Publications by authors named "Maliha Ali"
Introduction: In the face of evolving public health challenges, including emerging diseases, pervasive health disparities, and escalating environmental threats, the integration of learning health system (LHS) principles emerges as a vital strategy for enhancing the adaptability and efficacy of public health initiatives. Traditional approaches within these systems often overlook the potential to deeply involve community-based organizations (CBO) that are led and staffed by the communities they serve as equal and essential partners in the public health discourse.
Methods: This commentary proposes a suite of nine community-led transformation (CLT) principles aimed at reimagining LHS frameworks to authentically incorporate CBOs at their core.
Introduction: While understanding factors that lead to successful adolescent smoking cessation outcomes is necessary, it is also prudent to determine factors and conditions that contribute to failure to quit smoking. The present study posits that adolescents' proximal environments, such as schools, may influence cessation treatment outcomes.
Methods: Using aggregated and geographically-referenced data from multi-year school-based cessation trials with 14-19 year olds seeking cessation in 5 States of the USA, the present study developed and applied a tobacco-specific socio-spatial model inclusive of Hierarchical Linear Modeling.
Introduction: Given widespread availability and uptake of myriad tobacco products among youth, a comprehensive tobacco control agenda necessitates an in-depth exploration of the phenomenon of concurrent tobacco use.
Methods: Multinomial logistic regression generated distinct concurrent tobacco use risk profiles of single, dual, and poly use, defined as use of only one, only two, and any three or more tobacco products in the last 30 days, from the 2012 National Youth Tobacco Survey (n = 24 658).
Results: Among youth using tobacco in the past 30 days (n = 5030), the majority were poly tobacco product users (55.