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
Publications
Ethnic Disparities in Deep Sedation of Patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in the United States: Secondary Analysis of a Multicenter Randomized Trial
Failed retrieving data.Factors associated with retention in Quitline counseling for smoking cessation among HIV-positive smokers receiving care at HIV outpatient clinics in Vietnam
Failed retrieving data.Factors associated with retention in Quitline counseling for smoking cessation among HIV-positive smokers receiving care at HIV outpatient clinics in Vietnam
Failed retrieving data.Low knowledge levels and high willingness to use oral Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) among Key Populations in Kampala, Uganda: Implications for targeted educational interventions
Failed retrieving data.Outcome Measures to Evaluate Functional Recovery in Survivors of Respiratory Failure: A Scoping Review
Failed retrieving data.Perspectives of female sex workers on HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis delivery in Uganda: A qualitative study
Failed retrieving data.Prevalence of Food Insecurity Among HIV-Positive Smokers in Vietnam
Failed retrieving data.Using group norms to promote acceptance of HIV testing during household tuberculosis contact investigation: A household-randomized trial
Failed retrieving data.(Re)designing interventions: Research with a commitment to equity
Failed retrieving data.A user-centred implementation strategy for tuberculosis contact investigation in Uganda : protocol for a stepped-wedge, cluster-randomised trial
Failed retrieving data.A user-centred implementation strategy for tuberculosis contact investigation in Uganda: Protocol for a stepped-wedge, cluster-randomised trial
Failed retrieving data.Associations among past trauma, post-displacement stressors, and mental health outcomes in Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh : A secondary cross-sectional analysis
Failed retrieving data.Clinical Practices Following Train-The-Trainer Trauma Course Completion in Uganda : A Parallel-Convergent Mixed-Methods Study
Failed retrieving data.Clinical Practices Following Train-The-Trainer Trauma Course Completion in Uganda: A Parallel-Convergent Mixed-Methods Study
Failed retrieving data.Disparities among patients with respiratory failure
Failed retrieving data.Disparities among patients with respiratory failure
Failed retrieving data.Experiences of household food insecurity among individuals with tuberculosis in Kampala, Uganda
Failed retrieving data.Integrating diabetes mellitus care into Tuberculosis (TB) treatment in Uganda: A Parallel Convergent mixed-methods study
Failed retrieving data.mHealth to improve implementation of TB contact investigation : a case study from Uganda
Failed retrieving data.Perceived stigma related to TB preventive therapy
Failed retrieving data.Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Recovery of Everyday Activities Among Survivors of Respiratory Failure
Failed retrieving data.Racial and ethnic disparities in recovery of everyday activities among survivors of respiratory failure
Failed retrieving data.Racial Differences in Quality of Life Among Survivors of Respiratory Failure
Failed retrieving data.Self-care and healthcare seeking practices among patients with hypertension and diabetes in rural Uganda
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