About Me | Mathew Kiang (.com)

Gratuitous headshot 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. A few current projects include (1) my K99/R00-funded work focused on reducing racial/ethnic inequities in the treatment of opioid use disorder; (2) NIDA-funded work looking at using social media data to inform the public health response to the opioid overdose crisis; and (3) my work with the Stanford Institute on Human-centered Artificial Intelligence on how (and if) we can use smartphones to gather data from more generalizable samples.

Here are quick links to my CV, my Stanford Profile, my Google Scholar profile, and my ORCID iD profile.

Collaboration Network

A simple collaboration network below with collaborators in red and collaborations in blue — hover over a node for more info. (Blog posts for 2024, 2022, 2020, 2019, and 2018.)

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. 8, 284 (2025). doi: 10.1038/s41746-025-01642-x
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;4(4):e0000842. doi: 10.1371/journal.pdig.0000842. eCollection 2025 Apr. PubMed PMID: 40293990; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12036940.
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 Apr 24. doi: 10.1001/jama.2025.6495 [Code] [Data] [Altmetric] [Stanford Media] [The Washington Post] [Newsweek] [Popular Science] [Reuters] [Wired] [Financial Times] [CNN] [CBS] [Los Angeles Times] [The Wall Street Journal] [Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me] [The Economist] [Scientific American]
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.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.^◊ Veterans, prescription opioids and benzodiazepines, and mortality, 2007–2019: Three target trial emulations. 2025 Feb 6. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/28879. ^◊Denotes authorship as a group member. [Press release] [Highlights] [Findings]
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. 2025 Jan 8;. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwaf002. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 39780412. ^†First authors contributed equally.
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 (Sep 2024), doi: 10.3386/w32985
Geldsetzer P, Fridljand D, Kiang MV, Bendavid E, Heft-Neal S, Burke M, Benmarhnia T, Disparities in air pollution attributable mortality in the US population by race/ethnicity and sociodemographic factors, Nature Medicine. 2024 Jul 01, doi: 10.1038/s41591-024-03117-0. [Stanford Media]
Kiang MV, Alexander MJ. Invited commentary: Motivating better methods — and better data collection — for measuring prevalence of drug misuse, American Journal of Epidemiology. 2024 June 26. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwae156. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 38932578.
Schlüter B-S, Alburez-Gutierrez A, Bibbins-Domingo K, Alexander MJ^‡, Kiang MV^‡. Youth experiencing parental death due to drug poisoning and firearm violence in the United States, 1999 – 2020: A modeling analysis, JAMA. 2024 May 4, doi: 10.1001/jama.2024.8391. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 38703404. ^‡Senior authors contributed equally. [Code]
Chandra J, Charpignon M-L, Bhaskar A, Therriault A, Chen Y-H, Mooney A, Dahley 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;114(6):599–609. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2024.307618. PubMed PMID: 38718338 ^‡Senior authors contributed equally.
Huynh BQ, Chen ET, Kiang MV. Estimated childhood lead exposure from drinking water in Chicago, JAMA Pediatrics. 2024 Mar 18, doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.0133. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 38497944. [Code] [The Guardian] [NBC] [Washington Post] [SF Gate] [Prompted Senator Action]
Huynh BQ, Chen 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. [Pre-print version]

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 18;. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2302409120. [Pre-print version]
Rosenstein AL, Kandala K, Venkateswaran S, Kiang MV, Okusanya O, 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. 2023 Sep 14;. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2023.08.059. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 37716651.
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 Sep 12. doi: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2023.102410.
Potter AL, Vaddaraiu V, 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 Aug 31. doi: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2023.3066.
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’s disease and related dementias as an underlying or contributing cause during the COVID-19 pandemic in the US. JAMA Neurology. 2023 Jul 17. doi: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2023.2226. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 37459088; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10352932.
Huynh BQ, Kiang MV, AI for anticipatory action: Moving beyond climate forecasting, arXiv (Jul 2023), doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2307.15727. [Pre-print]
Heerema MR, Ventura AS, Blackemore 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 Jun 7;:8897077231179601. doi: 10.1177/08897077231179601. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 37287240.
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 metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas, March 2020 to February 2022. JAMA Network Open. 2023;6(5):e2311098. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.11098 [Open Access] [BU Press Release]
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 [Open Access]
Velasquez E, Benmarhnia T, Casey JA, Aguilera R, Kiang MV. Quantifying exposure to wildfire smoke among school-aged children in California, 2006 – 2021. JAMA Network Open. 2023;6(4):e235863. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.5863. [Open Access] [Invited commentary] [Code and data]
Heft-Neal S, Gould CF, Childs M, Kiang MV, Nadeau K, Duggan M, Bendavid E, Burke M, Behavior mediates the health effects of extreme wildfire smoke events, NBER Working Paper 30969 (Feb 2023), doi: 10.3386/w30969. [Open Access]
Kiang MV, Carlasare LE, Israni ST, Norcini J, Zaman JAB, Bibbins-Domingo K, Excess mortality among US physicians during the COVID-19 pandemic. JAMA Internal Medicine. 2023 Feb 6;. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2022.6308. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 36745424 [Open Access] [Code] [AMA release] [Stanford Blog]
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. [Open Access]
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 18;. doi: 10.1111/head.14442. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 36651537.
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 Jan 12;. doi: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2022.6549. [Editor’s note]
Criss S, Nguyen TT, Michaels EK, Gee G, 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 Jan 08; doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.952069. [Open Access]
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 Sep; 119(40):e2210941119. doi: 10.1073/pnas.221094119. [^†First authors contributed equally.] [Code and data]
Chen Y-H, Riley AR, Duchowny KA, Aschmann HE, Chen R, Kiang MV, Mooney A, 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; doi: 10.1016/S2468-2667(22)00191-8. [Preprint] [Editor’s note]
Acosta RJ, Patnaik B, Buckee CO, Kiang MV, Irizarry RA, Balsari S, Mahmud AS. All-cause excess mortality across 90 municipalities in the State of Gujarat, India, during the COVID-19 pandemic (March 2020-April 2021). PLOS Global Public Health. 2(8): e0000824. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0000824.
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. 2022 Aug; doi: 10.1038/s41370-022-00462-5.
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. Published online June 15, 2022. doi: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgac079
Chen R, Aschmann HE, Chen Y-H, Glymour MM, Bibbins-Domingo K, Stokes AC, Kiang MV, Racial and ethnic disparities in excess mortality from external causes in the United States, March to December 2020, JAMA Internal Medicine. Published online May 09, 2022. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2022.1461. [Editor’s note] [Press Release] [Code and data]
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;11:100237. doi: 10.1016/j.lana.2022.100237. Epub 2022 Mar 19. PubMed PMID: 35342895; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8934030. ^‡Senior authors contributed equally. [Code]
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 (Apr 2022), doi: 10.1101/2022.03.29.22273085 [NY Times]
Potter AL, Rosenstein A, Kiang MV, Shah SA, Gaissert HA, Chang DC, Fintelmann FJ, & Yang CJ, The effect of computed tomography screening on lung cancer stage shift and survival in the United States, BMJ 2022;376:e069008. doi: 10.1136/bmj-2021-069008. [Invited editorial]
Riley AR^†, Kiang MV^†, Chen Y-H, 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 (February 2022), doi: 10.1007/s11606-021-07380-6. [^†First authors contributed equally.] [Press Release] [Code]
Chang H-H, Chang M-C, Kiang MV, Mahmud AS, Ekapirat N, Engø-Monsen K, Sudathip P, Prempree Preecha, Buckee CO, & Maude RJ, Low parasite connectivity among three malaria hotspots in Thailand, Scientific Reports (December 2021), doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-02746-6 [Open Access]
Kiang MV, Tsai AC, Alexander MJ, Rehkopf DH, & Basu S, Racial/ethnic disparities in opioid-related mortality in the US, 1999–2019: The extreme case of Washington DC, Journal of Urban Health (October 2021), doi: 10.1007/s11524-021-00573-8 [Code]
Huynh BQ, Kwong LH, Kiang MV, Mohareb AM, Jumaan AO, Basu S, Geldsetzer P, Karaki FM, & Rehkopf DH, Public health impacts of an imminent Red Sea oil spill, Nature Sustainability (October 2021), doi: 10.1038/s41893-021-00774-8. [Pre-print version] [Open Access] [Invited commentary] [Stanford Press Release] [BBC] [CNN] [The Guardian] [Al Jazeera] [The World] [i24]
Kiang MV, Barnett ML, Wakeman SE, Humphreys K, & Tsai AC, Robustness of estimated access to opioid treatment providers in rural vs. urban areas of the United States, Drug and Alcohol Dependence (September 2021), doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2021.109081 [Code and Data]
Wrigley-Field E, Kiang MV, Riley AR, Barbieri M, Chen Y-H, Duchowny KA, Matthay EC, Van Riper D, Jegathesan K, Bibbins-Domingo K, & Leider JP, Geographically targeted COVID-19 vaccination is more equitable than age-based thresholds alone, Science Advances (September 2021), doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abj2099. [Pre-print version] [Open Access] [Code and Data]
Balsari S, Kiang MV, & Buckee CO, Data in Crisis — Rethinking disaster response in the United States. New England Journal of Medicine (September 2021), doi: 10.1056/NEJMms2104654 [PDF] [HSPH media]
Kiang MV, Chen JT, Krieger N, Buckee CO, Alexander MJ, Baker JT, Buckner RL, Coombs III G, Rich-Edwards JW, Carlson KW, & Onnela JP, Sociodemographic characteristics of missing data in digital phenotyping, Scientific Reports (July 2021) doi: 10.1038/s31598-021-94516-7. [Pre-print version] [Open Access] [Code]
Satinsky EN, Kimura T, Kiang MV, Abebe R, Carlson CJ, 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 (July 2021), doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-93687-7
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 (May 2021), doi: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2021.04.018 [Pre-print version] [Reproducible code and supplement]
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 (April 2021), doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003580. [Open Access]
Ferguson JM^†, Magid H^†, Purnell AL, Kiang MV, & Osborne TF, Differences in COVID-19 testing and test positivity among Veterans, United States, 2020. Public Health Reports (April 2021), doi: 10.1177/00333549211009498. [^†First authors contributed equally.]
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 (March 2021), doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(21)00134-1. [Reproducible code and data] [UCSF media] [Pre-print version] [Blog post] [NPR’s A1] [ABC News] [The Lancet ID Editor’s Choice July 2021] [Correction Notice] [Letter by Dr. Altenberg] [Letter by Dr. Shahid] [Our Reply]
Matthay EC, Kiang MV, Elser H, Schmidt LA, & Humphreys K, Evaluation of state cannabis laws and rates of self-harm and assault, JAMA Network Open (March 2021), doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.1955. [Invited editorial] [UCSF media] [Stanford media] [Open Access]
Salje H, Wesolowski A, Brown TS, Kiang MV, Berry IM, Lefrancq N, Fernandez S, Jarman R, Ruchusatsawat K, Iamsirithaworn S, Vandepitte W, Suntarattiwong P, Klungthong C, Thaisomboonsuk B, Engø-Monsen K, Buckee CO^‡, Cauchemez S^‡, & Cummings DA^‡, Reconstructing unseen transmission events to infer dengue dynamics from viral sequences, Nature Communications (March 2021), doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-21888-9. [Pre-print version] [^‡Senior authors contributed equally] [Open Access]
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 (February 2021) doi: 10.1016/j.epidem.2021.100441. [Pre-print version] [Open Access]
Casey JA, Mango M, Mullendore S, Kiang MV, Hernández D, Li B, Li K, Im TM, & Tartof SY, Trends from 2008 to 2018 in electricity-dependent durable medical equipment rentals and sociodemographic disparities, Epidemiology (February 2021), doi: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000001333
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 (February 2021), doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2020.108502
Elser H^†, Kiang MV^†, John EM, Simard JF, Bondy M, Nelson LM, Chen W, 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 (January 2021), doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0244819. [Pre-print version] [Open Access] [^†First authors contributed equally]
Kiang MV^†, Santillana M^†, Chen JT, Onnela J-P, 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 (January 2021), doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-79438-0. [Pre-print version] [^†First authors contributed equally] [^‡Senior authors contributed equally]
Casey JA, Fukurai M, Hernandez D, Balsari S, & Kiang MV, Power outages and community health: a narrative review, Current Environmental Health Reports (November 2020), doi: 10.1007/s40572-020-00295-0.
Kiang MV, Irizarry RA, Buckee CO, & Balsari S, Every body counts: Measuring mortality from the COVID-19 pandemic, Annals of Internal Medicine (September 2020), doi: 10.7326/M20-3100. [Open Access] [Invited commentary]
Chin T^†, Kahn R^†, Li R, Chen JT, Krieger N, Buckee CO, Balsari S^‡ & Kiang MV^‡, US county-level level variation in intersecting individual, household, and community characteristics relevant to COVID-19 and planning an equitable response: a cross-sectional, BMJ Open (September 2020), doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-039886. [^†First authors contributed equally] [^‡Senior authors contributed equally] [Pre-print version] [Code] [Shiny app]
Kishore N, Kiang MV, Engø-Monsen K, Vembar N, 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 (September 2020), doi: 10.1016/S2589-7500(20)30193-X [Pre-print version]
Kiang MV, Humphreys K, Cullen MR, Basu S. Opioid prescribing patterns among medical providers in the United States, 2003–17: retrospective, observational study, BMJ (January 2020), doi: 10.1136/bmj.l6968 [Open Access] [PDF] [Code] [Shiny Apps] [BMJ Press Release]
Tsai AC, Kiang MV, Barnett ML, Beletsky L, Keyes KM, McGinty EE, Smith LR, Strathdee S, Wakeman SE, & Venkataramani AS, Stigma as a fundamental hindrance to the US opioid overdose crisis response, PLOS Medicine (November 2019), doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002969 [Open Access] [PDF]
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 (November 2019), doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-029373 [Open Access] [PDF] [Code]
Vable AM, Kiang MV, Glymour MM, Rigdon J, Drabo EF, & Basu S, Performance of matching methods to unmatched ordinary least squares regression under constant effects, American Journal of Epidemiology (April 2019), doi: 10.1093/aje/kwz093
Kiang MV, Basu S, Chen JT, and 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 (Februrary 2019). doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.0040 [Open Access] [PDF] [Code] [Shiny App] [Official Press Release] [CNN] [NBC]
Gemmill A, Kiang MV, and Alexander MJ. Trends in pregnancy-associated mortality involving opioids in the United States, 2007-2016. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology (January 2019). doi: 10.1016/j.ajog.2018.09.028 [Code] [Press Release]
Alexander MA^†, Kiang MV^†, & Barbieri M. Trends in opioid mortality in the United States, 1979–2015, Epidemiology (September 2018), doi: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000000858 [PDF] [Code] [Video Abstract] [Updated analysis with 2016 data] [Updated analysis with 2017 data] [^†First authors contributed equally]
Kishore N, Marques D, Mahmud A, Kiang MV, Rodriguez I, Fuller A, Ebner P, Sorensen C, Racy F, Lemery J, Maas L, Leaning J, Irizarry R, Balsari S^†, & Buckee CO^†. Mortality in Puerto Rico after Hurrican Maria, New England Journal of Medicine (May 2018), doi: 10.1056/NEJMsa1803972 [Code / Data] [NYTimes] [NPR] [WaPo] [LA Times] [CBS] [BBC] [Official Press Release] [Altmetric | Highest Altmetric in 2018] [Related blog post]
Vable AM, Kiang MV, Basu S, Rudolph KE, Kawachi I, Subramanian SV, & Glymour MM. Military service and health disparities: late life pulmonary function among US military veterans, Military Medicine (March 2018), doi: 10.1093/milmed/usx196 [PDF]
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 (May 2016), doi: 10.2196/mental.5165 [PDF]
Krieger N, Gruskin S, Singh N, Kiang MV, Chen JT, Waterman PD, Beckfield J, & Coull BA, Reproductive justice and preventable deaths: State family planning, abortion, and infant mortality 1980 – 2010, SSM – Population Health (April 2016), doi: 1016/j.ssmph.2016.03.007 [PDF]
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 (January 2016), doi: 1016/j.jamcollsurg.2015.12.052 [PDF]
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 (December 2015), doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001915 [Open-Access]
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 (May 2015), doi: 1057/jphp.2015.12 [PDF]
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 (April 2015), doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.302401 [PDF]
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 (January 2015 — Special Issue)* [Open-Access]
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 (August 2014), doi: 10.1093/ije/dyu047
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, 1959-2008, American Journal of Public Health (July 2014), doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.301936
Singer SJ, Hayes J, Gray GG, & Kiang MV, Making time for learning-oriented leadership in multidisciplinary hospital management groups, Health Care Management Review (July 2014), doi: 10.1097/HMR.0000000000000037
Krieger N, Chen JT, Coull BA, Beckfield J, Kiang MV, & Waterman PD. Jim Crow and premature mortality among the US Black and White population: An age-period-cohort analysis, 1960-2009, Epidemiology (July 2014), doi: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000000104
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 (March 2013), doi: 10.1177/1077558712465654 [PDF]
Palamar JJ, Halkitis PN, & Kiang MV, Perceived public stigma and stigmatization in explaining lifetime illicit drug use among emerging adults, Addiction Research and Theory (January 2013), doi: 10.3109/16066359.2012.762508
Palamar JJ, Kiang MV, & Halkitis PN, Religiosity and illicit drug use among emerging adults: Protective effects depend on low exposure to users, Journal of Religion and Health (November 2012), doi: 10.1007/s10943-012-9660-3
Palamar JJ, Kiang MV, & Halkitis PN, Predictors of stigmatization towards use of various illicit drugs among emerging adults, Journal of Psychoactive Drugs (July 2012), doi: 10.1080/02791072.2012.703510
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 (May 2012), doi: 10.1080/19419899.2012.679363
Palamar JJ, Kiang MV, & Halkitis PN, Development and psychometric evaluation of scales that assess stigma associated with illicit drug users, Substance Use and Misuse (July 2011), doi: 10.3109/10826084.2011.596606
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 (July 2011), doi: 10.1007/s11524-011-9590-5
Singer SJ, Hayes J, Cooper J, Vogt J, Sales M, Aristidou A, Gray G, Kiang MV, & Meyer GS, A case for safety leadership team training of hospital managers, Health Care Management Review (April 2011), doi: 10.1097/HMR.0b013e318208cd1d [PDF]
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 (February 2010), doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2009.09.002 [PDF]

Conference Materials

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Kiang MV, Lundberg DJ, Raquib R, Huynh B, Li R, Glymour MM, Stokes AC, Applying machine learning to identify unrecognized COVID-19 deaths attributed to other causes of death in the United States. Society for Epidemiologic Research Annual Meeting 2024: Austin (June 2024)
Nguyen A, Subrahmanya S, Altman R, Eichstaedt J, Kiang MV, Tracking spatiotemporal trends in public stigmatization of opioid use on social media. Society for Epidemiologic Research Annual Meeting 2024: Austin (June 2024)
Schluter B, Alexander MJ, Alburez-Gutierrez D, Kiang MV, Racial/ethnic disparities in loss of parents due to drug overdoses and firearms. Population Association of America Annual Meeting 2024: Columbus (April 2024)
Heft-Neal S, Gould CF, Childs M, Kiang MV, Nadeau K, Duggan M, Bendavid E, Burke M, Emergency department visits respond non-linearly to wildfire smoke, American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting 2023: San Francisco (December 2023).
Parks RM, Benmarhnia T, Casey JA, Glymour MM, Kioumourtzoglou MA, Kiang MV, Wildfire-related PM2.5 and mortality in California. Society for Epidemiologic Research Annual Meeting 2023: Portland (June 2023)
Riley AC, Stokes AC, Chen Y-H, Kiang MV, Occupational disparities in excess mortality due to external causes during the pandemic. Population Association of America Annual Meeting 2023: New Orleans (April 2023).
Kiang MV, Chen Y-H, Matthay EC, Glymour MM, Bibbins-Domingo K, Humphreys K, & Arthur KN, Colliding Crises: Excess fatal drug overdoses in California during the COVID-19 pandemic by race/ethnicity, education attainment, and geography. Population Association of America Annual Meeting 2022: Atlanta (April 2022).

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. American Academy of Neurology Virtual Annual Meeting 2021: Online (April 2021). [Selected for press release]
Ferguson J, Magid H, Purnell A, Kiang MV, & Osborne T, Evaluating potential disparities in COVID-19 testing and test positivity in the veterans health administration. American Public Health Association Annual Meeting 2020: Online (October 2020).
Matthay EC, Kiang MV, Elser H, Glymour MM, Schmidt LA, & Humphreys K, Association of recreational cannabis laws with self-harm and assault injuries. Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Sciences Annual Conference 2020: Online (September 2020).
Kiang MV & Alexander MJ, Decomposition of the US Black/White inequality in life expectancy: Quantifying the impact of deaths of despair. Society for Epidemiologic Research Annual Meeting 2019: Minneapolis, MN (June 2019) [Slides]
Vable AM, Kiang MV, Glymour MM, Rigdon J, Drabo E, & Basu S, Performance of matching methods to un-matched ordinary least squares regression under constant effects.^§ SER Annual Meeting 2018: Baltimore, MD (June 2018). [^§Best student poster award]
Kiang MV, Alexander MJ, Zhang Z, & Chen JT, The geographical distribution of opioid mortality by race in the United States, 1999–2016: Identifying epidemic hotspots. PAA Annual Meeting 2018: Denver, CO (April 2018) [Interactive Supplement] [Code] [Slides]
Kiang MV, Staples P, Torous J, Alexander MJ, & Onnela JP, A new platform for high density data collection in population health research.PAA Annual Meeting 2017: Denver, CO (April 2018) [More info]
Alexander MJ, Barbieri M, & Kiang MV, Opioid-related deaths by race in the United States: Trends and patterns in multiple causes of death. PAA Annual Meeting 2017: Chicago, IL (April 2017) [Code] [SocArXiv]
Buckner RL, Braga RM, Hutchison M, Shermohammed M, Coombs G, Barnett IJ, Kiang MV, Farfel L, Marotta M, Mair R, O’Keefe T, Meickle J, Liu H, Somerville L, Onnela JP, & Baker JT, Deep dynamic phenotyping of the individual: A platform for precision neuroscience. Society for Neuroscience 2016: San Diego, CA (November 2016)
Shermohammed M, Barnett IJ, Kiang MV, Buckner RL, Baker JT, Onnela JP, & Somerville L, Deep dynamic phenotyping of the individual: Tracking within-subject variability in social and emotional behavioral profiles using smartphones. Society for Neuroscience 2016: San Diego, CA (November 2016)
Jung OS, Kite JG, Jiang W, Conley D, Kiang MV, Huang LC, Childers AK, Edmondson L, Berry WR, & Singer SJ, Implementation objectives associated with success in delivery system innovation: Lessons from Safe Surgery 2015. Academy of Management 2014: Philadelphia, PA (August 2014)
Jung OS, Kite JG, Jiang W, Conley D, Kiang MV, Huang LC, Childers AK, Edmondson L, Berry WR, & Singer SJ, Factors associated with effective implementation of delivery system innovations: Lessons from Safe Surgery 2015. AcademyHealth 2014 Annual Research Meeting: San Diego, California (June 2014)
Kite JG, Jiang W, Huang LC, Kiang MV, Conley D, Edmondson L, Berry WR, & Singer SJ, The relationship between operating room teamwork and safety checklist performance: Safe Surgery AcademyHealth 2014 Annual Research Meeting: San Diego, California (June 2014)
Huang LC, Conley D, Kiang MV, Jiang W, Edmonson L, Gawande AA, Berry WR, & Singer SJ, Factors associated with successful implementation of health delivery innovations: Lessons from Safe Surgery 2015. AcademyHealth 2013 Annual Research Meeting: Baltimore, Maryland (June 2013)
Bixel K, Hur H, Modest A, Kiang MV, & Singer SJ, Impact of perceptions of patient safety on planning and implementation of surgical safety checklists. 41^st AAGL Global Conference on Minimally Invasive Gynecology: Las Vegas, Nevada (November 2012)
Singer SJ, Kiang MV, Huang LC, Jiang W, Edmonson L, & Berry WR, Surgical intervention climate in South Carolina hospitals: Measurement as opportunity to motivate, direct, and assess improvement. Academy of Management 2012: Boston, Massachusetts (August 2012)
Singer SJ, Kiang MV, Huang LC, Jiang W, Edmonson L, & Berry WR, Surgical safety culture in South Carolina hospitals. AcademyHealth 2012 Annual Research Meeting: Orlando, Florida (June 2012)
Singer SJ, Hayes J, Gray GG, & Kiang MV, Collective learning in management groups: A function of making time. AcademyHealth 2012 Annual Research Meeting: Orlando, Florida (June 2012)
Singer SJ, Hayes J, Gray GG, & Kiang MV, Making time for learning in leadership teams. Academy of Management 2011: San Antonio, Texas (August 2011)
Singer SJ, Clark J, Valentine M, Kiang MV, & Kane NM, Performance of safety net hospitals: The role of organizational culture and leadership. AcademyHealth 2011 Annual Research Meeting: Seattle, Washington (June 2011)
Palamar JJ, Kiang MV, Tortora K, & Jones D, Stigma as a protective factor against illicit drug use among racial minorities. Disparities Research to Disparities Interventions: Lessons Learned and Opportunities for the Future of Behavioral Health Services Conference: Arlington, Virginia (May 2011)
Solomon TM, Moeller RW, Siconolfi DE, Kiang MV, Barton SC, & Halkitis PN, Sex party attendance among young gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men: The role of person and environment. International Conference on Urban Health 2010: New York, New York (October 2010)
Singer SJ, Burgers J, Friedberg M, Rosenthal M, Leape, L, Schneider E, & Kiang MV, Integrated patient care: The next frontier. Academy of Management 2010: Montreal, Canada (August 2010)

Teaching

Faculty Mentor, Advancing Health Equity and Diversity (AHEaD)Fellowship (Summer 2021 and Summer 2022), Stanford University School of Medicine [Stanford Report] [Stanford Scope Blog]
Instructor, Big Data and Infectious Disease Epidemiology (September 2019), People’s Republic of Bangladesh Directorate General of Health Services
Course developer (x2), Using Python for Research via HarvardX V1 (November 2016) and V2 (January 2018), HSPH, Professor Jukka-Pekka Onnela
Instructor, Intro to Causal Inference for Data Science Workshop (March 2017), Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
Teaching assistant (x2), Dynamics of Infectious Disease (Spring 2017 and Spring 2018), HSPH, Professor Caroline Buckee
Teaching assistant, Society and Health (Fall 2013), HSPH, Professor Ichiro Kawachi
Teaching assistant, Biostatistics II (Spring 2010), NYU, Professor Ying Lu
Teaching assistant, Statistics I (Fall 2009), NYU, Professor Robert Norman

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^†First authors contributed equally.
^‡Senior authors contributed equally.
^§Best student poster award.