Publications

• Williams SL, Smith DJ, Benedict K, Ahlers J, Austin C, Birn R, et al. Surveillance for Coccidioidomycosis, Histoplasmosis, and Blastomycosis During the COVID-19 Pandemic — United States, 2019–2021. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2024;73:239–244. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7311a2.   
• Kehrberg, R., Torres, D., Ruh. E, et al. (2024) Planetary Health Report Card (Medicine): University of Nebraska Medical Center. 
• Johnson, K., R. Lookadoo, J. E. Bell, K. Hansen, M. Langel, S. Medcalf, L. Nagengast, and E. Rogan. “Pipeline Emergency Preparedness in Nebraska: Identifying Interagency Preparedness Gaps and Proposing Solutions”. Journal of Emergency Management, vol. 21, no. 4, Aug. 2024, pp. 429-37, doi:10.5055/jem.0813

• Gregory D, Kintziger K, Crouter S, Sims C, Kellogg M, Fitzhugh E. Weather effects on natural surface trail use in an urban wilderness multi-use trail system. Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism, 2024, 46: 100757.  
• Berman, J.D., Abadi, A.M. & Bell, J.E. Existing Challenges and Opportunities for Advancing Drought and Health Research. Curr Envir Health Rpt (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40572-024-00440-z    
• Berg, T.A., Kintziger, K.W., Crumly, J.S. et al. Development of a Proof-of-Concept Multi-Method Computer Simulation to Support Rural Healthcare Disaster Preparedness Planning. Int J Disaster Risk Sci (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13753-024-00561-x   
• Jalalzadeh Fard, B., Puvvula, J., Smith, K., Hayes, M., Lookadoo, R., Mahmood, R., Medcalf, S., Rowe, C., Durr, M., & Bell, J. E. (2024). Health vulnerability mapping for drought: A case study in a predominantly rural, agricultural state. Environmental Research: Health, 2(4), 045001. https://doi.org/10.1088/2752-5309/ad689a  
• Gwon, Y., Ji, Y., Abadi, A.M., Rau, A., Berman, J.D., Leeper, R.D., Rennie, J., Nagaya, R. and Bell, J.E., 2024. The effect of heterogeneous severe drought on all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in the Northern Rockies and Plains of the United States. Science of the Total Environment, 912, p.169033.  
• Kristina W. Kintziger and Sarah Elizabeth Scales, 2024. Escaping Disaster: Understanding the Drivers and Disparities in Disaster Displacement in the United States. American Journal of Public Health 0, e1_e3, https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2024.307889.  
• Ellis, K.N., First, J.M., Kintziger, K.W. et al. Overnight heat in sleep spaces of housed and unhoused residents: results and recommendations from a Knoxville, Tennessee, case study. Int J Biometeorol (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00484-023-02611-3
• Cannady R, Warner C, Yoder A, Miller, A., Crosby. K, Elswick, D., Kintziger, K. The implications of real-time and wearable technology use for occupational heat stress: A scoping review. Safety Science. 2024/09/01/ 2024;177:106600. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2024.106600

• Rachael Birn, Jeff Hamik, Lana Dayne, Justin Frederick, Amanda Bartling, Peter C Iwen, Adam Wells, Matthew Donahue, Confirmed Case of Longstanding Respiratory Francisella tularensis holarctica Infection: Nebraska, 2022, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 78, Issue Supplement_1, 15 February 2024, Pages S64–S66, https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciad669   
• Scales SE, Scales E, Guha-Sapir D. Child Health During War and Disasters: Building Resilience. Indian Pediatr. 2024 Mar 15;61(3):277-280. PMID: 38469846.   
• Cernasev A, Hohmeier KC, Oyedeji O, Kintziger KW, Hagemann TM. Views of the Pharmacists’ Role in HPV Vaccinations: A Qualitative Study in Tennessee. Pharmacy. 2024; 12(2):57. https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy12020057   
• Horney, J. A., Pena, A., Scales, S. E., Fleury-Steiner, R. E., Camphausen, L. C., & Miller, S. L. (2024). Disruption, adaptation, and maintenance of domestic violence services during the COVID-19 pandemic. Critical Public Health, 34(1), 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2024.2336580   
• Cernasev A, Oyedeji O, Springer CM, Hagemann TM, Hohmeier KC, Kintziger KW. Demographic Influences on Adult HPV Vaccination: Results from a Cross-Sectional Survey in Tennessee. Healthcare. 2024; 12(13):1305. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12131305   
• Scales SE, Park JW, Nixon R, Guha-Sapir D, Horney JA. A retrospective cross-sectional study of risk factors for communicable disease diagnoses among refugees in mainland Greek camps, 2016-2017. Sci Rep. 2024 Jul 2;14(1):15164. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-65696-9. PMID: 38956149; PMCID: PMC11219990.  
• Scales SE, Vora B, Loftus K. Oral health among refugees and asylum seekers utilizing Médecins du Monde clinics in Mainland Greece. BMC Oral Health. 2024 Aug 30. doi:10.1186/s12903-024-04841-2   
• Oyedeji, O., Wisdom, T., Kintziger, K., Cernasev, A., Hohmeier, K., Hagemann, T., & Gatwood, J. (2024). Health Behavior Frameworks Describing HPV Vaccine Uptake in Adults: A Scoping Review. Journal of Prevention and Health Promotion, 0(0). First published online October 31, 2024.  https://doi.org/10.1177/26320770241252935.   
• Oyedeji O, Kintziger KW, Springer CM, et al. Examining HPV vaccination behavior among young adults: Insights from applying the Health Belief Model. PLoS One. 2024;19(11):e0312700. Published 2024 Nov 1. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0312700.   
• Scales SE, Kintziger KW, Stone KW, Jagger MA, and Horney JA. Burnout among public health workers during the COVID-19 response: Results from a follow-up survey. PLOS Mental Health. 29 Jul 2024.

• Jansen L, Birn R, Koirala S, Dempsey, S., et al. Campylobacteriosis Outbreak Linked to Municipal Water, Nebraska, USA, 2021. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 2024;30(10):1998-2005. doi:10.3201/eid3010.231509.   
• Jayasekera, D. H., Powers, C., Aiken, J. D., Schoengold, K., & Rimšaitė, R. (2024, September 15). Nitrate contamination in Nebraska’s drinking water. The Water Report, 247, 1–11. The Water Report. 

• Rachel Lookadoo, JD served as a reviewer under the U.S. Brief working Group for the 2024 Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change   
• Jesse Bell, PhD and Summer Woolsey, MPH were contributors to the “Drought Resilience +10 Conference Conclusions and Recommendations” report.  
• Lookadoo, R., Woolsey, S., & Bell, J. Drought and Health: A Messaging Framework for Public Health Professionals and Healthcare providers”. (2023).   

• Jesse Bell, PhD was a lead author of a report titled, “Workstream 9: Health” for the Drought +10 Conference. 

• Fifth National Climate Assessment. Contributions by Jesse Bell, PhD.
• Lancet Countdown on Human Health and Climate Change. Contributions by Rachel Lookadoo, JD.
• Drought and Public Health: A Roadmap for Advancing Engagement and Preparedness. Authored By Jesse Bell, PhD, Rachel Lookadoo, JD and colleagues from the National Integrated Drought Information System.

• Lancet Countdown, 2023: 2023 Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change Policy Brief for the United States of America. Beyeler NS, Knappenberger P, Hess JJ, Salas RN. Lancet Countdown U.S. Policy Brief, London, United Kingdom, 20 pp.
• USGCRP, 2023: Fifth National Climate Assessment. Crimmins, A.R., C.W. Avery, D.R. Easterling, K.E. Kunkel, B.C. Stewart, and T.K. Maycock, Eds. U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC, USA. https://doi.org/10.7930/NCA5.2023

• Bell, J.E., R.E. Lookadoo, K. Hansen, A. Sheffield, M. Woloszyn, S. Reeves & B. Parker. Drought and Public Health: A Roadmap for Advancing Engagement and Preparedness.
• Berg, Thomas A., et al. “The application of model-based systems engineering to Rural Healthcare System Disaster Planning: A scoping review.” International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, vol. 14, no. 3, 2023, pp. 357–368, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13753-
• Gwon, Yeongjin, et al. “The association between drought exposure and respiratory-related mortality in the United States from 2000 to 2018.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 20, no. 12, 2023, p. 6076, https://doi.org/

• Puvvula, J., Poole, J.A., Gwon, Y. et al. Role of social determinants of health in differential respiratory exposure and health outcomes among children. BMC Public Health 23, 119 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-14964-2
• Rau, Austin, et al. “Nationwide assessment of ambient monthly fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and the associations with total, cardiovascular and respiratory mortality in the United States.” Environmental Research: Health, vol. 1, no. 2, 2022, p. 025001,
• Taiba, Jabeen, et al. “Characterization of environmental levels of pesticide residues in household air and dust samples near a bioenergy plant using treated seed as feedstock.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 20, no
• Tong, Daniel Q., et al. “Health and safety effects of airborne soil dust in the Americas and beyond.” Reviews of Geophysics, vol. 61, no. 2, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021rg000763.

• Cernasev, Alina, et al. “Perspectives associated with human papillomavirus vaccination in adults: A qualitative study.” Vaccines, vol. 11, no. 4, 2023, p. 850, https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines11040850.
• Chavez-Lindell, Tamara L., et al. “Perceptions of the impact of COVID-19 in Tennessee, USA: A retrospective study.” PeerJ, vol. 11, 2023, https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15473.
• Horney, Jennifer A., et al. “Threats to public health workers.” Public Health in Practice, vol. 6, 2023, p. 100435, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhip.2023.100435.
• Kintziger, Kristina W., and Jennifer A. Horney. “Impacts of the COVID-19 response on the Academic Public Health Workforce.” COVID-19, Frontline Responders and Mental Health: A Playbook for Delivering Resilient Public Health Systems Post-Pandemic, 2023, pp

• Puvvula, J., Baccaglini, L., Johnson Jr, A., Du, Y., Bell, J. E., & Rautiainen, R. H. (2022). Prevalence and risk factors for pulmonary conditions among farmers and ranchers in the central United States. Journal of Agromedicine.PB

• Watanabe-Galloway, S., Chasek, C., Yoder, A. M., & Bell, J. E. (2022). Substance use disorders in the farming population: Scoping review. The Journal of Rural Health, 38(1), 129-150.

• New-Aaron M, Abimbola O, Mohammadi R, Famojuro O, Naveed Z, Abadi A, Bell JE, Bartelt-Hunt S, Rogan EG. Low-Level Groundwater Atrazine in High Atrazine Usage Nebraska Counties: Likely Effects of Excessive Groundwater Abstraction. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021; 18(24):13241. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34948848/
• Puvvula, J., Bartelt-Hunt, S.L., Ouattara, B.S., Kolok, A.S., Bell, J.E., Rogan, E.G., Association between aqueous Atrazine and pediatric cancer in Nebraska, (2021) Water (Switzerland), 13 (19), art. no. 272, DOI:10.3390/w13192727

• The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change: Policy Brief for the United States of America, both Rachel Lookadoo and Dr. Jesse Bell were editors.

• Berman, J. D., Ramirez, M. R., Bell, J. E., Bilotta, R., Gerr, F., & Fethke, N. B. (2021). The association between drought conditions and increased occupational psychosocial stress among US farmers: An occupational cohort study. Science of The Total Environment, 149245.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification report titled Thinking Ahead: Drought Resilience and COVID-19, Jesse Bell was a contributing author
• Leeper, R. D., Matthews, J. L., Cesarini, M. S., & Bell, J. E. (2021). Evaluation of air and soil temperatures for determining the onset of growing season. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, e2020JG006171.

• Gribble, M. O., Kaufman, J. A., Abadi, A. M., Bilotta, R., Bell, J. E., & Scovronick, N. C. (2021). Differential susceptibility to aridity for mortality outcomes in South Africa: Application of mixed-effect regression tree analysis to a case-only design. ISEE Conference Abstracts, 2021(1). https://doi.org/10.1289/isee.2021.o-lt-030
• Landon, C. M., Lyles, R. H., Scovronick, N. C., Abadi, A. M., Bilotta, R., Hauer, M. E., Bell, J. E., & Gribble, M. O. (2021). Mixed-effects negative binomial regression with interval censoring: A simulation study and application to aridity and all-cause mortality among black South Africans over 1997–2013. Emerging Topics in Statistics and Biostatistics, 381–413. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72437-5_17
• Manangan, A., Brown, C., Saha, S., Bell, J., Hess, J., Uejio, C., ... & Schramm, P. (2021). Long-term pollen trends and associations between pollen phenology and seasonal climate in Atlanta, Georgia (1992-2018). Annals of Allergy,Asthma & Immunology.

• Jalalzadeh Fard, B., Mahmood, R., Hayes, M., Rowe, C., Abadi, A. M., Shulski, M., ... & Bell, J. E. (2021). Mapping heat vulnerability index based on different urbanization levels in Nebraska, USA. GeoHealth, 5(10), e2021GH000478. 

• McDermid, S. S., Mahmood, R., Hayes, M. J., Bell, J. E., & Lieberman, Z. (2021). Minimizing trade-offs for sustainable irrigation. Nature Geoscience, 14(10), 706-709.