Karen C Smith

Biographic Data

ID140435
NAMEKaren C Smith
GIVEN NAMESKaren C
FAMILY NAMESmith
SIGNATURESMITH K C
AFFILIATIONSJohns Hopkins University
ORCID0000-0003-2140-1690
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS72
TOTAL CITATIONS105
AUTHOR COUNT72
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1978
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX5

  • “Everyone has a Beautiful Story, and Everyone Needs to Hear Everyone’s Story”

    Open AccessJane Evered, Yara AL-Rayyan et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2026

    The complex, interrelated factors that motivate people to participate in qualitative research studies whose findings will be disseminated through a public-facing website are not fully understood. Members of the Health Experiences Research Network completed a secondary analysis of data from eight qualitative health experiences research studies conducted using Health Experience International (formerly known as DIPEx) Methodology to examine motivati…

  • Natural, #Vegan, #Healing

    Kathryn Heley, Linnea Laestadius et al.ARTICLESubstance Use & Misuse2025

    BACKGROUND: Despite limited scientific evidence, public perceptions of cannabis as health enhancing are significant. As food products, cannabis edibles (edibles), may also leverage food-related associations that convey health. Social media is a prominent and influential source of largely unregulated cannabis information and a potential place to correct misinformation. Given its potential to shape product appeal and perceptions of health benefits …

  • Exploring the role ofculture and cognitive heuristics in assessing the credibility of cancer (mis)information on Facebook among U.S. Latinos/as

    Yonaira M Rivera, Meghan Bridgid Moran et al.ARTICLEHealth Communication2025

    As health misinformation continues to permeate social media, it is of utmost importance to understand how credibility assessments are made among those most vulnerable to health inequities. Dual-processing models suggest that online credibility assessments are largely made through the use of cognitive heuristics. However, little is known about the role cultural identity plays in these assessments, particularly in light of health (mis)information e…

  • HBV Transmission Knowledge Among Korean-American Chronic Hepatitis B Patients in the United States

    Open AccessGiyoung Lee, Hee-Soon Juon et al.ARTICLEJournal of Community Health2025

    Chronic hepatitis B (CHB) is a condition that disproportionately affects Asian Americans in the United States. Knowledge of transmission is crucial for CHB patients to practice prevention methods to limit the spread of the hepatitis B virus (HBV), but also live their lives free from unwarranted fears or restrictions. Among Asian CHB patients, several misperceptions about HBV transmission have been identified. This analysis aims to assess the curr…

  • Multiple material need insecurities and severity of psychological distress during the Covid-19 pandemic among women who use drugs

    Open AccessCatherine Tomko, Laura Nicole Sisson et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    WWUD experienced a substantial burden of multiple material needs during the pandemic which were associated with elevated levels of mental distress. Results speak to the need to advance mental health equity by addressing access to material needs and mental healthcare for marginalized populations, particularly during health emergencies that threaten already-precarious social safety nets and healthcare infrastructure

  • Lessons Learned Implementing Syringe Services Programs at Rural Health Departments in Kentucky

    Open AccessSean T Allen, Molly C Reid et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2024

  • Marlboro Man goes artisanal

    Open AccessBeladenta Amalia, Kevin Welding et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2024

  • The familial canopy as thought space for meaning making, emotional calibration and planful action around inherited cancer risk

    Open AccessKaren C Smith, Mark Schlesinger et al.ARTICLESSM - Qualitative Research in…2023

    The identification of genetic cancer risk often induces a reconsideration of self-concept. • Familial context is salient to individuals' engagement with elevated risk and subsequent action. • Familial generations offer distinct resources for meaning-making that are not temporally bound. • Generational peers can be salient for integration of hereditary cancer into individual identity

  • Exploring the dynamics of the quality of HIV care experienced by female sex workers living in the Dominican Republic

    Open AccessTahilin Sanchez Karver, Clare Barrington et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Despite increased attention and efforts to improve HIV care among female sex workers (FSWs), they continue to have suboptimal HIV outcomes. Exploring the socio-structural dynamics related to the quality of HIV care received by FSWs is critical to further strengthen interventions to improve their HIV care continuum outcomes. In this study, we conducted two rounds of qualitative in-depth interviews with 20 FSWs living with HIV in the Dominican Repu…

  • Tobacco companies’ creation of additional communication space

    Torra E Spillane, Alena Madar et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2023

    Cigarette pack inserts/onserts are unregulated in many countries and provide additional space for tobacco companies to extend and innovate their advertising. Tobacco advertising and packaging policies such as plain and standardised packaging should expand to address inserts/onserts to protect consumers more fully from industry promotion of deadly products

  • Another day, another tobacco company’s devious behaviour

    Open AccessBeladenta Amalia, Natalie Nguyễn et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2023

  • When Engagement Leads to Action

    Yonaira M Rivera, Meghan Bridgid Moran et al.ARTICLEHealth Communication2022

    Latinos/as - the largest minority group in the U.S. - are avid Facebook users, making this an opportune tool to educate on the uptake of cancer prevention and screening behaviors. However, there is a dearth in scholarship exploring how Latinos/as engage with and act upon health content encountered on social media, which may be influenced by cultural values. This qualitatively-driven, mixed-methods study explores how Latinos/as engage with and act…

  • Disparities in self-reported exposure to tobacco marketing among youth and young adults from low-socioeconomic status neighbourhoods in Mexico City

    Open AccessQinghua Nian, Graziele Grilo et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2022

    Exposure to tobacco marketing is positively associated with smoking initiation and behaviours. There is limited literature examining disparities among reported exposure in low- and middle-income countries. This study sought to fill this gap with a survey among 1427 adolescents and 889 adult smokers in Mexico City in 2020. Data were analysed using chi-square and hierarchical regression models. Two-thirds of adolescents noticed cigarette pack displ…

  • Cultural appropriation on Marlboro packs in Mexico

    Open AccessGraziele Grilo, Joanna E Cohen et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2022

  • Colours, capsules and concept flavour names on cigarette packs appeal to youth in Mexico

    Open AccessJennifer Brown, Graziele Grilo et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2022

    Colours and flavour capsule images appeal to adolescents and adults in Mexico. Mexico should consider adopting plain packaging to reduce appeal and interest

  • Culturally specific health-related features on cigarette packs sold in China

    Open AccessYuxian Cui, Zheng Dai et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2022

    Health-related features on cigarette packs sold in China are common. Enhanced policies to address tobacco packaging, labelling and branding could support and facilitate a reduction in the high tobacco burden in China

  • A PRO-cision medicine intervention to personalize cancer care using patient-reported outcomes

    Open AccessClaire Snyder, Susan M Hannum et al.ARTICLEQuality of Life Research2022

  • Implications of the Revised Common Rule for Qualitative Health Research

    Open AccessJ Owczarzak, Karen C SmithARTICLEQualitative Health Research2022References: 27

    In January 2019, revisions to federal regulations that outline requirements for ethical oversight of human subjects research (The Revised Common Rule) went into effect. These revisions reflect major changes in thinking about risk and protection of research subjects. The Revised Common Rule (RCR) considerably curtails federal oversight of social and behavioral science, with most non-interventional research and "benign" behavioral interventions bec…

  • Straw cigarette branding

    Open AccessGraziele Grilo, Kevin Welding et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2021

    We identified an increase in availability of unique straw cigarette packs, strong branding and use of misleading descriptors on the packs. The adoption of plain packaging and the implementation of Brazil's additive ban could help to reduce the appeal of straw cigarettes and curb the current increase in use among youth

  • Analysis of wedding appeals on cigarette packs in China

    Open AccessDeana G Trimble, Lingwei Yu et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2021

    Chinese tobacco manufacturers take full advantage of the cigarette gifting and sharing culture demonstrated by packs with imagery and terminology specific to weddings. With only a 35% text health warning label, manufacturers have much real estate to make packs attractive for gifting on such occasions. Implementing plain packaging policies may be effective in decreasing gifting attractiveness for cigarette packs

  • Industry manipulation of pictorial health warning labels in Pakistan

    Open AccessElizabeth Crespi, Michael Iacobelli et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2021

    Approximately 10.5% of adults in Pakistan (about 13 million) smoke cigarettes,1 causing 134 000 deaths annually.2 To reduce the burden of disease, the Pakistan government implemented a requirement in 2010 for 40% pictorial health warning labels (HWLs) that depicted mouth cancer. A 2017 ruling to increase HWL size was implemented in August 2018 (50% throat cancer image) and August 2019 (60% gangrenous foot image).3 4 Pictorial HWLs increase smoker…

  • Global review of tobacco product flavour policies

    Open AccessOlufemi Erinoso, Karen C Smith et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2020

    Countries looking to implement policies restricting flavours in tobacco products can build on existing comprehensive policies. Future research could examine the implementation and impacts of these policies, to inform other countries interested in acting in this policy domain

  • Headshots on bidi and smokeless tobacco packs in India and Bangladesh

    Open AccessKaren C Smith, Kevin Welding et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2020

    The appeal of smoking and specific brands has long been promoted through carefully crafted, aspirational characters that are highlighted in tobacco marketing.1 2 The Marlboro Man is the archetypal fictional character that associated smoking with aspirational personal and lifestyle attributes in order to promote a specific brand; ad campaigns for brands such as Newport and Virginia Slims routinely depicted aspirational people in product promotions…

  • Barriers and Facilitators to PrEP Use Among People Who Inject Drugs in Rural Appalachia

    Open AccessSean T Allen, Allison O’Rourke et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2019

  • Manipulated

    Open AccessMichael Iacobelli, Sejal Saraf et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2019

    India is unique in its dual burden of tobacco use. Nearly 200 million individuals use smokeless tobacco (SLT) products in India,1 with almost 200 000 deaths attributed to SLT use in 2010.2 SLT users tend to live in rural areas and have lower levels of education.1 India has made substantial strides in tobacco control in recent years, including the 2016 increase in health warning label (HWL) coverage to 85% on all tobacco products sold, including S…