Publications

Below are notable publications by the Elevate Lab, organized by category. For a complete list, visit the complete bibliography of Melissa Simon, MD, MPH.

Improving Women's Reproductive Health

• Pregnancy Intention and Use of Contraception among Hispanic Women in the United States: Data from the National Survey of Family Growth. Masinter L, Feinglass J, Simon MA., 2006-2010. J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2013;22(10):862-70. PMCID: PMC3787323.
• Perceptions of Coercion, Discrimination and Other Negative Experiences in Postpartum Contraceptive Counseling for Low-Income Minority Women. Yee LM and Simon MA. J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2011;22:1387-1400. PMID: 22080717.
• Association of Group Prenatal Care with Gestational Weight Gain. Kominiarek MA, Crockett A, Covington-Kolb S, Simon M, Grobman WA. J Midwifery Womens Health. 2017;129(4):663-670. PMCID: PMC5988955.

• "I Was Tired of All the Sticking and Poking": Identifying Barriers to Diabetes Self-Care Among Low-Income Pregnant Women.Yee LM, Maguire JM, Taylor ST, Niznik C, Simon MA. J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2015;26(3):926-40. PMID: 26320923.

Dissemination & Implementation Research Strategies to Improve Health for All

• "There's nothing you can do...it's like that in Chinatown": Chinese immigrant women's perceptions of experiences in Chicago Chinatown healthcare settings. Simon MA, Tom L, Taylor S, Leung I, Vicencio D. Ethn Health. 2019 Jan; 28:1-18. PMCID: PMC6933085.
• Leveraging an implementation science framework to adapt and scale a patient navigator intervention to improve mammography screening outreach in a new community. Simon MA, Tom L, O'Brian C, Kanoon J, Ignoffo S, Venegas A, Picard C, Margellos H, Allgood K. J Cancer Educ. 2020 Jun;35(3):530-537. PMCID: PMC6934925.
• Organization- and System- Level Factors Influencing Implementation- Patient Navigation and Cancer Care Delivery. Freeman HP and Simon MA. In: Advancing the Science of Implementation Across the Cancer Continuum. Chambers DA, Vinson CA, Norton WE, editors. New York, NY: Oxford University Press; 2018.
• Evaluating a bilingual patient navigation program for uninsured women with abnormal screening tests for breast and cervical cancer: Implications for future navigator research. Simon MA, Tom LS, Nonzee NJ, Murphy KR, Endress R, Feinglass J. Am J Public Health 2015;105(5):e87-94. PMCID: PMC4386517.

Social and Structural Determinants of Health

• Addressing Systemic Racism Through Clinical Preventive Service Recommendations from the US Preventive Services Task Force. Doubeni CA, Simon MA, Krist A. JAMA. Published online January 25, 2021. Doi:10.1001/jama.2020.26188. PMID: 33492333.
• Vaccine distrust: A predictable response to structural racism and an inadequate public health infrastructure. Madorsky TZ, Adebayo NA, Post SL, O'Brian CA, Simon MA. American journal of public health. 2021 Oct;111(S3):S185-8.
• Structural racism and COVID-19 response: higher risk of exposure drives disparate COVID-19 deaths among Black and Hispanic/Latinx residents of Illinois, USA. Holden TM, Simon MA, Arnold DT, Halloway V, Gerardin J. BMC public health. 2022 Dec;22(1):1-3.
• Health Equity Tourism: Ravaging the Justice Landscape. Lett E, Adekunle D, McMurray P, Asabor EN, Irie W, Simon MA, Hardeman R, McLemore MR. Journal of medical systems. 2022 Mar;46(3):1-6.

Capacity-Building for Systemic Change

• Systematic Patient Navigation Strategies to Scale Breast Cancer Disparities Reduction by Improved Cancer Prevention Processes. Simon MA, Weldon C, O'Brian C, Tom L, Rapkin B, Adetoro E, Rittner S, Trosman J.JCO Oncol Pract 2020 16(12):e1462-e1470. PMID: 32574137.
• Development of a Web tool to Increase Research Literacy in Underserved Populations Through Public Library Partnerships. Simon MA, O'Brian CA, Tom L, Wafford QE, Mack S, Mendez SR, Nava M, Dahdouh R, Paul-Brutus R, Carpenter KH, Kern B, Holmes KL. PLoS One 2021. Feb 3;16(2):e0246098.
• Building Cross-Institutional Collaborative Infrastructure and Processes: Early Lessons from the Chicago Cancer Health Equity Collaborative. Simon MA, Fitzgibbon M, Ciecierski C, Cooper JM, Martinez E, Tom L, Kanoon J, Feinglass J, Warnecke R, Stuart M, Stern M, Filus L, Winn RA. Progress in Community Health Partnerships 2019;13(5):5-13. PubMed PMID: 31378727.

Patient Navigation in Community & Healthcare Settings

• Using Public Claims Data for Neighborhood Level Epidemiologic Surveillance of Breast Cancer Screening: Findings from Evaluating a Patient Navigation Program in Chicago's Chinatown. Feinglass J, Cooper JM, Rydland K, Tom LS, Simon MA. Progress in Community Health Partnerships 2019; 13(15): 95-102.
• Impact of patient navigation on timely cancer care: the Patient Navigation Research Program. Freund KM, Battaglia TA, Calhoun E, Darnell JS, Dudley DJ, Fiscella K, Hare ML, LaVerda N, Lee JH, Levine P, Murray DM, Patierno SR, Raich PC, Roetzheim RG, Simon MA, Snyder FR, Warren-Mears V, Whitely EM, Winters P, Young GS, Paskett ED; Writing Group of the Patient Navigator Research Program. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2014;106(6):dju115. Doi:10.1093/jnci/dju115. PMCID: PMC4072900.
• Navigating veterans with an abnormal prostate cancer screening test: a quasi-experimental design. Simon MA, Nonzee NJ, McKoy JM, Liu D, Luu TH, Byer P*, Richee EA, Eklund E, Dong X, Rademaker F. BMC Health Serv Res. 2013;13:314. PMCID: PMC3844412.
• Use of a patient navigator to improve postpartum care in an urban women's health clinic. Yee, L, Martinez N, Chen M, Nugyen A, Hajjar N, Simon MA Obstet Gynecol. 2017;129(5):925-933. PMCID: PMC5400713.

Research Mentoring & Enhancing Opportunities in STEM and the Healthcare Workforce

• Institutional alliances to reduce cancer disparities in Chicago. Simon, MA, Malin EL, Hitsman B, Ciecierski CC, Victorson D, Banas, J, Stuart M, Luedke T, NU NEIGHBORS Advisory Committees, Cella D. Journal of Healthcare for the Poor and Underserved 2016;27(1):97-113.
• Path toward Economic Resilience for Family Caregivers: Mitigating Household Deprivation and the Health Care Talent Shortage at the Same Time. Simon MA, Gunia B, Martin E, Foucar C, Kundu T, Ragas D, Emanuel L. The Gerontologist. 2013;53(5):861-73. PMCID: PMC3771674.
• Integrating Cultural Humility into Health Care Professional Education and Training. Chang ES, Simon MA, Dong XQ. Advances in Health Sciences Education, Theory, and Practice 2010. PMID: 21161680.
• Improving Health Care Career Pipeline Programs for Underrepresented Students: Program Design that Makes a Difference. Taylor S, Iacobelli F, Luedke T, Matthews PA, Monge M, Cooper J, Moreira J, Grippo P, Girotti J, Molina Y, Yanez B, Simon MA. Progress in Community Health Partnerships 2019;13(5):113-122.

Violence Prevention, Identification & Reduction: Elder Abuse, Self-Neglect and Elder Well-Being

• Vulnerability Risk Index Profile for Elder Abuse in Community Dwelling Population. Dong XQ and Simon MA. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2014;62:1:10-15. PMCID: PMC4155408.
• Elder Abuse As a Risk Factor for Hospitalization in Older Persons. Dong XQ and Simon MA. JAMA Intern Med. 2013;173(10):911-7. PMID: 23567991.
• Enhancing National Policy and Programs to Address Elder Abuse. Dong X and Simon MA. JAMA. 2011;305(23): 2460-2461. PMID: 21673299.
• Elder Self-Neglect and Abuse and Mortality Risk in a Community-Dwelling Population. Dong XQ, Simon MA, Mendes de Leon CF, Fulmer TT, Beck TT, Dyer C, Paveza G, Evans DA. JAMA. 2009;302(5):517-26. PMCID: PMC2965589.