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Katherine P. Theall

Katherine P. Theall

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
49
Citations
7934
World Ranking
2999
National Ranking
1446

Overview

Katherine P. Theall is affiliated with Tulane University in the United States. Their research spans a diverse range of topics primarily within the social sciences, medicine, and health professions, with a notable focus on public health issues.

Theall's contributions include 88 publications in social sciences, 86 in medicine, and 69 in health professions. Their work further extends into subfields such as general health professions, health, sociology and political science, clinical psychology, and public health, environmental, and occupational health.

Core topics addressed in their research encompass health disparities and outcomes, homelessness and social issues, HIV/AIDS research and interventions, food security and health in diverse populations, gun ownership and violence research, community health and development, and intersections of HIV, drug use, and sexual risk.

Recent papers by Theall illustrate the breadth of their research focus. These include:

  • State Abortion Policies and Maternal Death in the United States, 2015-2018 (2021), published in American Journal of Public Health
  • Maternity Care Deserts and Pregnancy-Associated Mortality in Louisiana (2020), Women's Health Issues
  • Housing insecurity and intersecting social determinants of health among transgender people in the USA: A targeted ethnography (2020), International Journal of Transgender Health
  • Structural racism, racial inequities and urban-rural differences in infant mortality in the US (2021), Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
  • The Index of Concentration at the Extremes (ICE) and Pregnancy-Associated Mortality in Louisiana, 2016-2017 (2021), Maternal and Child Health Journal

Theall frequently collaborates with several co-authors including Maeve Wallace, Julia M. Fleckman, Samantha Francois, Erica Felker-Kantor, and Sharven Taghavi.

Their work is often published in venues such as AIDS and Behavior, The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, American Journal of Public Health, and Women's Health Issues.

Best Publications

  • Telomere length and early severe social deprivation: linking early adversity and cellular aging

    S S Drury;K Theall;M M Gleason;A T Smyke

  • Separate and unequal: Structural racism and infant mortality in the US.

    Maeve Wallace;Joia Crear-Perry;Lisa Richardson;Meshawn Tarver

  • The changing epidemiology of rubella in the 1990s: on the verge of elimination and new challenges for control and prevention.

    Susan E. Reef;Teryl K. Frey;Katherine Theall;Emily Abernathy

  • Trichomonas vaginalis treatment reduces vaginal HIV-1 shedding.

    Patricia Kissinger;Angela Amedee;Rebecca A. Clark;Jeanne Dumestre

  • Cumulative Neighborhood Risk of Psychosocial Stress and Allostatic Load in Adolescents

    Katherine P. Theall;Stacy S. Drury;Elizabeth A. Shirtcliff

  • Nurses' recognition of delirium in the hospitalized older adult.

    Karen L. Rice;Marsha Bennett;Maureen Gomez;Katherine P. Theall

  • Neighborhood disorder and telomeres: Connecting children's exposure to community level stress and cellular response

    Katherine P. Theall;Zoë H. Brett;Elizabeth A. Shirtcliff;Erin C. Dunn

  • The association of telomere length with family violence and disruption

    Stacy S. Drury;Emily Mabile;Zoë H. Brett;Kyle Esteves

  • Genetic sensitivity to the caregiving context: the influence of 5httlpr and BDNF val66met on indiscriminate social behavior.

    Stacy S Drury;Mary Margaret Gleason;Katherine Theall;Anna T Smyke

  • Impact of small group size on neighbourhood influences in multilevel models

    Katherine P. Theall;Richard Scribner;Stephanie Broyles;Qingzhao Yu

  • Clinical Outcomes and Disease Progression among Patients Coinfected with HIV and Human T Lymphotropic Virus Types 1 and 2

    Mark A. Beilke;Katherine P. Theall;O'Brien Megan;John L. Clayton

  • Association Between Neighborhood Violence and Biological Stress in Children.

    Katherine P. Theall;Elizabeth A. Shirtcliff;Andrew R. Dismukes;Maeve Wallace

  • Measuring inequity: a systematic review of methods used to quantify structural racism

    Maya Groos;Maeve Wallace;Rachel Hardeman;Katherine P Theall

  • The Contextual Role of Alcohol Outlet Density in College Drinking

    Richard Scribner;Karen Mason;Katherine Theall;Neal Simonsen

  • Effectiveness of a Risk Reduction Intervention Among African American Women Who Use Crack Cocaine

    Claire E. Sterk;Katherine P. Theall;Kirk W. Elifson

  • Alcohol outlet density and alcohol consumption in Los Angeles County and Southern Louisiana

    Matthias Schonlau;Richard Scribner;Thomas A. Farley;Katherine P. Theall

  • The role of the dopamine transporter (DAT) in the development of PTSD in preschool children.

    Stacy S. Drury;Katherine P. Theall;Bronya J.B. Keats;Michael Scheeringa

  • State Abortion Policies and Maternal Death in the United States, 2015‒2018.

    Dovile Vilda;Maeve E. Wallace;Clare Daniel;Melissa Goldin Evans

  • Integrating social capital into a park-use and active-living framework.

    Stephanie T. Broyles;Andrew J. Mowen;Katherine P. Theall;Jeanette Gustat

  • Partner support and impact on birth outcomes among teen pregnancies in the United States.

    Monisha K. Shah;Rebekah E. Gee;Katherine P. Theall

  • HIV risk reduction among African-American women who inject drugs: a randomized controlled trial.

    Claire E Sterk;Katherine P Theall;Kirk W Elifson;Daniel Kidder

  • Income inequality and racial disparities in pregnancy-related mortality in the US.

    Dovile Vilda;Maeve Wallace;Lauren Dyer;Emily Harville

Frequent Co-Authors

Claire E. Sterk
Claire E. Sterk Emory University
Elizabeth A. Shirtcliff
Elizabeth A. Shirtcliff Iowa State University
Deborah A. Cohen
Deborah A. Cohen Kaiser Permanente
Ricky N. Bluthenthal
Ricky N. Bluthenthal University of Southern California
Charles C. Branas
Charles C. Branas Columbia University
William DeJong
William DeJong Boston University
Carl Kendall
Carl Kendall Tulane University
Dustin T. Duncan
Dustin T. Duncan Columbia University
Charles H. Zeanah
Charles H. Zeanah Tulane University
Nathan A. Fox
Nathan A. Fox University of Maryland, College Park

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