Featured Research

image Challenging the Continued Usefulness of Social Media Recruitment for Surveys of Hidden Populations of People Who Use Opioids

In this viewpoint paper, we assessed social media recruitment for people who use opioids and described challenges and potential solutions for effective recruitment.

 Elizabeth D Nesoff, MPH, PhD ; Joseph J Palamar, PhD ; Qingyue Li, MSSP ; Wenqian Li, MSSP ; Silvia S Martins, MD, PhD.
image Development of the Lee Symptom Scale-Skin Sclerosis for chronic GVHD-associated sclerosis

As Dr. Emily Baumrin noticed, patient voices have been absent in the measurement of skin sclerosis from chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGVHD) and how it severely impacts quality of life.

Emily Baumrin, Joseph Pidala, Sandra A Mitchell, Lynn Onstad, Stephanie J Lee
image The Adolescent Suicide Prevention in Routine clinical Encounters (ASPIRE) trial

Dr. Kristin Linn was awarded a methodological supplement to an ongoing R01 led by Dr. Rinad Beidas at Northwestern University.
Abstract figure Real-World Effectiveness of BNT162b2 Against Infection and Severe Diseases in Children and Adolescents

Using electronic health record data from a national collaboration of pediatric health systems, this study examined the effectiveness of BNT162b2 vaccines for preventing COVID-19 infections and severe disease among previously uninfected children and adolescents.

 Qiong Wu, PhD*; Jiayi Tong, MS*; Bingyu Zhang, MS; Dazheng Zhang, MS; Jiajie Chen, PhD; Yuqing Lei, MS; Yiwen Lu, BS; Yudong Wang, PhD; Lu Li, BA; Yishan Shen, MS; Jie Xu, PhD; L. Charles Bailey, MD, PhD; Jiang Bian, PhD; Dimitri A. Christakis, MD, MPH; Megan L. Fitzgerald, PhD; Kathryn Hirabayashi, MPH; Ravi Jhaveri, MD; Alka Khaitan, MD; Tianchen Lyu, MS; Suchitra Rao, MBBS, MSCS; Hanieh Razzaghi, PhD, MPH; Hayden T. Schwenk, MD, MPH; Fei Wang, PhD; Margot I. Gage Witvliet, PhD; Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen, PhD; Jeffrey S. Morris, PhD; Christopher B. Forrest, MD, PhD; and Yong Chen, PhD.