Research
The Department of Urban Public Health at UMass Boston produces highly impactful research in leading peer-reviewed journals, including The Lancet, Nature Medicine, Hypertension, Health Education & Behavior, and the Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. For a full list please see each faculty member’s personal page:
Philimon Gona & Alexander F. More, (2022). . The Lancet 400 (10369), P2161-2163.
Clara M. Gona, Ruth Palan-Lopez, Lisa Wood, Rosalia S. Gotora & Philimon N. Gona (2022). . Journal of Immigrant Minority Health 24, 1261–1268.
Qazi S, Gona PN, Musgrave RM, Fox CS, Massaro JM, Hoffmann U, Chuang ML, O’Donnell CJ. (2023). Distribution, Determinants and Normal Reference Values of Aortic Arch Width Thoracic Aortic Geometry in the Framingham Heart Study. American Heart Journal Plus: Cardiology Research and Practice 26, 100247.
Joseph T. Flynn, Elaine M. Urbina, Tammy M. Brady, Carissa Baker-Smith, Stephen R. Daniels, Laura L. Hayman, Mark Mitsnefes, Andrew Tran, Justin P. Zachariah (2022). . Hypertension 79 (7), e114–e124.
Elaine A. Borawski, Kimberly Adams Tufts, Erika S. Trapl, Laura L. Hayman, Laura D. Yoder, Loren D. Lovegreen (2015). . The Journal of School of Health 85 (3), 189-196.
R. Yajima, Alexander F. More et al. (2022). . Nature Medicine 28, 1330–1331.
Alexander F. More et al. (2020). . GeoHealth 4 (9).
More, Alexander F., et al., (2017). . GeoHealth (AGU), 1(4): 211-219. (DOI: 10.1002/2017GH000064)
Pheiffer, C. F., McGarvey, S. T., Ginsburg, C., & White, M. J. (2023). Urban residence and elevated blood pressure among migrant women in South Africa. Health & place, 83, 103071.
Ginsburg, C., Collinson, M. A., Gómez-Olivé, F. X., Harawa, S., Pheiffer, C. F., & White, M. J. (2022). The impact of COVID-19 on a cohort of origin residents and internal migrants from South Africa's rural northeast. SSM - population health, 17, 101049.
Pheiffer C. F. (2021). Internal migration, urban living, and non-communicable disease risk in South Africa. Social science & medicine, 274, 113785.
Elizabeth Sweet (2021). . Health, Education and Behavior 48 (6).
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Elizabeth Sweet (2021). . SSM – Population Health 13, 100736.
Lingling Zhang et al. (2021). . Human Resources for Health 19 (118).
Lingling Zhang et al. (2021). . JMIR Research Protocols 8 (5): e13502.