
Recent Work
Selected Publications
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Plasencia, G., Kaalund, K., Gupta, R. et al. ¿No Hay Racismo?: application of the levels of racism framework to Latinx perspectives on barriers to health and wellbeing. BMC Public Health 24, 2105 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-19587-3
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Plasencia G, Kaalund K, Thoumi A. Training Latinx Community Health Workers as Clinical Research and Health Care System Navigators. Am J Public Health. 2023 Nov;113(11):1157-1159. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2023.307418. Epub 2023 Sep 7. PMID: 37677116; PMCID: PMC10568518.
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Thoumi A, Plasencia G, Madanay F, Ho ES-A, Palmer C, Kaalund K, Chaudhry N, Labrador A, Rigsby K, Onunkwo A, Almonte I, Gonzalez-Guarda R, Martinez-Bianchi V and Cholera R (2023) Promoting Latinx health equity through community-engaged policy and practice reforms in North Carolina. Front. Public Health 11:1227853.
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Plasencia G, Gupta R, Kaalund K, Martinez-Bianchi V, Gonzalez-Guarda R, Thoumi A. Systemic Racism Affecting Latinx Population Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond: Perspectives of Latinx Community Health Workers and Community-Based Organization Leaders. Health Equity. 2023 Nov 7;7(1):715-721. doi: 10.1089/heq.2023.0193. PMID: 38025654; PMCID: PMC10659010.
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Borre, E.D., Kaalund, K., Frisco, N. et al. The Impact of Hearing Loss and Its Treatment on Health-Related Quality of Life Utility: a Systematic Review with Meta-analysis. J GEN INTERN MED 38, 456–479 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-022-07795-9
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Kaalund K, Thoumi A, Bhavsar NA, Labrador A, Cholera R. Assessment of Population-Level Disadvantage Indices to Inform Equitable Health Policy. Milbank Q. 2022;100(4):1028-1075.
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Borre, E.D., Diab, M.M., Ayer, A., Zhang, G., Emmett, S.D., Tucci, D.L., Wilson, B.S., Kaalund, K., Ogbuoji, O., & Sanders, G.D. (2021). Evidence gaps in economic analyses of hearing healthcare: A systematic review. EClinicalMedicine, 35.
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