Skip to content

Maxwell School News and Commentary

Filtered by: COVID-19

Political Science, Public Health Faculty Partner on Vaccine Study

Supported with a generous gift from Maxwell Advisory Board member David Kelso, Brittany L. Kmush and Shana Kushner Gadarian hope to better understand how state policies influence vaccine decisions.

October 16, 2025

Analyzing the Stability of Gun Violence Patterns During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Syracuse, New York

Peng Gao, Sarah E. Van Horne, David A. Larsen, Robert A. Rubinstein, Sandra D. Lane

The article, co-written by Maxwell professors Peng Gao, David Larsen, Robert Rubinstein and Sandra Lane, was published in the International Journal of Health Geographics.

September 29, 2025

Understanding COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy among the General Population in Japan

Moe Kuroda, Md Koushik Ahmed, Kaku Kuroda, Sandra D. Lane

Co-authored by Sandra Lane, professor emerita of public health, the article was published in Asian Bioethics Review.

September 24, 2025

See related: COVID-19, East Asia

The Pandemic Journaling Project: A New Dataset of First-Person Accounts of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Sarah S. Willen, Katherine A. Mason, Heather M. Wurtz, Sebastian Karcher

Co-authored by Sebastian Karcher, director of the Center for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry and the Qualitative Data Repository, was published in PLOS One.

September 11, 2025

See related: COVID-19

Larsen Cited in New York Times Article on Rising COVID Cases in New York City

The New York State Wastewater Surveillance Network tracks the spread of COVID by detecting the virus in wastewater. David Larsen, professor and chair of public health and lead epidemiologist for the network, says COVID levels in the city’s wastewater were below average. 

September 3, 2025

See related: COVID-19, New York City

How Health Departments Use Wastewater Surveillance Data for Public Health Planning, Intervention

Shailla Raymond, Mila Neyra, Dustin T. Hill, Ainsley Maclachlan, Jordan McGuire, Matthew Mahaney, Nicole Pulido, Bhavneet Walia, Nan Yang, Yifan Zhu, Yiquan Zhou, David A. Larsen

The article, co-authored by public health professors David Larsen and Bhavneet Walia along with Nicole Pulido, a research associate in the Public Health Department, was published in BMC Public Health.

August 25, 2025

Resettled Refugee Parent/ Young Adult Perspectives on Mental Health After the Onset of the Pandemic

Rachel Fabi, Christina D. Campagna, Nidaa Aljabarrin, Eloho Olojakpoke, Noora Alghazeer, Sana Alamarie, Warood Alamarie, Robert A. Rubinstein, Ron Saletsky, Andrea V. Shaw

“Resettled Refugee Parent and Young Adult Perspectives on Mental Health After the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic,” co-authored by Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Robert Rubinstein, was published in Discover Mental Health.

April 23, 2025

Maxwell Hall Foyer Home to Traveling Exhibit ‘Picturing the Pandemic’ Until May 15

The exhibit is drawn from a collection of images and audio files contributed to the Pandemic Journaling Project (PJP), which was started in May 2020 by a team of researchers from the University of Connecticut and Brown University.

April 15, 2025

Fairchild Quoted in Christian Science Monitor Article on the Lingering Impact of COVID

A new media landscape emerged during the pandemic, fueling an outrage that turned scientists and public health officials into villains. University Professor Amy Fairchild describes it as a “backlash movement” that has fundamentally reshaped our political and cultural landscape.

March 26, 2025

States’ COVID-19 Policy Contexts and Suicide Rates Among US Working-Age Adults

Emily E. Wiemers, Shannon M. Monnat, Douglas A. Wolf, Jennifer Karas Montez, Joshua Grove, Iliya Gutin, Elyse Grossman

“States’ COVID-19 Policy Contexts and Suicide Rates Among US Working-Age Adults,” co-authored by Maxwell professors Emily Wiemers, Shannon Monnat, Douglas Wolf, Jennifer Karas Montez and Iliya Gutin, along with Ph.D. student Joshua Grove, was published in Health Affairs Scholar.

March 17, 2025

Explore by:

Communications and Media Relations Office
200 Eggers Hall