The School of Public Health continues to expand our research portfolio with high impact, equity-focused research. Learn more about our faculty’s research projects and collaborations with with other organizations, public agencies, and community groups, to produce research that helps us better understand and improve public health.
The OHSU-PSU School of Public Health provides research opportunities to our students through research assistant positions or mentorship of their sponsored student research. Gaining real-world experiences to understand the contexts in which health problems and opportunities occur.
Defining successful program configurations in VA home-based primary care: a study protocol to identify key difference-makers through investigating cross-case heterogeneity in program implementation. Tuepker A, Miech EJ, Hulen EC, Niederhausen M, Hwang CS, Kinosian B, O’Neill A, Wiederholt SG, Penn C, Cooper D, Edwards ST. BMC Geriatr. 2025 Nov 25;25(1):1049. doi: 10.1186/s12877-025-06502-7. PMID: 41291477
Responding to the Needs of Dementia Care Partners: Recommendations for Policy Change at the State and Federal Levels. Dawson WD, Reed J, Lindauer A, Gelmon SB. J Aging Soc Policy. 2026;38(1):71-91. doi: 10.1080/08959420.2025.2523137. Epub 2025 Jul 20. PMID: 40684294
Representation and generalizability in clinical research: Back to basics. Messinger S, Brearley A, Brumbach BH, Desai M, Enders FT, Lapidus J, Sammel M, Spratt HM. J Clin Transl Sci. 2025 Nov 28;9(1):e274. doi: 10.1017/cts.2025.10202. eCollection 2025. PMID: 41523632
Changes in Long-Term Care Markets: Assisted Living Capacity and the Prevalence of Nursing Home Residents With Dementia From 2019 to 2023. Hsu EC, Gadkari G, Bunker J, Smith L, Hua C, Jutkowitz E, Thomas KS. J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2026 Jan 6:106068. doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2025.106068. Online ahead of print. PMID: 41513221
Comparison of 30-Day Mortality After Diagnostic Coronary Angiography at VA and Community Hospitals. Hynes DM, Govier DJ, Hickok A, Niederhausen M, Rowneki M, Gordon HS, Kobayashi T. J Gen Intern Med. 2026 Jan 8. doi: 10.1007/s11606-025-10110-x. Online ahead of print. PMID: 41507642
Consensus on the management of refractory nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease. Moreira-Sousa D, Martins B, Aguiar A, Pinheiro M, Akkerman O, Aksamit TR, Aliberti S, Andrejak C, Daley CL, van Ingen J, Lange C, Lipman M, Loebinger MR, Jankovic Makek M, Morimoto K, Thomson RM, Wagner D, Winthrop KL, Yim JJ, Duarte R. Eur Respir J. 2026 Jan 8;67(1):2500400. doi: 10.1183/13993003.00400-2025. Print 2026 Jan. PMID: 41198394
Medicaid Mechanisms and State Licensure: Pathways to Payment in Assisted Living. Gunderson R, Smith L, Cornell PY, Carder P, Thomas K. J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2026 Jan;27(1):105961. doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2025.105961. Epub 2025 Nov 26. PMID: 41173461
Systematic measurement and machine learning-based profile characterization of community noise in a medium-large city in the United States. Mowrer C, Larkin A, Roscoe C, Grady ST, Peters JL, Haggerty B, Hystad P, Bozigar M. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2026 Jan;36(1):199-210. doi: 10.1038/s41370-025-00794-y. Epub 2025 Jul 19. PMID: 40684001
Sandau US, Wiedrick JT, McFarland TJ, Chen S, Quinn JF, Saugstad JA. Comparison of multi-miRNA models from donor-matched plasma and cerebrospinal fluid as candidate biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease prediction. Scientific reports, 10.1038/s41598-025-33589-0. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-33589-0
Selesner L, Hedges M, Pung R, Vaughn C, Burns A, Aloia M, Henson J, Tobias J, Olyaei A, Nizich S, Swift K, Veshagh A, Andres SF, Fialkowski E, Jordan BK, Scottoline B. Increase in Necrotizing Enterocolitis with Cessation of Bifidobacterium longum Subspecies. infantis Administration in Very Low Birthweight Infants: A Single-Center Retrospective Cohort Study. J Pediatr. 2025 Dec 17:114961. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2025.114961. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 41418978
Spain RI, Paz Soldán MM, Freedman MS, Repovic P, Solomon AJ, Rinker JR, Wallin MT, Haselkorn JK, Stuve O, Gross RH, Waslo CS, Hildebrand A, Morris CD, Mitchell J, Turner AP, Schwartz DL, Metz J, Rooney W. Lipoic Acid for treatment of progressive multiple sclerosis: A phase 2 randomized clinical trial. Neurology. 106(1):e214454. https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000214454
Krippaehne E, Hildebrand A, Nguyen T, Lam DJ. DISE findings across comorbidity groups and surgical status in pediatric sleep-disordered breathing. Laryngoscope. 2025;0:1-13. https://doi.org/10.1002/lary.70289
Zuckerman, KE, Owens Reinitz, M, Solgi, M, Feryn A, Tae M, Cavanaugh P, Raja-Vora J, & Fombonne E. Preliminary Efficacy of Telehealth Family Navigation for Early Autism Services Access. J Autism Dev Disord (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-025-07189-w
Wiebers Jensen M, Wolf M, Feryn A, Nguyen T, Katlaps I, Pinter JD. Fine Motor Development Growth Curves for Down Syndrome. Journal of Child Neurology. 2025;0(0). doi:10.1177/08830738251387929
Bruton AM, Ast HK, Norby-Adams L, Srikanth P, Robinette LM, Hatsu IE, Leung BMY, Arnold LE, Zava D, and Johnstone JM. Kynurenine metabolites unchanged after multinutrient supplementation in children with ADHD: A secondary data analysis from the MADDY study. J Neur Trans, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00702-025-03086-9
Mahana I, Mejia AT, Elman MR, Kamna D, Nguyen O, Volk H, Chen H, Masri A. Characteristics and Outcomes of Mavacamten Use in 2440 Patients With Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. Journal of the American Heart Association. 2025 Nov 4;14(21):e042488. DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.125.042488
Hansen M, Stephens SW, Elman MR, Shah MI, Bosson N, Gausche-Hill M, VanBuren JM, Jacobsen K, Elsholz C, Brown B, Goldkind SF. Community Acceptance of a Pediatric Prehospital Exception From Informed Consent Trial. Academic emergency medicine: official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. 2026 Jan;33(1):e70212. DOI: 10.1111/acem.70212
Young AM, Lancaster KE, Elman MR, Bielavitz S, Cook RR, Estadt AT, Enderle MN, Freeman E, Lapidus J, Korthuis PT. Can a participant‐referred ‘study buddy’ increase retention of rural people who use drugs in research? A multi‐site, randomized trial. Addiction. 2025 Nov 24. DOI: 10.1111/add.70250
Silka PA, Elman MR, Bettencourt M, Harte M. Comparison of Unhoused and Domiciled Patients Evaluated for Trauma in a Level II Trauma Center. Western Journal of Emergency Medicine: Integrating Emergency Care with Population Health. 2026 Jan 9;27(1). DOI: 10.5811/westjem.43498
Loftis JM, Ast HK, Bruton AM, Srikanth P, Ramesh R, Erikson DW, Robinette LM, Hatsu IE, Leung BMY, Machingo TA, Arnold LE, Johnstone JM. Multinutrient Supplementation in Children With ADHD Reduced Pro- and Anti-Inflammatory Immune Factors in the MADDY Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of Attention Disorders, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/10870547251397701.
Generating the evidence base for implementation strategies targeting colorectal cancer screening in the accelerating colorectal cancer screening through implementation science (ACCSIS) research projects. Adsul P, Kanabar N, Kruse-Diehr A, Dignan M, Oliveri JM, Paskett ED, Reuland DS, Ferrari RM, Moore AA, Polite B, Kim K, Gupta S, Castañeda SF, Martinez ME, Hatcher J, Coury J, Kenzie ES, Petrik AF, Coronado GD, Liebovitz D, Blanchard J, Hoover S, English K, Mishra SI, Davis MM, Rabin BA. BMC Public Health. 2026 Jan 24. doi: 10.1186/s12889-025-26179-2. Online ahead of print. PMID: 41580763
Comparative effectiveness of two enhanced prenatal care models on preterm birth: An exploratory analysis of the EMBRACE randomized trial. León-Martínez D, Curry V, Carraway K, Blat C, Coleman-Phox K, Blebu BE, Karasek D, Butcher BDC, Afulani PA, Tesfalul MA, Felder JN, Ramirez GR, Garza MA, Lessard L, Downer C, Rand L, McCulloch CE, Kuppermann M. Am J Obstet Gynecol MFM. 2026 Jan 21:101893. doi: 10.1016/j.ajogmf.2026.101893. Online ahead of print. PMID: 41577131
No strings attached: a mixed methods evaluation of the acceptability of the San Francisco Abundant Birth Project, a perinatal guaranteed income program. De La Cruz MM, Arteaga S, Hubbard EM, Reed RD, Cotton-Curtis W, Taylor M, Powell B, Coats A, Bell S, Edwards P, Chand M, Roberts T, Chambers Butcher B, Karasek D, Malawa Z, Gomez AM. BMC Public Health. 2026 Jan 22. doi: 10.1186/s12889-026-26300-z. Online ahead of print. PMID: 41566255
Prenatal greenness, air pollution, and birthweight: Assessing sensitive windows of exposure and sub-populations in a multi-exposure setting. Fiffer M, Bravo MA, Zephyr D, Tootoo JL, Roscoe C, Wilt G, Gasymova R, James P, Miranda ML. Environ Int. 2026 Jan 16;208:110079. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2026.110079. Online ahead of print. PMID: 41558211
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