This collection includes theses and dissertations from the School of Public Health & Information Sciences. It is not exhaustive since most paper theses and dissertations have not been digitized. Generally, paper copies of theses and dissertations published prior to 2014 can be accessed in the University of Louisville Libraries. If you would like to add your thesis or dissertation to this collection, please fill out the Electronic Theses & Dissertations form.
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Bayesian methods for graphical models with neighborhood selection., Sagnik Bhadury
HIV and the African American church: millennial faith leader's perspectives., Kelsey LeAnn Burton
Meeting the mental health needs of college-aged young adults: evaluating the value and impact of digital mental health interventions., Sara Atherton Choate
“I think it's male privilege”: a qualitative study of personal, behavioral, and socio-environmental factors influencing high risk sexual behavior and HIV transmission among heterosexual adult males In Ghana., Nana Ama Aya Erzuah Bullock
Understanding public emergency preparedness before and during the coronavirus outbreak: implications for effective public health and risk communication., Raphael Adjetey Fumey
Public health contagion of white supremacy: examining the pipeline of attitudes about racism and racial history education among high school students., Trinidad Jackson
Bayesian methodologies for constrained spaces., Siddhesh Kulkarni
Protest-related tear gas exposure and menstrual function, Emily Kathleen (Steinmetz) Reece
Ecological differences in the associations between air pollution, greenness, and risk of stroke: The REGARDS study., Daniel W. Riggs
Person-centered decision-making and socio-cultural contexts influencing cesarean deliveries: a national analysis., Alice M. Story
Statistical methods for personalized treatment selection and survival data analysis based on observational data with high-dimensional covariates., Don Ramesh Dinendra Sudaraka Tholkage
A mixed methods assessment of menstrual hygiene management and school attendance among schoolgirls in Edo State, Nigeria., Madeline M. Tomlinson
Environmental noise exposure and its association with elementary standardized testing scores and adult mental ill-health in Louisville, Kentucky., Lindsey Adelle Wood
The role of MMP-3 in copper oxide nanoparticle-induced pulmonary inflammation and fibrosis., Yuanbao Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Estimating treatment effect on medical cost and examining medical cost trajectory using splines and change point techniques., Indranil Ghosh
Exploring opportunities for prevention of child sexual abuse in a diverse American Muslim community., Rishtya Meena Kakar
The impact of statin use on outcomes of Diabetic adult patients hospitalized for community acquired pneumonia., Joel Lanceta
Identifying the cardiovascular effects of multiple pollutants., Katlyn Elizabeth McGraw
The association between depression and anxiety with COVID-19 outcomes., Erica Miller
Observational studies in group testing and potential applications., Alexander Christopher Noll
Understanding wellbeing in refugee youth from the African great lakes region., Victory Osezua
Particulate matter exposure and community-acquired pneumonia mortality among hospitalized adults with pneumococcal pneumonia: incidence study (HAPPI) participants., Jack Anthony Pfeiffer
Trends in hysterectomy in hospital and ambulatory settings in Kentucky 2017-2020., Felicia A. Pugh
Estimating cumulative incidence rate on interval censored data in an illness-death model., Chen Qian
Predictive modeling of clinical outcomes for hospitalized COVID-19 patients utilizing CyTOF and clinical data., Onajia Stubblefield
Bayesian variable selection strategies in longitudinal mixture models and categorical regression problems., Md Nazir Uddin
Exploring the contextual factors and decision-making process of risky sexual behavior among homeless adults in Louisville, Kentucky., Sarah C. Van Heiden
Hospital-based professional spiritual care: evaluating the utilization, availability, and impact of chaplains., Kelsey B. White
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Tobacco smoke exposures and fertility-related outcomes among females seeking fertility care, and the interaction with N-Acetyltransferase 2 (NAT2).., T'shura S. A. Ali
Preventable hospitalization among type 2 diabetes patients in Kentucky before and after medicaid expansion 2010-2017., Turky Jamil Arbaein
A novel approach to HIV prevention: understanding multi-level influences on HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PREP) uptake and outreach among African Americans., Suur Debrah Ayangeakaa
Aspects of causal inference., John A. Craycroft
Marginal methods and software for clustered data with cluster- and group-size informativeness., Mary Elizabeth Gregg
Volatile organic compound exposure and cardiometabolic syndrome risk in a nationally representative cohort., Stacey Lane Konkle
The green house nursing home model: the GH elements and their impact on quality of care in nursing homes., Deborah Kaminka Niyongabo
Converting threats into opportunities predicting medical error reporting behavior., Whitney Thomas Rogers
Novel Bayesian methodology for the analysis of single-cell RNA sequencing data., Michael Sekula
Modified-half-normal distribution and different methods to estimate average treatment effect., Jingchao Sun
Oral health-related quality of life in US adults with type 2 diabetes., Giang Truong Vu
Characterization of adiposity and inflammation genetic pleiotropy underlying cardiovascular risk factors in Hispanics., Mohammad Yaser (Anwar)
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
The shape study : the survey of health and the perceived environment study., Colette Patrice Davis
“Pissing in the wind”: racially discriminatory economic policies’ impact on today’s banking status, use of alternative financial services and health outcomes., Gaberiel Jones Jr
Novel Bayesian methodology in multivariate problems., Debamita Kundu
Determining the effect of an educational intervention on medical support personnel's knowledge to administer a standardized developmental screening tool., Leslie Chiaventone Lopez
Handgun carrying patterns and suicide risk among youth., Teresa Jane McGeeney
Characterization of the impact of prenatal cigarette smoke exposure on age- and sex-specific SIRT1-mediated hepatic molecular phenotype in C57BL/6 mice., Kendall S. Stocke
Polydrug use among people who use opioids, national survey on drug use and health 2002 to 2017., Diana Kuo Stojda
An evaluation of the supply and demand of radiation oncology medical physicists in the United States., Christine Marie Swanson
Evaluation of the health and exposure histories of a community surrounded by industry and industrial waste : a mixed methods approach., Lindsay Koloff Tompkins
Probability of conception after fertility counseling and the association of sexually transmitted infections with pregnancy in the Loussi study., Lindsey Adelle Wood
Statistical methods for estimating and testing treatment effect for multiple treatment groups in observational studies., Xiaofang Yan
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
An assessment of the disaster preparedness knowledge of emergency medical services providers in Hajj of 2016., Ahmed Meaiwedh Al-Otaibi
Generalized spatiotemporal modeling and causal inference for assessing treatment effects for multiple groups for ordinal outcome., Soutik Ghosal
Lead and crime: an ecological study between lead contaminated topsoil and violent crime., Brian Guinn
Cost burden of social isolation for wheelchair users in Louisville, Kentucky., Connie Light
Adolescent sexual and reproductive health in the Gambia., Sandhya Lohani
Post-diagnosis quality of life and mortality in non-Hispanic White and Hispanic women diagnosed with invasive breast cancer., Delvon T. Mattingly
Coal ash exposure and behavioral impairments among children in Louisville, Kentucky., Chisom Nmesoma Odoh
Association between cigarette smoking and ovarian reserve among women seeking fertility treatment with effect modification by race and NAT2 genotype., Islamiat A. Oladipupo
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Reducing tobacco-related health disparities : exploring the barriers and facilitators to smoking cessation among individuals experiencing homelessness., Bernadette Guzman Antoon
Effect of total body iron on metabolic dysfunction among U.S. females in the Nhanes 2003-2010, aged 12-49., Joseph Michael Carhart
Attending to systemic racism : advancing public health's approach to youth violence prevention., Billie Faith Castle
Comparing total expenditures by source of long-term services and supports., Maresa R. Corder
Pediatric anxiety and/or depression problems : associations with PM10, fly ash, and metal exposure., Abby Nicole Burns Hagemeyer
Functional data analysis methods for predicting disease status., Sarah Kendrick
Estimation of the three key parameters and the lead time distribution in lung cancer screening., Ruiqi Liu
Sample size calculations and normalization methods for RNA-seq data., Xiaohong Li
Evaluating work place wellness in greater Louisville's technology organizations : a case study., Andrew L. McCart
Coal ash exposure and asthma in children., Jack Anthony Pfeiffer
Prenatal depression screening among a diverse healthy start population., Evangeline Pierce
The particulars about particulates : metal exposure and self-regulation of children living near coal ash., Clara G. Sears
Novel statistical approaches for missing values in truncated high-dimensional metabolomics data with a detection threshold., Jasmit SureshKumar Shah
The effect of caffeine on fecundability : differences in coffee, tea, and cola consumption., Emily Kathleen Steinmetz
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Propensity score based methods for estimating the treatment effects based on observational studies., Younathan Abdia
Cost of care for hospitalized patients with pulmonary mycobacterial diseases in the United States., Mary Beth Wells Allen
The impact of Medicaid expansion on utilization of mental health services in west Louisville, Kentucky., Susan Theresa Buchino
Inference for a zero-inflated Conway-Maxwell-Poisson regression for clustered count data., Hyoyoung Choo-Wosoba
Propensity score methods : a simulation and case study involving breast cancer patients., John Craycroft
Expression of genes for peptide/protein hormones and their cognate receptors in breast carcinomas as biomarkers predicting risk of recurrence., Michael Wesley Daniels
Some contributions to nonparametric and semiparametric inference for clustered and multistate data., Sandipan Dutta
A log rank test for clustered data under informative within-cluster group size., Mary Elizabeth Gregg
The influence of nutrition education and self-efficacy on fruit and vegetable consumption for low-income women in rural west Kentucky., Lewatis Darnell McNeal
Semi-parametric methods for personalized treatment selection and multi-state models., Chathura K. Siriwardhana
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) onset and "remission"., Srikanth Tangelloju
Memory and fine motor skill test performance among children living near coal ash storage sites., Lindsay Koloff Tompkins
Environmental vegetation : a possible association with cardiovascular disease risk., Ray Anthony Yeager II
The impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s risk adjustment program on adverse selection : first year case study., Steven K. Zimmerman
