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Peer-Reviewed Articles:
NEW!! ➡ Riley, Alicia R., Ye Ji Kim, Marie-Laure Champignon, Michelle A. DeVost, Yea-Hung Chen. Forthcoming. “Inequities in excess pandemic mortality among documented and undocumented immigrants in California, 2020 to 2023” American Journal of Public Health.
Scott C Zimmerman^, Ruijia Chen^, Mary Thoma, Lucia Pacca, Jillian Hebert, Alicia R Riley, Min Hee Kim, Haobing Qian, Annie Pederson, Alice Tang, Yulin Yang, Peter Buto, Willa D Brenowitz, M Maria Glymour, Ashwin Kotwal, Jacqueline M. Torres. Forthcoming. “The Association of Alzheimer’s Disease Genetic Risk with Social Connectedness in Middle- And Older-Ages” American Journal of Epidemiology. ( ^co-first authors)
Riley, Alicia R. 2024. “State Cigarette Taxes, Smoking Cessation, and Implications for the Educational Gradient in Mortality” Social Science and Medicine.
Lee, Haena, John Robert Warren, James Iveniuk, Alicia R. Riley, Louise Hawkley, Jen Hanis, Kyun Won Choi. 2024. “Linking the 1940 US Census to the NSHAP: Novel Opportunity to Understand the Role of Early-life Residence on Cognitive Aging” The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences.
Almeida, ML, Pederson, AM, Zimmerman, SC, Chen, R, Ackley, S, Riley, AR, Eng, CW, Whitmer, RA, George, KM, Pterson, RL, Mayeda, ER, Gilsanz, P, Mungas, D, Farias, ST, Glymour, MM. 2024. “The association between physical activity and cognition in a racially/ethnically diverse cohort of older adults: results from the Kaiser Healthy Aging and Diverse Life Experiences (KHANDLE) study” Alzheimer Disease & Associated Disorders
Riley, Alicia R., Louise Hawkley, Lissette Piedra. 2024. “Unequal Loss: Disparities in Relational Closeness to a COVID-19 Death Among U.S. Older Adults” Journal of the American Geriatric Society.
Iveniuk, J, Zhong, S, Wilder, J, Marshall, G, Boyle, P, Hanis, J, Hawkley, L, Piedra, L, Riley, AR, Lee, H. 2024. Race/Ethnicity and the Measurement of Cognition in NSHAP: Recommendations for Robustness. The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences.
Jawadekar, Neal, Scott C. Zimmerman, Peiyi Lu, Alicia R. Riley, M. Maria Glymour, Katrina Kezios, Adina Zeki Al Hazzouri. 2024 “A Critique and Examination of the Polysocial Risk Score Approach: Predicting Cognition in the Health and Retirement Study” American Journal of Epidemiology.
Amador, Eileen*^, Hernandez-Chincoya, Robin*^, Riley, Alicia R. 2023. Pandemic retelling: What GoFundMe posts reveal about the socioeconomic context of COVID-19 death and bereavement among Latinx & Spanish-speaking communities in the U.S. Advances in Global Health. (^co-first authors; *undergraduate student mentees)
Chen, R., Charpignon, M.-L., Raquib, R. V., Wang, J., Meza, E., Aschmann, H. E., DeVost, M. A., Mooney, A., Bibbins-Domingo, K., Riley, A. R., Kiang, M. V., Chen, Y.-H., Stokes, A. C., & Glymour, M. M. 2023. Excess Mortality With Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias as an Underlying or Contributing Cause During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the US. JAMA Neurology.
Ackley, Sarah, Scott C. Zimmerman, Jason Flatt, Alicia R. Riley, Jae Sevelius, Kate A. Duchowny. 2023. “Discordance in Chromosomal and Self-Reported Sex in the UK Biobank: Implications for Transgender and Intersex-Inclusive Data Collection” Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences.
Dielle J Lundberg, Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, Ahyoung Cho, Rafeya Raquib, Elaine O Nsoesie, Eugenio Paglino, Ruijia Chen, Mathew V Kiang, Alicia R Riley, Yea-Hung Chen, Marie-Laure Charpignon, Katherine Hempstead, Samuel H Preston, Irma T Elo, M Maria Glymour, Andrew C Stokes. 2023. “COVID-19 Mortality by Race and Ethnicity in US Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Areas, March 2020 to February 2022” JAMA Network Open.
Riley, Alicia R.^, Hélène E Aschmann^, Ruijia Chen, Yea-Hung Chen, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Andrew C. Stokes, M. Maria Glymour, Mathew V Kiang. 2022. “Dynamics of racial disparities in all-cause mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic.” Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences. ( ^co-first authors)
Chen, Yea-Hung, Ellicott C. Matthay, Rujia Chen, Michelle A. DeVost, Kate A. Duchowny, Alicia R. Riley, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, M. Maria Glymour. 2022. “Educational inequalities in excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic in California: March 2020 through February 2021” American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
Chen, Yea-Hung, Alicia R. Riley, Kate A. Duchowny, Hélène E. Aschmann, Ruijia Chen, Mathew V. Kiang, Alyssa Mooney, Andrew C. Stokes, M. Maria Glymour, and Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo. 2022. “COVID-19 Mortality and Excess Mortality among Working-Age Californians, by Occupational Sector: March 2020 through November 2021.” Lancet Public Health.
Chen, Yea-Hung, Andrew C. Stokes, Hélène E. Aschmann, Ruijia Chen, Shelley DeVost, Mathew V. Kiang, Suneil Koliwad, Alicia R. Riley, M. Maria Glymour, and Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo. 2022. “Excess Natural-Cause Deaths in California by Cause and Setting: March 2020 through February 2021.” PNAS Nexus.
Candipan, Jennifer. Alicia R. Riley, and Janeria Easley. 2022. “While some things change, do others stay the same? The heterogeneity of neighborhood health returns to gentrification” Housing Policy Debate.
Lee, Haena, Theresa Andrasfay, Alicia R. Riley, Qiao Wu, Eileen M. Crimmins. 2022. “Do Social Determinants of Health Explain Racial/Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Infection?” Social Science & Medicine.
Matthay, Ellicott C., Kate A. Duchowny, Alicia R. Riley, Marilyn D. Thomas, Yea-Hung Chen, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, and M. Maria Glymour. 2022. “Occupation and Educational Attainment Characteristics Associated With COVID-19 Mortality by Race and Ethnicity in California.” JAMA Network Open.
Riley, Alicia R.^, Mathew V. Kiang^, Yea-Hung Chen, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, M. Maria Glymour. 2022. Recent Shifts in Racial/Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Mortality in the Vaccination Period in California. Journal of General Internal Medicine. ( ^co-first authors)
Thomas, Marilyn D., Ellicott C. Matthay, Kate A. Duchowny, Alicia R. Riley, Harmon Khela, Yea-Hung Chen, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, and M. Maria Glymour. 2022. “A Descriptive Analysis of 2020 California Occupational Safety and Health Administration Covid-19-Related Complaints.” SSM – Population Health.
Riley, Alicia R., Linda J. Waite, Kathleen A. Cagney. “Novel Insights From Interviewer Assessments of Personal Attributes, Home Environment, and Residential Context in NSHAP” The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences.
Wrigley-Field, Elizabeth, Mathew V. Kiang, Alicia R. Riley, Magali Barbieri, Yea Hung Chen, Kate A. Duchowney, Ellicott C. Matthay, David Van Riper, Kirrthana Jegathesan, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, and Jonathon P. Leider. 2021. “Geographically-targeted COVID-19 vaccination is more equitable and averts more deaths than age- based thresholds alone.” Science Advances.
Murchland, Audrey R., Adina Zeki Al Hazzouri, Lanyu Zhang, Tali Elfassy, Leslie Grasset, Alicia Riley, Rebecca Wong, Mary Haan, Richard N. Jones, Jacqueline M. Torres, and M. Maria Glymour. “Estimating the Effects of Mexico to U.S. Migration on Elevated Depressive Symptoms: Evidence from Pooled Cross-National Cohorts.” 2021. Annals of Epidemiology. doi: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2021.08.014.
Riley, Alicia R., Yea-Hung Chen, Ellicott C. Matthay, M. Maria Glymour, Jacqueline M. Torres, Alicia Fernandez, and Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo. “Excess Deaths among Latino People in California during the COVID-19 Pandemic.” 2021. Social Science and Medicine – Population Health. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2021.100860
Chen, Yea-Hung, Maria Glymour, Alicia Riley, John Balmes, Kate Duchowny, Robert Harrison, Ellicott Matthay, and Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo. “Excess Mortality Associated with the COVID-19 Pandemic among Californians 18–65 Years of Age, by Occupational Sector and Occupation: March through October 2020.” 2021. PLOS ONE.
Matthay, Ellicott C., Kate A. Duchowny, Alicia R. Riley, Sandro Galea. “Projected all-cause deaths attributable to COVID-19-related unemployment in the United States.” 2021. American Journal of Public Health e1-4. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.306095
Riley, Alicia R., Daniel Collins, Jake Grumbach, Jacqueline Torres and Rita Hamad. “Association of US state policy orientation with adverse birth outcomes: a longitudinal analysis” 2021. J Epidemiol Community Health. doi: 10.1136/jech-2020-214858
Maecken, Jana, Alicia R. Riley, and Maria Glymour. “Cross-National Differences in the Association Between Retirement and Memory Decline” 2020. The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences. gbaa223. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbaa223
Stuart, Forrest, Alicia R. Riley, and Hossein Pourreza. “A human-machine partnered approach for identifying social media signals of elevated traumatic grief in Chicago gang territories” 2020. PLOS ONE 15(7):e0236625. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0236625
Riley, Alicia R. “Advancing the Study of Health Inequality: Fundamental Causes as Systems of Exposure.” 2020. Social Science and Medicine – Population Health, Volume 10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2020.100555
Riley, Alicia R. “Neighborhood Disadvantage, Residential Segregation, and Beyond—Lessons for Studying Structural Racism and Health.” 2018. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 5(2): 357-365. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40615-017-0378-5
Riley, Alicia, Louise C. Hawkley, and Kathleen A. Cagney. 2016. “Racial Differences in the Effects of Neighborhood Disadvantage on Residential Mobility in Later Life.” The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 71 (6): 1131–40. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbw064
Book Chapters:
NEW!! ➡ Riley, Alicia R. and M. Maria Glymour. “Social Class, Poverty, and COVID-19” in The Social Epidemiology of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Eds. Dustin T. Duncan, Ichiro Kawachi and Stephen S. Morse. Oxford University Press. 2024.
Essays:
Riley, Alicia R. 2023. “Redefining the quest for health equity in the era of climate crisis” American Journal of Public Health. 113, 179-181.
Riley, Alicia R. 2022. “Contesting narratives of inevitability: Heterogeneity in Latino-white inequities in COVID-19.” American Journal of Public Health.
2021. Riley, Alicia R. “Review of ‘Population Health in America’” Social Forces.
2021, April 19. Riley, Alicia R., Kate Duchowny and Ellicott C. Matthay. “Forget the debate over public health versus jobs – the same people suffer the most either way” The Conversation, April 19, 2021. (Republished in The Telegraph)
2020, October 13. Riley, Alicia R. “The key to students returning to school is not the science – it is the resources” Cal Matters, Guest Commentary.
2020, October 13. Riley, Alicia and Leticia Cazares. “Structural racism is shaping the Latino COVID-19 experience in San Diego County” The San Diego Union Tribune. Commentary.