John Kubale

John Kubale directs the Social, Behavioral, and Economic COVID Coordinating Center at ICPSR. He joined ICPSR in 2022 and conducts research on the social and environmental drivers of infectious disease burden. Prior to coming to the University of Michigan, he spent four years with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Kubale received a PhD and MPH in Epidemiology from the University of Michigan and a BA from Xavier University.

Chenoweth M, Kubale J. Using Common Data Elements to Foster Interoperability of Research on Health Disparities. IASSIST Quarterly, 49(2). 2025 Jun 25. https://doi.org/10.29173/iq1112

Chenoweth M, Kubale J. Using Metadata to Promote Transparency in Health Research: Creating the COVID Measures Archive at ICPSR. International Journal of Digital Curation. 2025 Feb 17; DOI: https://doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v19i1.977.

Kubale J*, Kujawski S*, Chen I, Wu Z, Khader IA, Hasibra I, Whitaker B, Gresh L, Simaku A, Simões EAF, Al-Gazo M, Rogers S, Gerber SI, Balmaseda A, Tallo VL, Al-Sanouri TM, Porter R, Bino S, Azziz-Baumgartner E, McMorrow M, Hunt D, Thompson M, Biggs HM, Gordon A. Etiology of acute lower respiratory illness hospitalizations among infants in four countries. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 16 Nov 2023. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofad580.

Kubale J*, Balmaseda A*, Frutos A, Sanchez N, Plazaola M, Ojeda S; Saborio S, Lopez R, Cerpas Cruz C, Chowdhury M, Harris E, Kuan G, Gordon A. Burden of SARS-CoV-2 and Protection from Symptomatic Secondary Infection in Children. JAMA Network Open. 2022 June 27.

Noppert GA, Hegde ST, Kubale JT. Exposure, Susceptibility, and Recovery: A Framework for Examining the Intersection of the Social and Physical Environment and Infectious Disease Risk. American Journal of Epidemiology. 2022 October 18.

Kubale J, Kuan G, Gresh L, Ojeda S, Azziz-Baumgartner E, Sanchez N, Lopez R, Harris E, Balmaseda A, Gordon A. Assessing the Incidence of Symptomatic Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Illness within a Prospective Birth Cohort in Managua, Nicaragua. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2020 May 6.

*Co-first or co-senior authorship