Accepted Abstracts & Conference Presentations

Fuller, H., Huseth-Zosel, A., & Carson, P. (2023, November). Demographic variations in older adults’ perceptions of physician recommendations of vaccines and associations with vaccination uptake. Accepted at: APHA 2023 Annual Meeting & Expo; November 12-15, 2023; Atlanta, GA.

Nichols A, Abed M, Hall K, Carson P. Pediatric Influenza Vaccination Rates Prior To and During COVID-19 Pandemic Years in North Dakota: Disparities and Successes. Accepted at: APHA 2023 Annual Meeting & Expo; November 12-15, 2023; Atlanta, GA.

Williams M, Larson M, Nichols A, Rubinstein E, Carson P. “There’s being right, and there’s being effective”: Evaluation of an intervention to improve patient-provider interactions during COVID-19 and beyond. Accepted at: APHA 2023 Annual Meeting & Expo; November 12-15, 2023; Atlanta, GA.

Larson M, Soliman N, Rubinstein E. Challenges of disseminating patient-centered communication strategies to address vaccine hesitancy in a rural, frontier state. Accepted at: APHA 2023 Annual Meeting & Expo; November 12-15, 2023; Atlanta, GA.

Huseth-Zosel, A., & Fuller, H. Sources of vaccine information: Misgivings and trust issues among older adults in North Dakota. the Gerontological Society of America’s Annual Scientific Meeting; November 8-12, 2023; Tampa, FL.

Van Vleet B*, Fuller H, Huseth-Zosel A, Carson P. “There’s a lot of factors”: Utilizing I-Poetry to Understand Vaccine-Hesitant Decision Making. Poster to be presented at: the Gerontological Society of America Annual Scientific Meeting; November 8-12, 2023; Tampa, FL.

Fuller H, Huseth-Zosel A, Van Vleet B*, Carson P. Demographic Variation in Barriers to Vaccination Among Older Adults: Links to Vaccination Behaviors. Poster to be presented at: the Gerontological Society of America Annual Scientific Meeting; November 8-12, 2023; Tampa, FL.

Huseth-Zosel A, Fuller H, Hicks A, Chase R, Carson P. Formal and informal sources of vaccine information and the links to vaccine status for older adults in North Dakota. Poster presented at: 2023 AcademyHeath Annual Research Meeting; June 24-27, 2023; Seattle, WA.

Fuller H, Huseth-Zosel A, Van Vleet B, Hajdar M, Carson P. Vaccine hesitancy and compliance among older adults in North Dakota: Understanding demographic characteristic variability. Poster presented at: 2023 AcademyHeath Annual Research Meeting; June 24-27, 2023; Seattle, WA.

Skoy E. Innovation is Necessary to Preserve Independent, Community Pharmacy. Presentation presented at: McKesson IdeaShare; June 21-23, 2023; Las Vegas, NV.

Skoy E. Immunization Administration: Best Practices Refresher and Skills Assessment. Presentation presented at: McKesson IdeaShare; June 21-23, 2023; Las Vegas, NV.

Huseth-Zosel A, Fuller H, Hicks A, Chase R, Carson P. Vaccination perceptions and behaviors among adults aged 65 and older in North Dakota: Differences by rurality. Presentation presented at: Dakota Conference on Rural and Public Health; June 15, 2023; Grand Forks, ND.

Hursman A, Wanner H, Rubinstein E. Implementation of a VaxChamp in the Community Pharmacy Setting. Poster presented at: North Dakota State Pharmacy Convention; April 22, 2023; Minot ND.

Hursman A, Wanner H, Rubinstein E. Implementation of a VaxChamp in the Community Pharmacy Setting. Poster presented at: American Pharmacists Association 2023 Annual Meeting and Exposition. March 25, 2023; Phoenix, AZ.

Nagel L, Skoy E. North Dakota Community Pharmacy COVID-19 Site Visits. Poster presented at: American Pharmacists Association 2023 Annual Meeting and Exposition. March 24-27, 2023; Phoenix, AZ.

Crawford E, Thomas L, Anderson M. Messaging Strategy, Memory, and Memes: An Experimental Study of Taylor’s SSSW Using Blended and Unblended Anti-Vaccine Message Strategies. Presented at: 2023 American Academy of Advertising Annual Conference; March 23-26, 2023; Denver, CO.

Preugschas AH, Larson M, Rubinstein E, Nagel L, Skoy E. Maximizing rural health care by integrating public health and community pharmacy. Round table presentation at: APHA 2022 Annual Meeting & Expo; November 8, 2022; Boston, MA.

Nichols A, Larson M, Soliman N, Rubinstein E, Carson P. Using a peer-to-peer educational intervention to address vaccine hesitancy in health systems: Challenges and opportunities. Presentation presented at: APHA 2022 Annual Meeting & Expo; November 6, 2022; Boston, MA.

Kenzie D, Anderson M. Don’t Read the Comments: Vaccine Discourse on a State Department of Health Social Media Page. Presented at: The Association for Rhetoric of Science, Technology and Medicine 2022 Conference. May 2022.

Published Articles

Fuller, H., Huseth-Zosel, A., Van Vleet, B., Hajdar, M., & Carson, P. Vaccine attitudes and compliance among older adults in North Dakota: Understanding demographic characteristic variability. Vaccine. 2023. 42(6):6350-6458 
Vaccine attitudes and acceptance among older adults in North Dakota: Understanding demographic characteristic variability - PubMed (nih.gov)

Skoy E, Dybsand L, Hall K, Carson P. Assessment of a virtual educational program on health professional students’ vaccine knowledge, attitudes, and confidence managing patient hesitancy. Educ Health Prof 2022;5:13-9.
EducHealthProf5113-5836769_161247.pdf (ndsu.edu)​​​​​​

Skoy E, Rubinstein E, Nagel L, Preugshas AH, Larson M. Preparedness for a pandemic: Independent community pharmacists’ experiences delivering COVID-19 vaccines. J Am Pharm Assoc (2003). 2023; S1544-3191(23)00076-6. doi:10.1016/j.japh.2023.03.008.
​​​​​​​Preparedness for a pandemic: Independent community pharmacists’ experiences delivering COVID-19 vaccines - PMC (nih.gov)

Manuscripts Under Review

Huseth-Zosel, A., Fuller, H., Hicks, A., & Carson, P. Reliance on sources of immunization information and vaccine uptake among older adults in a rural state: The mediating role of trust. Social Science and Medicine.

Rubinstein E & Heinemann LL. Vaccine Hesitancy and the Limits of Biomedical Authority in the Rural U.S. Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Heinemann LL and EB Rubinstein. “We’re the Health Care in the Town, Pretty Much”: Rural Community Pharmacy and the Chronicity of Systemic Precarity.