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Lynsie Renee Ranker, PhD, MPH

Assistant Professor

Boston University School of Public Health

Community Health Sciences

PhD, Boston University School of Public Health
MPH, Boston University School of Public Health
BS, Boston College

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ORCID : 0000-0001-7928-2781

Lynsie Ranker (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences. She is a social epidemiologist whose research focuses on contextual factors in lived and online environments and their relationships with substance use among adolescents and young adults.

Her recent work uses a combination of epidemiologic methods and social media analytics to examine the influences of social media content on tobacco use and purchasing patterns. Other projects include: variations in alcohol use and treatment access among college students, drinking trajectories from adolescence into young adulthood, and a content analysis of poly-substance use discussions on social media. She is also passionate about teaching and mentoring the next generation of public health practitioners. She has taught courses on mass media & public health and program evaluation.

Lynsie was an A-TRAC career enhancement fellow with the American Heart Association during her postdoctoral training. She received both her PhD in epidemiology and her MPH from BUSPH. Prior to receiving her degree, she assisted program and policy evaluations as an epidemiologist with the Institute for Community Health (Cambridge Health Alliance). In her free time, she enjoys reading science fiction, eating copious amounts of nachos, and going on long walks in her neighborhood while listening to her favorite podcast.

NIH RePORTER Research

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Yr	Title	Project-Sub Proj	Pubs
2023	Familial and Environmental Determinants of Alcohol Use Trajectories: Examining 25 Years of Follow-up Data in a Nationally Representative Cohort of Youth	1R03AA031340-01

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Katz-Wise SL, Ranker LR, Korkodilos R, Conti J, Nelson KM, Xuan Z, Gordon AR. Will all youth answer sexual orientation and gender-related survey questions? An analysis of missingness in a large U.S. survey of adolescents and young adults. Psychol Methods. 2024 Apr 04.View Related Profiles.

Gordon, Allegra
Nelson, Kimberly
Ranker, Lynsie
Xuan, Ziming

PMID: 38573664; DOI: 10.1037/met0000652;

Ranker LR, Wu J, Hong T, Wijaya D, Benjamin EJ, Bhatnagar A, Robertson RM, Fetterman JL, Xuan Z. Social media use, brand engagement, and tobacco product initiation among youth: Evidence from a prospective cohort study. Addict Behav. 2024 Feb 28; 154:108000.View Related Profiles.

Benjamin, Emelia
Fetterman, Jessica
Ranker, Lynsie
Xuan, Ziming

PMID: 38461745; DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2024.108000;

Katz-Wise SL, Ranker LR, Kraus AD, Wang YC, Xuan Z, Green JG, Holt M. Fluidity in Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Identity in Transgender and Nonbinary Youth. J Sex Res. 2023 Aug 16; 1-10. PMID: 37585555; DOI: 10.1080/00224499.2023.2244926;

Ranker LR, Ross CS, Rudolph AE, Weuve J, Xuan Z. Identifying and describing trajectories of alcohol use frequency and binge drinking frequency among those aged 15-30?years in a national cohort of US adolescents: A group-based trajectory modeling approach. Addiction. 2023 Sep; 118(9):1739-1750.View Related Profiles.

Weuve, Jennifer
Ranker, Lynsie
Xuan, Ziming

PMID: 37069487; DOI: 10.1111/add.16216;

Wu J, Origgi JM, Ranker LR, Bhatnagar A, Robertson RM, Xuan Z, Wijaya D, Hong T, Fetterman JL. Compliance With the US Food and Drug Administration's Guidelines for Health Warning Labels and Engagement in Little Cigar and Cigarillo Content: Computer Vision Analysis of Instagram Posts. JMIR Infodemiology. 2023; 3:e41969.View Related Profiles.

Fetterman, Jessica
Ranker, Lynsie

PMID: 37113379; PMCID: PMC10132024; DOI: 10.2196/41969;

Katz-Wise SL, Ranker LR, Gordon AR, Xuan Z, Nelson K. Sociodemographic Patterns in Retrospective Sexual Orientation Identity and Attraction Change in the Sexual Orientation Fluidity in Youth Study. J Adolesc Health. 2023 Mar; 72(3):437-443.View Related Profiles.

Gordon, Allegra
Nelson, Kimberly
Ranker, Lynsie

PMID: 36528519; PMCID: PMC10289118; DOI: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2022.10.015;

Ommerborn MJ, Ranker LR, Touw S, Himmelstein DU, Himmelstein J, Woolhandler S. Assessment of Immigrants' Premium and Tax Payments for Health Care and the Costs of Their Care. JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Nov 01; 5(11):e2241166. PMID: 36350650; PMCID: PMC9647478; DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.41166;

Ranker LR, Lipson SK. Prevalence of heavy episodic drinking and alcohol use disorder diagnosis among US college students: Results from the national Healthy Minds Study. Addict Behav. 2022 Dec; 135:107452.View Related Profiles.

Ranker, Lynsie
Lipson, Sarah

PMID: 35964391; PMCID: PMC10245127; DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2022.107452;

Solar C, Nansubuga A, Murillo J, Ranker L, Borrelli B, Bowen DJ, Xuan Z, Kane J, Werntz S, Crouter SE, Quintiliani LM. Mobile health plus community health worker support for weight management among public housing residents (Path to Health): A randomized controlled trial protocol. Contemp Clin Trials. 2022 Aug; 119:106836.View Related Profiles.

Borrelli, Belinda
Quintiliani, Lisa
Ranker, Lynsie

PMID: 35724842; PMCID: PMC9673759; DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2022.106836;

Jirmanus LZ, Ranker L, Touw S, Mahmood R, Kimball SL, Hanchate A, Lasser KE. Impact of United States 2017 Immigration Policy changes on missed appointments at two Massachusetts Safety-Net Hospitals. J Immigr Minor Health. 2022 Aug; 24(4):807-818.View Related Profiles.

Hanchate, Amresh
Lasser, Karen
Ranker, Lynsie
Kimball, Sarah

PMID: 35624394; DOI: 10.1007/s10903-022-01341-9;

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Singh H, Koster M, Jani C, Rupal A, Walker A, Khoory J, Tewari A, Casasola M, Ranker LR, Thomson C. Nodule net: A centralized prospective lung nodule tracking and safety-net program. Respir Med. 2022 Feb; 192:106737. PMID: 35051877

Xuan Z, Ranker LR. Halpern-Felsher B (ed.) Encyclopedia of Child and Adolescent Health. Media and substance use. Elsevier. 2022.

Petersen JM, Ranker LR, Barnard-Mayers R, MacLehose RF, Fox MP. A systematic review of quantitative bias analysis applied to epidemiological research. Int J Epidemiol. 2021 11 10; 50(5):1708-1730.View Related Profiles.

Ranker, Lynsie
Fox, Matthew

PMID: 33880532

Weuve J, Bennett EE, Ranker L, Gianattasio KZ, Pedde M, Adar SD, Yanosky JD, Power MC. Exposure to Air Pollution in Relation to Risk of Dementia and Related Outcomes: An Updated Systematic Review of the Epidemiological Literature. Environ Health Perspect. 2021 09; 129(9):96001.View Related Profiles.

Weuve, Jennifer
Ranker, Lynsie

PMID: 34558969; PMCID: PMC8462495; DOI: 10.1289/EHP8716;

Smith ML, Heeren TC, Ranker LR, Fredman L. Associations of spousal and non-spousal caregiving with six-year trajectories of depressive symptoms among older women in the Caregiver-Study of Osteoporotic Fractures study. Aging Ment Health. 2022 Aug; 26(8):1533-1540.View Related Profiles.

Fredman, Lisa
Ranker, Lynsie
Heeren, Timothy

PMID: 34353186

Tennant PWG, Murray EJ, Arnold KF, Berrie L, Fox MP, Gadd SC, Harrison WJ, Keeble C, Ranker LR, Textor J, Tomova GD, Gilthorpe MS, Ellison GTH. Use of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) to identify confounders in applied health research: review and recommendations. Int J Epidemiol. 2021 05 17; 50(2):620-632.View Related Profiles.

Murray, Eleanor
Ranker, Lynsie
Fox, Matthew

PMID: 33330936; PMCID: PMC8128477; DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyaa213;

Smati H, Cohen PA, Nagda DV, Saravanan Y, Kalugin PN, Li CY, Ranker LR. Risk Factors for Hospitalization Among Patients with COVID-19 at a Community Ambulatory Clinic in Massachusetts During the Initial Pandemic Surge. J Immigr Minor Health. 2021 Oct; 23(5):1110-1115. PMID: 33772419; PMCID: PMC7996715; DOI: 10.1007/s10903-021-01189-5;

Smith ML, Heeren TC, Ranker LR, Fredman L. Assessing the Role of Selection Bias in the Protective Relationship Between Caregiving and Mortality. Am J Epidemiol. 2019 11 01; 188(11):1961-1969.View Related Profiles.

Fredman, Lisa
Ranker, Lynsie
Heeren, Timothy

PMID: 31429867; PMCID: PMC6825828; DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwz173;

Fredman L, Ranker LR, Strunin L, Smith ML, Applebaum KM. Caregiving Intensity and Mortality in Older Women, Accounting for Time-Varying and Lagged Caregiver Status: The Caregiver-Study of Osteoporotic Fractures Study. Gerontologist. 2019 09 17; 59(5):e461-e469.View Related Profiles.

Fredman, Lisa
Ranker, Lynsie

PMID: 30649308; PMCID: PMC6857683; DOI: 10.1093/geront/gny135;

Ranker LR, Petersen JM, Fox MP. Awareness of and potential for dependent error in the observational epidemiologic literature: A review. Ann Epidemiol. 2019 08; 36:15-19.e2.View Related Profiles.

Ranker, Lynsie
Fox, Matthew

PMID: 31402082

Feehan M, Ranker L, Durante R, Cooper DK, Jones GJ, Young DC, Munger MA. Adherence to controller asthma medications: 6-month prevalence across a US community pharmacy chain. J Clin Pharm Ther. 2015 Oct; 40(5):590-593. PMID: 26291693

Munger MA, Ruble JH, Nelson SD, Ranker L, Petty RC, Silverstein S, Barton E, Feehan M. National evaluation of prescriber drug dispensing. Pharmacotherapy. 2014 Oct; 34(10):1012-21. PMID: 25053590

Numan M, Bress JA, Ranker LR, Gary AJ, Denicola AL, Bettis JK, Knapp SE. The importance of the basolateral/basomedial amygdala for goal-directed maternal responses in postpartum rats. Behav Brain Res. 2010 Dec 25; 214(2):368-76. PMID: 20542062

Stolzenberg DS, Zhang KY, Luskin K, Ranker L, Bress J, Numan M. Dopamine D(1) receptor activation of adenylyl cyclase, not phospholipase C, in the nucleus accumbens promotes maternal behavior onset in rats. Horm Behav. 2010 Jan; 57(1):96-104. PMID: 19799904

Stolzenberg DS, Zhang KY, Luskin K, Ranker L, Balkema J, Bress J, Numan M. A single injection of 17beta-estradiol at the time of pup presentation promotes the onset of maternal behavior in pregnancy-terminated rats. Horm Behav. 2009 Jun; 56(1):121-7. PMID: 19344724

This graph shows the total number of publications by year, by first, middle/unknown, or last author.

Bar chart showing 25 publications over 9 distinct years, with a maximum of 7 publications in 2022

Bar chart showing 25 publications over 9 distinct years, with a maximum of 7 publications in 2022

Year	Publications
2009	2
2010	1
2014	1
2015	1
2019	3
2021	5
2022	7
2023	3
2024	2

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