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Our OHSU-PSH School of Public Health (SPH) faculty are exploring today’s most important public health issues, in our communities, regions and far beyond. Collaborating with a wide range of organizations, public agencies, and community groups, to produce research that helps us better understand and improve public health.
LATEST SPH NEWS
Ready. Set. Action! Celebrating National Public Health Week at the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health
The OHSU-PSU School of Public Health is proud to announce a week-long series of events in celebration of National Public... Read More
Kathleen Carlson’s New Study Examines How Oregon’s ERPO Law Addresses Mass Violence Threats
A recently published study by OHSU-PSU School of Public Health faculty member Kathleen F. Carlson, PhD, sheds new light on... Read More
Ryan Petteway Presents at 2025 APHA Annual Meeting on Epistemological Racism in Epidemiology
Ryan Petteway, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor of Community Health & Health Promotion at the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health, recently... Read More
OHSU Research Drives FDA Approval For Novel Use of Anemia Drug In Brain Cancer Imaging
The Food and Drug Administration has approved ferumoxytol, known clinically as FERABRIGHT™, as a contrast agent physicians can use to... Read More
Powering the Future of PSU Research: Announcing the Inaugural Catalyst Cohort
The OHSU-PSU School of Public Health is proud to celebrate three of our faculty members who were among the 12... Read More
Faculty Research Projects
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.
Student Research
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.
SPH Research Publications
OHSU-PSU School of Public Health Latest Publications
April 2026
Amikacin liposome inhalation suspension in newly diagnosed Mycobacterium avium complex lung disease (ARISE): a 6-month double-blind, active comparator trial. Daley CL, van Ingen J, Chalmers JD, Flume PA, Griffith DE, Hasegawa N, Morimoto K, Winthrop KL, Sheu CC, Avsar K, Andrisani D, Codecasa LR, Terschlüsen E, May D, Yuen DW, Wu P, Hassan M, Nevoret ML, Mange K. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2026 Apr 1;23(4):536-547. doi: 10.1093/annalsats/aaoaf064. PMID: 41915555
In Silico Analysis of Contaminant Persistence: From QSARs to Machine Learning Models. Zhang H, Tratnyek PG.Environ Sci Technol. 2026 Mar 31;60(12):8905-8922. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.5c18542. Epub 2026 Mar 18. PMID: 41848202
Development and usability testing of a Spanish version of a mobile app-based adaptive coping skills intervention for critical illness survivors: Blueprint en español. Mosack KE, Guzman CEV, Marentes Ruiz CJ, Wolwowicz E, Johnson K, Mantelli RA, Anderson A, McDougal M, Mejia-Flores L, Gonzalez-Guarda R, Neville TH, Baudier RL, Lapidus JA, Porter LS, Hope AA, Moss M, Morris CD, Hough CL, Cox CE; Blueprint en español Writing Group. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2026 Apr 9:aaoag089. doi: 10.1093/annalsats/aaoag089. Online ahead of print. PMID: 41967105
Safety of synthetic and biological DMARDs: a systematic literature review informing the 2025 update of the EULAR recommendations for the management of rheumatoid arthritis. Laskou F, Konzett V, Smolen JS, Edwards CJ, Aletaha D, van der Heijde D, Winthrop KL, Takeuchi T, Caporali R, Verschueren P, Pope JE, Hyrich K, de Souza S, Stamm TA, Primdahl J, Schoones JW, Landewé RB, Kerschbaumer A. Ann Rheum Dis. 2026 Apr 7:S0003-4967(26)00143-3. doi: 10.1016/j.ard.2026.02.024. Online ahead of print. PMID: 41951459
DISE Findings Across Comorbidity Groups and Surgical Status in Pediatric Sleep-Disordered Breathing. Krippaehne E, Hildebrand A, Nguyen T, Lam DJ. Laryngoscope. 2026 May;136(5):1978-1990. doi: 10.1002/lary.70289. Epub 2025 Dec 5. PMID: 41347666
Messinger S, Brearley A, Brumbach BH, Desai M, Enders FT, Lapidus J, Sammel M, Spratt HM. Representation and generalizability in clinical research: Back to basics. J Clin Transl Sci. 2025 Nov 28;9(1):e274. doi: 10.1017/cts.2025.10202. PMID: 41523632; PMCID: PMC12779481.
Varada S, Prasad AL, Lobb BM, … Brumbach BH, Quinn JF, Gray NE. Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cell Mitochondrial Bioenergetics Is Impaired in De Novo Parkinson’s Disease. Mol Neurobiol 62, 14221–14226 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12035-025-05224-6
Hantke N, Brumbach BH, Siegel L, Mancini M, Safarpour D. Associations Between Cognitive Profiles and Balance in Essential Tremor. Tremor Other Hyperkinet Mov (N Y). 2025;15:9. Published 2025 Mar 21. doi:10.5334/tohm.969
Varada S, Chamberlin SR, Bui L, Brandes MS, Gladen-Kolarsky N, Harris CJ, Hack W, Neff CJ, Brumbach BH, Soumyanath A, et al. Oral Asiatic Acid Improves Cognitive Function and Modulates Antioxidant and Mitochondrial Pathways in Female 5xFAD Mice. Nutrients. 2025; 17(4):729. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu17040729
Elliott J, Sicard SJ, Olivio C, Cunningham C, Powers K, Brewer JS, Dovek L, Champaigne R, Hildebrand A, Cohen A, Lim M. SmART-TBI: A fully remote protocol for a placebo-controlled double-masked clinical trial for a dietary supplement to improve sleep in Veterans. SLEEP Adv. 7(1) Volume 7, Issue 1, 2026, zpaf091. https://doi.org/10.1093/sleepadvances/zpaf091
Efficacy of synthetic and biological DMARDs: a systematic literature review informing the 2025 update of the EULAR recommendations for the management of rheumatoid arthritis. Konzett V, Laskou F, Smolen JS, Edwards CJ, Aletaha D, van der Heijde D, Winthrop KL, Takeuchi T, Caporali R, Verschueren P, Pope JE, Hyrich KL, de Souza S, Stamm TA, Primdahl J, Schoones JW, Landewé RBM, Kerschbaumer A. Ann Rheum Dis. 2026 Apr 16:S0003-4967(26)00206-2. doi: 10.1016/j.ard.2026.03.020. Online ahead of print. PMID: 41997804
Integrating Age-Dependent Pig Susceptibility and Spatial Exposure Heterogeneity Improves Agent-Based Modeling of Taenia solium Transmission. Pizzitutti F, Bonnet G, Gonzales-Gustavson E, Gabriël S, Pan WK, Gonzalez AE, Garcia HH, O’Neal SE; Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru. Int J Parasitol. 2026 Apr 15:104853. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2026.104853. Online ahead of print. PMID: 41997225
Chasing the target: reports from the Advances in Targeted Therapies meeting, 2025. Winthrop KL, Kerschbaumer A, Isaacs JD, Mease P, Baraliakos X, Crow MK, Buch M, Siebert S, Basu N, Conaghan P, Kloppenburg M, Distler O, Landewe R, Orange DE, Wei K, Aletaha D, McInnes IB, Huizinga TWJ, Voll R, Gravallese EM, Breedveld FC, Smolen JS. Ann Rheum Dis. 2026 Apr 23:S0003-4967(26)00210-4. doi: 10.1016/j.ard.2026.03.024. Online ahead of print. PMID: 42031646
Prepregnancy body mass index, pregnancy weight gain, and postpartum weight retention in Pennsylvania 2003 to 2020: an age-period-cohort analysis. Bodnar LM, Mair CF, Messer LC, Parisi SM, Keyes KM. Am J Epidemiol. 2026 Apr 21:kwag085. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwag085. Online ahead of print. PMID: 42011681
60 Years of Persistence Science in ES&T: From Foundational Insights to Demonstrated Impact. Fenner K, Cousins I, Gardea-Torresdey J, Hollender J, Scheringer M, Tratnyek P, Wang B, Wang Z. Environ Sci Technol. 2026 Apr 21;60(15):11139-11140. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.6c04872. PMID: 42011144
Results of a phase 1 trial testing ruxolitinib plus venetoclax in patients with relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia. Borate U, Tognon CE, Madanat YF, Misra S, Kaempf A, Patel PA, Davis KL, Sun J, Stuani L, Eisenmann ED, Eide CA, Kurtz SE, Watanabe-Smith K, Johnson K, Jager A, Gullaksen SE, Robinson B, Vu T, Plevritis SK, Baker SD, Minnier J, Clement P, Avaylon S, Hayes M, Newell LF, Gandhi AP, Leonard J, Hayes-Lattin B, Vasu S, Cook RJ, Meyers G, Maziarz RT, Traer E, Swords R, Tyner JW, Druker BJ, Saultz JN. Blood Neoplasia. 2026 Feb 5;3(2):100205. doi: 10.1016/j.bneo.2026.100205. eCollection 2026 May. PMID: 42007254
Patient Perspectives of Care Integration During Early Implementation of a Care Coordination Initiative. Hynes DM, Hickok A, McCready H, Niederhausen M, Rowneki M, Govier DJ, Singer SJ, Cordasco KM, Slatore CG, Maciejewski ML, McDonald K, Perla L, Moss A. Med Care Res Rev. 2026 Jun;83(3):183-194. doi: 10.1177/10775587251413444. Epub 2026 Jan 30. PMID: 41617222
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Getting Started in R and RStudio Workshop
VIRTUAL Portland, OR, United StatesLecture & WebinarsOCTRI Research Forum Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design (BERD) Program Jessica Minnier, Ph.D. and Meike Niederhausen, Ph.D. In this two-part...
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Quantitative Epidemiology Methods in Practice Seminar
Vanport 515, with remote option 1810 SW 5th Avenue, PortlandLecture & WebinarsRecreational cannabis legalization and serious mental disorder among cannabis patients in California: A statewide longitudinal study\ Presenter: Sidra Goldman-Mellor PhD,...