Grants and Publications

Funded Grant/Contract

1. Pfizer Collaboration

   • Mechanism: Contract between IU & Pfizer

   • Principal Investigator (PI): Felix Pabon-Rodriguez

   • Amount requested: $40,000

2. 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]

[2026]

1. Pabon-Rodriguez, F.M. et al. (2026). A call for action to change age structure in Kenya´s health data management system to enhance malaria surveillance and interventions. Primary Health Care Practice Journal. 2026;4:2. [doi: 10.11604/PHCP.2026.4.2.49884]. https://www.phcp-journal.org//content/article/4/2/full 

2. Obeng-Gyasi, B., Chinthala, A.S., Brown, E.D., Abraham, B., Pabón-Rodríguez, F., &Griffin, T.S., Young, K., Line, T.A., Snyder III, W., Dalal, O. and Christodoulides, A. (2026). Critical radiographic findings and medical comorbidities in the management of thoracolumbar burst fractures. Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, 147, p.111936. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocn.2026.111936 

3. #Majji, R.K., Zhuang, Y. and Pabon-Rodriguez, F.M., (2026). Social Determinants of Childhood Vaccination Coverage in the United States Using National Immunization Survey Data From 2010 to 2023: Cross-Sectional Study. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, 12, p.e81746. https://publichealth.jmir.org/2026/1/e81746 

4. &Maxey, N.J., &Griffin, T.S., &Powla, P.P. and Pabon-Rodriguez, F.M., (2026). Comparative evaluation of machine learning models for predicting COVID-19 vaccine uptake in US adults. BMC Public Health. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-026-27199-2 

5. &Powla, P., &Maxey, N., &Griffin, T. and Pabon-Rodriguez, F. (2026). Mental Health Treatment Utilization Among Hispanic and Latino Adults in the United States: The Role of Immigration Status, Acculturation, and Socioeconomic Disadvantage. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, pp.1-13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-026-01896-x 

[2025]

6. Rangoonwala, H., Morgan, J.S., Loehrer, P., Niemeyer, K., Hunter-Squires, J., Miller, K., Pabon-Rodriguez, F., Kisilu, N., Keitany, K., Chesori, E. and Busakhala, N. (2025). Neoadjuvant chemotherapy in triple negative breast cancer: Real world results from western Kenya. African Organization for Research and Training in Cancer. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/54498 

7. Scorza BM, Pessôa-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 (2025). Tick-borne coinfections modulate CD8+ T cell response and progressive leishmaniosis. Infect Immun0:e00182-25. https://doi.org/10.1128/iai.00182-25 

8. &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 

9. *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.

10. 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.

11. 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 

[2024 - and early]

12. 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 

13. 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 

14. 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.