Publications | UCSF Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies

Daily patterns of substance use among young adults who vape nicotine and cannabis: Latent class analysis of smartphone-based daily diary data.

Halliday DM, Lund L, Ling PM, Nguyen N

Drug Alcohol Depend 2026 Jan doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2026.113060

Factors associated with adolescent use of tobacco products in the Upper East Region of Ghana: A cross-sectional study.

Logo DD, Kodali PB, Anaman-Torgbor J, Chaffee BW, Ling PM, Bialous S, Owusu-Dabo E

Tob Induc Dis 2026 Jan doi: 10.18332/tid/215181

Cash Transfers Do Not Increase Traumatic Injury and Mortality: Evidence from Alaska.

Steedle R, Pickett REM, Bongiovanni T, Dono H, Lee B, Hobby E, Zink A, Cowan SK

Am J Epidemiol 2026 Jan doi: 10.1093/aje/kwag007

Determining a real-world definition of percutaneous tibial nerve stimulation induction therapy in Medicare beneficiaries with overactive bladder.

Nseyo U, Wang L, Crow A, Shatkin-Margolis A, Zuo S, John Boscardin W, Suskind AM

Urology 2026 Jan doi: 10.1016/j.urology.2026.01.033

The Hypertension Control Paradox - Why Is America Stuck?

Kishore SP, Kocher R

N Engl J Med 2026 Jan doi: 10.1056/NEJMp2515023

Genome wide data recover hierarchical genetic structure and help define conservation units for the threatened Asian Houbara.

Hoareau TB, Collier KA, Miller MJ, Hingrat Y, Le Nuz E, Batbayar N, Hatzofe O, Mayrose A, Lesobre L

Sci Rep 2026 Jan doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-33691-3

Survivorship care guidance in a diverse cancer survivor population: Cancer Registry for Understanding and Improving Survivorship Experiences (CRUISE) Study.

Gomez SL, Shariff-Marco S, Cortella A, Oh D, Srivastava P, Honcharov V, Duffy C, Loya Z, Wadhwa M, Lau K, Olazo K, Dixit N, Sarkar U

J Cancer Surviv 2026 Jan doi: 10.1007/s11764-026-01970-1

Editorial Comment on "Outcomes of Patients With Localized Renal Cell Carcinoma on Immunosuppression Following Solid Organ Transplantation".

Shah PV, Shapiro DD

Urology 2026 Jan doi: 10.1016/j.urology.2026.01.030

Embedded point of care stratified block randomization: demonstration of the point of care randomization (POCR) engine with an electronic health record pragmatic clinical trial.

Sarkisian C, Ibrahim K, Vangala S, Villaflores CW, Cheng EM, Turner W, Leuchter RK, Machado A, Tabar J, Verdeflor JA, Purvis J, Goncharova A, Pletcher MJ

medRxiv 2026 Jan doi: 10.64898/2026.01.26.26344847

"It's like scratching at the door": Experiences of outpatient buprenorphine low dose initiation among people using fentanyl.

Suen LW, Samayoa E, Spinelli MA, Scarpetta M, Knight KR, Chael J, Soran CS, Geier M, Snyder HR, Coffin PO

J Subst Use Addict Treat 2026 Jan doi: 10.1016/j.josat.2026.209893