Heidi A. Hanson

Heidi A. Hanson, PhD, MS

Languages spoken: English

Academic Information

Departments Adjunct - Surgery , Adjunct - Family & Preventive Medicine

Divisions: Urology

Dr. Hanson is an assistant professor in the Department of Surgery, the Assistant Director of Research at the Utah Population Database, an Affiliate Member of the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute (SCI Institute), and a research scientist at the Huntsman Cancer Institute. She is a demographer and has expertise in analysis of population health data. She completed her bachelor’s degree in Behavioral Science and Health and MS and PhD in Sociology at the University of Utah.


Her research is focused on disentangling the interactions of genetic and environmental influences on disease risk throughout the life course. She has an National Institutes of Health K07 award focused on investigating the genetic and environmental determinants of bladder cancer. She would like to link her findings to clinical measures that can be used to improve precision strategies for screening and treatment. Additional areas of research include understanding how environmental influences in utero and early childhood affect later life health, air pollution exposure and health outcomes in cancer survivors, early life neighborhood environments and disease risk, and familial, community, and socioeconomic factors affecting health outcomes. Her previous research has (1) investigated temporal patterns in cancer risk and aging; (2) explored familial clustering of disease; (3) examined environmental determinants of health and the role of residential selection; (4) shown the importance of statistical model selection and rigorous methodology; and (5) developed new techniques to investigate the role of the environment in heritability of health outcomes. These projects have taken advantage of large health databases such as the UPDB, CMS Medicare, Demographic Health Survey, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), and the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End-Results (SEER) Program.

Education History

Undergraduate University of Utah
 BS
Post Graduate Training University of Utah
 Certificate
Graduate Training University of Utah
 MS
Doctoral Training University of Utah
 PhD

Selected Publications

Journal Article

  1. Samadder NJ, Pappas L, Boucherr KM, Smith KR, Hanson H, Fraser A, Wan Y, Burt RW, Curtin (2017). Long-Term Colorectal Cancer Incidence After Negative Colonoscopy in the State of Utah: The Effect of Family History. The American journal of gastroenterology, 112(9), 1439-1447.
  2. Leiser CL, Taddie M, Hemmert R, Richards Steed R, VanDerslice JA, Henry K, Ambrose J, O'Neil B, Smith KR, Hanson H (2020). Spatial clusters of cancer incidence: analyzing 1940 census data linked to 1966-2017 cancer records. Cancer causes & control, 31(7), 609-615.
  3. Fan JX, Brown BB, Hanson H, Kowaleski-Jones L, Smith KR, Zick C (2013). Moderate to vigorous physical activity and weight outcomes: does every minute count?. American journal of health promotion, 28(1), 41-9.
  4. Brown BB, Smith KR, Hanson H, Fan JX, Kowaleski-Jones L, Zick C (2013). Neighborhood design for walking and biking: physical activity and body mass index. American journal of preventive medicine, 44(3), 231-8.
  5. Anderson RE, Hanson HA, Thai D, Zhang C, Presson AP, Aston KI, Carrell DT, Smith KR, Hotaling J (2018). Do paternal semen parameters influence the birth weight or BMI of the offspring? A study from the Utah Population Database. Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics, 35(5), 793-799.
  6. Patel DP, Meeks HT, Hanson HA, Pastuszak AW, Hotaling JM, Smith K (2021). Lower total motile count is associated with smaller historic intergenerational family size: a pedigree analysis from the Utah Population Database. Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics, 38(5), 1207-1213.
  7. Stroup AM, Herget KA, Hanson HA, Reed DL, Butler JT, Henry KA, Harrell CJ, Sweeney C, Smith K (2017). Baby Boomers and Birth Certificates: Early-Life Socioeconomic Status and Cancer Risk in Adulthood. Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention, 26(1), 75-84.
  8. Blackburn BE, Ganz PA, Rowe K, Snyder J, Wan Y, Deshmukh V, Newman M, Fraser A, Smith K, Herget K, Kim J, Kirchhoff AC, Porucznik C, Hanson H, Monroe M, Hashibe (2017). Aging-Related Disease Risks among Young Thyroid Cancer Survivors. Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention, 26(12), 1695-1704.
  9. Hanson HA, Leiser CL, O'Neil B, Martin C, Gupta S, Smith KR, Dechet C, Lowrance WT, Madsen MJ, Camp N (2020). Harnessing Population Pedigree Data and Machine Learning Methods to Identify Patterns of Familial Bladder Cancer Risk. Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention, 29(5), 918-926.
  10. Ou JY, Hanson HA, Ramsay JM, Kaddas HK, Pope CA, Leiser CL, VanDerslice J, Kirchhoff A (2020). Fine Particulate Matter Air Pollution and Mortality among Pediatric, Adolescent, and Young Adult Cancer Patients. Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention,
  11. Hanson HA, Leiser CL, Madsen MJ, Gardner J, Knight S, Cessna M, Sweeney C, Doherty JA, Smith KR, Bernard PS, Camp N (2020). Family study designs informed by tumor heterogeneity and multi-cancer pleiotropies: the power of the Utah Population Database. Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention,
  12. Ou JY, Hanson HA, Ramsay JM, Kaddas HK, Pope CA 3rd, Leiser CL, VanDerslice J, Kirchhoff A (2020). Fine Particulate Matter Air Pollution and Mortality among Pediatric, Adolescent, and Young Adult Cancer Patients. Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention, 29(10), 1929-1939.
  13. Tabler J, Utz RL, Smith KR, Hanson HA, Geist (2018). Variation in reproductive outcomes of women with histories of bulimia nervosa, anorexia nervosa, or eating disorder not otherwise specified relative to the general population and closest-aged sisters. The International journal of eating disorders, 51(2), 102-111.
  14. Lindahl-Jacobsen R, Hanson HA, Oksuzyan A, Mineau GP, Christensen K, Smith K (2013). The male-female health-survival paradox and sex differences in cohort life expectancy in Utah, Denmark, and Sweden 1850-1910. Annals of epidemiology, 23(4), 161-6.
  15. Hunt TC, Ambrose JP, Haaland B, Kawamoto K, Dechet CB, Lowrance WT, Hanson HA, O'Neil B (2021). Decision fatigue in low-value prostate cancer screening. Cancer, 127(18), 3343-3353.
  16. Hanson HA, Smith KR, Zimmer (2015). Reproductive History and Later-Life Comorbidity Trajectories: A Medicare-Linked Cohort Study From the Utah Population Database. Demography, 52(6), 2021-49.
  17. Barclay KJ, Thorén RD, Hanson HA, Smith K (2020). The Effects of Marital Status, Fertility, and Bereavement on Adult Mortality in Polygamous and Monogamous Households: Evidence From the Utah Population Database. Demography, 57(6), 2169-2198.
  18. Samadder NJ, Smith KR, Wong J, Hanson H, Boucher K, Burt RW, Charlton M, Byrne KR, Gallegos-Orozco JF, Koptiuch C, Curtin (2016). Familial Risk of Biliary Tract Cancers: A Population-Based Study in Utah. Digestive diseases and sciences, 61(12), 3627-3632.
  19. Leiser CL, Hanson HA, Sawyer K, Steenblik J, Al-Dulaimi R, Madsen T, Gibbins K, Hotaling JM, Ibrahim YO, VanDerslice JA, Fuller (2019). Acute effects of air pollutants on spontaneous pregnancy loss: a case-crossover study. Fertility and sterility, 111(2), 341-347.
  20. Anderson RE, Hanson HA, Patel DP, Johnstone E, Aston KI, Carrell DT, Lowrance WT, Smith KR, Hotaling J (2016). Cancer risk in first- and second-degree relatives of men with poor semen quality. Fertility and sterility, 106(3), 731-8.
  21. Hanson HA, Anderson RE, Aston KI, Carrell DT, Smith KR, Hotaling J (2016). Subfertility increases risk of testicular cancer: evidence from population-based semen samples. Fertility and sterility, 105(2), 322-8.e1.
  22. Patel DP, Jenkins TG, Aston KI, Guo J, Pastuszak AW, Hanson HA, Hotaling J (2020). Harnessing the full potential of reproductive genetics and epigenetics for male infertility in the era of "big data". Fertility and sterility, 113(3), 478-488.
  23. Soisson S, Ganz PA, Gaffney D, Rowe K, Snyder J, Wan Y, Deshmukh V, Newman M, Fraser A, Smith K, Herget K, Hanson HA, Wu YP, Stanford J, Werner TL, Setiawan VW, Hashibe (2018). Long-term, adverse genitourinary outcomes among endometrial cancer survivors in a large, population-based cohort study. Gynecologic oncology, 148(3), 499-506.
  24. Al-Kindi SG, Brook RD, Bhatt U, Brauer M, Cushman WC, Hanson HA, Kostis J, Lash JP, Paine R 3rd, Raphael KL, Rapp S, Tamariz L, Wright JT Jr, Rajagopalan S, SPRINT Research Group (2021). The Benefits of Intensive Versus Standard Blood Pressure Treatment According to Fine Particulate Matter Air Pollution Exposure: A Post Hoc Analysis of SPRINT. Hypertension (Dallas, Tex., 77(3), 813-822.
  25. Hanson HA, Mayer EN, Anderson RE, Aston KI, Carrell DT, Berger J, Lowrance WT, Smith KR, Hotaling J (2016). Familial aggregation of childhood mortality and semen quality. Human reproduction (Oxford, England), 32(1), 239-247.
  26. Hanson HA, Mayer EN, Anderson RE, Aston KI, Carrell DT, Berger J, Lowrance WT, Smith KR, Hotaling J (2017). Risk of childhood mortality in family members of men with poor semen quality. Human reproduction (Oxford, England), 32(1), 239-247.
  27. Keihani S, Verrilli LE, Zhang C, Presson AP, Hanson HA, Pastuszak AW, Johnstone EB, Hotaling J (2021). Semen parameter thresholds and time-to-conception in subfertile couples: how high is high enough?. Human reproduction (Oxford, England), 36(8), 2121-2133.
  28. Soisson S, Ganz PA, Gaffney D, Rowe K, Snyder J, Wan Y, Deshmukh V, Newman M, Fraser A, Smith K, Herget K, Hanson HA, Wu YP, Stanford J, Al-Sarray A, Werner TL, Setiawan VW, Hashibe (2018). Long-term Cardiovascular Outcomes Among Endometrial Cancer Survivors in a Large, Population-Based Cohort Study. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 110(12), 1342-1351.
  29. Martin C, Leiser CL, O'Neil B, Gupta S, Lowrance WT, Kohlmann W, Greenberg S, Pathak P, Smith KR, Hanson H (2018). Familial Cancer Clustering in Urothelial Cancer: A Population-Based Case-Control Study. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 110(5), 527-533.
  30. Hanson HA, Martin C, O'Neil B, Leiser CL, Mayer EN, Smith KR, Lowrance W (2019). The Relative Importance of Race Compared to Health Care and Social Factors in Predicting Prostate Cancer Mortality: A Random Forest Approach. The Journal of urology, 202(6), 1209-1216.
  31. Anderson RE, Hanson HA, Lowrance WT, Redshaw J, Oottamasathien S, Schaeffer A, Johnstone E, Aston KI, Carrell DT, Cartwright P, Smith KR, Hotaling J (2017). Childhood Cancer Risk in the Siblings and Cousins of Men with Poor Semen Quality. The Journal of urology, 197(3 Pt 2), 898-905.
  32. Martin C, Haaland B, Tward AE, Dechet C, Lowrance W, Stephenson RA, Hanson H, O'Neil (2019). Describing the Spectrum of Patient Reported Outcomes after Radical Prostatectomy: Providing Information to Improve Patient Counseling and Shared Decision Making. The Journal of urology, 201(4), 751-758.
  33. Anderson RE, Keihani S, Das R, Hanson HA, McCrum ML, Hotaling JM, Myers J (2021). Nephrectomy is Associated with Increased Mortality after Renal Trauma: An Analysis of the National Trauma Data Bank from 2007-2016. The Journal of urology, 205(3), 841-847.
  34. McCormick BJ, Horns JJ, Das R, Paudel N, Hanson HA, McCrum M, Nirula R, Myers J (2021). Nephrectomy Is Not Associated with Increased Risk of Mortality or Acute Kidney Injury After High-Grade Renal Trauma: A Propensity Score Analysis of the Trauma Quality Improvement Program (TQIP). The Journal of urology, 207(2), 101097JU0000000000002253.
  35. Smith KR, Hanson HA, Hollingshaus M (2013). BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations and female fertility.¿ [10.1097/GCO.1090b1013e32835f31731]. Obstetrics and gynecology,
  36. Schliep KC, Feldkamp ML, Hanson HA, Hollingshaus M, Fraser A, Smith KR, Panushka KA, Varner M (2021). Are paternal or grandmaternal age associated with higher probability of trisomy 21 in offspring? A population-based, matched case-control study, 1995-2015. Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology, 35(3), 281-291.
  37. Kowaleski-Jones L, Zick C, Smith KR, Brown B, Hanson HA, Fan (2018). Walkable neighborhoods and obesity: Evalutating effects with a propensity score approach. Social science & medicine (1982), 6, 9-15.
  38. Kowaleski-Jones L, Brown BB, Fan JX, Hanson HA, Smith KR, Zick C (2017). The joint effects of family risk of obesity and neighborhood environment on obesity among women. Social science & medicine (1982), 195, 17-24.
  39. Smith KR, Hanson HA, Norton MC, Hollingshaus MS, Mineau G (2014). Survival of offspring who experience early parental death: early life conditions and later-life mortality. Social science & medicine (1982), 119, 180-90.
  40. Mayer EN, Lenherr SM, Hanson HA, Jessop TC, Lowrance W (2017). Gender Differences in Publication Productivity Among Academic Urologists in the United States. Urology, 103, 39-46.
  41. Leiser CL, Anderson RE, Martin C, Hanson HA, O'Neil (2020). Combining Drive Time and Urologist Density to Understand Access to Urologic Care. Urology, 139, 78-83.
  42. Hanson HA, Horn KP, Rasmussen KM, Hoffman JM, Smith K (2017). Is Cancer Protective for Subsequent Alzheimer's Disease Risk? Evidence From the Utah Population Database. The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences, 72(6), 1032-1043.
  43. Tonna JE, Hanson HA, Cohan JN, McCrum ML, Horns JJ, Brooke BS, Das R, Kelly BC, Campbell AJ, Hotaling (2020). Balancing revenue generation with capacity generation: case distribution, financial impact and hospital capacity changes from cancelling or resuming elective surgeries in the US during COVID-19. BMC health services research, 20(1), 1119.
  44. Hanson HA, Smith KR, Stroup AM, Harrell C (2015). An age-period-cohort analysis of cancer incidence among the oldest old, Utah 1973-2002. Population studies, 69(1), 7-22.
  45. Grace K, Davenport F, Hanson H, Funk C, Shukla (2015). Linking climate change and health outcomes: Examining the relationship between temperature, precipitation and birth weight in Africa. Global environmental change, 35(Nov 2015), 125-137.
  46. Zimmer Z, Hanson HA, Smith K (2016). Childhood Socioeconomic Status, Adulthood Socioeconomic Status, and Old-age Health Trajectories: Connecting Early, Middle and Late-Life. Demographic research, 34, 285-319.
  47. Samadder NJ, Smith KR, Hanson H, Pimentel R, Wong J, Boucher K, Ahnen D, Singh H, Ulrich CM, Burt RW, Curtin (2015). Increased Risk of Colorectal Cancer Among Family Members of All Ages, Regardless of Age of Index Case at Diagnosis. Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology, 13(13), 2305-11.e1-2.
  48. Zick CD, Hanson H, Fan JX, Smith KR, Kowaleski-Jones L, Brown BB, Yamada (2013). Re-visiting the relationship between neighbourhood environment and BMI: an instrumental variables approach to correcting for residential selection bias. The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity, 10, 27.
  49. Smith KR, Hanson HA, Mineau GP, Buys S (2012). Effects of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations on female fertility. Proceedings. Biological sciences, 279(1732), 1389-95.
  50. Smith KR, Hanson HA, Brown BB, Zick CD, Kowaleski-Jones L, Fan J (2016). Movers and stayers: how residential selection contributes to the association between female body mass index and neighborhood characteristics. International journal of obesity (2005), 40(9), 1384-91.
  51. Ou JY, Hanson HA, Ramsay JM, Leiser CL, Zhang Y, VanDerslice JA, Pope CA 3rd, Kirchhoff A (2019). Fine Particulate Matter and Respiratory Healthcare Encounters among Survivors of Childhood Cancers. International journal of environmental research and public health, 16(6),
  52. Jenkins TG, James ER, Aston KI, Salas-Huetos A, Pastuszak AW, Smith KR, Hanson HA, Hotaling JM, Carrell D (2019). Age-associated sperm DNA methylation patterns do not directly persist trans-generationally. Epigenetics & chromatin, 12(1), 74.
  53. Hollingshaus MS, Coon H, Crowell SE, Gray DD, Hanson HA, Pimentel R, Smith K (2016). Differential Vulnerability to Early-Life Parental Death: The Moderating Effects of Family Suicide History on Risks for Major Depression and Substance Abuse in Later Life. Biodemography and social biology, 62(1), 105-25.
  54. Oswald N, Lin T, Haaland B, Flynn M, Kawamoto K, Cooney KA, Lowrance W, Hanson HA, O'Neil (2020). Factors associated with appropriate and low-value PSA testing. Cancer epidemiology, 66, 101724.
  55. Nguyen QC, Brunisholz KD, Yu W, McCullough M, Hanson HA, Litchman ML, Li F, Wan Y, VanDerslice JA, Wen M, Smith K (2017). Twitter-derived neighborhood characteristics associated with obesity and diabetes. Scientific reports, 7(1), 16425.
  56. Fan JX, Hanson HA, Zick CD, Brown BB, Kowaleski-Jones L, Smith K (2014). Geographic scale matters in detecting the relationship between neighbourhood food environments and obesity risk: an analysis of driver license records in Salt Lake County, Utah. BMJ open, 4(8), e005458.
  57. Caplin DA, Smith KR, Ness KK, Hanson HA, Smith SM, Nathan PC, Hudson MM, Leisenring WM, Robison LL, Oeffinger K (2017). Effect of Population Socioeconomic and Health System Factors on Medical Care of Childhood Cancer Survivors: A Report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. Journal of adolescent and young adult oncology, 6(1), 74-82.
  58. Herget KA, Patel DP, Hanson HA, Sweeney C, Lowrance W (2016). Recent decline in prostate cancer incidence in the United States, by age, stage, and Gleason score. Cancer medicine, 5(1), 136-41.
  59. Lange SM, Ambrose JP, Flynn MC, Lowrance WT, Hanson HA, O'Neil B (2021). Prostate-specific antigen testing among young men: an opportunity to improve value. Cancer medicine, 10(6), 2075-2079.
  60. Leiser CL, Smith KR, VanDerslice JA, Glotzbach JP, Farrell TW, Hanson H (2019). Evaluation of the Sex-and-Age-Specific Effects of PM2.5 on Hospital Readmission in the Presence of the Competing Risk of Mortality in the Medicare Population of Utah 1999-2009. Journal of clinical medicine, 8(12),
  61. Arbeeva LS, Hanson HA, Arbeev KG, Kulminski AM, Stallard E, Ukraintseva SV, Wu D, Boudreau RM, Province MA, Smith KR, Yashin A (2018). How Well Does the Family Longevity Selection Score Work: A Validation Test Using the Utah Population Database. Frontiers in public health, 6, 277.
  62. Samadder, N.J., Smith, K.R., Hanson, H., Pimentel, R., Wong, J., Boucher, K., Akerley, W., Gilcrease, G., Ulrich, C.M., Burt, R.W. and Curtin, K (2016). Cancer of unknown primary: Investigating familial cancer risk. JAMA oncology,
  63. Samadder NJ, Smith KR, Wong J, Thomas A, Hanson H, Boucher K, Kopituch C, Cannon-Albright LA, Burt RW, Curtin (2017). Cancer Risk in Families Fulfilling the Amsterdam Criteria for Lynch Syndrome. JAMA oncology, 3(12), 1697-1701.
  64. Samadder NJ, Smith KR, Hanson H, Pimentel R, Wong J, Boucher K, Akerley W, Gilcrease G, Ulrich CM, Burt RW, Curtin (2016). Familial Risk in Patients With Carcinoma of Unknown Primary. JAMA oncology, 2(3), 340-6.
  65. Kowaleski-Jones L, Zick C, Smith KR, Brown B, Hanson H, Fan (2017). Walkable neighborhoods and obesity: Evaluating effects with a propensity score approach. SSM - population health, 6, 9-15.
  66. Hanson HA, Hay WW Jr, Tobin JN, Barkin SL, Atkins M, Karagas MR, Dozier AM, Wetmore C, Konstan MW, Heubi J (2018). Opportunities for life course research through the integration of data across Clinical and Translational Research Institutes. Journal of clinical and translational science, 2(3), 156-162.
  67. Hanson HA, Leiser CL, Bandoli G, Pollock BH, Karagas MR, Armstrong D, Dozier A, Weiskopf NG, Monaghan M, Davis AM, Eckstrom E, Weng C, Tobin JT, Kaske F, Schleiss MR, Szilagyi P, Dykes C, Cooper D, Barkin S (2020). Charting the Life Course: Emerging Opportunities to Advance Scientific Approaches Using Life Course Research. Journal of clinical and translational science,
  68. Hanson HA, Leiser CL, Bandoli G, Pollock BH, Karagas MR, Armstrong D, Dozier A, Weiskopf NG, Monaghan M, Davis AM, Eckstrom E, Weng C, Tobin JN, Kaskel F, Schleiss MR, Szilagyi P, Dykes C, Cooper D, Barkin S (2020). Charting the life course: Emerging opportunities to advance scientific approaches using life course research. Journal of clinical and translational science, 5(1), e9.
  69. Bradley MW, Aiello KA, Ponnapalli SP, Hanson HA, Alter (2019). GSVD- and tensor GSVD-uncovered patterns of DNA copy-number alterations predict adenocarcinomas survival in general and in response to platinum. APL bioengineering, 3(3), 036104.
  70. Ponnapalli SP, Bradley MW, Devine K, Bowen J, Coppens SE, Leraas KM, Milash BA, Li F, Luo H, Qiu S, Wu K, Yang H, Wittwer CT, Palmer CA, Jensen RL, Gastier-Foster JM, Hanson HA, Barnholtz-Sloan JS, Alter (2020). Retrospective clinical trial experimentally validates glioblastoma genome-wide pattern of DNA copy-number alterations predictor of survival. APL bioengineering, 4(2), 026106.
  71. Bradley MW, Aiello KA, Ponnapalli SP, Hanson HA, Alter (2019). GSVD- and tensor GSVD-uncovered patterns of DNA copy-number alterations predict adenocarcinomas survival in general and in response to platinum. 3(3), 036104.
  72. Ponnapalli SP, Bradley MW, Devine K, Bowne J, Coppens SE, Leraas KM, Milash BA, Li F, Luo H, Qiu S, Wu K, Yang H, Wittwer CT, Palmer CA, Jensen RL, Gastier-Foster JM, Hanson HA, Barnholtz-Sloan JS, Alter (2020). Retrospective clinical trial experimentally validates glioblastoma genome-wide pattern of DNA copy-number alterations predictor of survival.
  73. Glotzbach JP, Hanson HA, Tonna JE, Horns JJ, Allen CM, Presson AP, Griffin CL, Zak M, Sharma V, Tristani-Firouzi M, Selzman C (2023). Familial Associations of Prevalence and Cause-Specific Mortality for Thoracic Aortic Disease and Bicuspid Aortic Valve in a Large-Population Database. Circulation, 148(8),

Editorial

  1. Ou JY, Kirchhoff AC, Hanson H (2020). Air Pollution across the Cancer Continuum: Extending Our Understanding of the Relationship between Environmental Exposures and Cancer. Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention, 29(10), 1876-1879.
  2. Hanson H (2018). Fertility treatment and congenital urologic malformations: is there a solution to our correlation versus causation woes?. Fertility and sterility, 110(5), 842-843.

Abstract

  1. Smith KR, Yamada I, Kowaleski-Jones L, Brown BB, Hanson HA, Zick CD, Fan J (2010). Body Mass Index and Neighborhood Characteristics: Assessing Selection and Causation Mechanisms Using Mover-Stayer Models.
  2. Kowaleski-Jones L, Smith KR, Yamada I, Brown BB, Hanson HA, Zick CD, Fan J (2010). Effects of Built Environment on Obesity: Using a Propensity Score Approach to Assess Selection and Causal Influences.

Other

  1. Tonna JE, Hanson HA, Cohan JN, McCrum ML, Horns JJ, Brooke BS, Das R, Kelly BC, Campbell AJ, Hotaling (2020). Balancing revenue generation with capacity generation: Case distribution, financial impact and hospital capacity changes from cancelling or resuming elective surgeries in the US during COVID-19. medRxiv,