REACH Lab at Boston College

Publications

Selected Lab Publications

  • Diana Bowser, Kaili Mauricio, & Brielle Ruscitti. (2025). Life expectancy disparities in the USA: the Ten Americas study. The Lancet, 405(10496), 2203. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(25)01112-2 External Link
  • Diana Bowser, Priya Agarwal-Harding, Brielle Ruscitti, Don S. Shepard, & Arturo Harker Roa. (2025). The Impact of Regularization Policies on Health Access: Examining Female Venezuelan Migrants’ Access and Utilization of Healthcare Services in Colombia. Health Systems & Reform, 11(1), 2510769. https://doi.org/10.1080/23288604.2025.2510769
  • Patricia C. Underwood, Brielle Ruscitti, Tam Nguyen, Cherlie Magny-Normilus, Katherine Wentzell, Sharon A Watts, & Diana Bowser. (2025). A Health Systems Approach to Nurse-Led Implementation of Diabetes Prevention and Management in Vulnerable Populations. Health Systems & Reform, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/23288604.2025.2503648
  • Diana Bowser, Kaili Mauricio and Brielle Ruscitti. 2024. Nurse Workforce Growth and Medically Underserved Areas in the United States. BMC Health Serv Res 25, 80 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-025-12228-4
  • Brielle Ruscitti, Caroline Kern, and Diana Bowser. “Out-of-Pocket Costs Burden in Marketplace Plans for People With Diabetes.” Health Services Insights 17 (2024): 11786329241304618. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/11786329241304618
  • Kathryn E. McCollister, Diana Bowser, Jenny E. Becan, Danica K. Knight, Steven Belenko, Angela A. Robertson, and Michael L. Dennis. 2024. Addressing Unmet Need For Substance Use Disorder Treatment Among Youth in the Legal System (YLS): Costs of Structured Implementation Interventions With Community Supervision Agencies in Seven States (Under Review)
  • Mottl‐Santiago, Julie, Dmitry Dukhovny, Emily Feinberg, Jennifer Moore, Victoria Parker, Howard Cabral, Diana Bowser, and Gene Declercq. “Return‐on‐Investment Analysis of an Enhanced Community Doula Program: Pre‐and Post‐COVID‐19 Considerations.” Birth (2024). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/birt.12886
  • Agarwal-Harding, Priya, Brielle Ruscitti, Donald S. Shepard, Arturo Harker Roa, and Diana M. Bowser. “Disparities in healthcare-seeking behaviors and associated costs between Venezuelan migrants and Colombians residing in Colombia.” International journal for equity in health 23, no. 1 (2024): 202. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12939-024-02289-y
  • Bowser, Diana, Kathryn McCollister, Grace Berchtold, Brielle Ruscitti, Yang Yang, Heather Hines, Erminia Fardone, and Danica Knight. “Start-Up and Implementation Costs for the Trust Based Relational Intervention.” Journal of Prevention (2024): 1-14. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10935-024-00803-0
  • Bowser, Diana, Robert Bohler, Margot T. Davis, Dominic Hodgkin, and Constance Horgan. “Payment-related barriers to medications for opioid use disorder: A critical review of the literature and real-world application.” Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment (2024): 209441. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S294987592400153X
  • Bowser, Diana M., Kaili Maurico, Brielle A. Ruscitti, and William H. Crown. “American clusters: using machine learning to understand health and health care disparities in the United States.” Health Affairs Scholar 2, no. 3 (2024): qxae017. https://academic.oup.com/healthaffairsscholar/article/2/3/qxae017/7608196
  • Bowser, Diana, Eckhard Kleinau, Grace Berchtold, David Kapaon, and Leulsegged Kasa. “Return on investments in the Health Extension Program in Ethiopia.” Plos one 18, no. 11 (2023): e0291958. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0291958
  • Bowser, Diana, Robert Bohler, Margot Trotter Davis, Dominic Hodgkin, Richard G. Frank, and Constance M. Horgan. “New methadone treatment regulations should be complemented by payment and financing reform.” Health Affairs Forefront (2023). https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/new-methadone-treatment-regulations-should-complemented-payment-and-financing-reform
  • Shepard, Donald S., Adelaida Boada, Douglas Newball-Ramirez, Anna G. Sombrio, Carlos William Rincon Perez, Priya Agarwal-Harding, Jamie S. Jason, Arturo Harker Roa, and Diana M. Bowser. “Impact of COVID-19 on healthcare utilization, cases, and deaths of citizens and displaced Venezuelans in Colombia: Complementary comprehensive and safety-net systems under Colombia’s constitutional commitment.” PloS one 18, no. 3 (2023): e0282786. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0282786
  • Dunlap, Laura J., Margaret R. Kuklinski, Alexander Cowell, Kathryn E. McCollister, Diana M. Bowser, Mark Campbell, Claudia-Santi F. Fernandes et al. “Economic evaluation design within the HEAL Prevention Cooperative.” Prevention science 24, no. Suppl 1 (2023): 50-60. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11121-022-01400-5
  • Jason, J. S., Bowser, D. M., Harker Roa, A., Contreras Ceballos, D. C., Muñoz, S., Sombrio, A. G., & Shepard, D. S. (2022). Impact of weekday and weekend mobility and public policies on COVID-19 incidence and deaths across 76 large municipalities in Colombia: statistical analysis and simulation. BMC public health, 22(1), 2460. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12889-022-14781-7
  • Bowser, Diana M., Priya Agarwal-Harding, Anna G. Sombrio, Donald S. Shepard, and Arturo Harker Roa. “Integrating Venezuelan migrants into the Colombian health system during COVID-19.” Health Systems & Reform 8, no. 1 (2022): 2079448. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23288604.2022.2079448
  • Bowser, Diana M., Katharine R. Rowlands, Dhwani Hariharan, Raíssa M. Gervasio, Lauren Buckley, Yara Halasa-Rappel, Elizabeth L. Glaser, Christopher B. Nelson, and Donald S. Shepard. “Cost of respiratory syncytial virus infections in US infants: systematic literature review and analysis.” The Journal of infectious diseases 226, no. Supplement_2 (2022): S225-S235. https://academic.oup.com/jid/article/226/Supplement_2/S225/6666006
  • Glaser, Elizabeth L., Dhwani Hariharan, Diana M. Bowser, Raíssa M. Gervasio, Katharine R. Rowlands, Lauren Buckley, Christopher B. Nelson, and Donald S. Shepard. “Impact of respiratory syncytial virus on child, caregiver, and family quality of life in the United States: systematic literature review and analysis.” The Journal of infectious diseases 226, no. Supplement_2 (2022): S236-S245. https://academic.oup.com/jid/article/226/Supplement_2/S236/6666004#google_vignette
  • Bowser, Diana, Anna Sombrio, Neto Coulibaly, and Noah Mark. “Activity-based costing for HIV, primary care and nutrition services in low-and middle-income countries: A systematic literature review and synthesis.” Journal of global health economics and policy 1, no. 1 (2021): 0-0. https://hrcak.srce.hr/clanak/384215
  • Bowser, Diana, Neema Landey, Mustapha A. Njie, Reshma Dabideen, and Megan Gianfagna. “Health system strengthening for vision care in the Gambia.” Rural and remote health 21, no. 4 (2021): 1-11. https://search.informit.org/doi/abs/10.3316/informit.289401642018680
  • Zard, Monette, Ling San Lau, Diana M. Bowser, Fouad M. Fouad, Diego I. Lucumí, Goleen Samari, Arturo Harker et al. “Leave no one behind: ensuring access to COVID-19 vaccines for refugee and displaced populations.” Nature medicine 27, no. 5 (2021): 747-749. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01328-3
  • Bowser, Diana M., Brandy F. Henry, and Kathryn E. McCollister. “Cost analysis in implementation studies of evidence-based practices for mental health and substance use disorders: a systematic review.” Implementation Science 16 (2021): 1-15. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13012-021-01094-3
  • Kasa, L., Bowser, D., & Nandakumar, A. (2021). Technical efficiency analysis of health facilities in Haiti: a stochastic frontier approach. Journal of Hospital Management and Health Policy, 5. https://jhmhp.amegroups.org/article/view/6533/html
  • Richard, Patrick, Mark R. Bauer, Natalie Moresco, Regine Walker, Diana Bowser, Demarcio Reed, and Mary Jo Larson. “Opioid prescribing for surgical dental procedures in dental clinics of military treatment facilities.” The Journal of the American Dental Association 152, no. 2 (2021): 94-104. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33358238/
  • Okunogbe, Adeyemi, Diana Bowser, Gulin Gedik, Saha Naseri, Ayat Abu-Agla, and Najibullah Safi. “Global Fund financing and human resources for health investments in the Eastern Mediterranean Region.” Human Resources for Health 18 (2020): 1-13. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12960-020-00483-x