Caroline Fichtenberg, PhD
Deputy Director
Family Community Medicine
School of Medicine

Grants and Projects

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• Using social and medical data integration to improve primary care and population level chronic disease prevention and management, NIH, 2019-2022
• Contextual Determinants of HIV/STI Sexual Transmission, NIH, 2005-2007

Publications (45)

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MedicaidSocial WorkDelivery of Health CareSocial SupportContact TracingLogicHealth Services ResearchQualitative ResearchSexually Transmitted DiseasesReferral and ConsultationHIV SeropositivitySexual PartnersHealth EquityDelivery of Health Care, IntegratedSocial Determinants of Health

• Social service organizations report improvements in social services-health care integration in survey during California's medicaid initiative ("CalAIM").
  BMC public health 2025 Arons A, Alban-Acuna P, Simon M, Whaley J, Fossier N, Simon A, Rastogi R, Fichtenberg C
• Measure what matters: A survey-based examination of health equity tracking and measurement practices across healthcare systems in the United States.
  PloS one 2025 Roth H, De Marchis E, Kopaskie K, Restall A, Fichtenberg C, Ray S, Azar KMJ
• Learning From the SIREN 2025 National Research Meeting.
  Health services research 2025 Gottlieb LM, Angove R, Cartier Y, Coleman K, Corley A, Petruzzi L, Grevious N, Palakshappa D, Molina M, Fichtenberg C
• "I would love to see these big institutions… throwing their weight around": qualitative findings regarding health and social sector collaborations to address community-level socioeconomic adversity.
  BMC public health 2024 Brown EM, Fraze TK, Gottlieb LM, Fichtenberg C
• Revising the Logic Model Behind Health Care's Social Care Investments.
  The Milbank quarterly 2024 Gottlieb LM, Hessler D, Wing H, Gonzalez-Rocha A, Cartier Y, Fichtenberg C

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• "We Need to Know These Things": Use Cases for Combined Social and Clinical Data Among Primary Care-Based Clinical and Social Care Providers.
  Journal of primary care & community health 2024 Cartier Y, Fichtenberg C, Grounds K, Blumenfeld N, Gottlieb L, Hessler Jones D
• Advancing health equity through social care interventions.
  Health services research 2023 Peek ME, Gottlieb LM, Doubeni CA, Viswanathan M, Cartier Y, Aceves B, Fichtenberg C, Cené CW
• If you build it, they may not come: Understanding factors influencing use of a community resource referral technology.
  Health services research 2023 Fichtenberg C, Cartier Y, Burnett J, Ricks-Stephen C, Paulson G
• "Because There's Experts That Do That": Lessons Learned by Health Care Organizations When Partnering with Community Organizations.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2023 Beidler LB, Fichtenberg C, Fraze TK
• Investigating the Relative Influence of Romantic Sex Partners and Close Friends on Adolescent Alcohol and Marijuana Use.
  Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research 2023 Matson PA, Stankov I, Krutkova M, Flessa S, Fichtenberg CM, Ellen JM
• Racial Health Equity and Social Needs Interventions: A Review of a Scoping Review.
  JAMA network open 2023 Cené CW, Viswanathan M, Fichtenberg CM, Sathe NA, Kennedy SM, Gottlieb LM, Cartier Y, Peek ME
• Understanding Patients' Interest in Healthcare-Based Social Assistance Programs.
  American journal of preventive medicine 2022 Fichtenberg CM, De Marchis EH, Gottlieb LM
• Resource Brokering: Efforts to Assist Patients With Housing, Transportation, and Economic Needs in Primary Care Settings.
  Annals of family medicine 2021 Fraze TK, Beidler LB, Fichtenberg C, Brewster AL, Gottlieb LM
• Assessment of Social Risk Factors and Interest in Receiving Health Care-Based Social Assistance Among Adult Patients and Adult Caregivers of Pediatric Patients.
  JAMA network open 2020 De Marchis EH, Hessler D, Fichtenberg C, Fleegler EW, Huebschmann AG, Clark CR, Cohen AJ, Byhoff E, Ommerborn MJ, Adler N, Gottlieb LM
• Health And Human Services Integration: Generating Sustained Health And Equity Improvements.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2020 Fichtenberg C, Delva J, Minyard K, Gottlieb LM
• Implementing Community Resource Referral Technology: Facilitators And Barriers Described By Early Adopters.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2020 Cartier Y, Fichtenberg C, Gottlieb LM
• Improving Social Needs Intervention Research: Key Questions for Advancing the Field.
  American journal of preventive medicine 2019 Fichtenberg CM, Alley DE, Mistry KB
• Part I: A Quantitative Study of Social Risk Screening Acceptability in Patients and Caregivers.
  American journal of preventive medicine 2019 De Marchis EH, Hessler D, Fichtenberg C, Adler N, Byhoff E, Cohen AJ, Doran KM, Ettinger de Cuba S, Fleegler EW, Lewis CC, Lindau ST, Tung EL, Huebschmann AG, Prather AA, Raven M, Gavin N, Jepson S, …
• Part II: A Qualitative Study of Social Risk Screening Acceptability in Patients and Caregivers.
  American journal of preventive medicine 2019 Byhoff E, De Marchis EH, Hessler D, Fichtenberg C, Adler N, Cohen AJ, Doran KM, Ettinger de Cuba S, Fleegler EW, Gavin N, Huebschmann AG, Lindau ST, Tung EL, Raven M, Jepson S, Johnson W, Olson AL, …
• Prevalence of Patient-Reported Social Risk Factors and Receipt of Assistance in Federally Funded Health Centers.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2019 De Marchis E, Pantell M, Fichtenberg C, Gottlieb LM
• Interventions Addressing Food Insecurity in Health Care Settings: A Systematic Review.
  Annals of family medicine 2019 De Marchis EH, Torres JM, Benesch T, Fichtenberg C, Allen IE, Whitaker EM, Gottlieb LM
• Social Determinants of Health: What's a Healthcare System to Do?
  Journal of healthcare management / American College of Healthcare Executives 2019 Gottlieb L, Fichtenberg C, Alderwick H, Adler N
• Identifying Food Insecurity in Health Care Settings: A Systematic Scoping Review of the Evidence.
  Family & community health 2019 De Marchis EH, Torres JM, Fichtenberg C, Gottlieb LM
• Documenting social determinants of health-related clinical activities using standardized medical vocabularies.
  JAMIA open 2018 Arons A, DeSilvey S, Fichtenberg C, Gottlieb L
• Perspectives from the Society for Pediatric Research: interventions targeting social needs in pediatric clinical care.
  Pediatric research 2018 Beck AF, Cohen AJ, Colvin JD, Fichtenberg CM, Fleegler EW, Garg A, Gottlieb LM, Pantell MS, Sandel MT, Schickedanz A, Kahn RS
• Advancing Social Prescribing with Implementation Science.
  Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM 2018 Gottlieb L, Cottrell EK, Park B, Clark KD, Gold R, Fichtenberg C
• Social Prescribing in the U.S. and England: Emerging Interventions to Address Patients' Social Needs.
  American journal of preventive medicine 2018 Alderwick HAJ, Gottlieb LM, Fichtenberg CM, Adler NE
• Screening for Social Determinants of Health.
  JAMA 2016 Gottlieb L, Fichtenberg C, Adler N
• Social place as a location of potential core transmitters-implications for the targeted control of sexually transmitted disease transmission in urban areas.
  Annals of epidemiology 2015 Jennings JM, Polk S, Fichtenberg C, Chung SE, Ellen JM
• Identifying and characterizing places for the targeted control of heterosexual HIV transmission in urban areas.
  AIDS and behavior 2014 Polk S, Ellen JM, Fichtenberg C, Huettner S, Reilly M, Parekh J, Jennings JM
• Achieving a healthy zoning policy in Baltimore: results of a health impact assessment of the TransForm Baltimore zoning code rewrite.
  Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974) 2013 Johnson Thornton RL, Greiner A, Fichtenberg CM, Feingold BJ, Ellen JM, Jennings JM
• HIV prevalence overall and among high-HIV-risk behaviorally defined subgroups among heterosexuals at community-based venues in a Mid-Atlantic, US City.
  Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 2013 Polk S, Ellen JM, Fichtenberg C, Huettner S, Jennings JM
• Recruitment approaches to identifying newly diagnosed HIV infection among African American men who have sex with men.
  International journal of STD & AIDS 2013 Ellen JM, McCree DH, Muvva R, Chung SE, Miazad RM, Arrington-Sanders R, Jones K, Burnett P, Fichtenberg C
• Context, networks, and sexually transmitted infections: a study of sex ratios and male incarceration.
  Sexually transmitted diseases 2012 Ellen JM, Fichtenberg CM
• Neighborhood socioeconomic environment and sexual network position.
  Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 2010 Fichtenberg CM, Jennings JM, Glass TA, Ellen JM
• Sexual network position and risk of sexually transmitted infections.
  Sexually transmitted infections 2009 Fichtenberg CM, Muth SQ, Brown B, Padian NS, Glass TA, Ellen JM
• Identifying Challenges to the Integration of Computer-Based Surveillance Information Systems in a Large City Health Department: A Case Study.
  Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974) 2009 Jennings JM, Stover JA, Bair-Merritt MH, Fichtenberg C, Munoz MG, Maziad R, Ketemepi SJ, Zenilman J
• Sexual network structure among a household sample of urban african american adolescents in an endemic sexually transmitted infection setting.
  Sexually transmitted diseases 2009 Fichtenberg CM, Muth SQ, Brown B, Padian NS, Glass TA, Ellen JM
• Venue-based sampling in STD research: generalizeable to and independent of whom?
  Sexually transmitted diseases 2007 Ellen JM, Fichtenberg CM
• Editorial response: moving from core groups to risk spaces.
  Sexually transmitted diseases 2003 Fichtenberg CM, Ellen JM
• Loss of the ecdysteroid-inducible E75A orphan nuclear receptor uncouples molting from metamorphosis in Drosophila.
  Developmental cell 2002 Bialecki M, Shilton A, Fichtenberg C, Segraves WA, Thummel CS
• Effect of smoke-free workplaces on smoking behaviour: systematic review.
  BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2002 Fichtenberg CM, Glantz SA
• Youth access interventions do not affect youth smoking.
  Pediatrics 2002 Fichtenberg CM, Glantz SA
• msJAMA: reducing smoking prevalence to 10% in five years.
  JAMA 2001 Bitton A, Fichtenberg C, Glantz S
• Association of the California Tobacco Control Program with declines in cigarette consumption and mortality from heart disease.
  The New England journal of medicine 2000 Fichtenberg CM, Glantz SA