Articles in journals

• Biddinger, P.D., Savoia, E., Massin-Short, S., Preston, J., Stoto, M.A. "Accomplishments of an Academic Institution Supporting Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) Exercises." Public Health Reports. (2010).
• Savoia, E., Higdon, M.A., Massin-Short, S., Tallon, L., Stoto, M.A. "A Toolkit to Assess Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) Units’ Performance." Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness (2010).
• Croghan, T.W., Esposito, D., Daniel, G., Wahl, P., Stoto, M.A., Erder, M.H. "Using medical records to supplement claims-based analysis of comparative effectiveness of antidepressants." Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety (2010): published on-line July 1.
• Berry, S.H., Bogart L.M., Pham C., Liu K., Nyberg L., Stoto, M.A., Suttorp, M., Clemens, J.Q. "Development, Validation and Testing of an Epidemiologic Case Definition for Interstitial Cystitis/ Painful Bladder Syndrome." The Journal of Urology 183 (2010): 1842-1852.
• May, L., Griffin, B.A., Bauers, N.M., Jain, A., Mitchum, M., Sikka, N., Carim, M., Stoto, M.A. "Emergency Department Chief Complaint and Diagnosis Data to Detect Influenza-Like Illness with an Electronic Medical Record." Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 11 (2010): 1-9.
• Savoia, E., Biddinger, P.D., Burstein, J., Stoto, M.A. "Inter-agency Communication and Operations Capabilities during a Hospital Functional Exercise: Reliability and Validity of a Measurement Tool." Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 25 (2010): 52-58.
• Schultz, D.J., Seid, M., Dougherty, D., Stoto, M.A., McClure, P.J. "The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s children’s health research portfolio." Maternal and Child Health Journal 14.1 (2010): 1-8..
• Mandelblatt, J.S., Cronin, K.A., Bailey, S., Berry, D.A., de Koning, H.J., Draisma, G., Huang, H., Lee, S.J., Munsell, M., Plevritis, S. K., Ravdin, P., Schecther, C.B., Sigal, B., Stoto, M.A., Stout,. "Effects of Mammography Screening Under Different Screening Schedules: Model Estimates Of Potential Benefits And Harms." Annals of Internal Medicine 151 (2009): 738-747.
• Savoia, E., Massin-Short, S., Rodday, A., Sahagian, L., Higdon, M.A., Stoto, M.A. " A Literature Review of Public Health Systems Research in Emergency Preparedness." American Journal of Preventive Medicine 37.2 (2009): 150-156.
• Savoia, E., Rodday, A., Stoto, M.A. "Public Health Emergency Preparedness at the Local Level: Results of a National Survey." Health Services Research 44.5 (2009): 1909-1924.
• Griffin, B.A. Jain, A.K., Davies-Cole, J., Glymph, C., Lum, G., Kidane, G., Washington, S.C., Stoto, M.A. "Early detection of influenza outbreaks using the DC Department of Health’s syndromic surveillance system." BMC Public Health 9 (2009): 483.
• Stoto, M.A., Dempsey, J.X., Baer, A., Cassa, C., Gibson, P.J., Buehler, J.W. "Expert Meeting on Privacy and Confidentiality, and Other Legal and Ethical Issues in Syndromic Surveillance: Report from an International Society for Disease Surveillance Consultation." Advances in Disease Surveillance 7 (2009): 2.
• Savoia, E., Testa, M.A., Biddinger, P.D., Koh, H., Cadigan, R.O., Campbell, P., Stoto, M.A. "Assessing public health capabilities during emergency preparedness tabletop exercises: Reliability and validity of a measurement tool." Public Health Reports 124 (2009): 139-148.
• Esposito, D., Wahl, P., Daniel, G., Stoto, M.A., Erder, M.H., Croghan, T.W. "Results of a Retrospective Claims Database Analysis of Differences in Antidepressant Treatment Persistence Associated with Escitalopram and Other Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors in the US." Clinical Therapeutics 31 (2009): 644-656.
• Savoia, E., Biddinger, P.D., Fox, P., Levin, D.E., Stone, L., Stoto, M.A. "The impact of tabletop exercises on participants’ knowledge of and confidence in legal authorities for infectious disease emergencies." Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness 3.2 (2009): 1-6.
• Savoia, E., Biddinger, P.D., Burstein, J., Stoto, M.A. "Inter-agency Communication and Operations Capabilities during a Hospital Functional Exercise: Reliability and Validity of a Measurement Tool." Prehospital and Disaster Medicine (2009).
• Savoia, E., Massin-Short, S., Rodday, A., Sahagian, L., Higdon, M.A., Stoto, M.A. "A Literature Review of Public Health Systems Research in Emergency Preparedness." American Journal of Preventive Medicine (2009).
• Savoia, E., Rodday, A., Stoto, M.A. "Health Emergency Preparedness at the Local Level: Results of a National Survey." Health Services Research (2009).
• Savoia E, Biddinger PD, Fox P, Levin DE, Stone L, Stoto MA. "The Impact of Tabletop Exercises on Participants’ Knowledge of and Confidence in Legal Authorities for Infectious Disease Emergencies." Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness (2008).
• Stoto, M.A., Straus, S.G., Bohn, C., Irani, P. "A web-based tool for assessing and improving the usefulness of community health assessments." Journal of Public Health Management and Practice 15.1 (2008): 10-17.
• Koh HK, Shei A, Judge CM, Stoto MA, Cox H, Nick G, Condon S. "Emergency preparedness as a catalyst for regionalizing local public health." Public Health Reports (2008).
• Stoto MA, Morse L. "Regionalization in local public health systems: Case study of public health preparedness in the Washington metropolitan area." Public Health Reports (2008).
• Stoto, MA . "Regionalization in local public health systems: Variation in rationale, implementation, and impact on public health preparedness." Public Health Reports (2008).
• Biddinger P, Cadigan RO, Auerbach B, Burstein J, Savoia E, Stoto M, Koh H. "Using Tabletop Exercises to Identify Systems-Level Changes for Improving Preparedness." Public Health Reports 123.1 (2008): 96-101.
• Savoia E, Testa MA, Biddinger PD, Koh H, Cadigan RO, Campbell P, Stoto MA. "Assessing public health capabilities during emergency preparedness tabletop exercises: reliability and validity of a measurement tool." Public Health Reports, Submitted. (2008).
• Esposito D, Wahl P, Daniel G, Stoto MA, Erder MH, Croghan TW. "Differences in Antidepressant Treatment Persistence Associated with Escitalopram and Generic SSRIs." Journal of Clinical Psychiatry (2008).
• Biddinger P, Cadigan RO, Auerbach B, Burstein J, Savoia E, Stoto M, Koh H. "Using Tabletop Exercises to Identify Systems-Level Changes for Improving Preparedness." Public Health Reports 123.1 (2008): 96-101.
• Stoto MA. "Regionalization in local public health systems (Overview)." Public Health Reports (2008).
• Grieb J, Clark, M. "Regional public health emergency preparedness: The experience of Massachusetts region 4b.." Public Health Reports (2008).
• Savoia E, Stoto MA, Biddinger PD, Campbell P, Viswanath KV and Koh HK. "Risk-communication capability for public health emergencies varies by community diversity." BMC Research Notes (2008).
• Koh HK, Elqura LJ, Judge CM, Stoto MA. "Regionalization of Local Public Health Systems in the Era of Preparedness." Annual Review of Public Health 29 (2008): 205-218.
• Stoto MA.. "Public Health Surveillance in the 21st Century: Achieving Population Health Goals while Protecting Individuals’ Privacy and Confidentiality.." Georgetown Law Journal (2007).
• Stoto, MA. "Syndromic surveillance in public health practice." Global Infectious Disease Surveillance and Detection (2007): 63-72.
• Stoto MA, Straus SG, Bohn C, Irani P. "Assessing and improving the usefulness of community health assessments: A web-based tool for obtaining feedback from users." Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. (2007).
• May L, Stoto MA, Sikka N. "Valuation of emergency department syndromic surveillance data by ICD-9 code: Is there a correlation between chief complaint and final emergency department diagnosis for early detection of influenza." Advances in Disease Surveillance 2 (2007): 20.
• Stoto MA, Lurie N, Wasserman J, Dausey D, Davis L, Myers SS, Olmsted S, Ricci K, Ridgely S, Sloss E. "Learning from experience: The public health response to West Nile Virus, SARS, monkeypox, and hepatitis A outbreaks in the United States.." Journal of Public Health Management and Practice (2007).
• Dausey D, Stoto MA, Davis L, Lurie N, Myers SS, Olmsted S, Ricci K, Ridgely S, Sloss E, Wasserman J. "Policy development and assurance in outbreaks of West Nile Virus, SARS, monkeypox, and hepatitis A outbreaks in the United States. ." Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. (2007).
• Dausey D, Ricci K, Stoto MA, Sloss E, Davis L, Lurie N, Myers SS, Olmsted S, Ridgely S, Wasserman J. "Communication with the public in outbreaks of West Nile Virus, SARS, monkeypox, and hepatitis A outbreaks in the United States." Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. (2007).
• Ridgely S, Wasserman J, Stoto MA, Sloss E, Dausey D, Davis L, Lurie N, Myers SS, Olmsted S, Ricci K. "Coordination and communication with public health partners in outbreaks of West Nile Virus, SARS, monkeypox, and hepatitis A outbreaks in the United States." Journal of Public Health Management and Practice (2007).
• Koh HK, Stoto MA, Judge CM, Elqura L. "Emergency preparedness as a catalyst for regionalizing local public health." Annual Review of Public Health (2007).
• Stoto MA. . "Regionalization in local public health systems: Variation in rationale, implementation, and impact on public health preparedness. ." Journal of Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness (2007).
• Koh HK, Shei A, Judge CM, Stoto MA, Cox H, Nick G, Condon S . "Emergency preparedness as a catalyst for regionalizing local public health." Journal of Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness (2007).
• Stoto MA, Morse L. . "Regionalization in local public health systems: Case study of public health preparedness in the Washington metropolitan area." Journal of Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness (2007).
• Stoto, MA. "Regionalization in local public health systems." Journal of Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness (2007).
• Dorn BC, Savoia E, Testa MA. Stoto MA, Marcus LJ. "Development of a survey instrument to measure connectivity to evaluate national public health preparedness and response performance." Public Health Reports 122 (2007): 329-338.
• Koh, H.K., Elqura, L.J., Cox, H., Nick, G.A et al. "Emergency Preparedness as a Catalyst for Regionalizing Local Public Health: the Massachusetts Case Study." Public Health Reports Online (2007).
• Koh, H.K., Elqura, L.J., Cox, H., Nick, G.A et al. "Emergency Preparedness as a Catalyst for Regionalizing Local Public Health: the Massachusetts Case Study." Public Health Reports Online (2007).
• Stoto MA, Griffin BA, Jain A, Davies-Cole JO, et al. "Fine-tuning and evaluation of detection algorithms for syndromic surveillance." Advances in Disease Surveillance 2 (2007): 213.
• Lenihan P. "Northern Illinois Public Health Consortium Case Study." Public Health Reports Online (2007).
• Palm D, Svoboda C. "A Regional Approach to Organizing Local Public Health Systems and the Impact on Emergency Preparedness: The Nebraska Experience." Public Health Reports Online (2007).
• Berry, SH, Clemens, JQ, Stoto, MA, Suttorp, M, Eggers, PW, and Nyberg, L. "Accuracy of Various Questionnaire Definitions in Identifying Interstitial Cystitis/Painful Bladder Syndrome in Epidemiologic Studies." NIH (2007).
• Croghan, T.W., Esposito, D., Daniel, G., Wahl, P., Stoto, M.A., Erder, M.H. "Interpreting Claims Based Approaches to Comparative Effectiveness of Antidepressants." Submitted (2007).
• Stoto MA, Straus SG, Bohn C, Irani P. "A Web-based tool for Assessing and Improving the Usefulness of Community Health Assessments." Journal of Public Health Management and Practice (2007).
• Seid M, Schultz DJ, McClure PJ, Stoto MA. "Evaluation of AHRQ’s children’s health activities." RAND Health (2006).
• Bhatnagar V, Stoto MA, Morton SC, Boer R, Bozzette SA. "Transmission patterns of smallpox: systematic review of natural outbreaks in Europe and North America since World War II." BMC Public Health 6 (2006): 126.
• Schultz DJ, Stoto MA . " Process evaluation of Project Public Health Ready phase 2." RAND Health (2006).
• Stoto MA. "The precautionary principle and emerging biological risks: Lessons from HIV in blood products." Seminars in Hematology 43 (2006): S10-12.
• Stoto, MA. "Comment on A Bayesian dynamic model for influenza surveillance by Sebastiani et al.." Statistics in Medicine 25 (2006): 1817–1818.
• Stoto MA, Fricker RD, Jain A, Davies-Cole JO, Glymph C, Kidane G, Lum G, Jones L, Yuan C.. "Evaluating statistical methods for syndromic surveillance." Statistical Methods in Counter-Terrorism: Game Theory, Modeling, Syndromic Surveillance, and Biometric Authentication (2006).
• Myers SS, Stoto MA. "Criteria for Assessing the Usefulness of Community Health Assessments: A Literature Review. ." RAND Health (2006).
• Stoto, MA. "Population health monitoring." Health Statistics: Shaping Health Policy and Practice (2005): 317-339.
• Stoto MA.. "Syndromic surveillance." Issues in Science and Technology 21 (2005): 49-56.
• Tanielian T, Ricci KA, Stoto MA, Dausey DJ, Davis LM, Myers SS, Olmsted SS, Willis HW. "Exemplary Practices in Public Health Preparedness." RAND Health (2005).
• Institute of Medicine. "Estimating the Contributions of Lifestyle-Related Factors to Preventable Death: A Workshop Summary." National Academy Press (2005).
• Asch SM, Stoto MA, Mendes M, Burciaga Valdez R, Gallagher ME, Halverson P, Lurie N. " A Review of Instruments Assessing Public Health Preparedness." Public Health Reports 120 (2005): 532-542.
• Dausey DJ, Lurie N, Diamond A, Meade B, Molander R, Ricci K, Stoto M, Wasserman J. "Tests to evaluate public health disease reporting systems in local public health agencies." RAND Health (2005).
• Dausey DJ, Lurie N, Diamond A, Meade B, Molander R, Ricci K, Stoto M, Wasserman J. "Preparedness training and assessment exercises for local health departments." RAND Health (2005).
• Blanchard JC, Haywood Y, Stein BD, Tanielian TL, Stoto MA, Lurie N. "In their own words: Lessons learned from those exposed to anthrax." AJPH 95 (2005): 489-495.
• Stoto MA, Dausey D, Davis L, Leuschner K, Lurie N, Myers SS, Olmsted S, Ricci K, Ridgely S, Sloss E, Wasserman J. "Learning from experience: The public health response to West Nile Virus, SARS, Monkeypox, and hepatitis A outbreaks in the United States." RAND Health (2005).
• Lemeshow A, Blum RE, Berlin JA, Stoto MA, Colditz, GA. "Searching one or two databases was insufficient for meta-analysis of observational studies." Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 58 (2005): 867-873.
• Myers S, Stoto MA. "Process evaluation of Project Public Health Ready." RAND Health (2004).
• Lurie N, Wasserman J, Stoto M, Myers S, Namkung P, Fielding J, Burciaga Valdez R. "Local Variation in Public Health Preparedness: Lessons from California, Health Affairs." Health Affairs (2004).
• Lurie N, Burciaga Valdez R, Wasserman J, Stoto M, Myers S, Molander R, Mussington D, Solomon V, Asch SM. " Public health preparedness in California: Lessons learned from seven health jurisdictions." RAND Health (2004).
• Lurie N, Burciaga Valdez R, Wasserman J, Stoto M, Myers S, Molander R, Mussington D, Solomon V, Asch SM. "Gaps in public health preparedness: Lessons learned in California." RAND Health (2004).
• Stoto MA, Schonlau M, Mariano LT. "Syndromic Surveillance: An Effective Tool for Detecting Bioterrorism? ." RAND Health (2004).
• Stoto MA, Schonlau M, Mariano LT. "Syndromic Surveillance: Is it Worth the Effort?." Chance 17 (2004): 19-24.
• Stoto, MA. "Public involvement in community health improvement." Cross-disciplinary Public Involvement Report (2004).
• Stoto, MA. "Public health surveillance: A historical review with a focus on HIV/AIDS." RAND Health (2003).
• Stoto, MA. "Statistical issues in interactive web-based public health data dissemination systems." RAND Health (2003).
• Rippen HE, Gursky E, Stoto MA. . " Importance of bioterrorism preparedness for family physicians ." American Family Physician 67 (2003): 1877.
• Keeler EB, Morton SC, Stoto MA. "A model for a smallpox vaccination policy." New England Journal of Medicine 348 (2003): 416-425.
• Stoto, MA. "Will Smallpox Vaccinations Save Lives?." RAND Health (2003).
• Association of State and Territorial Health Officials. "Public Health Preparedness: A Progress Report -- The First Six Months." Public Health Reports (2003).
• Stoto MA, Goldman AS. "Preventing perinatal transmission of HIV." RAND Health (2003).
• Stoto MA. "The precautionary principle and emerging biological risks: Lessons from swine flu and HIV in blood products." Public Health Reports 117 (2002): 546-52..
• Stoto MA, Durch JS. "Public health data challenges in the Washington, DC metropolitan area.." Big cities health inventory (2002).
• Foster VB, Stoto MA, Sun W, Wright-Andoh J, Macarthy P, and Bertolucci D. "District of Columbia HIV seroprevalence report." HIV/AIDS Administration (2001).
• Stoto MA, Durch JS.. "Health indicators for the Washington, DC metropolitan area." Applied Demography (2001).
• McCormick MC, Davidson E, Stoto MA. "Preventing perinatal transmission of HIV in the United States. Committee on Perinatal Transmission of HIV." Obstetrics and Gynecology 94 (1999): 795-798.
• Leveton LB, Sox HC Jr, Stoto MA. "HIV and the blood supply: An analysis of crisis decisionmaking ." Transfusion 36 (1996): 919-927.
• Leveton LB, Sox HC Jr, Stoto MA. "HIV and the blood supply: An analysis of crisis decisionmaking (Executive summary of an IOM report)." Transfusion 36 (1996): 919-927.
• Stoto, MA. "Public health assessment for the 1990s." Annual Review of Public Health 13 (1992): 59-78.

Articles in books

• Stoto, M.A. "Public Health Surveillance." The Encyclopedia of Quantitative Risk Assessment and Analysis. Ed. Everitt, B., Melnick, E. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2008: 1371-1381
• Stoto, MA. "Combining results from independent studies: Systematic reviews and meta-analysis in clinical research." Medical Uses of Statistics. Ed. Bailar JC and Hoaglin D. : NEJM Books, 2005.
• Stoto MA, Cosler LE. "Evaluation." Public health administration: Organization and strategy for population-based management. Ed. Novick L, Mays G. Washington: Jones and Bartlett, 2005.
• Stoto, MA. "Research synthesis for public health policy: Experience of the Institute of Medicine." Meta-analysis in medicine and health policy. Ed. Stangl D, Berry D. New York: Marcel Dekker, 2000.

Edited books

• Stoto MA, Almario DA, McCormick MC, ed. Reducing the odds: Preventing perinatal transmission of HIV in the United States. Washington: National Academy Press, 1999.
• Evans G, Bostrom A, Johnston RB, Fisher BL, Stoto MA, ed. Risk communication and vaccination: Summary of a workshop. Washington: National Academy Press, 1997.
• Durch JS, Bailey LA, Stoto MA, ed. Improving health in the community: A role for performance monitoring. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1997.
• Leveton LB, Sox HC, Stoto MA, ed. HIV and the blood supply: An analysis of crisis decisionmaking.. Washington: National Academy Press, 1995.
• Committee to Review the Health Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to Herbicides, ed. Veterans and Agent Orange: Health effects of herbicides used in Vietnam. Washington: National Academy Press, 1994.

Conference proceedings

• Samet, J., Stoto, M., Arcari, C., ed. "A Workshop On Doctoral Education in Epidemiology. ." 2002. Baltimore, MD.: ACE/ASPH.

Other

• Stoto M.A. Conducting PHSSR Research in Public Health Agency Settings, Practice-based Research Workshop, National Association of County and City Health Officials Annual Meeting, Memphis, July 2010..
• Stoto M.A., Do current surveillance systems provide valid and credible statistical information on 2009-H1N1? International Conference on Health Policy Statistics, Washington, January 2010..
• Stoto M.A., Zhang, Y., Did advances in global surveillance and notification systems make a difference in the 2009-H1N1 pandemic? International Society for Disease Surveillance, Miami, December 2009..
• Zhang, Y., Stoto M.A., Evaluating Georgetown University’s A/H1N1 influenza syndromic surveillance system (student scholarship award), AcademyHealth Health Systems Research Interest Group Meeting, Boston, June 2010..
• Stoto M.A. Learning from 2009 H1N1 about Public Health Surveillance. National Emergency Management Summit, Washington, March 2010..
• Stoto M.A. Learning from 2009 H1N1 about Public Health Surveillance. Public Health Preparedness Summit, Atlanta, February 2010. .
• Stoto M.A. Learning from H1N1 about Public Health Systems. Methods workshop, AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, Boston, June 2010..
• Stoto M.A. “Real-Time” After Action Report for the Massachusetts Public Health System Response to 2009 H1N1. Keeneland Conference, Lexington, KY, April 2010..
• Higdon M.A., Savoia E., Massin-Short S.B., Stoto M.A., Changing attitudes and barriers to volunteering amongst Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) volunteers as a result of the H1N1 outbreak of 2009-10 (student scholarship award), AcademyHealth Public Health Systems Research Interest Group Meeting, Boston, June 2010..
• Savoia, E., Higdon, M.A., Short, S., Tallon, L., Stoto, M.A. A Toolkit to Assess the Effectiveness of MRC Volunteers Assisting Local Public Health Departments. Public Health Preparedness Summit, Atlanta, February 2010..
• Stoto M.A. A Learning Collaborative to Improve the Effectiveness of MRC Flu Clinic Deployments. Public Health Preparedness Summit, Atlanta, February 2010..
• Klaiman, T., Kraemer, J., Stoto M.A., School Closures in Response to A/H1N1: Issues for Decision-Makers. National Emergency Management Summit, Washington, March 2010..
• Klaiman, T., Kraemer, J., Stoto M.A., School Closures in Response to A/H1N1: Issues for Decision-Makers. Public Health Preparedness Summit, Atlanta, February 2010. .
• Klaiman, T., Kraemer, J., Stoto M.A., School Closures in Response to A/H1N1: Issues for Decision-Makers. APHA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, November 2009..
• Stoto M.A. State and local health rankings. Public Health Services Research Interest Group Policy Breakfast, AcademyHealth National Health Policy Conference, Washington, February 2010..
• Stoto M.A. Did military service cause my illness? New approaches to assessing causality for veterans’ compensation policy. American College of Epidemiology, Silver Spring, MD, September 2009..
• Savoia E., Stoto M.A., To have or not to have a board of health: Impact on policy making and advocacy, collaborations and partnerships and emergency preparedness. APHA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, November 2009..
• Zhang, Y., Stoto, M.A. Review of Rising Plague: The Global Threat from Deadly Bacteria and Our Dwindling Arsenal to Fight Them, forthcoming in Georgetown Public Policy Review..
• Higdon, M.A., Stoto, M.A. MRC Evaluation Toolkit: An Overview. NACCHO Preparedness Brief, Edition 50—Supplement Issue, 2010..
• Mandelblatt, J.S., Cronin, K.A., Bailey, S., Berry, D.A., de Koning, H.J., Draisma, G., Huang, H., Lee, S.J., Munsell, M., Plevritis, S. K., Ravdin, P., Schecther, C.B., Sigal, B., Stoto, M.A., Stout, N.K., van Ravesteyn, N.T., Venier, J., Zelen, M., Feuer, E.J. Effects of Mammography Screening Under Different Screening Schedules: Model Estimates Of Potential Benefits And Harms. Submitted to Annals of Internal Medicine, 2009. .
• Stoto, MA. Meta-Analysis and Systematic Reviews. Presented at the 7th Annual ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium, Piscataway, NJ. June 4, 2008. .
• Stoto, MA. Meta-Analysis and Systematic Reviews. Presented at the 7th Annual ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium, Piscataway, NJ. June 4, 2008. .
• Stoto, MA. Meta-Analysis and Systematic Reviews -- Session 1. Presented at the 7th Annual ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium, Piscataway, NJ. June 4, 2008. .
• Stoto, MA. Meta-Analysis and Systematic Reviews -- Session 2. Presented at the 7th Annual ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium, Piscataway, NJ. June 4, 2008. .
• Stoto, MA. Meta-Analysis and Systematic Reviews -- Session 3. Presented at the 7th Annual ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium. Piscataway, NJ; June 4, 2008. .
• Stoto, MA. Meta-Analysis and Systematic Reviews -- Session 4. Presented at the 7th Annual ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium. Piscataway, NJ; June 4, 2008. .
• Savoia E, Biddinger PD, Fox P, Levin DE, Stone L, Stoto MA. The Role of Tabletop Exercises in Informing, Assessing, and Improving Legal Preparedness for Infectious Disease Emergencies, 2008. .
• Stoto, M.A. Logic models for evaluating web-based data query systems. In Friedman, D.J., Parrish, R.G. (eds.), Issues in evaluating health department web-based data query systems: Working papers. Princeton (NJ): The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; 2008..
• Stoto, M.A. Statistical Issues in Web-based Data Query Systems. In Friedman, D.J., Parrish, R.G. (eds.), Issues in Evaluating Health Department Web-based Data Query Systems: Working Papers. Princeton (NJ): The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; 2008..
• Dausey, D.J., Stoto, M.A., LaTourrette, T., Biddinger, P.D., Shelton, S., Savoia, E., Koh, H., Lurie, N. Using Exercises to Evaluate Public Health Emergency Preparedness. Submitted. .
• Stoto, M.A., Savoia E., Biddinger, P., Koh, H. Measuring Public Health Emergency Preparedness. Submitted. .
• Stoto MA. Meta-Analysis for Drug Safety Assessment. Presented at ICPHS, Philadelphia, January 18, 2008. .
• Stoto MA, Myers SS, Lurie N, Wasserman J, Dausey D. 2008. Determing the Usefulness of Tabletop Exercises for Assessing Preparedness for Public Health Emergencies. Draft manuscript. .
• Stoto MA, Koh H. 2008. Assessing Public Health Preparedness. Draft manuscript. .
• Stoto MA, Lurie N, Brower J, Dausey D, Myers SS, Ricci K, Tanielian T. 2008. A Framework for Public Health Preparedness. Draft manuscript. .
• Stoto MA. 2008. Using TCL’s to Measure Public Health Preparedness in Tabletop Exercises. Draft manuscript..
• Savoia E, Stoto MA, Biddinger PD, Campbell P, Viswanath KV and Koh HK. (2008). Risk-communication capability for public health emergencies varies by community diversity (abstract). APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition, October 25-29, 2008..
• Stoto, MA. 2008. Logic Models for Evaluating Web-based Data Query Systems. Working Paper for RWJF’s Evaluating health department Web-based data query systems..
• Rodday AM, Savoia E, Biddinger PD, Cadigan RO, Nick G, Stoto M. (2008). Role of external evaluators during emergency preparedness tabletop exercises. Prepared for 136th APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition, October 25-29. .
• Stoto MA, Biddinger PD, Savoia E, Cadigan R, Koh H. Using Exercises to Evaluate Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP). HSPH-CPHP, 2008. .
• Esposito D, Wahl P, Daniel G, Stoto MA, Erder MH, Croghan TW. Initiating Treatment on Generic Antidepressants May Not Save Health Care Costs. (Abstract). ISPOR 13th Annual International Meeting, Toronto, ON, Canada, May 3-7, 2008..
• Stoto MA. Infectious Disease Surveillance & National/Health Security, CNSTAT Workshop on Vital Data for National Needs, Washington, April 2008..
• Rodday AM, Savoia E, Biddinger PD, Cadigan RO, Nick G, Stoto MA. Role of external evaluators during emergency preparedness tabletop exercises (abstract). APHA Annual Meeting, San Diego, October, 2008..
• Savoia E, Stoto MA, Biddinger PD, Campbell P, Viswanath KV and Koh HK. Risk-communication capability for public health emergencies varies by community diversity. APHA Annual Meeting, San Diego, October, 2008..
• Aaron LA, Savoia E, Stoto MA, Koh HK. Role of media in times of crisis: Clarity and consistency of public health messages during hurricanes Katrina and Rita. APHA Annual Meeting, San Diego, October, 2008..
• Stoto, MA, Griffin, BA, Jain, AK, Davies-Cole, J, Glymph, C, Lum, G, Kidane, G, Washington, S. Early Detection of the Flu Season Using the DC Department of Health’s Syndromic Surveillance System. Presented at the APHA Conference, November, 2007, Washington, DC. .
• Savoia E, Stoto MA, Dorn BC, Testa MA, Campbell P, Cadigan RO, Biddinger PD, Koh HK. Leadership, communication, and social networking in public health emergency preparedness: Construct validity of a measurement tool. Accepted for presentation the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, Washington, November 2007..
• Stoto, MA. Syndromic Surveillance in Public Health Practice. Presented at the U. S. Medicine Institute October 19, 2007, Washington, DC..
• Stoto, MA. Expert Meeting on Privacy and Confidentiality, and Other Legal and Ethical Issues in Syndromic Surveillance, Preliminary Report. Presented at Conference sponsored by the International Society for Disease Surveillance and O’Neill Institute for Health Law at Georgetown University, October 12, 2007, Washington, DC..
• Stoto, MA. Expert Meeting on Privacy and Confidentiality, and Other Legal and Ethical Issues in Syndromic Surveillance. Presented at the International Society for Disease Surveillance, October 12, 2007, Indianapolis, IN..
• Stoto MA, Straus S, Bohn C, and Irani P. Web-based Tool for Assessing and Improving the Usefulness of Community Health Assessments. Presented at Assessment Initiative Conference, August 22, 2007..
• Stoto MA, Griffin BA, Jain A, et al. Early Detection of Influenza Outbreaks using the DC Department of Health’s Syndromic Surveillance System. Submitted. .
• Griffin BA, Stoto MA, Jain A, et al. Fine-Tuning Parameters in Statistical Detection Algorithms: An Evaluation of the DC Department of Health’s Syndromic Surveillance System. Submitted..
• Stoto MA. (2007). Assessing Bodies of Evidence about Clinical Services. Prepared for the IOM Committee on Reviewing Evidence to Identify Highly Effective Clinical Services..
• Savoia E, Stoto MA, Biddinger P, Viswanath K, Koh H. Risk communication capacity for public health emergencies varies by population size and community pluralism. .
• Pedati C, Marshall M, Mitchell J, Stoto MA. Business Continuity Planning Regarding Pandemic Influenza in the Greater Washington Metropolitan Area. Submitted. .
• Mandelblatt J, Draisma G, Stoto MA, Huang J, Taskesen E, de Koning HJ, Schechter CB. (2007). Effects of Mammography Screening at the Youngest and Oldest Ages: Estimates of Effectiveness from Simulation Models. NCI..
• Berry SH, Clemens JQ, Stoto MA, Suttorp M, Eggers PW, Nyberg L. (2007). Accuracy of Various Questionnaire Definitions in Identifying Institial Cytitis/Painful Bladder Syndrome in Epidemiologic Studies. Submitted. .
• Esposito D, Wahl P, Daniel G, Stoto MA, Erder MH, Croghan TW. (2007). Health Care Costs Associated with Escitalopram and alternative SSRIs. Submitted. .
• Schultz DJ, Seid M, Dougherty D, Stoto MA, McClure PJ. The impact of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s children’s health research portfolio.
• Esposito D, Wahl P, Daniel G, Stoto MA, Erder MH, Croghan TW. (2007). Differences in Antidepressant Treatment Continuation Associated with Escitalopram and alternative SSRIs. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. .
• Esposito D, Wahl P, Daniel G, Stoto MA, Erder MH, Croghan TW. (2007). Differences in antidepressant continuation associated with escitalopram and alternative SSRIs..
• Stoto MA. 2007. Regionalization in local public health systems:Variation in rationale, implementation, and impact on public health preparedness. Report prepared with support of the RobertWood Johnson Foundation..
• Koh, H.K., Elqura, L.J., Cox, H., Nick, G.A et al. Emergency Preparedness as a Catalyst for Regionalizing Local Public Health: the Massachusetts Case Study. Forthcoming in Public Health Reports Online. 2007..
• Stoto, MA, Griffin, BA, Jain, AK, Davies-Cole, J, Glymph, C, Lum, G, Kidane, G, Washington, S. Early Detection of the Flu Season Using the DC Department of Health’s Syndromic Surveillance System. Presented at the APHA Conference, November, 2007, Washington, DC. .
• Stoto MA. Evaluation of syndromic surveillance systems. American Statistical Association Section on Statistics in Defense and National Security, Santa Monica, February 2006. .
• Stoto MA. The identifiability of pharmaceutical data: A test of the statistical alternative to HIPAA’s safe harbor. In CD-only annex to Domingo-Ferrer J, Franconi L, eds. Privacy in Statistical Databases, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4302, Springer, 2006..
• Stoto MA, Biddinger PD, Cadigan RO, Savoia E. Using tabletop exercises to evaluate a community’s preparedness for pandemic influenza, American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Boston, November 2006. .
• Stoto MA, Biddinger PD, Cadigan RO, Savoia E. Using tabletop exercises to evaluate a community’s preparedness for pandemic influenza, American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Boston, November 2006. .
• Schultz DJ, Stoto MA. Process evaluation of Project Public Health Ready phase 2. Prepared for the National Association of County and City Health Officials. RAND, TR-331, 2006. .
• Stoto MA, Normand S-L, Colditz G, Flaig R, Howe E, Wolf R. Bayesian meta-analysis of the dose-response relationship of alcohol consumption and health outcomes. International Conference on Health Policy Research, Boston, October 2005..
• Stoto MA. The role of systematic reviews (possibly) including meta-analysis in drug, vaccine, and food safety monitoring. Harvard/Schering-Plough Workshop, Boston, June 2005. .
• Colditz GA, Normand S-L, Rimm EB, Stoto MA, Flaig RB, Lee R, Howe E. Estimating alcohol attributable fractions for U.S. morbidity and mortality based on meta-analyses of epidemiologic studies. Interim Final Report under NIAAA contract #: N01AA21011, 2005. .
• Stoto MA, Lurie N, Wasserman J, Dausey D, Davis L, Myers SS, Olmsted S, Ricci K, Ridgely S, Sloss E. (2005). Learning from Experience: The public health response to West Nile Virus, SARS, monkeypox, and hepatitis A outbreaks in the United States (Commentary). Provisionally accepted as part of a solicited special issue to the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. .
• Ridgely S, Wasserman J, Stoto MA, Sloss E, Dausey D, Davis L, Lurie N, Myers SS, Olmsted S, Ricci K. (2005). Coordination and communication with public health partners in outbreaks of West Nile Virus, SARS, monkeypox, and hepatitis A outbreaks in the United States. Provisionally accepted as part of a solicited special issue to the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. .
• Dausey D, Ricci K, Stoto MA, Sloss E, Davis L, Lurie N, Myers SS, Olmsted S, Ridgely S, Wasserman J. (2005). Communication with the public in outbreaks of West Nile Virus, SARS, monkeypox, and hepatitis A outbreaks in the United States. Provisionally accepted as part of a solicited special issue to the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. .
• Dausey D, Stoto MA, Davis L, Lurie N, Myers SS, Olmsted S, Ricci K, Ridgely S, Sloss E, Wasserman J. (2005). Policy development and assurance in outbreaks of West Nile Virus, SARS, monkeypox, and hepatitis A outbreaks in the United States. Provisionally accepted as part of a solicited special issue to the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. .
• Stoto MA, Lurie N, Wasserman J, Dausey D, Davis L, Myers SS, Olmsted S, Ricci K, Ridgely S, Sloss E. (2005). Learning from experience: The public health response to West Nile Virus, SARS, monkeypox, and hepatitis A outbreaks in the United States (Introduction). Provisionally accepted as part of a solicited special issue to the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. .
• Dausey D, Ricci K, Stoto MA, Sloss E, Davis L, Lurie N, Myers SS, Olmsted S, Ridgely S, Wasserman J. (2005). Communication with the public in outbreaks of West Nile Virus, SARS, monkeypox, and hepatitis A outbreaks in the United States. Provisionally accepted as part of a solicited special issue to the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. .
• Stoto MA, Olmsted S, Sloss E, Dausey D, Davis L, Lurie N, Myers SS, Ricci K, Ridgely S, Wasserman J. (2005). Public health assessment in outbreaks of West Nile Virus, SARS, monkeypox, and hepatitis A outbreaks in the United States. Provisionally accepted as part of a solicited special issue to the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. .
• Stoto MA, Aledort JE. Points for Policy and Decision Makers. Workshop on Mathematical Modeling for 21st Century Public Health Practice, Palm Springs, March 2005..
• Stoto MA. Statistical Methods for State and Local Public Health Data. APHA/ASA Continuing Education Institute, November 6, 2004..
• Stoto MA. The Ranch Hand (Air Force Health) Study. Invited presentation at the U.S. Medicine Institute forum on The Value of Long-Term Studies, Washington, March 2004.
• Lurie N, Stoto MA, Hoverman C. Background Research for Decision Making: Medical Homes. Prepared for the District of Columbia Primary Care Association, 2004..
• Lurie N, Stoto MA. Health insurance status in the District of Columbia. Prepared for the District of Columbia Primary Care Association, 2003. .
• Stoto MA. Public health surveillance: A historical review with a focus on HIV/AIDS. RAND, DRU-3074/IOM, 2003. .
• Petitti D, Stoto MA. Meta-analysis for policy decisions, invited presentation at the Workshop and Symposium on Challenges for Meta-Analysis of Medical and Health Policy Data, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, May 2002. .
• Stoto MA, Cheung I, Estrada L, Foster VB, Mele L, Smith M. West Nile virus surveillance in the Washington metropolitan region (Poster). International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases, Atlanta, 2002. .
• Stoto MA, Lurie N, Myers SK, Greenberg MD, Libicki MC, Henry JV. Regional surveillance in the Washington metropolitan area: A feasibility study. Prepared for the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, 2002..
• Stoto MA, Foster VB. Using CUSUM techniques to identify influenza outbreaks International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases, Atlanta, 2002. .
• Stoto MA, Cleary SD, Foster VB. Epidemiologic studies of MMR vaccine and autism. Prepared for the IOM Immunization Safety Review Committee, 2001. .
• Stoto MA. Overview of epidemiological studies examining MMR, IBD, and autism. Invited presentation to the IOM Immunization Safety Review Committee, Washington, 2001..
• Final report of the District of Columbia HIV surveillance advisory group. HIV/AIDS Administration, DC Department of Health, 2001.
• Stoto MA. What makes a good performance measure? Maternal and Child Health Information Resource Center Dataspeak, 1999..
• Stoto MA. Performance and outcome measurement I: Epidemiological and statistical concepts. Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs, Washington, 1999..
• Stoto MA, Durch JS. Applying performance monitoring concepts to national tobacco control efforts. Prepared for the IOM/NRC National Cancer Policy Board, 1997..