about the lab
about
Our mission is to identify, develop, and advocate for equitable ways to improve population health with a focus on structurally and medically vulnerable populations. Although we have shifted some focus toward the COVID-19 pandemic, our broad areas of research are on the inequitable impact of substance use (especially opioids) and climate- and disaster-related health effects on health and mortality in the United States. Our work is applied and interdisciplinary, and we believe collaborating with other institutions, both academic and non-academic, is crucial for reducing health inequities.
current members
Mathew Kiang is the principal investigator of the lab and an assistant professor of Epidemiology and Population Health. Outside of work, he enjoys exploring the Bay Area on his bikes and checking out local parks with his kid. To learn more, see this interview or his CV.
Esther Velásquez is a research scientist in the lab and the Center for Population Health Sciences. Her training is in social epidemiology and public health social work. She appreciates a good cup of coffee and hiking in the Bay Area.
Julianna Hsing is a PhD student in the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health. Her research focuses on integrating smartphone and wearable data with epidemiological methods to investigate prevention strategies for chronic diseases. Outside of work, Julianna enjoys rock climbing, playing music with friends, and indulging in her creative side by crocheting plushies and designing unique merch for her Etsy shop.
Amy Mann is completing an MSc in Statistics at the University of Oxford. She is interested in statistics applied in social science and public health. Outside of research, she enjoys baking cookies, hiking, and reading.
previous members
- Name // position in the lab // last known location (position)
Josefina Flores Morales // Propel Postdoctoral Scholar // California Civil Rights Department (research data specialist)
Ben Huynh // postdoctoral fellow // Johns Hopkins University (faculty)
Becky Staiger // postdoctoral fellow // UC Berkeley (faculty)
Jordan Kaplan // coterm student // Johns Hopkins University (medical student)
Lanae Notah // undergraduate AHEaD scholar // El Paso County Department of Public Health
Joaquin Luqueno // undergraduate AHEaD scholar // UC Davis (student)
collaboration network
Collaborators in this network
- M. Maria Glymour — 14 papers
- Jarvis T. Chen — 13 papers
- Kirsten Bibbins‐Domingo — 13 papers
- Yea‐Hung Chen — 13 papers
- Caroline O. Buckee — 12 papers
- Nancy Krieger — 12 papers
- Keith Humphreys — 10 papers
- Sanjay Basu — 10 papers
- Andrew Stokes — 9 papers
- Alicia R. Riley — 8 papers
- Benjamin Q. Huynh — 8 papers
- Monica Alexander — 8 papers
- Pamela D. Waterman — 8 papers
- Ruijia Chen — 8 papers
- Joan A. Casey — 7 papers
- Perry N. Halkitis — 7 papers
- Satchit Balsari — 7 papers
- Alexander C. Tsai — 6 papers
- David H. Rehkopf — 6 papers
- Holly Elser — 6 papers
- Jason Beckfield — 6 papers
- Marie‐Laure Charpignon — 6 papers
- Alexandra L. Potter — 5 papers
- Chi‐Fu Jeffrey Yang — 5 papers
- Elizabeth T. Chin — 5 papers
- Hélène E. Aschmann — 5 papers
- Joseph J. Palamar — 5 papers
- Kenth Engø‐Monsen — 5 papers
- Marshall Burke — 5 papers
- Sam Heft‐Neal — 5 papers
- Sara J. Singer — 5 papers
- Ayesha S. Mahmud — 4 papers
- Brent A. Coull — 4 papers
- Ellicott C. Matthay — 4 papers
- Jukka‐Pekka Onnela — 4 papers
- Nathan C. Lo — 4 papers
- Rafeya V. Raquib — 4 papers
- Tarik Benmarhnia — 4 papers
- Alyssa Mooney — 3 papers
- Carlos Gould — 3 papers
- Elizabeth Wrigley‐Field — 3 papers
- Eran Bendavid — 3 papers
- Nakul Singh — 3 papers
- Peter J. Hotez — 3 papers
- Rafael A. Irizarry — 3 papers
- Richard J. Maude — 3 papers
- Sofia Gruskin — 3 papers
- Vivian Do — 3 papers
- Yvonne Maldonado — 3 papers
- Allison L. Rosenstein — 2 papers
- Anna Lembke — 2 papers
- Anusha M. Vable — 2 papers
- Atul A. Gawande — 2 papers
- Benjamin-Samuel Schlüter — 2 papers
- Christopher W. Callahan — 2 papers
- Corinne A. Riddell — 2 papers
- Delaney A. Smith — 2 papers
- Diana Hernández — 2 papers
- Dielle J. Lundberg — 2 papers
- Esther E. Velásquez — 2 papers
- Eugenio Paglino — 2 papers
- Garry Gray — 2 papers
- Heather McBrien — 2 papers
- Jeffrey Schlegelmilch — 2 papers
- Jennifer Hayes — 2 papers
- Johannes C. Eichstaedt — 2 papers
- Kate A. Duchowny — 2 papers
- Kate M. Bubar — 2 papers
- Lizabeth Edmondson — 2 papers
- Lorri Gibbons — 2 papers
- Lyen C. Huang — 2 papers
- Magali Barbiéri — 2 papers
- Marissa L. Childs — 2 papers
- Michael L. Barnett — 2 papers
- Nattwut Ekapirat — 2 papers
- Nina M. Flores — 2 papers
- Nishant Kishore — 2 papers
- Pascal Geldsetzer — 2 papers
- Robert W. Moeller — 2 papers
- Rolando J. Acosta — 2 papers
- Russ B. Altman — 2 papers
- Sarah E. Wakeman — 2 papers
- Shivaek Venkateswaran — 2 papers
- Todd M. Solomon — 2 papers
- Tyler S. Brown — 2 papers
- Wei Jiang — 2 papers
- William R. Berry — 2 papers
- Анна Кошелева — 2 papers
- Aadesh Salecha — 1 paper
- Aaron Baum — 1 paper
- Adam Lavertu — 1 paper
- Ah-Reum Lee — 1 paper
- Ahyoung Cho — 1 paper
- Aisha O. Jumaan — 1 paper
- Alex B. Haynes — 1 paper
- Alexander J. Northrop — 1 paper
- Alexander Thieme — 1 paper
- Alexandra K. Heaney — 1 paper
- Alicia S. Ventura — 1 paper
- Alison Gemmill — 1 paper
- Allison Koenecke — 1 paper
- Amir M. Mohareb — 1 paper
- Amy Wesolowski — 1 paper
- Andrea L.C. Schneider — 1 paper
- Andrew Schroeder — 1 paper
- Andrew Therriault — 1 paper
- Angela Aristidou — 1 paper
- Angela R. Bazzi — 1 paper
- Anna Nguyen — 1 paper
- Anupam B. Jena — 1 paper
- Anushka Bhaskar — 1 paper
- Arian Mansur — 1 paper
- Ariel Shepherd — 1 paper
- Arlan Fuller — 1 paper
- Atheendar Venkataramani — 1 paper
- Biraj Patnaik — 1 paper
- Bonnie H. Li — 1 paper
- Brittany Shea — 1 paper
- Bryan Greenhouse — 1 paper
- Butsaya Thaisomboonsuk — 1 paper
- Cecilia Sorensen — 1 paper
- Chinmay Haridas — 1 paper
- Chonticha Klungthong — 1 paper
- Chris J. Kennedy — 1 paper
- Christian Jackson — 1 paper
- Cindy H. Liu — 1 paper
- Colleen LaBelle — 1 paper
- Daniel E. Ho — 1 paper
- Daniel Fridljand — 1 paper
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- Danna E. Gobel — 1 paper
- Darin Areechokchai — 1 paper
- David B. Lobell — 1 paper
- David C. Chang — 1 paper
- David Van Riper — 1 paper
- Derek A. T. Cummings — 1 paper
- Derek Ouyang — 1 paper
- Diane Kuhn — 1 paper
- Diane V. Havlir — 1 paper
- Diego Alburez‐Gutierrez — 1 paper
- Domingo Marqués — 1 paper
- Elaine O. Nsoesie — 1 paper
- Eleni Linos — 1 paper
- Eli K. Michaels — 1 paper
- Eli Titherington — 1 paper
- Emilie Bruzelius — 1 paper
- Emily N. Satinsky — 1 paper
- Emma E. McGinty — 1 paper
- Emmanuel F. Drabo — 1 paper
- Erik D. Storholm — 1 paper
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- Fatima Karaki — 1 paper
- Florian J. Fintelmann — 1 paper
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- Garth Coombs — 1 paper
- George Molina — 1 paper
- George W. Rutherford — 1 paper
- Gilbert C. Gee — 1 paper
- Gregg S. Meyer — 1 paper
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- Hedwig Lee — 1 paper
- Helen Y. Chu — 1 paper
- Henning A. Gaissert — 1 paper
- Henrik Salje — 1 paper
- Hsiao‐Han Chang — 1 paper
- Hugh Auchincloss — 1 paper
- Ichiro Kawachi — 1 paper
- Igor Rudan — 1 paper
- Irina Maljkovic Berry — 1 paper
- Irma T. Elo — 1 paper
- Irmary Rodriguez — 1 paper
- Isabel Rodríguez-Barraquer — 1 paper
- Isha Yardi — 1 paper
- Issah Abubakari Samori — 1 paper
- Iván D. Montoya — 1 paper
- Jacqueline M. Torres — 1 paper
- Janet W. Rich‐Edwards — 1 paper
- Jason R. Andrews — 1 paper
- Jay Chandra — 1 paper
- Jay Lemery — 1 paper
- Jay S. Kaufman — 1 paper
- Jay W. Vogt — 1 paper
- Jeanette Lorme — 1 paper
- Jeff Wen — 1 paper
- Jeffrey B. Cooper — 1 paper
- Jennifer Leaning — 1 paper
- Jennifer Zhan — 1 paper
- Jessica Li — 1 paper
- Jillian Gottlieb — 1 paper
- Jingxuan Wang — 1 paper
- John J. Norcini — 1 paper
- John Torous — 1 paper
- Jonathan M. Read — 1 paper
- Jonathon P. Leider — 1 paper
- Jong H. Yoon — 1 paper
- Jordan Kaplan — 1 paper
- Joseph Rigdon — 1 paper
- Joshua Graff Zivin — 1 paper
- Julia F. Simard — 1 paper
- Junaid Zaman — 1 paper
- Justin M. Feldman — 1 paper
- Justin T. Baker — 1 paper
- Kara E. Rudolph — 1 paper
- Kari C. Nadeau — 1 paper
- Katherine Hempstead — 1 paper
- Katherine M. Keyes — 1 paper
- Keervani Kandala — 1 paper
- Kenzie W. Carlson — 1 paper
- Kirrthana Jegathesan — 1 paper
- Kriangsak Ruchusatsawat — 1 paper
- Kris Li — 1 paper
- Krista Neumann — 1 paper
- Kristen N. Arthur — 1 paper
- Kristy A. Carpenter — 1 paper
- Laramie R. Smith — 1 paper
- Laura A. Schmidt — 1 paper
- Laura H. Kwong — 1 paper
- Laura Van Metre Baum — 1 paper
- Lauren Stoffel — 1 paper
- Leah H. Nguyen — 1 paper
- Leo Beletsky — 1 paper
- Leslie Maas — 1 paper
- Linda W. Martin — 1 paper
- Lindsey E. Carlasare — 1 paper
- Lloyd A. C. Chapman — 1 paper
- Lorene M. Nelson — 1 paper
- Makoto Kelp — 1 paper
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- Mariana Martins — 1 paper
- Mark Duggan — 1 paper
- Mark R. Cullen — 1 paper
- Mark Tomlinson — 1 paper
- Mark W. Friedberg — 1 paper
- Marriele Mango — 1 paper
- Matthew R. Heerema — 1 paper
- Mauricio Santillana — 1 paper
- Meiyun Lin — 1 paper
- Melanie Kim — 1 paper
- Melissa L. Bondy — 1 paper
- Meng-Chun Chang — 1 paper
- Michael Sales — 1 paper
- Michelle A. DeVost — 1 paper
- Mihoka Fukurai — 1 paper
- Minghao Qiu — 1 paper
- Miranda Yaver — 1 paper
- Molly K. Pappas — 1 paper
- Munther A. Dahleh — 1 paper
- Mustafa Fattah — 1 paper
- Mustafa Zahid — 1 paper
- Navin Vembar — 1 paper
- Nhung Thai — 1 paper
- Nina Bozinov — 1 paper
- Noah S. Diffenbaugh — 1 paper
- Noémie Lefrancq — 1 paper
- Nuriel Moghavem — 1 paper
- Olugbenga T. Okusanya — 1 paper
- Peggy J. Ebner — 1 paper
- Philip Grant — 1 paper
- Piyarat Suntarattiwong — 1 paper
- Prayuth Sudathip — 1 paper
- Preecha Prempree — 1 paper
- Quynh C. Nguyen — 1 paper
- Randy L. Buckner — 1 paper
- Rebecca Kahn — 1 paper
- Rediet Abebe — 1 paper
- Renzhi Jing — 1 paper
- Richard G. Jarman — 1 paper
- Richard Lee — 1 paper
- Richard Liang — 1 paper
- Robbie M. Parks — 1 paper
- Rosana Aguilera — 1 paper
- Ruoran Li — 1 paper
- S. V. Subramanian — 1 paper
- Samantha C. Blakemore — 1 paper
- Samantha J. Bents — 1 paper
- Samantha Norton — 1 paper
- Samuel H. Preston — 1 paper
- Sara Y. Tartof — 1 paper
- Scott Cunningham — 1 paper
- Sebastian T. Rowland — 1 paper
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- Shaniece Criss — 1 paper
- Shelley DeVost — 1 paper
- Shivani A. Shah — 1 paper
- Simar S. Bajaj — 1 paper
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- Solomon Hsiang — 1 paper
- Sonoo Thadaney Israni — 1 paper
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- Staci C. Barton — 1 paper
- Stefan Fernandez — 1 paper
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- Theresa M. Im — 1 paper
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- Victor W. Henderson — 1 paper
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- Wei-ting Chen — 1 paper
- Whitney Wells — 1 paper
- William O. Faustman — 1 paper
- Xiaofei Lin — 1 paper
- Yiqun Ma — 1 paper
- Yolonda L. Colson — 1 paper
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Papers shown at full strength
40 of 104 papers, those where Mathew Kiang is first or last author.
- Applying machine learning to identify unrecognized COVID-19 deaths recorded as other causes of death in the United States — Science Advances, 2026
- Commentary on Friedman et al.: Inequitable improvements and data gaps — A call for better drug surveillance data — Addiction, 2026
- High-risk emergency department visits and risk of all-cause mortality, suicide, and fatal overdose among US military veterans — American Journal of Epidemiology, 2026
- Real-world management of opioid use disorder in primary care 2015–2019: associations between clinical practice attributes, diagnosis, and treatment — Critical Public Health, 2026
- Trends in county-level childhood vaccination exemptions in the US — JAMA, 2026
- Two-way fixed effects models in air pollution epidemiology: a proposed framework for model specifications and recommendations for future studies — American Journal of Epidemiology, 2026
- Invited commentary: motivating better methods-and better data collection-for measuring the prevalence of drug misuse — American Journal of Epidemiology, 2025
- Modeling reemergence of vaccine-eliminated infectious diseases under declining vaccination in the US — JAMA, 2025
- Modeling the health impact of discontinuing COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy in the US — JAMA Pediatrics, 2025
- Recent drug overdose mortality decline compared with pre-COVID-19 trend — JAMA Network Open, 2025
- Youths experiencing parental death due to cancer — JAMA Network Open, 2025
- Estimated childhood lead exposure from drinking water in Chicago — JAMA Pediatrics, 2024
- Excess fatal overdoses in the United States during the COVID-19 Pandemic by geography and substance type: March 2020–August 2021 — American Journal of Public Health, 2024
- Mitigating allocative tradeoffs and harms in an environmental justice data tool — Nature Machine Intelligence, 2024
- Youth experiencing parental death due to drug poisoning and firearm violence in the US, 1999–2020 — JAMA, 2024
- AI for anticipatory action: Moving beyond climate forecasting — Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium Series, 2023
- Counterpoint — Preprints and the future of scientific publishing: In favor of relevance — American Journal of Epidemiology, 2023
- Excess mortality among US physicians during the COVID-19 pandemic — JAMA Internal Medicine, 2023
- Quantifying exposure to wildfire smoke among schoolchildren in California, 2006 to 2021 — JAMA Network Open, 2023
- Dynamics of racial disparities in all-cause mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022
- Failure of leadership in U.S. academic medicine after George Floyd's killing by police and amidst subsequent unrest — Annals of Epidemiology, 2022
- Racial and ethnic disparities in estimated excess mortality from external causes in the US, March to December 2020 — JAMA Internal Medicine, 2022
- Recent shifts in racial/ethnic disparities in COVID-19 mortality in the vaccination period in California — Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2022
- Sociodemographic and geographic disparities in excess fatal drug overdoses during the COVID-19 pandemic in California: a population-based study — The Lancet Regional Health - Americas, 2022
- Incorporating human mobility data improves forecasts of Dengue fever in Thailand — Scientific Reports, 2021
- Racial/ethnic disparities in opioid-related mortality in the USA, 1999–2019: the extreme case of Washington DC — Journal of Urban Health, 2021
- Robustness of estimated access to opioid use disorder treatment providers in rural vs. urban areas of the United States — Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 2021
- Routine asymptomatic testing strategies for airline travel during the COVID-19 pandemic: a simulation study — The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2021
- Sociodemographic characteristics of missing data in digital phenotyping — Scientific Reports, 2021
- The impact of the first COVID-19 shelter-in-place announcement on social distancing, difficulty in daily activities, and levels of concern in the San Francisco Bay Area: A cross-sectional social media survey — PLOS One, 2021
- Every body counts: Measuring mortality from the COVID-19 pandemic — Annals of Internal Medicine, 2020
- Opioid prescribing patterns among medical providers in the United States, 2003-17: retrospective, observational study — BMJ, 2020
- Power outages and community health: A narrative review — Current Environmental Health Reports, 2020
- US-county level variation in intersecting individual, household and community characteristics relevant to COVID-19 and planning an equitable response: a cross-sectional analysis — BMJ Open, 2020
- Assessment of changes in the geographical distribution of opioid-related mortality across the United States by opioid type, 1999–2016 — JAMA Network Open, 2019
- Decomposition of the US Black/White inequality in premature mortality, 2010–2015: an observational study — BMJ Open, 2019
- Trends in Black and White opioid mortality in the United States, 1979–2015 — Epidemiology, 2018
- Making time for learning-oriented leadership in multidisciplinary hospital management groups — Health Care Management Review, 2015
- 50-year trends in US socioeconomic inequalities in health: US-born Black and White Americans, 1959–2008 — International Journal of Epidemiology, 2014
- Perceived public stigma and stigmatization in explaining lifetime illicit drug use among emerging adults — Addiction Research and Theory, 2013