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Ruofei Du

Associate Professor

Faculty Researcher

Biostatistics, College of Public Health

15 h-index 48 pubs 802 cited

  • Humans
  • Female
  • Adult
  • Papillomavirus Infections
  • Middle Aged
  • Uterine Cervical Dysplasia
  • COVID-19
  • Adolescent
  • Early Detection of Cancer
  • Aged
  • Animals
  • Uterine Cervical Neoplasms
  • United States
  • Male
  • New Mexico

Biography and Research Information

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Ruofei Du is an Associate Professor of Biostatistics in the College of Public Health at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Her research has focused on the application of statistical methods to public health challenges, with recent work examining cervical cancer screening and HPV testing strategies in the United States. She has also investigated interventions for older cancer survivors, prenatal metal exposures and infant development, pediatric SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence, and maternal comorbidity indices in rural populations.

Dr. Du's scholarship metrics include an h-index of 15, with a total of 48 publications and over 800 citations. She has collaborated with researchers including J. Craig Forrest, Catherine Kirkpatrick, Shana M. Owens, and Joshua L. Kennedy, all from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, with whom she shares multiple publications. Her work on HPV testing and opportunistic screening supports primary HPV screening in the U.S. context.

Metrics

  • h-index: 15
  • Publications: 48
  • Citations: 802

Selected Publications

  • Use of Nitrous Oxide during Labor in an Academic Medical Center in a Rural State (2026)
    Southern Medical Journal DOI OpenAlex
  • Associations of racialized economic segregation with the prevalence of unhealthy behaviors and poor mental health in the United States (2026)
    Preventive Medicine Reports DOI OpenAlex
  • Risk Factors for a Primary Cesarean Delivery in Pregnancies Complicated by Pregestational Diabetes (2026)
    International Journal of Women s Health DOI OpenAlex
  • Contributing Factors to Delay of Adjuvant Postsurgical Radiation for Malignant Brain Tumors (2025)
    American Journal of Clinical Oncology DOI OpenAlex
  • Implementation of an Order Set Prior to Delivery Discharge for Postpartum Glucose Testing in Gestational Diabetes: Gaps in Follow-Up and Opportunities for Improvement (2025)
    American Journal of Perinatology DOI OpenAlex
  • Geranylgeranyl Transferase Inhibitors Mitigate Intestinal Radiation Toxicity (2025)
    International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics DOI OpenAlex
  • Capacity to address determinants of health among a social justice coalition in the United States (2025)
    Health Promotion International DOI OpenAlex
  • Sex-specific immune alterations in mice following long-term simulated microgravity and chronic irradiation (2025)
    npj Microgravity 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Perinatal Outcomes and Management of Umbilical Vein Varix: A Comprehensive Review of 392 Cases (2025)
    Journal of Clinical Medicine 5 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Caregiver restrictions on child access to tobacco in the home and home Smoking/Vaping bans among Black/African American women caregivers who smoke and live in Resource-limited, rural areas (2024)
    Preventive Medicine Reports DOI OpenAlex
  • TimeNorm: a novel normalization method for time course microbiome data (2024)
    Frontiers in Genetics DOI OpenAlex
  • Using Concept Mapping to Identify Community Partners’ and Researchers’ Perceptions of Social Justice: A Path Toward Eliminating Chronic Disease Disparities (2024)
    Health Equity 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Long-term sedation with remimazolam besylate versus propofol in critically ill patients during invasive mechanical ventilation: a study protocol for a multicenter randomized non-inferior trial (2023)
    Frontiers in Pharmacology 7 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Unchanged PCNA and DNMT1 dynamics during replication in DNA ligase I-deficient cells but abnormal chromatin levels of non-replicative histone H1 (2023)
    Scientific Reports 7 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Maternal comorbidity index and severe maternal morbidity among medicaid covered pregnant women in a US Southern rural state (2023)
    The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine 14 citations DOI OpenAlex

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Grants & Funding

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  • FOOD AS MEDICINE: ADDRESSING SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH (FOOD INSECURITY) TO EFFECT CLINICAL OUTCOMES (CEAL) Westat via Westat Co-Investigator
  • Center for Native American Environmental Health Equity Research NIH, EPA Other Key Personnel
  • Center for Research, Health and Society NIH Co-Investigator
  • Understanding Risk Gradients from Environment on Native American Child Health Trajectories: Toxicants, Immunomodulation, Metabolic syndromes, & Metals Exposure NIH/Office of the Director via University of New Mexico Principal Investigator
  • UNM Metal Exposure Toxicity Assessment on Tribal Lands in the Southwest (METALS) Superfund Research Program NIH/Nat. Inst. of Environmental Health Sciences via University of New Mexico Principal Investigator
  • DISCOVAR:Disparities in Immune Response to SARS-CoV-2 in ARkansas NIH Co-Investigator
  • Preventing immune system dysregulation during deep-space missions by Tocofexol, a modified isomer of vitamin E - AA request National Aeronautics & Space Administration via Arkansas Space Grant Consortium Other Key Personnel
  • Arkansas CASS: Arkansas Coronavirus Antibodies Seroprevalence Survey State of Arkansas Faculty

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