Faculty Scholars
Al-Moujahed A., Alahdab F., Abolaban H., & Beletsky L. (2017). Polio in Syria: Problem still not solved. Avicenna Journal of Medicine, 7(2), 64–66. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5398005/
Annan, J., Sim, A., Puffer, E. S., Salhi, C., & Betancourt, T. S. (2017). Improving mental health outcomes of Burmese migrant and displaced children in Thailand: A community-based randomized controlled trial of a parenting and family skills intervention. Prevention Science, 18(7), 793-803. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11121-016-0728-2
Arredondo, J., Gaines, T., Manian, S., Vilalta, C., Bañuelos, A., Strathdee, S. A., & Beletsky, L. (2018). The law on the streets: Evaluating the impact of Mexico’s drug decriminalization reform on drug possession arrests in Tijuana, Mexico. International Journal of Drug Policy, 54, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2017.12.006
Arredondo, J., Strathdee, S. A., Cepeda, J. A., Abramovitz, D., Artamonova, I., Clairgue, E,… Beletsky, L. (2017). Measuring improvement in knowledge of drug policy reforms following a police education program in Tijuana, Mexico. Harm Reduction Journal, 14, 72-79. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-017-0198-2
Beatriz E. D., Molnar B. E., Griffith J. L., & Salhi C. (2018). Urban-rural disparity and urban population growth: A multi-level analysis of under-five mortality in 30 sub-Saharan African countries. Health and Place, 52, 196-204. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2018.06.006
Beletsky, L., Baker, P., Arredondo, J., Emuka, A., Goodman-Meza, D., Medina-Mora, M.E.,… Magis-Rodriguez, C. (2018). The global health and equity imperative for safe consumption facilities. The Lancet, 392(10147), 553-4. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31469-7
Beletsky, L., Wagner, K. D., Arredondo, J., Palinkas, L., Rodriguez, C. M., Kalic, N.,… Strathdee, S. A. (2015). Implementing Mexico’s “Narcomenudeo” drug law reform: A mixed-methods assessment of early experiences among people who inject drugs. Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 10(4), 384-401. https://doi.org/10.1177/1558689815575862
Borquez, A., Beletsky, L., Nosyk, B., Strathdee, S. A., Madrazo, A., Abramovitz, D.,… Martin, N. K. (2018). Evaluating the impact of public health-oriented drug law reform on HIV incidence among people who inject drugs in Tijuana, Mexico: an epidemic modelling analysis. The Lancet Public Health, 3(9), e429–e437. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(18)30097-5
Cepeda J. A., Eritsyan K., Vickerman P., Lyubimova A., Shegay M., Odinokova V., Beletsky L.,… Martin N. K. (2018). Modelling the potential impact of implementing and scaling-up harm reduction and antiretroviral therapy on HIV and overdose deaths among people who inject drugs in two Russian cities. The Lancet HIV, 5(10), 578-87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/ S2352-3018(18)30168-1
Gaines, T., Beletsky, L., Arredondo, J., Werb, D., Rangel, G., Vera, A., & Brouwer, K. (2015). Examining the spatial distribution of law enforcement encounters among people who inject drugs after implementation of Mexico’s drug policy reform. Journal of Urban Health, 92(2), 338-51. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-014-9907-2.
Hammett T., Phan S., Gaggin J., Case P., Zaller N., Lutnick A., Kral A. H., Fedorova E. V., Heimer R., Small W., Pollini R., Beletsky L.,… Des Jarlais D. C. (2014). Pharmacies as providers of expanded health services for people who inject drugs: A review of laws, policies, and barriers in six countries. BMC Health Services Research, 14, 261. https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-14-261
Jeong, J., McCoy, D. C., Yousafzai A. K., Salhi, C., & Fink, G. (2016). Paternal stimulation and early child development in low-and middle-income countries. Pediatrics, 138(4), e20161357. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2016-1357
Joseph, T. D. (2017). Falling through the coverage cracks: How documentation status minimizes immigrants’ access to health care. Journal of Health Policy, Politics, and Law, 42, 961-984. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28663178/.
Joseph, T. D. (2017). Still left out: Health care stratification under the Affordable Care Act. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 12, 2089-2107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2017.1323453
Joseph, T. D. (2018). Stratification and universality: Immigrants and barriers to coverage in Massachusetts. In Castañeda, H., & Mulligan, J. (Eds.), Unequal Coverage: The Experience of Health Care Reform in the United States. New York: New York University Press.
Joseph, T. D. (2016). What healthcare reform means for immigrants: A comparison of the Affordable Care Act and Massachusetts health reforms. Journal of Health Policy, Politics, and Law, 41, 101-116. https://10.1215/03616878-3445632.
Joseph, T. D. & Marrow, H. B. (2017). Health care, immigrants and minorities: Lessons from the Affordable Care Act in the United States.” Special Issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 12, 1965-1984. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2017.1374655.
Mackey T. K., Werb D., Beletsky L., Rangel G., Arredondo J., & Strathdee S. A. (2014). Mexico’s “Ley de Narcomenudeo:” drug policy reform and the international drug control regime. Harm Reduction Journal, 11(21), e1-e7. https://doi.org/10.1186/1477-7517-11-31
Marrow, H. B., & Joseph, T. D. (2015). Excluded and frozen out: Unauthorized immigrants’ (non) access to care after healthcare reforms. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 41, 2253-2273. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2015.1051465
McBain, R. K., Salhi, C., Hann, K., Kellie, J., Kamara, A., Salomon, J. A., & Betancourt, T. S. (2015). Improving outcomes for caregivers through treatment of young people affected by war: a randomized controlled trial in Sierra Leone. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 93(12), 834. https://doi.org/10.2471/BLT.14.139105
McCoy, D. C., Salhi, C., Yoshikawa, H., Black, M., Britto, P., & Fink, G. (2018). Home-and center-based learning opportunities for preschoolers in low-and middle-income countries. Children and Youth Services Review, 88, 44-56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2018.02.021
Mittal M. L., Artamonova I., Baker P., Strathdee S. A., Cepeda J., Bañuelos A.,… Beletsky L. (2018). Improving police conceptual knowledge of Mexico’s law on cannabis possession: Findings from an assessment of a police education program. The American Journal on Addictions, 27, 608-611. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajad.12827
Mittal M. L., Beletsky L., Patiño E., Abramovitz, D., Rocha, T., Arredondo, J.,…Strathdee, S. A. (2016). Prevalence and correlates of needle-stick injuries among active duty police officers in Tijuana, Mexico. Journal of the International AIDS Society, 19(4), 20874. https://doi.org/10.7448/IAS.19.4.20874
Piñedo M., Beletsky L, Alamillo N, & Ojeda, V. D. (2017). Health-damaging policing practices among persons who inject drugs in Mexico: are deported migrants at greater risk? International Journal of Drug Policy, 46, 41-46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2017.05.028.
Rolon, M., Patiño Mandujano, E., Beletsky, L., Arredondo, J., Rocha, T., Olivarri,a O.,…Strathdee, S. A. (2015). Más miedo a una enfermedad que a un balazo [More afraid of a disease than a bullet]: Implementation of system-wide needlestick injury surveillance system in the Tijuana Police Department, Mexico. Annals of Global Health, 81(1), 9-12. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.aogh.2015.02.534
Terriquez, V. & Joseph, T. D. (2016). Ethnoracial inequality and insurance coverage among Latino young adults. Social Science & Medicine, 168, 150-158. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.08.039.
Werb, D., Medina Mora, G., Beletsky, L., Arredondo, J., & Strathdee, S. A. (2014). Mexico’s drug policy reform: Cutting edge success or crisis in the making? International Journal of Drug Policy, 25(1), 823-825. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2014.05.014
Werb, D., Strathdee, S. A., Meza, E., Rangel, G., Palinkas, L., Medina-Mora, M. E., & Beletsky, L. (2017). Institutional stakeholder perceptions of barriers to addiction treatment under Mexico’s drug policy reform. Global Public Health, 12(5), 519-530. https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2015.1093524
Werb, D., Strathdee, S. A., Vera, A., Arredondo, J., Beletsky, L., Gonazalez-Zuniga, P., & Gaines, T. (2016). Spatial patterns of arrest, police assault, and addiction treatment center locations in Tijuana, Mexico. Addiction, 111(7), 1246-5. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.13350.
Werb, D., Wagner, K. D., Beletsky, L., Gonzalez-Zuniga, P., Rangel, G., & Strathdee, S. A. (2015). Police bribery and access to Methadone Maintenance Therapy within the context of drug policy reform in Tijuana, Mexico. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 148(1), 221-5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2015.01.011.
Weinstein, L. (2014). The Durable Slum: Dharavi and the Right to Stay Put in Globalizing Mumbai. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
Weinstein, L. (2017). Insecurity as confinement: The entrenched politics of staying put in Delhi and Mumbai. International Sociology, 32(4), 512-531. https://doi.org/10.1177/0268580917701604
Weinstein, L., Rumbauch, A., & Sinha, S. (2019). Resilient Growth: Fantasy Plans and Unplanned Developments in India’s Flood‐Prone Coastal Cities. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 43(2), 273-291. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12743
Wood, E. F., Werb, D., Beletsky, L., Rangel, G., Cuevas Mota, J., Garfein, R. S., & Wagner, K. D. (2017). Differential experiences of Mexican policing by people who inject drugs residing in Tijuana and San Diego. International Journal of Drug Policy, 41(1), 132-139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2016.12.010
