Communications for US Populations With Limited English Proficiency During Infectious Disease Outbreaks: A Scoping Review.
Findling MG, Caporello HL, Stein RI, Wade CG, Lubell KM, Briseño L, SteelFisher GK.
Health Secur. 2023 Oct 27. PMID: 37889614
Dr. Gillian SteelFisher is a Senior Research Scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She serves as the Deputy Director of the Harvard Opinion Research Program (HORP) and the Director of its Global Polling Unit.
For more than a decade, her work has focused on understanding public response to infectious disease outbreaks. This includes key behavioral responses driving policies, including adoption of vaccines and medical countermeasures like antivirals, as well as non-pharmaceutical strategies like hand-washing, mask-wearing and social distancing. She has worked on H1N1, Zika, Ebola, Polio, and COVID-19. With this focus, she also directs HORP's international projects, aiming to better understand the ways that the public is responding to major public health issues across the globe. Dr. SteelFisher's work has been instrumental in response and communications efforts for the CDC and UNICEF as well as state and local public health agencies across the United States.
Dr. SteelFisher teaches applied survey methodology at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. She received her Ph.D. in Health Policy from Harvard University and her Masters in health behavior and communication from Harvard School of Public Health. She is the former President of the New England Chapter of the American Association for Public Opinion Research.
Findling MG, Caporello HL, Stein RI, Wade CG, Lubell KM, Briseño L, SteelFisher GK.
Health Secur. 2023 Oct 27. PMID: 37889614
Lewis TP, Kapoor NR, Aryal A, Bazua-Lobato R, Carai S, Clarke-Deelder E, Croke K, Dayalu R, Espinoza-Pajuelo L, Fink G, Garcia PJ, Garcia-Elorrio E, Getachew T, Jarhyan P, Kassa M, Kim SA, Mazzoni A, Medina-Ranilla J, Mohan S, Molla G, Moshabela M, Naidoo I, Nzinga J, Oh J, Okiro EA, Prabhakaran D, Roberti J, SteelFisher G, Taddele T, Tadele A, Wang X, Xu R, Leslie HH, Kruk ME.
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Ulyte A, Mehrotra A, Wilcock AD, SteelFisher GK, Grabowski DC, Barnett ML.
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SteelFisher GK.
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SteelFisher GK, McMurtry CL, Caporello H, Lubell KM, Koonin LM, Neri AJ, Ben-Porath EN, Mehrotra A, McGowan E, Espino LC, Barnett ML.
Health Aff (Millwood). 2023 04. 42(4):575-584. PMID: 37011316
SteelFisher GK, Findling MG, Caporello HL, Lubell KM, Vidoloff Melville KG, Lane L, Boyea AA, Schafer TJ, Ben-Porath EN.
Health Aff (Millwood). 2023 03. 42(3):328-337. PMID: 36877902
SteelFisher GK, Caporello HL, Lubell KM, Ben-Porath EN, Green AR, Luo F, Briseno L, Lane L, Sheff SE, Taillepierre JD, Espino L, Boyea A.
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SteelFisher GK, Caporello H, McIntosh R, Muhammad Safdar R, Desomer L, Chimenya D, Abdelwahab J, Ratna J, Rutter P, O'Reilly D, Gilani BI, Williams MR, Ben-Porath EN, Blendon RJ.
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Hsieh YL, Rak S, SteelFisher GK, Bauhoff S.
Vaccine. 2022 01 24. 40(3):424-427. PMID: 34903374
Wiley KE, Levy D, Shapiro GK, Dube E, SteelFisher GK, Sevdalis N, Ganter-Restrepo F, Menning L, Leask J.
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