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    • Tim A. Bruckner, PhD
    • Allison Stolte, PhD
    • Brenda Bustos, MPH
    • Mandana Masoumirad, PhD
    • Shutong Huo
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Publications

2025

Masoumirad, M., Huo, S., Das, A., & Bruckner, T. A. (2025). Hate crimes and psychiatric emergency department visits among Asian Americans. Social Science & Medicine, 365, 117624. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117624

Huo, S., Masoumirad, M., & Bruckner, T. A. (2025). Psychiatric Emergency Department visits among Asian Americans in California. International Journal of Mental Health. (world). Retrieved from https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00207411.2025.2468007

Bustos B, Bonham J, & Bruckner TA. (2025). Racial Identification Switching and Health among Mothers in California. Socius, 11, 23780231251323717.

Catalano RA, Casey JA, Stolte A, Lee H, Gemmill A, Bustos B, & Bruckner TA. (2025). Vanishing twins, selection in utero, and infant mortality in the United States. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, eoae035.

Das A, Huo S, Bustos B, Masoumirad M, Bruckner TA, & Stolte A. (2025). Racialized economic segregation and Black youth suicide in the US. American Journal of Epidemiology,  kwae476.

2024

Huo, S., Ro, A., Du, S., Young, A., & Bruckner, T. A. (2024). Remote school instruction in Fall 2020 and psychiatric emergencies among adolescents in Los Angeles County. BMC Psychiatry, 24(1), 854. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-024-06225-w

Huo, S., A. Bruckner, T., Das, A., L. Xiong, G., Marcovitz, D., B. Neikrug, A., & McCarron, R. (2024). Opioid prescriptions following behavioral health training among primary care providers. BMC Medical Education, 24(1), 1374. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-024-06289-y

Bustos B, Das A, Stolte A, Gailey S, & Bruckner TA. The Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children and Birth Outcomes among Hispanic Mothers in California: A sibling control design. (2024). Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 1-11.

Bruckner TA, Bustos B, Dodge KA, Lansford JE, Odgers C, & Copeland W. Family cash transfers and educational outcomes in the next generation. (2024). Nature Communications, 15(1), 8168.

Catalano R, Stolte A, Casey JA, Gemmill A, Lee H, Bustos B, & Bruckner T. (2024). Vanishing twins, spared cohorts, and the birthweight of periviable infants born to Black and White women in the United States. Science Advances, 10(36), eado6691.

Das A, Casey JA, Gemmill A, Catalano R, Lee H, Stolte A, Bustos B, & Bruckner TA. (2024). Dynamic Changes in Place-Based Measures of Structural Racism and Preterm Birth in the US. J Epidemiol Community Health.

Stolte A, Gemmill A, Lee H, Bustos B, Casey JA, Bruckner TA, & Catalano R. Male Twinning after the 2008 Obama Election: A Test of Symbolic Empowerment (2024). Social Science & Medicine,117131.

Bustos B, Lopez M, Dodge KA, Lansford JE, Copeland WE, Odgers CL, & Bruckner TA. (2024). Family cash transfers in childhood and birthing persons and birth outcomes later in life. SSM- Population Health, 25.

Bruckner TA, Chakrabarti S, Bustos B, Catalano R, Gemmill A, Casey JA, & Lee H. (2024). Missing Black males among preterm births in the US, 1995 to 2019. PloS one, 19(3), e0295557.

2023

Bruckner TA, Gemmill A. Causes of ART-Related Outcomes in the COVID-19 Era. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 2023; 37(2):128-130.

Bruckner TA, Bustos B,Margerison C, Gemmill A, Casey J, & Catalano R. Selection in utero against male twins in the US early in the COVID-19 pandemic (2023). American Journal of Human Biology, 35(3), e23830.

Margerison CE,Zamani-Hank Y, Catalano R, Hettinger K, Michling TR, Bruckner TA. Impacts of the 2021 Child Tax Credit Advance Payments on Low Birth Weight in the United States. JAMA Network Open 2023 (in press).

Morales C, Bruckner TA, Du S, Young A, Ro A. Changes in Acute ED Visits by Race/Ethnicity During the Early COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health 2023; 1-9

Catalano RA, Casey JA, Gemmill A, Bruckner TA. Expectations of non-COVID-19 deaths during the pre-vaccine pandemic: A process-control approach. BMC Public Health 2023; 23 (1): 1-6.

Huo S, Bruckner TA, Xiong GL, Cooper E, Wade A, Neikrug AB, Gagliardi JP, McCarron R. Antidepressant Prescription Behavior Among Primary Care Clinician Providers After an Interprofessional Primary Care Psychiatric Training Program. Adm Policy Ment Health. 2023 Nov;50(6):926-935. doi: 10.1007/s10488-023-01290-x. Epub 2023 Aug 20. PMID: 37598371; PMCID: PMC10543424.

Bruckner TA, Huo S, Huynh M, Du S, Young A, Ro A. Psychiatric Emergencies in Los Angeles County During, and After, Initial COVID-19 Societal Restrictions: An Interrupted Time-Series Analysis. Community Ment Health J. 2023 May;59(4):622-630. doi: 10.1007/s10597-022-01043-4. Epub 2022 Dec 12. PMID: 36509936; PMCID: PMC9744376.

2022


Bruckner TA, Das A, Duncan G. Thanksgiving and Christmas gatherings before the 2020-21 winter surge of COVID-19 in the United States. Preventive Medicine Reports. doi: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2022.101911

Bruckner TA, Huo S, Huynh M, Du S, Young A, Ro A. Psychiatric emergencies in Los Angeles County during, and after, initial COVID-19 societal restrictions: an interrupted time-series analysis. Community Mental Health Journal 2022; 1-9.

Margerison CE, Bruckner TA, MacCallum-Bridges C, Catalano R, Casey JA, Gemmill A. Exposure to the early COVID-19 pandemic and early, moderate, and overall preterm births in the US: a conception cohort approach. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 2022: 1-9 (doi: 10.1111/ppe.12894)

Das A, Singh P, Bruckner TA. State lockdown policies, mental health symptoms, and using substances. Addict Behav. 2022 Jan;124:107084. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2021.107084. Epub 2021 Aug 12. PMID: 34507184; PMCID: PMC8358101.

2021

Gemmill A, Casey JA, Catalano RA, Karasek D, Margerison CE, Bruckner TA. Changes in preterm birth and cesarean deliveries in the United States during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 2021 (Link)

Gailey S, Knudsen E, Mortensen LH, Bruckner TA. Birth Outcomes Following Unexpected Job Loss: A Matched Sibling Design. International Journal of Epidemiology 2021 (Link)

Bruckner TA, Catalano RA, Das A, Lu X. Cohort Selection in Utero Against Male Twins and Childhood Cancers: A Population-Based Register Study. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers, and Prevention 2021 (10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-21-0053).

Bruckner TA, Gailey S, Das A, Gemmill A, Casey JA, Catalano RA, Shaw GM, Zeitlin J. Stillbirth as left truncation for early neonatal death in California, 1989-2015: a time-series study. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2021; 21: 1-9.

Gailey SB, Cross RI, Messer LC, Bruckner TA. Characteristics associated with downward residential mobility among birthing persons in California. Social Science & Medicine 2021 (Link)

Catalano R, Karasek D, Bruckner TA, Casey JA, Saxton K, Ncube CN, Shaw GM, Elser H, Gemmill A. African American Unemployment and the Disparity in Periviable Births. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities 2021 (doi: 10.1007/s40615-021-01022-7)

Das A, Singh P, Bruckner TA. State lockdown policies in the United States, mental health symptoms, and using substances. Addictive Behaviors 2021 (doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2021.107084).

Andersen L, Bruckner TA, Fallesen P. Risk of Stress/Depression and Functional Impairment in Denmark Immediately Following a COVID-19 Shutdown. BMC Public Health 2021 (Link).

Loftipour S, Au C, Saadat S, Bruckner T, Singh P, Chakravarthy B. Toxicologic Exposures in California Emergency Departments in 2011 and its risk factors. Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2021 (Link).

Singh P, Das A, William J, Bruckner T. Fertility, Economic Development, and Suicides among Women in India. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 2021 (Link)

Catalano R, Goldman-Mellor S, Bruckner T, Hartig T. Sildenafil and suicide in Sweden. European Journal of Epidemiology 2021 (doi: 10.1007/s10654-021-00738-4).

Trinh N, Singh P, Cerdá M, Bruckner TA. Opioid-related emergencies in New York City after the Great Recession. J Substance Abuse and Treatment 2021 (doi: 10.1016/j.jsat.2021.108311).

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🎉Excited to share our latest publication in the International Journal of Mental Health! We found that Asian Americans have the lowest rates of psychiatric ED visits among racial groups, with notable gender differences in utilization. Read more here: https://t.co/5m5TxgsRPT

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