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Hurricane Katrina & Gulf Coast Child & Family Health Study

DM Abramson and R Garfield, “On the Edge: Children and Families Displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita Face a Looming Medical and Mental Health Crisis,” A Report of The National Center for Disaster Preparedness, Apr 2006.  https://doi.org/10.7916/D88S4Z4B 

DM Abramson, R Garfield, and I Redlener, “The Recovery Divide: Poverty and the Widening Gap Among Mississippi Children and Families Affected by Hurricane Katrina,” A Report of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness, Feb 2007.  https://doi.org/10.7916/D8SQ97JW 

Abramson DM, T Stehling-Ariza, R Garfield, I Redlener.  “The Prevalence and Predictors of Mental Health Distress Post-Katrina: Findings from the Gulf Coast Child and Family Health Study.”  Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness. 2(2):77-86, 2008.  PMID: 18520693. https://doi.org/10.7916/D83B68V6 

DM Abramson, I Redlener, T Stehling-Ariza, E Fuller. “The Legacy of Katrina’s Children: Estimating the number of at-risk children in the Gulf Coast states of Louisiana and Mississippi.” National Center for Disaster Preparedness, Research Brief 2007:12.  Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Dec 2007.  https://doi.org/10.7916/D8891FMF 

Redlener I, Abramson DM, Garfield R. “Lessons from Katrina – What Went Wrong, What Was Learned, Who’s Most Vulnerable.”  Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender.  14(2): 783-790, 2009. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8ZW1WNB 

Abramson DM, YS Park, T Stehling-Ariza, I Redlener. “Children as Bellwethers of Recovery: Dysfunctional systems and the effects of parents, households, and neighborhoods on Serious Emotional Disturbance in children after Hurricane Katrina.”  Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness.  4(Supp1): S17-S27, 2010. PMID: 23105031.  https://doi.org/10.7916/D8M90KB7 

Abramson DM, T Stehling-Ariza, YS Park, L Walsh, D Culp. “Measuring Individual Disaster Recovery: A socioecological framework.” Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness.  4(Supp1): S46-S54, 2010.  PMID: 23105035. https://doi.org/10.7916/D81G0X8X

VanDevanter N, Leviss P, Abramson DM, Howard J.  “Emergency Response and Public Health in Hurricane Katrina: What does it mean to be a public health emergency responder?” Journal of Public Health Mgmt & Practice 16(6): E16-E25, 2010.  PMID: 20885174. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8XH01WN 

Redlener I and Abramson DM. “Recovery Research, Katrina’s 5th Anniversary, and Lessons Relearned.” Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness.  4(Supp1): S8-S9, 2010.  PMID: 23105040. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8V4152H 

Olteanu A, Arnberger R, Grant R, Davis C, Abramson DM, Asola J. “Persistence of mental health needs among children affected by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.”  Prehosp Disaster Med. 26(1):3-6, 2011. PMID: 21838059

Stehling-Ariza, T, Park YS, Sury JJ, Abramson DM. “Measuring the Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Access to a Personal Healthcare Provider: The Use of the National Survey of Children’s Health for an External Comparison Group.” Journal of Maternal and Child Health. 16:S170-S177, 2012.  PMID: 22456985. https://doi.org/10.7916/D82R4285 

Clay L, M Papas, DM Abramson, J Kendra.  “Social capital, neighborhood disorder, and disaster recovery.” Journal of Emergency Management. 15(4): 233-246, 2017. PMID: 28929479.

Clay L, M Papas, K Gill, DM Abramson.  “Application of a Theoretical Model Toward Understanding Continued Food Insecurity Post Hurricane Katrina.”  Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparednesshttps://doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2017.35. Published online 31 Jul 2017.

Clay L, M Papas, K Gill, DM Abramson. “Factors Associated with Continued Food Insecurity among Households Recovering from Hurricane Katrina.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2018.  15(8):1647-1656.

Anaïs Teyton and David M. Abramson (2021) The Formation of Belief: An Examination of Factors That Influence Climate Change Belief Among Hurricane Katrina Survivors. Environmental Justice.  14(3) https://doi.org/10.1089/env.2020.0041 

Alexis A Merdjanoff, David M Abramson, Yoon Soo Park, Rachael Piltch-Loeb (2022).  Disasters, Displacement, and Housing Instability: Estimating Time to Stable Housing 13 Years after Hurricane Katrina. Weather, Climate and Society. 14(2):535-550.  https://doi.org/10.1175/WCAS-D-21-0057.1

G Meltzer, M Zachar, A Merdjanoff, M DO, NK Pham, DM Abramson (2021).  The effects of cumulative natural disaster exposure on adolescent psychological distress. Journal of Applied Research on Children. 12(1). https://digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu/childrenatrisk/vol12/iss1/6

Mengxi Zhang, Mark VanLandingham, Yoon Soo Park, Philip Anglewicz, David M. Abramson (2021). Differences in post-disaster mental health among Vietnamese and African Americans living in adjacent urban communities flooded by Katrina. PLOS Onehttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0255303

Nguyen AM, Y Kim, DM Abramson (2023).  Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Women’s Mental Health: A Longitudinal Study of Hurricane Katrina Survivors, 2005–2015. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, 20(2), 925; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20020925

Goff AB, SA Friedman, DM Abramson (2023).  Strategies and costs of building and maintaining a longitudinal disaster cohort. Int’l J Mass Emergencies and Disastershttps://doi.org/10.1177/028072702311715 


Superstorm Sandy, and the Sandy Child & Family Health Study

Abramson DM and Redlener I.  “Hurricane Sandy: Lessons Learned, Again.”  Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness.  6(4):328-329, 2012.  PMID: 23241461. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8H70RP5 

Chandler T, DM Abramson, B Panigrahi, J Schlegelmich.  “Crisis Decision Making During Hurricane Sandy: An Analysis of Established and Emergent Disaster Response in the NY Metro Area.” Disaster Med and PH Preparedness. 10(3):436-42, 2016.  PMID: 27167878

A Merdjanoff, R Piltch-Loeb, S Friedman, DM Abramson. “Housing Transitions and Recovery of Older Adults Following Hurricane Sandy.” The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gby126 (published ahead of print, 2018)

Alexis A Merdjanoff, David M Abramson, Rachael Piltch-Loeb, Patricia Findley, Lori Peek, Jaishree Beedasy, Yoon Soo Park, Jonathan Sury, Gabriella Meltzer (2021). Examining the Dose–Response Relationship: Applying the Disaster Exposure Matrix to Understand the Mental Health Impacts of Hurricane Sandy. Clinical Social Work Journal. 50:400-413.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10615-021-00814-y


Joplin Tornado

DM Abramson and D Culp.  “At the Crossroads of Long-term Recovery: Joplin, Missouri Six Months after the May 22, 2011 Tornado.  NCDP Research Brief, Columbia University, 2013.  https://doi.org/10.7916/D8TB1G94 

Kanter R and DM Abramson.  “School Interventions After the Joplin Tornado”.  Prehospital and Disaster Medicine.  29(2):214-217, 2014.  PMID: 24655748. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8VH5KX0 


Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Peter ES, AL Rung, MH Bronson, MM Brashear, CL Peres, S Gaston, SM Sullivan, K Peak, DM Abramson, ET Fontham, D Harrington, E Oral, EJ Trapido (2017).  The Women and Their Children’s Health (WaTCH) Study: Methods and design of a prospective cohort study in Louisiana to examine the health effects from the BP Oil Spill. BMJ Open. 7:e014887. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-014887 

Gabriella Y. Meltzer, Alexis A. Merdjanoff, and David M. Abramson. Adverse Physical and Mental Health Effects of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Among Gulf Coast Children: An Environmental Justice Perspective.  Environmental Justice. Apr 2021.124-133.http://doi.org/10.1089/env.2020.0046

L Clay and DM Abramson (2021).  Bowling Together: Community Social Institutions Protective Against Poor Child Mental Health. Environmental Justice.  14 (3). DOI: 10.1089/env.2020.0042

DM Abramson, I Redlener, T Stehling-Ariza, J Sury, A Banister, YS Park. “Impact on Children and Families of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Preliminary Findings of the Coastal Population Impact Study.” National Center for Disaster Preparedness, Research Brief 2010:8. Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, August 2010. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8988GQT 

DM Abramson, L Peek, I Redlener, J Beedasy, T Aguilar, J Sury, A Banister, R May. “Children’s Health after the Oil Spill: A Four-State Study.  Findings from the Gulf Coast Population Impact Project.”  NCDP Research Brief, Columbia University, 2013.  https://doi.org/10.7916/D8WQ0C4P 


Zika Virus

R Piltch-Loeb, DM Abramson, A Merdjanoff. “Risk salience of a novel virus: US population risk perception, knowledge, and receptivity to public health interventions regarding the Zika virus prior to local transmission.”  PLOS One. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0188666.  Published online 21 Dec 2017. 

R Piltch-Loeb, A Merdjanoff, DM Abramson.  “How the US Population Engaged with and Prioritized Sources of Information about the Emerging Zika Virus in 2016.”  Health Security. 16(3):165-177, 2018

C Quinn, E Poirot, A Viswanath, S Patel, R Piltch-Loeb, DM Abramson. “Variations in health care provider use of public health and other information sources by provider type and practice setting during New York City’s response to the emerging threat of Zika virus disease, 2016.  Health Security.  201816(4):252-261.  

R Piltch-Loeb, AA Merdjanoff, A Bhanja, DM Abramson. “Support for Vector Control Strategies among the United States Population during the Zika outbreak in 2016. Preventive Medicine. 2019 Feb 1;119:52-7. 

R Piltch-Loeb, BJ Zikmund-Fisher, VA Shaffer, LD Scherer, M Knaus, A Fagerlin, DM Abramson, AM Scherer. “Cross-Sectional Psychological and Demographic Associations of Zika Knowledge & Conspiracy Beliefs Before and After Local Zika Transmission.”  Risk Analysis (accepted, publication forthcoming)

R Piltch-Loeb and DM Abramson (2020).  “Information-Accessing Behavior during Zika Virus Outbreak, United States, 2016,” Emerging Infectious Diseases. 26(9):2292-2294.

R Piltch-Loeb & DM Abramson (2020). “From information to intervention: connecting risk communication to individual health behavior and community-level health interventions during the 2016 Zika outbreak. Journal of Risk Research, DOI: 10.1080/13669877.2020.1819388


Hurricane Maria

GS Mellgard, DM Abramson, C Okamura, H Weerahandi (2019). “Hurricanes and healthcare: a case report on the influences of Hurricane Maria and managed Medicare in treating a Puerto Rican resident.”  BMC Health Services Research 19:818.  PMID: 31703682 


COVID-19

Chou FL, Abramson D, DiMaggio C, Hoven CW, Susser E, Andrews HF, Chihuri S, Lang BH, Ryan M, Herman D, Susser I, Mascayano F, Li G. Factors Related to Self-Reported Distress Experienced by Physicians During Their First COVID-19 Triage Decisions. Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2021 Jun 7;:1-20. doi: 10.1017/dmp.2021.170. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 34096486.

Diana Silver, Yeerae Kim, Elizabeth McNeill, Rachael Piltch-Loeb, Vivian Wang, David Abramson (2022).  Association between COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Trust in the Medical Profession and Public Health Officials. Preventive Medicine. 164: 107311.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2022.107311

Charles DiMaggio, David Abramson, Ezra Susser, Christina Hoven, Qixuan Chen, Howard Andrews, Daniel Herman, Daniel Kreniske, Megan Ryan, Ida Susser, Lorna Thorpe, Guohua Li (2022). The COVID-19 Healthcare Personnel Study (CHPS): Overview, methods, and preliminary findings.  Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology. 34(1):148-151

Francisca L. Chou,  David Abramson, Charles DiMaggio, Christina W. Hoven, Ezra Susser, Howard F. Andrews, Stanford Chihuri, Barbara H. Lang, Megan Ryan, Daniel Herman, Ida Susser, Franco Mascayano and Guohua Li (2021). Factors Related to Self-Reported Distress Experienced by Physicians During Their First COVID-19 Triage Decisions. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness. https://doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2021.170

Keely Cheslack-Postava, PhD, Michaeline Bresnahan, PhD, Megan Ryan, MS, George J. Musa, PhD, Lawrence Amsel, MD, Charles DiMaggio, PhD, Howard F. Andrews, PhD, Ezra Susser, MD, Guohua Li, DrPH, David M. Abramson, PhD, Barbara H. Lang, MPH, and Christina W. Hoven, DrPH (2022).  Occupational Conditions Associated With Negative Mental Health Outcomes in New York State Health Professionals During the COVID-19 Pandemic. J Occup Environ Med. 64(7): e417–e423. PMCID: PMC9322895  PMID: 35732029

Johnson, Alexander, Wallace, Brendan K., Xu, Qianhui, Chihuri, Stanford, Hoven, Christina, Susser, Ezra, DiMaggio, Charles, Abramson, David, Andrews, Howard, Lang, Barbara, Ryan, Megan, Li, Guohua (2022).  Hopelessness in New York State Physicians During the First Wave of the COVID-19 Outbreak. Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology. 34(1):152-157. https://doi.org/10.1097/ANA.0000000000000808

Arnab K. Ghosh, Sara Venkatraman, Evgeniya Reshetnyak, Mangala Rajan, Anjile An, John K. Chae, Mark A. Unruh, David Abramson, Charles DiMaggio, Nathaniel Hupert (2022). Association between city-wide lockdown and COVID-19 hospitalization rates in multigenerational households in New York City. PlosOne. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266127

Rachael Piltch-Loeb, Diana Silver, Yeerae Kim, Hope Norris, Elizabeth McNeill, David M Abramson (2022). Determinants of the COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Spectrum. PLOS One. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0267734.

Arnab K. Ghosh, Martin Shapiro, David Abramson (2022).  Closing the Knowledge Gap in the Long-Term Health Effects of Natural Disasters: A Research Agenda for Improving Environmental Justice in the Age of Climate Change. Intl Journal Environmental Research in Public Health.  19(22), 15365; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192215365  

Arnab K. Ghosh, Michelle R. Demetres, Benjamin P. Geisler, Shakirah N. Ssebyala, Tianyi Yang, Martin F. Shapiro, Soko Setoguchi, and David Abramson (2022).  Impact of Hurricanes and Associated Extreme Weather Events on Cardiovascular Health: A Scoping Review.  Environmental Health Perspectives.  130(11). https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP11252

Meltzer GY, Merdjanoff A, Xu VS, Gershon R, Emrich CT, and Abramson DM (2023).  Examining the effects of cumulative environmental stressors on Gulf Coast child and adolescent health. Population and Environment. 45(3): 21. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11111-023-00436-1

Dimaggio C, E Susser, S Fragnos, DM Abramson, H Andrews, C Hoven, M Ryan, G Li (2023).  The New York State COVID-19 Healthcare Personnel Study: One-Year Follow-up of Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, and Physician Assistants, 2020-2021.  Public Health Reports.  Volume 138, Issue 3. https://doi.org/10.1177/00333549231155 

Silver DR, Y Kim, R Piltch-Loeb, DM Abramson (2024). One year later: What role did trust in public officials and the medical profession play in decisions to get a booster and to overcome vaccine hesitancy?  Preventive Medicine Reports.  38(2024):102626.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2024.102626


Conceptual Frameworks, Methods, & Scoping Articles

Garrett A, Grant R, Madrid P, Brito A, Abramson DM, Redlener I. “ Children and Megadisasters – Lessons Learned in the New Millennium.”  Advances in Pediatrics 54:189-214, 2007.  PMID: 17918472

Abramson DM, Morse, S, Garrett A, Redlener, I.  “Public Health Disaster Research: Surveying the field, defining its future.”  Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness. 1(1):57-62, 2007.  PMID: 18388605. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8CR642V 

Abramson DM, LM Grattan, B Mayer, CE Colten, FA Arosemena, A Rung, M Lichtveld. “The Resilience Activation Framework: A conceptual model of how access to social resources promotes adaptation and rapid recovery in post-disaster settings.” Journal of Behavioral Health Services and Research. 42(1):42-57, 2015.  PMID: 24870399

P Sandifer, L Knapp, M Lichtveld, R Manley, DM Abramson, et al. (2020).  “Framework for a Community Health Observing System for the Gulf of Mexico Region: Preparing for Future Disasters.”  Frontiers in Public Health.  doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2020.578463

Goldmann E, Abramson DM, Piltch-Loeb R, Samarabandu A, Goodson V, Azofeifa A, Hagemeyer A, Al-Amin N, Lyerla R. Rapid Behavioral Health Assessment Post-disaster: Developing and Validating a Brief, Structured Module. J Community Health. 2021 Mar 30;. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10900-021-00966-5  

Arnab K Ghosh, Martin F Shapiro, David M Abramson (2022).  Trends in National Institutes of Health Funding on the Health-Related Effects of Climate Change and Natural Disasters. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 37:2885-2887.

Helena M. Solo-Gabriele, Tom Fiddaman, Cecilie Mauritzen, Cameron Ainsworth, David M. Abramson, Igal Berenshtein et al (2021, Ahead of print). Towards integrated modeling of the long-term impacts of oil spills.  Marine Policyhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2021.104554

DiMaggio C, Galea S, Abramson DM.  “Analyzing Postdisaster Surveillance Data: The Effect of the Statistical Method.”  Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness.  2(2): 119-126, 2008.  PMID: 18525375

DM Abramson, D Culp, J Sury, L Johnson.  “Planning for Long-term Recovery Before Disaster Strikes: Case Studies of 4 US Cities.”  NCDP Report, Columbia University, 2011. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8G1681R 

DM Abramson, D Culp, L Johnson, L Bertman.  “Disaster Recovery: Guidance for Donors.”  NCDP Research Brief, Columbia University, 2012. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8542WXK 

DM Abramson, C Chobany, A Merdjanoff, K Lynch, I Janda, C Choi, K Isufi, R Kapur, A McCool, M Sogluizzo, E Zambiazzi, R Piltch-Loeb (2022). Ten Years After Sandy: Charting a Region’s Recovery: An Initiative of the NYU Center for Public Health Disaster Science. Center for Public Health Disaster Science briefing report. NYU GPH.


Researcher Publications

David Abramson, MPH, PhD

Zacher M, Raker EJ, Meadows MC, Ramírez S, Woods T, Lowe SR. Mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic in a longitudinal study of Hurricane Katrina survivors. SSM Ment Health. 2023 Dec;3:100198. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmmh.2023.100198. Epub 2023 Feb 20. PubMed PMID: 36844796; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9940480.

DiMaggio C, Susser E, Frangos S, Abramson D, Andrews H, Hoven C, Ryan M, Li G. The New York State COVID-19 Healthcare Personnel Study: One-Year Follow-up of Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, and Physician Assistants, 2020-2021. Public Health Rep. 2023 May-Jun;138(3):518-525. doi: 10.1177/00333549231155473. Epub 2023 Mar 11. PubMed PMID: 36905312; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10009497.

Nguyen AM, Kim Y, Abramson DM. Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Women’s Mental Health: A Longitudinal Study of Hurricane Katrina Survivors, 2005-2015. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Jan 4;20(2). doi: 10.3390/ijerph20020925. PubMed PMID: 36673679; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9859160.

Ghosh AK, Demetres MR, Geisler BP, Ssebyala SN, Yang T, Shapiro MF, Setoguchi S, Abramson D. Impact of Hurricanes and Associated Extreme Weather Events on Cardiovascular Health: A Scoping Review. Environ Health Perspect. 2022 Nov;130(11):116003. doi: 10.1289/EHP11252. Epub 2022 Nov 30. Review. PubMed PMID: 36448792; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9710380.

Ghosh AK, Shapiro MF, Abramson D. Closing the Knowledge Gap in the Long-Term Health Effects of Natural Disasters: A Research Agenda for Improving Environmental Justice in the Age of Climate Change. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Nov 21;19(22). doi: 10.3390/ijerph192215365. PubMed PMID: 36430084; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9692460.


Alexis Merdjanoff, MA, PhD

Meltzer, G. Y., Merdjanoff, A. A., Gershon, R. R., Fothergill, A., Peek, L., & Abramson, D. M. (2024). Adverse Effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill Amid Cumulative Disasters: A Qualitative Analysis of the Experiences of Children and Families. Journal of child and family studies33(6), 1995–2011. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-024-02815-0

Lynch, K. A., Abramson, D. M., & Merdjanoff, A. A. (2024). The influence of risk perception on disaster recovery: A case study of new Jersey families impacted by hurricane sandy. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 100, 104220. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2023.104220

Auer, S., Penikalapati, R., Parekh, N., Merdjanoff, A. A., DiClemente, R. J., & Ali, S. H. (2024). ‘We know what he likes, even if he doesn’t know’: how the children of South Asian immigrants characterize and influence the diets of their parents. Health education research39(2), 131–142. https://doi.org/10.1093/her/cyad036

Ali, S. H., Cai, J., Kamal, F., Auer, S., Yang, K., Parikh, R. S., Parekh, N., Islam, N. S., Merdjanoff, A. A., & DiClemente, R. J. (2024). A Multi-Stage Dyadic Qualitative Analysis to Disentangle How Dietary Behaviors of Asian American Young Adults are Influenced by Family. Behavioral medicine (Washington, D.C.), 1–13. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/08964289.2023.2298766

Meltzer, G.Y., Merdjanoff, A.A., Xu, S. et al. Examining the effects of cumulative environmental stressors on Gulf Coast child and adolescent health. Popul Environ 45, 21 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11111-023-00436-1


Robyn Gershon, MPH, DrPH

Smith, E., Pooley, J. A., Holmes, L., Gebbie, K., & Gershon, R. (2021). Vicarious Trauma: Exploring the Experiences of Qualitative Researchers Who Study Traumatized Populations. Disaster medicine and public health preparedness17, e69. https://doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2021.333

Gershon, MHS, DrPH, R. R., M. A. Muska, EMT, MPH, Q. Zhi, MPH, and L. E. Kraus, MPH, MCP. “Are Local Offices of Emergency Management Prepared for People With Disabilities? Results from the FEMA Region 9 Survey”. Journal of Emergency Management, vol. 19, no. 1, Jan. 2021, pp. 7-20, doi:10.5055/jem.0506.

Gargano, L. M., Gershon, R. R., Ogunyemi, A., Dorlette, D., Petrsoric, L. J., & Cone, J. E. (2019). Comorbid posttraumatic stress disorder and lower respiratory symptoms in disaster survivors: Qualitative results of a 17-year follow-up of World Trade Center disaster survivors. Progress in Disaster Science4, 100050. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pdisas.2019.100050

Estrada, M., Zhi, Q., Nwankwo, E., & Gershon, R. The Influence of Social Supports on Graduate Student Persistence in Biomedical Fields. CBE Life Sciences Education18(3), ar39. https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.19-01-0029

Gershon, R. R., Zhi, Q., Chin, A. F., Nwankwo, E. M., & Gargano, L. M. (2018). Adherence to Emergency Public Health Measures for Bioevents: Review of US Studies. Disaster medicine and public health preparedness12(4), 528–535. https://doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2017.96