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Here you can find featured peer-reviewed publications in Digital Health: 

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Facebook Digital Health Campaign

Tulsiani, S., Ichimiya, M., Gerard, R., Mills, S., Bingenheimer, J. B., Hair, E. C., Vallone, D., & Evans, W. D. (2022). Assessing the feasibility of studying awareness of a digital health campaign on Facebook: Pilot study comparing young adult subsamples. JMIR Formative Research, 6(8). https://doi.org/10.2196/37856

Below you can find recent peer-reviewed publications in Digital Health: 

  • Abroms, L. C. (2019). Public health in the era of Social Media. American Journal of Public Health, 109(S2). https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2018.304947
  • Abroms, L. C., & Maibach, E. W. (2008). The effectiveness of mass communication to change public behavior. Annual Review of Public Health, 29(1), 219–234. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.publhealth.29.020907.090824
  • Abroms, L. C., Allegrante, J. P., Auld, M. E., Gold, R. S., Riley, W. T., & Smyser, J. (2019). Toward a common agenda for the public and private sectors to advance digital health communication. American Journal of Public Health, 109(2), 221–223. https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2018.304806
  • Abroms, L. C., Gold, R. S., & Allegrante, J. P. (2019). Promoting health on social media: The way forward. Health Education & Behavior, 46(2_suppl). https://doi.org/10.1177/1090198119879096
  • Abroms, L. C., Johnson, P. R., Leavitt, L. E., Cleary, S. D., Bushar, J., Brandon, T. H., & Chiang, S. C. (2017). A randomized trial of text messaging for smoking cessation in pregnant women. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 53(6), 781–790. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2017.08.002
  • Abroms, L., Levine, H., Romm, K., Wysota, C., Broniatowski, D., Bar-Zeev, Y., & Berg, C. (2022). Anticipating IQOS market expansion in the United States. Tobacco Prevention & Cessation, 8(January), 1–4. https://doi.org/10.18332/tpc/144650
  • Ayers, J. W., Chu, B., Zhu, Z., Leas, E. C., Smith, D. M., Dredze, M., & Broniatowski, D. A. (2021). Spread of misinformation about face masks and COVID-19 by automated software on Facebook. JAMA Internal Medicine, 181(9), 1251. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2021.2498
  • Broniatowski, D. A., & Reyna, V. F. (2019). To illuminate and motivate: A fuzzy-trace model of the spread of information online. Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, 26(4), 431–464. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10588-019-09297-2
  • Broniatowski, D. A., Dredze, M., & Ayers, J. W. (2021). “First do no harm”: Effective communication about covid-19 vaccines. American Journal of Public Health, 111(6), 1055–1057. https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2021.306288
  • Broniatowski, D. A., Jamison, A. M., Johnson, N. F., Velasquez, N., Leahy, R., Restrepo, N. J., Dredze, M., & Quinn, S. C. (2020). Facebook pages, the “Disneyland” measles outbreak, and promotion of vaccine refusal as a civil right, 2009–2019. American Journal of Public Health, 110(S3). https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2020.305869
  • Broniatowski, D. A., Jamison, A. M., Qi, S. H., Alkulaib, L., Chen, T., Benton, A., Quinn, S. C., & Dredze, M. (2018). Weaponized health communication: Twitter bots and Russian trolls amplify the vaccine debate. American Journal of Public Health, 108(10), 1378–1384. https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2018.304567
  • Cantrell, J., Bingenheimer, J., Tulsiani, S., Hair, E., Vallone, D., Mills, S., Gerard, R., & Evans, W. D. (2022). Assessing digital advertising exposure using a virtual experimental protocol. DIGITAL HEALTH, 8, 205520762211022. https://doi.org/10.1177/20552076221102260
  • Evans, W. D., & French, J. (2021). Demand creation for covid-19 vaccination: Overcoming vaccine hesitancy through social marketing. Vaccines, 9(4), 319. https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9040319
  • Evans, W. D., Andrade, E., Pratt, M., Mottern, A., Chavez, S., Calzetta-Raymond, A., & Gu, J. (2020). Peer-to-peer social media as an effective prevention strategy: Quasi-experimental evaluation. JMIR MHealth and UHealth, 8(5). https://doi.org/10.2196/16207
  • Evans, W. D., Harrington, C., Patchen, L., Andrews, V., Gaminian, A., Ellis, L. P., & Napolitano, M. A. (2019). Design of a novel digital intervention to promote healthy weight management among postpartum African American women. Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications, 16, 100460. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conctc.2019.100460
  • Evans, W.D., Bingenheimer, J.B., Cantrell, J., Hair, E.C., Gerard, R., Mills, S., Tulsiani, S., Vallone, D. Pilot evaluation of the effects of anti-vaping advertising on young adult use intentions through a targeted Facebook campaign. Journal of Medical Internet Research. In press.
  • Harrington, C., Patchen, L., Andrews, V., Gaminian, A., Ellis, L.P., Napolitano, M., Evans, W.D. Formative Research to Develop a Digital Healthy Weight Management Among Postpartum African American Women. Translational Behavioral Medicine. In press.
  • Ichimiya, M., Gerard, R., Mills, S., Brodsky, A., Cantrell, J., & Evans, W. D. (2022). The measurement of dose and response for smoking behavior change interventions in the digital age: Systematic review. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 24(8). https://doi.org/10.2196/38470
  • Jamison, A. M., Broniatowski, D. A., Dredze, M., Sangraula, A., Smith, M. C., & Quinn, S. C. (2020). Not just conspiracy theories: Vaccine opponents and proponents add to the COVID-19 ‘infodemic’ on Twitter. Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, 1. https://doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-38
  • Jamison, A. M., Broniatowski, D. A., Dredze, M., Wood-Doughty, Z., Khan, D. A., & Quinn, S. C. (2020). Vaccine-related advertising in the facebook ad archive. Vaccine, 38(3), 512–520. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2019.10.066
  • Jamison, A., Broniatowski, D. A., Smith, M. C., Parikh, K. S., Malik, A., Dredze, M., & Quinn, S. C. (2020). Adapting and extending a typology to identify vaccine misinformation on Twitter. American Journal of Public Health, 110(S3), S331–S339. https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2020.305940
  • Krishnan, N., Gu, J., & Abroms, L. C. (2021). Mobile phone-based messaging for tobacco cessation in low and middle-income countries: A systematic review. Addictive Behaviors, 113, 106676. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2020.106676
  • Larson, H. J., & Broniatowski, D. A. (2021). Volatility of vaccine confidence. Science, 371(6536), 1289–1289. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abi6488
  • Larson, H. J., & Broniatowski, D. A. (2021). Why debunking misinformation is not enough to change people’s minds about vaccines. American Journal of Public Health, 111(6), 1058–1060. https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2021.306293
  • Napolitano, M. A., Harrington, C. B., Patchen, L., Ellis, L. P., Ma, T., Chang, K., Gaminian, A., Bailey, C. P., & Evans, W. D. (2021). Feasibility of a digital intervention to promote healthy weight management among postpartum African American/black women. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(4), 2178. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18042178
  • Patchen, L., Ellis, L., Harrington, C. B., Ma, T., Mohanraj, R., Andrews, V., & Evans, W. D. (2020). Engaging African American parents to develop a mobile health technology for breastfeeding: Kulea-net. Journal of Human Lactation, 36(3), 448–460. https://doi.org/10.1177/0890334420930208
  • Seiler, J., Libby, T. E., Jackson, E., Lingappa, J. R., & Evans, W. D. (2022). Social Media–based interventions for health behavior change in low- and middle-income countries: Systematic Review. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 24(4). https://doi.org/10.2196/31889
  • Tulsiani, S., Ichimiya, M., Gerard, R., Mills, S., Bingenheimer, J. B., Hair, E. C., Vallone, D., & Evans, W. D. (2022). Assessing the feasibility of studying awareness of a digital health campaign on Facebook: Pilot study comparing young adult subsamples. JMIR Formative Research, 6(8). https://doi.org/10.2196/37856
  • Xu, P., Dredze, M., & Broniatowski, D. A. (2020). The twitter social mobility index: Measuring social distancing practices with geolocated tweets. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 22(12). https://doi.org/10.2196/21499