PriHD Team
Samuel Cykert’s work focuses on interventions primarily to reduce Black-White disparities in cancer care and chronic disease management. His teams’ approach is to use digital systems to provide real time transparency for missed opportunities in care and to provide data feedback to clinical teams to promote accountability. Dr. Cykert’s goal is in partnership with community work to identify and measure outcomes that result from systems level bias, use system-based interventions to intercede and improve these outcomes, then to measure again to confirm improvements in care.
Cykert S, Eng E, Manning M, Robertson L, Heron D, Jones N, Schaal J, Zhou H, Yongue C, Gizlice Z. A Multi-Faceted Intervention Aimed at Black-White Disparities in the Treatment of Early Stage Cancers: The ACCURE Pragmatic Trial. J Natl Med Assoc. 2019 Mar 27. pii: S0027-9684(18)30191-3. doi: 10.1016/j.jnma.2019.03.001.
Cykert S, Eng E, Walker P, Manning M, Robertson L, Arya R, Jones N, Heron D. A system‐based intervention to reduce Black‐White disparities in the treatment of early stage lung cancer: A pragmatic trial at five cancer centers. Cancer Med. 2019;00:1–8. https://doi.org/10.1002/cam4.2005
Samuel, C.A., Schaal, J., Robertson, L., Kollie, J., Baker, S., Black, K., Mbah, O., Dixon, C., Ellis, K., Eng, E., Guerrab, F., Jones, N., Kotey, A., Morse, C., Taylor, J., Whitt, V., Cykert, S. Racial differences in symptom management during breast cancer treatment. Supportive Care in Cancer 2018 May;26(5):1425-1435 .
Cykert S, Dilworth-Anderson P, Monroe MH, Walker P,McGuire FR, Corbie-Smith G, Edwards LJ, Bunton AJ. Modifiable factors associated with decisions to undergo surgery among newly diagnosed patients with early stage lung cancer. JAMA 2010; 303(23): 2368-2376.
Cykert S. A New Paradigm: Approaching Racism as a Method of Disease Prevention. Chest 2014;145 (3):442-443.
Erin E. Kent is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. Dr. Kent’s focus is on the impact of social context on cancer control, which detecting, understanding, and reducing disparities through intervention plays a large role. Dr. Kent examines health disparities and health inequities along several dimensions, and at different phases of Kilbourne’s framework including detection, understanding, and reduction.
Rincon, M. A.,Yu, M., Smith, A. W., Kent, E. E. (Under Review). Trends in disparity of health-related quality of life by race/ethnicity and education in Medicare Advantage beneficiaries (1998-2012).
Lines, L. M. Cohen, J., Halpern, M. T., Smith, A. W., Kent, E. E. (In Press). Care Experiences among Dual (Medicare/Medicaid) and Special Needs Plan Enrollees with and without Cancer: SEER-CAHPS, 2005-2013. Cancer Causes & Control.
Kent, E. E., Wheldon, C., Smith, A. W., Srinivasan, S., Geiger, A. (2019). Cancer care delivery disparities faced by sexual and gender minority populations: a systematic review. Cancer, 125(24), 4371-4379.
Mollica, M. A., Weaver, K. E., McNeel, T. S., Schussler, N. C., Kent, E. E. (2018). Examining urban and rural differences in experiences among cancer patients: A SEER-CAHPS study. Cancer, 124(15):3257-3265.
Kent, E. E., Breen, N., Lewis, D., de Moor, J. S., Smith, A. W., Seibel, N. L. (2015). Trends in survival disparities among adolescents and young adults with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Cancer Causes & Control, 26(8):1153-62.
Kent, E. E., Forsythe, L. P., Yabroff, K. R., Weaver, K. E., de Moor, J. S., Rodriguez, J. L., Rowland, J. H. (2013). Are survivors who report cancer-related financial problems more likely to forgo or delay medical care? Cancer 119(20): 3710-7.
Murray, Genevra F., Thomas D’Aunno, and Valerie A. Lewis. Forthcoming Feb 2020. “Upstream with a tiny paddle: ACO efforts to address social determinants of health.” Health Affairs.
Fraze, Taressa K., Amanda Brewster, Valerie A. Lewis, Genevra F. Murray*, and Carrie H. Colla. 2019. “Prevalence of Screening for Food, Housing, Utilities, Transportation, and Interpersonal Violence by Physician Practices and Hospitals.” JAMA Network Open 2(9):e1911514.
Lewis, Valerie A., Karen Joynt Maddox, Andrea Austin, Daniel Gottlieb, and Julie P.W. Bynum. 2019. “Developing and validating a measure to estimate poverty in Medicare administrative data.” Medical Care 57(8):601-607.
Lewis, Valerie A., Taressa Fraze, Elliott S. Fisher, Stephen M. Shortell, and Carrie H. Colla. 2017. “ACOs Serving High Proportions Of Racial And Ethnic Minorities Lag In Quality Performance.” Health Affairs 36(1):57-66.
Fraze, Taressa, Valerie A. Lewis, Hector Rodriguez, and Elliott S. Fisher. 2016. “Housing, Transportation, And Food: How ACOs Seek To Improve Population Health By Addressing Nonmedical Needs Of Patients.” Health Affairs 35(11):2109-2115.
Bigman C.A., Smith M., Williamson L.D., Planey A.M., & McNeil Smith S. Selective sharing on social media: Examining the effects of race-related disparate impact frames on intentions to retransmit news stories among U.S. college students. New Media and Society. 21(11–12), 2691–2709. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444819856574
Planey A.M., McNeil Smith S., Moore S., & Walker T. (2019). Barriers and Facilitators to Mental Health Help-Seeking among African American Youth and their Families: A Systematic Review Study. Children and Youth Services Review. 101, 190-200. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2019.04.001
Planey A.M. (2019). Audiologist Availability and Supply in the United States: A Multi-Scale Spatial and Political Economic Analysis. Social Science and Medicine. 222. 216-224. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.01.015
Niles M, Asiodu I.V., Crear-Perry J., Julian Z, Lyndon A., McLemore M.R., Planey A.M., Scott K.A., Vedam S. (2020). Reflecting on Equity During a Pandemic. Forthcoming at Health Equity.
Planey AM. (2019). Audiology Service Accessibility & the Health Policy Landscape. The Hearing Journal. 72(4). Pp 11,13. DOI: 10.1097/01.HJ.0000557744.28152.45
Kathleen Thomas focuses her work to improve access to care for under-served populations with mental health needs. One important theme in her work is how patient activation and shared decision-making provide strategies to reduce racial disparities in mental health service use. Another theme of her work is exploring the quality of health insurance benefits in order to develop strategies to close coverage gaps that result in disparities.
Hall JP, Shartzer A, Kurth NK, Thomas KC. Medicaid Expansion as an Employment Incentive Program for People With Disabilities. Am J Public Health. 2018 Sep;108(9):1235-1237. PubMed PMID: 30024794.
Thomas KC, Stein GL, Williams CS, Jolles MP, Sleath BL, Martinez M, García SJ, Guzman LE, Williams CE, Morrissey JP. Fostering Activation Among Latino Parents of Children with Mental Health Needs: An RCT. Psychiatr Serv. 2017 Oct 1;68(10):1068-1075. Epub 2017 Jun 1. PubMed PMID:28566024.
Thomas KC, Shartzer A, Kurth NK, Hall JP. Impact of ACA Health Reforms for People with Mental Health Conditions. Psychiatr Serv. 2017 Nov 15. PubMed PMID: 29137555.
Thomas KC, Ellis AR, Konrad TR, Holzer CE, Morrissey JP. County-level estimates of mental health professional shortage in the United States. Psychiatr Serv. 2009 Oct;60(10):1323-8. PubMed PMID: 19797371.
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