Featured Research

image Challenging the Continued Usefulness of Social Media Recruitment for Surveys of Hidden Populations of People Who Use Opioids

Historically, recruiting research participants through social media facilitated access to people who use opioids, capturing a range of drug use behaviors. The current rapidly changing online landscape, however, casts doubt on social media’s continued usefulness for study recruitment. In this viewpoint paper, we assessed social media recruitment for people who use opioids and described challenges and potential solutions for effective recruitment.

 Elizabeth D Nesoff, MPH, PhD ; Joseph J Palamar, PhD ; Qingyue Li, MSSP ; Wenqian Li, MSSP ; Silvia S Martins, MD, PhD.
image The Adolescent Suicide Prevention in Routine clinical Encounters (ASPIRE) trial

Dr. Kristin Linn was awarded a methodological supplement to an ongoing R01 led by Dr. Rinad Beidas at Northwestern University.
Abstract figure Real-World Effectiveness of BNT162b2 Against Infection and Severe Diseases in Children and Adolescents

Using electronic health record data from a national collaboration of pediatric health systems, this study examined the effectiveness of BNT162b2 vaccines for preventing COVID-19 infections and severe disease among previously uninfected children and adolescents.

 Qiong Wu, PhD*; Jiayi Tong, MS*; Bingyu Zhang, MS; Dazheng Zhang, MS; Jiajie Chen, PhD; Yuqing Lei, MS; Yiwen Lu, BS; Yudong Wang, PhD; Lu Li, BA; Yishan Shen, MS; Jie Xu, PhD; L. Charles Bailey, MD, PhD; Jiang Bian, PhD; Dimitri A. Christakis, MD, MPH; Megan L. Fitzgerald, PhD; Kathryn Hirabayashi, MPH; Ravi Jhaveri, MD; Alka Khaitan, MD; Tianchen Lyu, MS; Suchitra Rao, MBBS, MSCS; Hanieh Razzaghi, PhD, MPH; Hayden T. Schwenk, MD, MPH; Fei Wang, PhD; Margot I. Gage Witvliet, PhD; Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen, PhD; Jeffrey S. Morris, PhD; Christopher B. Forrest, MD, PhD; and Yong Chen, PhD.