Cyrus Ahalt

Biographic Data

ID6067505
NAMECyrus Ahalt
GIVEN NAMESCyrus
FAMILY NAMEAhalt
SIGNATUREAHALT C
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, San Francisco
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS12
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX2

  • “We just needed to open the door”

    Open AccessDavid H Cloud, Dallas Augustine et al.ARTICLEHealth & Justice2021

    Solitary confinement is a widespread practice in US correctional facilities. Long-standing concerns about the physical and mental health effects of solitary confinement have led to litigation, legislation, and community activism resulting in many prison systems introducing policies or implementing legal mandates to reduce or eliminate its use. Yet little is known about the nature and effectiveness of policies that states have adopted to reduce th…

  • Role of a US–Norway Exchange in Placing Health and Well-Being at the Center of US Prison Reform

    Cyrus Ahalt, Charlotte Haney et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2020Cited by: 3References: 2

  • Prisons

    Elizabeth S Barnert, Elizabeth Barnert et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2020Cited by: 7

  • Older adults in jail

    Open AccessMott Greene, Meredith Greene et al.ARTICLEHealth & Justice2018

    BACKGROUND: The number of older adults in the criminal justice system is rapidly increasing. While this population is thought to experience an early onset of aging-related health conditions ("accelerated aging"), studies have not directly compared rates of geriatric conditions in this population to those found in the general population. The aims of this study were to compare the burden of geriatric conditions among older adults in jail to rates f…

  • Teach-to-Goal” to Better Assess Informed Consent Comprehension among Incarcerated Clinical Research Participants

    Open AccessCyrus Ahalt, Rebecca L Sudore et al.ARTICLEThe AMA Journal of Ethic2017

    Correctional health research requires important safeguards to ensure that research participation is ethically conducted. In addition to having disproportionately low educational attainment and low literacy, incarcerated people suffer from health-related conditions that can affect cognition (e.g., traumatic brain injury, substance use disorders, mental illness). Yet modified informed consent processes that assess participants' comprehension of the…

  • Six-Month Emergency Department Use among Older Adults Following Jail Incarceration

    Open AccessJessi Humphreys, Cyrus Ahalt et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Health2017Cited by: 1References: 1

  • Challenges in Identifying Refugees in National Health Data Sets

    Wagahta Semere, Katherine Yun et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2016References: 7

    Objectives. To evaluate publicly available data sets to determine their utility for studying refugee health. Methods. We searched for keywords describing refugees in data sets within the Society of General Internal Medicine Dataset Compendium and the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research database. We included in our analysis US-based data sets with publicly available documentation and a self-defined, health-related focus t…

  • Older Jail Inmates and Community Acute Care Use

    Anna H Chodos, Anna Chodos et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2014Cited by: 1References: 33

    Objectives. We examined older jail inmates’ predetainment acute care use (emergency department or hospitalization in the 3 months before arrest) and their plans for using acute care after release. Methods. We performed a cross-sectional study of 247 jail inmates aged 55 years or older assessing sociodemographic characteristics, health, and geriatric conditions associated with predetainment and anticipated postrelease acute care use. Results. We f…