Publications

Selected Publications Involving SESH

2024

• • Gorsline C, Lotspeich SC, Mejia F, Cortes C, Crabtree-Ramirez B, Belaunzaran-Zamudio P, McGowan CC, Rebeiro P. The impact of earthquakes in Latin America on the continuity of HIV care. Public Health in Practice. 2024;7:100479. doi:10.1016/j.puhip.2024.100479

  • Estadt AT, White BN, Ricks JM, Lancaster KE, Hepler S, Miller WC, Kline D. The impact of fentanyl on state- and county-level psychostimulant and cocaine overdose death rates by race in Ohio from 2010 to 2020: a time series and spatiotemporal analysis. Harm Reduction Journal. 2024;21(1):13. doi:10.1186/s12954-024-00936-9

  • Hepler SA, Kaufeld KA, Kline D, Greene A, Gorris ME. Estimating coccidioidomycosis endemicity while accounting for imperfect detection using spatio - temporal occupancy modeling. American Journal of Epidemiology. Published online July 16, 2024:kwae199. doi:10.1093/aje/kwae199

  • Kline DM. Strengthening a solid foundation: The role of spatial epidemiology within contemporary epidemiology. Epidemiology.:10.1097/EDE.0000000000001739. doi:10.1097/EDE.0000000000001739

  • Santaella-Tenorio J, Hepler SA, Rivera-Aguirre A, Kline DM, Cerda M. Estimation of opioid misuse prevalence in New York State counties, 2007-2018. A Bayesian spatio-temporal abundance model approach. American Journal of Epidemiology. Published online March 6, 2024:kwae018. doi:10.1093/aje/kwae018

2023

• Carmichael SP, Kline DM, Mowery NT, Miller PR, Meredith JW, Hanchate AD. Geographic Variation in Operative Management of Adhesive Small Bowel Obstruction. Journal of Surgical Research. 2023;286:57-64. doi:10.1016/j.jss.2022.12.040

• Dong Q, Kline D, Hepler SA. A Bayesian Spatio-temporal Model to Optimize Allocation of Buprenorphine in North Carolina. Statistics and Public Policy. 2023;10(1):2218448. doi:10.1080/2330443X.2023.2218448

• Hepler SA, Kline DM, Bonny A, McKnight E, Waller LA. An integrated abundance model for estimating county-level prevalence of opioid misuse in Ohio. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society. 2023;186(1):43-60. doi:10.1093/jrsssa/qnac013

• Kline D, Bunting AM, Hepler SA, Rivera-Aguirre A, Krawczyk N, Cerda M. State-Level History of Overdose Deaths Involving Stimulants in the United States, 1999‒2020. Am J Public Health. 2023;113(9):991-999. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2023.307337

• Kline D, Waller LA, McKnight E, Bonny A, Miller WC, Hepler SA. A Dynamic Spatial Factor Model to Describe the Opioid Syndemic in Ohio. Epidemiology. 2023;34(4):487. doi:10.1097/EDE.0000000000001617

• Kwon J, Kline DM, Hepler SA. A spatio-temporal hierarchical model to account for temporal misalignment in American Community Survey explanatory variables. Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology. 2023;46:100593. doi:10.1016/j.sste.2023.100593

• McKnight ER, Dong Q, Brook DL, Hepler SA, Kline DM, Bonny AE. A Descriptive Study on Opioid Misuse Prevalence and Office-Based Buprenorphine Access in Ohio Prior to the Removal of the Drug Addiction Treatment Act of 2000 Waiver. Cureus. 2023;15(3):e36903. doi:10.7759/cureus.36903

  • Rayo MF, Faulkner D, Kline D, Iv TT, Malloy S, Vella DD, Morey DA, Zhang N, Gonsalves G. Using Bandit Algorithms to Maximize SARS-CoV-2 Case-Finding: Evaluation and Feasibility Study. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance. 2023;9(1):e39754. doi:10.2196/39754  

2022

• Hepler SA, Kaufeld KA, Benedict K, Toda M, Jackson BR, Liu X, Kline D. Integrating Public Health Surveillance and Environmental Data to Model Presence of Histoplasma in the United States. Epidemiology. 2022;33(5):654-659. doi:10.1097/EDE.0000000000001499

• Kline D, Hyder A, Liu E, Rayo M, Malloy S, Root E. A Bayesian Spatiotemporal Nowcasting Model for Public Health Decision-Making and Surveillance. American Journal of Epidemiology. 2022;191(6):1107-1115. doi:10.1093/aje/kwac034

• Townsend T, Kline D, Rivera-Aguirre A, Bunting AM, Mauro PM, Marshall BDL, Martins SS, Cerdá M. Racial/Ethnic and Geographic Trends in Combined Stimulant/Opioid Overdoses, 2007–2019. American Journal of Epidemiology. 2022;191(4):599-612. doi:10.1093/aje/kwab290

2021

• Gonsalves GS, Copple JT, Paltiel AD, Fenichel EP, Bayham J, Abraham M, Kline D, Malloy S, Rayo MF, Zhang N, Faulkner D, Morey DA, Wu F, Thornhill T, Iloglu S, Warren JL. Maximizing the Efficiency of Active Case Finding for SARS-CoV-2 Using Bandit Algorithms. Med Decis Making. 2021;41(8):970-977. doi:10.1177/0272989X211021603

• Hepler SA, Waller LA, Kline DM. A multivariate spatiotemporal change-point model of opioid overdose deaths in Ohio. The Annals of Applied Statistics. 2021;15(3):1329-1342. doi:10.1214/20-AOAS1415

  • Kline D, Hepler SA. Estimating the burden of the opioid epidemic for adults and adolescents in Ohio counties. Biometrics. 2021;77(2):765-775. doi:10.1111/biom.13295

  • Kline D, Ji Y, Hepler S. A multivariate spatio-temporal model of the opioid epidemic in Ohio: a factor model approach. Health Serv Outcomes Res Method. 2021;21(1):42-53. doi:10.1007/s10742-020-00227-3

  • Kline D, Li Z, Chu Y, Wakefield J, Miller WC, Norris Turner A, Clark SJ. Estimating seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in Ohio: A Bayesian multilevel poststratification approach with multiple diagnostic tests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2021;118(26):e2023947118. doi:10.1073/pnas.2023947118

  • Kline D, Pan Y, Hepler SA. Spatiotemporal Trends in Opioid Overdose Deaths by Race for Counties in Ohio. Epidemiology. 2021;32(2):295-302. doi:10.1097/EDE.0000000000001299

2020

• Lotspeich SC, Jarrett RT, Epstein RA, Shaffer AM, Gracey K, Cull MJ, Raman R. Incidence and Neighborhood-Level Determinants of Child Welfare Involvement. Child Abuse & Neglect. 2020;109:104767. doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2020.104767