A5058394639- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Cervical Cancer and HPV Research
- Media Influence and Health
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Global Cancer Incidence and Screening
- Public Health Policies and Education
- Hepatitis B Virus Studies
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media
- Community Health and Development
- Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
- Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Risk Perception and Management
- Neonatal Respiratory Health Research
- Focus Groups and Qualitative Methods
- Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery
- Geographic Information Systems Studies
- Genomics and Rare Diseases
- Public Relations and Crisis Communication
University of California, Irvine
2015-2025
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
2023
Samueli Institute
2022
UC Irvine Health
2017-2021
Irvine Valley College
2019
Pennsylvania State University
2007-2014
University of California, Los Angeles
2007-2013
Mayo Clinic in Florida
2004
King's College London
1999
Case Western Reserve University
1996
The aims of this systematic literature review are to estimate termination rates after prenatal diagnosis one five conditions: Down syndrome, spina bifida, anencephaly, and Turner Klinefelter syndromes, determine the extent which vary across conditions with year publication. Papers were included if they reported (i) numbers prenatally diagnosed that terminated, (ii) at least cases specified conditions, (iii) published between 1980 1998. 20 papers found met inclusion criteria. Termination...
Abstract Lack of trust in biomedical research, government, and health care systems, especially among racial/ethnic minorities under-resourced communities, is a longstanding issue rooted social injustice. The COVID-19 pandemic has further highlighted existing socioeconomic inequities increased the urgency for solutions to provide access timely, culturally, linguistically appropriate evidence-based information about COVID-19; ultimately promote vaccine uptake. California’s statewide alliance...
Drawing on 38 in-depth qualitative interviews with college women and health clinicians, we collected human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine decision narratives to identify the implicit explicit values underlying HPV making. Narratives of acceptance resistance were identified. Vaccine consisted four themes: supportive family messages, care provider endorsement, peer descriptive norms reducing stigma vaccination, disease framing (e.g., cancer, HPV) shaping benefit perceptions. five skepticism...
Familial idiopathic basal ganglia calcification (IBGC, Fahr disease) is an inherited neurologic condition characterized by and extra-basal brain calcifications, parkinsonism, neuropsychiatric symptoms. The authors examined six families for linkage to the previously identified genetic locus (IBGC1) located on chromosome 14q. found evidence against IBGC1 in five of supporting previous preliminary studies demonstrating heterogeneity familial IBGC.
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a misinformation avalanche on social media, which produced confusion and insecurity in netizens. Learning how automatically recognize adoption or rejection of about enables the understanding effects exposure threats it presents. By casting problem recognizing as stance classification, we have designed neural language processing system operating micro-blogs takes advantage Graph Attention Networks relying lexical, emotion, semantic knowledge discern each...
Twitter represents a mainstream news source for the American public, offering valuable vehicle learning how citizens make sense of pandemic health threats like Covid-19. Masking as risk mitigation measure became controversial in US. The social amplification framework offers insight into event interacts with psychological, social, institutional, and cultural communication processes to shape Covid-19 perception.
Abstract Climate communication scientists search for effective message strategies to engage the ambivalent public in support of climate advocacy. The personal experience wildfire is expected render change impacts more concretely, pointing a potential strategy public. This study examined Twitter discourse related during onset 20 wildfires California between years 2017 and 2021. In this mixed method study, we analyzed tweets geographically temporally proximal occurrence discover framings how...
Human papillomavirus (HPV) infections can cause cancers of the cervix, vagina, vulva, penis, anus, and oropharynx. The most recently approved HPV vaccine, Gardasil-9, protects against infection prevent HPV-associated invasive cancers. However, Gardasil-9 is one underused vaccines in US today. Young adults are at risk for infection, but many not vaccinated. This study uses a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to test an innovative multilevel intervention increase vaccination rates among young...
Abstract Families in unincorporated communities Southern California’s Eastern Coachella Valley (ECV) increasingly experience the burden of repeat wildfires and smoke. This study describes their lived wildfire smoke experiences, health impacts, unique community-level inequities that compound risk air quality effects, communication preferences, resource needs for future preparedness. A community vulnerability framework informed focus group discussion guide, exploring individual, community,...
Public sentiment toward the COVID-19 vaccine as expressed on social media can interfere with communication by public health agencies importance of getting vaccinated. We investigated Twitter data to understand differences in sentiment, moral values, and language use between political ideologies vaccine. estimated ideology, conducted a analysis, guided tenets foundations theory (MFT), we analyzed 262,267 English tweets from United States containing vaccine-related keywords May 2020 October...
This paper addresses a key problem in the development of visual‐analytical collaborative tools, how to design map‐based displays enable productive group work. We introduce communication theory, Collective Information Sharing (CIS) bias, and discuss it relates communicative goals that need be considered when designing collaborative, visually enabled, spatial‐decision‐support tools. The CIS bias framework suggests for developing such tools should be: (a) harnessing group's collective knowledge...
Disparities in cervical cancer and human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination persist among Vietnamese Latina women. Through a partnership with Planned Parenthood of Orange San Bernardino Counties (PPOSBC) Southern California, we conducted in-depth interviews young adult ( n = 24) women, PPOSBC staff 2). We purposively sampled vaccinated women to elicit HPV vaccine decision narratives uncover rich data on motivators, cultural values, implicit attitudes. Unvaccinated were interviewed identify...
Background: Practitioner communication is one of the most important influences and predictors HPV vaccination uptake. The objective this study was to conduct a latent class analysis characterizing pediatric practitioner recommendation patterns. Methods: Pediatric practitioners American Academy Pediatrics' (AAP) Research in Office Settings (PROS) national network completed an online survey where they were presented with 5 hypothetical vignettes well child visits responded questions. Questions...
The current report examined associations between romantic partner, peer and individual substance use behaviors in a sample of American adolescents.
Adolescent COVID-19 vaccination has stalled at 53% in the United States. Vaccinating adolescents remains critical to preventing continued transmission of COVID-19, emergence variants, and rare but serious disease children, it is best preventive measure available return in-person schooling. We investigated parent–adolescent vaccine decision-making. Between 24 February 15 March 2021, we conducted surveys 12 focus groups with 46 dyads Southern California. Parents completed a survey prior...
We assessed whether a meaningful set of latent risk profiles could be identified in an inner-city population through individual and network characteristics substance use, sexual behaviors, mental health status.
Valley Fever, or Coccidioidomycosis, a fungal respiratory disease, is prevalent with increasing incidence in the Southwestern United States, especially central region of California. Public health agencies do not have consistent strategy for communication and promotion targeting vulnerable communities about this climate-sensitive disease. We used behavior adaptation model to design conduct semi-structured interviews representatives public five California counties: Fresno, Kern, Kings, San...