Recent academic production

Presentations

Michalczyk J., Amedari M., Haley J., Agbonlahor O.; Readability of online information on cardiometabolic diseases: Implications for health literacy. Poster presented at the annual American Public Health Association Meeting and Expo; Washington, D.C., 11/2025.

Mack, J.E., Chair and Organizer; Symposium: Buried by Mr. Turner: The Archaeology and Bioarchaeology of Asylum Hill; 81st Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Baton Rouge, LA; 11/6/25.

Mack, J.E. Define Fence for Graveyard and Have Same Enlarged: Overview and Preliminary Findings from the Asylum Hill Project;” 81st Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Baton Rouge, LA; 11/6/25.

Mack, J.E., Didlake, R. Using Historical References and Archaeological Data to Reconstruct Early 20th Century Coffins from UMMC's Asylum Hill Cemetery; 81st Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Baton Rouge, LA; 11/6/25.

Wicke, E., Mack, J.E. Sheets, Burial...126: Burial Clothing and Mortuary Treatment at Asylum Hill. 81st Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Baton Rouge, LA; 11/6/25.

Abstracts

Monger, M., Bender James, H. The Role of Ob-Gyns in Optimizing Prep Delivery for Black Women. 19th Conference on Improving Health Outcomes; Xavier University of Louisiana; 12/11/2025.

Monger, M., Bender James, H. Enhancing PrEP access for black women in Mississippi: The untapped potential of women's health providers. 18th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation. Washington, D.C. 12/16/2025.

Arnold, T., Monger, M., Bender James, H., Bailey, S., Lampkin, T., Taylor, K., Samuel, L., Giorlando, K. K., Hugunin, J., & Olsen, E.M. (2025, December 14-17). A human-centered design approach to developing a video health campaign for increasing PrEP uptake among Black women in Mississippi. 18th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation. Washington, D.C. 12/16/2025.

Grants

Monger, M. Pilot Project Grant: "Leveraging Faith Communities to Increase Awareness, Education, and Linkage to Care Around Uterine Fibroids in Black Women.” COEQUaL P50 Grant via the National Institutes of Health (NIH). $50,000, 12/01/2025 - 11/30/2027.

Publications

Christman, B.D., Gamble, A., Jain, S., Ho, K.K., Zhang, L., Hillegass, W.B. (2025). Using Electronic Medical Records to Estimate the Prevalence of Pediatric Obesity in Mississippi. Journal of Public Health in the Deep South, 5(3), 5. DOI: https://doi.org/10.55533/2996-6833.1136

Alam, S., Christman, B., McNeill, E., Tang, M., Rong, R., Li, Q., Hillegass, W.B., Hall, J., Wright, L., Lanier, C., Xiong, X., Shi, L., Gamble, A. Economic evaluation of screening, treatment, and prevention interventions for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders: a systematic review; General Hospital Psychiatry, Volume 97, 2025, ISSN 0163-8343, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2025.11.005

Staneva M., Gholar V., Dobbs T. Maternal Syphilis in Mississippi, 2013 to 2023. JAMA Netw Open. 2025;8(12):e2546787. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.46787

Clemmer, J.S., Campos, K.A., Lirette, S.T., Haley, C.C., Islam, T., George, E.M. Assessing the risk of preeclampsia/eclampsia in Mississippi black women with chronic kidney disease using electronic health records. Pregnancy Hypertension, Volume 41, 2025,101224,ISSN 2210-7789, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.preghy.2025.101224

 Jodha K.S., Salazar Marocho S.M., Mecholsky J.J. Jr, Lirette S.T., Duan Y., Griggs J.A. Fractal analysis in different regions of a fracture surface in a dental glass-ceramic. Dent Mater. 2025 Aug;41(8):1008-1013. Epub 2025 Jun 13. PMID: 40517061. doi: 10.1016/j.dental.2025.06.008

Zhu, X., Shafi, T., Norris, K.C., Simino, J., Shrestha, S., Mosley, T.H., Griswold, M.E.,  (2025). Comparing methods for glomerular filtration rate estimation. Journal of clinical and translational science, 9(1), e148. https://doi.org/10.1017/cts.2025.10057

Tsiouris, A., Hernandez, G. A., Lirette, S.T., Jeyakumar, A.K.C., & Papadimitriou, L. (2025). Impella 5.5 Versus Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump for Bridging Heart Transplant Patients: A Contemporary Analysis of the United Network for Organ Sharing Database. ASAIO journal (American Society for Artificial Internal Organs : 1992), 10.1097/MAT.0000000000002520. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1097/MAT.0000000000002520

Hamby, M., Kaur, J., Lirette, S., Carmo, J.M.,Speed, J., Islam, T., Hildebrandt, E., Barr, E., Challagundala, L., Drummond, H. A. (2025). The impact of Asic2 deletion on metabolic homeostasis in mice. Physiological Reports, 13, e70514. https://doi.org/10.14814/phy2.70514

Agbonlahor O., Mattingly D.T., Hart J.L., Richardson M.K., McLeish A.C., Walker K.L. Lifetime Cannabis, Non-Cigarette Tobacco, and Illicit Drug Use and Cardiovascular Disease Among Young and Middle-Aged U.S. Adults. American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine. 2025;0(0). doi:10.1177/15598276251404883

Nicholas, J.C., Alkis, T., Bis, J.C., Boerwinkle, E., Brody, J.A., Clish, C.B., de Vries, P.S., Gao, Y., Gerzsten, R.E., Guo, X., Johnson, A.D., Larson, M.G., Lemaitre, R.N., Psaty, B.M., Ramachandran, V., Reiner, A.P., Rich, S.S., Rodriguez, B., Rong, J., Rotter, J.I., Simino, J., Smith, N.L., Wilson, J., Yao, J., Morrisonn, A.C., Yu, B., Raffield, L. (2026). Fibrinogen-Associated Plasma Metabolites and Implications for Coagulation, Inflammation, and Vascular Diseases. Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtha.2025.12.016

Drouin, S.M., Kuo, P., Blew, C., Duggan, M.R., Chen, D., Smith, H.M., Chen, J., Giorgio, K., Gomez, G., Moore, A.Z., Erus, G., Davatzikos, C., Bressler, J., Simino, J., Li, Y., Gottesman, R.F., Marioni, R.E., Sedaghat, S., Ferrucci, L., Resnick, S.M., Walker, K.A. (2025), DNA Methylation Signatures of Systemic Inflammation Are Associated With Brain Volume, Cognitive Trajectories, and Long-Term Dementia Risk. Aging Cell, 24: e70281. https://doi.org/10.1111/acel.70281

Patrick, Z., Heitman, E., Affuso, O., Walker, B.H., Cooper, L.L., & Reneker, J.C. (2025). Association of Physical Activity With Aortic Stiffness in the Jackson Heart Study. American Journal of Hypertension. https://doi.org/10.1093/ajh/hpaf230

Abedin, M., Faruque, F.S., Dobbs, T., & Walker, B.H. (2025). Social determinants of stroke prevalence in the United States adults: Analysis of 42 states using behavioral risk factor surveillance system 2022 data. Preventive medicine reports, 61, 103363. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2025.103363

Teng, F., Burns, P., Welsch, M., Walker, B., Liang, K., Huang, H., Yin, Z., Li, L., Li, C., Sherer, R., Hazra, A., Lio, J., Qiu, D., Tucker, J., Tang, W. (2026). Daily PrEP and event-driven PrEP adherence for men who have sex with men in China. Sexual Health. 23.https://doi.org/10.1071/SH25074

Patrick, Z., Heitman, E., Affuso, O., Walker, B.H., Cooper, L.L., Reneker, J.C. (2025). Association of Physical Activity with Aortic Stiffness in the Jackson Heart Study. American Journal of Hypertension. https://doi.org/10.1093/ajh/hpaf230

Nayem Kayes, M.A., Tabassum, T., Khan, M.R. Assessment of Climate-Induced Vulnerabilities and Poverty Alleviation Potential of Dry Fish Industry: An Ecological and Socio-Economic Study in Cox’s Bazar District, Bangladesh. International Journal of Disaster Risk Management. Vol. 7, No. 1 (2025), p. 461–483. (ISSN 2620-2662) https://doi.fil.bg.ac.rs/pdf/journals/ijdrm/2025-1/ijdrm-2025-7-1-26.pdf

McKenzie C., Tilley L., Mack J.E., Evis L.H., editors. Applied Bioarchaeology: Making an Impact. Cham, Switzerland: Springer; 2026. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-04692-5