James P. Selig
High Impact
Professor
faculty
Health Biostatistics, College of Public Health
25 h-index
143 pubs
6,126 cited
Research Areas
Biography and Research Information
OverviewAI-generated summary
James P. Selig, Professor in Health Biostatistics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, focuses his research on public health issues, particularly those related to infectious diseases and chronic conditions. His work has extensively investigated COVID-19, including vaccine hesitancy, the impact of discrimination on vaccine uptake, and parental intentions for child vaccination. Selig also studies the management of type 2 diabetes, especially in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, and strategies for obesity prevention in childcare settings.
With a significant publication record, Selig has authored 139 publications, accumulating over 6,000 citations and an h-index of 25. He has been recognized as a highly cited researcher. His collaborative network includes frequent co-authorship with Jennifer A. Andersen, Don E. Willis, Holly C. Felix, and Pearl A. McElfish, all from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, with whom he shares numerous publications. Selig also leads a research group, indicating active mentorship and project management within his areas of expertise.
Metrics
- h-index: 25
- Publications: 143
- Citations: 6,126
Selected Publications
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Diet Quality Among Community Members With Diabetes and Food Insecurity in Northwest Arkansas: Comparison Across 3 Racial/Ethnic Groups (2025)
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Sociodemographic factors associated with prenatal care utilization in Arkansas, United States (2025)
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Gestational weight gain and increased risk of cesarean delivery across body mass index categories (2025)
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Physical Activity Amid a Pandemic: How Socioeconomic and Demographic Factors Shaped Behaviors During COVID-19 (2025)
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Vaccine hesitancy or hesitancies? A latent class analysis of pediatric patients' parents (2025)
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Influences on COVID-19 booster uptake among adults intending to receive a booster: a qualitative study (2024)
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Type 2 diabetes and health-related quality of life among older Medicare beneficiaries: The mediating role of sleep (2024)
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Social Processes and COVID-19 Vaccination of Children of Hesitant Mothers (2024)
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COVID-19 Booster Uptake: Are Hesitant Adopters Less Likely to Get a Booster Shot Than Nonhesitant Adopters? (2023)
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Correlates of COVID-19 vaccine coverage in Arkansas: Results from a weighted random sample survey (2023)
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Factors influencing applicants' rank order in the Genetic Counseling Admissions Match (2023)
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Prevalence and associations between food insecurity and overweight/obesity among native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander adolescents (2023)
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An integrated approach to address diabetes in the context of food insecurity: Delivering health study protocol (2023)
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Racial Misclassification, Discrimination, Consciousness, and Self-Rated Health Among Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Adults in the USA (2023)
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Healthcare Access and Experiences of Racial Discrimination as Predictors of General Vaccine Hesitancy (2023)
Grants & Funding
- Reducing Alcohol Use among Black Men: Barbershop SBIRT NIH/NIMHD Co-Investigator
- Healthy Bodies, Healthy Souls - Continuation NIH/National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities Co-Investigator
- Arkansas Center for Health Disparities (ARCHD): An NIMHD COE NIH Co-Investigator
- Community Engagement Research Alliance (CEAL) 2023-2024 Renewal NIH/Nat. Heart, Lung & Blood Institute - Pass Through: Westat Other
- Connecting our Neighborhoods Need for Enhanced and Coordinated Testing to Achieve Equity: CoNNECT to Achieve Equality COVID NIH/National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities Other
- Distress Tolerance and Smoking Cessation NIH/Nat. Inst. on Drug Abuse - Pass Through: Wake Forest University Co-Investigator
- Sustainability of Nutrition and Physical Activity Interventions in Childcare NIH Co-Investigator
- Program to Increase Diversity in Faculty Engaged in Behavioral and Sleep Medicine (PRIDE) NIH/Nat. Heart, Lung & Blood Institute - Pass Through: University of Miami Other
Collaboration Network
Top Collaborators
Pearl A. McElfish
38 shared publications
In database
- COVID‐19 vaccine hesitancy: Race/ethnicity, trust, and fear
- Sociodemographic Determinants of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy, Fear of Infection, and Protection Self-Efficacy
- COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Experiences of Discrimination Among Black Adults
- COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and racial discrimination among US adults
- Parent/guardian intentions to vaccinate children against COVID-19 in the United States
Showing 5 of 38 shared publications
Don E. Willis
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
25 shared publications
In database
- COVID‐19 vaccine hesitancy: Race/ethnicity, trust, and fear
- Sociodemographic Determinants of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy, Fear of Infection, and Protection Self-Efficacy
- COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Experiences of Discrimination Among Black Adults
- COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and racial discrimination among US adults
- Parent/guardian intentions to vaccinate children against COVID-19 in the United States
Showing 5 of 25 shared publications
Jennifer A. Andersen
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
18 shared publications
In database
- COVID‐19 vaccine hesitancy: Race/ethnicity, trust, and fear
- COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Experiences of Discrimination Among Black Adults
- COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and racial discrimination among US adults
- Parent/guardian intentions to vaccinate children against COVID-19 in the United States
- Control of type 2 diabetes mellitus during the COVID-19 pandemic
Showing 5 of 18 shared publications
Holly C. Felix
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
14 shared publications
In database
- COVID‐19 vaccine hesitancy: Race/ethnicity, trust, and fear
- Control of type 2 diabetes mellitus during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Use of Community-Based Participatory Research Partnerships to Reduce COVID-19 Disparities Among Marshallese Pacific Islander and Latino Communities – Benton and Washington Counties, Arkansas, April–December 2020
- Utilization of Routine Medical Checkup and Factors Influencing Use of Routine Medical Checkup among Saudi Students Studying in the USA in 2019
- Factors Associated with Arkansans’ First Use of Telehealth during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Showing 5 of 14 shared publications
Brett Rowland
11 shared publications
In database
- Use of Community-Based Participatory Research Partnerships to Reduce COVID-19 Disparities Among Marshallese Pacific Islander and Latino Communities – Benton and Washington Counties, Arkansas, April–December 2020
- Associations Between General Vaccine Hesitancy and Healthcare Access Among Arkansans
- Undiagnosed Hypertension and Undiagnosed Type 2 Diabetes among Overweight and Obese Marshallese Participants in a Diabetes Prevention Program.
- Feasibility and efficacy of a pilot family model of diabetes self-management intervention in the Republic of the Marshall Islands
- Associations between 5-year influenza vaccination and sociodemographic factors and healthcare access among Arkansans
Showing 5 of 11 shared publications
Sharon Reece
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
9 shared publications
In database
- COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and racial discrimination among US adults
- Parent/guardian intentions to vaccinate children against COVID-19 in the United States
- Parents’ and Guardians’ Intentions to Vaccinate Children against COVID-19
- Associations Between General Vaccine Hesitancy and Healthcare Access Among Arkansans
- Associations between 5-year influenza vaccination and sociodemographic factors and healthcare access among Arkansans
Showing 5 of 9 shared publications
Aaron J. Scott
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (US)
8 shared publications
- COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Experiences of Discrimination Among Black Adults
- Associations Between General Vaccine Hesitancy and Healthcare Access Among Arkansans
- Undiagnosed Hypertension and Undiagnosed Type 2 Diabetes among Overweight and Obese Marshallese Participants in a Diabetes Prevention Program.
- Associations between 5-year influenza vaccination and sociodemographic factors and healthcare access among Arkansans
- Investigating the Association between English Proficiency and General Health among Marshallese Adults in the United States
Showing 5 of 8 shared publications
Christopher R. Long
8 shared publications
- COVID‐19 vaccine hesitancy: Race/ethnicity, trust, and fear
- Undiagnosed Hypertension and Undiagnosed Type 2 Diabetes among Overweight and Obese Marshallese Participants in a Diabetes Prevention Program.
- Effectiveness-implementation trial comparing a family model of diabetes self-management education and support with a standard model
- Investigating the Association between English Proficiency and General Health among Marshallese Adults in the United States
- Study protocol for family model diabetes self-management education with Marshallese participants in faith-based organizations
Showing 5 of 8 shared publications
Sumit K. Shah
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
8 shared publications
In database
- Sociodemographic Determinants of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy, Fear of Infection, and Protection Self-Efficacy
- COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Experiences of Discrimination Among Black Adults
- COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and racial discrimination among US adults
- Parent/guardian intentions to vaccinate children against COVID-19 in the United States
- Parents’ and Guardians’ Intentions to Vaccinate Children against COVID-19
Showing 5 of 8 shared publications
Ramey Moore
8 shared publications
In database
- Healthcare Access and Experiences of Racial Discrimination as Predictors of General Vaccine Hesitancy
- Correlates of COVID-19 vaccine coverage in Arkansas: Results from a weighted random sample survey
- COVID-19 Death Exposure among Adults in the United States
- COVID-19 Booster Uptake: Are Hesitant Adopters Less Likely to Get a Booster Shot Than Nonhesitant Adopters?
- Pediatric HPV vaccination: Provider recommendations matter among hesitant parents
Showing 5 of 8 shared publications
Ji Li
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (US)
8 shared publications
- COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and racial discrimination among US adults
- Correlates of COVID-19 vaccine coverage in Arkansas: Results from a weighted random sample survey
- Social processes, practical issues, and COVID-19 vaccination among hesitant adults
- Social Processes and COVID-19 Vaccination of Children of Hesitant Mothers
- Exploring Hesitancy, Motivations, and Practical Issues for COVID-19 Vaccination Among Vaccine-Hesitant Adopter Parents Using the Increasing Vaccination Model
Showing 5 of 8 shared publications
Taren Swindle
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (US)
7 shared publications
- Stakeholder selected strategies for obesity prevention in childcare: results from a small-scale cluster randomized hybrid type III trial
- Utilization of Routine Medical Checkup and Factors Influencing Use of Routine Medical Checkup among Saudi Students Studying in the USA in 2019
- Obesity prevention practices in early care and education settings: an adaptive implementation trial
- Table Talk: revision of an observational tool to characterize the feeding environment in early care and education settings
- Predictors of sustainment of two distinct nutrition and physical activity programs in early care and education
Showing 5 of 7 shared publications
Geoffrey M. Curran
Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System
6 shared publications
In database
- COVID‐19 vaccine hesitancy: Race/ethnicity, trust, and fear
- Stakeholder selected strategies for obesity prevention in childcare: results from a small-scale cluster randomized hybrid type III trial
- Effectiveness-implementation trial comparing a family model of diabetes self-management education and support with a standard model
- A participant-randomized pilot hybrid II trial of group cognitive processing therapy for incarcerated persons with posttraumatic stress and substance use disorder symptoms: study protocol and rationale
- Predictors of sustainment of two distinct nutrition and physical activity programs in early care and education
Showing 5 of 6 shared publications
Sheldon Riklon
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
6 shared publications
In database
- Use of Community-Based Participatory Research Partnerships to Reduce COVID-19 Disparities Among Marshallese Pacific Islander and Latino Communities – Benton and Washington Counties, Arkansas, April–December 2020
- Feasibility and efficacy of a pilot family model of diabetes self-management intervention in the Republic of the Marshall Islands
- Comparing community-driven COVID-19 vaccine distribution methods: Faith-based organizations vs. outpatient clinics
- Assessment of Diabetes-Related Health Disparities among the Marshallese Living in the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
- Study protocol for family model diabetes self-management education with Marshallese participants in faith-based organizations
Showing 5 of 6 shared publications
Sheena CarlLee
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
6 shared publications
In database
- Associations Between General Vaccine Hesitancy and Healthcare Access Among Arkansans
- Healthcare Access and Experiences of Racial Discrimination as Predictors of General Vaccine Hesitancy
- Associations between 5-year influenza vaccination and sociodemographic factors and healthcare access among Arkansans
- Comparing community-driven COVID-19 vaccine distribution methods: Faith-based organizations vs. outpatient clinics
- COVID-19 Booster Uptake: Are Hesitant Adopters Less Likely to Get a Booster Shot Than Nonhesitant Adopters?
Showing 5 of 6 shared publications
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