Publications

Publications

  • Owusu, C., Baker, K.M., Paul, R. and A. Curtis. 2018. Modelling individual vulnerability to sexually transmitted infections to optimize intervention strategies: analysis of surveillance data from Kalamazoo County, Michigan, USA. Sexually Transmitted Infections (BMJ). Accepted 12/2017. In Press.
  • Paul, R., Lim, C.Y., Curtis, A.B., Maiti, T., Baker, K.M., Mantilla, L.B., and E.L. MacQuillan 2018. Assessing the association of diabetes self-management education centers with age-adjusted diabetes rates across U.S.: A spatial cluster analysis approach. Journal of Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Epidemiology 24: 53-62.
  • Curtis AB, Kothari C, Paul R, Connors E. Using GIS and Secondary Data to Target Diabetes-Related Public Health Efforts. Public Health Reports 2013;128:212-20.
  • MacQuillan, E., Baker, K.M., Paul, R. and A. Curtis. 2017. Using GIS Techniques to Explore Gestational Diabetes in Michigan Mothers. Maternal and Child Health Journal (under review).
  • Owusu, C., Baker, K.M., Back, Y., Paul, R. and A. Curtis. 2017. Modelling individual vulnerability to sexually transmitted infections to optimize intervention strategies: Results from a retrospective data analysis in Kalamazoo County, Michigan. Sexually Transmitted Infections (under revision).
  • Day A., Curtis A., Paul R, Allotey P.A., Crosby S. Timely health service utilization of older foster youth by insurance type. Journal of Adolescent Health 2016; 58 (1): 17-23.
  • Kothari, C., Paul, R., Dormitorio, B., Ospina, F., James, A., Lenz, D., Baker, K., Curtis, A. and J. Wiley. 2016. The interplay of race, socioeconomic status and neighborhood residence upon birth outcomes in a high black infant mortality community. SSM - Population Health 2, 859–867. DOI: dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2016.09.011
  • MacQuillan, E.L., Curtis, A.B., Baker, K.M., Paul, R., and Y.O. Back. 2016. Using GIS Mapping to Target Public Health Interventions: Examining Birth Outcomes Across GIS Techniques. Journal of Community Health 41, pp. 1-6. DOI:10.1007/s10900-016-0298-z (impact factor: 1.716)

PRESENTATIONS

  • Anim-Preko, S., Baker, K.M., Paul, R. and A.B. Curtis. 2017. State-wide patterns in diabetes screening service utilization: Medicaid, Blue Care Network and Blue Cross Blue Shield of  Michigan. AAG Annual Meeting, 4-9 April, Boston, MA.
  • Kothari CL, Paul R, Dormitorio B, Ospina F, James A, Lenz D, Baker K, Curtis AB, Wiley J. Interplay of Race, Socioeconomic Status and Neighborhood upon Birth Outcomes. Annual American Public Health Association Meeting. Denver, CO, October, 2016; oral presentation.
  • Baker K, Owusu C, Paul R, Curtis AB. Visualizing Maternal and Child Health Inequities Across an Urban-Rural Boundary. Annual American Public Health Association Meeting. Denver, CO, November, 2016; oral presentation.
  • Curtis AB, Nurjannah. Mapping Diabetes Death Rates by School Districts to Inform School-Based Interventions. Annual American Public Health Association Meeting. Denver, CO, November, 2016; oral presentation.
  • Baker K, Ebenstein A, Paul R, Curtis AB. Local Urbanization Classifiers for Adapting Kernel Density Bandwidths at the Sub-County Level. Annual American Public Health Association Meeting. Denver, CO, November, 2016; oral presentation.
  • Curtis AB, Paul R, Shi C, Day A, Baker K. Longitudinal and Spatial Analysis of Time between Annual Preventive Dental and Well Child Visits for Foster Care Youth. Annual American Public Health Association Meeting. Denver, CO, November, 2016; oral presentation.
  • Paul R, Neelon B, Curtis AB, Baker K, Zhang S. Characterizing Long Range Spatial and Temporal Dependencies in Small Area Estimation with Applications to Birthweight and Gestational Age Data. Annual American Public Health Association Meeting. Denver, CO, November, 2016; oral presentation.
  • Paul R, Ghosh S, Curtis AB. Subpopulation Analysis Based on Nonparametric Multivariate Density Estimation subject to Marginal Unimodality Constraint. Annual American Public Health Association Meeting. Denver, CO, November, 2016; oral presentation.
  • MacQuillan E, Curtis AB. Breastfeeding Initiation and Duration Among Low-Income, Black Mothers: Analysis of the Nurse-Family Partnership Breastfeeding Support Efforts. Annual American Public Health Association Meeting. Denver, CO, October, 2016; poster presentation.
  • Curtis AB, Owusu C, Back Y, MacQuillan E, Baker K. Role of Repeating Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Infections: Using Mapping to Target Interventions in an Outbreak. Annual American Public Health Association Meeting. Denver, CO, October, 2016; poster presentation.
  • Kothari CL, Dickson C, MacCallum C, Curtis AB, Beam C. Identifying Low-Income Children 0-5, Falling through the Medical/Community Service Gap.  Annual American Public Health Association Meeting. Denver, CO, October, 2016; poster presentation.
  • Hassan D, Curtis AB, Kothari CL. Diabetes Self-Management Education: Referral and Attendance at a Patient-Centered Medical Home. Annual American Public Health Association Meeting. Denver, CO, October, 2016; poster presentation.
  • Day AG, Curtis A, Paul R. Assessing Timely Access to Dental Care Services: A Review of the Impact of Michigan's Medicaid Dental Care Policy on Child Abuse and Neglect Wards. Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference. Washington D.C., January, 2016; oral presentation.
  • Paul R, Curtis AB, Baker K, Kwasnik, M. Joint Modeling of Spatial-Longitudinal Binary and Count Data Using Multilevel and Multiresolution Random Effects for Large Data Sets. . Annual American Public Health Association Meeting. November, 2015, oral presentation.
  • MacQuillan E, Curtis AB, Vanderveen V, Yang X. Reducing poor birth outcomes among Medicaid-eligible Black mothers: Using GIS mapping to evaluate and target Nurse-Family Partnership intervention. Annual American Public Health Association Meeting. November, 2015, oral presentation.
  • Hassan D, Curtis AB, Hanneken J, Kothari CL. Effectiveness of a Diabetes Self-Management Program Offered at a Patient Centered Medical Home. Annual American Public Health Association Meeting. November, 2015, oral presentation.
  • Curtis AB, Baker K, Paul R, Owusu C, Back Y. Targeting Interventions for Youth and Pregnant Women with Chlamydia through Multilevel Modeling and Mapping Spatio-Temporal Trends. Annual American Public Health Association Meeting. November, 2015, poster presentation.
  • Curtis AB, Day A, Paul R, Allotey P. A Longitudinal Examination of Timely Well Child Visits Among Michigan Older Foster Care Youth in Medicaid: Fee-For-Service Versus Health Maintenance Organizations. Annual American Public Health Association Meeting. November, 2015, poster presentation.
  • Kothari CL, Curtis AB, Tareen RS, Liepman MR. Different Pathways to Pospartum Depression: Early-onset versus Late-onset Depression. Annual American Public Health Association Meeting. November, 2015, poster presentation.
  • MacQuillan E, Curtis AB, Vanderveen V, Yang X. Reduction of poor birth outcomes and infant mortality among low-income teen mothers: GIS-assisted analysis of the Nurse-Family Partnership. Annual American Public Health Association Meeting. November, 2015, poster presentation.
  • Kothari CL, Curtis AB, Wiley J, Tareen RS, Liepman MR, Moe A. Lutterman Award Winner for Best Graduate and Professional Student Research: Postpartum Depression is not just a Problem Early On. Annual American Public Health Association Meeting. New Orleans, LA, November, 2014; poster presentation.
  • Kothari CL, Wiley J, Hanneken J, Baker K, Lenz D, Dormitorio B, James A, Curtis AB. Relationship of Socioeconomic and Racial Factors, Both Individual and Community-Level, to Infant Birth Weight. Annual American Public Health Association Meeting. New Orlean, LA, November, 2014; oral presentation.
  • Paul R, Baker K, Vanderveen V, Griffin-Stover A, Curtis AB. Investigating connectivity of interventions for poor birth outcomes through network interpolation. Annual American Public Health Association Meeting. New Orlean, LA, November, 2014; roundtable presentation.
  • Kothari CL, Paul R, Wiley J, Hanneken J, Baker K, Lenz D, Dormitorio B, James A, Curtis A. The relationship of socioeconomic and racial factors, both individual and community-level, to infant birthweight. Kalamazoo Community Medical and Health Sciences Research Day. Kalamazoo, MI, May, 2014. oral presentation. (awarded Best Presentation Family Medicine)
  • Hassan D, Hanneken J, Curtis AB, Kothari CL. Diabetes Self-Management Education at a Patient-Centered Medical Home. Annual American Public Health Association Meeting. New Orlean, LA, November, 2014; poster presentation.
  • Hanneken J, Curtis AB, Kothari CL, Hassan D, Tenenbaum C, Emerson B. Diabetes self-management education (DSME) access. Kalamazoo Community Medical and Health Sciences Research Day. Kalamazoo, MI, May, 2014. oral presentation.
  • Kothari CL, Wiley J, Moe A, Liepman MR, Tareen S, Curtis A. Postpartum depression is not just a problem early on. Kalamazoo Community Medical and Health Sciences Research Day. Kalamazoo, MI, May, 2014. oral presentation.
  • Kothari CL, Sweezy LC, Curtis AB, Wiley J. Racial disparity in birth outcomes: Diversity between local communities. Annual American Public Health Association Meeting. Boston, MA, November, 2013; oral presentation.
  • Curtis AB, Kothari CL, Chowdhary R, Brooks C, Baker K, Paul R. Using geographic information systems to evaluate and target diabetes education. Annual American Public Health Association Meeting. Boston, MA, November, 2013; poster presentation.
  • Curtis AB, Brooks C, Paul R, Baker K, Chowdhary R. Mapping the Relationship between Diabetes Prevalence and Self-Management Education Access: Geographic Clusters of Need in the United States XVth International Medical Geography Symposium. Lansing, MI, July 2013; oral presentation.