Papers

*: Denotes co-first or co-senior authorship. Underlined denotes mentored student, postdoc, or K-award mentored faculty at the time of publication. Links to papers will be updated sometime in the future.

COVID-19 Disparities

• de Ramos IP, Lazo M, Schnake-Mahl A, Li R, Martinez-Donate A, Diez Roux AV, Bilal U. The Disproportionate Impact of COVID-19 Outcomes Among the Hispanic Population of 27 Large US Cities: 2020-2021. American Journal of Public Health 2022. Accepted for Publication

• Bilal U, Mullachery PH, Schnake-Mahl AS, Rollins H, McCulley E, Kolker J, Barber S, Diez Roux AV. Spatial Inequities in COVID-19 Vaccination in 16 Large US Cities. American Journal of Epidemiology. 2022 Accepted for Publication

• Bilal U, McCulley EM, Li R, Rollins H, Schnake-Mahl A, Mullachery PH, Vaidya V, Koh C, Dureja K, Sharaf A, Furukawa A, Juliano C, Barber S, Kolker J, Diez Roux AV. Tracking COVID-19 Inequities across jurisdictions represented in the Big Cities Health Coalition: The COVID-19 Health Inequities in BCHC Cities Dashboard. American Journal of Public Health. 2022 Accepted for Publication

• Bilal U, Jemmott JB, Schnake-Mahl A, Murphy K, Momplaisir F. Racial/ethnic and neighborhood social vulnerability disparities in COVID-19 testing positivity, hospitalization, and in-hospital mortality in a large hospital system in Pennsylvania: a prospective study of electronic health records. The Lancet Regional Health - The Americas. 2022;10:100220

• Green-McKenzie J, Shofer FS, Momplaisir F, Kuter BJ, Kruse G, Bilal U, Behta M, O'Donnell J, Al-Ramahi N, Kasbekar N, Sullivan P, Okala P, Brenann PJ. Factors Associated With COVID-19 Vaccine Receipt by Health Care Personnel at a Major Academic Hospital During the First Months of Vaccine Availability. JAMA Network Open. 2021 Dec 1;4(12):e2136582.

• Schnake-Mahl AS, Lazo M, Dureja K, Ehtesham N, Bilal U. Racial and Ethnic Inequities in Occupational Exposure Across and Between US cities. Social Science and Medicine - Population Health 2021;16:1009592

• Schnake-Mahl AS, Bilal U. Person, Place, Time and COVID-19 Inequities. American Journal of Epidemiology 2021 Aug 1;190(8):1447-1451.

• Bilal U, Tabb LP, Barber S, Diez Roux AV. Spatial Inequities in COVID-19 Testing, Positivity, Confirmed Cases and Mortality in 3 US Cities: an Ecological Study. Annals of Internal Medicine 2021 Jul;174(7):936-944.

• Bilal U, Alfaro A, Vives A. COVID-19 and the worsening of health inequities in Santiago, Chile. International Journal of Epidemiology 2021 Jul 9;50(3):1038-1040

• Bilal U. [COVID-19 in the US: inequality as cause and consequence]. Revista de Medicina y Cine, 2020;16(e):105-117

Impacts and Determinants of the COVID-19 Pandemic

• Schnake-Mahl AS, O'Leary G, Mullachery PH, Vaidya V, Connor G, Rollins H, Kolker J, Diez Roux AV, Bilal U. The impact of keeping indoor dining closed on COVID-19 rates among large US cities: a quasi-experimental design. Epidemiology 2022 Mar 1;33(2):200-208.

• O’Leary G, Schnake-Mahl AS, Vaidya V, Bilal U, Kolker J. Indoor dining and in-person learning: a comparison of 30 US cities. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021, 18(20), 10967.

• Martinez-Folgar K, Alburez-Gutierrez D, Paniagua-Avila A, Ramirez-Zea M, Bilal U. Excess Mortality During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Guatemala. American Journal of Public Health. 2021 Sep 23;e1-e8. doi:

• Kephart JL, Delclos-Alio X, Sarmiento OL, Barrientos-Gutierrez T, Ramirez-Zea M, Quistberg DA, Rodriguez DA, Bilal U*, Diez Roux AV. The impact of population mobility on COVID-19 incidence in 314 Latin American cities: a longitudinal ecological study. The Lancet Digital Health. 2021 Aug 26:S2589-7500(21)00174-6.

• Glodeanu A, Gullón P, Bilal U. Social Inequalities in Mobility During and Following the COVID-19 associated lockdown of the Madrid Metropolitan Area in Spain. Health and Place 2021 Jul;70:102580.

• Glodeanu A, Gullón P, Bilal U. [Our experience using mobility data to detect inequalities during the COVID-19 pandemic]. Gaceta Sanitaria 2021 Jun 3:S0213-9111(21)00105-9

• Trias-Llimos S, Bilal U, Franco M, Blanes A, Riffe T. [Declines in life expectancy in 2020 and SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence]. Gaceta Sanitaria 2021 Jul 28:S0213-9111(21)00139-4.

• Bilal U, Gullón P, Padilla-Bernáldez J. [Epidemiologic evidence on the role of hospitality venues in the transmission of COVID-19: a rapid review of the literature]. Gaceta Sanitaria 2021 Apr 8:S0213-9111(21)00075-3

• Calderón-Aynosa R, Bilal U, Kaufman JS. Variation in non-external and external causes of death in Peru in relation to the COVID-19 Lockdown. Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine 2021 Mar 31;94(1):23-40.

• Kephart JL, Avila-Palencia I, Bilal U, Gouveia N, Caiaffa WT, Diez Roux AV. COVID-19, ambient air pollution, and environmental health inequities in Latin American cities. Journal of Urban Health 2021 Jun;98(3):428-432.

• Bilal U. [The dynamics of contagion in cities]. Revista Panorama Social FUNCAS, 2020 Dec;(32):77-94

• Trias-Llimos S, Riffe T, Bilal U. Monitoring life expectancy levels during the COVID-19 pandemic: Example of the unequal impact of the first wave on Spanish regions. PLoS One. 2020 Nov 5;15(11):e0241952.

• Trias-Llimos S, Bilal U. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on life expectancy in Madrid (Spain). Journal of Public Health, 2020;42(3):635-636.

Health Across the Continuum of Urbanization

• McCulley EM, Mullachery PH, Ortigoza AF, Rodriguez DA, Diez Roux AV, Bilal U. Urban Scaling of Health Outcomes: a scoping review. Journal of Urban Health 2022. Accepted for Publication

• Mullachery PH, Lankenau S, Diez Roux AV, Li R, Henson RM, Bilal U. Urban scaling of opioid overdose deaths in the United States: a cross-sectional study in three periods between 2005 and 2017. BMJ Open 2022;12:e048831.

• Bilal U, de Castro CP, Alfaro T, Barrientos-Gutierrez T, Barreto ML, Leveau C, Martinez-Folgar K, Miranda JJ, Montes F, Mullachery PH, Pina MF, Rodriguez DA, dos Santos GF, Andrade RFS, Diez Roux AV. Scaling of Mortality in 742 Metropolitan Areas of the Americas. Science Advances 2021 Dec 10;7(50):eabl6325.

• Mullachery PH, Bilal U. Urban scaling of opioid analgesic sales in the United States. PLoS One. 2021 Oct 12;16(10):e0258526.

• Quistberg DA, Hessel P, Rodriguez DA, Sarmiento OL, Bilal U, Caiaffa WT, Miranda JJ, Pina MF, Hernandez-Vasquez AA, Diez Roux AV. Urban Landscape and Street Design Factors Associated with Road Traffic Mortality: A study of 328,408 road traffic deaths in 366 Latin American Cities: an Ecological Study. The Lancet Planetary Health 2022;6:e122-31

• Sarmiento OL, Useche AF, Rodriguez DA, Dronova I, Guaje O, Montes F, Stankov I, Wilches MA, Bilal U, Wang X, Guzman LA, Peña F, Quistberg DA, Guerra-Gomez JA, Diez Roux AV. Built Environment Profiles for Latin American Urban Settings: The SALURBAL study. PLoS ONE 2021, 16(10):e0257528

• Mullachery PH, Rodriguez DA, Miranda JJ, Lopez-Olmedo N, Martinez-Folgar K, Barreto ML, Diez Roux AV, Bilal U. Mortality amenable to healthcare in Latin American cities: a cross-sectional study examining between-country variation in amenable mortality and the role of urban metrics. International Journal of Epidemiology 2021 Aug 2:dyab137.

• Bilal U, Hessel P, Perez-Ferrer C, Michael YL, Alfaro T, Tenorio-Mucha J, de Friche AAL, Pina MF, Vives A, Quick H, Alazraqui M, Rodriguez DA, Miranda JJ, Diez-Roux AV, and the SALURBAL group. Life expectancy and mortality in 363 cities of Latin America. Nature Medicine 2021 Mar;27(3):463-470

• McCulley EM, Mullachery P, Rodriguez D, Diez-Roux AV, Bilal U. Urban Scaling of Health Outcomes: a protocol for a scoping review. BMJ Open 2019; 9 (11), e031176

Health Inequalities

• Koh C, Kondo M, Rollins H, Bilal U. Socioeconomic Disparities in Hypertension by Levels of Green Space Availability: A Cross-Sectional Study in Philadelphia, PA. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2022;19(4), 2037

• Vela E, Cleries M, Bilal U, Banach M, McEvoy JW, Mortensen MB, Blaha MJ, Nasir K, Comin-Colet J, Mauri J, Cainzos-Achirica M. Implications of the 2021 ESC Cardiovascular Risk Classification among 283,000 European Immigrants Living in a Low-Risk Region: A Population-Based Analysis in Catalonia. Archives of Medical Science 2021. In Press

• Moran MR, Bilal U*, Dronova I, Ju Y, Gouveia N, Caiaffa WT, de Lima Friche AA, Moore K, Miranda JJ, Rodriguez DA. The equigenic effect of greenness on the association between education with life expectancy and mortality in 28 large Latin American cities. Health and Place 2021 Nov;72:102703

• Rodriguez S, Bilal U, Ortigoza A, Diez Roux AV. Educational inequalities, urbanicity and levels of non-communicable diseases risk factors: Evaluating trends in Argentina (2005-2013). BMC Public Health. 2021 Aug 20;21(1):1572.

• Tumas N, Rodriguez S, Bilal U, Ortigoza A, Diez Roux AV. Urban social determinants of non-communicable diseases risk factors in Argentina. Health and Place 2021 Jun 29:102611.

• Satish P, Vela E, Bilal U, Cleries M, Kanaya AM, Kandula N, Virani SS, Islam N, Valero-Elizondo J, Yahya T, Comin-Colet J, Nasir K, Mauri J, Cainzos-Achirica M. Burden of cardiovascular risk factors and disease in five Asian groups in Catalonia: a disaggregated, population-based analysis of 121 000 first-generation Asian immigrants. Eur J Prev Cardiol 2021 May 10;zwab074.

• Mullachery PH, Bilal U. The Social Cross-Over in Cardiovascular Disease: Context Matters. Heart 2021 May;107(10):778-780.

• Guadamuz JS, Kapoor K, Lazo M, Eleazar A, Yahya T, Kanaya AM, Cainzos-Achirica M, Bilal U. Understanding Immigration as a Social Determinant of Health: Cardiovascular Disease in Hispanics/Latinos and South Asians in the United States. Current Atherosclerosis Reports. 2021 Mar 27;23(6):25.

• Gullon P, Bilal U, Hirsch JA, Rundle A, Judd S, Safford M, Lovasi GS. Does a physical activity supportive environment ameliorate or exacerbate socioeconomic inequities in incident coronary heart disease?. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 2020 Dec 14:jech-2020-215239

• Gullon P, Diez J, Cainzos-Achirica M, Franco M, Bilal U. Social Inequities in Cardiovascular Risk Factors in women and men by Autonomous Regions in Spain. Gaceta Sanitaria 2020 Jul 13:S0213-9111(20)30117-5.

• Bilal U, Diez-Roux AV, Alazraqui M, Caiaffa WT, Lopez-Olmedo N, Martinez-Folgar K, Miranda JJ, Rodriguez DA, Vives A. Life expectancy inequalities within six large Latin American cities in the SALURBAL study: an ecological analysis. The Lancet Planetary Health 2019; 3 (12), e503-e510

• Bilal U, Cainzos-Achirica M*, Cleries M, Santaeugenia S, Corbella X, Comin-Colet J, Vela E. Socioeconomic Status, Life Expectancy and Mortality in a Universal Healthcare Setting: An Individual-Level Analysis of More Than 6 Million Catalan Residents. Preventive Medicine 2019 Jun;123:91-94

• Cainzos-Achirica M, Vela E, Cleries M, Bilal U, Mauri J, Pueyo MJ, Rosas A, Blaha MJ, Kanaya AM, Enjuanes C, Garcia-Eroles L, Comin-Coilet J. Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Disease among Non-European Immigrants Living in Catalonia. Heart 2019 Aug;105(15):1168-1174.

• Cainzos-Achirica M, Capdevila C, Vela E, Cleries M, Bilal U, Garcia-Altes A, Enjuanes C, Garay A, Yun S, Farre N, Corbella X, Comin-Colet J. Individual Income, Mortality and Healthcare Resource Use in Patients with Chronic Heart Failure Living in a Universal Healthcare System: A Population-Based Study in Catalonia, Spain. Int J Cardiol. 2019 Feb 15;277:250-257

• Bilal U, Diez-Roux AV. Troubling Trends in Health Disparities. New England Journal of Medicine. 2018 Apr 19;378(16):1557-1558.

• Bilal U, Hill-Brigs F, Sanchez-Perruca L, del Cura I, Franco M. Association of Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Diabetes Burden using Electronic Health Records in Madrid (Spain): The Heart Healthy Hoods Study. BMJ Open. 2018;8:e021143.

• Lazo M, Bilal U*, Perez-Escamilla R. Epidemiology of NAFLD and Type 2 Diabetes: Health Disparities Among Persons of Hispanic Origin. Current Diabetes Reports. 2015 Dec;15(12):116

Neighborhood Dynamics

• Hirsch JA, Zhao Y, Bilal U, Neckerman KM, Michael YL. Health and Health-Related Resources in Newly Designated Federally Qualified Opportunity Zones, US, 2012-2016. American Journal of Public Health 2020; 110 (3), 407-415

• Bilal U, Franco M, Lau B, Celentano D, Glass T. Measuring Neighborhood Social and Economic Change for Urban Health Studies. Urban Studies 2020; 57(6), 1301–1319

• Bilal U, Glass T, del Cura-Gonzalez I, Sanchez-Perruca L, Celentano D, Franco M. Neighborhood Social and Economic Change and Diabetes Incidence: The HeartHealthyHoods Study. Health & Place 2019;58:102149

• Bilal U, Jones-Smith J, Diez J, Lawrence RS, Celentano DD, Franco M. Neighborhood social and economic change and retail food environment change in Madrid (Spain): The Heart Healthy Hoods Study. Health & Place. 2018;51:107-17

• Gullon P, Bilal U*, Cebrecos A, Badland HM, Galan I, Franco M. Intersection of neighborhood dynamics and socioeconomic status in small-area walkability: the Heart Healthy Hoods project. International Journal of Health Geographics. 2017; 16:21

• Glass TA, Bilal U. Are neighborhoods causal? Complications arising from the ‘stickiness’ of ZNA. Social Science and Medicine. 2016 Oct; 166:244-53

Food Environment

• Armendariz M, Perez-Ferrer C, Basto-Abreu A, Lovasi G, Bilal U, Barrientos-Gutierrez T. Changes in the Retail Food Environment in Mexican Cities and their Association with Blood Pressure Outcomes. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2022, 19(3), 1353

• Sadler RC, Bilal U, Furr-Holden CD. Linking Historical Discriminatory Housing Patterns to the Contemporary Food Environment in Baltimore. Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology 2021 Feb;36:100387

• Perez-Ferrer C, Auchincloss AH, Barrientos-Gutierrez T, Colchero A, Cardoso L, Menezes M, Bilal U. Longitudinal Changes in the Retail Food Environment in Mexico and their Association with Diabetes. Health and Place 2020, 66, 102461

• Martinez-Garcia A, Diez J, Fernandez-Escobar C, Trescastro-Lopez EM, Pereyra-Zamora P, Ariza C, Bilal U, Franco M. Adaptation and evaluation of the Nutrition Environment Measures Survey in stores to assess Mediterranean food environments (NEMS-S-MED). International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2020, 17(19), 7031

• Diez J, Cebrecos A, Galen I, Perez-Freixo H, Franco M, Bilal U. Assessing the retail food environment in Madrid: evaluation of administrative data against ground-truthing. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2019, 16(19), 3538

• Misiaszek C, Kvit A, Burns C, Harding J, Buczynski AB, Freishtat H, Bassarab K, Bilal U, Palmer A. Reliability of an audit tool to measure healthy food availability in food outlets across Baltimore City. Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition 2019. In Press

• Diez J, Cebrecos A, Rapela A, Borrell LN, Bilal U, Franco M. Socioeconomic inequalities in the retail food environment around schools in the city of Madrid. Nutrients. 2019;11(7)1511

• Diez J, Bilal U, Franco M. Unique features of the Mediterranean food environment: Implications for the prevention of chronic diseases. Eur J Clin Nutr. 2019 Jul;72(Suppl 1):71-75.

• Bilal U, Auchincloss AH, Diez-Roux AV. Neighborhood Environments and Diabetes Risk and Control. Current Diabetes Reports. 2018;18:62

• Knapp EA, Bilal U, Burke BT, Dougherty GB, Glass TA. A network approach to understanding obesogenic environments for children in Pennsylvania. Connections. 2018;38(1):1-11

• Cebrecos A, Diez J, Gullon P, Bilal U, Franco M, Escobar F. Characterizing physical activity and food urban environments: a GIS-based multicomponent proposal. International Journal of Health Geographics. 2016;15:35

• Diez J, Bilal U, Cebrecos A, Buczynski A, Lawrence RS, Glass TA, Escobar F, Gittelsohn J, Franco M. Understanding differences in the local food environment across countries: A case study in Madrid (Spain) and Baltimore (USA). Preventive Medicine. 2016 Aug; 89: 237-244

• Cobb LK, Anderson CA, Appel LJ, Jones-Smith J, Bilal U, Gittelsohn J, Franco M. Changes in healthy food availability in Baltimore City food stores, 2006-2012 and the impact of the 2009 WIC policy change. Health Affairs. 2015 Nov 1;34(11):1849-5

Other Neighborhood Factors

• Martin-Turrero I, Valiente R, Molina-de la Fuente I, Bilal U, Lazo M, Sureda X. Accessibility and availability of alcohol outlets around schools: an ecological study in the city of Madrid, Spain, according to socioeconomic area-level. Environmental Research, 2022 Mar;204(Pt C):112323

• Cereijo L, Gullon P, del Cura I, Valades D, Bilal U, Badland H, Franco M. Exercise facilities and the prevalence of obesity and type 2 diabetes in the city of Madrid. Diabetologia Diabetologia. 2022 Jan;65(1):150-158

• Gullon P, Bilal U, Sanchez P, Diez J, Lovasi GS, Franco M. A comparative case study of walking environment in Madrid and Philadelphia using multiple sampling methods and street virtual audits. Cities & Health 2020. In Press

• Valiente R, Escobar F, Pearce J, Bilal U, Franco M, Sureda X. Estimating and mapping cigarette butt littering in urban environments: A GIS approach. Environmental Research 2020, 109142

• Valiente R, Escobar F, Pearce J, Bilal U, Franco M, Sureda X. Mapping the visibility of smokers across a large capital city. Environmental Research 2020, 180, 108888

• Cereijo L, Gullón P, Cebrecos A, Bilal U, Santacruz J, Badland H, Franco M. Access to and availability of exercise facilities in Madrid: an equity perspective. Int J Health Geographics. 2019;18:15

• Valiente R, Sureda F, Bilal U, Navas-Acien A, Pearce J, Franco M, Escobar FJ. Regulating the local availability of tobacco retailing in Madrid, Spain: a GIS study to evaluate compliance. Tobacco Control. 2019;28:325–333

• Sureda F, Bilal U, Fernandez E, Valiente R, Escobar FJ, Navas-Acien A, Franco M. Second-hand smoke exposure in outdoor hospitality venues: smoking visibility and assessment of airborne markers. Environmental Research. 2018;165:220-27

• Bilal U, Diez J, Alfayate S, Gullon P, del Cura I, Escobar F, Sandin M, Franco M. Population Cardiovascular Health and Urban Environments: The Heart Healthy Hoods exploratory study in Madrid, Spain. BMC Medical Research Methodology. 2016;16:104

• Gullon P, Badland HM, Alfayate S, Bilal U, Escobar F, Cebrecos A, Diez J, Franco M. Assessing walking and cycling environments in the streets of Madrid: Comparing on-field and virtual audits. Journal of Urban Health. 2015 Oct;92(5):923-39

• Franco M, Bilal U, Diez-Roux AV. Preventing non-communicable diseases through structural changes in urban environments. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 2015 Jun;69(6):509-11

Macrosocial change

• Knapp, EA, Bilal U, Lazo M, Dean LT, Celentano D. Economic Insecurity and Deaths of Despair in US Counties. American Journal of Epidemiology 2019. In Press

• Bilal U, Knapp EA, Cooper RS. Swing Voting in the 2016 Presidential Election in Counties Where Midlife Mortality has been Rising in White Non-Hispanic Americans. Social Science and Medicine. 2018;197:33-38 (PostPrint Accepted Version)

• Bilal U, Cooper RS, Abreu FM, Nau C, Franco M, Glass TA. Economic Growth and Mortality: Do Social Protection Policies Matter? International Journal of Epidemiology 2017 Aug 1;46(4):1147-1156. (PostPrint Accepted Version)

• Franco M, Bilal U, Orduñez P, Benet M, Morejon A, Caballero B, Kennelly JF, Cooper RS. Population-wide body weight loss and regain in relation to diabetes and cardiovascular disease mortality: Cuba 1980-2010. British Medical Journal. BMJ 2013;346:f1515.

Clinical and Social Determinants of Smoking

• Miles B, Bilal U*, Hutton H, Lau B, Lesko C, Fojo A, McCaul M, Keruly J, Moore R, Chander G. Smoking, Substance Use, and Mental Health Symptoms in People with HIV in an Urban, HIV Clinic. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 2019, 30: 1083–1102

• Martin-Sanchez J, Martinez-Sanchez J, Bilal U, Cleries R, Marcela F, Lidon-Moyano C, Sureda F, Franco M, Fernandez E. Sex and age specific projections of smoking prevalence in Spain: a Bayesian approach. Nicotine & Tobacco Research. 2018 May 3;20:725-30

• Martin-Sanchez J, Bilal U, Cleries R, Lidon-Moyano C, Marcela F, Gonzalez-de Paz L, Franco M, Fernandez E. Martinez-Sanchez J. Modelling Lung Cancer Mortality Rates from Smoking Prevalence: Fill in the Gap. Cancer Epidemiology. 2017 May 18;49:19-23

• Bilal U, Beltran P, Navas-Acien A, Fernandez E, Bolumar F, Franco M. Gender Equality and Smoking: a theory-driven approach to smoking gender differences in Spain. Tobacco Control 2016 May;25(3):295-300

• Bilal U, Fernandez E, Beltran P, Navas-Acien A, Bolumar F, Franco M. Validation of a Method to Reconstruct Historical Smoking Prevalence Rates. American Journal of Epidemiology 2014;179 (1): 15-19.

Clinical and Social Determinants of Alcohol Consumption

• Lazo M, Bilal U, Mitchell MC, Potter J, Hernaez R. Clark JM. Interaction between alcohol consumption and PNPLA3 variant in the prevalence of hepatic steatosis in the U.S. Population. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 2020 Aug 31:S1542-3565(20)31213-1.

• Bilal U, McCaul ME, Matthews CW, Mayer K, Geng E, Napravnik S, Eron JJ, Mugavero MJ, Hutton H, Cropsey K, Saag M, Crane H, Lau B, Chander G. Predictors of Longitudinal Trajectories of Alcohol Consumption in People With HIV. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. 2018 Mar;42(3):561-570.

• Fuentes S, Bilal U, Galan I, Villalbi JR, Espelt A, Bosque-Prous M, Franco M, Lazo M. Binge drinking and well-being in European Older Adults: Do gender and region matter? European Journal of Public Health. 2017 Aug 1;27(4):692-699.

• Bilal U, Lau B, Lazo M, McCaul ME, Hutton HE, Sulkowski MS, Moore RD, Chander G. Interaction Between Alcohol Consumption Patterns, Antiretroviral Therapy Type and Liver Fibrosis in Persons Living with HIV. AIDS Patient Care and STDs. 2016 May 30(5): 200-207.

Cardiovascular Prevention

• Javed Z, Valero-Elizondo J, Dudum R, Khan SU, Dubey P, Hyder A, Xu J, Bilal U, Kash BA, Cainzos-Achirica M, Nasir K. Development and Validation of A Polysocial Risk Score for Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease. American Journal of Preventive Cardiology. 2021 Aug 30;8:100251

• Cainzos-Achirica M, Bilal U. Further improvements in coronary heart disease mortality in Spain: context, paradoxes, and pathways forward. Rev Esp Cardiol (Engl Ed). 2021 Jun 19:S1885-5857(21)00178-X

• Martinez-Amezcua P, Haque W, Khera R, Kanaya AM, Saptar N, Kandula NH, Jose PO, Narayan V, Agyemang C, Misra A, Jenum AK, Bilal U, Nasir K, Cainzos-Achirica M. The Upcoming Epidemic of Heart Failure in South Asia. Circulation: Heart Failure 2020 Oct;13(10):e007218

• Cainzos-Achirica M, Bilal U. Polypill for Population-Level Primary Cardiovascular Prevention in Underserved Populations at Heterogeneous Risk — A Social Epidemiology Counterargument. American Journal of Medicine, 2020 May 20:S0002-9343(20)30420-4.

• Cainzos-Achirica M, Fedeli U, Sattar N, Agyemang C, Jenum AK, McEvoy JW, Murphy JD, Brotons C, Elosua R, Bilal U, Kanaya AM, Kandula NR, Martinez-Amezcua P, Comin-Colet J, Pinto X. Epidemiology, risk factors, and opportunities for prevention of cardiovascular disease in individuals of South Asian ethnicity living in Europe. Atherosclerosis. 2019;286:105-113.

• Cainzos-Achirica M, Bilal U*, Al Rifai M, McEvoy JW, Blumenthal RS, Kapoor K, Martin-Sanchez JM, Comin-Colet J, Pladevall-Vila M, Blaha MJ. Communication Issues in Nutritional Observational Research. Preventive Medicine 2018;115:76-82

• Cainzos-Achirica M, Bilal U*, Kapoor K, Quispe-Ayala R, McEvoy JW, Pladevall-Vila M, Blumenthal RS, Blaha MJ. Methodological Issues in Nutritional Epidemiology Research – Sorting Through the Confusion. Current Cardiovascular Risk Reports. 2018;12:4

• Redondo O, Villamor E, Valdes J, Bilal U, Caballero B, Roche D, Kroker F, Ramirez M, Franco M. Validation of a BMI cutoff point to predict an adverse cardiometabolic profile with DEXA adiposity measurements in Guatemalan children. Public Health Nutrition 2014 Jun 23:1-8.

• Franco M, Bilal U, Guallar E, Sanz G, Gomez A, Fuster V, Cooper R. Systematic Review of Three Decades of Spanish Cardiovascular Epidemiology: Improving Translation for a Future of Prevention. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology. 2013 Ago;60(4):565-576.

• Franco M, Cooper R, Bilal U, Fuster V. Challenges and opportunities for cardiovascular disease prevention. American Journal of Medicine. 2011 Feb;124(2):95-102.

Other

• Langellier B, Stankov I, Hammond RA, Bilal U, Auchincloss AH, Barrientos T, de Oliveira Cardoso L, Diez Roux AV. Potential impacts of policies to reduce purchasing of ultra-processed foods in Mexico at different stages of the social transition: an agent-based modeling approach. Public Health Nutrition. 2021 Dec 13:1-9

• Porta M, Pumarega J, Henriquez-Hernandez LA, Gasull M, Bartoll X, Arrebola JP, Morales E, Ibarluzea J, Algucil J, Bilal U, Luzardo OP. Reductions in blood concentrations of persistent organic pollutants in the general population of Barcelona from 2006 to 2016. Science of the Total Environment 2021, 777:146013

• Abraham A, Gille D, Puhan MA, ter Riet G, von Wyl V, for the International Consortium on Teaching Epidemiology [incl. Bilal U]. Defining Core Competencies for Epidemiologists in Academic Settings to Tackle Tomorrow’s Health Research Challenges: A Structured, Multi-National Effort: International Consortium on Teaching Epidemiology. American Journal of Epidemiology, 2021 Feb 1;190(3):343-352.

• Quistberg DA, Diez-Roux AV, Bilal U, Moore K, Ortigoza A, Rodriguez DA, Sarmiento OL, Frenz P, Friche AA, Caiaffa WT, Vives A, Miranda JJ, the SALURBAL Group. Building a Data Platform for Cross-Country Urban Health Studies: the SALURBAL Study. Journal of Urban Health. 2019 Apr;96(2):311-337

• Langellier BA, Bilal U, Montes F, Meisel JD, de Oliveira Cardoso L, Hammond RA. Complex systems approaches to diet: a systematic review. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2019;57(2):273−281

• Goldstein D, Bilal U, Prasad V. Pembrolizumab as first line therapy in PD-L1 positive advanced lung cancer: Is it as effective as we think it is? Cancer. 2017 Oct; 123(20):3872-3874

• Carrasco M, Bilal U. A Sign of the Times: To Have or To Be? Social Capital or Social Cohesion?. Social Science and Medicine. 2016 Jun; 159: 127-131

• Prasad V, Bilal U. The Role of Censoring on Progression Free Survival: Oncologist Discretion Advised. European Journal of Cancer 2015. 2015 Nov;51(16):2269-71

• Suarez L, Bilal U*, Bordallo J, Cantabrana B, Sanchez M. Androgens block outward potassium currents and decrease spontaneous action potentials in GH3 cells. Naunyn Schmiedebergs Arch Pharmacol. 2015 Jan;388(1):67-78.

Other Editorials and Correspondence

• Bilal U, Gullon P. [Book Review: A quien vamos a dejar morir?]. Gaceta Sanitaria, 2021 May-Jun;35(3):307.

• Li R, Bilal U. Book Review: Interactive Web-based Data Visualization with R, plotly, and shiny. Biometrics 2021;77(2):776-7.

• Bilal U. What has it meant for me to be an epidemiologist in 2020?. Epidemiology, 2021 Jan;32(1):146-147.

• Bilal U. Comment on Precision Medicine and Individual Health. Issues in Science and Technology. Spring 2020;36(3)

• Bilal U, Cainzos-Achirica M. Polypill for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in an Underserved Population. New England Journal of Medicine, 2020; 382 (1), 94-95

• Cainzos-Achirica M, Trapero-Bertran M, Bilal U, Corbella X, Comun-Colet J. Chronic Heart Failure Care and Costs: What Is The Efficiency of Investing in Quality?. JACC Heart Failure. 2018 Aug;6(8):723-4

• Cainzos-Achirica M, Pladevall-Vila M, Bilal U. Selection Bias and Residual Confounding in the studies by Gunter and Park. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2018 Mar 6;168(5):379-380.

• Bilal U, Kaufman JS. The Theft of Well-Being: A comment on Zunzunegui, et al. Gaceta Sanitaria. 2017 Sep - Oct;31(5):363-364

• Carrasco M, Bilal U. Are subversion and conflict component parts of social cohesion? - A response to Lindstrom. Social Science and Medicine. 2016 Nov;169:31-32.

• Bilal U, Padilla-Bernaldez J. [Cancer and Meat Consumption: Beyond Individual Lifestyles]. Gaceta Sanitaria 2016 Jul-Aug; 30(4):318

• Bilal U, Fernandez E, Navas-Acien A, Bolumar F, Franco M. Five Authors Reply. American Journal of Epidemiology 2014 Sep 15;180(6):659

• Gullón P, Bilal U, Franco M. Physical activity environment measurement and same source bias. Gac Sanit. 2014 Jul-Aug;28(4):344-5

• Padilla J, Carmona M, Bilal U. Trivializing conflict of interest, a crime against public health. British Medical Journal (Rapid-Response, 12 November 2013)

• Bilal U, Padilla J. Spanish government expels undocumented migrants from the health care system. European Journal of Public Health (E-Letter, 8 June 2012)

• Franco M, Cooper R, Bilal U, Fuster V. Control of Coronary Heart Disease Risk Factors and Evidence-Based Therapies: Joint Efforts for Coronary Heart Disease Prevention in Spain. Revista Española Cardiología. 2011 Nov;64(11):962-964