Jessie K Edwards
Biographic Data
| ID | 4720829 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessie K Edwards |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessie K |
| FAMILY NAME | Edwards |
| SIGNATURE | EDWARDS J K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1741-335X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Uptake of HIV Self-testing Among Adolescents and Young Adults in Nigeria
Accounting for missing data in public health research using a synthesis of statistical and mathematical models
INTRODUCTION: Accounting for missing data by imputing or weighting conditional on covariates relies on the variable with missingness being observed at least some of the time for all unique covariate values. This requirement is referred to as positivity, and positivity violations can result in bias. Here, we review a novel approach to addressing positivity violations in the context of systolic blood pressure. METHODS: To illustrate the proposed ap…
Postpartum Intrauterine Device Removal and Access to Removal in the 18 Months Following an Intervention in Tanzania, Sri Lanka, and Nepal
Family planning programs in the Global South promote long‐acting reversible contraception (LARC), but research suggests that women face barriers to LARC discontinuation, inhibiting their reproductive autonomy. Scholars have called for improved data visibility around LARC removal access. We use data from the Postpartum Intrauterine Device (PPIUD) Study, a randomized trial of a PPIUD intervention conducted in Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Tanzania from 201…
Life course socioeconomic disadvantage and persistent infection burden
Persistent SES disadvantage was consistently associated with higher infection burden and more aged immune cell profiles before midlife. Understanding this link is key for addressing health disparities
Performance of a Claims-Based Frailty Proxy Using Varying Frailty Ascertainment Lookback Windows
BACKGROUND: Frailty is an aging-related syndrome of reduced physiological reserve to maintain homeostasis. The Faurot frailty index has been validated as a Medicare claims-based proxy for predicting frailty using billing information from a user-specified ascertainment window. OBJECTIVES: We assessed the validity of the Faurot frailty index as a predictor of the frailty phenotype and 1-year mortality using varying frailty ascertainment windows. RE…
Mass probation
High community incarceration rates are associated with worse community mental health. However, it remains unknown whether higher rates of probation, a form of criminal legal community supervision, are similarly associated with worse community mental health. Our objective was to evaluate temporal and geographic correlations of county-level probation and mental health rates separately and to assess the association between county-level probation and…
Clinic presentation delay and tuberculosis treatment outcomes in the Lake Victoria region of East Africa
In the Lake Victoria region of East Africa, little is known about delays between tuberculosis (TB) symptom onset and presentation at a clinic. Associations between clinic presentation delay and TB treatment outcomes are also poorly understood. In 2019, we abstracted data from routine TB treatment records for all adults (n = 776) initiating TB treatment in a 6-month period across 12 health facilities near Lake Victoria. We interviewed 301 cohort m…
Geographic mobility and treatment outcomes among people in care for tuberculosis in the Lake Victoria region of East Africa
Geographic mobility may disrupt continuity of care and contribute to poor clinical outcomes among people receiving treatment for tuberculosis (TB). This may occur especially where health services are not well coordinated across international borders, particularly in lower and middle income country settings. In this work, we describe mobility and the relationship between mobility and unfavorable TB treatment outcomes (i.e., death, loss to follow-u…
Understanding the effects of universal test and treat on longitudinal HIV care outcomes among South African youth
Implementation of UTT yielded modest improvements in time spent on ART and virally suppressed among South African YLHIV- however, meeting UNAIDS' 95-95-95 targets remains a challenge. Retention in care and re-engagement interventions that can be implemented between diagnosis and linkage to care and between ART initiation and viral suppression (e.g., longitudinal counseling) may be particularly important to improving care outcomes among South Afri…
Access to Social Protection by People Living with, at Risk of, or Affected by HIV in Eswatini, Malawi, Tanzania, and Zambia
We aimed to measure social protection coverage among the general population, women and men living with HIV (WLHIV, MLHV), female and male sex workers (FSW, MSW), men who have sex with men (MSM), adolescent girls young women (AGYW), and orphans vulnerable children (OVC) in Eswatini, Malawi, Tanzania, and Zambia. We used Population-Based HIV Impact Assessment data. We operationalised social protection benefits as external economic support from priv…
Racial/Ethnic and Age Differences in the Direct and Indirect Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on US Mortality
Objectives. To estimate the direct and indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on overall, race/ethnicity‒specific, and age-specific mortality in 2020 in the United States. Methods. Using surveillance data, we modeled expected mortality, compared it to observed mortality, and estimated the share of “excess” mortality that was indirectly attributable to the pandemic versus directly attributed to COVID-19. We present absolute risks and proportion…
Effectiveness of a national mass distribution campaign of long-lasting insecticide-treated nets and indoor residual spraying on clinical malaria in Malawi, 2018–2020
INTRODUCTION: Malawi's malaria burden is primarily assessed via cross-sectional national household surveys. However, malaria is spatially and temporally heterogenous and no analyses have been performed at a subdistrict level throughout the course of a year. The WHO recommends mass distribution of long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets (LLINs) every 3 years, but a national longitudinal evaluation has never been conducted in Malawi to determine …
The Effect of PrEP Use Disclosure on Adherence in a Cohort of Adolescent Girls and Young Women in South Africa
Associations of Father and Adult Male Presence with First Pregnancy and HIV Infection
Alcohol Use Disorder and Recent Alcohol Use and HIV Viral Non-Suppression Among People Engaged in HIV Care in an Urban Clinic, 2014–2018
Differences in Access to HIV Services and Risky Sexual Behaviors Among Malawian Women at Social Venues Who Do and Do Not Engage in Sex Work
HIV Prevalence and the HIV Treatment Cascade Among Female Sex Workers in Cross-Border Areas in East Africa
Associations Between Key Psychosocial Stressors and Viral Suppression and Retention in Care Among Youth with HIV in Rural South Africa
Despite improvements in access to antiretroviral treatment over the past decade, sub-optimal HIV care outcomes persist among youth with HIV (YWH) in rural South Africa. Psychosocial stressors could impede improved HIV treatment outcomes within this population. We linked self-reported psychosocial health and demographic data from a cross-sectional survey conducted among YWH aged 12-24 in rural South Africa to individual medical record data, includ…
Modeling Cash Plus Other Psychosocial and Structural Interventions to Prevent HIV Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in South Africa (HPTN 068)
Poverty alleviation programs can reduce HIV incidence but may have greater impacts when combined with other psychosocial interventions. We modeled the change in HIV incidence among South African adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) associated with combining a cash transfer (the South African Child Support Grant (CSG)) with other structural and behavioral interventions. We modeled observational data from the HPTN 068 study where 2328 HIV negati…
Demographic Trends in US HIV Diagnoses, 2008–2017
Demographic Trends in US HIV Diagnoses, 2008–2017: Data Movies Lauren C. Zalla MS, Jessie K. Edwards PhD, Stephen R. Cole PhD, Jacqueline E. Rudolph PhD, Tiffany L. Breger PhD, Arti Virkud MPH, Anna Satcher Johnson MPH, and H. Irene Hall PhD, MPH Affiliation Lauren C. Zalla, Jessie K. Edwards, Stephen R. Cole, Tiffany L. Breger, and Arti Virkud are with the Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Jacqueline E. Rudol…
Spatial and epidemiological drivers of Plasmodium falciparum malaria among adults in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
BACKGROUND: Adults are frequently infected with malaria and may serve as a reservoir for further transmission, yet we know relatively little about risk factors for adult infections. In this study, we assessed malaria risk factors among adults using samples from the nationally representative, cross-sectional 2013-2014 Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) conducted in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). We further explored differences in ris…
Association of History of Injection Drug Use with External Cause-Related Mortality Among Persons Linked to HIV Care in an Urban Clinic, 2001–2015
Using Animations of Risk Functions to Visualize Trends in US All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality, 1968–2016
Objectives. To use dynamic visualizations of mortality risk functions over both calendar year and age as a way to estimate and visualize patterns in US life spans. Methods. We built 49 synthetic cohorts, 1 per year 1968 to 2016, using National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) mortality and population data. Within each cohort, we estimated age-specific probabilities of dying from any cause (all-cause analysis) or from a particular cause (cause-…
At-Risk Alcohol Use Among HIV-Positive Patients and the Completion of Patient-Reported Outcomes
Causal Impact
Causal Impact: Epidemiological Approaches for a Public Health of Consequence Affiliation Daniel Westreich PhD, Jessie K. Edwards PhD, Elizabeth T. Rogawski PhD, Michael G. Hudgens PhD, Elizabeth A. Stuart PhD, and Stephen R. Cole PhDDaniel Westreich, Jessie K. Edwards, and Stephen R. Cole are with the Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Elizabeth T. Rogawski is with the Di…
Racial/Ethnic and Age Differences in the Direct and Indirect Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on US Mortality
Objectives. To estimate the direct and indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on overall, race/ethnicity‒specific, and age-specific mortality in 2020 in the United States. Methods. Using surveillance data, we modeled expected mortality, compared it to observed mortality, and estimated the share of “excess” mortality that was indirectly attributable to the pandemic versus directly attributed to COVID-19. We present absolute risks and proportion…
Causal Impact
Causal Impact: Epidemiological Approaches for a Public Health of Consequence Affiliation Daniel Westreich PhD, Jessie K. Edwards PhD, Elizabeth T. Rogawski PhD, Michael G. Hudgens PhD, Elizabeth A. Stuart PhD, and Stephen R. Cole PhDDaniel Westreich, Jessie K. Edwards, and Stephen R. Cole are with the Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Elizabeth T. Rogawski is with the Di…
Using Animations of Risk Functions to Visualize Trends in US All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality, 1968–2016
Objectives. To use dynamic visualizations of mortality risk functions over both calendar year and age as a way to estimate and visualize patterns in US life spans. Methods. We built 49 synthetic cohorts, 1 per year 1968 to 2016, using National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) mortality and population data. Within each cohort, we estimated age-specific probabilities of dying from any cause (all-cause analysis) or from a particular cause (cause-…
Improvements to water purification and sanitation infrastructure may reduce the diarrheal burden in a marginalized and flood prone population in remote Nicaragua
BACKGROUND: The isolated northern region of Nicaragua has one of the highest rates of diarrheal disease in Central America. Political and environmental hardships faced by inhabitants of this region are contributing factors to this health inequity. The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between water and latrine infrastructure and the prevalence of diarrhea in this region. METHODS: A population-based, cross-sectional survey of women …
Exploring Venue-Associated Risk
The re-emerging syphilis epidemic in China is documented among sex workers, but little is known about STI risk among the broader group of women who work at entertainment and service venues, many of whom do not self-identify as sex workers. In 2009 in Liuzhou, China, community informants identified venues where people meet sexual partners. Characteristics of a stratified random sample of venues were collected during venue visits. Female staff at 4…
Causal Impact
Causal Impact: Epidemiological Approaches for a Public Health of Consequence Affiliation Daniel Westreich PhD, Jessie K. Edwards PhD, Elizabeth T. Rogawski PhD, Michael G. Hudgens PhD, Elizabeth A. Stuart PhD, and Stephen R. Cole PhDDaniel Westreich, Jessie K. Edwards, and Stephen R. Cole are with the Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Elizabeth T. Rogawski is with the Di…
At-Risk Alcohol Use Among HIV-Positive Patients and the Completion of Patient-Reported Outcomes
Association of History of Injection Drug Use with External Cause-Related Mortality Among Persons Linked to HIV Care in an Urban Clinic, 2001–2015
Using Animations of Risk Functions to Visualize Trends in US All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality, 1968–2016
Objectives. To use dynamic visualizations of mortality risk functions over both calendar year and age as a way to estimate and visualize patterns in US life spans. Methods. We built 49 synthetic cohorts, 1 per year 1968 to 2016, using National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) mortality and population data. Within each cohort, we estimated age-specific probabilities of dying from any cause (all-cause analysis) or from a particular cause (cause-…
Spatial and epidemiological drivers of Plasmodium falciparum malaria among adults in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
BACKGROUND: Adults are frequently infected with malaria and may serve as a reservoir for further transmission, yet we know relatively little about risk factors for adult infections. In this study, we assessed malaria risk factors among adults using samples from the nationally representative, cross-sectional 2013-2014 Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) conducted in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). We further explored differences in ris…
Effectiveness of a national mass distribution campaign of long-lasting insecticide-treated nets and indoor residual spraying on clinical malaria in Malawi, 2018–2020
INTRODUCTION: Malawi's malaria burden is primarily assessed via cross-sectional national household surveys. However, malaria is spatially and temporally heterogenous and no analyses have been performed at a subdistrict level throughout the course of a year. The WHO recommends mass distribution of long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets (LLINs) every 3 years, but a national longitudinal evaluation has never been conducted in Malawi to determine …
The Effect of PrEP Use Disclosure on Adherence in a Cohort of Adolescent Girls and Young Women in South Africa
Associations of Father and Adult Male Presence with First Pregnancy and HIV Infection
Alcohol Use Disorder and Recent Alcohol Use and HIV Viral Non-Suppression Among People Engaged in HIV Care in an Urban Clinic, 2014–2018
Differences in Access to HIV Services and Risky Sexual Behaviors Among Malawian Women at Social Venues Who Do and Do Not Engage in Sex Work
HIV Prevalence and the HIV Treatment Cascade Among Female Sex Workers in Cross-Border Areas in East Africa
Associations Between Key Psychosocial Stressors and Viral Suppression and Retention in Care Among Youth with HIV in Rural South Africa
Despite improvements in access to antiretroviral treatment over the past decade, sub-optimal HIV care outcomes persist among youth with HIV (YWH) in rural South Africa. Psychosocial stressors could impede improved HIV treatment outcomes within this population. We linked self-reported psychosocial health and demographic data from a cross-sectional survey conducted among YWH aged 12-24 in rural South Africa to individual medical record data, includ…
Modeling Cash Plus Other Psychosocial and Structural Interventions to Prevent HIV Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in South Africa (HPTN 068)
Poverty alleviation programs can reduce HIV incidence but may have greater impacts when combined with other psychosocial interventions. We modeled the change in HIV incidence among South African adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) associated with combining a cash transfer (the South African Child Support Grant (CSG)) with other structural and behavioral interventions. We modeled observational data from the HPTN 068 study where 2328 HIV negati…
Demographic Trends in US HIV Diagnoses, 2008–2017
Demographic Trends in US HIV Diagnoses, 2008–2017: Data Movies Lauren C. Zalla MS, Jessie K. Edwards PhD, Stephen R. Cole PhD, Jacqueline E. Rudolph PhD, Tiffany L. Breger PhD, Arti Virkud MPH, Anna Satcher Johnson MPH, and H. Irene Hall PhD, MPH Affiliation Lauren C. Zalla, Jessie K. Edwards, Stephen R. Cole, Tiffany L. Breger, and Arti Virkud are with the Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Jacqueline E. Rudol…
Access to Social Protection by People Living with, at Risk of, or Affected by HIV in Eswatini, Malawi, Tanzania, and Zambia
We aimed to measure social protection coverage among the general population, women and men living with HIV (WLHIV, MLHV), female and male sex workers (FSW, MSW), men who have sex with men (MSM), adolescent girls young women (AGYW), and orphans vulnerable children (OVC) in Eswatini, Malawi, Tanzania, and Zambia. We used Population-Based HIV Impact Assessment data. We operationalised social protection benefits as external economic support from priv…
Racial/Ethnic and Age Differences in the Direct and Indirect Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on US Mortality
Objectives. To estimate the direct and indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on overall, race/ethnicity‒specific, and age-specific mortality in 2020 in the United States. Methods. Using surveillance data, we modeled expected mortality, compared it to observed mortality, and estimated the share of “excess” mortality that was indirectly attributable to the pandemic versus directly attributed to COVID-19. We present absolute risks and proportion…
Mass probation
High community incarceration rates are associated with worse community mental health. However, it remains unknown whether higher rates of probation, a form of criminal legal community supervision, are similarly associated with worse community mental health. Our objective was to evaluate temporal and geographic correlations of county-level probation and mental health rates separately and to assess the association between county-level probation and…
Clinic presentation delay and tuberculosis treatment outcomes in the Lake Victoria region of East Africa
In the Lake Victoria region of East Africa, little is known about delays between tuberculosis (TB) symptom onset and presentation at a clinic. Associations between clinic presentation delay and TB treatment outcomes are also poorly understood. In 2019, we abstracted data from routine TB treatment records for all adults (n = 776) initiating TB treatment in a 6-month period across 12 health facilities near Lake Victoria. We interviewed 301 cohort m…
Geographic mobility and treatment outcomes among people in care for tuberculosis in the Lake Victoria region of East Africa
Geographic mobility may disrupt continuity of care and contribute to poor clinical outcomes among people receiving treatment for tuberculosis (TB). This may occur especially where health services are not well coordinated across international borders, particularly in lower and middle income country settings. In this work, we describe mobility and the relationship between mobility and unfavorable TB treatment outcomes (i.e., death, loss to follow-u…
Understanding the effects of universal test and treat on longitudinal HIV care outcomes among South African youth
Implementation of UTT yielded modest improvements in time spent on ART and virally suppressed among South African YLHIV- however, meeting UNAIDS' 95-95-95 targets remains a challenge. Retention in care and re-engagement interventions that can be implemented between diagnosis and linkage to care and between ART initiation and viral suppression (e.g., longitudinal counseling) may be particularly important to improving care outcomes among South Afri…
Performance of a Claims-Based Frailty Proxy Using Varying Frailty Ascertainment Lookback Windows
BACKGROUND: Frailty is an aging-related syndrome of reduced physiological reserve to maintain homeostasis. The Faurot frailty index has been validated as a Medicare claims-based proxy for predicting frailty using billing information from a user-specified ascertainment window. OBJECTIVES: We assessed the validity of the Faurot frailty index as a predictor of the frailty phenotype and 1-year mortality using varying frailty ascertainment windows. RE…
Life course socioeconomic disadvantage and persistent infection burden
Persistent SES disadvantage was consistently associated with higher infection burden and more aged immune cell profiles before midlife. Understanding this link is key for addressing health disparities
Uptake of HIV Self-testing Among Adolescents and Young Adults in Nigeria
Medicine (23 works) · Public health (20 works) · Demography (15 works) · Environmental health (14 works) · Gerontology (13 works) · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (13 works) · Health psychology (11 works) · Nursing (11 works) · Demography (9 works) · Family medicine (9 works)