SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Michael Méndez, Sameer Shah, Cynthia Golembeski, Louise Bedsworth, J Mijin Cha, Leo Goldsmith, Tisha J. Holmes, Julie Maldonado, Beth Rose Middleton Manning, Linda Estelí Méndez-Barrientos, and Megan Mills-Novoa. Forthcoming. Critical approaches for centering environmental justice in U.S. climate assessments. Climatic Change. 

Cynthia Golembeski,  Matthew Bakko, Wilson, Shayla Wilson and Twyla Carter. 2023. US bail, pretrial justice, and charitable bail organizations: Strengthening social equity and advancing politics and public ethics of care. Public Integrity (25)6: 677 -705.

Sarah Malarkey, Pamela Valera, Cynthia Golembeski, Joachim Sackey, and Kimberly Pierre. 2022. Thoughts of ending life in a sample of incarcerated men. Journal of Correctional Health Care (28)6: 405-413.

Stephanie Prost, Cynthia Golembeski, Nguyen Toan Tran, Vyjeyanthi Periyakoil, Jalayne Arias, Andrea Knittel, Jessica Ballin, and Heather Oliver. 2022. Standardized outcome measures of mental health in research with older adults who are incarcerated. International Journal of Prisoner Health (18)2.

Cynthia Golembeski, Kimberly Dong, and Ans Irfan. 2021. Carceral and climate crises and health inequities: A call for greater transparency, accountability, and human rights protections. World Medical & Health Policy (13)1: 69-96.

Ans Irfan, Ashley Bieniek-Tobasco, and Cynthia Golembeski. 2020. Pandemic of racism: Public health implications of political misinformation. Harvard Public Health Review. 10.13140/RG.2.2.15324.36480

Cynthia Golembeski, Carolyn Sufrin, Brie Williams, Precious Bedell, Sherry Glied, Ingrid Binswanger, Donna Hylton, Tyler Winkelman, and Jaimie Meyer. 2020. Improving health equity for women involved in the criminal legal system. Women's Health Issues 30(5): 313-319. 

Cynthia Golembeski, Ans Irfan, and Kimberly Dong. 2020. Food insecurity and collateral consequences of punishment amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. World Medical & Health Policy (12)4: 357-373.

Mindy Thompson Fullilove, Jacob Izenberg, Cynthia Golembeski, Martha Stitelman, and Rodrick Wallace. 2020. Main streets and disaster: A study of regional collective efficacy. City: Analysis of Urban Change, Theory, and Action (24)1-2: 166-177.

Douglas Miller and Cynthia Golembeski. 2019. Restructuring health sciences higher education in New Jersey: strategy, scope, and implementation. Rutgers Business Review (4)2: 161-172.

Douglas Miller and Cynthia Golembeski. 2019. Merger of equals? The path toward the integration of New Jersey’s largest universities. Rutgers Business Review (4)2: 140-160.

Stefanie Russell, Ariel Port Greenblatt, Danni Gomes, Shirley Birenz, Cynthia Golembeski, Donna Shelley, Matthew McGuirk, Elise Eisenberg, and Mary Northridge. 2015. Toward implementing primary care at chairside: Developing a clinical decision support system for dental hygienists. Journal of Evidence Based Dental Practice (15)4: 145-151.

Mary Northridge, Shirley Birenz, Danni Gomes, Cynthia Golembeski, Ariel Port Greenblatt, Donna Shelley, and Stefanie Russell. 2016. Views of dental providers on primary care coordination at chairside: A pilot study. Journal of Dental Hygiene 903: 170-180.

Seth Spielman, Cynthia Golembeski, Mary Northridge, Roger Vaughan, Rachel Swaner, Betina Jean-Louis, Katherine Shoemaker et al. 2006. Interdisciplinary planning for healthier communities: Findings from the Harlem Children's Zone Asthma Initiative. Journal of the American Planning Association (72)1: 100-108.

Cynthia Golembeski and Robert Fullilove. 2008. Criminal (in) justice in the city and its associated health consequences. American Journal of Public Health 98(S1): S185-S190.

Luisa N. Borrell, Mary Northridge, Douglas Miller, Cynthia Golembeski, Seth Spielman, Elliott Sclar, and Ira Lamster. 2006. Oral health and health care for older adults: A spatial approach for addressing disparities and planning services. Special Care in Dentistry 26(6): 252-256.

Stephen Nicholas, Vincent Hutchinson, Benjamin Ortiz, Sandy Klihr-Beall, Betina Jean-Louis, Katie Shoemaker, Carissa Singleton, Jazmine Credell, Rachel Swaner, Roger Vaughan Mary Northridge, Spielman Seth, Linda Cushman, Eric Polley, and Cynthia Golembeski. 2005. Reducing childhood asthma through community-based service delivery. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 54(1): 11–14. 

BOOK CHAPTERS 

Cynthia Golembeski, Gabe Eber, Carolyn Sufrin, Jackie Lantsman, and Homer Venters. 2024. Discretionary ethics and governing public affairs in jails and prisons: Upholding constitutional rights to health and safety. In Empowering Public Administrators: Ethics and Public Service Values, edited by Amanda Olejarski and Sue Neal, Chapter 13, 253-288. Routledge.

Cynthia Golembeski, Brianna Baker, Homer Venters, and Robert Fullilove. In press. Political and social determinants of punishment and health in pretrial systems. In Division on Corrections and Sentencing (DCS) Handbook on Corrections and Sentencing, Volume 9: Handbook on Contemporary Issues in Health and Punishment, edited by Nate Link, Meghan Novisky, and Chantal Fahmy. Routledge.

Cynthia Golembeski, Andrea Armstrong, Ans Irfan, Michael Méndez, Nicholas Shapiro, and Julie Skarha. Forthcoming. Political determinants of health and contextual vulnerability in the age of incarceration and climate change. In The Climate Crisis and Health Equity: An Examination of the Political Determinants, edited by Daniel E. Dawes, Maisha Standifer, Christian Amador, and Shaneeta Johnson, Chapter 18. Johns Hopkins University Press.

Leslie Davidson and Cynthia Golembeski. 2014. Intimate partner violence and women’s health in the USA. In Epidemiology of Women’s Health, edited by Ruby T. Senie, Chapter 20, 257-268. Jones and Bartlett Publishers.

Cynthia Golembeski. 2009. Anti-Defamation League. In Encyclopedia of Race and Crime, edited by Helen Taylor Greene and Shaun Gabbidon, 12-15. Sage Press. 

Cynthia Golembeski and David McCoy. 2008. Oil extraction and related community health impacts: A study of the Niger Delta. In Global Health Watch 2: An Alternative World Health Report, edited by David McCoy, Antoinette Ntuli, and David Sanders. Chapter 06, 170-184. Palgrave Macmillan.

REPORTS & WORKING PAPERS

Vasiliki Maloucho Kanellopoulou, Patrich Co, Cynthia Golembeski, Tim Komatsu, Eduardo Mora Zúñiga, Sebastean Pujols, Connor Smith, and Ruilong Zhang. 2024. Noncitizen voting: The evolving case of New York City, the case of Local Law 11. The New School Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility.

Connor Smith, Patrich Co, Cynthia Golembeski, Tim Komatsu, Vasiliki Maloucho Kanellopoulou, Eduardo Mora Zúñiga, Sebastean Pujols, and Ruilong Zhang. 2024. Noncitizen voting: The evolving case of New York City, context and historical case studies. The New School Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility.

Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, Eva Rosen, Cynthia Golembeski, Grace June Kim, Sarah Williams, Laura Kurgan, James Connelly, Ann Foss. 2009. A Research Note: The Socio-Spatial Consequences of Inmate Release in New York City. Columbia University Center for Urban Research and Policy and Open Society Institute.

BOOK REVIEWS

Cynthia Golembeski. 2023. Review of Public Health Behind Bars: From Prisons to Communities, by Robert Greifinger. Journal of Correctional Health Care 29(6): 450-451.

Cynthia Golembeski. 2022. Review of Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in US Public Policy, by Elizabeth Popp Berman. Journal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs 8(3): 455-460.

Cynthia Golembeski. 2021. Review of The Triumph of Doubt: Dark Money and the Science of Deception, by David Michaels. Journal of Public Administration and Education 28(1): 112-114. 

Cynthia Golembeski. 2020. Review of Life and Death in Rikers Island, by Homer Venters. Public Integrity 22(5): 511-517.