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Kiersten Strombotne, PhD

Assistant Professor

Boston University School of Public Health

Health Law, Policy & Management

PhD, Yale University
BA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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ORCID : 0000-0002-7457-7211

Kiersten Strombotne is an Assistant Professor of Health Law, Policy & Management at the Boston University School of Public Health, where she is the Director of the Health Policy & Law program for MPH students. She is also an Investigator at the Partnered Evidence-Based Policy Resource center (PEPReC) at the VA Boston Healthcare System.

Her research focuses on the complex interplay between social, economic, and policy determinants of health, specifically examining areas such as obesity, chronic disease, and mental health. This work reflects a broader interest in understanding how social and behavioral influences can be leveraged to design more effective policy to improve health and alleviate disparities.

Prior to joining BU, Professor Strombotne spent several years as an economic research consultant for AIR and RTI International. She holds a PhD in Health Policy & Management from the Yale School of Public Health and a BA in Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

BU Research

Examining the Role of Peers on Childhood Obesity and Fitness in NYC
08/01/2019 - 07/31/2021 (Subcontract PI)
University of Wisconsin, Madison NIH NICHD
5R21HD087882-02

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Yr	Title	Project-Sub Proj	Pubs

Publications listed below are automatically derived from MEDLINE/PubMed and other sources, which might result in incorrect or missing publications. Faculty can login to make corrections and additions.

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Tenso K, Strombotne K, Garrido MM, Lum J, Pizer S. Virtual Mental Health Care and Suicide-Related Events. JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Nov 04; 7(11):e2443054.View Related Profiles.

Strombotne, Kiersten
Garrido, Melissa
Pizer, Steven

PMID: 39499516; PMCID: PMC11539012; DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.43054;

Li Y, Legler A, Bourgeois J, Podlogar M, Lauver M, Adams RS, Strombotne K, Garrido MM. Contact resolution among Veterans Crisis Line phone and text contacts regarding Veterans Health Administration enrollees. Suicide Life Threat Behav. 2025 Feb; 55(1):e13129.View Related Profiles.

Strombotne, Kiersten
Garrido, Melissa
Adams, Rachel

PMID: 39344791

Garrido MM, Strombotne K, Nguyen P, Pizer SD, Frakt AB. State Policies Targeting Patient Brokering and Deceptive Marketing of Substance Use Disorder Treatment. Subst Use Addctn J. 2025 Apr; 46(2):320-327.View Related Profiles.

Frakt, Austin
Strombotne, Kiersten
Garrido, Melissa
Pizer, Steven

PMID: 39344057

Shafer PR, Yuan Y, Feyman Y, Price ME, Kabdiyeva A, Figueroa SM, Shen YJ, Nebeker JR, Ward MC, Strombotne KL, Pizer SD. Effect of mental health staffing inputs on initiation of care among recently separated Veterans. Health Serv Res. 2024 Dec; 59 Suppl 2(Suppl 2):e14333.View Related Profiles.

Strombotne, Kiersten
Shafer, Paul
Pizer, Steven

PMID: 38826037; PMCID: PMC11540562; DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.14333;

Rudel RK, Byhoff E, Fielman SB, Strombotne KL, Drainoni ML, Greece JA. A Qualitative Study of A Health Center-Based Mobile Produce Market. J Ambul Care Manage. 2024 Jul-Sep 01; 47(3):134-142.View Related Profiles.

Greece, Jacey
Strombotne, Kiersten
Drainoni, Mari-Lynn
Rudel, Rebecca

PMID: 38771169

Rudel RK, Byhoff E, Strombotne KL, Drainoni ML, Greece JA. Factors Associated With Uptake of an Open Access Health Center-Based Mobile Produce Market: A Case for Expanded Eligibility. J Acad Nutr Diet. 2024 Oct; 124(10):1328-1335.View Related Profiles.

Greece, Jacey
Strombotne, Kiersten
Drainoni, Mari-Lynn
Rudel, Rebecca

PMID: 38615994

Reger MA, Legler A, Lauver M, Tenso K, Manchester C, Griffin C, Strombotne KL, Landes SJ, Porter S, Bourgeois JE, Garrido MM. Caring Letters Sent by a Clinician or Peer to At-Risk Veterans: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Apr 01; 7(4):e248064.View Related Profiles.

Strombotne, Kiersten
Garrido, Melissa

PMID: 38683611; PMCID: PMC11059042; DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.8064;

Strombotne KL, Li Y, Adams RS, Sadej ID, Garrido MM. Veterans Crisis Line Contacts After the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline Rollout. Am J Prev Med. 2024 Aug; 67(2):282-284.View Related Profiles.

Strombotne, Kiersten
Garrido, Melissa
Adams, Rachel

PMID: 38508424

Garrido MM, Legler A, Strombotne KL, Frakt AB. Differences in adverse outcomes across race and ethnicity among Veterans with similar predicted risks of an overdose or suicide-related event. Pain Med. 2024 Feb 01; 25(2):125-130.View Related Profiles.

Frakt, Austin
Strombotne, Kiersten
Garrido, Melissa

PMID: 37738604

Rudel RK, Byhoff E, Strombotne KL, Drainoni ML, Greece JA. Healthcare-based food assistance programmes in the United States: a scoping review and typology. J Nutr Sci. 2023; 12:e128.View Related Profiles.

Greece, Jacey
Strombotne, Kiersten
Drainoni, Mari-Lynn
Rudel, Rebecca

PMID: 38155805; PMCID: PMC10753472; DOI: 10.1017/jns.2023.111;

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Strombotne KL, Lum J, Pizer SD, Figueroa S, Frakt AB, Conlin PR. Clinical effectiveness and cost-impact after 2?years of a ketogenic diet and virtual coaching intervention for patients with diabetes. Diabetes Obes Metab. 2024 Mar; 26(3):1016-1022.View Related Profiles.

Frakt, Austin
Strombotne, Kiersten
Conlin, Paul
Pizer, Steven

PMID: 38082469; PMCID: PMC10987085; DOI: 10.1111/dom.15401;

Palani S, Pizer SD, Avila CJ, Frakt AB, Strombotne KL, Garrido MM. A benchmarking approach for characterizing providers’ patterns of treating patients with substance use disorder. Healthcare Analytics. 2023; (3):100134. View Publication

Li Y, Barr KD, Trafton JA, Oliva EM, Garrido MM, Frakt AB, Strombotne KL. Impact of Mandated Case Review Policy on Opioid Discontinuation and Mortality Among High-Risk Long-Term Opioid Therapy Patients: The STORM Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial. Subst Abus. 2023 Oct; 44(4):292-300.View Related Profiles.

Frakt, Austin
Strombotne, Kiersten
Garrido, Melissa

PMID: 37830514

Finkelstein EA, Chodavadia PA, Strombotne K. A systematic review of the economic value proposition for commercially available nonsurgical weight-loss interventions. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2023 Jul; 31(7):1725-1733. PMID: 37231621

Tenso K, Strombotne KL, Feyman Y, Auty SG, Legler A, Griffith KN. Excess Mortality at Veterans Health Administration Facilities During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Med Care. 2023 Jul 01; 61(7):456-461.View Related Profiles.

Strombotne, Kiersten
Auty, Samantha

PMID: 37219062; PMCID: PMC10353262; DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000001866;

Tenso K, Avila CJD, Garrido M, Lauver M, Reger MA, Legler A, Strombotne K. The use of crisis line services during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from the veterans health administration. Gen Hosp Psychiatry. 2023; 82:101-102.View Related Profiles.

Strombotne, Kiersten
Garrido, Melissa

PMID: 36858847; PMCID: PMC9916126; DOI: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2023.02.001;

Auty SG, Barr KD, Frakt AB, Garrido MM, Strombotne KL. Effect of a Veterans Health Administration mandate to case review patients with opioid prescriptions on mortality among patients with opioid use disorder: a secondary analysis of the STORM randomized control trial. Addiction. 2023 May; 118(5):870-879.View Related Profiles.

Frakt, Austin
Strombotne, Kiersten
Garrido, Melissa
Auty, Samantha

PMID: 36495477; DOI: 10.1111/add.16110;

Feyman Y, Avila CJ, Auty S, Mulugeta M, Strombotne K, Legler A, Griffith K. Racial and ethnic disparities in excess mortality among U.S. veterans during the COVID-19 pandemic. Health Serv Res. 2023 Jun; 58(3):642-653.View Related Profiles.

Strombotne, Kiersten
Auty, Samantha

PMID: 36478574; PMCID: PMC9878051; DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.14112;

Feyman Y, Figueroa SM, Yuan Y, Price ME, Kabdiyeva A, Nebeker JR, Ward MC, Shafer PR, Pizer SD, Strombotne KL. Effect of mental health staffing inputs on suicide-related events. Health Serv Res. 2023 Apr; 58(2):375-382.View Related Profiles.

Strombotne, Kiersten
Shafer, Paul
Pizer, Steven

PMID: 36089760; PMCID: PMC10012216; DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.14064;

Garrido MM, Jones DK, Woodruff A, Strombotne K, Palani S, Zahakos S, Adelberg M, Pizer SD, Frakt AB. Detecting fraud, waste, and abuse in substance use disorder treatment. Health Serv Res. 2022 Oct; 57(5):997-1000.View Related Profiles.

Frakt, Austin
Strombotne, Kiersten
Garrido, Melissa
Palani, Sivagaminathan
Pizer, Steven

PMID: 35932224; PMCID: PMC9441269; DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.14046;

Minegishi T, Garrido MM, Lewis ET, Oliva EM, Pizer SD, Strombotne KL, Trafton JA, Tenso K, Sohoni PS, Frakt AB. Randomized Policy Evaluation of the Veterans Health Administration Stratification Tool for Opioid Risk Mitigation (STORM). J Gen Intern Med. 2022 Nov; 37(14):3746-3750.View Related Profiles.

Frakt, Austin
Strombotne, Kiersten
Garrido, Melissa
Pizer, Steven

PMID: 35715661; PMCID: PMC9585134; DOI: 10.1007/s11606-022-07622-1;

Reger MA, Lauver MG, Manchester C, Abraham TH, Landes SJ, Garrido MM, Griffin C, Woods JA, Strombotne KL, Hughes G. Development of the Veterans Crisis Line Caring Letters Suicide Prevention Intervention. Health Serv Res. 2022 Jun; 57 Suppl 1:42-52.View Related Profiles.

Strombotne, Kiersten
Garrido, Melissa

PMID: 35403233; PMCID: PMC9108218; DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.13985;

Strombotne KL, Legler A, Minegishi T, Trafton JA, Oliva EM, Lewis ET, Sohoni P, Garrido MM, Pizer SD, Frakt AB. Effect of a Predictive Analytics-Targeted Program in Patients on Opioids: a Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial. J Gen Intern Med. 2023 Feb; 38(2):375-381.View Related Profiles.

Frakt, Austin
Strombotne, Kiersten
Garrido, Melissa
Pizer, Steven

PMID: 35501628; PMCID: PMC9060407; DOI: 10.1007/s11606-022-07617-y;

Feyman Y, Auty SG, Tenso K, Strombotne KL, Legler A, Griffith KN. County-Level Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Excess Mortality Among U.S. Veterans: A Population-Based Study. Lancet Reg Health Am. 2022 Jan; 5:100093.View Related Profiles.

Strombotne, Kiersten
Auty, Samantha

PMID: 34778864; PMCID: PMC8577544; DOI: 10.1016/j.lana.2021.100093;

Strombotne KL, Lum J, Ndugga NJ, Utech AE, Pizer SD, Frakt AB, Conlin PR. Effectiveness of a ketogenic diet and virtual coaching intervention for patients with diabetes: A difference-in-differences analysis. Diabetes Obes Metab. 2021 12; 23(12):2643-2650.View Related Profiles.

Frakt, Austin
Strombotne, Kiersten
Conlin, Paul
Pizer, Steven

PMID: 34351035; PMCID: PMC8789005; DOI: 10.1111/dom.14515;

Strombotne K, Sindelar J, Buckell J. Who, me? Optimism bias about US teenagers' ability to quit vaping. Addiction. 2021 11; 116(11):3180-3187. PMID: 33891783; PMCID: PMC8492482; DOI: 10.1111/add.15525;

Yan LD, Ali MK, Strombotne KL. Impact of Expanded Medicaid Eligibility on the Diabetes Continuum of Care Among Low-Income Adults: A Difference-in-Differences Analysis. Am J Prev Med. 2021 02; 60(2):189-197.View Related Profiles.

Strombotne, Kiersten
Yan, Lily

PMID: 33191065; PMCID: PMC10420391; DOI: 10.1016/j.amepre.2020.08.013;

Strombotne K, Buckell J, Sindelar JL. Do JUUL and e-cigarette flavours change risk perceptions of adolescents? Evidence from a national survey. Tob Control. 2021 03; 30(2):199-205. PMID: 32300029; PMCID: PMC7572758; DOI: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2019-055394;

Strombotne KL, Fletcher JM, Schlesinger MJ. Peer effects of obesity on child body composition. Econ Hum Biol. 2019 08; 34:49-57. PMID: 31003859; PMCID: PMC6698226; DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2019.03.003;

Huang AR, Strombotne KL, Horner EM, Lapham SJ. Adolescent Cognitive Aptitudes and Later-in-Life Alzheimer Disease and Related Disorders. JAMA Netw Open. 2018 09 07; 1(5):e181726. PMID: 30646141; PMCID: PMC6324501; DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2018.1726;

Finkelstein EA, Li W, Melo G, Strombotne K, Zhen C. Identifying the effect of shelf nutrition labels on consumer purchases: results of a natural experiment and consumer survey. Am J Clin Nutr. 2018 04 01; 107(4):647-651. PMID: 29635504

Horner EM, Strombotne K, Huang A, Lapham S. Investigating the Early Life Determinants of Type-II Diabetes Using a Project Talent-Medicare Linked Data-set. SSM Popul Health. 2018 Apr; 4:189-196. PMID: 29854904; PMCID: PMC5976829; DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2018.01.004;

Finkelstein EA, Strombotne KL, Zhen C, Epstein LH. Food prices and obesity: a review. Adv Nutr. 2014 Nov; 5(6):818-21. PMID: 25398747; PMCID: PMC4224221; DOI: 10.3945/an.114.007088;

Sindelar JL, Strombotne KL. Is research in substance abuse undervalued? Addiction. 2014 Jan; 109(1):3-4. PMID: 24118168

Finkelstein EA, Strombotne KL, Chan NL, Krieger J. Mandatory menu labeling in one fast-food chain in King County, Washington. Am J Prev Med. 2011 Feb; 40(2):122-7. PMID: 21238859

Finkelstein EA, Strombotne KL, Popkin BM. The costs of obesity and implications for policymakers. Choices. 2010; 25(3):1-7.

Finkelstein EA, Strombotne KL. The economics of obesity. Am J Clin Nutr. 2010 May; 91(5):1520S-1524S. PMID: 20237140

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

Bar chart showing 37 publications over 11 distinct years, with a maximum of 9 publications in 2024

Bar chart showing 37 publications over 11 distinct years, with a maximum of 9 publications in 2024

Year	Publications
2010	2
2011	1
2013	1
2014	1
2018	3
2019	1
2020	2
2021	3
2022	6
2023	8
2024	9

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