Publications

2024

Schroeder, L. F., P. Rebman, P. Kasaie, E. Kenu, J. Zelner, and D. W. Dowdy (2024). “A Generalizable Decision-Making Framework for Selecting Onsite versus Send-out Clinical Laboratory Testing”. In: Medical Decision Making 44.3, pp. 307-319. ISSN: 0272-989X. DOI: 10.1177/0272989X241232666.

Trangucci, R., J. Contreras, J. Zelner, J. N. S. Eisenberg, and Y. Chen (2024). Bayesian Methods for Modeling Cumulative Exposure to Extensive Environmental Health Hazards. DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2404.04398. arxiv: 2404.04398 [stat].

2023

Broen, K., J. Dickens, R. Trangucci, M. D. Ogwang, C. N. Tenge, N. Masalu, S. J. Reynolds, E. Kawira, P. Kerchan, P. A. Were, R. T. Kuremu, W. N. Wekesa, T. Kinyera, I. Otim, I. D. Legason, H. Nabalende, I. D. Buller, L. W. Ayers, K. Bhatia, R. J. Biggar, J. J. Goedert, M. L. Wilson, S. M. Mbulaiteye, and J. Zelner (2023). “Burkitt Lymphoma Risk Shows Geographic and Temporal Associations with Plasmodium Falciparum Infections in Uganda, Tanzania, and Kenya”. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120.2, p. e2211055120. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2211055120.

Brouwer, A. F., A. M. Wilson, E. T. Martin, J. Zelner, P. R. Lephart, A. Jaworski, and C. J. Schmidt (2023). “Respiratory Virus Infections in Decedents in a Large, Urban Medical Examiner’s Office”. In: Public Health 224, pp. 118-122. ISSN: 0033-3506. DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2023.08.029.

Fossa, A. J., J. Zelner, R. Bergmans, K. Zivin, and S. D. Adar (2023). “Sociodemographic Correlates of Greenness within Public Parks in Three U.S. Cities”. In: Wellbeing, Space and Society 5, p. 100157. ISSN: 2666-5581. DOI: 10.1016/j.wss.2023.100157.

Sakrejda, K., C. Zawitz, R. A. Weinstein, W. Trick, J. Rafinski, K. Broen, H. Steinberg, K. J. Popovich, and J. Zelner (2023). “Layered Screening and Contact-Limiting Interventions Are Necessary to Reduce SARS-Cov-2 Outbreak Risks in Large Urban Jails”. In: The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 109.4, pp. 874-880. ISSN: 0002-9637, 1476-1645. DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.22-0716.

Trangucci, R., Y. Chen, and J. Zelner (2023). “Modeling Racial/Ethnic Differences in COVID-19 Incidence with Covariates Subject to Nonrandom Missingness”. In: The Annals of Applied Statistics 17.4, pp. 2723-2758. ISSN: 1932-6157, 1941-7330. DOI: 10.1214/22-AOAS1711.

Zelner, J., R. Naraharisetti, and S. Zelner (2023). “To Make Long-Term Gains against Infection Inequity, Infectious Disease Epidemiology Needs to Develop a More Sociological Imagination.” In: American Journal of Epidemiology, p. kwad044. ISSN: 0002-9262. DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwad044.

2022

Adams, C., A. Chamberlain, Y. Wang, M. Hazell, S. Shah, D. P. Holland, F. Khan, N. R. Gandhi, S. Fridkin, J. Zelner, and B. A. Lopman (2022). “The Role of Staff in Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Long-term Care Facilities”. In: Epidemiology 33.5, p. 669. ISSN: 1044-3983. DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000001510.

Floyd, C. J., G. E. Joachim, M. L. Boulton, J. Zelner, and A. L. Wagner (2022). “COVID-19 Vaccination and Mask Wearing Behaviors in the United States, August 2020 - June 2021”. In: Expert Review of Vaccines 21.10, pp. 1487-1493. ISSN: 1476-0584. DOI: 10.1080/14760584.2022.2104251.

Swanson, T., J. Zelner, and S. Guikema (2022). “COVID-19 Has Illuminated the Need for Clearer AI-based Risk Management Strategies”. In: Journal of Risk Research 25.10, pp. 1223-1238. ISSN: 1366-9877. DOI: 10.1080/13669877.2022.2077411.

Zelner, J., K. Broen, and E. August (2022). “A Guide to Backward Paper Writing for the Data Sciences”. In: Patterns, p. 100423. ISSN: 2666-3899. DOI: 10.1016/j.patter.2021.100423.

Zelner, J. and M. Eisenberg (2022). “Rapid Response Modeling of SARS-CoV-2 Transmission”. In: Science 376.6593, pp. 579-580. DOI: 10.1126/science.abp9498.

Zelner, J., N. B. Masters, R. Naraharisetti, S. A. Mojola, M. Chowkwanyun, and R. Malosh (2022). “There Are No Equal Opportunity Infectors: Epidemiological Modelers Must Rethink Our Approach to Inequality in Infection Risk”. In: PLOS Computational Biology 18.2, p. e1009795. ISSN: 1553-7358. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009795.

2021

Andrus, E., S. A. Mojola, E. Moran, M. C. Eisenberg, and J. Zelner (2021). “Has the Relationship between Wealth and HIV Risk in Sub-Saharan Africa Changed over Time? A Temporal, Gendered and Hierarchical Analysis.” In: Social Science & Medicine - Population Health.

Broen, K., R. Trangucci, and J. Zelner (2021). “Measuring the Impact of Spatial Perturbations on the Relationship between Data Privacy and Validity of Descriptive Statistics”. In: International Journal of Health Geographics 20.1, p. 3. ISSN: 1476-072X. DOI: 10.1186/s12942-020-00256-8.

Cheng, Q., P. A. Collender, J. R. Head, C. M. Hoover, J. L. Zelner, A. S. Mahmud, and J. V. Remais (2021). “Reply to Li et al.: Estimate of the Association between TB Risk and Famine Intensity Is Robust to Various Famine Intensity Estimators”. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118.16. ISSN: 0027-8424, 1091-6490. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2103254118.

Havumaki, J., T. Cohen, C. Zhai, J. C. Miller, S. D. Guikema, M. C. Eisenberg, and J. Zelner (2021). “Protective Impacts of Household-Based Tuberculosis Contact Tracing Are Robust across Endemic Incidence Levels and Community Contact Patterns”. In: PLOS Computational Biology 17.2, p. e1008713. ISSN: 1553-7358. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008713.

Heaney, A. K., J. R. Head, K. Broen, K. Click, J. Taylor, J. R. Balmes, J. Zelner, and J. V. Remais (2021). “Coccidioidomycosis and COVID-19 Co-Infection, United States, 2020”. In: Emerging Infectious Diseases 27. DOI: 10.3201/eid2705.204661.

Kubale, J., G. Kuan, L. Gresh, S. Ojeda, A. Schiller, N. Sanchez, R. Lopez, E. Azziz-Baumgartner, S. Wraith, E. Harris, A. Balmaseda, J. Zelner, and A. Gordon (2021a). “Individual-Level Association of Influenza Infection With Subsequent Pneumonia: A Case-control and Prospective Cohort Study”. In: Clinical Infectious Diseases: An Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 73.11, pp. e4288-e4295. ISSN: 1537-6591. DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1053.

--- (2021b). “Individual-Level Association of Influenza Infection With Subsequent Pneumonia: A Case-control and Prospective Cohort Study”. In: Clinical Infectious Diseases: An Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 73.11, pp. e4288-e4295. ISSN: 1537-6591. DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1053.

Masters, N. B., P. L. Delamater, M. L. Boulton, and J. Zelner (2021). “Measuring Multiple Dimensions and Indices of Non-Vaccination Clustering in Michigan: 2008-2018”. In: American Journal of Epidemiology. ISSN: 0002-9262. DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwaa264.

Masters, N. B., J. L. Zelner, P. L. Delamater, D. Hutton, and M. L. Boulton (2021). “Assessing the Impact of Michigan’s Administrative Rule Change on Non-Medical Vaccine Exemptions.” In: Pediatrics In Press.

Masters, N. B., J. Zelner, P. L. Delamater, D. Hutton, M. Kay, M. C. Eisenberg, and M. L. Boulton (2021). “Evaluating Michigan’s Administrative Rule Change on Nonmedical Vaccine Exemptions”. In: Pediatrics. ISSN: 0031-4005, 1098-4275. DOI: 10.1542/peds.2021-049942.

Zelner, J., J. Riou, R. Etzioni, and A. Gelman (2021). “Accounting for Uncertainty during a Pandemic”. In: Patterns 2.8, p. 100310. ISSN: 2666-3899. DOI: z.

2020

Brouwer, A. F., J. L. Zelner, M. C. Eisenberg, L. Kimmins, M. Ladisky, J. Collins, and J. N. S. Eisenberg (2020). “The Impact of Vaccination Efforts on the Spatiotemporal Patterns of the Hepatitis A Outbreak in Michigan, 2016-18”. In: Epidemiology Publish Ahead of Print. ISSN: 1044-3983. DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000001218.

Cheng, Q., P. A. Collender, A. K. Heaney, X. Li, R. Dasan, C. Li, J. A. Lewnard, J. L. Zelner, S. Liang, H. H. Chang, L. A. Waller, B. A. Lopman, C. Yang, and J. V. Remais (2020). “The DIOS Framework for Optimizing Infectious Disease Surveillance: Numerical Methods for Simulation and Multi-Objective Optimization of Surveillance Network Architectures”. In: PLOS Computational Biology 16.12, p. e1008477. ISSN: 1553-7358. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008477.

Cheng, Q., R. Trangucci, K. N. Nelson, W. Fu, P. A. Collender, J. R. Head, C. M. Hoover, N. K. Skaff, T. Li, X. Li, Y. You, L. Fang, S. Liang, C. Yang, J. He, J. L. Zelner, and J. V. Remais (2020). “Prenatal and Early-Life Exposure to the Great Chinese Famine Increased the Risk of Tuberculosis in Adulthood across Two Generations”. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. ISSN: 0027-8424, 1091-6490. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2008336117.

Contreras, J. D., R. Trangucci, E. E. Felix-Arellano, S. Rodr'iguez-Dozal, C. Siebe, H. Arruda, R. Meza, J. Zelner, and J. N. S. Eisenberg (2020). “Modeling Spatial Risk of Diarrheal Disease Associated with Household Proximity to Untreated Wastewater Used for Irrigation in the Mezquital Valley, Mexico”. In: Environmental Health Perspectives 128.7, p. 077002. DOI: 10.1289/EHP6443.

Gunasekera, K. S., J. Zelner, M. C. Becerra, C. Contreras, M. F. Franke, L. Lecca, M. B. Murray, J. L. Warren, and T. Cohen (2020). “Children as Sentinels of Tuberculosis Transmission: Disease Mapping of Programmatic Data”. In: BMC Medicine 18.1, p. 234. ISSN: 1741-7015. DOI: 10.1186/s12916-020-01702-x.

Kubale, J., A. Balmaseda, N. Sanchez, R. Lopez, L. Gresh, S. Ojeda, E. Harris, G. Kuan, J. Zelner, and A. Gordon (2020). “Pneumonia Following Symptomatic Influenza Infection among Nicaraguan Children before and after Introduction of the Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine”. In: The Journal of Infectious Diseases. ISSN: 0022-1899. DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiaa776.

Kubale, J., G. Kuan, L. Gresh, S. Ojeda, A. Schiller, N. Sanchez, R. Lopez, E. Azziz-Baumgartner, S. Wraith, E. Harris, A. Balmaseda, J. Zelner, and A. Gordon (2020). “Individual-Level Association of Influenza Infection With Subsequent Pneumonia: A Case-control and Prospective Cohort Study”. In: Clinical Infectious Diseases. ISSN: 1058-4838. DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1053.

Masters, N. B., P. L. Delamater, M. L. Boulton, and J. Zelner (2020). “Measuring Multiple Dimensions and Indices of Non-Vaccination Clustering in Michigan: 2008-2018”. In: American Journal of Epidemiology. ISSN: 0002-9262. DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwaa264.

Masters, N. B., M. C. Eisenberg, P. L. Delamater, M. Kay, M. L. Boulton, and J. Zelner (2020). “Fine-Scale Spatial Clustering of Measles Nonvaccination That Increases Outbreak Potential Is Obscured by Aggregated Reporting Data”. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. ISSN: 0027-8424, 1091-6490. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2011529117.

Zelner, J., N. Masters, K. Broen, and E. Lofgren (2020). “Preferential Observation of Large Infectious Disease Outbreaks Leads to Consistent Overestimation of Intervention Efficacy”. In: medRxiv, p. 2020.11.02.20224832. DOI: 10.1101/2020.11.02.20224832.

2019

Malosh, R. E., G. A. Noppert, J. Zelner, E. T. Martin, and A. S. Monto (2019). “Social Patterning of Acute Respiratory Illnesses in the Household Influenza Vaccine Evaluation (HIVE) Study 2014-2015”. In: Epidemiology and Infection 147, p. e185. ISSN: 0950-2688, 1469-4409. DOI: 10.1017/S0950268819000748.

Zelner, J. (2019). “Is a More Data-Driven Approach the Future of Tuberculosis Transmission Modeling?” In: Clinical Infectious Diseases, p. ciz797. ISSN: 1058-4838, 1537-6591. DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciz797.

Zelner, J., C. Adams, J. Havumaki, and B. Lopman (2019). “Understanding the Importance of Contact Heterogeneity and Variable Infectiousness in the Dynamics of a Large Norovirus Outbreak”. In: Clinical Infectious Diseases, p. ciz220. ISSN: 1058-4838, 1537-6591. DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciz220.

Zelner, J., J. G. Petrie, R. Trangucci, E. T. Martin, and A. S. Monto (2019). “Effects of Sequential Influenza A(H1N1)Pdm09 Vaccination on Antibody Waning.” In: The Journal of infectious diseases 220.1, pp. 12-19. ISSN: 1537-6613. DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiz055.

2018

Lee, G. O., P. J. Surkan, J. Zelner, M. Paredes Olórtegui, P. Peñataro Yori, R. Ambikapathi, L. E. Caulfield, R. H. Gilman, and M. N. Kosek (2018). “Social Connectedness Is Associated with Food Security among Peri-Urban Peruvian Amazonian Communities”. In: SSM - Population Health 4, pp. 254-262. ISSN: 23528273. DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2018.02.004.

Noppert, G. A., R. E. Malosh, E. B. Moran, S. D. Ahuja, and J. Zelner (2018). “Contemporary Social Disparities in TB Infection and Disease in the USA: A Review”. In: Current Epidemiology Reports 5.4, pp. 442-449. ISSN: 2196-2995. DOI: 10.1007/s40471-018-0171-y.

Zelner, J., M. Murray, M. Becerra, J. Galea, L. Lecca, R. Calderon, R. Yataco, Z. Zhang, and T. Cohen (2018). “Protective Effects of Household-Based TB Interventions Are Robust to Neighbourhood-Level Variation in Exposure Risk in Lima, Peru: A Model-Based Analysis”. In: International Journal of Epidemiology 47.1, pp. 185-192. ISSN: 0300-5771, 1464-3685. DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyx171.

2017

Zelner, J. L., C. Muller, and J. J. Feigenbaum (2017). “Racial Inequality in the Annual Risk of Tuberculosis Infection in the United States, 1910-1933”. In: Epidemiology and Infection 145.9, pp. 1797-1804. ISSN: 0950-2688, 1469-4409. DOI: 10.1017/S0950268817000802.

2016

Zelner, J. L., M. B. Murray, M. C. Becerra, J. Galea, L. Lecca, R. Calderon, R. Yataco, C. Contreras, Z. Zhang, J. Manjourides, B. T. Grenfell, and T. Cohen (2016). “Identifying Hotspots of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Transmission Using Spatial and Molecular Genetic Data”. In: Journal of Infectious Diseases 213.2, pp. 287-294. ISSN: 0022-1899, 1537-6613. DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiv387.