Publications
About Our Publications
On this page you will find a list of publications by ISPS affiliates, including peer-reviewed journal articles, policy briefs, and working papers.
When possible, publications are linked to Projects and Data via the ISPS KnowledgeBase.
| Title | Author(s) |
Discipline |
Publication | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Research Involving the Recently Deceased: Ethics Questions That Must be Answered |
Brendan Parent, Olivia S. Kates, Wadih Arap, Arthur Caplan, Brian Childs, Neal W. Dickert, Mary Homan, Kathy Kinlaw, Ayannah Lang, Stephen Latham, Macey L. Levan, Robert D. Truog, Adam Webb, Paul Root Wolpe, and Rebecca D. Pentz |
Bioethics | Journal of Medical Ethics | 2023 |
| A Hub and Spoke Model for Improving Access and Standardizing Ethics Consultations Across a Large Healthcare System |
Benjamin Tolchin, Lori Bruce, Mark Mercurio & Stephen R. Latham |
Bioethics | American Journal of Bioethics | 2022 |
| Incidence of Frailty, Dementia, and Disability Among Community-Living Older Americans According to County-Level Disadvantage |
Yi Wang, Emma X. Zang, Kendra Davis-Plourde, Brent Vander Wyk, Thomas M. Gill, and Robert D. Becher |
Medicine | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | 2025 |
| Association Between Cognitive Trajectories and Subsequent Health Status, Depressive Symptoms, and Mortality Among Older Adults in the United States: Findings From a Nationally-Representative Study |
Emma Zang, Yunxuan Zhang, Yi Wang, Bei Wu, Terri R. Fried, Robert D. Becher, and Thomas M. Gill |
Medicine | The Journals of Gerontology | 2024 |
| Taking Stock and Taking Steps: A Report from the Field after the First Year of Marketplace Consumer Assistance under the ACA |
Rachel Grob, Mark Schlesinger, Lori Grubstein and Karen Pollitz |
Medicine | Report | 2014 |
| Clinical Trial Evidence Supporting FDA Approval of Novel Therapeutic Agents, 2005-2012 |
Nicholas S. Downing, Jenerius A. Aminawung, Nilay Shah, Harlan M. Krumholz, and Joseph S. Ross |
Medicine | Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) | 2014 |
| Care Recipients’ Cognitive Trajectories and Caregivers’ Depressive Symptoms: The Mediating Role of Caregiving Burden |
Yifan Lou, Jiaowei Gong, and Emma Zang |
Medicine | The Gerontologist | 2025 |
| Ethical Dimensions of Clinical Data Sharing by U.S. Health Care Organizations for Purposes beyond Direct Patient Care: Interviews with Health Care Leaders |
Brian R. Jackson, Bonnie Kaplan, Richard Schreiber, Paul R. DeMuro, Victoria Nichols-Johnson, Larry Ozeran, Anthony Solomonides, and Ross Koppel |
Medicine | Applied Clinical Informatics | 2025 |
| Trajectories of Relapse in Randomised, Placebo-Controlled Trials of Treatment Discontinuation in Major Depressive Disorder: An Individual Patient-Level Data Meta-Analysis |
Ralitza Gueorguieva, Adam M. Chekroud, John H. Krystal |
Medicine | The Lancet | 2017 |
| The Yale Guide to Careers in Medicine and the Health Professions: Pathways to Medicine in the 21st Century |
Robert Donaldson, Kathleen Lundgren, and Howard Spiro (eds.) |
Medicine | 2003 | |
| The Patient as Person: Explorations in Medical Ethics (2nd edition) |
Paul Ramsey (ed.) |
Medicine | 2002 | |
| Underpowered Trials at Trial Start and Informed Consent: Action Is Needed Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic |
Rafael Dal-Ré, Stefan Eriksson, and Stephan R. Latham |
Medicine | Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine | 2024 |
| Steady Hands, Heavy Hearts and the Path Forward to Moral Resilience in Organ Transplantation |
Ramesh K. Batra, Stephen R. Latham, and David A. Gerber |
Medicine | American Journal of Bioethics | 2024 |
| Revisiting Gift Exchange: Theoretical Considerations and a Field Test |
Constanca Esteves-Sorenson and Rosario Macera |
Management | ISPS working paper | 2013 |
| Are Health Care Services Shoppable? Evidence from the Consumption of Lower-Limb MRI Scans |
Michael Chernew, Zack Cooper, Eugene Larsen-Hallock, Fiona Scott Morton |
Interdisciplinary | ISPS working paper | 2018 |
| How to Enhance Police Legitimacy and Reduce Gun Violence in Poor, Minority Communities |
Michael Sierra-Arévalo |
Interdisciplinary | 2014 | |
| Timing of COVID-19 Vaccine Approval and Endorsement by Public Figures |
Bokemper, Scott E., Gregory A. Huber, Alan S. Gerber, Erin K. James, and Saad B. Omer |
Interdisciplinary | Vaccine | 2021 |
| Evaluating the Effect of Project Longevity on Group-Involved Shootings and Homicides in New Haven, Connecticut |
Michael Sierra-Arévalo, Yanick Charette, Andrew V. Papachristos |
Interdisciplinary | Criminal Justice | 2016 |
| U.S. Regional Differences in Physical Distancing: Evaluating Racial and Socioeconomic Divides During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
Emma Zang, Jessica West, Nathan Kim & Christina Pao
|
Interdisciplinary | PLOS ONE | 2021 |
| Small Individual Loans and Mental Health: A Randomized Controlled Trial Among South African Adults |
Lia C.H. Fernald, Rita Hamad, Dean Karlan, Emily J. Ozer, Jonathan Zinman |
Interdisciplinary | BMC Public Health | 2008 |
ISPS Working Paper Series
ISPS advances interdisciplinary research in the social sciences that aims to shape public policy and inform democratic deliberation. The ISPS network includes scholars and students from many departments in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and from Yale’s graduate and professional schools as well as select experts from other institutions. The ISPS Working Paper Series provides a platform for ISPS affiliates to make their work available for public consumption and discussion.
Featured Books by ISPS Faculty
ISPS Sponsored Publications
ISPS Politics & Policy Book Series: A series striving to place policy- and law-making in historical and comparative perspective, reflecting the broad, multidisciplinary character of ISPS.
ISPS Journal: A biannual publication that serves to highlight ISPS scholars’ publications and as a development piece for foundations and interested donors.
GOTV website: A website compiling results from a wide array of voter mobilization field experiments. Findings from these scientifically measured studies of various Get-Out-the-Vote methods offer valuable insight into which methods are most effective in mobilizing voter turnout (Note: the website indexes GOTV experiments published before 2006).
The Bulletin of Yale University includes several issues devoted to ISPS (PDF): 2000-2002, 2002-2004, 2004-2006, and 2006-2008.






