Qiushi Chen - Penn State Cancer Institute
Researcher Profile
Qiushi Chen
Associate Professor, Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Scientific Program:Cancer Control
Recent Publications
2026
Briody, J, Miller, IS, O’Mahony, JF, Tilson, L, O’Farrell, AC, Chen, Q, Murphy, V, Casey, O, Schulte, N, Ebert, MP, Prehn, JHM, Lambrechts, D, Ylstra, B, Dienstmann, R, Byrne, AT & Bennett, K 2026, 'Bevacizumab for Metastatic Colorectal Cancer with Chromosomal Instability: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis for a Novel Precision Treatment Approach in Germany, Ireland and Spain', PharmacoEconomics, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 359-374. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40273-025-01585-x
Fan, Y, Chen, Q, Sun, H, Bärnighausen, T, Wang, C, Yang, T & Chen, S 2026, 'Economic evaluations of screening and case-finding for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD): a systematic review', npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine, vol. 36, no. 1, 7. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41533-025-00467-1
Dowd, WN, Chen, Q, Barbosa, C, Sahinkoc, HM, Barocas, J, Chhatwal, J, Aldridge, AP, Zarkin, GA & Knudsen, AB 2026, 'Estimating community-level prevalence of opioid use disorder: Extrapolating from Medicaid claims data and other publicly available data sources in Ohio, USA', Addiction, vol. 121, no. 4, pp. 944-954. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.70278
Luo, Y, Cao, Z, Geldsetzer, P, Chen, Q, Hao, Z, He, L, Bärnighausen, T, Wang, C & Chen, S 2026, 'Evaluating the Impact of National Essential Public Health Services Program Coverage on Hypertension Management, Medical Care Utilization and Household Socioeconomic Well-Being', Risk Management and Healthcare Policy, vol. 19, 564931. https://doi.org/10.2147/RMHP.S564931
POPMIX study investigators 2026, 'Impact of the POPulation Medicine Multimorbidity Intervention in Xishui County (POPMIX) on suspected asthma patients: protocol for the POPMIX-Asthma cluster-randomized controlled trial', Trials, vol. 27, no. 1, 301. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-026-09685-5
Mbonigaba, E, Yu, F, Reñosa, MDC, Cho, FN, Chen, Q, Chen, W, Denkinger, CM, McMahon, SA & Chen, S 2026, 'The impacts of COVID-19 on routine immunization for children in Rwanda', BMC Infectious Diseases, vol. 26, no. 1, 275. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-026-12623-0
2025
Feng, Z, Ye, Q, Xie, W & Chen, Q 2025, A Spatio-temporal Cluster-aware Supervised Learning Framework for Predicting County-level Drug Overdose Deaths. in T Walsh, J Shah & Z Kolter (eds), Special Track on AI Alignment. 27 edn, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, no. 27, vol. 39, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, pp. 27978-27988, 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2025, Philadelphia, United States, 2/25/25. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v39i27.35015
Cao, Z, He, L, Luo, Y, Tong, X, Zhao, J, Huang, K, Chen, Q, Jiao, L, Liu, Y, Geldsetzer, P, Yang, T, Wang, C, Bärnighausen, TW & Chen, S 2025, 'Burden of chronic respiratory diseases and their attributable risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2021: Results from the global burden of disease study 2021', Chinese Medical Journal Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 100-110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pccm.2025.05.005
Yan, Y, Chen, Q, Nasir, R, Griffin, P, Bone, C & Tuan, WJ 2025, 'Characterizing patients at higher cardiovascular risk for prescribed stimulants: Learning from health records data with predictive analytics and data mining techniques', Computers in Biology and Medicine, vol. 188, 109870. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2025.109870
Huang, S, Chen, Q, Griffin, PM & Azagba, S 2025, 'Effect of state e-cigarette tax policies on the transitions of youth tobacco/nicotine use patterns in the USA: evidence from national longitudinal data', Tobacco Control. https://doi.org/10.1136/tc-2024-058923
Chen, W, Jiao, L, Chen, Q, Zheng, Z, Geldsetzer, P, Greuel, M, Gates, J, Zhao, J, Bärnighausen, T, Adam, M, Chen, S & Wang, C 2025, 'Effects of Scalable, Wordless, Short, Animated Storytelling Videos on Flu Vaccine Hesitancy in China: Nationwide, Single-Blind, Parallel-Group, Randomized Controlled Trial', Journal of medical Internet research, vol. 27, e66758. https://doi.org/10.2196/66758
Wang, C, Yu, F, Cao, Z, Huang, K, Chen, Q, Geldsetzer, P, Zhao, J, Zheng, Z, Bärnighausen, T, Yang, T, Chen, S & Wang, C 2025, 'Exploring COPD Patient Clusters and Associations with Health-Related Quality of Life Using A Machine Learning Approach: A Nationwide Cross-Sectional Study', Engineering, vol. 50, pp. 220-228. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eng.2025.05.005
Chen, Q, Newton, R & Griffin, P 2025, 'Fair allocation strategies for opioid settlements', Health Care Management Science, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 335-356. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10729-025-09716-8
Bai, A, Qu, Y, Chen, Q, Gray, M, Chen, S & Jiang, Y 2025, 'Functional dependency level and later-life incident multimorbidity in older people: longitudinal evidence from 19 countries in China and Europe', BMC Public Health, vol. 25, no. 1, 4292. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-25259-7
Yu, Y, He, L, Feng, Z, Shi, Z, Cao, Z, Chen, Q, Geldsetzer, P, Bärnighausen, T, He, P, Yang, T, Chen, S & Wang, C 2025, 'Optimizing hypertension management in China: care cascade insights and individual determinants from a national survey', Current Medical Research and Opinion, vol. 41, no. 5, pp. 741-751. https://doi.org/10.1080/03007995.2025.2502674
Tuan, WJ, Yan, Y, Abou Al Ardat, B, Felix, T & Chen, Q 2025, 'Predicting Missed Appointments in Primary Care: A Personalized Machine Learning Approach', Annals of family medicine, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 294-301. https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.240316
Yu, Y, Feng, Z, Chen, Q, Hao, Z, Cao, Z, Huang, K, He, P, Tang, X, Jia, C, Li, Y, Fang, F, Pan, J, Bärnighausen, T, Chen, S, Yang, T & Wang, C 2025, 'The association between basic medical insurance and the management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in China: a cross-sectional study based on the national “Happy Breathing” Programme', BMC Medicine, vol. 23, no. 1, 619. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-025-04422-2
2024
Chung, A, Chen, Q, Curry, W, Felix, T & Tuan, WJ 2024, 'Breast Cancer Screening During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States: Results From Real-World Health Records Data', Annals of family medicine, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 208-214. https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.3098
Zhang, Q, Jiao, L, Chen, Q, Bulstra, CA, Geldsetzer, P, de Oliveira, T, Yang, J, Wang, C, Bärnighausen, T & Chen, S 2024, 'COVID-19 antibody responses in individuals with natural immunity and with vaccination-induced immunity: a systematic review and meta-analysis', Systematic Reviews, vol. 13, no. 1, 189. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-024-02597-y
Feng, Z, Chen, Q, Griffin, P, Li, J, Abedi, V & Zand, R 2024, 'Care settings of transient ischemic attack in the United States: A cohort study from the TriNetX health research network', Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases, vol. 33, no. 9, 107888. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2024.107888
Chen, Q, Fan, Y, Huang, K, Li, W, Geldsetzer, P, Bärnighausen, T, Yang, T, Wang, C & Chen, S 2024, 'Cost-effectiveness of population-based screening for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in China: a simulation modeling study', The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific, vol. 46, 101065. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanwpc.2024.101065
Zafarnejad, R, Chen, Q & Griffin, PM 2024, 'Cost-effectiveness of screening for chronic kidney disease using a cumulative eGFR-based statistic', PloS one, vol. 19, no. 3 March, e0299401. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0299401
Chen, Q, Sterner, G, Rhubart, D, Newton, R, Shaw, B & Scanlon, D 2024, 'Creating a robust coordinated data and policy framework for addressing substance use issues in the United States', International Journal of Drug Policy, vol. 134, 104629. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2024.104629
Li, M, Ka, DH & Chen, Q 2024, 'Disparities in availability of new cancer drugs worldwide: 1990-2022', BMJ Global Health, vol. 9, no. 9, 015700. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2024-015700
Wu, Z, Yu, Y, Xie, F, Chen, Q, Cao, Z, Chen, S & Liu, GG 2024, 'Economic burden of patients with leading cancers in China: a cost-of-illness study', BMC health services research, vol. 24, no. 1, 1135. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-024-11514-x
Chen, S, Chen, W, Li, Y, Yu, Y, Chen, Q, Jiao, L, Huang, K, Tong, X, Geldsetzer, P, Bunker, A, Fang, X, Jing, S, Liu, Y, Li, Y, He, L, Wang, C, Wang, W, Zheng, Z, Zhang, S, Zhao, J, Yang, T, Bärnighausen, T & Wang, C 2024, 'Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of an integrated digital psychological intervention (EmoEase) in Chinese chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients: Study protocol of a randomized controlled trial', Digital Health, vol. 10. https://doi.org/10.1177/20552076241277650
Bai, A, Chen, Q, Geldsetzer, P, Gray, M, Xie, Z, Zhang, D, Baernighausen, T, Hu, Y, Jiang, Y & Chen, S 2024, 'Functional dependency and cardiometabolic multimorbidity in older people: pooled analysis of individual-level data from 20 countries', Age and Ageing, vol. 53, no. 12, afae269. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afae269
Mbonigaba, E, Yu, F, Reñosa, MDC, Cho, FN, Chen, Q, Denkinger, CM, A McMahon, S & Chen, S 2024, 'Knowledge and trust of mothers regarding childhood vaccination in Rwanda', BMC Public Health, vol. 24, no. 1, 1067. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-18547-1
Qi, W, Huang, K, Chen, Q, Jiao, L, Yu, F, Yu, Y, Niu, H, Li, W, Fang, F, Lei, J, Chu, X, Li, Z, Geldsetzer, P, Bärnighausen, T, Chen, S, Yang, T & Wang, C 2024, 'Portable spirometer-based pulmonary function test willingness in China: A nationwide cross-sectional study from the "Happy Breathing Program"', Chinese Medical Journal, vol. 137, no. 14, pp. 1695-1704. https://doi.org/10.1097/CM9.0000000000003121
Yu, F, Jiao, L, Chen, Q, Wang, Q, De Allegri, M, Cao, Z, Chen, W, Ma, X, Wang, C, Wachinger, J, Jin, Z, Bunker, A, Geldsetzer, P, Yang, J, Xue, L, Bärnighausen, T & Chen, S 2024, 'Preferences regarding COVID-19 vaccination among 12,000 adults in China: A cross-sectional discrete choice experiment', PLOS Global Public Health, vol. 4, no. 7, e0003387. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0003387
Mbonigaba, E, Yu, F, Reñosa, MDC, Mwikarago, IE, Cho, FN, Elad, PCK, Metzger, W, Muhindo, R, Chen, Q, Denkinger, CM, McMahon, SA & Chen, S 2024, 'The acceptance of COVID-19 vaccines in Rwanda: a cross-sectional study', BMC Public Health, vol. 24, no. 1, 2875. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-20417-9
Wang, C, Qi, W, Yang, T, Jiao, L, Chen, Q, Huang, K, Yu, F, Geldsetzer, P, Bärnighausen, T & Chen, S 2024, 'The care cascade of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in China: a cross-sectional study of individual-level data at enrolment into the national ‘Happy Breathing’ Programme', EClinicalMedicine, vol. 74, 102597. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2024.102597
Feng, Z, Chen, Q, Jiao, L, Ma, X, Atun, R, Geldsetzer, P, Bärnighausen, T & Chen, S 2024, 'The impact of health insurance on hypertension care: a household fixed effects study in India', BMC Public Health, vol. 24, no. 1, 2287. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-19759-1
2023
Akande, AO, Riehman-Murphy, C, Oji-Mmuo, C, Jones, AA, Chen, Q, Segel, JE, Sterner, GE & Adam, MT 2024, 'A scoping review of the opioid epidemic among U.S. Immigrants: Implications for treatment practices', Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 660-678. https://doi.org/10.1080/15332640.2023.2173346
Chen, YH, Drye, M, Chen, Q, Fecher, M, Liu, G & Guthrie, W 2023, 'Delay from Screening to Diagnosis in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Results from a Large National Health Research Network', Journal of Pediatrics, vol. 260, 113514. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpeds.2023.113514
Chen, Q, Griffin, PM & Kawasaki, SS 2023, 'Disability-Adjusted Life-Years for Drug Overdose Crisis and COVID-19 Are Comparable During the Two Years of Pandemic in the United States', Value in Health, vol. 26, no. 6, pp. 796-801. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jval.2022.11.010
Chhatwal, J, Mueller, PP, Chen, Q, Kulkarni, N, Adee, M, Zarkin, G, Larochelle, MR, Knudsen, AB & Barbosa, C 2023, 'Estimated Reductions in Opioid Overdose Deaths with Sustainment of Public Health Interventions in 4 US States', JAMA network open, vol. 6, no. 6, e2314925. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.14925
Weng, X, Chen, Q, Sathapathi, TK, Yin, X & Wang, L 2023, 'Impact of school operating scenarios on COVID-19 transmission under vaccination in the U.S. an agent-based simulation model', Scientific reports, vol. 13, no. 1, 12836. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-37980-7
Huang, S, Chen, Q, Griffin, P, Liu, G & Azagba, S 2023, 'Longitudinal transitions in tobacco use in youth and young adults: A latent transition analysis of the population assessment of tobacco and health study from Wave 1 to 5', Addictive Behaviors, vol. 138, 107548. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2022.107548
2022
Chen, S, Forster, S, Yang, J, Yu, F, Jiao, L, Gates, J, Wang, Z, Liu, H, Chen, Q, Geldsetzer, P, Wu, P, Wang, C, McMahon, S, Bärnighausen, T & Adam, M 2022, 'Animated, video entertainment-education to improve vaccine confidence globally during the COVID-19 pandemic: an online randomized controlled experiment with 24,000 participants', Trials, vol. 23, no. 1, 161. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-022-06067-5
Rhubart, D, Chen, Q, Sterner, G, Newton, R, Shaw, B & Scanlon, D 2022, 'Conceptualizing and Measuring Abatement from the Opioid Epidemic: A Case Study from Pennsylvania', Milbank Quarterly, vol. 100, no. 4, pp. 991-1005. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0009.12589
Mueller, PP, Chen, Q, Ayer, T, Nemutlu, GS, Hajjar, A, Bethea, ED, Peters, MLB, Lee, BP, Janjua, NZ, Kanwal, F & Chhatwal, J 2022, 'Duration and cost-effectiveness of hepatocellular carcinoma surveillance in hepatitis C patients after viral eradication', Journal of Hepatology, vol. 77, no. 1, pp. 55-62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhep.2022.01.027
Chen, YH, Chen, Q, Kong, L & Liu, G 2022, 'Early detection of autism spectrum disorder in young children with machine learning using medical claims data', BMJ Health and Care Informatics, vol. 29, no. 1, e100544. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjhci-2022-100544
Chen, S, Geldsetzer, P, Chen, Q, Moshabela, M, Jiao, L, Ogbuoji, O, Sie, A, Atun, R & Bärnighausen, T 2022, 'Health Insurance Coverage In Low-And Middle-Income Countries Remains Far From The Goal Of Universal Coverage', Health Affairs, vol. 41, no. 8, pp. 1142-1152. https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2021.00951
Liu, W, Yu, F, Geldsetzer, P, Yang, J, Wang, Z, Golden, T, Jiao, L, Chen, Q, Liu, H, Wu, P, Wang, C, Bärnighausen, T & Chen, S 2022, 'Prevalence of depression in China during the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study in an online survey sample', BMJ open, vol. 12, no. 3, e056667. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-056667
Shahjouei, S, Li, J, Koza, E, Abedi, V, Sadr, AV, Chen, Q, Mowla, A, Griffin, P, Ranta, A & Zand, R 2022, 'Risk of Subsequent Stroke among Patients Receiving Outpatient vs Inpatient Care for Transient Ischemic Attack: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis', JAMA network open, vol. 5, no. 1, 100193. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.36644
Chen, Q, Sterner, G, Segel, J & Feng, Z 2022, 'Trends in opioid-related crime incidents and comparison with opioid overdose outcomes in the United States', International Journal of Drug Policy, vol. 101, 103555. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2021.103555