Vira Pravosud, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Medicine
School of Medicine

Grants and Projects

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• Factors Associated with Exceptional Survival among Kentucky Stage IV Lung Cancer Patients: Appalachian versus Non-Appalachian Populations, University of Kentucky Appalachian Center, 2018 Eller & Billings Student Research Award, 2018-2019

Publications (18)

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• Condomless Sex Among Men Who Have Sex with Men: App-Facilitated Versus Non-App-Facilitated Relationships.
  Journal of sex research 2026 Pravosud V, Ballard AM, Holloway IW, Solis J, Young AM
• The impact of cannabis co-use and cannabis use disorder on interest in and barriers to tobacco cessation.
  Addictive behaviors 2026 Graham FJL, Pravosud V, Keyhani S, Hoggatt KJ, Ling P, Hasin D, Nguyen N, Cohen BE
• Adolescents' Interest in Quitting Nicotine or Cannabis E-Cigarettes.
  Clinical pediatrics 2025 Pravosud V, Ling PM, Halpern-Felsher B, Gribben V
• Cannabis Use Among Older Adults.
  JAMA network open 2025 Pravosud V, Lum E, Vali M, Cohen BE, Hoggatt KJ, Byers AL, Austin PC, Walter LC, Hasin D, Zaman T, Keyhani S
• Cannabis legalization and changes in cannabis and tobacco/nicotine use and co-use in a national cohort of U.S. adults during 2017-2021.
  The International journal on drug policy 2024 Pravosud V, Glantz S, Keyhani S, Ling PM, Lempert LK, Hoggatt KJ, Hasin D, Nguyen N, Graham FJL, Cohen BE

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• Changes in Sources of Information About the Risks and Benefits of Cannabis in a National Cohort of U.S. Adults From 2017 to 2021.
  Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs 2024 Graham FJL, Keyhani S, Ling P, Pravosud V, Nguyen N, Hasin DS, Cohen BE
• Social Media Exposure and Other Correlates of Increased e-Cigarette Use Among Adolescents During Remote Schooling: Cross-Sectional Study.
  JMIR pediatrics and parenting 2024 Pravosud V, Ling PM, Halpern-Felsher B, Gribben V
• Latent Class Analysis of Online Platforms for Partner-Seeking and Sexual Behaviors Among Men Who Have Sex with Men from Central Kentucky.
  AIDS and behavior 2023 Pravosud V, Ballard AM, Holloway IW, Young AM
• Changes in perceived harms of tobacco and cannabis and their correlations with use: A panel study of young adults 2014-2020.
  Addictive behaviors 2023 Nguyen N, Holmes LM, Pravosud V, Cohen BE, Ling PM
• Impacts of Tax and Flavor Tobacco Policies on San Francisco Bay Area Tobacco Prices.
  Evaluation review 2023 Pravosud V, Holmes LM, Lempert LK, Ling PM
• Policies restricting flavors and non-cigarette tobacco product availability: A study of vape shops in San Francisco and Alameda Counties, California, USA.
  Preventive medicine reports 2022 Pravosud V, Holmes LM, Lempert LK, Ling PM
• Online Partner Seeking and Sexual Behaviors Among Men Who Have Sex With Men From Small and Midsized Towns: Cross-sectional Study.
  JMIR formative research 2022 Pravosud V, Ballard AM, Holloway IW, Young AM
• Symptom Burden and Medication Use Among Patients with Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Lung Disease.
  Chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (Miami, Fla.) 2021 Pravosud V, Mannino DM, Prieto D, Zhang Q, Choate R, Malanga E, Aksamit TR
• Exceptional Survival Among Kentucky Stage IV Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Patients: Appalachian Versus Non-Appalachian Populations.
  The Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association 2020 Pravosud V, Vanderford NL, Huang B, Tucker TC, Arnold SM
• National and State Estimates of COPD Morbidity and Mortality - United States, 2014-2015.
  Chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (Miami, Fla.) 2018 Sullivan J, Pravosud V, Mannino DM, Siegel K, Choate R, Sullivan T
• Development of Multiple Primary Cancers in Lung Cancer Patients: Appalachian Versus Non-Appalachian Populations of Kentucky.
  Southern medical journal 2017 Pravosud V, Huang B, Tucker T, Vanderford NL
• Respondent-driven sampling: characteristics associated with productive and non-productive recruitment.  Tobacco Control and Public Health in Eastern Europe. doi: 10.6084/m9.figshare.4495910.v1
  Respondent-driven sampling: characteristics associated with productive and non-productive recruitment.  Tobacco Control and Public Health in Eastern Europe. doi: 10.6084/m9.figshare.4495910.v1 2016 Pravosud V, Andreeva T.
• Ukrainian nutrition behavior through the prism of childhood reminiscences. Tobacco Control and Public Health in Eastern Europe; 2nd conference 'Economics, sociology, theory and practice of public health'). Kyiv, National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy", School of Public Health. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.92836
  2012 Pravosud V, Andreeva T, Kulchynska R, Liakh A, Makarenko J, Pascal A, Shlapatska C, Stepurko T.