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Volume 111(3);  March 2021

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Editor's Choice

COVID-19: Nursing Students Should Have the Option to Help
Chaya L. Dickel
Am J Public Health. 2021 March; 111(3): 334. Published online 2021 March. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.306123
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Global News

AJPH Global News
Am J Public Health. 2021 March; 111(3): 335. Published online 2021 March. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.306133
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Opinions, Ideas, & Practice

Editorials

Public Health Education and Changing Public Health Realities in the Public Health 3.0 Era
Gulzar H. Shah
Am J Public Health. 2021 March; 111(3): 336–338. Published online 2021 March. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.306100
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Prevention of Sexual Violence in America: Where Do We Stand?
Randall Waechter
Am J Public Health. 2021 March; 111(3): 339–341. Published online 2021 March. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.306120
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Building “Bridges” to Equity
Ann C. Miller, Matthew H. Bonds
Am J Public Health. 2021 March; 111(3): 342–343. Published online 2021 March. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.306134
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Measuring Intersectional Stigma Among Racially and Ethnically Diverse Transgender Women: Challenges and Opportunities
Katie B. Biello, Jaclyn M. W. Hughto
Am J Public Health. 2021 March; 111(3): 344–346. Published online 2021 March. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.306141
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Folate: Its Biological Interactions and Strategies to Achieve Sufficiency Without Causing Excess
K E Elizabeth
Am J Public Health. 2021 March; 111(3): 347–349. Published online 2021 March. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.306067
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Preparing the Public Health Workforce for the Post–COVID-19 Era
Sandro Galea, Roger Vaughan
Am J Public Health. 2021 March; 111(3): 350–352. Published online 2021 March. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.306110
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Perspectives

The Syndemics of Emergency: How COVID-19 Demands a Holistic View of Public Health Promotion and Preparedness
Vinyas Harish
Am J Public Health. 2021 March; 111(3): 353–354. Published online 2021 March. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.306116
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Communicating Effectively About Emergency Use Authorization and Vaccines in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Sandra Crouse Quinn, Amelia M. Jamison, Vicki Freimuth
Am J Public Health. 2021 March; 111(3): 355–358. Published online 2021 March. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.306036
PMCID:
PMC7893369
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Priorities for Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment and Prevention During COVID-19’s Second Wave
Jennifer Attonito, Karina Villalba, Shelley Fontal
Am J Public Health. 2021 March; 111(3): 359–362. Published online 2021 March. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.306070
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The Urgent Need for Public Health Preparedness Funding and Support
Linda C. Degutis, Kimberley Shoaf, Tomás J. Aragón, Christopher Atchison, David Dyjack, Lisle Hites, Jonathan Links, Debra Olson, Margaret Potter, Jack Thompson, Bernard Turnock
Am J Public Health. 2021 March; 111(3): 363–365. Published online 2021 March. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.306068
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Building Trust in COVID-19 Vaccines and Beyond Through Authentic Community Investment
Bisola O. Ojikutu, Kathyrn E. Stephenson, Kenneth H. Mayer, Karen M. Emmons
Am J Public Health. 2021 March; 111(3): 366–368. Published online 2021 March. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.306087
PMCID:
PMC7893367
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Contact-Tracing Apps: Time to Confront Broader Societal Change
Kimberlyn Marie McGrail
Am J Public Health. 2021 March; 111(3): 369–370. Published online 2021 March. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.306084
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Enhancing the WHO’s Proposed Framework for Distributing COVID-19 Vaccines Among Countries
Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Florencia Luna, G. Owen Schaefer, Kok-Chor Tan, Jonathan Wolff
Am J Public Health. 2021 March; 111(3): 371–373. Published online 2021 March. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.306098
PMCID:
PMC7893355
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Opportunities to Support Optimal Health for Children in Medicaid Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic
Kelli DePriest, Sandra Hassink, Kim Tuck, Chloe Bakst, Steve Fitton, Linda Genen, Anna Potere, Kelly Bower
Am J Public Health. 2021 March; 111(3): 374–377. Published online 2021 March. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.306113
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Student Corner

Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Competency of Clinical Year Medical Students, With Special Reference to Community and Public Health
Vivaswan Dutt Mishra, Sameer Saleem Tebha, Rahul Jagdishchandra Mittal, Aritra Paul
Am J Public Health. 2021 March; 111(3): 378–379. Published online 2021 March. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.306081
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Future Infectious Disease Outbreaks and Collective Responsibility: Students’ Experiences and Perspectives
Jynx K. Frederick
Am J Public Health. 2021 March; 111(3): 380–381. Published online 2021 March. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.306104
PMCID:
PMC7893362
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When Studying Cannot Help: A Medical Student’s COVID-19 Experience
Collin Dickerson
Am J Public Health. 2021 March; 111(3): 382–383. Published online 2021 March. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.306103
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Black, Indigenous, People of Color, and International Students: Experiences and Resolutions Beyond COVID-19
Hassanatu Blake, Nashira Brown, Claudia Follette, Jessica Morgan, Hairui Yu
Am J Public Health. 2021 March; 111(3): 384–386. Published online 2021 March. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.306118
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International Forum

Addressing COVID-19 in Resource-Poor Settings: Comparing the Experiences of Vietnam and Sri Lanka
Saroj Jayasinghe, Sanjiva Weerawarana, Dushyantha T. Jayaweera
Am J Public Health. 2021 March; 111(3): 387–389. Published online 2021 March. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.306108
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Brazil’s Fight Against COVID-19
Mario R. Dal Poz, Eduardo Levcovitz, Ligia Bahia
Am J Public Health. 2021 March; 111(3): 390–391. Published online 2021 March. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.306122
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Precision Public Health Matters: An International Assessment of Communication, Preparedness, and Coordination for Successful COVID-19 Responses
Chloe Sales, Yeuen Kim, Gloria Kim, Bryant Lin, Latha Palaniappan
Am J Public Health. 2021 March; 111(3): 392–394. Published online 2021 March. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.306129
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Equitable Enforcement of Pandemic-Related Public Health Laws: Strategies for Achieving Racial and Health Justice
Maya Hazarika Watts, Katie Hannon Michel, Jessica Breslin, Elizabeth Tobin-Tyler
Am J Public Health. 2021 March; 111(3): 395–397. Published online 2021 March. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.306112
PMCID:
PMC7893370
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Law & Ethics

A Window of Opportunity Is Opening to Improve Immigrant Health: A Research and Practice Agenda
Maria-Elena De Trinidad Young, Steven P. Wallace
Am J Public Health. 2021 March; 111(3): 398–401. Published online 2021 March. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.306128
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Covid-19 & History

Editorials

The COVID-19 Pandemic in Historical Perspective: An AJPH Dossier
Theodore M. Brown
Am J Public Health. 2021 March; 111(3): 402–404. Published online 2021 March. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.306136
PMCID:
PMC7893358
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COVID-19: The Power of Historical Lessons
Svenn-Erik Mamelund
Am J Public Health. 2021 March; 111(3): 405–406. Published online 2021 March. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.306030
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National Status in a Global Pandemic: Is (Mis)handling COVID-19 a Turning Point or a Revelation?
Liping Bu
Am J Public Health. 2021 March; 111(3): 407–408. Published online 2021 March. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.306089
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Pandemics and Public Health History
Allan M. Brandt
Am J Public Health. 2021 March; 111(3): 409–410. Published online 2021 March. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.306086
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The Partisan Transformation of American Public Health Law, 1918 to 2020
John Fabian Witt
Am J Public Health. 2021 March; 111(3): 411–413. Published online 2021 March. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.306106
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Two Pandemics, Two Surveys in the United States and in Spain
Miguel A. Hernán, Raquel Yotti
Am J Public Health. 2021 March; 111(3): 414–415. Published online 2021 March. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.306105
PMCID:
PMC7893361
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Research

Politics, Pushback, and Pandemics: Challenges to Public Health Orders in the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
J. Alexander Navarro, Howard Markel
Am J Public Health. 2021 March; 111(3): 416–422. Published online 2021 March. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.305958
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The Manchurian Plague and COVID-19: China, the United States, and the “Sick Man,” Then and Now
Ruth Rogaski
Am J Public Health. 2021 March; 111(3): 423–429. Published online 2021 March. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.305960
PMCID:
PMC7893341
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Pandemic Reemergence and Four Waves of Excess Mortality Coinciding With the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Michigan: Insights for COVID-19
Siddharth Chandra, Julia Christensen, Madhur Chandra, Nigel Paneth
Am J Public Health. 2021 March; 111(3): 430–437. Published online 2021 March. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.305969
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The US Public Health Service House-to-House Canvass Survey of the Morbidity and Mortality of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
Alfredo Morabia
Am J Public Health. 2021 March; 111(3): 438–445. Published online 2021 March. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.306025
PMCID:
PMC7893349
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Research & Analysis

Perspectives from the Social Sciences

Intercategorical and Intracategorical Experiences of Discrimination and HIV Prevalence Among Transgender Women in San Francisco, CA: A Quantitative Intersectionality Analysis
Paul Wesson, Eric Vittinghoff, Caitlin Turner, Sean Arayasirikul, Willi McFarland, Erin Wilson
Am J Public Health. 2021 March; 111(3): 446–456. Published online 2021 March. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.306055
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Law & Ethics

Defeating JUUL’s Effort to Rewrite San Francisco’s E-Cigarette Regulations
Neiloy R. Sircar, Stanton A. Glantz
Am J Public Health. 2021 March; 111(3): 457–464. Published online 2021 March. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.305993
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Methods

Selecting Review Outcomes for Systematic Reviews of Public Health Interventions
Luke Wolfenden, Ani Movsisyan, Sam McCrabb, Jan M Stratil, Sze Lin Yoong
Am J Public Health. 2021 March; 111(3): 465–470. Published online 2021 March. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.306061
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Open-Themed Research

Opioid Misuse Among American Indian Adolescents
Linda R. Stanley, Meghan A. Crabtree, Randall C. Swaim
Am J Public Health. 2021 March; 111(3): 471–474. Published online 2021 March. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.306039
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First-Destination Outcomes for 2015–2018 Public Health Graduates: Focus on Employment
Christine M. Plepys, Heather Krasna, Jonathon P. Leider, Emily M. Burke, Craig H. Blakely, Laura Magaña
Am J Public Health. 2021 March; 111(3): 475–484. Published online 2021 March. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.306038
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Monitoring Sexual Violence Trends in Emergency Department Visits Using Syndromic Data From the National Syndromic Surveillance Program—United States, January 2017–December 2019
Ashley Schappell D'Inverno, Nimi Idaikkadar, Debra Houry
Am J Public Health. 2021 March; 111(3): 485–493. Published online 2021 March. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.306034
PMCID:
PMC7893360
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Food Insecurity in a Low-Income, Predominantly African American Cohort Following the COVID-19 Pandemic
Tamara Dubowitz, Madhumita Ghosh Dastidar, Wendy M. Troxel, Robin Beckman, Alvin Nugroho, Sameer Siddiqi, Jonathan Cantor, Matthew Baird, Andrea S. Richardson, Gerald P. Hunter, Alexandra Mendoza-Graf, Rebecca L. Collins
Am J Public Health. 2021 March; 111(3): 494–497. Published online 2021 March. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.306041
PMCID:
PMC7893363
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The Costs of Contradictory Messages About Live Vaccines in Pregnancy
Elana Jaffe, Ilona Telefus Goldfarb, Anne Drapkin Lyerly
Am J Public Health. 2021 March; 111(3): 498–503. Published online 2021 March. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.306045
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Impact of a Family Economic Intervention (Bridges) on Health Functioning of Adolescents Orphaned by HIV/AIDS: A 5-Year (2012–2017) Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial in Uganda
Fred M. Ssewamala, Julia Shu-Huah Wang, Rachel Brathwaite, Sicong Sun, Larissa Jennings Mayo-Wilson, Torsten B. Neilands, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
Am J Public Health. 2021 March; 111(3): 504–513. Published online 2021 March. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.306044
PMCID:
PMC7893332
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Disrupting the COVID-19 Misinfodemic With Network Interventions: Network Solutions for Network Problems
Lindsay E. Young, Emily Sidnam-Mauch, Marlon Twyman, Liyuan Wang, Jackie Jingyi Xu, Matthew Sargent, Thomas W. Valente, Emilio Ferrara, Janet Fulk, Peter Monge
Am J Public Health. 2021 March; 111(3): 514–519. Published online 2021 March. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.306063
Currently embargoed: Free in PMC on Mar 1, 2023; PubMed
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