Nicole M Wei

Biographic Data

ID667253
NAMENicole M Wei
GIVEN NAMESNicole M
FAMILY NAMEWei
SIGNATUREWEI N M
AFFILIATIONSJohns Hopkins University
ORCID0000-0003-1704-3536
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS7
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Enumeration 2024

    Jonathon P Leider, Casey P Balio et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2025Cited by: 1References: 10

    Objectives. To expand on previous enumerations by assessing the size and composition of the governmental public health workforce in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, identifying workforce trends, occupational distributions, and potential gaps in staffing. Methods. From 2023 to 2024, using 2022 data in the United States, we conducted 3 distinct analyses: (1) estimating the total workforce size, (2) profiling occupation-specific distributions, and…

  • Enumerating the State and Local Public Health Workforce During the Covid-19 Response

    Abby Vogel, Sezen O Onal et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2025References: 18

    Objectives. To understand the landscape of the nonfederal governmental public health workforce and to identify replicable methods for future enumerations. Methods. This enumeration of the state and local public health workforce was conducted from 2023 to 2024 and triangulated the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) Profile 2022 and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) Profile 2022. We uti…

  • Public health workforce survey data (2016–2021) related to employee turnover

    Open AccessNicole M Wei, Nicole M Weiss et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2024

    Introduction: COVID-19 hit, suggesting that the situation is worse after the mass exodus of public health officials due to the pandemic. As such, a better understanding of public health workforce turnover is critical to improving recruitment and retention in the discipline. Methods: This methods report details how the authors harmonized four public health workforce surveys-the Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey (PH WINS), the Nati…

  • Indigenous Perspectives on Strengths, Resilience, and Well-being

    Open AccessMelissa L Walls, Melissa Walls et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2024

    Indigenous communities consistently call for strengths-based, assets-driven approaches to promoting health equity. This includes efforts to expand well-being and resilience frameworks to reflect cultural understandings and perspectives. This study describes community-based participatory research (CBPR) involving focus groups with four diverse groups of Indigenous community members in a single reservation community in the United States. Data were …

  • From Resilience to Survivance

    Open AccessNicole M Wei, Nicole M Weiss et al.ARTICLEContexts2022

    In Indigenous communities, knowing a missing or murdered Indigenous person is the norm, not an exception—a consequence of traumatic past and ongoing policies and practices. We summarize the history of North American governments– genocidal policies toward Indigenous Peoples and how these policies created and now perpetuate present-day institutions that exacerbate exposure to violence. We also describe survey data from a longitudinal study called H…

  • A Critical Perspective on Syndemic Theory and Social Justice

    Nicole M Wei, Nicole M WeissARTICLEPublic Anthropologist2021

    Syndemic theory proposes that social phenomena play critical roles in the production and spreading of epidemics and that a syndemic is the result of multiple, adversely interacting epidemics. As currently framed, only the co-occurrence of multiple biological epidemics constitutes a syndemic – social phenomena are treated as risk factors but not epidemics in their own right. I argue that social phenomena such as direct violence (e.g. interpersonal…

  • Cultural Sources of Strength and Resilience

    Open AccessKevalin M W Aulandez, Melissa L Walls et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Sociology2021Cited by: 2References: 11

    The COVID-19 pandemic has had disproportionately severe impacts on Indigenous peoples in the United States compared to non-Indigenous populations. In addition to the threat of viral infection, COVID-19 poses increased risk for psychosocial stress that may widen already existing physical, mental, and behavioral health inequities experienced by Indigenous communities. In recognition of the impact of COVID-19 related psychosocial stressors on our tr…

  • Beyond the Biocultural Approach

    Open AccessColleen M Cheverko, Colleen Cheverko et al.ARTICLEBioarchaeology International2020

    A primary goal of bioarchaeology is to reconstruct the biocultural context of past societies, which is frequently achieved by incorporating interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks to help contextualize the skeletal record. This article reviews explicit uses of theory in 1,593 articles published in 12 English-language peer-reviewed journals between 2007 and 2018 to explore how bioarchaeologists have recently engaged with various theoretical frame…

  • Body size and social status in medieval Alba (Cuneo), Italy

    Open AccessNicole M Wei, Giuseppe Vercellotti et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Physical…2019Cited by: 4References: 48

    OBJECTIVES: Previous work by Vercellotti et al. in 2011 found significant status-related differences in body size in males but not in females from the Italian bioarchaeological assemblage of San Michele di Trino (8th-14th centuries CE). The purpose of the present work is twofold: (a) to determine if status-related body size differences could be observed in the nearby collection of San Lorenzo di Alba (7th-15th centuries CE) and (b) to add to the …