CSDE Affiliate Brad Wagenaar has recently published two new articles with a number of co-authors. The first paper, published in Cureus, leverages time-series analysis to explore the use of Emergency Medical Services during the first year of the COVID-19 Pandemic. The authors report trends in call volume and discuss implications regarding the role of EMS during the outbreak. The second article, published in Evidence-Based Mental Health, presents a model-based threshold cost-benefit assessment of a task-sharing treatment approach for mental health disorders.

CSDE Affiliate Nathalie Williams along with a number of co-authors published a new study on how variation in context mediates the effects of social capital on migration. The authors argue that destinations for which migration is logistically difficult to arrange give rise to brokerage industries and hypothesize that brokers, in turn, substitute for the informational capital typically provided by social networks. Their results suggest that migration research should consider the growing role of brokerage agencies and that theorizations of social capital more broadly must contend with how it is delimited by brokers.

CSDE Affiliate Emily Williams with several co-authors recently released an article in Addiction Science and Clinical Practice. The piece describes the risks associated with poppy seed tea and its connectedness to opioid use disorder. In this case, the authors treat an individual with opioid use disorder by administering buprenorphine, and characterize the success of that treatment.