Research

My research interest covers areas of health economics, global health, public health and public finance.

Publications (in peer reviewed journals)

2025

1. Datta, B. K., Jaremski, J. E., Chang, A., Sengupta, S. (2025). "Psychosocial wellbeing and short sleep duration among U.S. adults", Sleep & Breathing, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11325-025-03303-5.

2. Vernon, M. M., Datta, B. K., Coughlin, S, S., (2025). "Depressive disorder among gynecologic cancer survivors in the US: Evidence from the 2020 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey", Cancer Epidemiology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.canep.2025.102795. 

3. Das Gupta, R., Haider, M. R., Roy, S., Hashan, M. R., Baral, A., Tamanna, N., Mazumder, A., Haider, S. S., Datta, B. K. (2025). "Association Between Abdominal Obesity, Body Mass Index, and Hypertension in India: Evidence From a Large Nationally Representative Data", The Journal of Clinical Hypertension, https://doi.org/10.1111/jch.70034.

4. Datta, B. K., Ghosh, S., Jaremski, J. E., Ansa, B. E., Islam, K. M., Johnson, J. A. (2025). "Disparities in Preventive Care Utilization at the Intersection of Socioeconomic and Demographic Characteristics: A Survival Analysis of COVID-19 Vaccination Uptake in the United States", Journal of Public Health Management & Practice, https://doi.org/10.1097/PHH.0000000000002151.

5. Jiang, S., Patel, V., Stabellini, N., Datta, B. K., Nain, P., Seth, L., Kunhiraman, H.H., Nettles, D., Malik, S., Patel, S.A. and Rupji, M., (2025). "Rurality Status and Cardiovascular Events/Survival in Older Men With Prostate Cancer", Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, 1(aop), pp.1-9. https://doi.org/10.6004/jnccn.2024.7094.

2024

6. Datta, B. K., Fazlul, I., Khan, M. M. (2024), "Long COVID and financial hardship: A disaggregated analysis at income and education levels", Health Services Research, https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6773.14413. 

7. Coughlin, S. S., Datta, B. K. (2024). "Access to health care among gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender persons in the United States", Journal of Hospital Management and Health Policy,  https://doi.org/10.21037/jhmhp-24-116. 

8. Datta, B. K., Jaremski, J. E., Ansa, B. E., Odhiambo, L. A., Clary, C., Islam, K. M., Johnson, J. A. (2024). "A Survival Analysis of Rural-Urban Disparities in COVID-19 Vaccination Uptake in the United States", American Journal of Health Promotion, https://doi.org/10.1177/08901171241300136.

9. Datta, B. K., Tiwari, A., Glenn, L. (2024), "Association between child marriage and high blood glucose level in women: A birth cohort analysis", Public Health in Practice,8:100556. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhip.2024.100556. 

10. Datta, B. K., Tiwari, A., Jahan, M., Torres, N., Attari, S. (2024), "Spousal age difference and risk of hypertension in women: evidence from India", Journal of Human Hypertension, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41371-024-00959-6. 

11. Datta, B. K., Tiwari, A. (2024), "Role of Child Marriage and Adolescent Childbearing on Hysterectomy Among Married Women in India: A Cross-Sectional and Time-to-Event Analysis", BJOG, https://doi.org/10.1111/1471-0528.17950.

12. Datta, B. K., Coughlin, S. S., Moore, J. X., Chen, J. (2024). "Medical financial hardship in the Southern United States: the struggle continues across generations pre-and post-the Affordable Care Act", Research in Health Services & Regions., 3(1):13.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s43999-024-00049-7. 

13. Datta, B. K., Tiwari, A. Abdelgawad, Y. H., Wasata, R. (2024), "Hysterectomy and medical financial hardship among U.S. women", Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.srhc.2024.101019. 

14. Malik, S., Guha, A., Wang, X., Weintraub, N.L., Harris, R., Datta, B. K., Moore, J., Nain, P., Patel, S.A., Coughlin, S., Polter, E. (2024). "Association Between Obesity and Risk of Total and Obesity- Related Cancer in People With Incident Cardiovascular Disease", Journal of the American Heart Association. 13(17), https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.124.034438. 

15. Datta, B. K., Phillips, S. (2024). "Long COVID and the Higher Risk of Food Insecurity Among Participants and Nonparticipants of Food Assistance Programs in the United States", Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jand.2024.07.171. 

16. Datta, B. K., Thakkar, S. (2024). "Health disparity at the intersection of religion and caste: Evidence from India" Dialogues in Health, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dialog.2024.100186. 

17. Datta, B. K., Chowdhury, S. K. (2024). "Religious minority status and risk of hypertension in women: Evidence from Bangladesh". Heliyon, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e33428. 

18. Datta, B. K., Jaremski, J. E., Johnson, J. A. (2024). "Psychosocial well-being and firearm storage practices: evidence from five US states". Injury prevention, https://doi.org/10.1136/ip-2023-045154. 

19. Datta, B. K., Ansa, B. E., Saucier, A., Pandey, A., Haider, M. H., Puranda, R., Adams, M., Coffin, J. (2024). "Child Marriage and Cardiovascular Risk: An Application of the Non-laboratory Framingham Risk Score", High Blood Pressure & Cardiovascular Prevention, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40292-023-00620-2. 

20. Ansa, B. E., Datta, B. K., Ibrahim, S., Islam, K. M., Saucier, A., & Coffin, J. (2024). "Role of Social Support in Screening Colonoscopy/Sigmoidoscopy Uptake among US Adults", Healthcare, 12(3):344, https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12030344. 

21. Datta, B. K., Gummadi, A., Coughlin, S. S. (2024), "Role of life satisfaction, emotional support, and feeling of social isolation on adherence to breast cancer screening recommendations among US women", Journal of Cancer  Policy, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcpo.2024.100467.  

22. Benevides, T. W., Datta, B. K., Jaremski, J., McKee, M. (2024). "Prevalence of intellectual disability among adults born in the 1980s and 1990s in the United States", Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, https://doi.org/10.1111/jir.13119. 

2023

23. Datta, B. K., Coughlin, S. S., Fazlul, I., Pandey, A., (2023), "COVID-19 and health care–related financial toxicity in the United States: Evidence from the 2022 National Health Interview Survey", American Journal of Infection Control, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2023.11.004 

24. Datta, B. K., Coughlin, S. S., Gummadi, A., Mehrabian, D., Ansa, B. E. (2023), "Perceived Social Support and Cardiovascular Risk Among Nonelderly Adults in the United States", The American Journal of Cardiology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjcard.2023.09.106.

25. Datta, B. K., Coughlin, S., Ayadi, J., Majeed, B., Ansa, B. E. (2023), "Relationship between social support, life satisfaction, and smoking status among US adults with cardiovascular risks", Behavioral Medicine, https://doi.org/10.1080/08964289.2023.2259045.

26. Datta, B. K., Jaremski, J. E., Ansa, B. E., Odhiambo, L. A., Islam, K. M., & Johnson, J. A. (2023). "Role of perceived social support in COVID-19 vaccine uptake among US adults", AJPM focus, 100104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.focus.2023.100104.

27. Coughlin, S. S., Datta, B. K., Moore, J. X., Vernon, M. M., Tingen, M. S. (2022). "Preventive behaviors and behavioral risk factors among gynecologic cancer survivors: Results from the 2020 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey", Cancer Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1002/cam4.6134. 

28. Tiwari, A., Datta, B. K., Haider, M. R., Jahan, M., (2023), "The role of child marriage and marital disruptions on hypertension in women - A nationally representative study from India", SSM – Population Health, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2023.101409

29. Datta, B. K., Coughlin, S., Majeed, B. (2023), "Inequities in routine preventive care utilization among persons with overweight/obesity in the United States: An analysis of nativity, racial and ethnic identity, and socioeconomic status", Dialogues in Health, 2: 100125. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dialog.2023.100125. 

30. Stabellini, N., Cullen, J., Moore, J., Cao, L., Weintraub, N.L., Harris, R.A., Wang, X., Datta, B. K., Garcia, J., Shanahan, J., Hamerschlak, N., ..., Guha, A., (2023), "Allostatic Load and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Males With Prostate Cancer", JNCI Cancer Spectrum, 7(2):pkad005. https://doi.org/10. 1093/jncics/pkad005.

31. Datta, B. K., Tiwari, A., Pollard, E.,  Ravula, H. (2023), "The Influence of Parent’s Cardiovascular Morbidity on Child Mental Health: Results from the National Health Interview Survey", Children, 10(1): 138. https://doi.org/10.3390/children10010138. 

32. Datta, B. K., Tiwari, A., Attari, S. (2023), "Child Marriage and Later-Life Risk of Obesity in Women: A Cohort Analysis Using Nationally Representative Repeated Cross-Sectional Data from Tajikistan", Women, 3(1): 53-70. https://doi.org/10.3390/women3010004. 

2022

33. Ansa, B.E., Hoffman, Z., Lewis, N., Datta, B.K., Islam, K.M., Johnson, .JA. (2022), "Evaluation of Colonoscopy and Sigmoidoscopy Utilization for Colorectal Cancer Screening in Georgia, USA", Current Oncology, 29(11):8955-8966. https://doi.org/10.3390/curroncol29110703. 

34. Datta, B. K., Ravula, H., Pollard, E., Shimul, S., (2022). "Marital Disruption and Disparity in Tobacco Use in Reproductive-Aged Women: Evidence from India", Women, 2(4), 371-384. https://doi.org/10.3390/women2040034. 

35. Coughlin, S. S., Datta, B. K., Majeed, B., (2022). "Preventive Behaviors among Leukemia and Lymphoma Cancer Survivors: Results from the 2020 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey", AJPM Focus. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.focus.2022.100041. 

36. Datta, B. K., Haider, M. R., (2022). "Child marriage and health disparities in adulthood: the differential risk of untreated hypertension among young adult women in India", Clinical Hypertension, 28:32. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40885-022-00213-6. 

37. Datta, B. K., Pandey, A., Tiwari, A., (2022), "Child Marriage and Problems Accessing Healthcare in Adulthood: Evidence from India", Healthcare, 10(10): 1994. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10101994.  

38. Datta, B. K., Haider, M. R., (2022). "The double burden of overweight or obesity and anemia among women married as children in India: A case of the Simpson’s paradox", Obesity Research & Clinical Practice. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orcp.2022.09.002. 

39. Coughlin, S. S., Datta, B. K., Williams, l. B., Bevel, M., Cortes J. E., (2022), "Characteristics of Cancer Survivors Living in Poverty in the United States: Results from the 2020 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey", JCO Oncology Practice.  https://doi.org/110.1200/OP.22.00152 JCO Oncology Practice. https://doi.org/10.1200/OP.22.00152 JCO Oncology Practice. 

40. Datta, B. K., Fazlul, I., (2022), "Role of Subsidized Coverage Eligibility on Medication Adherence Among Hypertensive and Diabetic Patients: Evidence From the NHIS 2011-2018", AJPM Focus, 1(2) 100021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.focus.2022.100021.

41. Datta, B. K., Tiwari, A., (2022), "Early Marriage in Adolescence and Risk of High Blood Pressure and High Blood Glucose in Adulthood: Evidence from India", Women, 2, 189-203. https://doi.org/10.3390/women2030020. 

42. Datta, B. K., Haider, M. R., Tiwari, A., Jahan, M., (2022), "The risk of hypertension among child brides and adolescent mothers at age 20 s, 30 s, and 40 s: Evidence from India", Journal of Human Hypertension, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41371-022-00730-9. 

43. Datta, B. K., Tiwari, A., Lynn, G., (2022), "Stolen childhood taking a toll at young adulthood: The higher risk of high blood pressure and high blood glucose comorbidity among child brides", PLOS Global Public Health, 2(6): e0000638.

44. Coughlin, S., Datta, B. K., Guha, A., Wang, X., Weintraub, N. (2022), "Cardiovascular Health Among Cancer Survivors. From the 2019 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey", The American Journal of Cardiology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjcard.2022.05.027.

45. Datta, B. K., Mehrabian, D., Gummadi, A., Goyal, A., Mansouri, S., Coughlin, S. S., Johnson, J. A., (2022), "Racial and ethnic inequities in financial hardship among CVD patients in the United States during the pre- and post-Affordable Care Act era", Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40615-022-01345-z

46. Datta, B. K., Tiwari, A., Fazlul, I. (2022), "Child marriage and risky health behaviors: an analysis of tobacco use among early adult and early middle-aged women in India", BMC Women's Health, 22, 206 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12905-022-01781-3 

47. Coughlin, S., Datta, B. K., Guha, A., Wang, X., Weintraub, N. (2022), "Cardiovascular Health among Gynecologic Cancer Survivors: Results from the 2020 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey", Gynecologic Oncology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygyno.2022.03.025

48. Datta, B. K., Tiwari, A. (2022), "Adding to her woes: child bride’s higher risk of hypertension at young adulthood", Journal of Public Health, https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdac026

49. Datta, B. K., Hassan, S. (2022) "An early assessment of the 2017 child marriage restraint act of Bangladesh", Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health, https://doi.org/10.1177/10105395221083895.

50. Agarwal,A., Husain, M. J., Datta, B.K., Kishore, S. P., Huffman, M. D. (2022), "Access to Heart Failure Medicines in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: An Analysis of Essential Medicines Lists, Availability, Price, and Affordability", Circulation: Heart Failure, 121.008971.

51. Coughlin, S., Datta, B. K., Vernon, M., Hatzigeorgiou, C., George, V. (2022), "Health Literacy among Cancer Survivors: Results from the 2016 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey". Medicine, 101(9):e29010.

52. Datta, B. K., Ansa, B.E., George, V. (2022), "An analytical model of population level chronic conditions and COVID-19 related hospitalization in the United States", BMC Public Health, 22, 208 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-12531-3

53. Feltenstein, A., Martinez-Vazquez, J., Datta, B. K., Fatehin, S. (2022), "A General Equilibrium Model of Value Added Tax Evasion: An Application to Pakistan", International Economics and Economic Policy, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10368-022-00530-z.

54. Coughlin, S.S., Datta, B.K. (2022), "Housing insecurity among cancer survivors: Results from the 2017 behavioral risk factor surveillance system survey", Journal of Cancer Policy, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcpo.2021.100320

2021

55. Datta, B. K., Tiwari, A., Garner, J. (2021), "Child marriage and exposure to secondhand smoke among women of childbearing age: evidence from a nationally representative study in India", Women & Health, doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/03630242.2021.2007198.

56. Coughlin, S.S., Datta, B. K., Berman, A. (2021), "Predictors of Unhealthy Physical and Mental Days among Informal Cancer Caregivers: Results from the 2019 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey", Supportive Care in Cancer, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-021-06635-6.

57. Datta, B. K., Aekplakorn W., Chittamma A., Meemeaw P., Vesper H., Kuiper H.C., Steele L, Cobb, L.K., Li C., Husain M.J., Ketgudee L., Kostova D., Richter P. (2021), "Cost assessment of a program for laboratory testing of plasma trans-fatty acids in Thailand", Public Health in Practice. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhip.2021.100199

58. Datta, B. K., Husain, M.J., Husain, M.M., Kostova, D. (2021), "Hypertension in women: The role of adolescent childbearing", BMC Public Health. 21: 1481. doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-11488-z

59. Datta, B. K., Ansa, B.E., Husain, M.J. (2021), "An analytical model of population level uncontrolled hypertension management: a care cascade approach", Journal of Human Hypertension. doi: 0.1038/s41371-021-00572-x.

60. Coughlin, S.S., Datta, B. K., Berman, A., Hatzigeorgioud, C. (2021), "A cross-sectional study of financial distress in persons with multimorbidity", Preventive Medicine Reports, 23(2021) 101464. doi: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2021.101464.

61. Husain, M.J., Datta, B.K., Kostova, D. (2021), "Disease and demography: a systems-dynamic cohort-component population model to assess the implications of disease-specific mortality targets", BMJ Open, 11:e043313. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-043313.

62. Ansa, B.E., Lewis, N., Hoffman, Z., Datta, B.K., Johnson, .JA. (2021), "Evaluation of Blood Stool Test Utilization for Colorectal Cancer Screening in Georgia, USA", Healthcare, 9(5):569. doi: 10.3390/healthcare9050569

63. Datta, B. K., Husain, M.J. (2021), "Uncontrolled hypertension among tobacco-users: women of prime childbearing age at risk in India", BMC Women's Health, 21: 146.

2020

64. Datta, B. K., Husain, M.J., Fazlul, I. (2020), "Tobacco control and household tobacco consumption: A tale of two educational groups", Health Economics, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.4122

65. Datta, B. K., Husain, M.J. (2020), "Spousal alcohol consumption and female hypertension status: Evidence from Nepal", Public Health, 185: 312-317

66. Feltenstein, A., Datta, B.K. (2020), "Broad-Based Subsidies or Targeted Transfers? Distributional Equity VS Macroeconomic Costs", Journal of Economic Policy Reform, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17487870.2020.1785299

67. Husain, M.J., Datta, B.K., Nargis, N., Iglesias, R., Perucic, A., Ahluwalia, I., Tripp, A., Fatehin, S., Husain, M.H., Kostova, D., Richter, P. (2020), “Revisiting the association between worldwide implementation of the MPOWER package and smoking prevalence, 2008–2017”, Tobacco Control, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2020-055758

68. Kostova, D., Spencer, G., Moran, A.E., Cobb, L., Husain, M.J., Datta, B.K., Matsushita, K., Nugent, R. (2020), “Cost-effectiveness analyses of hypertension management: a review of evidence from low-income and middle-income countries”, BMJ Global Health, 5:e002213. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2019-002213

69. Husain, M.J., Datta, B.K., Kostova, D., Joseph, K.T., Asma, S., Richter, P., Jaffe, M.G, Kishore, S. P. (2020), “Access to cardiovascular diseases and hypertensionmedicines in developing countries: an analysis of essential medicine lists,price, availability, and affordability”, Journal of the American Heart Association, 0:e015302

70. Datta, B. K., Husain, M.J. (2020),"Carbonating household diet: A Pakistani tale", Public Health Nutrition, 23(9): 1629-1637

71. Datta, B. K., Husain, M.J., Fatehin, S. (2020),"The Crowding-out Effect of Out-of-pocket Medication Expenses of Two Major Noncommunicabale Diseases on Household Consumption in Pakistan", International Health, 12: 50-59.

2019

72. Husain, M.J., Allaire, B.T., Hutchinson, B., Ketgudee, L., Srisuthisak, S., Khanuengnij, Y., Pisitpayat, N., Nugent, R., Datta, B. K., Joseph, K.T., Kostova, D. (2019), "Assessing costs of a hypertension management program: An application of the HEARTS costing tool in a program planning workshop in Thailand", Journal of Clinical Hypertension, 22:111-117

73. Datta, B. K., Husain, M.J., Nargis, N. (2019), "An Intertemporal Analysis of post-FCTC Era Household Tobacco Consumption in Pakistan", International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(14), 2532

74. Datta, B. K., Husain, M.J., Asma, S. (2019), "Assessing the relationship between out-of-pocket spending on blood pressure and diabetes medication and household catastrophic health expenditure: evidence from Pakistan", International Journal for Equity in Health, 18:9.

2018

75. Datta, B. K., Husain, M.J., Fatehin, S., Kostova, D. (2018), "Consumption displacement in households with noncommunicable diseases in Bangladesh", PLOS One, 13(12): e0208504.

76. Datta, B. K., Husain, M.J., Husain, M.M., Kostova, D. (2018), "Noncommunicable disease-attributable medical expenditures, household financial stress and impoverishment in Bangladesh", SSM – Population Health, 6, 252–258.

77. Husain, M.J., Datta, B. K., Virk-Baker, M.K., Parascandola, M., Khondker, B.H. (2018), "The crowding-out effect of tobacco expenditure on household spending patterns in Bangladesh", PLOS One, 13(10):e0205120.

2015

78. Feltenstein, A., Abdul-Razzak, N., Condon, J, and Datta, B. K. (2015), "Tax Evasion, the Provision of Public Infrastructure and Growth: A General Equilibrium Approach to Two Very Different Countries, Egypt and Mauritius." Journal of African Economies, 24(2), 43–72.