Sarah A Nowak

Biographic Data

ID173079
NAMESarah A Nowak
GIVEN NAMESSarah A
FAMILY NAMENowak
SIGNATURENOWAK S A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Vermont
ORCID0000-0001-5965-9035
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS9
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • More than coping

    Janica Anderzén, Shepherd Bli et al.ARTICLEAgriculture and Human Values2026

  • Pro-environmental attitudes, altruism, and Covid-19 risk management behavior

    Trisha Shrum, Sarah A Nowak et al.ARTICLEJournal of Risk Research2022References: 5

    Limiting the spread of COVID-19 during the pandemic is a collective action problem that calls on individuals to act, not just for their benefit but also for the benefit of others in their community. Many environmental problems, especially climate change, share this characteristic, which invites inquiry on whether those predisposed to act to solve environmental problems may also be predisposed to act to solve health-focused collective action probl…

  • Reciprocal relationships among influenza experiences, perceptions, and behavior

    Open AccessSarah A Nowak, Andrew M Parker et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2022References: 21

  • Belief correlations with parental vaccine hesitancy

    Open AccessLuke J Matthews, Sarah A Nowak et al.ARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist2022Cited by: 5References: 52

    We conducted a nationally representative survey of parents' beliefs and self-reported behaviors regarding childhood vaccinations. Using Bayesian selection among multivariate models, we found that beliefs, even those without any vaccine or health content, predicted vaccine-hesitant behaviors better than demographics, social network effects, or scientific reasoning. The multivariate structure of beliefs combined many types of ideation that included…

  • Using an Agent-based Model to Examine Deimplementation of Breast Cancer Screening

    Sarah A Nowak, Andrew M Parker et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2021References: 38

    OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to examine the potential impact of provider social networks and experiences with patients on deimplementation of breast cancer screening. RESEARCH DESIGN: We constructed the Breast Cancer-Social network Agent-based Model (BC-SAM), which depicts breast cancer screening decisions, incidence, and progression among 10,000 women ages 40 and over and the screening recommendations of their providers over a 30-y…

  • Modeling the impact of school reopening on Sars-CoV-2 transmission using contact structure data from Shanghai

    Open AccessBenjamin Lee, John Hanley et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    These results, based on contact structure data from Shanghai, suggest that schools can reopen with proper precautions during conditions of extreme contact reduction and during conditions of reasonable levels of reopening in the rest of the community

  • Social Network Effects of Nonlifesaving Early-Stage Breast Cancer Detection on Mammography Rates

    Sarah A Nowak, Andrew M ParkerARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2014Cited by: 4References: 34

    Objectives. We estimated the effect of anecdotes of early-stage, screen-detected cancer for which screening was not lifesaving on the demand for mammography. Methods. We constructed an agent-based model of mammography decisions, in which 10 000 agents that represent women aged 40 to 100 years were linked together on a social network, which was parameterized with a survey of 716 women conducted through the RAND American Life Panel. Our model repre…