Peer-Reviewed Publications:

1. Yu X, Johnson JE, Roman LA, Key K, White JM, Bolder H, Meghea CI. Neighborhood deprivation and racial disparities in severe maternal morbidity before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Annals of Epidemiology. 2025 May;105:53-58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annepidem.2025.04.005

2. Yu X, Roman LA, Raffo JE, Meng R, Vander Meulen P, Sanchez Lloyd C, and Meghea CI. 2024. Neighborhood Racialized Economic Polarization, Home Visiting Coverage, and Adverse Birth Outcomes in a Medicaid-eligible Population. Women’s Health Issues. 2024 Jul-Aug;34(4):340-349, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.whi.2024.05.001

• Honorable mention for the Charles E. Gibbs Leadership Prize for the best paper published in Women's Health Issues in 2024 https://jiwh.publichealth.gwu.edu/news/Gibbs-Prize-2024

3. Yu X, Meghea CI, Raffo JE, Meng R, Vander Meulen P, Sanchez Lloyd C, and Roman LA. 2024. Community Health Workers: Improving Home Visiting Engagement of High-Risk Birthing People in Segregated Neighborhoods. Journal of Public Health Management & Practice. https://doi.org/10.1097/phh.0000000000001861

• Featured in JPHMP Direct, “Community Health Workers Enhance Home Visiting Engagement of High-Risk Birthing Individuals in Segregated Neighborhoods”, https://jphmpdirect.com/community-health-workers-enhance-home-visiting-engagement-of-high-risk-birthing-individuals-in-segregated-neighborhoods/

• News Coverage: https://insurancenewsnet.com/oarticle/investigators-at-michigan-state-university-report-findings-in-managed-care-community-health-workers-improving-home-visiting-engagement-of-high-risk-birthing-people-in-segregated-neighborhoods-mana

4. Yu X, Johnson JE, Roman LA, Key K, White JM, Bolder H, Raffo JE, Meng R, Nelson H, and Meghea CI. 2023. Neighborhood Deprivation and Severe Maternal Morbidity in a Medicaid Population. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2023.11.016

5. Huang W, Hao L, Wu X, Yu X, Cui E, and Leroux A. 2023. Gender Difference in “Second Shift” Physical Activity: New Insights from Analyzing Accelerometry Data in a Nationally Representative Sample. Social Science & Medicine – Population Health. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2023.101536

6. Meghea CI, Raffo JE, Yu X, Meng R, Luo Z, Vander Meulen P, Sanchez Llyod C, and Roman LA. 2023. Community Health Worker Home Visiting, Birth Outcomes, Maternal Care, and Disparities Among Birthing Individuals with Medicaid Insurance. JAMA Pediatrics. Jul 24:e232310. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2023.2310

7. Yu X. 2023. Expected Occupational Contexts and Postgraduate Pursuit among College-educated Immigrants and Natives in the United States. International Migration Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183231162623

8. Yu X., Hao L, Crainiceanu C, and Leroux A. 2022. Occupational Determinants of Physical Activity at Work: Evidence from Wearable Accelerometer in 2005-2006 NHANES. Social Science & Medicine – Population Health 17 (100989).  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2021.100989

9. Yu X. 2021. Later Timing but Informed Decision? Delayed Postgraduate Attainment and U.S. College Graduates’ Earnings. Social Science Research 98 (102583). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2021.102583

10. White A, Hao L, Yu X, and Thorpe R. 2021. Residential Racial Segregation and Social Distancing in the United States During COVID-19. The Lancet-EClinicalMedicine 35 (100840). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2021.100840

11. Hao L, and Yu X. 2017. Sources of Unequal Cognitive Development of Middle-School Students in China’s Rural-Urban Migration Era. Chinese Journal of Sociology 3 (1) 32-55. https://doi.org/10.1177/2057150X16684115

Policy Reports:

1. Hao L, and Yu X. 2015. Rural-Urban Migration and Children’s Access to Education: China in Comparative Perspective. Background Paper for the EFA Global Monitoring Report, UNESCO. https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000232466

2. Roman LA, Meghea CI, Raffo JE, Yu X, Meng R, and Vander Meulen P. 2022. Pay for Success Strong Beginnings: Care Improvement for Medicaid-insured Black and Hispanic Women. Medicaid Match Project, Year Three Final Report (Internal report to Michigan Department of Human & Human Services, MDHHS). 

3. Meghea CI, Yu X, Luo Z, Raffo JE, Meng R, and Roman LA. 2022. Strong Beginnings Partners for Success: Cohort 1, Rapid Repeat Pregnancy Analysis – Evaluators’ Report. (Internal report to MDHHS)