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Dr. Creary’s Publication Record

A call to embrace qualitative research in haematology journals

June 2026

Stephen PHibbs, Eunice Agyeman Ahmed, Imelda Bates, Melissa Creary, Lydia O Okoibhole, Brenda Agyeiwaa Poku, Mmamulatelo Siame-Mumbac, Bernard Appia

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Cultivating Authentic Partnership: Cooperative Development of a Toolkit to Mitigate Group Harm in Biorepository‐Enabled Research

April 2026

Shauntey Kalweit, Carly Marten, Odia Kane, Kalei Glozier, David Andres, Melissa Creary, Maile M Taualii, Joon‐Ho Yu, Megan Doerr

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A Collaborative Approach to Enhance Capacity and Power for Community-driven Policy Change: Project HEARD

November 2025

Clara L. Reyes, MPH, Chris M. Coombe PhD, MPH, Barbara A. Israel, DrPH, MPH, Amy J. Schulz, PhD, MPH, MSW, Angela G. Reyes, MPH, Hoai An, MPH, J. Ricardo Guzman, MSW, MPH, Mary Beth Damm, MPP, Melissa Creary, PhD, MPH, Sherita Smith, MPA, and Paul J. Fleming, PhD, MPH

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Why Building Power Is Key to Protecting Academic Public Health and Advancing Health Equity

October 2025

Caitlin L. McMurtry PhD, SM, Marjory L. Givens PhD, MSPH, Zinzi D. Bailey ScD, MSPH, Nick Graetz PhD, MPH, Paul J. Fleming PhD, MPH, Ryan J. Petteway DrPH, MPH, Julianna Pacheco PhD, MA, Sarah E. Gollust PhD, Jonathan C. Heller PhD, Hedwig E. Lee PhD, MA, Keshia M. Pollack Porter PhD, MPH, Sheri Johnson PhD, MA, Jamila D. Michener PhD, MA, Alana M. W. LeBrón PhD, MS, Amy Kate Bailey PhD, MA, James Bloyd DrPH, MA, Melissa Creary PhD, MPH, and India J. Ornelas PhD, MPH

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The racial politics of visibility and equity in genome-editing therapies for sickle cell disease

October 2025

Santiago J. Molina, Melissa Creary

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Racism Is An Ethical Issue For Healthcare Artificial Intelligence

June 2024

Kadija Ferryman, Nina Cesare, Melissa Creary, and Elaine O. Nsoesie

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Indicators for Engaging Communities

June 2024

Melissa Creary and Megan Doerr

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COVID-19 Immunization Coverage Among People With Sickle Cell Disease

January 2024

Hannah K. Peng, MPH; Kevin J. Dombkowski, DrPH; Melissa A. Plegue, MA; Krista Latta, MPH; Ryan Malosh, PhD; Melissa S. Creary, PhD; Sarah L. Reeves, PhD

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Working Towards Anti-Racist Local Health Departments: The ARCC Towards Justice Project

October 2023

Melissa Creary, Whitney Peoples, Lindsey Ruth Thatcher, Paul J Fleming

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Pivot: Partisan Policy Responses to COVID-19 Health Disparities

October 2023

Melissa S. Creary, Scott L. Greer, Sydney Kitzmiller, Phillip M. Singer, Naquia A. Unwala, Soha Vaziri

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The Public Performativity of Trust

October 2023

Melissa Creary, Lynette Hammond Gerido

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Applying Anti-racist Approaches to Informatics: a new lens on traditional frames

July 2023

Jodyn Platt, Paige Nong, Beza Merid, Minakshi Raj, Elizabeth Cope, Sharon Kardia, Melissa Creary

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Racism and the Textures of Visibility

June 2023

Melissa Creary

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Laboratory-based Inequity in Thrombosis and Hemostasis: review of the evidence

March, 2023

Lauren E. Merz MD, MSC, Fartoon M. Siad MD, MSc, Melissa Creary PhD, Michelle Sholzberg MDCM, MSc4, Angela C. Weyand MD

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Working Toward Health Equity Requires Antiracist Teaching

Jan 2023

Whitney Peoples, Paul Fleming, and Melissa Creary

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Bounded Equity: The Limits of Economic Models of Social Justice in Cannabis Legislation

Jan 2023

Katherine Hendy, Amanda I. Mauri, and Melissa Creary

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A Critical Analysis of White Racial Framing and Comfort with Medical Research

Jan 2023

Paige Nong, Melissa Creary, Jodyn Platt, and Sharon Kardia

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Antiracism and Community-Based Participatory Research: Synergies, Challenges, and Opportunities

Dec 2022

Paul J. Fleming, Lisa Cacari Stone, Melissa S. Creary, Ella Greene-Moton, Barbara A. Israel, Kent D. Key, Angela G. Reyes, Nina Wallerstein, and Amy J. Schulz

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Public Deliberation Process on Patient Perspectives on Health Information Sharing: Evaluative Descriptive Study

Sept 2022

Minakshi Raj, Kerry Ryan, Paige Nong, Karen Calhoun, M Grace Trinidad, Raymond De Vries, Melissa Creary, Kayte Spector-Bagdady, Sharon L R Kardia, and Jodyn Platt

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Usability of NewSTEPs Data for Assessing the Characteristics of Infants with Newborn Screening Disorders

July 2022

Amel Omari, Sarah L. Reeves, Lisa A. Prosser, Melissa S. Creary, Ayesha Ahmad, and Kao-Ping Chua

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AI Models in Health Care are not Colour Blind and We Should Not Be Either

May 2022

Jenna Wiens, Melissa Creary, and Michael W Sjoding

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Respecting Autonomy and Enabling Diversity: the Effect of Eligibility and Enrollment on Research Data Demographics

Dec 2021

Kayte Spector-Bagdady, Shengpu Tang, Sara Jabbour, W. Nicholson Price, Ana Bracic, Melissa S. Creary, Sachin Kheterpaul, Chad M. Brummet, Jenna Weins

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How Do You Solve a Problem like Maria? The Politics of Disaster Response in Puerto Rico, Florida and Texas

Oct 2021

Charley E. Willison, Phillip M. Singer, Melissa S. Creary, Soha Vaziri, Jerry Stott, Scott L. Greer

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Legitimate Suffering: A Case of Belonging and Sickle Cell Trait in Brazil.

Oct 2021

Melissa Creary

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Moving Scientific Publishing Toward Social Justice

Sept 2021

20 Women and Nonbinary Scholars

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Bounded Justice and the Limits of Health Equity

June 2021

Melissa Creary

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Structural Racism is Not an Exemption from Accountability

May 2021

Paige Nong, William Lopez, Paul Fleming, Riana Elyse Anderson, and Melissa Creary

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Patient-Reported Experiences of Discrimination in the US Health Care System

Dec 2020

Paige Nong, Minakshi Raj, Melissa Creary, Sharon LR Kardia, and Jodyn E. Platt

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Quantifying inequities in US federal response to hurricane disaster in Texas and Florida compared to Puerto Rico

Jan 2019

Charley Willison, Phillip Singer, Melissa Creary, and Scott Greer

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Biocultural citizenship and embodying exceptionalism: Biopolitics for sickle cell disease in Brazil

Feb 2018

Melissa Creary

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A Few Small Ways to Sneak Some Advocacy into Your Academic Writing

Feb 2018

Melissa Creary and William Lopez

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Perspectives and Practices of Athletic Trainers and Team Physicians Implementing the 2010 NCAA Sickle Cell Trait Screening Policy

Dec 2017

M. A. McDonald, M. S. Creary, J. Powell, L. A. Daley, C. Baker, and C. D. Royal

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Social Meaning and the Unintended Consequences of Inclusion

Aug 2017

Charley Willison, Philip Singer, Melissa Creary, and Scott Greer

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Use of the Word ‘Crisis’ in Sickle Cell Disease: The Language of Sickle Cell

Summer 2014

T Savitt, W Smith, C Haywood, and M Creary

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State-based Surveillance for Selected Hemoglobinopathies

July 2014

M Hulihan, L Feuchtbaum, L Jordan, R Kirby, A Snyder, W Young, et al.

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Acknowledging Levels of Racism in the Definition of ‘Difficult’

April 2013

M Creary and A Eisen

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Sickle Cell Disease

Dec 2011

H Yusuf, M Lloyd-Puryear, A Grant, C Parker, M Creary, and H Atrash

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Public Health Implications of Sickle Cell Trait

Dec 2011

A Grant, C Parker, L Jordan, M Hulihan, M Creary, M Lloyd-Puryear, J Goldsmith, and H Atrash

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Health Status and Healthcare Use in a National Sample of Children with Sickle Cell Disease

April 2010

S Boulet, E Yanni, M Creary, and R Olney.

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A Qualitative Analysis of Best Self-Management Practices: Sickle cell Disease

Nov 2010

P Tanabe, J Porter, M Creary, et al.

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Sickle Cell Disease: Current Activities, Public Health Implications, and Future Directions

June 2007

M Creary, D Williamson, R Kulkarni

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Metabolic Stress and Proinflammatory Cytokines in Children with Sickle Cell Anemia

Jan 2005

J Hibbert, L Hsu, S Bhathena, I Irune, B Sarfo, M Creary, B Gee, and J Stiles

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Working Toward Health Equity Requires Antiracist Teaching

Jan 2023

Whitney Peoples, Paul Fleming, and Melissa Creary

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Bounded Equity: The Limits of Economic Models of Social Justice in Cannabis Legislation

Jan 2023

Katherine Hendy, Amanda I. Mauri, and Melissa Creary

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A Critical Analysis of White Racial Framing and Comfort with Medical Research

Jan 2023

Paige Nong, Melissa Creary, Jodyn Platt, and Sharon Kardia

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Antiracism and Community-Based Participatory Research: Synergies, Challenges, and Opportunities

Dec 2022

Paul J. Fleming, Lisa Cacari Stone, Melissa S. Creary, Ella Greene-Moton, Barbara A. Israel, Kent D. Key, Angela G. Reyes, Nina Wallerstein, and Amy J. Schulz

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Public Deliberation Process on Patient Perspectives on Health Information Sharing: Evaluative Descriptive Study

Sept 2022

Minakshi Raj, Kerry Ryan, Paige Nong, Karen Calhoun, M Grace Trinidad, Raymond De Vries, Melissa Creary, Kayte Spector-Bagdady, Sharon L R Kardia, and Jodyn Platt