Grants and Publications

Funded Grant

1. Understanding the Determinants of Maternal Morbidity and Mortality

• Mechanism: Health Equity Advancing through Learning Health Systems Research (HEAL-R) Collaborative, HERS Pilot Grant

• Principal Investigator (PI): Felix Pabon-Rodriguez

• Co-Investigators: Patrick Monahan, PhD; Christina Scifres, MD

• Amount requested: $26,865

Selected Publications [Publications with (BS*/ MS# /PHD&) students]

1.  Scorza BM, Pessˆoa-Pereira D, Pabon-Rodriguez F, Beasley EA, Mahachi K, Cox AD, Kontowicz E, Baccam T, Wilson G, Waugh MC, Vollmer S, Toepp A, Raju K, Chigbo OC, Elliff J, Becker G, Cyndari KI, Tang S, Brown G, Petersen CA.Tick-borne coinfections modulate CD8+ T cell response and progressive leishmaniosis. Infect Immun0:e00182-25. https://doi.org/10.1128/iai.00182-25 

2. &Griffin, T., Pabon-Rodriguez, F., Ayodo, G., & Zhuang, Y. (2025). Strengthening health information systems and inherent statistical outputs for improved malaria control and interventions in western Kenya. Frontiers in Epidemiology, 5, 1591261. https://doi.org/10.3389/fepid.2025.1591261 

3. *Norwood, Jordan; Pabon-Rodriguez, Felix M.; Figueroa-Rosado, Angel L. (2025). Self-reported perception and aspirations of underrepresented and minority students in STEM fields. Springer Discover Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44217-025-00560-0.

4. Jason T. Semprini, Félix M. Pabón-Rodríguez, Eduardo J. Santiago-Rodríguez, Israel A. Almodóvar-Rivera. (2025). Quantifying the burden of cancer in Puerto Rico’s oldest residents, Cancer Epidemiology, Volume 97, 102838, ISSN 1877-7821.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.canep.2025.102838.

5. Pabon-Rodriguez, F.M. and Ayodo, G. (2025). The Influence of Climatic Factors on Age-Group-Specific Malaria Burden in Western Kenya. Public Health Challenges, 4: e70052. https://doi.org/10.1002/puh2.70052 

6. Pabon-Rodriguez FM. (2024). Assessment of Health Outcomes and Social Determinants of Health in United States Nursing Homes. J Socialomics. 13:227. https://www.walshmedicalmedia.com/open-access/assessment-of-health-outcomes-and-social-determinants-of-health-in-united-states-nursing-homes-127687.html 

7. Pabon-Rodriguez FM, Brown GD, Scorza BM, Petersen CA (2024). Within-host Bayesian joint modeling of longitudinal and time-to-event data of Leishmania infection. PLOS ONE 19(2): e0297175. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0297175 

8. Pabon-Rodriguez FM, Brown GD, Scorza BM, Petersen CA (2023). Bayesian multivariate longitudinal model for immune responses to Leishmania: A tick-borne co-infection study. Statistics in Medicine. 2023; 42(21): 3860–3876. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/sim.9837 

Ph.D. Dissertation and MS Thesis

1. Pabon-Rodriguez, FM.; Brown, Grant D.; Oleson, Jacob; Petersen, Christine A., and Smith, Brian. Bayesian Approaches to Within and Between Host Models for Infectious Disease Processes. The University of Iowa ProQuest Dissertations Publishing. 2023. 30420696. https://www.proquest.com/docview/2833501099 

2. Pabon-Rodriguez, FM.; Rios-Soto, Karen, and Santana-Morant, Damaris. An estimate of the basic reproductive number, R0, for the 2015-2016 Zika virus outbreak in Puerto Rico. 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11801/1916.

JOURNAL - Peer-Reviewer Experience

1. Biostatistics & Epidemiology (... since July 2025)

2. Journal of Medical Internet Research (... since March 2025)

3. Springer, Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities (...since July 2024)

4. De Gruyter, International Journal of Biostatistics (...since October 2023)

5. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases (...since September 2022)

6. PLOS Computational Biology (...since November 2022)

EDITORIAL ROLES

1. Associate Editor for JMIR - Public Health and Surveillance (... since August 2025)

GRANTS - Peer-Reviewer Experience

1. Center on Health and Environment Across the LifeSpan (HEALS) Pilot Research Project Grant Application... Reviewer for 2024 Applications

NOTE: For a full list, please take a look at my CV, located on the front page.