About
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health at Stanford University School of Medicine. I received my doctorate from the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. Before that, I received my MPH at New York University, my BA in Sociology from San Diego State University, and I was a 2016 fellow at University of Chicago's Data Science for Social Good summer fellowship.
My research lies at the intersection of computational social science and social epidemiology. Methodologically, my work revolves around combining disparate data sources in epidemiologically meaningful ways. For example, I work with individual-level, non-health data (e.g., GPS, accelerometer, and other sensor data from smartphones), traditional health data (e.g., survey, health systems, or death certificate data), and third-party data (e.g., cellphone providers or ad-tech data). To do this, I use a variety of methods such as joint Bayesian spatial models, machine learning, traditional epidemiologic models, dynamical models, microsimulation, and demographic analysis.
Substantively, my work focuses on socioeconomic and racial/ethnic inequities in health. My active research spans many concurrent projects, but a few examples include (1) modeling the reemergence of vaccine-preventable diseases under declining US vaccination rates; (2) measuring disparities in fatal drug overdoses across racial/ethnic, geographic, and socioeconomic dimensions; and (3) quantifying the population-level burden of orphanhood from cancer, drug overdoses, and firearm violence.
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2026
Wells W, Chen YH, Raquib RV, Charpignon ML, Lee AR, Chen R, Stokes AC, Kiang MV, Torres JM, Glymour MM. The long arm of childhood policy: Historical schooling laws and COVID-19 pandemic-era mortality. Epidemiology. 2026 Sep 1;37(5):654-661. doi: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000002002. Epub 2026 May 19. PubMed PMID: 42153772; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC13435900.
Ma Y, Kaplan J, Rehkopf DH, Huynh BQ, Kiang MV‡, Benmarhnia T‡. Two-way fixed effects models in air pollution epidemiology: a proposed framework for model specifications and recommendations for future studies. American Journal of Epidemiology. 2026 Aug 5;195(8):2253-2262. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwag069. Epub 2026 Mar 26. PubMed PMID: 41885476; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC13437085. ‡Senior authors contributed equally.
Riddell CA, Kiang MV, Kaufman JS. Scale matters: Patterns of inequity in measures of structural racism can reverse direction when using the relative vs. the absolute scale. Social Science and Medicine. 2026 Jul 15;405:119598. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.119598. PubMed PMID: 42480374.
Kiang MV. Commentary on Friedman et al.: Inequitable improvements and data gaps — A call for better drug surveillance data. Addiction. 2026 Jun 24. doi: 10.1111/add.70520. PubMed PMID: 42340138.
Velásquez EE, Kiang MV. Real-world management of opioid use disorder in primary care 2015–2019: associations between clinical practice attributes, diagnosis, and treatment. Critical Public Health. 2026 May 25;36(1). doi: 10.1080/09581596.2026.2676423. PubMed PMID: 42433393; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC13354046.
Basu S, Huynh BQ, Kiang MV, Chin ET, Andrews JR. Mortality in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention. JAMA. 2026 May 12;335(18):1632-1635. doi: 10.1001/jama.2026.3719. PubMed PMID: 41989771; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC13087903.
Kiang MV, Li ZR, Wrigley-Field E, Raquib RV, Lundberg DJ, Paglino E, Huynh B, Bibbins-Domingo K, Glymour MM, Stokes AC. Applying machine learning to identify unrecognized COVID-19 deaths recorded as other causes of death in the United States. Science Advances. 2026 Mar 20;12(12):eaef5697. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aef5697. Epub 2026 Mar 18. PubMed PMID: 41849604; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12998511.
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AP News, CNN, Fox, NBC, SF Chronicle, The Guardian, Kaiser Health News, Medscape, Scientific American, US News, MSN, Yahoo
Fattah M†, Stoffel LA†, Bubar KM, Bents SJ, Maldonado Y, Hotez PJ, Kiang MV‡, Lo NC‡. Trends in county-level childhood vaccination exemptions in the US. JAMA. 2026 Feb 10;335(6):546-549. doi: 10.1001/jama.2025.24407. PubMed PMID: 41533386; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12805488. †First authors contributed equally. ‡Senior authors contributed equally.
Elser HE†, Kiang MV†, Humphreys K, Zhang J. High-risk emergency department visits and risk of all-cause mortality, suicide, and fatal overdose among US military veterans. American Journal of Epidemiology. 2026 Jan 8;195(1):102-108. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwaf002. PubMed PMID: 39780412; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC13218352. †First authors contributed equally.
2025
Lo NC, Maldonado Y, Chu HY, Hotez PJ, Kiang MV. Modeling the health impact of discontinuing COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy in the US. JAMA Pediatrics. 2025 Dec 1;179(12):1353-1355. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2025.3561. PubMed PMID: 41021249; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12481355.
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Qiu M, Li J, Gould CF, Jing R, Kelp M, Childs ML, Wen J, Xie Y, Lin M, Kiang MV, Heft-Neal S, Diffenbaugh NS, Burke M. Wildfire smoke exposure and mortality burden in the USA under climate change. Nature. 2025 Nov 1;647(8091):935-943. doi: 10.1038/s41586-025-09611-w. Epub 2025 Sep 18. PubMed PMID: 40967551.
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CBS, Popular Science, Smithsonian Magazine, Chicago Sun-Times, Forbes, KPBS (2), Reason, SF Gate, AOL, Yahoo (2)
Gould CF, Heft-Neal S, Heaney AK, Bendavid E, Callahan CW, Kiang MV, Graff Zivin J, Burke M. Temperature extremes impact mortality and morbidity differently. Science Advances. 2025 Aug 1;11(31):eadr3070. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adr3070. Epub 2025 Jul 30. PubMed PMID: 40737397; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12309665.
Potter AL, Schlüter B-S, Alexander MJ, Yang CJ‡, Kiang MV‡. Youths experiencing parental death due to cancer. JAMA Network Open. 2025 Jul 1;8(7):e2519106. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.19106. PubMed PMID: 40622718; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12235492. ‡Senior authors contributed equally.
Kiang MV, Bubar KM, Maldonado Y, Hotez PJ, Lo NC. Modeling reemergence of vaccine-eliminated infectious diseases under declining vaccination in the US. JAMA. 2025 Jun 24;333(24):2176-2187. doi: 10.1001/jama.2025.6495. PubMed PMID: 40272967; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12022863.
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ABC, CBS, CNN (2) (3), Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, ProPublica, Reuters, The Atlantic (2), The Economist, The Wall Street Journal (editorial board), USA Today (2), Washington Post (2) (3), Kaiser Health News, KFF Health News (2), Popular Science, Scientific American, Wired, Forbes, NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, Orlando Sentinel, The Nation, US News, AOL, MSN (2) (3) (4), Yahoo (2)
Smith DA, Lavertu A, Salecha A, Hamamsy T, Humphreys K, Lembke A, Kiang MV, Altman RB, Eichstaedt JC. Monitoring the opioid epidemic via social media discussions. npj Digital Medicine. 2025 May 15;8(1):284. doi: 10.1038/s41746-025-01642-x. PubMed PMID: 40374984; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12081907.
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Carpenter KA, Nguyen AT, Smith DA, Samori IA, Humphreys K, Lembke A, Kiang MV, Eichstaedt JC, Altman RB. Which social media platforms facilitate monitoring the opioid crisis?. PLOS Digital Health. 2025 Apr 1;4(4):e0000842. doi: 10.1371/journal.pdig.0000842. PubMed PMID: 40293990; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12036940.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine◊. Veterans, prescription opioids and benzodiazepines, and mortality, 2007–2019: Three target trial emulations. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. 2025 Feb 6. doi: 10.17226/28584. ◊Group authorship.
Kiang MV, Humphreys K. Recent drug overdose mortality decline compared with pre-COVID-19 trend. JAMA Network Open. 2025 Feb 3;8(2):e2458090. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.58090. PubMed PMID: 39908021; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11800014.
Kiang MV, Alexander MJ. Invited commentary: motivating better methods-and better data collection-for measuring the prevalence of drug misuse. American Journal of Epidemiology. 2025 Jan 8;194(1):12-16. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwae156. PubMed PMID: 38932578; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11735954.
2024
Geldsetzer P, Fridljand D, Kiang MV, Bendavid E, Heft-Neal S, Burke M, Thieme AH, Benmarhnia T. Disparities in air pollution attributable mortality in the US population by race/ethnicity and sociodemographic factors. Nature Medicine. 2024 Oct 1;30(10):2821-2829. doi: 10.1038/s41591-024-03117-0. Epub 2024 Jul 1. PubMed PMID: 38951636.
Burke M, Zahid M, Martins MCM, Callahan CW, Lee R, Avirmed T, Heft-Neal S, Kiang MV, Hsiang SM, Lobell D. Are we adapting to climate change?. Preprint on NBER. 2024 Sep 1. doi: 10.3386/w32985.
Chandra J, Charpignon M-L, Bhaskar A, Therriault A, Chen Y-H, Mooney A, Dahleh MA, Kiang MV‡, Dominici F‡. Excess fatal overdoses in the United States during the COVID-19 Pandemic by geography and substance type: March 2020–August 2021. American Journal of Public Health. 2024 Jun 1;114(6):599-609. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2024.307618. PubMed PMID: 38718338; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11079842. ‡Senior authors contributed equally.
Schlüter BS, Alburez-Gutierrez D, Bibbins-Domingo K, Alexander MJ‡, Kiang MV‡. Youth experiencing parental death due to drug poisoning and firearm violence in the US, 1999–2020. JAMA. 2024 May 28;331(20):1741-1747. doi: 10.1001/jama.2024.8391. PubMed PMID: 38703404; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11070062. ‡Senior authors contributed equally.
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CNN, Albany Herald, Philadelphia Tribune, US News (2), AOL, MSN
Huynh BQ, Chin ET, Kiang MV. Estimated childhood lead exposure from drinking water in Chicago. JAMA Pediatrics. 2024 May 1;178(5):473-479. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.0133. PubMed PMID: 38497944; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10949143.
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ABC (2), CBS, CNN (2), NBC, NPR (2), Washington Post (2), Science Daily, Chicago Sun-Times (2), KPBS, Miami Herald, Philadelphia Tribune, SF Gate, The Fresno Bee, US News, WBEZ (2), AOL (2) (3), MSN, Yahoo (2) (3) (4) (5)
Potter AL, Rosenstein AL, Kandala K, Venkateswaran S, Kiang MV, Okusanya OT, Auchincloss HG, Martin LW, Colson YL, Yang CJ. Shortage of thoracic surgeons in the United States: Implications for treatment and survival for Stage I lung cancer patients. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2024 May 1;167(5):1603-1614.e9. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2023.08.059. Epub 2023 Sep 15. PubMed PMID: 37716651.
Huynh BQ, Chin ET, Koenecke A, Ouyang D, Ho DE, Kiang MV‡, Rehkopf DH‡. Mitigating allocative tradeoffs and harms in an environmental justice data tool. Nature Machine Intelligence. 2024 Feb 16. doi: 10.1038/s42256-024-00793-y. ‡Senior authors contributed equally.
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AP News, San Francisco Chronicle, CalMatters, KPBS (2), Long Beach Post, Palo Alto Online (2), SF Gate (2), Union of Concerned Scientists, US News
2023
Liang R, Kiang MV, Grant P, Jackson C, Rehkopf DH. Associations between county-level public health expenditures and community health planning activities with COVID-19 incidence and mortality. Preventive Medicine Reports. 2023 Dec 1;36:102410. doi: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2023.102410. PubMed PMID: 37732021; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10507150.
Potter AL, Vaddaraju V, Venkateswaran S, Mansur A, Bajaj SS, Kiang MV, Jena AB, Yang CJ. Deaths due to COVID-19 in patients with cancer during different waves of the pandemic in the US. JAMA Oncology. 2023 Oct 1;9(10):1417-1422. doi: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2023.3066. PubMed PMID: 37651113; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10472259.
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Heft-Neal S, Gould CF, Childs ML, Kiang MV, Nadeau KC, Duggan M, Bendavid E, Burke M. Emergency department visits respond nonlinearly to wildfire smoke. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2023 Sep 26;120(39):e2302409120. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2302409120. Epub 2023 Sep 18. PubMed PMID: 37722035; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10523589.
Chen R, Charpignon M-L, Raquib RV, Wang J, Meza E, Aschmann HE, DeVost MA, Mooney A, Bibbins-Domingo K, Riley AR, Kiang MV, Chen Y-H, Stokes AC, Glymour MM. Excess mortality with Alzheimer disease and related dementias as an underlying or contributing cause during the COVID-19 pandemic in the US. JAMA Neurology. 2023 Sep 1;80(9):919-928. doi: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2023.2226. PubMed PMID: 37459088; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10352932.
Glymour MM, Charpignon M-L, Chen Y-H, Kiang MV. Counterpoint — Preprints and the future of scientific publishing: In favor of relevance. American Journal of Epidemiology. 2023 Jul 7;192(7):1043-1046. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwad052. PubMed PMID: 36958814.
Heerema MR, Ventura AS, Blakemore SC, Montoya ID, Gobel DE, Kiang MV, LaBelle CT, Bazzi AR. Evaluation of the New England office based addiction treatment ECHO: A tool for strengthening the addiction workforce. Substance Abuse. 2023 Jul 1;44(3):164-176. doi: 10.1177/08897077231179601. Epub 2023 Jun 7. PubMed PMID: 37287240; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10688578.
Huynh BQ, Kiang MV. AI for anticipatory action: Moving beyond climate forecasting. Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium Series. 2023 Jul 1;2(1):78-84. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2307.15727.
Lundberg DJ, Wrigley-Field E, Cho A, Raquib R, Nsoesie EO, Paglino E, Chen R, Kiang MV, Riley AR, Chen Y-H, Charpignon M-L, Hempstead K, Preston SH, Elo IT, Glymour MM, Stokes AC. COVID-19 mortality by race and ethnicity in US metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas, March 2020 to February 2022. JAMA Network Open. 2023 May 1;6(5):e2311098. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.11098. PubMed PMID: 37129894; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10155069.
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Do V, McBrien H, Flores NM, Northrop AJ, Schlegelmilch J, Kiang MV, Casey JA. Spatiotemporal distribution of power outages with climate events and social vulnerability in the USA. Nature Communications. 2023 Apr 29;14(1):2470. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-38084-6. PubMed PMID: 37120649; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10147900.
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ABC, NPR, PBS, Washington Post, Popular Science, Scientific American (2), CNET, Houston Chronicle (2) (3), KPBS, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, SF Gate (2), Union of Concerned Scientists, AOL (2), MSN (2) (3), Yahoo (2) (3) (4) (5)
Velásquez EE, Benmarhnia T, Casey JA, Aguilera R, Kiang MV. Quantifying exposure to wildfire smoke among schoolchildren in California, 2006 to 2021. JAMA Network Open. 2023 Apr 3;6(4):e235863. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.5863. PubMed PMID: 37017969; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10077104.
Kiang MV, Carlasare LE, Thadaney Israni S, Norcini JJ, Zaman JAB, Bibbins-Domingo K. Excess mortality among US physicians during the COVID-19 pandemic. JAMA Internal Medicine. 2023 Apr 1;183(4):374-376. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2022.6308. PubMed PMID: 36745424; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10071333.
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ABC, MedPage Today, Medscape, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Medical News, US News, Yahoo
Potter AL, Haridas C, Neumann K, Kiang MV, Fong ZV, Riddell CA, Pope HG Jr, Yang CJ. Incidence, Timing, and factors associated with suicide among patients undergoing surgery for cancer in the US. JAMA Oncology. 2023 Mar 1;9(3):308-315. doi: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2022.6549. PubMed PMID: 36633854; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9857808.
Elser H, Humphreys K, Kiang MV, Mehta S, Yoon JH, Faustman WO, Matthay EC. State cannabis legalization and psychosis-related health care utilization. JAMA Network Open. 2023 Jan 3;6(1):e2252689. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.52689. PubMed PMID: 36696111; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9925044.
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MedPage Today, Duluth News Tribune, Houston Public Media, The Epoch Times, MSN
Flores NM, McBrien H, Do V, Kiang MV, Schlegelmilch J, Casey JA. The 2021 Texas Power Crisis: distribution, duration, and disparities. Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology. 2023 Jan 1;33(1):21-31. doi: 10.1038/s41370-022-00462-5. Epub 2022 Aug 13. PubMed PMID: 35963946; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9851928.
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Houston Chronicle, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, SF Gate, World Bank, Yahoo (2)
Elser H, Rowland ST, Marek MS, Kiang MV, Shea B, Do V, Benmarhnia T, Schneider ALC, Casey JA. Wildfire smoke exposure and emergency department visits for headache: A case-crossover analysis in California, 2006–2020. Headache. 2023 Jan 1;63(1):94-103. doi: 10.1111/head.14442. Epub 2023 Jan 18. PubMed PMID: 36651537; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10066880.
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Criss S, Nguyen TT, Michaels EK, Gee GC, Kiang MV, Nguyen QC, Norton S, Titherington E, Nguyen L, Yardi I, Kim M, Thai N, Shepherd A, Kennedy CJ. Solidarity and strife after the Atlanta spa shootings: a mixed methods study characterizing Twitter discussions by qualitative analysis and machine learning. Frontiers in Public Health. 2023;11:952069. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.952069. PubMed PMID: 36825140; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9941551.
2022
Aschmann HE†, Riley AR†, Chen R, Chen Y-H, Bibbins-Domingo K, Stokes AC, Glymour MM, Kiang MV. Dynamics of racial disparities in all-cause mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2022 Oct 4;119(40):e2210941119. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2210941119. Epub 2022 Sep 20. PubMed PMID: 36126098; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9546535. †First authors contributed equally.
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Chen Y-H, Riley AR, Duchowny KA, Aschmann HE, Chen R, Kiang MV, Mooney AC, Stokes AC, Glymour MM, Bibbins-Domingo K. COVID-19 mortality and excess mortality among working-age residents in California, USA, by occupational sector: a longitudinal cohort analysis of mortality surveillance data. The Lancet Public Health. 2022 Sep 1;7(9):e744-e753. doi: 10.1016/S2468-2667(22)00191-8. PubMed PMID: 36057273; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9433054.
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Chen R, Aschmann HE, Chen Y-H, Glymour MM, Bibbins-Domingo K, Stokes AC, Kiang MV. Racial and ethnic disparities in estimated excess mortality from external causes in the US, March to December 2020. JAMA Internal Medicine. 2022 Jul 1;182(7):776-778. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2022.1461. PubMed PMID: 35532918; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9086931.
Kiang MV, Acosta RJ, Chen Y-H, Matthay EC, Tsai AC, Basu S, Glymour MM, Bibbins-Domingo K, Humphreys K‡, Arthur KN‡. Sociodemographic and geographic disparities in excess fatal drug overdoses during the COVID-19 pandemic in California: a population-based study. The Lancet Regional Health - Americas. 2022 Jul 1;11:100237. doi: 10.1016/j.lana.2022.100237. Epub 2022 Mar 19. PubMed PMID: 35342895; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8934030. ‡Senior authors contributed equally.
Chen Y-H, Stokes AC, Aschmann HE, Chen R, DeVost S, Kiang MV, Koliwad S, Riley AR, Glymour MM, Bibbins-Domingo K. Excess natural-cause deaths in California by cause and setting: March 2020 through February 2021. PNAS Nexus. 2022 Jul 1;1(3):pgac079. doi: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgac079. PubMed PMID: 35832865; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9272175.
Press coverage6
The Conversation, MedicalXpress, Republic, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Yahoo
Riley AR†, Kiang MV†, Chen YH, Bibbins-Domingo K, Glymour MM. Recent shifts in racial/ethnic disparities in COVID-19 mortality in the vaccination period in California. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2022 May 1;37(7):1818-1820. doi: 10.1007/s11606-021-07380-6. Epub 2022 Feb 2. PubMed PMID: 35112284; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8809629. †First authors contributed equally.
Chen Y-H, Chen R, Charpignon M-L, Kiang MV, Riley AR, Glymour MM, Bibbins-Domingo K, Stokes AC. COVID-19 mortality among working-age Americans in 46 states, by industry and occupation. Preprint on medRxiv. 2022 Apr 1. doi: 10.1101/2022.03.29.22273085.
Potter AL, Rosenstein AL, Kiang MV, Shah SA, Gaissert HA, Chang DC, Fintelmann FJ, Yang CJ. Association of computed tomography screening with lung cancer stage shift and survival in the United States: quasi-experimental study. BMJ. 2022 Mar 30;376:e069008. doi: 10.1136/bmj-2021-069008. PubMed PMID: 35354556; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8965744.
Kiang MV, Tsai AC. Failure of leadership in U.S. academic medicine after George Floyd's killing by police and amidst subsequent unrest. Annals of Epidemiology. 2022 Jan 1;65:116-119. doi: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2021.04.018. Epub 2021 May 21. PubMed PMID: 34023486; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8606007.
Acosta RJ, Patnaik B, Buckee CO, Kiang MV, Irizarry RA, Balsari S, Mahmud AS. All-cause excess mortality across 90 municipalities in Gujarat, India, during the COVID-19 pandemic (March 2020–April 2021). PLOS Global Public Health. 2022;2(8):e0000824. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0000824. PubMed PMID: 36962751; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10021770.
2021
Chang HH, Chang MC, Kiang MV, Mahmud AS, Ekapirat N, Engø-Monsen K, Sudathip P, Buckee CO, Maude RJ. Low parasite connectivity among three malaria hotspots in Thailand. Scientific Reports. 2021 Dec 2;11(1):23348. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-02746-6. PubMed PMID: 34857842; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8640040.
Huynh BQ, Kwong LH, Kiang MV, Chin ET, Mohareb AM, Jumaan AO, Basu S, Geldsetzer P, Karaki FM, Rehkopf DH. Public health impacts of an imminent Red Sea oil spill. Nature Sustainability. 2021 Dec 1;4(12):1084-1091. doi: 10.1038/s41893-021-00774-8. Epub 2021 Oct 11. PubMed PMID: 34926834; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8682806.
Kiang MV, Barnett ML, Wakeman SE, Humphreys K, Tsai AC. Robustness of estimated access to opioid use disorder treatment providers in rural vs. urban areas of the United States. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 2021 Nov 1;228:109081. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2021.109081. Epub 2021 Sep 24. PubMed PMID: 34600256; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8595811.
Balsari S, Kiang MV, Buckee CO. Data in crisis — Rethinking disaster preparedness in the United States. New England Journal of Medicine. 2021 Oct 14;385(16):1526-1530. doi: 10.1056/NEJMms2104654. Epub 2021 Sep 1. PubMed PMID: 34469643; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8622661.
Kiang MV, Tsai AC, Alexander MJ, Rehkopf DH, Basu S. Racial/ethnic disparities in opioid-related mortality in the USA, 1999–2019: the extreme case of Washington DC. Journal of Urban Health. 2021 Oct 1;98(5):589-595. doi: 10.1007/s11524-021-00573-8. Epub 2021 Oct 18. PubMed PMID: 34664185; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8566633.
Wrigley-Field E, Kiang MV, Riley AR, Barbieri M, Chen YH, Duchowny KA, Matthay EC, Van Riper D, Jegathesan K, Bibbins-Domingo K, Leider JP. Geographically targeted COVID-19 vaccination is more equitable and averts more deaths than age-based thresholds alone. Science Advances. 2021 Oct 1;7(40):eabj2099. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abj2099. Epub 2021 Sep 29. PubMed PMID: 34586843; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8480919.
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Fox, The Conversation (2), Houston Chronicle, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Yahoo (2)
Kiang MV, Chen JT, Krieger N, Buckee CO, Alexander MJ, Baker JT, Buckner RL, Coombs G 3rd, Rich-Edwards JW, Carlson KW, Onnela JP. Sociodemographic characteristics of missing data in digital phenotyping. Scientific Reports. 2021 Jul 29;11(1):15408. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-94516-7. PubMed PMID: 34326370; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8322366.
Satinsky EN, Kimura T, Kiang MV, Abebe R, Cunningham S, Lee H, Lin X, Liu CH, Rudan I, Sen S, Tomlinson M, Yaver M, Tsai AC. Systematic review and meta-analysis of depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation among Ph.D. students. Scientific Reports. 2021 Jul 13;11(1):14370. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-93687-7. PubMed PMID: 34257319; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8277873.
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Kiang MV, Chin ET, Huynh BQ, Chapman LAC, Rodríguez-Barraquer I, Greenhouse B, Rutherford GW, Bibbins-Domingo K, Havlir D, Basu S, Lo NC. Routine asymptomatic testing strategies for airline travel during the COVID-19 pandemic: a simulation study. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 2021 Jul 1;21(7):929-938. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(21)00134-1. Epub 2021 Mar 23. PubMed PMID: 33765417; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7984872.
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ABC, AP News, Fox (2), USA Today, Washington Post, Daily Magazine, Detroit Free Press, Hawaii Public Radio, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, SF Gate, Star Tribune, US News, MSN, Yahoo
Ferguson JM†, Abdel Magid HS†, Purnell AL, Kiang MV, Osborne TF. Differences in COVID-19 Testing and test positivity among Veterans, United States, 2020. Public Health Reports. 2021 Jul 1;136(4):483-492. doi: 10.1177/00333549211009498. Epub 2021 Apr 7. PubMed PMID: 33826875; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8203038. †First authors contributed equally.
Brown TS, Engø-Monsen K, Kiang MV, Mahmud AS, Maude RJ, Buckee CO. The impact of mobility network properties on predicted epidemic dynamics in Dhaka and Bangkok. Epidemics. 2021 Jun 1;35:100441. doi: 10.1016/j.epidem.2021.100441. Epub 2021 Feb 22. PubMed PMID: 33667878; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7899011.
Casey JA, Mango M, Mullendore S, Kiang MV, Hernández D, Li BH, Li K, Im TM, Tartof SY. Trends from 2008 to 2018 in electricity-dependent durable medical equipment rentals and sociodemographic disparities. Epidemiology. 2021 May 1;32(3):327-335. doi: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000001333. PubMed PMID: 33591051; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8140591.
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Washington Post, Houston Chronicle, KPBS, Salon, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, SF Gate, Union of Concerned Scientists, Yahoo
Elser H, Parks RM, Moghavem N, Kiang MV, Bozinov N, Henderson VW, Rehkopf DH, Casey JA. Anomalously warm weather and acute care visits in patients with multiple sclerosis: A retrospective study of privately insured individuals in the US. PLOS Medicine. 2021 Apr 1;18(4):e1003580. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003580. PubMed PMID: 33901187; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8109782.
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Salje H, Wesolowski A, Brown TS, Kiang MV, Berry IM, Lefrancq N, Fernandez S, Jarman RG, Ruchusatsawat K, Iamsirithaworn S, Vandepitte WP, Suntarattiwong P, Read JM, Klungthong C, Thaisomboonsuk B, Engø-Monsen K, Buckee C‡, Cauchemez S‡, Cummings DAT‡. Reconstructing unseen transmission events to infer dengue dynamics from viral sequences. Nature Communications. 2021 Mar 22;12(1):1810. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-21888-9. PubMed PMID: 33753725; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7985522. ‡Senior authors contributed equally.
Matthay EC, Kiang MV, Elser H, Schmidt L, Humphreys K. Evaluation of state cannabis laws and rates of self-harm and assault. JAMA Network Open. 2021 Mar 1;4(3):e211955. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.1955. PubMed PMID: 33734416; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7974641.
Press coverage5
MedPage Today, Doctors Lounge, MedicalXpress, Public Health Agency of Canada, SF Gate
Baum LVM, Bruzelius E, Kiang MV, Humphreys K, Basu S, Baum A. Analysis of unused prescription opioids and benzodiazepines remaining after death among Medicare decedents. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 2021 Feb 1;219:108502. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2020.108502. Epub 2021 Jan 2. PubMed PMID: 33421803; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7914112.
Kiang MV†, Santillana M†, Chen JT, Onnela JP, Krieger N, Engø-Monsen K, Ekapirat N, Areechokchai D, Prempree P, Maude RJ‡, Buckee CO‡. Incorporating human mobility data improves forecasts of Dengue fever in Thailand. Scientific Reports. 2021 Jan 13;11(1):923. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-79438-0. PubMed PMID: 33441598; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7806770. †First authors contributed equally. ‡Senior authors contributed equally.
Elser H†, Kiang MV†, John EM, Simard JF, Bondy M, Nelson LM, Chen WT, Linos E. The impact of the first COVID-19 shelter-in-place announcement on social distancing, difficulty in daily activities, and levels of concern in the San Francisco Bay Area: A cross-sectional social media survey. PLOS One. 2021;16(1):e0244819. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0244819. PubMed PMID: 33444363; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7808609. †First authors contributed equally.
2020
Kiang MV, Irizarry RA, Buckee CO, Balsari S. Every body counts: Measuring mortality from the COVID-19 pandemic. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2020 Dec 15;173(12):1004-1007. doi: 10.7326/M20-3100. Epub 2020 Sep 11. PubMed PMID: 32915654; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7505023.
Casey JA, Fukurai M, Hernández D, Balsari S, Kiang MV. Power outages and community health: A narrative review. Current Environmental Health Reports. 2020 Dec 1;7(4):371-383. doi: 10.1007/s40572-020-00295-0. Epub 2020 Nov 11. PubMed PMID: 33179170; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7749027.
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ABC, NPR, Washington Post, Forbes, Georgia Public Radio, Hawaii Public Radio, KPBS, The Verge (2), AOL, MSN (2), Yahoo
Kishore N, Kiang MV, Engø-Monsen K, Vembar N, Schroeder A, Balsari S, Buckee CO. Measuring mobility to monitor travel and physical distancing interventions: a common framework for mobile phone data analysis. The Lancet Digital Health. 2020 Nov 1;2(11):e622-e628. doi: 10.1016/S2589-7500(20)30193-X. Epub 2020 Sep 1. PubMed PMID: 32905027; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7462565.
Chin T†, Kahn R†, Li R, Chen JT, Krieger N, Buckee CO, Balsari S‡, Kiang MV‡. US-county level variation in intersecting individual, household and community characteristics relevant to COVID-19 and planning an equitable response: a cross-sectional analysis. BMJ Open. 2020 Sep 1;10(9):e039886. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-039886. PubMed PMID: 32873684; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7467554. †First authors contributed equally. ‡Senior authors contributed equally.
Kiang MV, Humphreys K, Cullen MR, Basu S. Opioid prescribing patterns among medical providers in the United States, 2003-17: retrospective, observational study. BMJ. 2020 Jan 29;368:l6968. doi: 10.1136/bmj.l6968. PubMed PMID: 31996352; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7190021.
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2019
Kiang MV, Krieger N, Buckee CO, Onnela JP, Chen JT. Decomposition of the US Black/White inequality in premature mortality, 2010–2015: an observational study. BMJ Open. 2019 Nov 19;9(11):e029373. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-029373. PubMed PMID: 31748287; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6887068.
Tsai AC, Kiang MV, Barnett ML, Beletsky L, Keyes KM, McGinty EE, Smith LR, Strathdee SA, Wakeman SE, Venkataramani AS. Stigma as a fundamental hindrance to the United States opioid overdose crisis response. PLOS Medicine. 2019 Nov 1;16(11):e1002969. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002969. PubMed PMID: 31770387; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6957118.
Press coverage8
NBC, Health Affairs, The Conversation (2) (3), SF Gate, The Hill, The Michigan Daily, Urban Institute, Yahoo
Vable AM, Kiang MV, Glymour MM, Rigdon J, Drabo EF, Basu S. Performance of matching methods as compared with unmatched ordinary least squares regression under constant effects. American Journal of Epidemiology. 2019 Jul 1;188(7):1345-1354. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwz093. PubMed PMID: 30995301; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6601529.
Kiang MV, Basu S, Chen J, Alexander MJ. Assessment of changes in the geographical distribution of opioid-related mortality across the United States by opioid type, 1999–2016. JAMA Network Open. 2019 Feb 1;2(2):e190040. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.0040. PubMed PMID: 30794299; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6484620.
Press coverage8
ABC (2), CNN, Fox, MedPage Today, The Conversation, Urban Institute, US News, Yahoo
Gemmill A, Kiang MV, Alexander MJ. Trends in pregnancy-associated mortality involving opioids in the United States, 2007–2016. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2019 Jan 1;220(1):115-116. doi: 10.1016/j.ajog.2018.09.028. Epub 2018 Sep 28. PubMed PMID: 30273587.
2018
Vable AM, Kiang MV, Basu S, Rudolph KE, Kawachi I, Subramanian SV, Glymour MM. Military service, childhood socio-economic status, and late-life lung function: Korean War era military service associated with smaller disparities. Military Medicine. 2018 Sep 1;183(9-10):e576-e582. doi: 10.1093/milmed/usx196. PubMed PMID: 29509934; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6119642.
Alexander MJ†, Kiang MV†, Barbieri M. Trends in Black and White opioid mortality in the United States, 1979–2015. Epidemiology. 2018 Sep 1;29(5):707-715. doi: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000000858. PubMed PMID: 29847496; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6072374. †First authors contributed equally.
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NBC, New York Times, Washington Post, Forbes, WBUR (2), AOL, MSN
Kishore N, Marques-Reyes D, Mahmud A, Kiang MV, Rodriguez I, Fuller A, Ebner P, Sorensen C, Racy F, Lemery J, Maas L, Leaning J, Irizarry RA, Balsari S‡, Buckee CO‡. Mortality in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. New England Journal of Medicine. 2018 Jul 12;379(2):162-170. doi: 10.1056/NEJMsa1803972. Epub 2018 May 29. PubMed PMID: 29809109. ‡Senior authors contributed equally.
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ABC, BBC, CNN, LA Times, NBC, New York Times (2) (3), NPR, PBS, The Atlantic, The Boston Globe, The Guardian, The New Yorker (2) (3), Time, USA Today, Axios, Health Affairs, Kaiser Health News, Popular Science, Scientific American, The Conversation, Vox, Business Insider (2), Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), Colorado Public Radio, Congressional Research Service, Gizmodo, Hawaii Public Radio, KPBS, Salon, San Jose Mercury, The Denver Post, Urban Institute, US News (2), MSN (2), Yahoo
2016
Krieger N, Gruskin S, Singh N, Kiang MV, Chen JT, Waterman PD, Beckfield J, Coull BA. Reproductive justice and preventable deaths: state funding, family planning, abortion, and infant mortality, US 1980–2010. SSM Population Health. 2016 Dec 1;2:277-293. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2016.03.007. PubMed PMID: 27453928; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4950871.
Torous J, Kiang MV, Lorme J, Onnela JP. New tools for new research in psychiatry: A scalable and customizable platform to empower data driven smartphone research. JMIR Mental Health. 2016 May 5;3(2):e16. doi: 10.2196/mental.5165. PubMed PMID: 27150677; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4873624.
Molina G, Jiang W, Edmondson L, Gibbons L, Huang LC, Kiang MV, Haynes AB, Gawande AA, Berry WR, Singer SJ. Implementation of the Surgical Safety Checklist in South Carolina hospitals is associated with improvement in perceived perioperative safety. Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 2016 May 1;222(5):725-736.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2015.12.052. Epub 2016 Jan 13. PubMed PMID: 27049781.
2015
Krieger N, Chen JT, Waterman PD, Kiang MV, Feldman J. Police killings and police deaths are public health data and can be counted. PLOS Medicine. 2015 Dec 1;12(12):e1001915. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001915. PubMed PMID: 26645383; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4672939.
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CNN, The Guardian, USA Today (2), Washington Post, Health Affairs, The Conversation, Huffington Post (2), Quartz, Yahoo (2)
Singer SJ, Hayes JE, Gray GC, Kiang MV. Making time for learning-oriented leadership in multidisciplinary hospital management groups. Health Care Management Review. 2015 Oct 1;40(4):300-12. doi: 10.1097/HMR.0000000000000037. PubMed PMID: 25029508.
Krieger N, Singh N, Chen JT, Coull BA, Beckfield J, Kiang MV, Waterman PD, Gruskin S. Why history matters for quantitative target setting: Long-term trends in socioeconomic and racial/ethnic inequities in US infant death rates (1960–2010). Journal of Public Health Policy. 2015 Aug 1;36(3):287-303. doi: 10.1057/jphp.2015.12. Epub 2015 May 14. PubMed PMID: 25971237; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4711344.
Singer SJ, Jiang W, Huang LC, Gibbons L, Kiang MV, Edmondson L, Gawande AA, Berry WR. Surgical team member assessment of the safety of surgery practice in 38 South Carolina hospitals. Medical Care Research and Review. 2015 Jun 1;72(3):298-323. doi: 10.1177/1077558715577479. Epub 2015 Mar 31. PubMed PMID: 25828528.
Krieger N, Gruskin S, Singh N, Kiang MV, Chen JT, Waterman PD, Gottlieb J, Beckfield J, Coull BA. Reproductive justice and the pace of change: socioeconomic trends in US infant death rates by legal status of abortion, 1960–1980. American Journal of Public Health. 2015 Apr 1;105(4):680-2. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.302401. Epub 2015 Feb 25. PubMed PMID: 25713932; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4358198.
Krieger N, Kiang MV, Kosheleva A, Waterman PD, Chen JT, Beckfield J. Age at menarche: 50-year socioeconomic trends among US-born Black and White women. American Journal of Public Health. 2015 Feb 1;105(2):388-97. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.301936. PubMed PMID: 25033121; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4318288.
2014
Krieger N, Kiang MV, Chen JT, Waterman PD. Trends in US deaths due to legal intervention among black and white men, age 15–34 years, by county income level: 1960–2010. Harvard Public Health Review. 2014 Aug 30 — Special Issue. doi: 10.54111/0001c/1.
Krieger N, Kosheleva A, Waterman PD, Chen JT, Beckfield J, Kiang MV. 50-year trends in US socioeconomic inequalities in health: US-born Black and White Americans, 1959–2008. International Journal of Epidemiology. 2014 Aug 1;43(4):1294-313. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyu047. Epub 2014 Mar 16. PubMed PMID: 24639440; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4121555.
Krieger N, Chen JT, Coull BA, Beckfield J, Kiang MV, Waterman PD. Jim Crow and premature mortality among the US Black and White population, 1960–2009: an age-period-cohort analysis. Epidemiology. 2014 Jul 1;25(4):494-504. doi: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000000104. PubMed PMID: 24825344; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4710482.
Palamar JJ, Kiang MV, Halkitis PN. Religiosity and exposure to users in explaining illicit drug use among emerging adults. Journal of Religion and Health. 2014 Jun 1;53(3):658-74. doi: 10.1007/s10943-012-9660-3. PubMed PMID: 23114835.
Palamar JJ, Kiang MV, Storholm ED, Halkitis PN. A qualitative descriptive study of perceived sexual effects of club drug use in gay and bisexual men. Psychology and Sexuality. 2014 Apr 1;5(2):143-160. doi: 10.1080/19419899.2012.679363. PubMed PMID: 24883174; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4036458.
2013
Singer SJ, Friedberg MW, Kiang MV, Dunn T, Kuhn DM. Development and preliminary validation of the Patient Perceptions of Integrated Care survey. Medical Care Research and Review. 2013 Apr 1;70(2):143-64. doi: 10.1177/1077558712465654. Epub 2012 Nov 15. PubMed PMID: 23161612.
Palamar JJ, Halkitis PN, Kiang MV. Perceived public stigma and stigmatization in explaining lifetime illicit drug use among emerging adults. Addiction Research and Theory. 2013 Jan 1;21(6):516-525. doi: 10.3109/16066359.2012.762508.
2012
Palamar JJ, Kiang MV, Halkitis PN. Predictors of stigmatization towards use of various illicit drugs among emerging adults. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs. 2012 Jul 1;44(3):243-51. doi: 10.1080/02791072.2012.703510. PubMed PMID: 23061324.
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2011
Solomon TM, Halkitis PN, Moeller RW, Siconolfi DE, Kiang MV, Barton SC. Sex parties among young gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men in New York City: attendance and behavior. Journal of Urban Health. 2011 Dec 1;88(6):1063-75. doi: 10.1007/s11524-011-9590-5. PubMed PMID: 21698548; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3232420.
Singer SJ, Hayes J, Cooper JB, Vogt JW, Sales M, Aristidou A, Gray GC, Kiang MV, Meyer GS. A case for safety leadership team training of hospital managers. Health Care Management Review. 2011 Apr 1;36(2):188-200. doi: 10.1097/HMR.0b013e318208cd1d. PubMed PMID: 21317660.
Palamar JJ, Kiang MV, Halkitis PN. Development and psychometric evaluation of scales that assess stigma associated with illicit drug users. Substance Use and Misuse. 2011;46(12):1457-67. doi: 10.3109/10826084.2011.596606. Epub 2011 Jul 18. PubMed PMID: 21767076.
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2010
Solomon TM, Kiang MV, Halkitis PN, Moeller RW, Pappas MK. Personality traits and mental health states of methamphetamine-dependent and methamphetamine non-using MSM. Addictive Behaviors. 2010 Feb 1;35(2):161-3. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2009.09.002. Epub 2009 Sep 9. PubMed PMID: 19786324; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2783474.