Scholars@Duke
Elizabeth Macias Rojo

Scholarly Works

Navigating the heat: implementation challenges and opportunities for heat alert communication and rural health data infrastructure.

Journal article Front Public Health · 2026 Extreme heat is the most significant climate threat to public health, disproportionately impacting marginalized groups, including outdoor workers, older adults, and low-income rural populations. While the physiological consequences of heat-related illness- ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Understanding and addressing the health impacts of wildfires on Latines in California.

Journal article J Clim Chang Health · 2026 Globally, and particularly in California, the scale, intensity, and frequency of wildfires are increasing as climate change worsens. The gravity of this issue was recently made clear in Los Angeles County, California, where 29 people were killed and over 1 ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Evaluation of a novel virtual reality training intervention to address implicit bias among healthcare workers, using an implementation science framework.

Journal article PloS one · January 2025 BackgroundThere is a link between racial bias and poor health outcomes among Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC). We aimed to design and evaluate a novel pilot virtual reality (VR) training program to reduce racial bias among healthcare ... Full text Open Access Cite

¿De Dónde Eres? Latine Identity and Representation in Health Statistics.

Journal article American journal of public health · July 2024 Full text Cite

COVID-19 vaccine uptake and barriers among Indigenous language speakers in Mexico: Results from a nationally representative survey.

Journal article PLOS global public health · January 2024 Mexico faced a significant burden from the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the pandemic's onset in 2020, numerous studies have underscored the substantial risk of COVID-19 death among Indigenous individuals. This study aims to assess COVID-19 vaccine uptake among ... Full text Cite

Low Human Papillomavirus Vaccination in a Low-Income Urban Population.

Journal article Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education · December 2023 Despite widespread availability of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines and recommendations for routine use, awareness and uptake of HPV vaccination are not universal. We assessed self-reported history of HPV vaccination in a sample of low-income men and wo ... Full text Cite

The first Tanzanian Conference on Emergency Medicine.

Journal article African journal of emergency medicine : Revue africaine de la medecine d'urgence · December 2016 Full text Cite