Area of research
Demography · General Health Professions
Research interest
Research focused on Demography and Obesity, with related work in Pandemic, Ethnic group, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Notable publications include 'COVID-19 and excess mortality in the United States: A county-level analysis', 'Deaths Attributable to Diabetes in the United States: Comparison of Data Sources and Estimation Approaches', and 'Smoking and reverse causation create an obesity paradox in cardiovascular disease'.
Excess natural-cause mortality in US counties and its association with reported COVID-19 deaths
COVID-19 Mortality by Race and Ethnicity in US Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Areas, March 2020 to February 2022
Monthly excess mortality across counties in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic, March 2020 to February 2022
COVID-19 and All-Cause Mortality by Race, Ethnicity, and Age Across Five Periods of the Pandemic in the United States
Associations between mortality from COVID-19 and other causes: A state-level analysis
County-level estimates of excess mortality associated with COVID-19 in the United States
COVID-19 and excess mortality in the United States: A county-level analysis
The unequal burden of the Covid-19 pandemic: Capturing racial/ethnic disparities in US cause-specific mortality
Association of Health Care Factors With Excess Deaths Not Assigned to COVID-19 in the US
Estimates of the Association of Dementia With US Mortality Levels Using Linked Survey and Mortality Records
Increases in BMI and chronic pain for US adults in midlife, 1992 to 2016
Association of Weight Loss Between Early Adulthood and Midlife With All-Cause Mortality Risk in the US
Obesity and Incident Prescription Opioid Use in the U.S., 2000–2015
Obesity Progression Between Young Adulthood and Midlife and Incident Diabetes: A Retrospective Cohort Study of U.S. Adults
Deaths Attributable to Diabetes in the United States: Comparison of Data Sources and Estimation Approaches
Prevalence and Trends in Lifetime Obesity in the U.S., 1988–2014
Revealing the burden of obesity using weight histories
Smoking and reverse causation create an obesity paradox in cardiovascular disease
Effects of categorization and self-report bias on estimates of the association between obesity and mortality
Modeling Obesity Histories in Cohort Analyses of Health and Mortality