Publications 

Tait M., Bogucki, C., Baum, L., Franklin Fowler, E., Niederdeppe, J., and Gollust, S. News media coverage of childcare: How U.S. local tv news framed the problem before and during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Under review at the Journal of Child and Family Studies. 

Tait M., Abrahams, J., Brehm, R., Baum, L., Franklin Fowler, E., Niederdeppe, J., and Gollust S. (2022). Serving the public? A content analysis of COVID-19 public service announcements airing from March – December of 2020. Preventive Medicine Reports.101971.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2022.101971.

Tait, M., Pando, C., McGuire, C., Perez-Sanz, S., Baum, L., Fowler, E. and Gollust, S. (2022). Picturing the Populations Who Could Benefit from Health Insurance Access Expansions: An Analysis of U.S. Health Insurance Television Ads Airing in 2018. World Medical & Health Policy. https://doi.org/10.1002/wmh3.549. 

Pando, C., Tait, M., McGuire, C., Perez-Sanz, S., Baum, L., Franklin Fowler, E., and Gollust, S.E. Health Insurance Ad Messages Targeted to English- and Spanish-Speaking Populations in a Period of Limited Federal Investment in Marketplace Outreach. Medical Care Research and Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/10775587221101295

Gollust, S. E., Frenier, C., Tait, M., Baum, L. L., Kennedy-Hendricks, A., Niederdeppe, J., & Franklin Fowler, E. (2021). When talk  is not cheap: What factors predict political campaign messaging on social determinants of health issues? World Medical & Health  Policy, 1– 26. https://doi-org.ezp1.lib.umn.edu/10.1002/wmh3.470 

Tait, M., Bogucki, C. Baum, L., Franklin Fowler, E., Niederdeppe, J. and Gollust, S. (2021) Paid family leave on local television  news in the United States: Setting the agenda for policy reform. SSM - Population Health.14, 100821, ISSN 2352- 8273.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2021.100821. 

Carman, K., Chandra, A., Weilant, S., Miller, C., and Tait, M. 2018 National Survey of Health Attitudes. Santa Monica, CA:  RAND Corporation, 2019. https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR2876.html 

Tait, M., Plough, A., and Wojcik, O. (2017). Building a Culture of Health in Our Changing Climate. (2018). American Journal  of Public Health. https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2018.304361 

Towe, V., Leviton, L., Chandra, A., Sloan, J., Tait, M., and Orleans, T. (2016). Cross-Sector Collaborations and Partnerships:  Essential Ingredients To Help Shape Health And Well-Being. Health Affairs. 35; 11.  

Chandra, A., Acosta, J., Carman, KG., Dubowitz, T., Leviton, L., Martin, L., Miller, C., Nelson, C. Orleans, T., Tait, M.,  Trujillo, M., Towe, V., Yeung, D., and Plough, A. Building a National Culture of Health: Background, Action  Framework, Measures, and Next Steps. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2016.  http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR1199.html. 

Conference Presentations 

Tait, M.  Populations Depicted in Health Insurance Ads Airing in 2018 and the Implications for Health Reform. [Virtual Panel Presentation - American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, September 2021]

Tait, M., Frenier, F., Brehm, R., Abrahams, J., Bogucki, C., Baum, L., Franklin Fowler, E., Niederdeppe, J., Xu, Y. and Gollust, S.  “Communicating about COVID-19: Analysis of Federally-Sponsored Public Service Announcements (PSAs) airing from March December of 2020 [Virtual Poster – AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, June 2021] 

Tait, M., “The Shady Televised World of Childcare: Local TV Coverage of the Early Childcare Environment.” [Virtual panel  presentation – Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Sciences Conference, October 2020]  

Tait, M., Pando, C., Perez-Sanz, S., McGuire, C., Baum, L., Franklin Fowler, E., Bogucki, C., and Gollust, S. “Bridging the Gap?  Understanding Privately-Sponsored Health Insurance TV Ads in a Period of Limited Federal Investment in Marketplace Outreach and  Enrollment.” [Virtual Poster – AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, July 2020]