Publications from the Leah Zallman Center, including those co-authored with the Institute for Community Health.
Deporting Immigrants May Further Shrink the Health Care Workforce
Azaroff LS, Woolhandler S, Touw S, Bor D, Himmelstein DU. Deporting Immigrants May Further Shrink the Health Care Workforce. JAMA. Published online April 03, 2025. doi:10.1001/jama.2025.3544
Spotlight on Mental Health: Restructuring Care for Immigrant Families
Zhang, J. Y., Chun, D., Uribe, V., & Santos, J. (2024). Spotlight on mental health: Restructuring care for immigrant families. Leah Zallman Center for Immigrant Health Research. https://immigranthealth.org/publication/spotlight-on-mental-health/.
Weaving Well-being: A New Paradigm for Community Mental Health and Wellness
Santos, J., Jacob, J., & Chun, D. (2023). Weaving well-being: A new paradigm for community mental health and wellness. Leah Zallman Center for Immigrant Health Research. https://immigranthealth.org/publications/weaving-well-being
“Like we are family”: Using qualitative methods to understand strategies for engaging patients in community-based latent TB infection treatment
Ceylon Auguste-Nelson, BA, Carolyn Fisher, PhD, Ranjani Paradise, PhD, Hanna Haptu, MD, Andrew Tibbs and Jennifer Cochran. “‘Like we are family’: Using qualitative methods to understand strategies for engaging patients in community-based latent TB infection treatment.” Presented at the 2021…
Consumer Voices for Innovation 2.0 Evaluation Report
Consumer Voices for Innovation 2.0 Evaluation Report. Carolyn Fisher, Sofia Ladner.
Immigrant Essential Workers Likely Avoided Medicaid And SNAP Because Of A Change To The Public Charge Rule
Sharon Touw, Grace McCormack, David U. Himmelstein, Steffie Woodhandler, and Leah Zallman. (2021). Immigrant Essential Workers Likely Avoided Medicaid And SNAP Because Of A Change To The Public Charge Rule. Health Affairs, 40(7). https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2021.00059
Immigrants Contribute More in Private Insurance Premiums than they Receive in Benefits
Lynsie Ranker, Ben Ubani, Steffie Woolhandler, David Himmelstein, Leah Zallman. “Immigrants Contribute More in Private Insurance Premiums than they Receive in Benefits”. New American Economy, April 2021.
How Immigrants Subsidize Medicare’s Trust Fund for All U.S. Seniors
Lynsie Ranker, Ben Ubani, Steffie Woolhandler, David Himmelstein, Leah Zallman. “Keeping Medicare Solvent. How Immigrants Subsidize Medicare’s Trust Fund for All U.S. Seniors”. New American Economy, April 2021.
Comparison of Use of Health Care Services and Spending for Unauthorized Immigrants vs Authorized Immigrants or US Citizens Using a Machine Learning Model
Fernando A. Wilson, Leah Zallman, José A. Pagán, Alexander N. Ortega, Yang Wang, Moosa Tatar, Jim P. Stimpson (2020). Comparison of Use of Health Care Services and Spending for Unauthorized Immigrants vs Authorized Immigrants or US Citizens Using a Machine Learning…
Uncertainty Over Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and Mental Health in Eligible Adults and Their Children
Alex Bonilla, Lynsie Ranker, Atheendar Venkataramani, and Leah Zallman. “Uncertainty over Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and Mental Health in Eligible Adults and Their Children”, presented at the Academy Health Annual Research Meeting 2020 (poster), virtual.
Finding the meaning in the numbers: a mixed-methods evaluation of a latent tuberculosis infection testing and treatment program
Carolyn F. Fisher, Ranjani K. Paradise, Ceylon Auguste-Nelson, Martina Todaro, and Blessing Dube. “Finding the meaning in the numbers: a mixed-methods evaluation of a latent tuberculosis infection testing and treatment program”, Presented at the 2019 American Evaluation Association Annual Conference,…
Implications of Changing Public Charge Immigration Rules for Children Who Need Medical Care
Implications of Changing Public Charge Immigration Rules for Children Who Need Medical Care. Leah Zallman, Karen E. Finnegan, David U. Himmelstein, Sharon Touw, Steffie Woolhandler. JAMA Pediatrics. Published online July 1, 2019. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2019.1744
Language Access QI Tools for Safe Communication with LEP Patients
Vonessa Costa and Ranjani K. Paradise, “Language Access QI Tools for Safe LEP Patient Communication”, presented at the America’s Essential Hospitals VITAL2019 conference, Miami FL, June 2019
Care For America’s Elderly And Disabled People Relies On Immigrant Labor
Care For America’s Elderly And Disabled People Relies On Immigrant Labor. Leah Zallman, Karen E. Finnegan, David U. Himmelstein, Sharon Touw, and Steffie Woolhandler. Health Affairs 2019 38:6.
Reducing the Use of ad hoc Interpreters at a Safety-Net Health Care System
Ranjani Krishnan Paradise, Megan Hatch, Avlot Quessa, Fernando Gargano, Mursal Khaliif, Vonessa Costa, “Reducing the Use of ad hoc Interpreters at a Safety-Net Health Care System.” The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Safety, 2019.
Implementing an electronic system to screen and actively refer to community based agencies for food insecurity in primary care
Amy Smith, Leah Zallman, Kathy Betts, Lisa Brukilacchio, Fiona McCaughan, Erin McAleer, Noreen Kelly, David Elvin, Lisa Trumble, “Implementing an electronic system to screen and actively refer to community based agencies for food insecurity in primary care”, presented at the Society…
Public Charge Rule Could Prompt Up to 455,000 California Kids Who Need Care to Leave Medi-Cal
Public Charge Rule Could Prompt Up to 455,000 California Kids Who Need Care to Leave Medi-Cal. Leah Zallman, Karen Finnegan. California Health Care Foundation. November 2018
Changing Public Charge Immigration Rules: The Potential Impact on Children Who Need Care
Leah Zallman, Karen Finnegan, David Himmelstein, Steffie Woolhandler. Changing Public Charge Immigration Rules: The Potential Impact on Children Who Need Care. Issue Brief, California Health Care Foundation 2018.
Immigrants Pay More In Private Insurance Premiums Than They Receive In Benefits
Immigrants Pay More In Private Insurance Premiums Than They Receive In Benefits. Leah Zallman, Steffie Woolhandler, Sharon Touw, David U. Himmelstein, and Karen E. Finnegan. Health Affairs 2018 37:10, 1663-1668
Medical Expenditures on and by Immigrant Populations in the United States: A Systematic Review
Lila Flavin, Leah Zallman, Danny McCormick, and J. Wesley Boyd. (2018). Medical Expenditures on and by Immigrant Populations in the United States: A Systematic Review. International Journal of Health Services, https://doi.org/10.1177/0020731418791963
Immigrants contribution to private health insurance
Leah Zallman, Steffie Woolhandler, Sharon Touw, David Himmelstein, and Karen Finnegan, “Immigrants contribution to private health insurance”, Presented at 2018 SGIM Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.
Affordability of and Access to Information About Health Insurance Among Immigrant and Non-immigrant Residents After Massachusetts Health Reform
Kang YJ, McCormick D, Zallman L. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. 2016 Aug 26. doi.org: 10.1007/s10903-016-0479-y
Collecting and analyzing race and ethnicity data in highly diverse communities: Challenges and strategies for healthcare systems
[ABSTRACT] Paradise R., Bearse A., Cundiff L. American Public Health Association. November 2, 2015
Perceptions of Affordability of Care and Access to Information about Health Insurance among Immigrants after Massachusetts Health Reform
[ABSTRACT] Kang Y.J., McCormick D., Dor D., Zallman L. Presented at SGIM 38th Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada. April 2015
Mental health and risk behaviors among foreign-born high school students: Data from one school district
[ABSTRACT] Arsenault L., Washburn K., Hamilton R.C. American Public Health Association. November 19, 2014
The Language Services Documentation Tool: Documenting How Patient Language Needs Were Met During Clinical Encounters
Ranjani K. Paradise, Yoon Susan Choi, Linda Cundiff, Mursal Khaliif, Laura Nevill, Robert P. Marlin, Ffyona Patel, Elisa Friedman, The Language Services Documentation Tool: Documenting How Patient Language Needs Were Met During Clinical Encounters, The Joint Commission Journal on Quality…
Staying Covered: How Immigrants Have Prolonged The Solvency of One of Medicare’s Key Trust Funds and Subsidized Care for U.S Seniors
Leah Zallman MD, MPH, Lisa Arsenault PhD, Adriana Bearse MS, Blessing Dube MPH, David Himmelstein MD, Fernado Wilson PhD, Steffie Woolhandler MD, MPH. The Partnership for A New American Economy. August 2014.
Exploring the Impact of Language Services on Utilization and Clinical Outcomes for Diabetics
Hacker K, Choi YS, Trebino L, Hicks L, Friedman E, et al. PLoS ONE, 2012; Volume 7(6): e38507.
Provider’s Perspectives on the Impact of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Activity on Immigrant Health
Karen Hacker, Jocelyn Chu, Lisa Arsenault, Robert P. Marlin. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, May 2012; Volume 23, Number 2, p. 651-665.
Investigating the Myth of the “Model Minority”: A Participatory Community Health Assessment of Chinese and Vietnamese Adults
Tendulkar SA, Cammarata Hamilton R, Chu C, Arsenault L, Duffy K, Huynh V, Lee E, Jane S, Friedman E. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. 2011. (August 27th, epub)
The impact of Immigration and Customs Enforcement on immigrant health: Perceptions of immigrants in Everett, Massachusetts, USA
Hacker K, Chu J, Leung C, Marra R, Pirie A, Brahimi M, English M, Beckmann J, Acevedo-Garcia D, Marlin R. Social Science & Medicine, August 2011; Volume 73(4): p. 586-94.
S-Comm Immigration Initiative is Bad for Our Health
Hacker K, Kasper J, Morris J. AccessDenied: A Conversation on Un/authorized Im/migration and Health, July 21, 2011.
A framework to identify the costs of providing language interpretation services
Blanchfield B, Gazelle GS, Khaliif M, Arocha IS, Hacker K. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, May 2011; Volume 22: p. 523–31.
“I Don’t Know How to Express It but I Love It”: Participatory Photography in an Urban Refugee Gardening Program
[Abstract] Mills, B., E. Dryden, L. Dixon, J. Baptiste, C. Roszell. Presentation at Society for Applied Anthropology Meeting, 2011; Seattle, WA.
Understanding Racial and Ethnic Disparities Among Chinese-Americans
[Abstract] Tendulkar, ScD; Shwuling Jane, MSW, LICSW; Eric Lee, BS: Kevin Duffy, BA; Renée Cammarata, MSW, MPA; Patrice Melvin, MPH; Sandra Williams, SM; Elisa Friedman, SM. Presentation at American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, November 2009; Philadelphia, PA.
Imported Compounded Diet Pill Use among Brazilian Women Immigrants in the United States
Cohen PA, McCormick D, Casey C, Dawson G, Hacker KA. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 2009; Volume 11(3): p. 229-36.
Planting seeds for sustainability: Navigating behavioral health services with immigrant families
[Abstract] Hyppolite S, Freitas de Rocha T, Rots G, Kirby A, Dryden E, Hacker K. Presentation at American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, 2008; San Diego, CA.
Emerging use of combination diet pills in Brazilian immigrants
[Abstract] Cohen, Pieter A. MD; Carolyn Casey, BSc; Lise Fried, DSc, MS; Elisa Friedman, MS; Juliana Coelho and Karen Hacker, MD, MPH. Presentation at American Public Health Association Conference, 2006; Boston, MA.
Testing New Technologies in Medical Interpreting
Loretta Saint-Louis, Ph.D., Elisa Friedman, MPH, Emily Chiasson, MSW, MPH, Avlot Quessa, Fernando Novaes. Cambridge Health Alliance, June 2003. This study examined how well the different remote modes of interpreting work in a clinical setting and what patients, providers, and…