Selected Publications
Latinx health equity and health communication
Rivera, Y. M., Moran, M., Thrul, J., Joshu, C., & Smith, K.C. (2022). When engagement leads to action: Understanding the impact of cancer (mis)information among Latino Facebook users. Health Communication, 37(9), 1229-1241. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2021.1950442; PMID: 34256676, PMCID: PMC8755854
Rivera, Y. M. (2018). Reducing cancer health disparities among U.S. Latinos: A Freireian approach. International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare, 11(5), 368-379. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJHRH-02-2018-0021; PMID: 31032065, PMCID: PMC6485949
Kohler, R. E., Wagner, R. B., Vega, J., Rivera, Y. M., Kantor, L. & Greene, K. (2024). HPV Vaccine Information Sources, Needs, and Preferences Among Black and Hispanic Mothers. Accepted to Journal of Health Communication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2024.2386594
Rivera, Y. M., Cooper, H. L., & Rodríguez-Díaz, C. E. (2013). Exploring the reasons and ways Puerto Rican college students search for safer sex information. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 10(3), 208-220. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13178-013-0121-x
Digital methods
Rivera, Y. M., Moran, M., Thrul, J., Joshu, C., & Smith, K.C. (2022). contextualizing engagement with health information on Facebook: Using the social media content and context elicitation method. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 24(3), e25243. https://doi.org/10.2196/25243; PMID: 35254266, PMCID: PMC8933799
DiStefano, M. J., Rivera, Y. M., Thrul, J., & Ali, J. (2019). Promoting justice in locating and tracking research participants through social media. American Journal of Bioethics, 19(6), 71-73. https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2019.1602187; PMID: 31135312
COVID-19 communication
Molino, A. R., Andersen, K. M., Sawyer, S. B., Ðoàn, L. N., Rivera, Y. M., James, B. D., Fox, M. P., Murray, E. J., D’Agostino McGowan, L., & Jarrett, B.A. (2022). The expert next door: A commentary on interactions with friends and family during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. American Journal of Epidemiology, 191(4), 552–556. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwab245; PMID: 34618006, PMCID: PMC8513408
Sell, T.K., Hosangadi, D., Smith, E., Trotochaud, M., Vasudevan, P., Gronvall, G.K., Rivera, Y., Sutton, J., & Ruiz, A. (2021, March 23). National priorities to combat misinformation and disinformation for COVID-19 and future public health threats: A call for a national strategy. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.
Melin, K., Zhang, C., Zapata, J.P., Rivera, Y.M., Fernandez, K. Shacham, E., Malave-Rivera, S.M., & Rodriguez-Diaz, C.E. (2021). Factors associated with intention to vaccinate against COVID-19 in Puerto Rico: An online survey of adults. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(15), 7743. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18157743; PMID: 34360042, PMCID: PMC8345654
Sutton, J., Rivera, Y. M., Kirk Sell, T., Moran, M., Bennett, D. M., Schoch-Spana, M., Stern, E., & Turetsky, D. (2020). Longitudinal risk communication: A research agenda for communicating in a pandemic. Health Security, 19(4), 370–378. https://doi.org/10.1089/hs.2020.0161; PMID: 33351697
Cancer education
McIntyre, J., Jiménez, J., Rivera, Y. M., Sutton, S. K., Asencio, G., Castro, E., Gwede, C. K., Brandon, T. H., Vadaparampil, S. T., Simmons, V. N., Corchado, J., Moreno, L., Wells, K. J., & Quinn, G. P. (2017). Comparison of health communication channels for reaching Hispanics about biobanking: A pilot trial. Journal of Cancer Education, 33(4), 833–841. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13187-017-1214-7; PMID: 28378199, PMCID: PMC5628139
Rivera, Y. M., Moreno, L., Briant, K. J., Vélez, H., Jiménez, J., Torres, J., Vadaparampil, S., Muñoz-Antonia, T., & Quinn, G. Q. (2016). Developing sustainable cancer education programs: Training public health students to deliver Cancer 101 in Puerto Rico. Journal of Cancer Education, 33(1), 128–133. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13187-016-1076-4; PMID: 27424481, PMCID: PMC5243927
Rivera, Y. M., Vélez, H., Canales, J., Jiménez, J. C., Moreno, L., Torres, J., Vadaparampil, S., Muñoz-Antonia, T., & Quinn, G. P. (2015). When a common language is not enough: Transcreating Cancer 101 for communities in Puerto Rico. Journal of Cancer Education, 31(4), 776–783. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13187-015-0912-2; PMID: 26365291, PMCID: PMC4791206
Patient-reported outcomes
Brundage, M., Wu, A., Rivera, Y. M., & Snyder, C. (2020). Promoting effective use of patient-reported outcomes in clinical practice: themes from a “Methods Toolkit” paper series. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 122, 153-159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2020.01.022; PMID: 32061828
Snyder, C., Brundage, M., Rivera, Y. M., & Wu, A. (2019). A PRO-cision Medicine Methods Toolkit to Address the Challenges of Personalizing Cancer Care Using Patient-Reported Outcomes. Medical Care, 57 (Suppl 5 1), S1–S7. https://doi.org/10.1097/MLR.0000000000001089; PMID: 30985589, PMCID: PMC7400766
Snyder, C., Smith, K., Holzner, B., Rivera, Y. M., Bantug, E., Brundage, M., & Panel, P. D. (2018). Making a picture worth a thousand numbers: Recommendations for graphically displaying patient-reported outcomes data. Quality of Life Research, 28, 345–356. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-018-2020-3; PMID: 30306533, PMCID: PMC6363861