Bhavneet Walia

• 2025 Spring
  • PHP 627 Health Leadership and Management
  • PHP 499 Honors Capstone Project
  • PHP 414 Introduction to Ethics & Laws in Healthcare Administration
  • ECN 422 Introduction to Statistics and Econometrics
  • PHP 223 Public Health Data & Decision Making
• 2024 Fall
  • ECN 522 Econometric Methods
  • PHP 313 Issues and Challenges: U.S. Healthcare Delivery
  • PHP 223 Public Health Data & Decision Making
• 2024 Summer
  • PHP 414 Introduction to Ethics & Laws in Healthcare Administration
• 2024 Spring
  • PHP 627 Health Leadership and Management
  • PHP 414 Introduction to Ethics & Laws in Healthcare Administration
  • PHP 223 Public Health Data & Decision Making
• 2023 Fall
  • PHP 414 Introduction to Ethics & Laws in Healthcare Administration
  • PHP 313 Issues and Challenges: U.S. Healthcare Delivery
  • PHP 600 Selected Topics - Behavioral Ecn for Pub Health
• 2023 Summer
  • PHP 313 Issues and Challenges: U.S. Healthcare Delivery
• 2023 Spring
  • PHP 627 Health Leadership and Management
  • PHP 223 Public Health Data & Decision Making

Bhavneet Walia is associate professor of public health, senior research associate in the Center for Policy Research, faculty affiliate in the Aging Studies Institute, research affiliate in the Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion and Population Health.

Walia is an applied health and labor econometrician. Her research interests are in the areas of health care efficiency (including markets for health care workers), maternal-child health, disability research and sports epidemiology. Her research work has appeared in leading field journals, including JAMA Network Open, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, BMJ Global Health, JMIR Human Factors, Journal of Market Access & Health Policy, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Journal of Sports Economics.

Walia is a part of several funded research grant projects, including an NIH-funded ADA PARC project for disability research and a Fahs-Beck-funded project on research and experimentation related to refugee health. She teaches undergraduate and graduate public health courses in secondary public health data analysis and health care management.

Along with teaching, Bhavneet has mentored several students who were awarded a Syracuse University SOURCE research grant for their research projects. With the help of that research funding, she has developed several publications and manuscripts in progress with them as co-authors. Recently, Walia's research scholarship has focused more prominently on understanding and improving the efficiency of telehealth.

"ADA Participation Action Research Consortium (ADA PARC)", Sponsored by National Institute on Disability & Rehabilitation Research/DHHS.

"Exploring FIFA Video Games as a Channel to Promote Football Participation, Football Literacy, and Psychosocial Well-being", Sponsored by International Centre for Sports Studies.

"Mental Health, Economic Well-Being, and Experiences of Farming in Resettled Refugees in Syracuse, NY", Sponsored by Fahs-Beck Fund for Research and Experimentation.

• Journal Articles
  • Walia, B., "Economic equity and people with disabilities: Development and characterization of a novel index." American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2024.
  • Walia, B., "Exploring soccer video games as a channel to promote well-being and soccer appreciation among North American adults." Soccer & Society, 2024.
  • Minkoff-Zern, L., Walia, B., "Food sovereignty and displacement: gardening for food, mental health, and community connection.." The Journal of Peasant Studies, 2024.
  • Walia, B., "Head Impact, Concussion, and Salary in the NFL: Is There a Compensating Wage-Risk Premium?." American Behavioral Scientist, 2024.
  • Gangamma, R., Walia, B., Minkoff-Zern, L. and Tor, S., "Role of Gardening in Mental Health, Food Security, and Economic Well-Being in Resettled Refugees: A Mixed Methods Study." Journal on Migration and Human Security, 2023.
  • Walia, B., Banga, H. and Larsen, D. A., "Reply to: comment on increased reliance on physician assistants: an access-quality tradeoff?." Journal of market access & health policy, 2023.
  • Sanders, S., Gedara, N. I., Walia, B., Boudreaux, C. and Silverstein, M., "Does Aging Make Us Grittier? Disentangling the Age and Generation Effect on Passion and Perseverance." Journal of Data Science, 2022.
  • Walia, B., Banga, H. and Larsen, D. A., "Reply to: Comment on Increased reliance on physician assistants: an access-quality tradeoff?." Journal of Market Access & Health Policy, 2022.
  • Minkoff-Zern, L. A., Dudley, M. J., Zoodsma, A., Walia, B. and Welsh, R., "Protracted dependence and unstable relations: Agrarian questions in the H-2A visa program¹." Journal of Rural Studies, 2022.
  • Gangamma, R., Walia, B., Luke, M. and Lucena, C., "Continuation of Teletherapy After the COVID-19 Pandemic: Survey Study of Licensed Mental Health Professionals." JMIR Formative Research, 2022.
  • Walia, B., Kim, J., Ijere, I. N. and Sanders, S. D., "Video Game Addictive Symptom Level, Use Intensity, and Hedonic Experience: Cross-sectional Questionnaire Study." JMIR Serious Games, 2022.
  • Walia, B., Kmush, B. L., Ehrlich, J., Mackowski, M. and Sanders, S. D., "Age at league entry and early all-cause mortality among national football league players." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021.
  • McLorg, A., Omolo, K., Sifuna, P., Shaw, A., Walia, B. and Larsen, D. A., "Examining Wealth Trends in Kombewa, Kenya." Social Indicators Research, 2021.
  • Walia, B., Kmush, B. L., Lane, S. D., Endy, T., Montresor, A. and Larsen, D. A., "Routine deworming during antenatal care decreases risk of neonatal mortality and low birthweight: A retrospective cohort of survey data." PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2021.
  • Salmon, K., Shin, D., Kmush, B., Walia, B., Bellows, A. and Larsen, D., "Evidence of Declining Dietary Diversity Among Children Aged 1–5 Years Between 2005 and 2017 in Lower-Income Countries." Current Developments in Nutrition, 2020.
  • Graham, M. E., Walia, B. and Robinson, C., "Women executives and off-the-job misconduct by high-profile employees: A study of National Football League team organizations." Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2020.
  • Ryan, S. J., Martin, A. C., Walia, B., Winters, A. and Larsen, D. A., "Comparing prioritization strategies for delivering indoor residual spray (IRS) implementation, using a network approach." Malaria Journal, 2020.
  • Kmush, B. L., Mackowski, M., Ehrlich, J., Walia, B., Owora, A. and Sanders, S. D., "Association of Professional Football Cumulative Head Impact Index Scores With All-Cause Mortality Among National Football League Players." JAMA network open, 2020.
  • Ehrlich, J., Kmush, B. L., Walia, B. and Sanders, S. D., "Mortality risk factors among National Football League players: An analysis using player career data." F1000Research, 2020.
  • Walia, B., Boudreaux, C. J., "The cost of players' injuries to professional sports leagues and other sports organizations." Managerial Finance, 2020.
• Book Chapter
  • Walia, B., Christopher, B., "Health Behaviors and Social Media." In The SAGE Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine. Scrimshaw, S. C., Lane, S. D., Rubinstein, R. A. and Fisher, J. (eds.) SAGE, 2021.
• Conference Proceeding
  • Ragan, J., Walia, B., "Differences in student evaluations of principles and other economics courses and the allocation of faculty across courses." In Journal of Economic Education. , 2010.
• Editorial, Journal
  • Walia, B., Banga, H. and Larsen, D. A., "Increased reliance on physician assistants: an access-quality tradeoff?." Journal of Market Access and Health Policy, 2022.
• Note, Journal
  • Appiah, B., Walia, B. and Nam, S. H., "Promoting COVID-19 vaccination through music and drama—Lessons from early phase of the pandemic." British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 2022.
• Review, Journals
  • Kmush, B. L., Walia, B., Neupane, A., Frances, C., Mohamed, I. A., Iqbal, M. and Larsen, D. A., "Community-level impacts of sanitation coverage on maternal and neonatal health: A retrospective cohort of survey data." BMJ Global Health, 2021.
  • Walia, B., Shridhar, A., Arasu, P. and Singh, G. K., "US physicians' perspective on the sudden shift to telehealth: Survey study." JMIR Human Factors, 2021.
  • Owora, A. H., Kmush, B. L., Walia, B. and Sanders, S. D., "A Systematic Review of Etiological Risk Factors Associated With Early Mortality Among National Football League Players." Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine, 2018.

ADA PARC Monthly Meeting, ADA PARC, "The economic equity index with ADA PARC team" (January 4, 2024 - January 4, 2024)

American Society of Health Economists, "Growing Dependence on Physician Assistants: Balancing Access and Quality?" (2024 - 2024)

"The SAGE Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine" (April 5, 2022)

Walia, B., Gangamma, R., Luke, M., SU SDSJ Symposium, "Continuation of teletherapy post COVID-19: Survey data from licensed mental health professionals" (March 31, 2022)

WHO, "Are we doing enough to protect adolescent girls and women of reproductive age from the harm caused by worm infections?" (February 1, 2022)

Indiana University School of Medicine, "How do we move beyond over-reliance on technology as a band-aid and recognize the importance of communication?" (2022)

Demystifying NIH: Diverse Strategies for Finding and Securing NIH Funding (2021)

Walia, B., Kmush, B., Sanders, S., Ehrlich, J., APHA's 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting and Expo, "Age at league entry, ability, and mortality among former NFL athletes" (October 24, 2020 - October 28, 2020)

Telehealth, "Research in progress" (September 18, 2020)

Walia, B., Zern, L. M., Lerner Center Presentation, "Promoting Economic Well-Being, Mental Health, and Food Security Through Gardening: A Multidisciplinary Perspective" (January, 2020)

Syracuse Men’s Lacrosse athletes nominated me to join Faculty & Staff Appreciation game (February 10, 2025 - February 10, 2025)