Mari Armstrong-Hough
Mari Armstrong-Hough
Associate Professor of Social & Behavioral Sciences and Epidemiology
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Professional overview
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Dr. Mari Armstrong-Hough is Associate Professor in the Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences and in the Department of Epidemiology. She is a medical sociologist and epidemiologist of respiratory disease.
Dr. Armstrong-Hough’s global health research examines the epidemiologic interfaces among tuberculosis (TB), HIV, and non-communicable diseases. Combining training in epidemiology and sociology, her work develops and evaluates interventions to increase early case-finding, status awareness, and linkage to care in high-burden settings like Uganda and South Africa. She has published on predictors of evaluation for TB among high-risk groups, novel approaches to active case-finding for TB and HIV, the ways that providers and patients imagine and communicate risk for respiratory infection, and the availability of essential medicines in settings with double burdens of infectious and non-communicable disease. Her first book, Biomedicalization and the Practice of Culture: Globalization and Type 2 Diabetes in the United States and Japan (University of North Carolina Press, 2018), examined how the practice and experience of global evidence-based medicine is shaped by local cultural repertoires. Her recent work has appeared in the Journal of AIDS, International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, and the The Lancet Respiratory Medicine. She also co-directs the NIH-funded Mixed-Methods Fellowship of the Pulmonary Complications of AIDS Research Training Program at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. She is PI of a prospective cohort study of patients initiating treatment for pulmonary TB in Uganda and a co-investigator on NIH-funded studies of contact tracing for TB.
Dr. Armstrong-Hough’s US-based research examines racial and ethnic disparities in survival of respiratory failure and seeks to develop interventions to ensure that all patients with respiratory failure receive evidence-based care. Approximately 750,000 Americans die each year from respiratory failure, and its 2.5 million survivors experience poor physical function and quality of life persisting five years after discharge. Minority patients are significantly less likely to survive respiratory failure, with up to twice the odds of death as non-Hispanic White patients. Dr. Armstrong-Hough co-PIs the Promoting Equity via Changes In Practice for Respiratory Failure (PRECIPICE) studies, which use large-scale, multicenter data from US ICUs to identify care processes associated with inequities in survival and long-term outcomes. Early work related to these studies has been accepted to Annals of the American Thoracic Society.
Before coming to NYU, Dr. Armstrong-Hough was an Associate Research Scientist in Epidemiology in the Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at Yale School of Public Health. She previously taught at Davidson College, Meiji University in Tokyo, and Duke University. She has conducted fieldwork in the United States, Japan, Uganda, Ethiopia, and Nepal and is a recipient of the Robert E. Leet and Clara Guthrie Patterson Trust Mentored Research Award in Clinical, Health Services and Policy Research.
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Education
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BA, Sociology, History, and Political Science, University of Wisconsin–MadisonMA, East Asian Studies, Duke UniversityPhD, Sociology, Duke UniversityPostdoctoral MPH, Applied Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Yale
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Publications
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An educational intervention improves HIV competence of secondary school staff in Uganda: a stepped wedge cluster randomized trial
Failed retrieving data.Association of Sepsis Survivor Subtypes With Long-Term Mortality and Disability After Discharge: A Retrospective Cohort Study
Failed retrieving data.Effectiveness of behavioural tobacco cessation interventions with and without pharmacotherapy among people living with HIV in Viet Nam: a three-arm pragmatic randomised controlled trial
Failed retrieving data.Effectiveness of routine tuberculosis education in a high-burden setting: A prospective observational cohort study
Failed retrieving data.Multilevel barriers and facilitators to smoking cessation among men living with HIV in Vietnam: a qualitative study of male patients and healthcare providers
Failed retrieving data.Scheduling early primary care follow-up after pneumonia: A retrospective target trial emulation in five hospitals
Failed retrieving data.Strategies to integrate non-communicable disease interventions in HIV and tuberculosis care contexts in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review
Failed retrieving data.A Delphi Consensus on Recommendations for Improving Research Processes and Infrastructure to Address Health Disparities
Failed retrieving data.Adaptation and validation of perceived HIV and TB stigma scales among persons with TB
Failed retrieving data.Communication attributes modify the anxiety risk associated with problematic social media use : Evidence from a prospective diary method study
Failed retrieving data.Communication attributes modify the anxiety risk associated with problematic social media use: Evidence from a prospective diary method study
Failed retrieving data.Female sex worker preferences for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis delivery in Uganda : A discrete choice experiment
Failed retrieving data.Female sex worker preferences for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis delivery in Uganda: A discrete choice experiment
Failed retrieving data.Health Insurance and Interhospital Transfer for Critically Ill Patients With Respiratory Failure
Failed retrieving data.Interventions to improve racial and ethnic equity in critical care: A scoping review
Failed retrieving data.Patterns and Correlates of Tobacco Use Among PLWH in Viet Nam: A Cross-Sectional Analysis
Failed retrieving data.Representation of Hispanic Patients in Clinical Trials for Respiratory Failure: A Systematic Review
Failed retrieving data.Testing the Transportability of Sepsis Subtypes to Patients With ARDS for Postdischarge Outcomes
Failed retrieving data.Tobacco spending and the perceived cost of tobacco among smokers living with HIV and receiving treatment at outpatient clinics in Viet Nam : A mixed methods study
Failed retrieving data.Tobacco spending and the perceived cost of tobacco among smokers living with HIV and receiving treatment at outpatient clinics in Viet Nam: A mixed methods study
Failed retrieving data.An adapted scale to measure perceived TB and HIV stigma during household contact investigation
Failed retrieving data.Depression and associated factors among HIV-positive smokers receiving care at HIV outpatient clinics in Vietnam : A cross-sectional analysis
Failed retrieving data.Depression and associated factors among HIV-positive smokers receiving care at HIV outpatient clinics in Vietnam: a cross-sectional analysis
Failed retrieving data.Efficacy and Impact of Peer-Led Education for Persons with Tuberculosis in Kampala, Uganda: A Pre-Post Implementation Study
Failed retrieving data.Ethnic Disparities in Deep Sedation of Patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in the United States : Secondary Analysis of a Multicenter Randomized Trial
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