Briana Mezuk
Faculty Associate, Research Center for Group Dynamics, Institute for Social Research and Professor of Epidemiology, School of Public Health
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Research interests:
- To understand the interface between behavior and physiology in order to integrate social, psychological and biological approaches to understanding health and illness over the life course
- To explore the multiple pathways linking psychiatric and medical disorders, particularly chronic conditions such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes
- To inform interventions which reflect an integrative approach to health to effectively reduce the burden of mental disorders
Some current projects include investigating the relationship between depression and frailty in later life, examining how stress and health behaviors relate to risk of depression in the context of type 2 diabetes, and identifying how factors such as race/ethnicity, gender, and socioeconomic status relate to psychiatric-medical comorbidity.
- François Pouwer, ..., Briana Mezuk, et al.. 2025. The missing piece: The clinical translation of precision diabetes medicine requires precision mental health care: A call to action from the international PsychoSocial Aspects of Diabetes (PSAD) Study Group. Diabetic Medicine
- Katherine Khosrovaneh, Viktoryia A Kalesnikava, Briana Mezuk. 2025. Diabetes beliefs, perceived risk and health behaviours: an embedded mixed-methods analysis from the Richmond Stress and Sugar Study. BMJ Open 15(2):e089922.
- Viktoryia Alexandrovna Kalesnikava, Kahsay, Eskira, Zhong, Chuwen, Spring, Emma, Bagge, Courtney, Sarah Andrea Burgard, Briana Mezuk, Philippa J Clarke. 2025. Area Socioeconomic Inequality and Suicide Mortality: Contrasting Common Measures using National Violent Death Reporting System and Linked Administrative Data. American Journal of Epidemiology
- Mattingly, Delvon T., Briana Mezuk, Michael R Elliott, Fleischer, Nancy L.. 2024. Discrimination and Tobacco Use Outcomes Among US Adults: Effect Modification by Race/Ethnicity. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities 11:395-405.
- Mattingly, Delvon T., Briana Mezuk, Michael R Elliott, Neighbors, Harold W., Fleischer, Nancy L.. 2024. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Mental Health Problems and Tobacco and Cannabis Use Among US Emerging Adults. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities 11:3736-3747.
- Mattingly, Delvon T., Briana Mezuk, Michael R Elliott, Neighbors, Harold W., Leventhal, Adam M., Fleischer, Nancy L.. 2024. Distress about social problems and tobacco and cannabis use outcomes among young adults in Los Angeles County. Preventive Medicine 179:107850.
- Keri F. Kirk, Gerald McKinley, Briana Mezuk, Erica Spears. 2024. Social Determinants of Diabetes. Textbook of Diabetes :973-984.
- Ashley Redding, Viktoryia A. Kalesnikava, Rachel Bergmans, Stephen Redding, Kallisse Dent, Briana Mezuk. 2024. Medically unexplained pain and suicidal ideation among US adults. Journal of Affective Disorders 351:425-429.
- Aurora B. Le, Emily Urban-Wojcik, Meghan Seewald, Briana Mezuk. 2024. The Relationship Between Workplace Drug Policies, Opioid Misuse, and Psychological Distress: Evidence From the 2020 National Survey on Drug Use and Health. NEW SOLUTIONS: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy 34(1):22-37.
- Ananthasubramaniam, Aparna, Jurgens, David, Kahsay, Eskira, Briana Mezuk. 2024. Characteristics of and Variation in Suicide Mortality Related to Retirement during the Great Recession: Perspectives from the National Violent Death Reporting System. The Gerontologist 64(6):gnae015.