Monica E Peek

Biographic Data

ID77008
NAMEMonica E Peek
GIVEN NAMESMonica E
FAMILY NAMEPeek
SIGNATUREPEEK M E
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Chicago
ORCID0000-0003-0434-7231
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS26
TOTAL CITATIONS52
AUTHOR COUNT26
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX4

  • Effects of Multilevel and Multidomain Interventions on Glycemic Control Among Black Persons with Type 2 Diabetes in the U.S

    Open AccessFawsia Osman, Cherry Jiang et al.ARTICLEJournal of Racial and Ethnic…2026

    BACKGROUND: Type 2 diabetes (T2D) disproportionately affects Black individuals in the U.S., who have higher rates of complications and worse glycemic control. This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluated the effectiveness of non-pharmacological interventions on hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) in this population. METHODS: We searched PubMed, Scopus, PsycInfo, and CINAHL for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) (1985-2019) enrolling ≥ 50% Black/African…

  • Moderating Effects of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit on Associations Between Race and Elevated Blood Pressure in Chicago

    Open AccessTiffany H Xie, Monica E Peek et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Health2025References: 1

    While there is growing awareness of discriminatory housing policies and their adverse impacts on health, little is known about how housing policy may promote health equity. We focused on the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC), the largest affordable housing program in the United States, and examined how living in neighborhoods with LIHTC housing may moderate associations between elevated blood pressure and race/ethnicity in Chicago, IL. A retr…

  • Delivering Covid-19 Vaccine via Trusted Social Services

    Open AccessMolly A Martin, Sara Cook et al.ARTICLEJournal of Community Health2024

  • Associations Between Exposure to Neighborhood Violence and Firearm Possession Among Chicago Adults

    Open AccessNicole M Smith, Nicole Smith et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Society for Social…2024References: 1

  • A Physician’s Sense of Responsibility to Address Disparities

    Open AccessMonica E Peek, Wen Wan et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2023

  • Preconception care utilization

    Open AccessDebra Stulberg, L Phillip Schumm et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    The objective of this study is to compare self-reported preconception care utilization (PCU) among Medicaid-covered births to Medicaid claims. We identified all Medicaid-covered births to women ages 15–45 in 26 states in the year 2012 among the Pregnancy Risk Assessment and Monitoring System (PRAMS) survey and Medicaid Analytic eXtract (MAX) claims data, and identified preconception services in the latter using diagnosis codes published by Health…

  • Cultivating Anti-Racism Allies in Academic Medicine

    Open AccessCassandra D L Fritz, Shirlene Obuobi et al.ARTICLEHealth Equity2023

    Racial microaggressions, racially based remarks, or actions that negatively impact marginalized physicians of color (Black, Latino/a/x, and American Indian/Alaskan Natives) often go unaddressed. This article provides four strategies for how individuals and institutions can engage in anti-racism allyship: (1) be an upstander during microaggressions, (2) be a sponsor and advocate for physicians of color, (3) acknowledge academic titles and accompli…

  • Improvisational and Standup Comedy, Graphic Medicine, and Theatre of the Oppressed to Teach Advancing Health Equity

    Mong-Hwa Chin, Nicola M Orlov et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2022

    Ninety-minute virtual workshops that used improvisational comedy, standup comedy, graphic medicine, and Theatre of the Oppressed were implemented in 2020 within a required health equity course at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine to train 90 first-year medical students in advancing health equity. Learning objectives were to (1) deepen understanding of diverse human experiences by developing relationship skills, such as empathy…

  • Errors in Converting Principles to Protocols

    Open AccessWilliam F Parker, Govind Persad et al.ARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report2022

    For much of 2021, allocating the scarce supply of Covid‐19 vaccines was the world's most pressing bioethical challenge, and similar challenges may recur for novel therapies and future vaccines. In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) identified three fundamental ethical principles to guide the process: maximize benefits, promote justice, and mitigate health inequit…

  • Amplifying Appeals to the Common Good in Covid-19 Vaccine Messaging

    Open AccessDouglas J Opel, Jennifer A Reich et al.ARTICLEJAMA Health Forum2022

    This Viewpoint highlights how appeals to self-interest as a means to encourage vaccination have come to prevail in the pandemic, and suggests a transition from this approach to appeals that reclaim a spirit of solidarity

  • Why Add “Abolition” to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Social Care Framework

    Open AccessLaura M Gottlieb, Stacy Tessler Lindau et al.ARTICLEThe AMA Journal of Ethic2022

    Abundant evidence demonstrates that enduring, endemic racism plays an important role in determining patient health. This commentary reviews a patient case about disease self-management and subsequent health outcomes that are shaped by social and economic circumstances. We analyze the case using a framework for social care developed in 2019 by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM). We then propose that the NASEM fra…

  • Fair Allocation at Covid-19 Mass Vaccination Sites

    Open AccessWilliam F Parker, Govind Persad et al.ARTICLEJAMA Health Forum2021

    On February 26, 2021, the Federal Emergency and Management Agency (FEMA) announced 18 community vaccination centers in major cities capable of administering up to 6000 vaccines daily. 1 Mass vaccination sites like these arrive amid staggering socioeconomic and racial disparities in COVID-19 vaccination.Black and Hispanic people are being vaccinated at less than half the rate of White people, 2 despite being twice as likely to die of COVID-19. 3Th…

  • Incorporating Health Equity Into Covid-19 Reopening Plans

    Emily A Largent, Govind Persad et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2021Cited by: 1References: 5

    California has focused on health equity in the state’s COVID-19 reopening plan. The Blueprint for a Safer Economy assigns each of California’s 58 counties into 1 of 4 tiers based on 2 metrics: test positivity rate and adjusted case rate. To advance to the next less-restrictive tier, counties must meet that tier’s test positivity and adjusted case rate thresholds. In addition, counties must have a plan for targeted investments within disadvantaged…

  • Racism and health

    Open AccessMonica E PeekARTICLEHealth Services Research2021Cited by: 5References: 7

  • Practical Lessons for Teaching About Race and Racism

    Monica E Peek, Monica B Vela et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2020

    Successfully teaching about race and racism requires a careful balance of emotional safety and honest truth-telling. Creating such environments where all learners can thrive and grow together is a challenge, but a consistently doable one. This article describes 12 lessons learned within 4 main themes: ground rules; language and communication; concepts of social constructs, intersectionality, and bidirectional biases; and structural racism, soluti…

  • Covid-19 Among African Americans

    Monica E Peek, Russell A Simons et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2020Cited by: 12References: 2

    As the COVID-19 pandemic has unfolded across the United States, troubling disparities in mortality have emerged between different racial groups, particularly African Americans and Whites. Media reports, a growing body of COVID-19-related literature, and long-standing knowledge of structural racism and its myriad effects on the African American community provide important lenses for understanding and addressing these disparities.However, troubling…

  • I Try Not to Even Think About My Health Going Bad

    Open AccessLydia Lissanu, Fanny Lopez et al.ARTICLEJournal of Racial and Ethnic…2019References: 26

  • Developing religiously-tailored health messages for behavioral change

    Open AccessAasim I Padela, Sadia Malik et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2018Cited by: 4References: 40

  • How Should Physicians Respond When Patients Distrust Them Because of Their Gender

    Open AccessMonica E Peek, Bernard Lo et al.ARTICLEThe AMA Journal of Ethic2017

    There are many reasons why gender-concordant care benefits patients and is requested by them. For training hospitals, however, such requests present challenges as well as opportunities in providing patient-centered care. Responding to a case in which a female patient who is having a routine exam refuses care from a male medical student, we discuss ethical principles involved in gender-concordant care requests, when it is appropriate to question s…

  • Spatial Context and Health Inequity

    Open AccessElizabeth L Tung, Kathleen A Cagney et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Health2017Cited by: 8References: 13

  • A National Assessment of Medication Adherence to Statins by the Racial Composition of Neighborhoods

    Open AccessAndrew M Davis, Michael S Taitel et al.ARTICLEJournal of Racial and Ethnic…2017Cited by: 2References: 56

  • Associations Between Religion-Related Factors and Breast Cancer Screening Among American Muslims

    Open AccessAasim I Padela, Sohad Murrar et al.ARTICLEJournal of Immigrant and Minority…2014

  • Racism in healthcare

    Open AccessMonica E Peek, Angela Odoms-Young et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2010

  • Race and shared decision-making

    Open AccessMonica E Peek, Angela Odoms-Young et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2010Cited by: 20References: 63

  • Compliance and Self-Reported Barriers to Follow-Up of Abnormal Screening Mammograms Among Women Utilizing a County Mobile Mammography Van

    Monica E Peek, Jini Han et al.ARTICLEHealth Care For Women International2009

    Our primary objective was to describe the follow-up patterns for abnormal screening mammograms among women in a large urban county who utilized mobile mammography. We conducted a retrospective cohort analysis using electronic records, medical chart review, and questionnaires. Compliance with diagnostic evaluation was 43% to 60%. Among women who did have follow-up, more than 40% did not do so in a timely fashion. Younger women and those with less …