Our work at the intersection of health, risk, communciation, and public policy is ongoing. We are proud to have made many contributions to the literature stemming from the COVID pandemic, with more publications coming soon.

Birkland, Thomas A, Kristin Taylor, Deserai A Crow, and Rob DeLeo. 2021. “Governing in a Polarized Era: Federalism and the Response of U.S. State and Federal Governments to the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Publius: The Journal of Federalism 51 (4): 650–72. https://doi.org/10.1093/publius/pjab024.

Crow, Deserai A., Rob A. DeLeo, Elizabeth A. Albright, Kristin Taylor, Tom Birkland, Manli Zhang, Elizabeth Koebele, Nathan Jeschke, Elizabeth A. Shanahan, and Caleb Cage. 2023. “Policy Learning and Change during Crisis: COVID‐19 Policy Responses across Six States.” Review of Policy Research 40 (1): 10–35. https://doi.org/10.1111/ropr.12511.

DeLeo, Rob A., Elizabeth A. Shanahan, Kristin Taylor, Nathan Jeschke, Deserai Crow, Thomas A. Birkland, Elizabeth Koebele, Danielle Blanch-Hartigan, Courtney Welton‐Mitchell, Sandhya Sangappa, Elizabeth Albright, and Honey Minkowitz. 2024. “COVID-19 Memorable Messages as Internal Narratives: Stability and Change over Time.” Policy Sciences, July. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11077-024-09538-5.

DeLeo, Rob A., Kristin Taylor, Deserai A. Crow, and Thomas A. Birkland. 2021. “During Disaster: Refining the Concept of Focusing Events to Better Explain Long-Duration Crises.” International Review of Public Policy 3 (1). https://doi.org/10.4000/irpp.1868.

Dickinson, Katherine L., Jennifer D. Roberts, Natalie Banacos, Lindsay Neuberger, Elizabeth Koebele, Danielle Blanch-Hartigan, and Elizabeth A. Shanahan. 2021. “Structural Racism and the COVID-19 Experience in the United States.” Health Security 19 (S1): S14–26. https://doi.org/10.1089/hs.2021.0031.

Koebele, Elizabeth A., Elizabeth A. Albright, Katherine L. Dickinson, Danielle Blanch-Hartigan, Lindsay Neuberger, Rob A. DeLeo, Elizabeth A. Shanahan, and Jennifer D. Roberts. 2021. “Perceptions of Efficacy Are Key Determinants of Mask-Wearing Behavior during the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Natural Hazards Review 22 (3): 06021002. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)NH.1527-6996.0000489.

Roberts, Jennifer D, Katherine L Dickinson, Elizabeth Koebele, Lindsay Neuberger, Natalie Banacos, Danielle Blanch-Hartigan, Courtney Welton-Mitchell, and Thomas A Birkland. 2020. “Clinicians, Cooks, and Cashiers: Examining Health Equity and the COVID-19 Risks to Essential Workers.” Toxicology and Industrial Health 36 (9): 689–702. https://doi.org/10.1177/0748233720970439.

Shanahan, Elizabeth A, Rob A DeLeo, Elizabeth A Albright, Meng Li, Elizabeth A Koebele, Kristin Taylor, Deserai Anderson Crow, Katherine L. Dickinson, Honey Minkowitz, Thomas A. Birkland, and Manli Zhang. 2023. “Visual Policy Narrative Messaging Improves COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake.” Edited by Jay Van Bavel. PNAS Nexus 2 (4): pgad080. https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad080.

Taylor, Kristin, Rob A. DeLeo, Elizabeth A. Albright, Elizabeth A. Shanahan, Meng Li, Elizabeth A. Koebele, Deserai Anderson Crow, and Thomas A. Birkland. 2023. “Policy Entrepreneurs and Individuals: Influence and Behavior in Pandemic Response.” Public Administration Review 83 (5): 1246–65. https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13629.

Taylor, Kristin, Rob A. DeLeo, Elizabeth Albright, Elizabeth A. Koebele, Thomas A. Birkland, Deserai A. Crow, Manli Zhang, and Elizabeth A. Shanahan. 2023. “Estimating the Effect of Policy Entrepreneurship on Individual Vaccination Behavior during the COVID-19 Pandemic.” European Policy Analysis . https://doi.org/10.1002/epa2.1198.

Taylor, Kristin, Rob DeLeo, Thomas Birkland, and Deserai Anderson Crow. 2023. “Policy Style and The US Policy Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Rebuttal to Lawrence D. Brown’s Fomenters of Fiasco.” International Review of Public Policy 5 (3). https://doi.org/10.4000/irpp.3639.

Taylor, Kristin, Rob DeLeo, Deserai A. Crow, and T.A. Birkland. 2021. “The U.S. Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Incoherent Leadership, Fractured Federalism, and Squandered Capacity.” In Global Threat, National Responses: Policy Styles and Trust in the Age of Pandemics, edited by Nikolaos Zahariadis, Evangelina Petridou, Theofanis Exadaktylos, and Jörgen Sparf, 191–208. Routledge.

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