Past Issues of Research Brief
In an ongoing effort to disseminate research findings to the public health community, the University of Minnesota School of Public Health offers Research Brief, an update of research by members of the school's faculty.
March 2008
Xianghua Luo, Ph.D., Division of Biostatistics, wrote about Analysis of Recurrent Event Data under the Case-Crossover Design with Applications to Elderly Falls
February 2008
Mark Pereira, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, wrote about Breakfast Eating and Weight Change in a Five-Year Prospective Analysis of Adolescents: Project EAT (Eating Among Teens)
January 2008
William Riley, Division of Health Policy and Management, wrote about the the decline in the number of blood donors in the United States
November 2007
Susan G. Gerberich, PhD, wrote about Violence Against Teachers in Minnesota: The Minnesota Educators' Study
October 2007
Rhonda Jones-Webb, Dr.P.H., Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, wrote about adoption, implementation, and diffusion of policies to restrict malt liquor sales and consumption in the United States.
September 2007
Jeffrey S. McCullough, Division of Health Policy and Management, wrote about physician-hospital integration and technology utilization.
July 2007
Pat McGovern, Division of Environmental Health Sciences, wrote about women's health and return to work at 11 weeks postpartum.
June 2007
Andrew Flood, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, wrote about whether a high glycemic index diet increases one's risk of colorectal cancer.
May 2007
Michael Davern, Division of Health Policy and Management, wrote about response rates in health surveys.
April 2007
Melanie Wall, Division of Biostatistics, wrote about latent variable modeling in biostatistics research.
March 2007
Craig Hedberg, Division of Environmental Health Sciences, discusses ways to strengthen foodborne disease surveillance and protect our food supply.
February 2007
This issue features Lisa Harnack, Division of Epidemiology, discussing a new tool called the Dietary Supplement Assessment Tool.
January 2007
This issue features a piece about using mathematical models for cancer control by by Karen M. Kuntz, Sc.D., professor, Division of Health Policy and Management.
August 2005 (PDF)
For the past 5-10 years a great deal of public health research has focused on how neighborhood environments affect health. While School of Public Health epidemiologist J. Michael Oakes believes this area of research is valid, he questions the methods behind it. Read his commentary in the August issue.
July 2005 (PDF)
This issue features a powerful personal anecdote about the fractured long-term care system by Robert L. Kane, M.D., Minnesota Chair in Long Term Care and Aging, Division of Health Services Research and Policy.
June 2005 (PDF)
This issue features a piece about fast food consumption and the obesity epidemic by Mark A. Pereira, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Division of Epidemiology and Community Health.
August 2004
This issue features a piece about racial disparities in preventive health care by Donna D. McAlpine, Ph.D., assistant professor, and Kathleen Thiede Call, Ph.D., associate professor, in the Division of Health Services Research and Policy.
April 2004
This issue features a piece about occupational exposure to hazardous chemicals by Gurumurthy Ramachandran, Ph.D., associate professor in the Division of Environmental Health Sciences.
November 2003
This issue features a piece about the Current Population Survey (CPS) by Lynn A. Blewett, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Division of Health Services Research and Policy.
October 2003
This issue features a piece about environmental influences on food choices by Simone A. French, Ph.D., associate processor in the Division of Epidemiology.
Last modified on Thursday Jan 11, 2007