The ISSUES Lab members present their research regularly at national and international conferences. Below are our upcoming presentations, including scheduled sessions for the 2026 American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting.
Click on any presentation title below to view the study details, authors, and abstract.
Disability-related depression inequities are driven by accessibility deficits: Evidence from crowdsourced sidewalk data and machine learning
Gia Elise Barboza-Salerno, Karla Shockley McCarthy, Malcolm McCarthy, & Dr. Amy Watson-Grace
APHA Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (November 2026)
Identifying place-specific mortality mechanisms by integrating cause-of-death narratives and neighborhood typologies using machine learning
Gia Elise Barboza-Salerno, Karla Shockley McCarthy, M. Saleh, L. La Flair, Dr. Amy Watson-Grace, & Hexin Yang
APHA Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (November 2026)
Improving surveillance of IPV-related head and neck injuries using AI-enhanced ED narratives
Karla Shockley McCarthy & Gia Elise Barboza-Salerno
APHA Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (November 2026)
Extreme heat and suicide risk among older adults: A longitudinal time series analysis in an urban U.S. setting
Malcolm McCarthy, Gia Elise Barboza-Salerno, Abdulgafar Olorede, & Karla Shockley McCarthy
APHA Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (November 2026)
Predicting harsh school discipline in Albuquerque Public Schools: A machine learning analysis with temporal validation
S. Worthy & Gia Elise Barboza-Salerno
APHA Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (November 2026)
An assessment of opioid overdose mortality risk across the urban–rural continuum: Integrating satellite-derived and socioeconomic indicators
Taylor Harrington, Gia Elise Barboza-Salerno, Rayna Booker, & Dr. Keith Warren
APHA Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (November 2026)