Bhavneet Walia

• 2025 Fall
  • ECN 522 Econometric Methods
  • PHP 313 Issues and Challenges: U.S. Healthcare Delivery
  • PHP 223 Public Health Data & Decision Making
• 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

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 Administration for Community Living.

"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 The New York Community Trust.

• Journal Articles
  • Walia, B., Owora, A., Kmush, B., Ehrlich, J. and Sanders, S., "Head Impact, Concussion, and Salary in the NFL: Is There a Compensating Wage-Risk Premium?." American Behavioral Scientist, 2026.
  • Walia, B., Singh, G., Annor, C. and Kang, S., "Access, Privacy, and Technological Challenges of Delivering Cardiology Care via Telehealth: A Systematic Literature Review." The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2026.
  • Walia, B., Roberts, Z., Annor, C. and Owora, A., "Risk Factors for Injuries in College Football: A Systematic Review." American Behavioral Scientist, 2025.
  • Raymond, S., Neyra, M., Hill, D. T., Maclachlan, A., McGuire, J., Mahaney, M., Pulido, N., Walia, B., Yang, N., Zhu, Y., Zhou, Y. and Larsen, D. A., "How local health departments use wastewater surveillance data for public health planning and intervention in New York State." BMC Public Health, 2025.
  • Mammadli, M., Seale, E., Walia, B., Swarnkar, S., Gambhir, H. S., Sandhu, M. and Agarwal, R., "Case study: Is there any impact of insurance type on disposition outcomes in cancer patients on comfort care and hospital bed availability?." Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2025.
  • Walia, B., "Exploring soccer video games as a channel to promote well-being and soccer appreciation among North American adults." Soccer & Society, 2024.
  • Du, Y., Onyango-Makumbi, C., Walia, B., Owor, M., Musoke, P. and Owora, A. H., "Correlates of early breastfeeding cessation and breastmilk expression in Uganda: a case–control study." Journal of International Medical Research, 2024.
  • Walia, B., McDonald, K., Hammel, J., Frieden, L., Morris, M., Whaley, B. and Nguyen, V., "Economic equity and people with disabilities: Development and characterization of a novel index." The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 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, 2024.
  • Minkoff-Zern, L., Walia, B., Gangamma, R. and Zoodsma, A., "Food sovereignty and displacement: gardening for food, mental health, and community connection." The Journal of Peasant Studies, 2024.
  • 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.
  • Walia, B., Banga, H. and Larsen, D. A., "Increased reliance on physician assistants: an access-quality tradeoff?." Journal of Market Access & Health Policy, 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 (Preprint). JMIR Publications Inc.
  • 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., 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.
  • 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.
  • Walia, B., Kmush, B. L., Ehrlich, J., Mackowski, M. and Sanders, S., "Age at League Entry and Early All-Cause Mortality among National Football League Players." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021.
  • 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.
  • 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., Shridhar, A., Arasu, P. and Singh, G. K., "US Physicians’ Perspective on the Sudden Shift to Telehealth: Survey Study." JMIR Human Factors, 2021.
  • Walia, B., Boudreaux, C. J., "The cost of players’ injuries to professional sports leagues and other sports organizations." Managerial Finance, 2021.
• 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.
• posted-contents
  • Walia, B., Kim, J., Ijere, I. and Sanders, S., Video Game Addictive Symptom Level, Use Intensity, and Hedonic Experience: Cross-sectional Questionnaire Study (Preprint). JMIR Publications Inc.
  • 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. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2021.

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)

Invitation to the Assembly of Scholars, The Renée Crown University Honors Program (2026 - 2026)

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