Healthcare and Public Health Policy

  1. González-Alvarez AD, Kapukotuwa S, Hurst L, Owusu-Ansah AG, Guo Y, Vaderlaan J, Shen JJ. Socioeconomic Disparities in Perinatal Substance Use Emergency Department Visits Before and During COVID-19. Journal of Women’s Health (Larchmt). 2025 Aug 22. doi: 10.1177/15409996251370887. Online ahead of print. PMID: 40844412.
  2. Marquez E, Haboush-Deloye A, Kim J, López EB, Mangla AT, Adhikari B, Shen JJ.“Factors Associated with Hospital Length of Stay and Intensive Care Utilization Among Pediatric COVID-19 Patients in Southern Nevada: A Multivariate Analysis.” Children (Basel). 2025 Mar 6;12(3):332. doi: 10.3390/children12030332. PMID: 40150614.
  3. Kapukotuwa SC, Grigsby TJ, Shen JJ. “Emergency Department Visits Among Adolescents for Intentional Assault, Firearm, Poison, and Self-Harm Injuries Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States.” Cureus, 2024.16(9): e69884. doi:10.7759/cureus.69884
  4. Ban X, Liu Z, Shen JJ, Wu W, Zhang Q, Li R, Hu J, Zhang J, Zhou F, Chao W, Lou X, Wang X. “Suicide and non-suicidal self-injury among Chinese adolescents: a longitudinal study based on the social ecological perspective.” Journal of Affective Disorders. 2025 Sep 1;384:151-162. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2025.05.019. Epub 2025 May 5. PMID: 40334853.