School-entry Vaccine Exemptions in Maine Before and After Public Law 154, 2018-2023
We examined how this policy change affected vaccine exemption rates and clustering in kindergartens.
Ashley Gromis is a behavioral and social scientist at RAND. Her work examines the roles of networks, place, and policy in shaping community- and population-level health outcomes and social inequality. Her primary research uses systems science methods (e.g., agent-based modeling, simulations) to understand how spatial disparities in preventive health care access and vaccination influence the potential for disease outbreaks. She co-leads an NIH-funded project investigating whether school-located health services increase the likelihood that students in Colorado schools are up to date on vaccinations. More broadly, she is interested in the delivery of health services outside traditional settings, school-based health interventions, and how peer behaviors influence individual decision-making and health outcomes. Ashley has also applied her methodological expertise to examine prevalence and socio-demographic disparities in housing eviction lawsuits and spatial clusters of public reports of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs, formerly known as UFOs). She holds a Ph.D. in sociology (University of California, Los Angeles), an M.S. in health policy and management (University of California, Los Angeles), and B.A. degrees in sociology and history (Pennsylvania State University).
Education
Ph.D. in sociology, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA); M.S. in health policy and management, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA); M.A. in sociology, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA); B.A. in sociology, Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus
Selected Work
- Posard, Marek N., Ashley Gromis, and Mary Lee, Not the X-Files: Mapping Public Reports of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Across America, RAND Corporation (RR-A2475-1), 2023
- Ashley Gromis & Ka-Yuet Liu, "Spatial Clustering of Vaccine Exemptions on the Risk of a Measles Outbreak," Pediatrics, 149(1), 2022
- Ashley Gromis, Ian Fellows, James R. Hendrickson, Lavar Edmonds, Lillian Leung, Adam Porton, & Matthew Desmond, "Estimating Eviction Prevalence across the United States, 2000-2018," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 119(21), 2022
- Ashley Gromis*, James R. Hendrickson, & Matthew Desmond (*joint first author), "Eviction from Public Housing in the United States," Cities: An International Journal, 127(1), 2022
- Ashley Gromis and Ka-Yuet Liu, "The Emergence of Spatial Clustering in Medical Vaccine Exemptions Following California Senate Bill 277, 2015–2018," American Journal of Public Health, 110(7), 2020
Authored by Ashley Gromis
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