Matthew Davis

About

Matthew Davis is a faculty member in the Department of English at Northwestern University. He holds the position of Visiting Assistant Professor and teaches courses within the department. His office is located in University Hall 013, and he maintains office hours on Mondays and Wednesdays from 11:00 to 12:30, with additional appointments available. Further details about his research focus, background, and key contributions are not provided on the page.

Research topics

• Medicine
• Family medicine
• Environmental health
• Nursing
• Demography
• Psychiatry
• Virology

Selected publications

• Well-being of Parents and Children During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A National Survey

  PEDIATRICS · 2020 · 1230 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  BACKGROUND: As the coronavirus disease pandemic spread across the United States and protective measures to mitigate its impact were enacted, parents and children experienced widespread disruptions in daily life. Our objective with this national survey was to determine how the pandemic and mitigation efforts affected the physical and emotional well-being of parents and children in the United States through early June 2020. METHODS: In June 2020, we conducted a national survey of parents with chil…

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• Parental COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy for children: vulnerability in an urban hotspot

  BMC Public Health · 2021 · 180 citations

  OBJECTIVE: To compare hesitancy toward a future COVID-19 vaccine for children of various sociodemographic groups in a major metropolitan area, and to understand how parents obtain information about COVID-19. METHODS: Cross-sectional online survey of parents with children < 18 years old in Chicago and Cook County, Illinois, in June 2020. We used logistic regression to determine the odds of parental COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy (VH) for racial/ethnic and socioeconomic groups, controlling for sociode…

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• Parenting Interventions in Pediatric Primary Care: A Systematic Review

  PEDIATRICS · 2020 · 64 citations

  CONTEXT: More than 4 decades of research indicate that parenting interventions are effective at preventing and treating mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders in children and adolescents. Pediatric primary care is a viable setting for delivery of these interventions. OBJECTIVE: Previous meta-analyses have shown that behavioral interventions in primary care can improve clinical outcomes, but few reviews have been focused specifically on the implementation of parenting interventions in primar…

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• Nationwide Circumcision Trends: 2003 to 2016

  The Journal of Urology · 2020 · 32 citations

  PURPOSE: Among some populations access to neonatal circumcision has become increasingly limited despite evidence of its benefits. This study examines national neonatal circumcision trends before and after the 2012 American Academy of Pediatrics recommendation for neonatal circumcision reimbursement. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A retrospective cohort study of boys aged 28 days or less was conducted using data from the Kids' Inpatient Database (2003 to 2016). Boys who underwent neonatal circumcision pr…

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• Cardiovascular Health, 2010 to 2020: A Systematic Review of a Decade of Research on Life's Simple 7

  Journal of the American Heart Association · 2025-07-16 · 12 citations

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  BACKGROUND: In 2010, the American Heart Association introduced Life's Simple 7, a construct to measure, monitor, and modify cardiovascular health (CVH) across the lifespan. We aimed to summarize the knowledge on outcomes, prevalence, determinants, and mechanisms of Life's Simple 7. METHODS: We systematically searched PubMed, Web of Science, and Scopus databases for publications in English examining Life's Simple 7 or 3 or more CVH metrics from January 1, 2010 to January 1, 2021. Risk of bias was…

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Recent grants

• NIH Grant T32HD007534

  NIH · $3.7M · 2015

Frequent coauthors

• Sarah J. Clark

  Seattle Children's Hospital

  88 shared

• Stephen W. Patrick

  Emory University

  75 shared

• Alicia J. Cohen

  Brown University

  70 shared

• Renuka Tipirneni

  University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

  69 shared

• Julie Tatko

  Northwestern University

  64 shared

• Elena Byhoff

  University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School

  64 shared

• Mary C. Hamati

  University of Colorado Denver

  64 shared

• Gary L. Freed

  49 shared

Education

• MAPP

  University of Chicago

  2000

• MD

  Harvard Medical School

  1994

Awards & honors

• Robert Mayo Memorial Prize for Best English 300 Paper
• Robert Dentler Memorial Prizes
• Jean Meyer Aloe Poetry Prize from The American Academy of Po…
• J. Scott Clark Award for Outstanding Aptitude in Creative Wr…
• Helen G. Scott Prizes

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