Shabbar I Ranapurwala

Biographic Data

ID6068238
NAMEShabbar I Ranapurwala
GIVEN NAMESShabbar I
FAMILY NAMERanapurwala
SIGNATURERANAPURWALA S I
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
ORCID0000-0002-3944-3912
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS6
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Going beyond ICD codes

    Open AccessKristen N Cowan, Sara N Levintow et al.ARTICLEHealth & Justice2026

    Carceral health researchers often struggle to collect health data in prisons and jails due to data sharing restrictions and a lack of willingness to collaborate from departments of corrections. Electronic health record data offer a promising alternative data source if carceral status in these records can be ascertained. Therefore, the goals of this paper are to (1) describe an algorithm to improve identification of incarceration status at time of…

  • Beyond Overdose

    Open AccessHillary L Mortensen, Adams L Sibley et al.ARTICLESubstance Use & Misuse2026

    BACKGROUND: With increasing polydrug overdose deaths, public health messaging has centered around overdose prevention. However, it is important to contextualize overdose risk through the lived experience of people who use drugs (PWUD) and challenge the assumption that overdose is their primary salient risk. PWUD navigate multiple competing risk priorities daily and will adjust their behaviors in response to risks they prioritize. OBJECTIVES: Cond…

  • County-level social determinants of health and suicide mortality trends among formerly incarcerated persons in North Carolina, 2010–2018

    Open AccessMonica E Swilley-Martinez, Brian W Pence et al.ARTICLEHealth & Justice2026

    BACKGROUND: Suicide mortality represents a growing public health crisis in the United States, disproportionately affecting people with recent incarceration histories. The purpose of this study was to assess how county-level Social Determinants of Health—including educational attainment, unemployment, poverty, aging, racial composition, and rurality—are associated with suicide mortality among formerly incarcerated individuals in North Carolina in …

  • Homicide Mortality in Formerly Incarcerated People Compared to the General Population in North Carolina, 2000 to 2020

    Open AccessKate Vinita Fitch, Brian W Pence et al.ARTICLEJournal of Racial and Ethnic…2025References: 7

  • Streamlining Safety

    Open AccessKathryn E Moracco, Julia K Campbell et al.ARTICLEFeminist Criminology2025References: 2

    Electronic filing (e-filing) addresses logistical and psychological barriers to Domestic Violence Protective Order access, allowing survivors to file from a secure remote location, supported by a domestic violence advocate. We sought to identify stakeholders’ perceptions of the impact, benefits of and barriers to e-filing. We analyzed 46 interviews with clerks (n = 11), advocates (n = 15), sheriffs (n = 10), and judges (n = 10), and found that st…

  • “Cookbook medicine”

    Open AccessElizabeth Joniak-Grant, N A Blackburn et al.ARTICLESSM - Qualitative Research in…2023

    Opioid dependence and overdose are serious public health concerns. States have responded by enacting legislation regulating opioid-prescribing practices. Through in-depth interviews with clinicians, state officials, and organizational stakeholders, this paper examines opioid prescribing limits legislation (PLL) in North Carolina and how it impacts clinical practice. Since the advent of PLL, clinicians report being more mindful when prescribing op…

  • Immigration Policy and the Health of Latina Mothers and Their Infants

    Open AccessBrittany J Raffa, Jonas J Swartz et al.ARTICLEJournal of Immigrant and Minority…2023

  • Opioid Overdose Deaths Among Formerly Incarcerated Persons and the General Population

    Shabbar I Ranapurwala, Mary Figgatt et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2022Cited by: 2References: 6

    Objectives. To compare opioid overdose death (OOD) rates among formerly incarcerated persons (FIPs) from 2016 to 2018 with the North Carolina population and with OOD rates from 2000 to 2015. Methods. We performed a retrospective cohort study of 259 861 North Carolina FIPs from 2000 to 2018 linked with North Carolina death records. We used indirectly standardized OOD mortality rates and ratios and present 95% confidence intervals (CIs). Results. F…

  • Ranapurwala et al. Respond

    Shabbar I Ranapurwala, Meghan E Shanahan et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2019References: 2

    AffiliationsShabbar I. Ranapurwala, Apostolos A. Alexandridis, Rebecca B. Naumann, and Stephen W. Marshall are with the Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Meghan E. Shanahan is with the Department of Maternal and Child Health, University of North Carolina. Scott Proescholdbell is with the Injury and Violence Prevention Branch, North Carolina Division of Public Health, Raleigh. Daniel Edwards Jr is with the Divi…

  • Opioid Overdose Mortality Among Former North Carolina Inmates

    Shabbar I Ranapurwala, Meghan E Shanahan et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2018Cited by: 4References: 23

    Objectives. To examine differences in rates of opioid overdose death (OOD) between former North Carolina (NC) inmates and NC residents and evaluate factors associated with postrelease OOD. Methods. We linked NC inmate release data to NC death records, calculated OOD standardized mortality ratios to compare former inmates with NC residents, and calculated hazard ratios to identify predictors of time to OOD. Results. Of the 229 274 former inmates r…