Publications

Seil K, Alper H, Yu S, Brackbill R, Millien, L. Association of PTSD history with confusion or memory loss among World Trade Center Health Registry enrollees. Journal of Affective Disorders Reports 14 (2023). doi.org/10.1016/j.jadr.2023.100655

Locke S, Gargano L, Alper HE, Brite J. “Long-Term Lower Respiratory Symptoms among World Trade Center Health Registry Enrollees Following Hurricane Sandy”, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, October 2022, 19, 13738. doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192113738.

Alper HE, Feliciano L, Millien L, Pollari C, Locke S. “Post-Traumatic Growth and Quality of Life among World Trade Center Health Registry Enrollees 16 Years after 9/11”, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, August 2022, 19, 9737. doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19159737.

Friedman S, Alper H, de la Hoz RE, Osahan S, Farfel MR, Cone JE. “Change in Asthma Is Associated with Change in PTSD in World Trade Center Health Registrants, 2011 to 2016”, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, June 2022, 19, 7795. doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19137795.

Huber KA, Frazier PA, Alper HE, Brackbill RM. “Trajectories of posttraumatic stress symptoms following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks: A comparison of two modeling approaches”. Journal of Traumatic Stress. April 2022, 35, 508.

Takemoto E, Loke S, Goin DE, Casey JA, Giesinger I, Farfel M, Alper H, Brackbill R. “Exposure to the World Trade Center disaster and test performance among New York City public school students over time, 1998–2003”. Social Science and Medicine. May 2022, 2 p100096. doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmmh.2022.100096

Ko T, Alper H, Brackbill R, Jacobson M. "Trajectories of Psychological Distress Among Individuals Exposed to the 9/11 World Trade Center Disaster", Psychological Medicine. February 2021. doi.org/10.1017/S0033291720004912

Yu S, Alper H, Nguyen AM, Maqsood J. “Stroke hospitalizations, posttraumatic stress disorder, and 9/11-related dust exposure: results from the World Trade Center Health Registry”. American Journal of Industrial Medicine. October 2021, 64, 827. DOI: 10.1002/ajim23271

Gargano LM, Locke S, Alper HE, Brite J. “Hospitalizations among World Trade Center Health Registry enrollees who were under 18 years of age on 9/11, 2001-2016”. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. July 2021, 18(14), 7527. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18147527

Alper H, Brite J, Cone JE, Brackbill RM. “Comparison of Prevalence and Exposure-Disease Associations Using Self-Report and Hospitalization Data Among Enrollees of the World Trade Center Health Registry”. BMC Medical Research Methodology. August 2021, 21, 162. doi.org/10.1186/s12874-021-01358-y

Seil K, Yu S, Brackbill RM, Alper HE, Maqsood J. “Effects of 9/11-related injury on retirement patterns among World Trade Center Health Registry enrollees”. American Journal of Industrial Medicine. September 2021, 64, 873. DOI: 10.1002/ajim.23288

Alper H, Tuly RA, Seil K, Brite J. Post-9/11 Mental health comorbidity predicts self-reported confusion or memory loss in world trade center health registry enrollees. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, October 2020, 17, 7330. doi:10.3390/ijerph17197330. PMID: 33049920 PMCID: PMC7579594 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17197330

Alper H, Gargano LM, Cone JE, Brackbill RM. Injury severity and psychological distress sustained in the aftermath of the attacks of 11 September 2001 predict somatic symptoms in World Trade Center Health Registry enrollees sixteen years later. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health. June 2020;17(12):4232. doi:10.3390/ijerph17124232. PMID: 32545781; PMCID: PMC7344661

Brite J, Alper H, Friedman S, Takemoto E, Cone J. Association Between Socioeconomic Status and Asthma-Related Emergency Department Visits Among World Trade Center Rescue and Recovery Workers and Survivors. JAMA Network Open. 2020;3(3):e201600. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.1600.

Seil K, Yu S, Alper H. A Cognitive Reserve and Social Support-Focused Latent Class Analysis to Predict Self-Reported Confusion or Memory Loss among Middle-Aged World Trade Center Health Registry Enrollees. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health. 2019 April;16(8):1401. doi:10.3390/ijerph16081401.

Brackbill RM, Alper HE, Frazier P, Gargano LM, Jacobson MH, Solomon A. An assessment of long-term physical and emotional quality of life of person injured on 9/11/2001. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health. 2019 March;16(6):1054. doi:10.3390/ijerph16061054.

Antao VC, Pallos LL, Graham SL, Shim YK, Sapp JH, Lewis B, Bullard S, Alper HE, Cone JE, Farfel MR, Brackbill RM. 9/11 residential exposures: the impact of World Trade Center dust on respiratory outcomes of lower Manhattan residents. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health. 2019 March;16(5):798. doi:10.3390/ijerph16050798.

Gargano LM, Li J, Millien L, Alper H, Brackbill RM. Exposure to multiple disasters: The long-term effect of Hurricane Sandy (October 29, 2012) on NYC survivors of the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center attack. Psychiatry Res 2019 Mar; 273: 719-724.

Li J, Alper HE, Gargano LM, Maslow CB, Brackbill RM. Re-experiencing 9/11-Related PTSD Symptoms Following Exposure to Hurricane Sandy. Int J Emerg Ment Health. 2018 Sept;20(3). doi:10.4172/1522-4821.1000404.

Yu S, Alper H, Nguyen AM, Brackbill RM. Risk of stroke among survivors of the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center disaster. J Occup Environ Med. 2018 Aug;60(8):e371-e376. doi:10.1097/JOM.0000000000001361.

Miller-Archie SA, Jordan HT, Cone JE, Brackbill RM, Alper H, Wisnivesky JP, Friedman S. Hospitalizations for asthma among adults exposed to the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center terrorist attack. J Asthma. 2018 Apr;55(4):354-363. doi:10.1080/02770903.2017.1337787.

Alper H, Brackbill RM, Stellman SD, Yu S. Injury, Intense Dust Exposure and Chronic Disease among Survivors of the World Trade Center Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001. Inj Epidemiol. 2017 Dec; 4(1):17. doi: 10.1186/s40621-017-0115-x.

Yu S, Alper HE, Nguyen AM, Brackbill RM, Turner L, Walker DJ, Maslow CB, Zweig KC. The effectiveness of a monetary incentive offer on survey response rates and response completeness in a longitudinal study. BMC Med Res Methodol. 2017 April; 17(77). doi: 10.1186/s12874-017-0353-1.

Jordan HT, Friedman SM, Reibman J, Goldring RM, Miller-Archie SA, Ortega F, Alper H, Yongzhao S, Maslow CB, Cone JE, Farfel MR, Berger KI. Risk factors for persistence of lower respiratory symptoms among community members exposed to the 2001 World Trade Center terrorist attacks. Occup Environ Med. 2017 March; 74(6): 449-455. doi:10.1136/oemed-2016-104157.

Friedman SM, Farfel MR, Maslow C, Jordan HT, Li J, Alper H, Cone JE, Stellman SD, Brackbill RM. Risk factors for and consequences of persistent lower respiratory symptoms among World Trade Center Health Registrants 10 years after the disaster. Occup Environ Med 2016 Oct; 73(10);676-684. doi:10.1136/oemed-2015-103512.

Jordan HT, Stellman SD, Morabia A, Miller-Archie SA, Alper H, Laskaris Z, Brackbill RM, Cone JE. Cardiovascular disease hospitalizations in relation to exposure to the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center disaster and posttraumatic stress disorder. J Am Heart Assoc 2013;2(5): e000431. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.113.000431.

Bowler RM, Harris M, Li J, Gocheva V, Stellman SD, Wilson K, Alper H, Schwarzer R, Cone JE. Longitudinal mental health impact among police responders to the 9/11 terrorist attack. Am J Ind Med 2012;55:297-312.

Bowler RM, Han H, Gocheva V, Nakagawa S, Alper H, DiGrande L, Cone JE. Gender differences in probable posttraumatic stress disorder among police responders to the 2001 World Trade Center terrorist attack. Am J Ind Med 2010;53:1186-1196.

M. J. Akiyama, F. Kaba, Z. Rosner, H. Alper, R. S. Holzman, and R. MacDonald, “Hepatitis C Screening of the “Birth Cohort” (Born 1945–1965) and Younger Inmates of New York City Jails”, Am. J. Public Health 106(7), 1276 (2016)

F. Kaba, A. Lewis, S. Glowa-Kollisch, J. Hadler, D. Lee, H. Alper, D. Selling, R. MacDonald, A. Solimo, A. Parsons, and H. Venters, “Solitary Confinement and Risk of Self-Harm Among Jail Inmates”, Am. J. Public Health 104(3), 442 (2014) This paper was chosen by AJPH as its 2014 Paper of the Year.

F. Parvez, M. Katyal, H. Alper, R. Leibowitz, and H. Venters, “Female Sex Workers Incarcerated in New York City Jails: Prevalence of Sexually Transmitted Infections and Associated Risk Behaviors”, Sexually Transmitted Infections 89, 1 (2013)

C. L. Jain, K. Hunt , H. Alper, E. Begier, M. McNeill, K. Huang, W. Franklin, and F. Parvez, “Jail-based Providers’ Perceptions of Challenges to Routine HIV Testing in New York City Jails”, J. Correct. Health Care 16(4), p310 (2010).

P. Tehranifar, J. Leighton, A. Auchincloss, A. Faciano, H. E. Alper, A. Paykin, and S. Wu, “Immigration and Risk of Childhood Lead Poisoning: Findings From a Case–Control Study of New York City Children”, Am. J. Public Health 98(1), 92 (2008).