Tamara Rushovich

Biographic Data

ID1725681
NAMETamara Rushovich
GIVEN NAMESTamara
FAMILY NAMERushovich
SIGNATURERUSHOVICH T
AFFILIATIONSHarvard University
ORCID0000-0001-5344-0067
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS17
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Measuring the Health of Philadelphia’s City Council Districts

    Open AccessTamara Rushovich, Amber Bolli et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Health2026

    Analyzing data by geopolitical districts, like congressional districts, is increasing in popularity in public health monitoring and evaluation but remains relatively rare compared to geographies such as census tracts and counties. In this study, we use city council districts in the City of Philadelphia to illustrate the utility and importance of investigating public health metrics by local political districts. We report on two metrics—tree canopy…

  • Exploring the Contributions of Gendered Social Factors to Sex Disparities in Adverse Drug Events

    Open AccessAnnika Gompers, Tamara Rushovich et al.ARTICLEWomen s Health Issues2026

  • US Voting Rights Act Impact on Black and Black Versus White Infant Death Rates in Jim Crow States, 1959–1980 and 2017–2021

    Tamara Rushovich, Rachel C Nethery et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2024Cited by: 4References: 18

    Objectives. To investigate the impact of the US Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965 on Black and Black versus White infant deaths in Jim Crow states. Methods. Using data from 1959 to 1980 and 2017 to 2021, we applied difference-in-differences methods to quantify differential pre–post VRA changes in infant deaths in VRA-exposed versus unexposed counties, controlling for population size and social, economic, and health system characteristics. VRA-expos…

  • A Gender Hypothesis of sex disparities in adverse drug events

    Open AccessK M N Lee, Tamara Rushovich et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2023Cited by: 1References: 76

  • How Cumulative Statistics Can Mislead

    Open AccessAnn Caroline Danielsen, Marion Boulicault et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2022

    Overall, men have died from COVID-19 at slightly higher rates than women. But cumulative estimates of mortality by sex may be misleading. We analyze New York State COVID-19 mortality by sex between March 2020 and August 2021, demonstrating that 72.7% of the total difference in the number of COVID-19 deaths between women and men was accrued in the first seven weeks of the pandemic. Thus, while the initial surge in COVID-19 mortality was characteri…

  • Sex disparities in Covid-19 outcomes in the United States

    Open AccessAnn Caroline Danielsen, K M N Lee et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2022Cited by: 11References: 6

  • Comparing denominator sources for real-time disease incidence modeling

    Open AccessRachel C Nethery, Tamara Rushovich et al.ARTICLESSM - Population Health2021

    Across the United States public health community in 2020, in the midst of a pandemic and increased concern regarding racial/ethnic health disparities, there is widespread concern about our ability to accurately estimate small-area disease incidence rates due to the absence of a recent census to obtain reliable population denominators. 2010 decennial census data are likely outdated, and intercensal population estimates from the Census Bureau, whic…

  • Impact of Differential Privacy and Census Tract Data Source (Decennial Census Versus American Community Survey) for Monitoring Health Inequities

    Nancy Krieger, Rachel C Nethery et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2021Cited by: 1References: 5

    Objectives. To investigate how census tract (CT) estimates of mortality rates and inequities are affected by (1) differential privacy (DP), whereby the public decennial census (DC) data are injected with statistical “noise” to protect individual privacy, and (2) uncertainty arising from the small number of different persons surveyed each year in a given CT for the American Community Survey (ACS). Methods. We compared estimates of the 2008–2012 av…

  • Opioid-related overdose deaths by race and neighborhood economic hardship in Chicago

    Tamara Rushovich, M Allison Arwady et al.ARTICLEJournal of Ethnicity in Substance…2020

    Compared to national findings, Chicago has both a higher rate of opioid-related overdose death and a markedly different distribution by demographics. The Chicago Department of Public Health analyzed fatal overdoses by level of neighborhood economic hardship. The highest rate of opioid-related deaths occurred in neighborhoods with high economic hardship (36.9 per 100,000 population) compared to medium- (20.5) and low- (12.3) hardship neighborhoods…