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Elisabeth Dowling Root

Social Sciences · The Ohio State University

Mid career · publishing since 2004

Publications

116

Citations

3,259

Est. group size

~1

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

23

Publishing since 2004

Research summary
AI-generated

This researcher's publication record spans a wide range of public health and population health topics, including health disparities, disease surveillance, maternal and child health, opioid overdose and 'deaths of despair', COVID-19 impacts, family planning modeling, and global health interventions in low-resource settings. The work often combines spatial and quantitative analysis with public health policy questions, and includes some collaborative work touching on neuroscience (tau protein research in Alzheimer's disease) that appears distinct from the core public health focus. Given the breadth of topics and co-authorship patterns, this profile may reflect contributions to multiple collaborative research teams rather than a single tightly focused lab.

Health disparities and spatial epidemiologyOpioid overdose and deaths of despairGlobal maternal and child healthDisease surveillance and outbreak modelingFamily planning and reproductive health

Publication output peaked around 2019-2020 and has since declined and stabilized at a lower, more moderate pace over the past five years.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 4.2/year recently
2017: 10 publications172018: 5 publications182019: 11 publications192020: 23 publications23202021: 6 publications212022: 5 publications222023: 6 publications232024: 2 publications242025: 6 publications252026: 2 publications26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Harvard Dataverse×8
  • UNC Libraries×4
  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence×3
  • medRxiv×3
  • JAMA Network Open×2
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This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 19, 2026.

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