Katherine S. Eddens

Social Media in Health Education Health Literacy and Information Accessibility Health disparities and outcomes Smoking Behavior and Cessation Healthcare Policy and Management

Publications

Citations

670

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Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

Publishing since 2009

Research summary

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Katherine S. Eddens conducts social science research focused on public health, health disparities, and access to trusted health information, often in underserved communities such as rural Appalachia. Her work uses methods like social network analysis to study how people access health resources and how research collaborations form, and spans topics from cancer control and opioid use disorder to social isolation and health behaviors. She has also contributed to ethnobotany and community-engaged research documenting traditional plant use.

Health disparities and access to health informationSocial network analysis in health researchCommunity-engaged and rural health studiesHealth behaviors and outcomesEthnobotany and cultural restoration

Publication activity has been modest and somewhat uneven over the last decade, with gaps in some years and a cluster of output from 2023 onward, averaging about two publications per year over the last five years.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 11, 2026

Publication cadence

Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 2.0/year recently

Recent publications

The lipedema common case report form as a research tool: standardizing lipedema data collection
Frontiers in Global Women s Health · 2026
Individual and collective positive health behaviors and academic achievement among U.S. undergraduate students
PLoS ONE · 2025
First Checklist of Traditional Wild Plants and Their Uses in The Nineveh Plains, Northern-Iraq
Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae · 2025
The Role of Wild Plants in Cultural Restoration: Community Collaboration and Engaged Ethnobotany in the Nineveh Plains, Northern Iraq
Economic Botany · 2024
Assessing the availability of trusted health information in a rural Appalachia community using social network analysis
Heliyon · 2023
Advancing Collaborative Research with 2-1-1 to Reduce Health Disparities: Challenges, Opportunities, and Recommendations
UNC Libraries · 2020
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UNC Libraries · 2020
Social Isolation and Mortality in US Black and White Men and Women
American Journal of Epidemiology · 2018
Assessing Research Collaboration through Co-authorship Network Analysis.
PubMed · 2018
Clinician identified barriers to treatment for individuals in Appalachia with opioid use disorder following release from prison: a social ecological approach
Addiction Science & Clinical Practice · 2018
An Interactive, Mobile-Based Tool for Personal Social Network Data Collection and Visualization Among a Geographically Isolated and Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Population: Early-Stage Feasibility Study With Qualitative User Feedback
JMIR Research Protocols · 2017

Publishes in

Journal of Medical Internet Research×2
UNC Libraries×2
American Journal of Epidemiology×1
PubMed×1
Addiction Science & Clinical Practice×1

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 11, 2026.

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