W5001: Rural Population Change and Adaptation in the Context of Health, Economic, and Environmental Shocks and Stressors

(Multistate Research Project)

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[10/23/2023]

Date of Annual Report: 10/23/2023

Report Information

Annual Meeting Dates: 09/15/2023 - 09/16/2023
Period the Report Covers: 10/01/2022 - 09/30/2023

Participants

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Accomplishments

PRESENTATIONS. In the first year of W5001, over 52 in-person and virtual presentations were made to fellow researchers at annual meetings of professional associations and other research conferences, including the Rural Sociological Society, the American Sociological Association, the Population Association of America, the American Association of Geographers, and the International Association for Society and Natural Resources, among a number of other smaller regional conferences and meetings. POLICY OUTREACH. Members consulted at the highest levels of federal policy as members or consultants for: NAS Board on Environmental Change and Society’s Integrating Human Sciences Planning Committee, US Census Bureau Census Scientific Advisory Committee (CSAC), NAS Committee on Managed Retreat in the U.S. Gulf Coast Region. Members conducted briefings, workshops and consultations to state and federal policymakers, extension officials, community organizations, and other stakeholder groups, including: the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT); Oklahoma Strategic Alliance, Henry’s Fork Foundation, Richmond Federal Reserve (Investing in Rural America), Federal-State Cooperative for Population Estimates (FSCPE); Team Peninsula (regional community development organization in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan), InvestUP (regional community development organization in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan), Institute of Government and Public Affairs (IGPA), International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, Council on Food, Agriculture, and Resource Economics, Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank, Federation of Appalachian Housing Enterprises, KU Rural Health Council, Russell Sage Foundation, New Hampshire State Legislature, and UW-Extension Community Development Institute. In addition to in-person or virtual briefings, members also prepared and published 15 policy briefs and reports. During the annual meeting, W5001 organized and conducted a listening session with local policy-makers and development practitioners in the Nashville area during the annual meeting to better inform future W5001 efforts. Finally, a public-facing website for the research network, now termed the Rural Population Research Network, was published and now hosts a membership list, policy briefs written for the network, and news and updates from the group. MEDIA OUTREACH. Members communicated research findings to the public with over 30 interviews through many media outlets, including in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio, Associated Press, Chicago Sun Times, Harvest Public Media, US News and Word Reports, Grid News, The Herald Journal, KPCW-NPR, KCUR-NPR, St. Louis Dispatch, Crain’s Chicago Business, Daily Yonder, Louisiana Radio Network, Christian Science Monitor, The Seattle Times, and Wisconsin Public Radio, among others. NEW FUNDING. Members received external funding to extend and build on research to meet project objectives. This included the following:  <ol start="2027"> <li>Tom Mueller (PI). U01: The Effect of Medicaid Expansion on Mortality Disparities and Poverty. National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities. Co-Investigators: Matthew M. Brooks, Regina S. Baker. Consultants: David Brady, Irma Elo, Liana Fox, Shannon Monnat, Jose Pacas, Ann R. Tickamyer. 2022 – 2027. $1,480,085.</li> </ol> Guangqing Chi (PI). NSF Navigating the New Arctic Program. "Collaborative Research: NNA Research: Arctic, Climate, and Earthquakes (ACE): Seismic Resilience and Adaptation of Arctic Infrastructure and Social Systems amid Changing Climate" (Award # NNA-2220219). 1/1/2023–12/31/2027. $559,000. Megan Mucioki (PI) and Guangqing Chi (co-PI). NSF. "Planning: Collaborative: Food Security and Traditional Foods in Urban Spaces" (Award # OPP-2306041). 5/1/2023–4/30/2025. $200,000. Somayeh Asadi (PI) and Guangqing Chi (co-PI).  NSF Office of Polar Program. "Planning: Building Community Resilience in the Food-Energy-Water and Society Nexus" (Award # OPP-2225982). 10/1/2022–9/30/2024. $200,000. Shannon Monnat (MPI). National Institute on Aging “Geographic Trends and Disparities in Psychosocial Wellbeing, Health Behaviors, and Mortality in Midlife.” (Award # R01AG082699). 09/01/23-08/31/28. $1,758,311. Shannon Monnat (Co-Investigator). National Institute on Aging. “A Next Generation Data Infrastructure to Understand Disparities across the Life Course.” (Award # U01AG077280). 09/01/23-08/31/28. $42,177,490 total; $190,800 to Monnat. David Rothwell Member (Garcia, J. & MacTavish, K., Principal Investigators) A Land Grant University for Equity and Justice. Transforming Academic Equity, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation $165,000 (2022-2023). Peter Nelson (PI) and John Cromartie (co-PI). NIFA, Grant 2023-67023-39288, “The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Urban-Rural Migration Systems,” $419,000. 2023-2026. Kristina Brant (PI), “An Examination of Emergency Food Supply and Distribution in Rural Pennsylvania.” Center for Rural Pennsylvania. $50,000 - 1/1/2023-12/31/2023. Kristina Brant (Co-PI), “Opioid and Drug Overdose in Rural Coal Communities in the Post-COVID Era of Energy Transition.” USDA-NIFA-AFRI. $649,897 - 7/1/2023-6/30/2026. Katherine Curtis (Co-PI), “Economic Connectedness and Rural Economic Growth: The Interaction between Metro Cores and Rural Hinterlands through the Supply Chain.” USDA, NIFA. (9/1/23-8/31/26), $650,000. John Green (PI), “Southern Rural Development Center Integrated Activities FY23.” USDA, NIFA. (9/1/23-8/31/25), $704,232. AWARDS. Shannon Monnat was awarded the 2023 Chancellor’s Citation for Faculty Excellence and Scholarly Distinction from Syracuse University. Kenneth M. Johnson was awarded the 2022 University of New Hampshire Faculty Excellence in Research, Sustainability Silver Medal. TEACHING Tom Mueller: 16 Students taught Danielle Rhubart: 35 students taught, 1 PhD chair Yue Sun: 24 students taught Jessica Schad: 50 students taught, 5 PhD chair, 1 MA chair Tim Slack: 944 students taught, 1 PhD chair Guangqing Chi: 10 students taught, 4 PhD chair Shannon Monnat: 5 students taught, 4 PhD chair, 1 postdoc Richelle Winkler: 55 students taught, 2 PhD chair, 1 MS chair, 1 undergraduate chair Hua Qin: 82 students taught, 2 PhD chair Jacinda Dariotis: 14 students taught, 2 PhD chair, 1 MS chair, 3 undergraduate interns David Rothwell: 12 students taught, 3 PhD Chair Linda Lobao, 6 students taught,  2 PhD Chair John Green, 17 undergraduate Delta Scholars (undergraduate research and public service extracurricular program) Kristina Brant, 1 MS chair Kenneth M. Johnson, 10 students taught, 2 PhD Chair. Katherine Curtis: 13 Students Taught, 8 PhD Chair, 1 MS Chair; oversee demographic training program for 50 PhD students Peter Nelson: 162 undergraduate students taught, advisor on 3 student theses DISSERTATIONS Alvis, Kayla. August 2023. Title of Dissertation: Rurality, Health, and Disability: A Conceptual Framework and Empirical Study of Ohio (Ohio State University) Swanson, Eric. June 2023. Title of Dissertation: The Influence of Urban Economies on Socioeconomic Well-Being Along the Rural-Urban Continuum (Ohio State University) Barnett, Matthew J., December 2023. Title of Dissertation: Toward a More Holistic Understanding of Uranium-Related Views and Experiences of Residents in the Four Corners Region of the United States. (Utah State University) Shuai Zhou, August 2023. Title of Dissertation: ENVIRONMENTAL MIGRATION IN THE UNITED STATES: A SPATIO-TEMPORAL PERSPECTIVE, 1970–2020. (Penn State) Austin Brown. August 2023. Title of Dissertation: Suburban Subjectivities: A Genealogical Account of the American Dreamscape.” (Syracuse University) Kristine Bundschuh 2022.  Title of dissertation: ‘It’s Truly Everything’: The Multidimensional and Interconnected Reasons New Hampshire Residents Stay in Place. (University of New Hampshire).

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLES Anderson, Cory, Shuai Zhou, and Guangqing Chi. 2023. "Population-Wide Vaccination Hesitancy among the Amish: A County-Level Study of COVID-19 Vaccine Adoption and Implications for Public Health Policy and Practice." Population Research and Policy Review 42(4):70. Birkenmaier, J., Rothwell. D. W., Frey, J., & Spence Coffey, D. 2022. “Introduction to the Special Issue on “Financial Capability and Asset Building for Family Financial Wellbeing.” Journal of Family and Economic Issues 43:647–653. Buys, David, Mary Nelson Robertson, and John J. Green. 2023. “The Aging Agricultural Workforce: Opportunities for Policy Development and Intervention.” Public Policy and Aging Report 33(3): 105-110. doi: 10.1093/ppar/prad015 Davis, J., Rupasingha, A., Cromartie, J., and Sanders, A. 2022. Rural America at a Glance, 2022 Edition. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Economic Information Bulletin No. (EIB-246) 24 pp. Dobis, E, Cromartie, J., Williams, R., and Reed, K. 2023. Characterizing rugged terrain in the United States. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, ERR-322, August, 41 pages. Elizabeth Fussell, Jack DeWaard, and Katherine J Curtis. 2022. “Environmental Migration as Short- or Long-term Differences from a Trend: A Case Study of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita Effects on Out- Migration in the Gulf of Mexico.” International Migration 61(5):60-74. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.13101">https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.13101</a> Fowler, C. and Cromartie J. 2023. “The role of data sample uncertainty in delineations of Core Based Statistical Areas and Rural Urban Commuting Areas”. Spatial Demography 11(6). Giordono, L., Rothwell, D. W., & Weber, B., Giordono, L. 2023. “The Oregon Earned Income Credit's impact on child poverty.” Journal of Poverty. Hashemi, Farzad, Ute Poerschke, Lisa D. Lulo, and Guangqing Chi. 2023. "Urban Microclimate, Outdoor Thermal Comfort, and Socio-Economic Mapping: A Case Study of Philadelphia, PA." Buildings 13(4):1040. Hochstetler, Andrew, David J. Peters, and Shannon M. Monnat. 2023. “Prescription Opioid Resiliency and Vulnerability: A Mixed-Methods Comparative Case Study.” American Journal of Criminal Justice 47:651-671. Holen, Davin, Lance Howe, and Guangqing Chi. 2023. "Fishing in the Time of COVID: Assessing Risk in the Bristol Bay Commercial Salmon Fishery and the Societal Benefits of Social Science Research." In: Arctic Pandemics: COVID-19 and Other Pandemic Experiences and Lessons Learned, edited by Jennifer Spence, Heather Exner-Pirot, and Andrey Petrov. Akureyri, Iceland: Arctic Portal. Hugh Roland, Katherine J. Curtis, Kristen M. C. Malecki, Donghoon Lee, Juan Bazo, and Paul Block. 2023. “Geographic Isolation and Vulnerability Across Peru’s Ecological Regions: The Influence of Regional Contexts of Extraction.” Annals of the America Association of Geographers 0(0):1-23. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2023.2216762">https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2023.2216762</a> Jack DeWaard, Elizabeth Fussell, Katherine J Curtis, Stephan D Whitaker, Kathryn McConnell, Kobie Price, Catalina Castro, and Michael Soto. 2023. “Migration as a Vector of Economic Losses from Disaster-Affected Areas in the United States.” Demography 60(1):173-199. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-10426100">https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-10426100</a> Jaramillo, J., Kothari, B., Alley, Z., Rothwell, D. W., & Blakeslee, J. 2022. “Youth-Caseworker relationship quality & academic resilience among transition-age youth in foster care.”  Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal 40:487-502. Johnson, K.M. 2023. “Population Redistribution Trends in Nonmetropolitan America, 2010 to 2021.” Rural Sociology 88(1):193-219. Johnson, K.M. and D.J. Scala. 2022. “The Rural-Urban Continuum and the 2020 Presidential Election.” The Forum 20(2):229-255.  Jones, Malia, Mahima Bhattar, Emma Henning, and Shannon M. Monnat. 2023. “Explaining the U.S. Rural Disadvantage in COVID-19 Case and Death Rates during the Delta-Omicron Surge: The Role of Politics, Vaccinations, Population Health, and Social Determinants.” Social Science and Medicine 335:116180. Lefmann, Tess, Sannie Snell, Mobolaji Famuyide, Sushmitha. Inguva, & John J. Green. 2022. “Bridging the Divide: Urban and Rural Care through the Right! From the Start Initiative.” Journal of Rural Social Sciences 37(3). <a href="https://egrove.olemiss.edu/jrss/vol37/iss3/5/">https://egrove.olemiss.edu/jrss/vol37/iss3/5/</a> Li, Chuo, Jing Zhao, Junjun Yin, and Guangqing Chi. 2023. "Park Access Affects Physical Activity: New Evidence from Geolocated Twitter Data Analysis." Journal of Urban Design 28(3):316–335. Liang, Yun, Junjun Yin, Soyoung Park, Bing Pan, Guangqing Chi, and Zach Miller. In Press. "Using Social Media User Profiles to Identify Visitor Demographics and Origins in Yellowstone National Park." Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism. DOI: 10.1016/j.jort.2023.100620. Lichter, D.T and K.M. Johnson. 2023. “Urbanization and the Paradox of Rural Population Decline:  Racial and Regional Variation." Socius 9:1-21. Mack, Elizabeth A., Laura A. Sauls, Brad D. Jokisch, Kerstin Nolte, Birgit Schmook, Yifan He, Claudia Radel, Ginger R.H. Allington, Lisa C. Kelley, Christian K. Scott, Steve Leisz, Guangqing Chi, Lira Sagynbekova, Nicholas Cuba, and Geoffrey M. Henebry. 2023. "Remittances and Land Change: A Systematic Review." World Development 168:106251. McConnell, K. Mueller, J. T., Merdjanoff, A. A., Burow, P. B., and Farrell, J. 2023. “Informal modes of social support among residents of the rural American West during the COVID-19 pandemic.” Rural Sociology. Mia Gray, Michael Kitson, Linda Lobao, and Ron Martin. 2023. “Understanding the Post-COVID State and Its Geographies.” Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society. 16(1):1-19. Monnat, Shannon M. 2023. “Demographic and Geographic Variation in Fatal Drug Overdose Rates in the United States, 1999-2020.” ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 703(1):50-78. Monnat, Shannon M. and Irma T. Elo. 2022. “Enhancing the Utility of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to Identify Drivers of Rising Mortality Rates in the United States.” Forum for Health Economics & Policy 25(1-2):57-84. Monnat, Shannon M. and Irma T. Elo. 2023. “Editorial: Geographic Inequalities in Health and Mortality: Factors Contributing to Trends and Differentials.” Frontiers in Public Health 11. Monnat, Shannon M., David C. Wheeler, Emily Wiemers, Yue Sun, Xinxin Sun, Douglas A. Wolf, and Jennifer Karas Montez. 2023. “U.S. States’ COVID-19 Physical Distancing Policies and Working-Age Adult Mental Health Outcomes.” Preventive Medicine Reports 35:102370. Montez, Jennifer Karas., Nader Mehri, Shannon M. Monnat, Jason Beckfield, Derek Chapman, Jacob Grumbach, Mark D. Hayward, Steven H. Woolf, and Anna Zajacova. 2022. “U.S. State Policy Contexts and Mortality of Working-Age Adults.” PLOS ONE 17(10):e0275466. Mueller, J. T. and Gasteyer, S. 2023. “The ethnically and racially uneven role of water infrastructure spending in rural economic development.” Nature Water. DOI: 10.1038/s44221-022-00007-y Nelson, P. and Cromartie, J. 2022. Migration, Local Mobility, and the Spread of COVID-19 in Rural America, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, COVID-19 Working Paper. November. Nelson, P. and Cromartie, J. 2022. Migration, Local Mobility, and the Spread of COVID-19 in Rural America, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, COVID-19 Working Paper. November. Nelson, P. B. and W. Frost. 2022. “Migration Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic – A Case study of New England showing Movements down the Urban Hierarchy and impacts on Real Estate Markets.” The Professional Geographer 75(3):415-429. https://doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2022.2114092 Omisakin, Olusola A., Jessica D. Ulrich-Schad, Aaron Hunt, Jennifer Givens, Mitchell Beacham. 2023. “Belief in Vaccine Myths and Vaccine Uptake in Utah During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Preventative Medicine Reports 36:102390. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2023.102390">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2023.102390</a> Park, Hyun Joon, Sara Francisco, Rosemary Pang, Lulu Peng, and Guangqing Chi. 2023. "Exposure to Anti-Black Lives Matter Movement and Obesity of the Black Population." Social Science & Medicine 316:114265. Qin, Hua, Jamie Vickery, Hannah Brenkert-Smith, Barituka Bekee, Yanu Prasetyo. 2023. “Do Actions Reduce Perceived Risk? A Longitudinal Analysis of the Relationship between Risk Perception and Action in Response to Forest Disturbance in Colorado.” Risk Analysis 43(7):1387–1399. Rhubart, D., Kowalkowski, J., Wincott, L. 2023. “The Built Environment and Social and Emotional Support among Rural Older Adults: The Case for Social Infrastructure and Attention to Ethnoracial Differences.” Rural Sociology. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/ruso.12491">https://doi.org/10.1111/ruso.12491</a> Santos-Lozada, Alexis R., Jeffrey T. Howard, Shannon M. Monnat, Martin J. Sliwinski, and Leif Jensen. 2023. “Age Differences in Allostatic Load among Adults in the United States by Rural-Urban Residence.” SSM-Population Health 23:101442. Slack, Tim, Rhiannon A. Kroeger, Samuel Stroope, Kathryn Sweet Keating, Jaishree Beedasy, Thomas Chandler, Jonathan Sury, and Jeremy Brooks. 2022. “Disparate Effects of BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Exposure on Psychological Resilience.” Traumatology 28:503–509. Smith MA, Hendricks KA, Bednarz LM, Gigot M, Harburn A, Curtis KJ, Passmore SR, Farrar-Edwards D. 2023. “Insights into measuring health disparities using electronic health records from a statewide network of health systems: A case study.” Journal of Clinical and Translational Science 7(1). <a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/cts.2022.521">https://doi.org/10.1017/cts.2022.521</a> Smith, M. Luke and Guangqing Chi. 2023. "Spatial Proximity to Wildfires as a Proxy for Measuring PM2.5: A Novel Method for Estimating Exposures in Rural Settings." Journal of Climate Change and Health 11:100219. Stroope, Samuel, Rhiannon A. Kroeger, Tim Slack, Kathryn Sweet Keating, Jaishree Beedasy, Thomas Chandler, Jonathan Sury, and Jeremy Brooks. 2022. “Parental Education and Child Physical Health following the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.” American Journal of Health Promotion 36:1200–1203. Stroope, Samuel, Rhiannon A. Kroeger, Tim Slack, Kathryn Sweet Keating, Jaishree Beedasy, Thomas Chandler, Jeremy Brooks, and Jonathan J. Sury. 2022. “Bidirectional Longitudinal Associations of Parent and Child Health following the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.” Population and Environment 44:123–144. Stroope, Samuel, Tim Slack, Rhiannon A. Kroeger, Kathryn Sweet Keating, Jaishree Beedasy, Jonathan Sury, Jeremy Brooks, and Thomas Chandler. 2023. “Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Exposures and Long-Term Self-Rated Health among Parents in Coastal Louisiana.” Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness 17:E329. Stroope, Samuel, Tim Slack, Rhiannon A. Kroeger, Kathryn Sweet Keating, Jaishree Beedasy, Jonathan J. Sury, Jeremy Brooks, and Thomas Chandler. 2022. “Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Exposure, Industry Sector, and Child Health.” Population Research and Policy Review 41:229–249. Sun, Yue, and Erin M. Bisesti. 2023. “Political Economy of the COVID-19 Pandemic: How State Policies Shape County-Level Disparities in COVID-19 Deaths.” Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World 9:1-13. Warner, Mildred E., Paige Kelly, and Xue Zhang. 2023. “Challenging Austerity under the Covid-19 State.” Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy, and Society 16(3). Winkler, Richelle L., and Katherine J. Curtis. 2023. “Indirect Methods for Estimating Internal Migration.” In Selected Topics in Migration Studies (pp. 213-215). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. Xia, Chen, Yuqing Hu, Guangqing Chi, and Jianli Chen. 2023. "Assessing Dynamics of Human Vulnerability at Community Level – Using Mobility Data." International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 96(1):103964. BOOKS Cafer, Anne, John J. Green, and Gary Goreham (Eds.). 2023. More than Bouncing Back: Examining Community Resilience Theory and Practice. New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis. BOOK CHAPTERS Brant, Kristina. 2023. “Social Parenthood and Legal (Un)Recognition in the United States.” In Social Parenthood in Comparative Perspective, edited by Clare Huntington, Courtney Joslin, and Christiane von Bary. New York, NY: New York University Press. Mueller, J. T. and Merdjanoff, A. A. 2023. Mental health in rural America during COVID-19 and beyond. In COVID-19, Frontline Responders, and Mental Health. Jennifer A. Horney (Ed.) Emerald Publishing.   POLICY BRIEFS Bundschuh, K. and K.M. Johnson. 2023. “Retaining Residents Is Important to New Hampshire’s Future: Why Do People Stay?” Carsey Research National Issue Brief. Durham, NH: Carsey School of Public Policy, University of New Hampshire. 172. Johnson, K.M. 2022. “Migration Continues to Fuel New Hampshire’s Population Gain.” Carsey Data Snapshot. Durham, NH: Carsey School of Public Policy, University of New Hampshire. Johnson, K.M. 2022. “Recent Data Suggest Rural America Is Growing Again After a Decade of Population Loss.” Carsey Data Snapshot. Durham, NH: Carsey School of Public Policy, University of New Hampshire. Johnson, K.M. 2023. “New Census Data Reflect the Continuing Impact of Covid on U.S. Demographic Trends.” Carsey Research National Issue Brief. Durham, NH: Carsey School of Public Policy, University of New Hampshire. 171. Johnson, K.M. 2023. “Population Gains Widespread in New Hampshire Counties Due to Migration.” Carsey Data Snapshot. Durham, NH: Carsey School of Public Policy, University of New Hampshire. Johnson, K.M. 2023. “The Recent U.S. Population Growth Rate Increased from Last Year’s Record Low, But Remains Below Historical Levels.” Carsey Research National Issue Brief. Durham, NH: Carsey School of Public Policy, University of New Hampshire. 164. Johnson, K.M. 2023. “U.S. Births Remain Near 40-Year Low for Third Consecutive Year Gain.” Carsey Data Snapshot. Durham, NH: Carsey School of Public Policy, University of New Hampshire. Monnat, Shannon M. 2023. “The Drug Overdose Crisis Has Affected Some Groups and Places More than Others.” Sage Perspectives. <a href="https://perspectivesblog.sagepub.com/blog/research/the-drug-overdose-crisis-has-affected-some-groups-and-places-more-than-others">https://perspectivesblog.sagepub.com/blog/research/the-drug-overdose-crisis-has-affected-some-groups-and-places-more-than-others</a> Monnat, Shannon M. 2023. “Which Demographic Groups and Which Places Have the Highest Drug Overdose Rates in the U.S.?” Research Brief #91. Lerner Center Population Health Research Brief Series. Montez, Jennifer Karas, Nader Mehri, and Shannon M. Monnat. 2023. “Conservative State Policies Contribute to Higher Mortality Rates among Working-Age Americans.” Research Brief #80. Lerner Center Population Health Research Brief Series. Sun, Yue, and Erin M. Bisesti. 2023. “State COVID-19 Policies that Restricted In-Person Interaction and Provided Economic Support Saved Lives During the First Year of the Pandemic.” Research Brief #88. Lerner Center Population Health Research Brief Series. Ulrich-Schad, Jessica D. and Aaron Hunt. 2022. “Debunking COVID-19 Myths in Utah.”  Utah State University Extension Fact Sheet. <a href="https://extension.usu.edu/healthwellness/research/debunking-covid-myths">https://extension.usu.edu/healthwellness/research/debunking-covid-myths</a> Ulrich-Schad, Jessica D., Jennifer E. Givens, Peter D. Howe, & Cole Lancaster. 2023 "Utahns are Becoming More Likely to Say Human-Caused Climate Change is Happening." Research Brief #2023-1.  Utah People and Environment Poll. <a href="https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/canri_projects/5">https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/canri_projects/5</a> REPORTS Entsminger, Jason, John J. Green, Rachel Welborn, Russ Garner, Renee Wiatt, Zuzana Bednarikova, Riana Gayle, Yuxuan Pan, and Stephan Goetz. 2023. “Comprehensive Summary of the National Rural Development Stakeholder Listening Sessions.” Regional Rural Development Centers. <a href="https://www.usu.edu/rrdc/files/rrdc-listening-session-final-report-feb-17-2023.pdf">https://www.usu.edu/rrdc/files/rrdc-listening-session-final-report-feb-17-2023.pdf</a> DISSERTATIONS/THESES Alvis, Kayla. August 2023. Title of Dissertation: Rurality, Health, and Disability: A Conceptual Framework and Empirical Study of Ohio. (Ohio State University) Barnett, Matthew J., December 2023. Title of Dissertation: Toward a More Holistic Understanding of Uranium-Related Views and Experiences of Residents in the Four Corners Region of the United States. (Utah State University) Brown, Austin. August 2023. Title of Dissertation: Suburban Subjectivities: A Genealogical Account of the American Dreamscape. (Syracuse University) Bundschuh, Kristine. 2022.  Title of dissertation: ‘It’s Truly Everything’: The Multidimensional and Interconnected Reasons New Hampshire Residents Stay in Place. (University of New Hampshire). Swanson, Eric. June 2023. Title of Dissertation: The Influence of Urban Economies on Socioeconomic Well-Being Along the Rural-Urban Continuum. (Ohio State University) Zhou, Shuai. August 2023. Title of Dissertation: Environmental Migration in The United States: A Spatio-Temporal Perspective, 1970–2020. (Penn State) NEWS AND OP-EDS  Op-ed. Rothwell, D. W. (2022, October 7). The full picture of poverty in America. The Seattle Times. <a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/the-full-picture-of-poverty-in-america/">https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/the-full-picture-of-poverty-in-america/</a> DATA PRODUCTS Egan-Robertson, David, Katherine J. Curtis, Richelle L. Winkler, Kenneth M. Johnson, and Caitlin Bourbeau. “Age-Specific Net Migration Estimates for US Counties, 1950-2020.” Applied Population Laboratory, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2023 (Beta Release). Web. https://netmigration.wisc.edu/.

Impact Statements

Created and published a professional website for the study at http://rprn.org. The website hosts a membership list, as well as all policy briefs prepared for the Rural Population Research Network.