. Botero (Co-Author)
“Dorothy Roberts.” In Jipguep-Akhtar, M.-C., & Khan, N.M. (Eds.)., Fifty Key Scholars in Black Social Thought (1st ed.). Routledge. Fifty Key Scholars in Black Social Thought. Routledge, October 14, 2024
Marie V. Plaisime (Chapter Author)
Dennis Kunichoff, David Mills ,Yara Asi, Sawsan Abdulrahim, Bram Wispelwey, Osama Tanous, Weeam Hammoudeh, Nadine Bahour, Mary T. Basset (Co-Authors)
Analyzing structural racism and its health impacts: it’s about time, American Journal of Epidemiology, October 4
Nancy Krieger (Author)
Public Health Monitoring: An Active Phrase for Vigilance, Warning, Guidance, and Accountability, American Journal of Epidemiology, October 2
Nancy Krieger (Author)
Punitive state policies targeting alcohol use during pregnancy and alcohol consumption among pregnant women, Scientific Reports, October 1
Ichiro Kawachi (Co-Author)
Addressing the Health Impacts of Racism on Children and Youth: Equity Until Equality, Academic Pediatrics, September-October 2024
Marie V. Plaisime (Co-Author)
September
Climate Change and Human Health, PLOS Climate and PLOS Global Public collection, September 30
Gaurab Basu, Rita Issa (Reference Article Co-Authors)
Racial Residential Segregation, Redlining, and Health, JAMA Internal Medicine, September 30
Mary T. Bassett (Author)
A triple trust penalty? The majority-minority gap in subjective wellbeing, Social Science & Medicine, September 29
Ichiro Kawachi (Co-Author)
“Work stress and health.” In N. Schneiderman, T. W. Smith, N. B. Anderson, M. H. Antoni, F. J. Penedo, T. A. Revenson, & A. F. Abraído-Lanza (Eds.), APA handbook of health psychology, Vol. 1. Foundations and context of health psychology (pp. 611–637). American Psychological Association, 2025.
Ichiro Kawachi (Chapter Co-Author)
Building decolonial nursing curricula to address disparities in Indigenous women’s maternal health, Nursing Outlook, November-December 2024
Bram Wispelwey (Co-Author)
The humanitarian system: politics can not be avoided, The Lancet, September 2024
Yara M. Asi (Co-Author)
Management of Amphetamine and Methamphetamine Use Disorders: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-analysis of Randomized Trials, International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, September 20
Soroush Moallef (Co-Author)
Social Medicine Education towards Structural Transformation in Palestine, Social Science & Medicine, September 18
David Mills, Bram Wispelwey, Yara M. Asi, Osama Tanous, Weeam Hammoudeh (Co-Authors)
Prolonged Boarding and Racial Discrimination and Dissatisfaction Among Emergency Department Patients, JAMA Network Open, September 16
Marie Plaisime, Bram Wispelwey (Co-Authors)
Adaptation and psychometric assessment of a sexual and reproductive empowerment scale in Arabic among refugee and non-refugee adolescent girls, BMC Medical Research Methodology, September 12
Sawsan Abdulrahim (Co-Author)
Racial inequities in cesarean use among high- and low-risk deliveries: An analysis of childbirth hospitalizations in New Jersey from 2000 to 2015, Health Services Research, September 7
Alecia J. McGregor (Co-Author)
Job strain and adverse pregnancy outcomes: A scoping review and meta-analysis, American Journal of Industrial Medicine, September 5
Ichiro Kawachi (Co-Author)
August
Unbearable suffering: mental health consequences of the October 2023 Israeli military assault on the Gaza Strip, BMJ Global Health, August 2024
Weeam Hammoudeh (Co-Author)
Associations of Major Lifetime and Everyday Discrimination with Cognitive Function among Middle-Aged and Older Adults, Ethnicity and Disease, August 2024
David R. Williams (Co-Author)
Methodological Approaches to Structural Change: Epidemiology and the Case for Reparations, American Journal of Epidemiology, August 31
Jourdyn A. Lawrence, Jaquelyn L. Jahn, Justin M. Feldman, Mary T. Bassett (Co-Authors)
David R. Williams (Co-Author)
Gerrymandering and the Packing and Cracking of Medical Uninsurance Rates in the United States, Journal of Public Health Management & Practice, August 22
Nancy Krieger (Co-Author)
Theorizing epidemiology, the stories bodies tell, and embodied truths: a status update on contending 21st c CE epidemiological theories of disease distribution, International Journal of Social Determinants of Health and Health Services, August 16
Nancy Krieger (Author)
Navigating the Labyrinth of Pregnancy-Related Coverage for Undocumented Immigrants: An Assessment of Current State and Federal Policies, American Journal of Public Health, August 15
Margaret M. Sullivan (Co-Author)
Implementation of Neighborhood-Level Wastewater-Based Epidemiology to Measure and Mitigate Inequities in SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Boston, Massachusetts, American Journal of Public Health, August 8
Tori L. Cowger (Co-Author)
Rethinking and advancing the movement of resistance, activism, and advocacy in health in four central arenas of the Middle East Region, World Medical & Health Policy, 2024
Yara M. Asi (Co-Author)
Evelynn Hammonds (Co-Author)
Child Migrants in Family Detention in the US: Addressing Fragmented Care, Children, August 5
Vasileia Digidiki, Dennis Kunichoff (Co-Authors)
Assessing the Universality of Universal Health Coverage: Israel and the Occupation of Palestine, Palestine/Israel Review, August 2
Yara M. Asi (Co-Author)
Pet Attachment and Anxiety and Depression in Middle-Aged and Older Women, JAMA Network Open, August 1
Ichiro Kawachi (Co-Author)
July
Epigenetic Aging and Racialized, Economic, and Environmental Injustice: NIMHD Social Epigenomics Program, JAMA Network Open, July 29
Nancy Krieger (Co-Author)
Public health and gun violence, The Lancet, July 27
Mary T. Bassett (Author)
Trends in resource allocation for primary health care in rural China: Concentration curve and decomposition analysis, The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, July 25
Ichiro Kawachi (Co-Author)
Spatial Accessibility and Uptake of Pediatric COVID-19 Vaccinations by Social Vulnerability, American Academy of Pediatrics, July 19
Rohan Khazanchi (Co-Author)
Multiple chronic diseases and psychological distress among adults in the United States: the intersectionality of chronic diseases, race/ethnicity, immigration, sex, and insurance coverage, Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, July 17
David R. Williams (Co-Author)
Race as a Risk Marker, Not a Risk Factor: Revising Race-Based Algorithms to Protect Racially Oppressed Patients, Journal of General Internal Medicine, July 9
Marie V. Plaisime (Co-Author)
Assessing the Quality of Cause-of-Death Reporting Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic, American Journal of Epidemiology, July 4
Ichiro Kawachi (Co-Author)
Ichiro Kawachi (Co-Author)
June
Psychological and Social Suffering of Another Generation of Palestinian Children Living under Occupation: An Urgent Call to Advocate, Health and Human Rights Journal, June 2024
Sawsan Abdulrahim (Co-Author)
Racism, Medicine, and NEJM since 1812 — The Historical Roots of Injustice in Medicine, Symposium, The New England Journal of Medicine, June 26
Evelynn Hammonds (Co-Author)
Ichiro Kawachi (Co-Author)
Racism as a Threat to Palestinian Health Equity, Health Equity, Accepted April 10
Yara M. Asi, Bram Wispelwey, A. Kayum Ahmed (Co-Authors)
Relations of optimism and purpose in life to immune markers in aging, Journal of Psychosomatic Research, June 22
David R. Williams (Co-Author)
Health related quality of life amongst refugees: a meta analysis of studies using the SF-36, Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 21 June
Rita Issa (Co-Author)
Left ventricular ejection fraction: time to revise the metric?, Postgraduate Medical Journal, 2024, June 20
Ichiro Kawachi (Co-Author)
David R. Williams (Co-Author)
The Locations of Palestine and the U.S. in the Global Map of Homelessness: Part 1, International Journal of Social Determinants of Health and Health Services, June 14
Osama Tanous (Co-Author)
The Locations of Palestine and the U.S. in the Global Map of Homelessness: Part 2, International Journal of Social Determinants of Health and Health Services, June 11
Osama Tanous (Co-Author)
Rohan Khazanchi (Co-Author)
Simplifying Oral health evaluation: a novel approach through single-item surveys, BMC Oral Health, June 7
Ichiro Kawachi (Co-Author)
Experience of Discrimination and Oral Health Self-Perception: A Cross-Sectional Study among Brazilian Adults, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, June 6
Ichiro Kawachi (Co-Author)
Discrimination in Medical Settings across Populations: Evidence from the All of Us Research Program, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, June 4
David R. Williams (Co-Author)
Advancing gender transformative intersectional science for health justice: An ecosocial analysis, Social Science & Medicine, June 2024
Nancy Krieger (Co-Author)
May
Gaurab Basu (Co-Author)
M. Rashad Massoud (Co-Author)
Preterm and Early-Term Birth, Heat Waves, and Our Changing Climate, JAMA Network Open, May 24
Caleb Dresser (Co-Author)
Neighbourhood-level policing as a racialised gendered stressor: multilevel analysis of police stops and preterm birth in Seattle, Washington, Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, May 23
Jaquelyn Jahn (Co-Author)
Tess Kelly (Co-Author)
Evaluating Firearm Violence After New Jersey’s Cash Bail Reform, JAMA Network Open, May 22
Jaquelyn Jahn (Co-Author)
Response to “Letter re: Benchmarking social isolation, loneliness and smoking: challenges and opportunities for public health.”, American Journal of Epidemiology, May 22
Ichiro Kawachi (Co-Author)
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Mortality, JAMA Network Open, May 21
Jake Ryann C. Sumibcay, Dennis Kunichoff, Mary T. Bassett (Co-Authors)
Justin Feldman (Co-Author)
Implications of Race Adjustment in Lung-Function Equations, The New England Journal of Medicine, May 19
Rohan Khazanchi (Co-Author)
Jaquelyn Jahn (Co-Author)
Civilian mortality and damage to medical facilities in Gaza, BMJ Global Health, Accepted January 2
Bram Wispelwey, David Mills, Yara M. Asi, Weeam Hammoudeh, Dennis Kunichoff, A. Kayum Ahmed (Co-Authors)
Who is the Subject of Trauma? An Interdisciplinary Scoping Review of Trauma and Selfhood in the Arab Region, SSM – Mental Health, May 10
Osama Tanous (Co-Author)
Rohan Khazanchi (Co-Author)
What it means to abandon race in science?, Experimental Physiology, May 3
Evelynn M. Hammonds (Co-Author)
The association between economic uncertainty and suicide in Japan by age, sex, employment status, and population density: an observational study, The Lancet Regional Health West Pacific, May 2
Ichiro Kawachi (Co-Author)
Socioeconomic Status Transition Throughout Life and Risk of Dementia, JAMA Network Open, May 1
Ichiro Kawachi (Co-Author)
Diversity within epidemiology training programs and the public health workforce, Annals of Epidemiology, May 2024
Jaquelyn Jahn (Co-Author)
April
Artificial intelligence in medicine: A primer and recommendation, Journal of Hospital Medicine, April 19
Satchit Balsari (Co-Author)
Sawsan Abdulrahim (Co-Author)
Sustainability is critical for future proofing the NHS, BMJ, April 11
Rita Issa (Co-Author)
Sawsan Abdulrahim (Co-Author)
Years of life lost due to insufficient sleep and associated economic burden in China from 2010–18, Journal of Global Health, April 5
Ichiro Kawachi (Co-Author)
Who are the “police” in “police violence”? Fatal violence by U.S. law enforcement agencies across levels of government, Injury Epidemiology, April 4
Jaquelyn Jahn (Co-Author)
Proceedings from the Inaugural Climate and Health Conference, October 21-22, 2023, The Journal of Climate Change and Health, April 3
Caleb Dresser, Kimberly Humphrey (Co-Author)
Yara Asi, David Mills, Dennis Kunichoff, Sawsan Abdulrahim, Nadine Bahour, A. Kayum Ahmed, Bram Wispelwey, Weeam Hammoudeh (Co-Authors)
March
Structural Racism-Related State Laws and Healthcare Access Among Black, Latine, and White U.S. Adults, Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, March 28
Dougie Zubizarreta, Jaquelyn Jahn (Co-Authors)
Neighborhood eviction trajectories and odds of moderate and serious psychological distress during pregnancy among African American women, American Journal of Epidemiology, March 22
Brittney Francis (Co-Author)
Mary T. Bassett (Co-Author)
Catharina Giudice (Co-Author)
Pregnancy Care Utilization, Experiences, and Outcomes Among Undocumented Immigrants in the United States: A Scoping Review, Women’s Health Issues, March 16
Margaret Sullivan (Co-Author)
Monik C. Jiménez (Co-Author)
Weeam Hammoudeh (Co-Author)
The PhenX Toolkit: Recommended Measurement Protocols for Social Determinants of Health Research, Current Protocols, March 5
Monik C. Jiménez (Co-Author)
Weeam Hammoudeh (Co-Author)
Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust. Ari Joskowicz, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, March 1
Margareta Matache (Author)
February
“27: Garbage In, Garbage Out: Examining How Maternal Health Data Tools Misuse Race,” The Practical Playbook III: Working Together to Improve Maternal Health, Edited by Dorothy Cilenti, Alisahah Jackson, Natalie D. Hernandez, Lindsey Yates, Sarah Verbiest, J. Lloyd Michener, and Brian C. Castrucci, Oxford University Press, 2024
Marie V. Plaisime (Chapter Author)
Building Climate Change into Medical Education: A Society of General Internal Medicine Position Statement, Journal of General Internal Medicine, February 29
Gaurab Basu (Co-Author)
Health Care Access and Use Among U.S. Children Exposed to Neighborhood Violence, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, February 26
Rohan Khazanchi (Co-Author)
Lara Z. Jirmanus (Co-Author)
1965 US Voting Rights Act Impact on Black and Black Versus White Infant Death Rates in Jim Crow States, 1959-1980 and 2017-2021, American Journal of Public Health, February 21
Nancy Krieger (Co-Author)
A PLAN for Race-Conscious Medicine in Pediatrics, Pediatrics, February 21
Marie V. Plaisime (Co-Author)
The right to social and medical assistance. In S. Angeleri, K. Casla, & S. van Drooghenbroeck (Eds.), The European Social Charter: a commentary. Vol. 3: Articles 11-19, 2024
Stefano Angeleri (Chapter Author)
Standing up for the people’s health: the rainbow approach to fighting for health justice, Journal of Public Health Policy, February 8
Nancy Krieger (Co-Author)
Impact of COVID-19 on Florida family dependency drug courts, Health & Justice, February 8
Yara Asi (Co-Author)
Justin Feldman, Mary T. Bassett (Co-Authors)
Explaining Health Inequities — The Enduring Legacy of Historical Biases, The New England Journal of Medicine, February 1
Evelynn M. Hammonds, David R. Williams (Co-Authors)
Organized abandonment under racial capitalism: Measuring accountable actors of structural racism for public health research and action, Social Science & Medicine, February 2024
Jaquelyn Jahn (Co-Author)
January
Health Professionals Organizing for Climate Action: A Novel Community Organizing Fellowship, Academic Medicine, January 17
Gaurab Basu, Pedja Stojicic (Co-Authors)
Predicting COVID-19 Infection Among Older Syrian Refugees in Lebanon: A Multi-Wave Survey, medRxiv 2024, January 17
Sawsan Abdulrahim (Co-Author)
Caleb Dresser (Co-Author)
Toward a Climate-Ready Health Care System: Institutional Motivators and Workforce Engagement, The Milbank Quarterly, January 16
Caleb Dresser (Co-Author)
A discussion on the use of race in biomedical fields, PNAS, January 10
Evelynn M. Hammonds (Co-Author)
Using Critical Pedagogy to Advance Antiracism in Health Professions Education, AMA Journal of Ethics, January 1
Rohan Khazanchi (Co-Author)
Collateral Health Effects of Loneliness Care in Japan, Health Services Research and Managerial Epidemiology, 2024
Ichiro Kawachi (Co-Author)