Research

Our faculty engage in cutting edge research on diverse and emerging topics of importance in Global Health, primarily in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). Our current research priorities include:

Impact of trauma and injury in LMICs
Emergency care systems development in LMICs
Controlling non-communicable diseases in East Africa
Developing effective palliative care in low-income countries due to reduce suffering and medical impoverishment
Humanitarian health and the health impacts of war and conflict

Publications

2023

The Beirut ammonium nitrate blast: A multicenter study to assess injury characteristics and outcomes.Al-Hajj S, Farran SH, Zgheib H, Tfaily MA, Halaoui A, Wehbe S, Karam S, Fadlallah Y, Fahd F, Toufaili L, Arjinian S, Al-Zaghrini E, Al Hariri M, El Hussein M, Souaiby N, Mowafi H, Mufarrij AJ. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2023 Feb 1; 2022 Aug 24. PMID: 35999664.
Limited English Proficiency as a Barrier to Inclusion in Emergency Medicine-Based Clinical Stroke Research.Zeidan AJ, Smith M, Leff R, Cordone A, Moran TP, Brackett A, Agrawal P. J Immigr Minor Health. 2023 Feb; 2022 Jun 2. PMID: 35652977.

2022

When women win, we all win-Call for a gendered global NCD agenda.Ngaruiya C. FASEB Bioadv. 2022 Dec; 2022 Nov 25. PMID: 36479209.
Hybrid warfare and public health: Conflicts in Ukraine and Nagorno-Karabakh raise the alarm.Kricorian K, Khoshnood K, Chekijian S. Public Health Pract (Oxf). 2022 Dec; 2022 Nov 11. PMID: 36420420.
Post-Roe emergency medicine: Policy, clinical, training, and individual implications for emergency clinicians.Samuels-Kalow ME, Agrawal P, Rodriguez G, Zeidan A, Love JS, Monette D, Lin M, Cooper RJ, Madsen TE, Dobiesz V. Acad Emerg Med. 2022 Dec; 2022 Nov 3. PMID: 36268814.
Prevalence and correlates of depression and substance use disorders in emergency department populations: A cross-sectional study at East Africa's largest public hospital.Iheanacho T, Maciejewski KR, Ogudebe F, Chumo F, Slade T, Leff R, Ngaruiya C. Afr J Emerg Med. 2022 Dec; 2022 Jul 20. PMID: 35892005.
Early palliative care in newly diagnosed cancer in Ethiopia: feasibility randomised controlled trial and cost analysis.Reid EA, Abathun E, Diribi J, Mamo Y, Wondemagegnhu T, Hall P, Fallon M, Grant L. BMJ Support Palliat Care. 2022 Nov 22; 2022 Nov 22. PMID: 36414402.
Health services access, utilization, and barriers for Arabic-speaking refugees resettled in Connecticut, USA.Elreichouni A, Aly S, Maciejewski K, Salem I, Ghossein N, Mankash MS, Dziura J, Mowafi H. BMC Health Serv Res. 2022 Nov 11; 2022 Nov 11. PMID: 36369007.
Factors impacting trauma-specific quality of life following injury: A multi-center assessment in Lebanon.Elreichouni A, Al-Hajj S, Maciejewski KR, Ariss AB, Mowafi H. Injury. 2022 Oct; 2022 Aug 8. PMID: 35970634.
Patient preferences for facility-based management of hypertension and diabetes in rural Uganda: a discrete choice experiment.Moor SE, Tusubira AK, Wood D, Akiteng AR, Galusha D, Tessier-Sherman B, Donroe EH, Ngaruiya C, Rabin TL, Hawley NL, Armstrong-Hough M, Nakirya BD, Nugent R, Kalyesubula R, Nalwadda C, Ssinabulya I, Schwartz JI. BMJ Open. 2022 Jul 21; 2022 Jul 21. PMID: 35863829.
A Qualitative Study of "What Matters" to Older Adults in the Emergency Department.Gettel CJ, Venkatesh AK, Dowd H, Hwang U, Ferrigno RF, Reid EA, Tinetti ME. West J Emerg Med. 2022 Jul 1; 2022 Jul 1. PMID: 35980413.
How we compare: Society for Academic Emergency Medicine faculty membership demographics.Bennett CL, Ling AY, Agrawal P, Pierce A, Pasao MA, Ray D, Cleveland Manchanda EC. AEM Educ Train. 2022 Jun; 2022 Jun 23. PMID: 35783079.
Systematic review on chronic non-communicable disease in disaster settings.Ngaruiya C, Bernstein R, Leff R, Wallace L, Agrawal P, Selvam A, Hersey D, Hayward A. BMC Public Health. 2022 Jun 21; 2022 Jun 21. PMID: 35729507.
Neurotrauma in the Syrian War: analysis of 41,143 cases from July 2013-July 2015.Fatima N, Mowafi H, Hariri M, Alnahhas H, Al-Kassem A, Saqqur M. Neurol Sci. 2022 Jun; 2022 Jan 12. PMID: 35018549.
Meeting expectations: An exploration of academic emergency medicine faculty experiences and preferences in the virtual meeting environment by age, gender and parental status.Goldflam K, Crichton IC, Coughlin RF, Bod J, Agrawal P, Bradby C, Tsyrulnik A. AEM Educ Train. 2022 Apr; 2022 Apr 1. PMID: 35368503.
Advanced practice providers in academic emergency medicine: A national survey of chairs and program directors.Carpenter CR, Abrams S, Courtney DM, Dorner SC, Dyne P, Elia T, Jourdan DN, Kaji AH, Martin IBK, Mills AM, Nagasawa K, Pillow M, Reznek M, Starnes A, Temin E, Wolfe R, Chekijian S. Acad Emerg Med. 2022 Feb; 2021 Dec 17. PMID: 34860436.
Refugee and Migrant Health Literacy Interventions in High-Income Countries: A Systematic Review.Fox S, Kramer E, Agrawal P, Aniyizhai A. J Immigr Minor Health. 2022 Feb; 2021 Feb 25. PMID: 33634370.
A review of interventions for noncommunicable diseases in humanitarian emergencies in low- and middle-income countries.Leff R, Selvam A, Bernstein R, Wallace L, Hayward A, Agrawal P, Hersey D, Ngaruiya C. Am J Disaster Med. 2022 Fall. PMID: 35325464.
Response to AAEM's "Response to the Yale PA Residency Program".Tsyrulnik A, Goldflam K, Coughlin R, Bod J, Chekijian S, Della-Giustina D. West J Emerg Med. 2022 Jan 1; 2022 Jan 1. PMID: 35060862.

2021

Factors affecting initiation of palliative care in a Ugandan Emergency Department.Nalugya LG, Harborne D, Reid E. Afr J Emerg Med. 2021 Dec; 2021 Oct 28. PMID: 34765429.
Communication in the Time of COVID-19.Chekijian S. J Emerg Med. 2021 Dec; 2021 Aug 7. PMID: 34551877.
Leadership communication, stress, and burnout among frontline emergency department staff amid the COVID-19 pandemic: A mixed methods approach.Sangal RB, Bray A, Reid E, Ulrich A, Liebhardt B, Venkatesh AK, King M. Healthc (Amst). 2021 Dec; 2021 Aug 13. PMID: 34411923.
National Awards and Female Emergency Physicians in the United States: Is the "Recognition Gap" Closing?Fang AC, Chekijian SA, Zeidan AJ, Choo EK, Sethuraman KN. J Emerg Med. 2021 Nov; 2021 Aug 4. PMID: 34364703.
Emergency systems in the Republic of Armenia: country in crisis or land of opportunity.Chekijian SA. Eur J Emerg Med. 2021 Oct 1. PMID: 33899774.
Using community-based participatory research methods to inform care for patients experiencing homelessness: An opportunity for resident education on health care disparities.Ryus CR, Yang D, Tsai J, Meldrum J, Ngaruiya C. AEM Educ Train. 2021 Sep; 2021 Sep 29. PMID: 34616985.