Laura Schmidt, PhD, MSW, MPH
Professor
Institute for Health Policy Studies
School of Medicine

Our population-based research examines how food availability and marketing drive food consumption and related health outcomes. Our research on the food industry, using sources like the UCSF Industry Documents Library, explores how and why our current food supply leads to overeating, craving and poor health.

My work is best known for:

• Uncovering the close ties between the tobacco and processed food industries,
• Rethinking addiction from the standpoint of processed and hyperpalatable foods,
• Innovating new ways to prevent chronic disease by changing food systems.

My lab is currently working on food systems innovations in the following areas: 1. Macroeconomic food policies informed by experience with alcohol and tobacco control, 2. Workplace policies that leverage food environments to support health, 3. Economic development strategies for low-income “food deserts” that make locally produced fresh food more competitive with processed food.

• Interactive associations of cannabis and alcohol outlet densities with assault injuries in California: A spatiotemporal analysis.
  American journal of epidemiology 2024 Matthay EC, Charris R, Ahern J, Apollonio DE, Jent V, Jacobs LM, Jung S, Schmidt LA, Gruenewald P
• Associations of Local Cannabis Control Policies With Harmful Cannabis Exposures Reported to the California Poison Control System.
  Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) 2024 Matthay EC, Mousli LM, Sun C, Lewis J, Jacobs LM, Heard S, Ho R, Schmidt LA, Apollonio DE
• Did a workplace sugar-sweetened beverage sales ban reduce anxiety-related sugar-sweetened beverage consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic?
  Public health nutrition 2024 Jacobs LM, Schmidt LA, Schillinger D, Schmidt JM, Alegria KE, Parrett B, Pickett A, Epel ES
• Why we struggle to make progress in obesity prevention and how we might overcome policy inertia: Lessons from the complexity and political sciences.
  Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity 2024 Hagenaars LL, Schmidt LA, Groeniger JO, Bekker MPM, Ter Ellen F, de Leeuw E, van Lenthe FJ, Oude Hengel KM, Stronks K
• Cardiovascular disease and maternal mortality: perceptions in a Midwest birthing population.
  American journal of obstetrics & gynecology MFM 2024 Florio KL, Johnson TN, Williams EM, Ramaeker D, Gosch K, Otto A, Ahluwalia A, Schmidt L, Williams A, Lewis E, Chrans M, Rideout R, Spertus JA, Kendig S, Missouri Perinatal Quality Collaborative – …
• Is the commercial determinants conversation confined to the health sciences? Potentially, and that's a problem.
  Globalization and health 2024 Hagenaars LL, Maani N, Schmidt LA
• [How the infant food industry processes scientific research].
  Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde 2023 Hagenaars LL, Schmidt LA
• Commentary on Fazzino et al.: Proof for why we need cross-industry approaches to research on the commercial determinants of health.
  Addiction (Abingdon, England) 2023 Crosbie E, Schmidt L
• Using an Online Panel to Crosswalk Alternative Measures of Alcohol Use As Fielded in Two National Samples.
  medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2023 Pederson AM, Zimmerman SC, Torres JM, Schmidt LA, Kim YJ, Glymour MM
• Effectiveness of a School Drinking Water Promotion and Access Program for Overweight Prevention.
  Pediatrics 2023 Patel AI, Schmidt LA, McCulloch CE, Blacker LS, Cabana MD, Brindis CD, Ritchie LD
• Drink Tap: A Multisector Program to Promote Water Access and Intake in San Francisco Parks.
  Preventing chronic disease 2023 Rosenthal MD, Schmidt LA, Vargas R, Blacker LS, McCulloch CE, Ezennia J, Patel AI
• Pathways from climate change to emotional wellbeing: A qualitative study of Kenyan smallholder farmers living with HIV.
  PLOS global public health 2023 Beyeler NS, Nicastro TM, Jawuoro S, Odhiambo G, Whittle HJ, Bukusi EA, Schmidt LA, Weiser SD
• Controlled trial of a workplace sales ban on sugar-sweetened beverages.
  Public health nutrition 2023 Schmidt JM, Epel ES, Jacobs LM, Mason AE, Parrett B, Pickett AM, Mousli LM, Schmidt LA
• Alignment in local approaches to alcohol and cannabis control policy: A case study of California cities and counties.
  The International journal on drug policy 2023 Matthay EC, Mousli L, Apollonio DE, Schmidt LA
• Equity in Coverage of Local Cannabis Control Policies in California, 2020‒2021.
  American journal of public health 2022 Matthay EC, Mousli LM, Fu C, Zhang S, Ponicki WR, Gruenewald P, Apollonio DE, Schmidt LA
• Buprenorphine Treatment: Advanced Practice Nurses Add Capacity.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2022 Spetz J, Hailer L, Gay C, Tierney M, Schmidt LA, Phoenix B, Chapman SA
• Using Online Crowdsourced Data to Measure the Availability of Cannabis Home Delivery: A Pilot Study.
  Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs 2022 Matthay EC, Gupta A, Mousli L, Schmidt LA
• The Opioid Industry Documents Archive: A Living Digital Repository.
  American journal of public health 2022 Caleb Alexander G, Mix LA, Choudhury S, Taketa R, Tomori C, Mooghali M, Fan A, Mars S, Ciccarone D, Patton M, Apollonio DE, Schmidt L, Steinman MA, Greene J, Ling PM, Seymour AK, Glantz S, Tasker K
• Indirect COVID-19 health effects and potential mitigating interventions: Cost-effectiveness framework.
  PloS one 2022 Maya S, Kahn JG, Lin TK, Jacobs LM, Schmidt LA, Burrough WB, Ghasemzadeh R, Mousli L, Allan M, Donovan M, Barker E, Horvath H, Spetz J, Brindis CD, Malekinejad M
• A Spatiotemporal Analysis of the Association of California City and County Cannabis Policies with Cannabis Outlet Densities.
  Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) 2022 Matthay EC, Mousli L, Ponicki WR, Glymour MM, Apollonio DE, Schmidt LA, Gruenewald P
• Hollow Threats: Transnational Food and Beverage Companies' Use of International Agreements to Fight Front-of-Pack Nutrition Labeling in Mexico and Beyond.
  International journal of health policy and management 2022 Crosbie E, Carriedo A, Schmidt L
• Water Security Experiences and Water Intake Among Elementary Students at Low-Income Schools: A Cross-Sectional Study.
  Academic pediatrics 2022 Ezennia J, Schmidt LA, Ritchie LD, Blacker L, McCulloch CE, Patel AI
• Changes in US Clinician Waivers to Prescribe Buprenorphine Management for Opioid Use Disorder During the COVID-19 Pandemic and After Relaxation of Training Requirements.
  JAMA network open 2022 Spetz J, Hailer L, Gay C, Tierney M, Schmidt L, Phoenix B, Chapman S
• Has the COVID-19 pandemic affected older adults' personal and general views on aging? Evidence for losses and gains.
  Developmental psychology 2022 Wahl HW, Wettstein M, Tseng HY, Schlomann A, Schmidt L, Diehl M
• Association of park drinking water source characteristics and water intake in San Francisco Bay Area parks.
  H2Open Journal 2022 Jeffery Ezennia, Laura A. Schmidt, Lauren S. Blacker, Roberto A. Vargas, Charles E. McCulloch, Anisha I. Patel
• Work site access to fluoridated tap water and retail beverages: An assessment of the University of California, San Francisco campuses.
  Journal of the American Dental Association (1939) 2021 Kalair N, Mousli LM, Jacobs LM, Schmidt L, Kearns C
• A Brief Motivational Intervention Differentially Reduces Sugar-sweetened Beverage (SSB) Consumption.
  Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine 2021 Mason AE, Schmidt L, Ishkanian L, Jacobs LM, Leung C, Jensen L, Cohn MA, Schleicher S, Hartman AR, Wojcicki JM, Lustig RH, Epel ES
• How food and beverage companies leveraged the great recession: lessons for the COVID-19 pandemic.
  BMJ global health 2021 Mialon M, Pinsky I, Schmidt L
• Food and beverage industry interference in science and policy: efforts to block soda tax implementation in Mexico and prevent international diffusion.
  BMJ global health 2021 Pedroza-Tobias A, Crosbie E, Mialon M, Carriedo A, Schmidt LA
• Longer Leukocyte Telomere Length Predicts Stronger Response to a Workplace Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Sales Ban: An Exploratory Study.
  Current developments in nutrition 2021 Wojcicki JM, Lustig RH, Jacobs LM, Mason AE, Hartman A, Leung C, Stanhope K, Lin J, Schmidt LA, Epel ES
• Missed Opportunities: The Need to Promote Public Knowledge and Awareness of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes.
  International journal of environmental research and public health 2021 Altman EA, Madsen KA, Schmidt LA
• Evaluation of State Cannabis Laws and Rates of Self-harm and Assault.
  JAMA network open 2021 Matthay EC, Kiang MV, Elser H, Schmidt L, Humphreys K
• State Preemption: An Emerging Threat to Local Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxation.
  American journal of public health 2021 Crosbie E, Pomeranz JL, Wright KE, Hoeper S, Schmidt L
• A cluster-randomized controlled trial of an elementary school drinking water access and promotion intervention: Rationale, study design, and protocol.
  Contemporary clinical trials 2020 Moreno GD, Schmidt LA, Ritchie LD, McCulloch CE, Cabana MD, Brindis CD, Green LW, Altman EA, Patel AI
• Home delivery of legal intoxicants in the age of COVID-19.
  Addiction (Abingdon, England) 2020 Matthay EC, Schmidt LA
• Healthy beverage initiatives in higher education: an untapped strategy for health promotion.
  Public health nutrition 2020 Patel AI, Schmidt LA
• Never say never….
  Teaching and learning in nursing : official journal of the National Organization for Assciate Degree Nursing 2020 Schmidt LA
• Commentary on Hilton et al. (2020): Expanding social discourse analysis to gain traction on the broad commercial determinants of health.
  Addiction (Abingdon, England) 2020 Crosbie E, Schmidt L
• Cost-Effectiveness Of A Workplace Ban On Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Sales: A Microsimulation Model.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2020 Basu S, Jacobs LM, Epel E, Schillinger D, Schmidt L
• Transnational corporations, obesity and planetary health.
  The Lancet. Planetary health 2020 Schmidt L, Mialon M, Kearns C, Crosbie E
• Preemption in Tobacco Control: A Framework for Other Areas of Public Health.
  American journal of public health 2020 Crosbie E, Schmidt LA
• Transferring Racial/Ethnic Marketing Strategies From Tobacco to Food Corporations: Philip Morris and Kraft General Foods.
  American journal of public health 2020 Nguyen KH, Glantz SA, Palmer CN, Schmidt LA
• Association of a Workplace Sales Ban on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages With Employee Consumption of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Health.
  JAMA internal medicine 2020 Epel ES, Hartman A, Jacobs LM, Leung C, Cohn MA, Jensen L, Ishkanian L, Wojcicki J, Mason AE, Lustig RH, Stanhope KL, Schmidt LA
• Change patterns and determinants of physical activity differ between breast, prostate, and colorectal cancer patients.
  Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer 2019 Steindorf K, Depenbusch J, Haussmann A, Tsiouris A, Schmidt L, Hermann S, Sieverding M, Wiskemann J, Ungar N
• Promoting an interdisciplinary food literacy framework to cultivate critical citizenship.
  Journal of American college health : J of ACH 2019 Rowat AC, Soh M, Malan H, Jensen L, Schmidt L, Slusser W
• Emerging threats of global preemption to nutrition labelling.
  Health policy and planning 2019 Crosbie E, Hatefi A, Schmidt L
• Prevalence and Correlates of Simultaneous and Separate 30-Day Use of Tobacco and Cannabis: Results from the California Adult Tobacco Survey.
  Substance use & misuse 2019 Apollonio DE, Spetz J, Schmidt L, Jacobs L, Kaur M, Ramo D
• Commentary on Fergie et al. (2019): A new tool for unpacking policy debates over unhealthy commodities.
  Addiction (Abingdon, England) 2019 Schmidt LA
• Impacts of Medical Marijuana Laws on Young Americans Across the Developmental Spectrum.
  Maternal and child health journal 2019 Schmidt LA, Jacobs LM, Vlahov D, Spetz J
• Overcoming Barriers to Adopting and Implementing Pharmacotherapy: the Medication Research Partnership.
  The journal of behavioral health services & research 2019 Croff R, Hoffman K, Alanis-Hirsch K, Ford J, McCarty D, Schmidt L
• Tobacco industry involvement in children's sugary drinks market.
  BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2019 Nguyen KH, Glantz SA, Palmer CN, Schmidt LA
• Social and Political Factors Associated With State-Level Legalization of Cannabis in the United States.
  Contemporary drug problems 2019 Spetz J, Chapman SA, Bates T, Jura M, Schmidt LA
• State Preemption to Prevent Local Taxation of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages.
  JAMA internal medicine 2019 Crosbie E, Schillinger D, Schmidt LA
• A Professional Development Educator Primer on Dual Admission Academic Progression.
  Journal of continuing education in nursing 2019 Schmidt LA, Bleich MR
• The sugar industry's influence on policy.
  Science (New York, N.Y.) 2018 Kearns C, Schmidt L, Apollonio D, Glantz S
• Measuring Consumer Engagement: A Review of Tools and Findings.
  Journal for healthcare quality : official publication of the National Association for Healthcare Quality 2018 Jacobs LM, Brindis CD, Hughes D, Kennedy CE, Schmidt LA
• A persistent contradiction in treatment providers' views on addiction.
  Drug and alcohol review 2018 Schmidt LA
• Transarterial chemoembolization for hepatocellular carcinoma: development and external validation of the Munich-TACE score.
  European journal of gastroenterology & hepatology 2018 Op den Winkel M, Nagel D, Op den Winkel P, Trojan J, Paprottka PM, Steib CJ, Schmidt L, Göller M, Stieber P, Göhring P, Herbst A, Rentsch M, De Toni EN, Göke B, Gerbes AL, Kolligs FT
• Promoting Adoption of Medication for Opioid and Alcohol Use Disorders Through System Change.
  Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs 2017 Ford JH, Abraham AJ, Lupulescu-Mann N, Croff R, Hoffman KA, Alanis-Hirsch K, Chalk M, Schmidt L, McCarty D
• Water Access in the United States: Health Disparities Abound and Solutions Are Urgently Needed.
  American journal of public health 2017 Patel AI, Schmidt LA
• Achieving Health Equity Through Community Engagement in Translating Evidence to Policy: The San Francisco Health Improvement Partnership, 2010-2016.
  Preventing chronic disease 2017 Grumbach K, Vargas RA, Fleisher P, Aragón TJ, Chung L, Chawla C, Yant A, Garcia ER, Santiago A, Lang PL, Jones P, Liu W, Schmidt LA
• Reframing the science and policy of nicotine, illegal drugs and alcohol - conclusions of the ALICE RAP Project.
  F1000Research 2017 Anderson P, Berridge V, Conrod P, Dudley R, Hellman M, Lachenmeier D, Lingford-Hughes A, Miller D, Rehm J, Room R, Schmidt L, Sullivan R, Ysa T, Gual A
• Disorders through organizational change.
  Drug and Alcohol Dependence 2017 James H. Ford, Amanda Abraham, Nicoleta Lupulescu-Mann, Raina Croff, Kim Johnson, Mady Chalk, Laura Schmidt, Dennis McCarty
• Schmidt et al. Respond.
  American journal of public health 2016 Schmidt LA, Jacobs LM, Spetz J
• Sugar Industry and Coronary Heart Disease Research: A Historical Analysis of Internal Industry Documents.
  JAMA internal medicine 2016 Kearns CE, Schmidt LA, Glantz SA
• Estimating the costs of supporting safety-net transformation into patient-centered medical homes in post-Katrina New Orleans.
  Medicine 2016 Shao H, Brown L, Diana ML, Schmidt LA, Mason K, Oronce CI, Shi L
• Young People's More Permissive Views About Marijuana: Local Impact of State Laws or National Trend?
  American journal of public health 2016 Schmidt LA, Jacobs LM, Spetz J
• Capturing Heterogeneity in Medical Marijuana Policies: A Taxonomy of Regulatory Regimes Across the United States.
  Substance use & misuse 2016 Chapman SA, Spetz J, Lin J, Chan K, Schmidt LA
• The Influence of Alcohol Outlets on Urban Trauma: A Pilot Study for Geospatial Modeling at a Fine Scale.
  Panamerican Journal of Trauma Critical Care & Emergency Surgery 2016 Max N Brondfield, Stanley Sciortino, Catherine Juillard, Paula Fleisher, Laura A Schmidt, Rochelle Dicker
• Reducing the global burden of Preterm Birth through knowledge transfer and exchange: a research agenda for engaging effectively with policymakers.
  Reproductive health 2016 Yamey G, Horváth H, Schmidt L, Myers J, Brindis CD
• Recent Developments in Alcohol Services Research on Access to Care.
  Alcohol research : current reviews 2016 Schmidt LA
• Chocolate Milk in Schools.
  Pediatrics 2015 Dooley D, Patel A, Schmidt LA
• Strategies to implement and sustain medication use for alcohol and opioid disorders.
  Addiction Science & Clinical Practice 2015 James H Ford, Raina Croff, Mady Chalk, Kelly Alanis-Hirsch, Kim Johnson, Laura Schmidt, Dennis McCarty
• Extended-Release Naltrexone: A Qualitative Analysis of Barriers to Routine Use.
  Journal of substance abuse treatment 2015 Alanis-Hirsch K, Croff R, Ford JH, Johnson K, Chalk M, Schmidt L, McCarty D
• Reply to M.H. Kanter et al.
  Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology 2015 Rhoads KF, Patel MI, Ma Y, Schmidt LA
• Sugar Industry Influence on the Scientific Agenda of the National Institute of Dental Research’s 1971 National Caries Program: A Historical Analysis of Internal Documents
  PLos Medicine 2015 Kearns CE, Glantz SA, Schmidt LA
• Addictive substances and socioeconomic development.
  Impact of Addictive Substances and Behaviours on Individual and Societal Well-being 2015 Robin Room, Sujatha Sankaran, Laura A. Schmidt, Pia Mäkelä, Jürgen Rehm
• How do integrated health care systems address racial and ethnic disparities in colon cancer?
  Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology 2015 Rhoads KF, Patel MI, Ma Y, Schmidt LA
• Strategies to increase family influence on patient decisions about medication-assisted treatment.
  Drug and Alcohol Dependence 2015 Raina Croff, Kelly Alanis-Hirsch, Jay Ford, Laura Schmidt, Mady Chalk, Dennis McCarty
• Strategies to influence attitudes towards pharmacotherapies for alcohol and opioid use disorders.
  Drug and Alcohol Dependence 2015 Kelly Alanis-Hirsch, R. Croff, J. Ford, L. Schmidt, D. McCarty, M. Chalk
• The handbook of global health policy
  Ch. 9: Dietary policies to reduce non-communicable diseases 2014 Afshin A, Micha R, Khatibzadeh S, Laura A. Schmidt, Mozaffarian D.
• The equal right to drink.
  Drug and alcohol review 2014 Schmidt LA
• The medication research partnership.
  Drug and Alcohol Dependence 2014 Dennis McCarty, R. Croff, M. Chalk, K. Alanis-Hirsch, J. Kemp, J. Ford, K. Johnson, L. Schmidt
• Disparities in the use and quality of alcohol treatment services and some proposed solutions to narrow the gap.
  Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) 2014 Mulia N, Tam TW, Schmidt LA
• New unsweetened truths about sugar.
  JAMA internal medicine 2014 Schmidt LA
• Applicability of Type A/B alcohol dependence in the general population.
  Drug and alcohol dependence 2014 Tam TW, Mulia N, Schmidt LA
• The increasing weight of regulation: countries combat the global obesity epidemic
  Indiana Law Journal 2014 Taylor, AL, Parento, EW, Laura A. Schmidt
• Bellagio report on healthy agriculture, healthy nutrition, healthy people
  Rev Panam Salud Publica 2013 Simopoulos AP, Bourne PG, Faergeman O, Adrus, J, Christopher G, Clay WD, Gopalan, S, Jaffe R, Johnson RJ, Kosko L, Legrand, P, Li D, Marcos A, Peniston AM, Rehnborg S, Laura A. Schmidt, Scott I, …
• Bellagio report on healthy agriculture, healthy nutrition, healthy people
  J Nutrigenet Nutrigenomics 2013 Simopoulos AP, Bourne PG, Faergeman O, Adrus, J, Christopher G, Clay WD, Gopalan, S, Jaffe R, Johnson RJ, Kosko L, Legrand, P, Li D, Marcos A, Peniston AM, Rehnborg S, Laura A. Schmidt, Scott I, …
• Bellagio report on healthy agriculture, healthy nutrition, healthy people
  Journal of Zhejiang University (Agric. & Life Sci) 2013 Simopoulos AP, Bourne PG, Faergeman O, Adrus, J, Christopher G, Clay WD, Gopalan, S, Jaffe R, Johnson RJ, Kosko L, Legrand, P, Li D, Marcos A, Peniston AM, Rehnborg S, Laura A. Schmidt, Scott I, …
• Bellagio report on healthy agriculture, healthy nutrition, healthy people
  Nutricion Hospitalaria 2013 Simopoulos AP, Bourne PG, Faergeman O, Adrus, J, Christopher G, Clay WD, Gopalan, S, Jaffe R, Johnson RJ, Kosko L, Legrand, P, Li D, Marcos A, Peniston AM, Rehnborg S, Laura A. Schmidt, Scott I, …
• Bellagio report on healthy agriculture, healthy nutrition, healthy people
  Nutrients 2013 Simopoulos AP, Bourne PG, Faergeman O, Adrus, J, Christopher G, Clay WD, Gopalan, S, Jaffe R, Johnson RJ, Kosko L, Legrand, P, Li D, Marcos A, Peniston AM, Rehnborg S, Laura A. Schmidt, Scott I, …
• Incentivizing primary care providers to innovate: building medical homes in the post-Katrina New Orleans safety net.
  Health services research 2013 Rittenhouse DR, Schmidt LA, Wu KJ, Wiley J
• Context matters: the experience of 14 research teams in systematically reporting contextual factors important for practice change.
  Annals of family medicine 2013 Tomoaia-Cotisel A, Scammon DL, Waitzman NJ, Cronholm PF, Halladay JR, Driscoll DL, Solberg LI, Hsu C, Tai-Seale M, Hiratsuka V, Shih SC, Fetters MD, Wise CG, Alexander JA, Hauser D, McMullen CK, …
• Contrasting trajectories of change in primary care clinics: lessons from New Orleans safety net.
  Annals of family medicine 2013 Rittenhouse DR, Schmidt L, Wu K, Wiley J
• Reconsidering the effects of poverty and social support on health: a 5-year longitudinal test of the stress-buffering hypothesis.
  Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 2013 Moskowitz D, Vittinghoff E, Schmidt L
• Transforming primary care in the New Orleans safety-net: the patient experience.
  Medical care 2013 Schmidt LA, Rittenhouse DR, Wu KJ, Wiley JA
• The 2008-2009 recession and alcohol outcomes: differential exposure and vulnerability for Black and Latino populations.
  Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs 2013 Zemore SE, Mulia N, Jones-Webb RJ, Liu H, Schmidt L
• Commentary on Steingrimsson et al. (2012): an equal right to addiction.
  Addiction (Abingdon, England) 2012 Schmidt LA
• Benefit or burden? A sociotechnical analysis of diagnostic computer kiosks in four California hospital emergency departments.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 2012 Ackerman SL, Tebb K, Stein JC, Frazee BW, Hendey GW, Schmidt LA, Gonzales R
• Toward a better understanding of when to apply propensity scoring: a comparison with conventional regression in ethnic disparities research.
  Annals of epidemiology 2012 Ye Y, Bond JC, Schmidt LA, Mulia N, Tam TW
• The post-Katrina conversion of clinics in New Orleans to medical homes shows change is possible, but hard to sustain.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2012 Rittenhouse DR, Schmidt LA, Wu KJ, Wiley J
• Alcohol and the process of economic development: contributions from ethnographic research
  International Journal of Alcohol and Drug Research 2012 Schmidt, Laura and R. Room
• Advancing recovery: implementing evidence-based treatment for substance use disorders at the systems level.
  Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs 2012 Schmidt LA, Rieckmann T, Abraham A, Molfenter T, Capoccia V, Roman P, Gustafson DH, McCarty D
• Public health: The toxic truth about sugar.
  Nature 2012 Lustig RH, Schmidt LA, Brindis CD
• Sources of biased inference in alcohol and drug services research: an instrumental variable approach.
  Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs 2012 Schmidt LA, Tam TW, Larson MJ
• Preventing disparities in alcohol screening and brief intervention: the need to move beyond primary care.
  Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research 2011 Mulia N, Schmidt LA, Ye Y, Greenfield TK
• Medicaid and Treatment for People with Substance Abuse Problems
  Insurance instability: Replacement of aid to families with dependent children by temporary assistance for needy families and impact on Medicaid clients with substance abuse problems 2011 Schmidt, Laura A., Tammy Tam, James Wiley and Constance M. Weisner
• Evaluation of patient centered medical home practice transformation initiatives.
  Medical care 2011 Crabtree BF, Chase SM, Wise CG, Schiff GD, Schmidt LA, Goyzueta JR, Malouin RA, Payne SM, Quinn MT, Nutting PA, Miller WL, Jaén CR
• On the declining health status of welfare caseloads: emerging dilemmas for serving the poor.
  Social work in public health 2011 Schmidt LA, Zabkiewicz D, Henderson S, Jacobs L, Wiley J
• Priority public health conditions knowledge network (PPHC-KN) of the WHO/UN Commission on social determinants of health, Geneva: World Health Organization
  Winner of the British Medical Association's "Best Book in Public Health" for 2011. ISBN-13 9789241563970 2011 Schmidt LA, Mäkelä P, Rehm J, Room R. Alcohol: Equity and Social Determinants. In: Eric Blas and Anand Sivasankara Kurup (eds). Equity, Social Determinants and Public Health Programmes.
• Priorities for policy research on treatments for alcohol and drug use disorders.
  Journal of substance abuse treatment 2010 McCarty D, McConnell KJ, Schmidt LA
• The changing face of medicine: women doctors and the evolution of health care in America
  Contemporary Sociology 2009 Schmidt, Laura
• Knowledge assets, substance abuse policy research program, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  Knowledge assets, substance abuse policy research program, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 2009 Schmidt, Laura and Nina Mulia
• The effects of failing to include hard-to-reach respondents in longitudinal surveys.
  American journal of public health 2008 Odierna DH, Schmidt LA
• International regulation of alcohol.
  BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2008 Room R, Schmidt L, Rehm J, Mäkelä P
• The mental health benefits of work: do they apply to welfare mothers with a drinking problem?
  The journal of behavioral health services & research 2008 Zabkiewicz D, Schmidt LA
• Stress, social support and problem drinking among women in poverty.
  Addiction (Abingdon, England) 2008 Mulia N, Schmidt L, Bond J, Jacobs L, Korcha R
• Does substance abuse matter much if it’s a “throw-away” job?
  Substance Use & Misuse 2007 Schmidt L, Zabkiewicz D.
• Alcohol, health disparities and development
  Alcohol, health disparities and development 2007 Room, Robin, Pia Makela, Juergen Rehm and Laura Schmidt
• Behavioral health problems as barriers to work: results from a 6-year panel study of welfare recipients.
  The journal of behavioral health services & research 2007 Zabkiewicz D, Schmidt LA
• Ethnic disparities in clinical severity and services for alcohol problems: results from the National Alcohol Survey.
  Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research 2007 Schmidt LA, Ye Y, Greenfield TK, Bond J
• Substance abuse and employment among welfare mothers: from welfare to work and back again?
  Substance use & misuse 2007 Schmidt L, Zabkiewicz D, Jacobs L, Wiley J
• Changing patterns of addiction and public aid receipt: tracking the unintended consequences of welfare reform.
  Journal of health politics, policy and law 2006 Schmidt LA, Wiley J, Dohan D, Zabkiewicz D, Jacobs LM, Henderson S, Zivot M
• Interpersonal violence among women seeking welfare: unraveling lives.
  American journal of public health 2006 Lown EA, Schmidt LA, Wiley J
• Barriers to identifying substance abuse in the reformed welfare system
  Social Service Review 2006 Henderson, Stuart, Dohan, Daniel, Schmidt, Laura A.
• Unequal treatment: racial disparities in alcohol services
  Alcohol Health and Research World 2006 Schmidt, Laura A., Thomas K. Greenfield and Nina Mulia,
• Unequal treatment: racial and ethnic disparities in alcoholism treatment services.
  Alcohol research & health : the journal of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism 2006 Schmidt L, Greenfield T, Mulia N
• From enabling to bootstrapping: welfare workers' views of substance abuse and welfare reform
  Contemporary Drug Problems 2005 Dohan, Daniel, Laura Schmidt, and Stuart Henderson.
• Private insurance and the utilization of chemical dependency treatment.
  Journal of substance abuse treatment 2005 Schmidt LA, Weisner CM
• The role of community services and informal support on five-year drinking trajectories of alcohol dependent and problem drinkers.
  Journal of studies on alcohol 2003 Weisner C, Delucchi K, Matzger H, Schmidt L
• Conflicts and trade-offs due to alcohol and drugs: clients' accounts of leaving welfare
  Social Service Review 2003 Mulia, Nina and Laura Schmidt
• Who goes to alcohol and drug treatment? Understanding utilization within the context of insurance.
  Journal of studies on alcohol 2002 Weisner C, Matzger H, Tam T, Schmidt L
• Addiction and Welfare Dependency: Interpreting the Connection.
  Social Problems 2002 Laura Schmidt, Daniel Dohan, James Wiley, Denise Zabkiewicz
• Addiction and welfare dependency: interpreting the connection
  Social Problems 2002 Schmidt, Laura, Dan Dohan, James Wiley, Denise Zabkiewicz
• Rethinking Access to Alcohol Treatment.
  Alcoholism 2002 Constance Weisner, Laura A. Schmidt
• The Emergence of Problem-Drinking Women as a Special Population in Need of Treatment.
  Recent Developments in Alcoholism 2002 Laura Schmidt, Constance Weisner
• Encyclopedia of Criminology and Deviant Behavior, Clifton D. Bryant (Ed.)
  Alcohol abuse, inpatient treatment strategies 2001 Schmidt, Laura
• Recent Developments in Alcoholism
  Rethinking access to alcohol treatment 2001 Weisner, Constance and Laura Schmidt
• Methods for evaluating policy changes in alcohol services.
  Addiction (Abingdon, England) 2000 Kaskutas LA, Schmidt LA, Weisner C, Greenfield TK
• Methods for evaluating policy changes in alcohol services.
  Addiction 2000 Lee A. Kaskutas, Laura A. Schmidt, Constance Weisner, Thomas K. Greenfield
• Welfare reform and the changing landscape of substance abuse services for low-income women.
  Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research 2000 Schmidt LA, McCarty D
• Evaluating policy changes in services research on alcohol problems
  Addiction 2000 Kaskutas, Lee Ann, Laura Schmidt, and Constance Weisner
• In Mary DuFour and Robert Wilson (eds.), Alcohol Epidemiology in Small Areas
  “Survey and social indicator estimates of alcohol problems in the community: contrasting definitions and measures 2000 Schmidt, Laura and Constance Weisner
• New directions in alcohol and drug treatment under managed care.
  The American journal of managed care 1999 Weisner C, McCarty D, Schmidt L
• Jalie Tucker, Dennis Donovan and Alan Marlatt (eds.): Changing Addictive Behavior
  Public health perspectives on service utilization patterns for substance disorders 1999 Schmidt, Laura and Constance Weisner
• Problems of cultural translation in international classifications and research on alcohol dependence
  Journal of Studies on Alcohol 1999 Schmidt, Laura and Robin Room
• Substance abuse and the course of welfare dependency.
  American journal of public health 1998 Schmidt L, Weisner C, Wiley J
• Patterns in the institutional encounters of problem drinkers in a community human services network.
  Addiction (Abingdon, England) 1996 Tam TW, Schmidt L, Weisner C
• Back to the drawing board? Comments on the comments on Room et al.: WHO cross-cultural applicability research on diagnosis and assessment of substance use disorders: An overview of methods and selected results
  Addiction 1996 Room, Robin, A. Janca, Linda A. Bennett, Laura Schmidt, and N. Sartorius
• Patterns in service use by problem drinkers
  Addiction 1996 Tam, Tammy, Laura Schmidt and Constance Weisner
• World Health Organization cross-cultural applicability research on the diagnosis of substance abuse disorders: an overview of methods and selected results
  Addiction 1996 Room, Robin, Aleksandar Janca, Linda Bennett, Laura Schmidt and Norman Sartorius
• Expanding the frame of health services research in the drug abuse field.
  Health services research 1995 Weisner C, Schmidt LA
• The Community Epidemiology Laboratory: studying alcohol problems in community and agency-based populations.
  Addiction (Abingdon, England) 1995 Weisner C, Schmidt L
• A battle not man's but God's': origins of the american temperance crusade in the struggle for religious authority "Response to commentary on religion and temperance." Vol. 57, pp. 220-221, 1996. (Article reprinted in 2000.)
  Journal of Studies on Alcohol 1995 Schmidt, Laura
• Assessing bias in community-based prevalence estimates: towards an unduplicated count of problem drinkers and drug users
  Addiction 1995 Weisner, Constance, Laura Schmidt and Tammy Tam
• Expanding the frame of health services research in the drug abuse field
  Health Services Research 1995 Weisner, Constance and Laura Schmidt
• In: Marc Galanter (ed.), Recent Developments in Alcoholism
  The Emergence of Problem-Drinking Women as a Special Population in Need of Treatment 1995 Schmidt, Laura and Constance Weisner
• The community epidemiology laboratory: studying alcohol problems in community and agency-based populations
  Addiction 1995 Weisner, Constance and Laura Schmidt
• The role of problem drinking in psychiatric admissions
  Addiction 1995 Schmidt, Laura
• Alcohol and drug problems among diverse health and social service populations.
  American journal of public health 1993 Weisner C, Schmidt L
• Developments in alcohol treatment systems: a ten year review.” In: Marc Galanter (ed.). Plenum Press, New York
  Recent Developments in Alcoholism 1993 Schmidt, Laura
• A profile of problem drinkers in public mental health services
  Hospital and Community Psychiatry 1992 Schmidt, Laura
• Gender disparities in treatment for alcohol problems
  Journal of the American Medical Association 1992 Schmidt, Laura
• Specialization in alcoholism and mental health treatment: the 'dual diagnosis' problem
  Journal of Drug Issues 1991 Schmdit, Laura
• Problem drinkers and the welfare bureaucracy
  Social Service Review 1990 Schmidt, Laura