Brian Elbel, New York University School of Medicine
Amy Schwartz, University of Delaware

“We know from clinical trials that vaccines are really effective for kids. But how does that play out in the real world and in school settings?” — Brian Elbel

Evaluating the health and economic impacts of COVID-19 and policy responses

Bruce Weinberg, The Ohio State University

“Some policymakers took a Las Vegas approach—what happens in Las Vegas says in Las Vegas. We know that’s not true for COVID-19. The virus [and pandemic-related policies] has the ability to impact transmission and mortality rates outside of the original county, state, or other geographic area.” — Bruce Weinberg

Adapting to disruption? Changes in colorectal cancer screening modalities and disparities during the COVID-19 pandemic

Cameron Kaplan, University of Southern California

“We thought that individuals with more comorbidities would be shifting to less-invasive tests. But we don’t see that. We actually see that people with comorbidities were overall less likely to be screened for cancer.” — Cameron Kaplan

A longitudinal examination of family relationship quality, loneliness, and marginalization among sexually diverse parents

Claire Kamp Dush, University of Minnesota
Ann Meier, University of Minnesota

“You can be lonely even if you’re partnered, and it’s a very powerful predictor of health.” — Claire Kamp Dush

COVID-19 in a vulnerable population: Results from the Study of Adolescent to Adult Neural Development

Colter Mitchell, University of Michigan
Helen Meier, University of Michigan
Christopher Monk, University of Michigan

“It’s the opposite of what you might expect; two years later, young adults who were working during the pandemic had higher levels of depression than those who were unemployed during the pandemic.” — Colter Mitchell

Is there a “new normal” in health system utilization? Describing and analyzing trends following the COVID-19 pandemic

Elaine Hill, University of Rochester
Meredith Adams, Wake Forest University

“While we see a reduction of emergency and hospitalization in Medicare and Medicaid populations, there now appears to be an upward trend back to pre-pandemic rates.” — Elaine Hill

Time help from adult children in response to parental need: Differences among biological and stepchildren in non-stepfamilies and stepfamilies

Emily Wiemers, Syracuse University

“If we want to study the impact of social policy during the pandemic, we need to understand family support. Understanding policy without understanding family support is missing half the picture.” — I-Fen Lin

Prediction of all-cause mortality among Medicare beneficiaries aged 65+ years

John Hsu, Massachusetts General Hospital

“The COVID-19 pandemic posed a serious and evolving threat to many Americans. It is critical that we quantify how the threat changed over time and estimate the impact of emergency policies in order to learn from the experience.” – John Hsu

Changes in mortality among Medicare Advantage and traditional Medicare beneficiaries associated with the COVID-19 pandemic

Karen Joynt Maddox, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

“Despite Medicare Advantage plans having more flexibility with benefit offerings and services for their enrollees, MA beneficiaries were not protected from risk of death compared to their traditional Medicare counterparts.” — Karen Joynt Maddox

Mitigating effects of telehealth uptake on disparities in maternal care access, quality, outcomes, and expenditures during the COVID-19 pandemic

Peiyin Hung, University of South Carolina
Xiaoming Li, University of South Carolina

“Telehealth could improve care options for rural and underserved moms that don’t have local options for care.” — Peiyin Hung

A national neighborhood data resource to understand inequities in the health and socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19 in the United States

Philippa Clarke, University of Michigan
Grace Noppert, University of Michigan

“Ever since John Snow made the link between the Broad Street pump and the outbreak, and epidemic, of cholera in the 1800s in London, we know that place is really important to understanding pandemics and their outcome.” — Philippa Clarke

A new database to measure the association between income, race, and mortality: Inequality in longevity during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic

Raj Chetty, Harvard University

“COVID-19 set back almost two decades of progress in racial equality of longevity in the United States. Will we be able to snap back to a more equal society? Or are many of the [life expectancy] changes that happened in 2020 going to persist and continue to impact the longevity of more disadvantaged communities?” – Michael Stepner

Understanding the effects of county- and state-level pandemic-era policy changes on behavioral health in the U.S.

Rita Hamad, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

“We want to reduce the chance that we attribute the effects to just one policy when other co-occurring policies may also contribute to the outcomes being examined.” – Kaitlyn Jackson

Stability and volatility in the contextual predictors of working-age mortality before and during the COVID-19 pandemic

Shannon Monnat, Syracuse University

“Collectively, the findings imply that counties went into the pandemic with a set of ‘pre-existing conditions’ that put some at greater risk of experiencing high rates of not only COVID-19 mortality, but also all-cause and drug poisoning mortality.” — Shannon Monnat

MRP: An analytic interface to generate model-based county-level estimates of COVID-19 transmission

Yajuan Si, University of Michigan

“Non-White individuals tended to have higher rates of asymptomatic infections compared to White individuals. Biologically, this shouldn’t be the case. That’s why we are studying social determinants.” — Yajuan Si