Academic Interests:

Prevention of morbidity and mortality related to minority health disparities;
inflicted and noninflicted injury, especially traumatic brain and spinal cord
injury. Psychosocial factors and interpersonal relationships in health,
disease, and behavior. Role of retinoids (vitamin A and its congeners) in morbidity
and mortality, including aging, pregnancy-related conditions and reproductive
outcomes, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, asthma/atopy, rheumatic diseases,
parasitic diseases, viral illnesses, violence/substance abuse and the
behavioral syndrome. Population health management related to terrorism/disaster
preparedness and response.

Selected Publications:

Mawson AR. Mass Panic and Social Attachment: The Dynamics of Human Behavior. Ashgate Publishers: Aldershot, U.K., 2007 (in press).

Mawson AR. Understanding mass panic and other collective responses to threat and disaster. Psychiatry: Interpersonal and Biological Processes 2005; 68: 95-113 (with commentaries, pp. 114-129).

Mawson AR. Intentional injury and the behavioral syndrome. Aggression and Violent Behavior 2005; 10 (March-April):375-405.

Mawson AR. Commentary: Strategies to reduce caesarean section delivery rates should be strengthened and diversified beyond a mandatory second opinion. Evidence-Based Public Health & Healthcare 2004; 8:392-395.

Mawson AR. Ethics of large clinical trials in rapidly lethal diseases. Lancet 2003; 361:1296.

Mawson AR. Effects of antiretroviral therapy on occurrence of preeclampsia. Lancet 2003; 361:347-48.

Mawson AR, WaKabongo M. Onchocerciasis-associated morbidity: hypothesis. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2002; 96:1-2.

Mawson AR, Guignard JC. Preventing heat-induced death in vehicles. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 2002; 23(3):233-4.

Mawson AR. Reducing cesarean section delivery rates in managed care organizations. American Journal of Managed Care 2002; 8:730-740.

Mawson AR, Lapsley PM, Hoffman A, Guignard J. Preventing lethal violence in schools: the case for entry-based weapons screening. Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law 2002; 27 (April):243-260 (with editorial and commentaries by Jackson Toby and David Hemenway).