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Public Health Dissertations

As of 2014, all newly submitted Graduate Center dissertations and theses appear in Academic Works shortly after graduation. Some works are immediately available to read and download, and some become available after an embargo period set by the author. Dissertations and theses from before 2014 are generally accessible only to the CUNY community, but some authors have chosen to make theirs open access.

Dissertations from 2016 2016

Ethnicity Matters: Implications for Understanding and Acting upon Disparities in Health Affecting Black Men in the United States, Helen V. S. Cole

The Impact of Foster Care on Depression: An Examination of Placement Type and Mental Health Service Utilization Among Children and Adolescents, Kisha Cummings

The Effects of Health-Related Fitness on School Attendance in New York City 6th-8th Grade Youth, Emily M. D'Agostino

Sociodemographic and Geospatial Correlates of Stillbirths and Neonatal Mortality in Indonesia (1993–2007), Alka Dev

Healthy Beginnings: Exploring the Impact of Parental Stress and Relationship Quality on Birth Outcomes, Anna A. Divney

The Impact of Climate Variability and Conflict on Childhood Diarrhea and Malnutrition in West Africa, Gillian Dunn

Perceptions of Fidelity and Adaptation in Evidence-Informed Interventions by Women of Color Sexuality Health Educators, Sara C. Flowers

The Effects of Job Characteristics on Home Care Workers’ Well-being and Job Performance: Understanding the Psychosocial Effects of Relational Care, Emily C. Franzosa

Tobacco Cessation and the Household Budget: A Longitudinal Analysis of Consumption and Heterogeneity in the United States, Erin R. Rogers

Multilevel Analysis of Individual, Neighborhood, and Health Care Facility Characteristics Associated with Achievement and Maintenance of HIV Viral Suppression Among Persons Newly Diagnosed with HIV in New York City, Ellen W. Wiewel

Dissertations from 2015 2015

Trauma, Mental Health, and Substance Use Among Homeless Families: The Importance of Shelter Environment, Nisha Nicole Beharie

An Examination Of The Effect Of Vision-Related Factors And Availability Of Health Care Resources On Depression, Functional Status, And Falls Among New York City Senior Center Attendees, Lauren Evans

Housing and the Environment: Smoking Triggers and Tobacco Smoke Exposure, Shannon Farley

Assessing the Impact of Restrictions to Medicaid Coverage of Methadone and Buprenorphine on Opioid Users' Access to and Utilization of Substance Use Treatment, Courtney McKnight

Risk factors and costs influencing hospitalizations due to heat-related illnesses: patterns of hospitalization, Michael T. Schmeltz

Effect of the New York City Overdose Prevention Program on Unintentional Heroin-related Overdose Death, 2000-2012, Anne Elizabeth Siegler

Investigation of the Effects of Graphic Cigarette Warning Labels on Youth and Adult Smoking Behavior in Southeast Asia, Jessica Brooke Steier

Diagnostic Procedures Using Radiation and Risk of Thyroid Cancer: Causal Association or Detection Bias? An Examination of Population Cancer Trends and Data from the NYC Fire Department, Rachel Zeig-Owens

Dissertations from 2014 2014

The revolving door pattern of jail incarceration and homelessness and its influence on mortality and morbidity among New York City adults, Sungwoo Lim

Intra- and intergenerational effects of migration and the role of the psychosocial environment in the development of perinatal depression, Hannah R. Simons