Report
Morey BN, Tanjasiri SP, Penaia C, Fok CL, Paul S, Tulua ‘A, Chang RC, Ponce NA, Subica A. (2025). CAPIWAVES: A report based on the California Pacific Islander Well-being and COVID-19 Economic Survey. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. https://healthpolicy.ucla.edu/our-work/publications/mental-health-socioeconomic-impact-covid-19-NHPIs-report-2025
Journal Articles
Morey BN, Michelen M, Phan M**, Cárdenas S**, Foo MA, Cantero PJ, Peralta S, Chirinos N, Salazar R, Montiel GI, Tanjasiri SP, Billimek J, LeBrón AMW. (2024). Structural Supports and Challenges for Community Health Worker Models: Lessons from the COVID-19 Response in Orange County, California. SSM – Qualitative Research in Health. 100510. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2024.100510
Valencia C*, Morey BN, Calva D, Cortes E, Donaldson L, Tanjasiri SP, LeBrón AMW. (2024). Engaging Residents to Address Environmental Injustice and Socioecological Factors in Boyle Heights. Environmental Justice. doi: https://doi.org/10.1089/env.2024.0043
Michelen M, Phan M*, Zimmer A, Coury N, Morey BN, Montiel Hernandez GI, Cantero P, Zárate S, Foo MA, Tanjasiri SP, Billimek J, LeBrón AMW. (2024). Practical Qualitative Data Analysis for Public Health Research: A Guide to a Team-Based Approach With Flexible Coding. International Journal of Qualitative Methods. 23. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069241289279
LeBrón AMW, Michelen M, Morey BN, Montiel Hernandez GI, Cantero P, Zárate S, Foo MA, Peralta S, Chow JJ, Mangione J, Tanjasiri SP, Billimek J. (2024). Community Activtion to TrAnsform Local sYSTems (CATALYST): A Qualitative Study Protocol. International Journal of Qualitative Methods. 23. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069241284217
Shah NS, Kandula NR, Commodore-Mensah Y, Morey BN, Patel SA, Wong S, Yang E, Yi S. (2024). Social Determinants of Cardiovascular Health in Asian Americans: A Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association. Circulation. 150: e00-e00. doi: https://doi.org/10.1161/CIR.0000000000001278
Morey BN, Garcia S*, Lin K, Canchola AJ, Alexeeff SE, Kurtovich EM, Uong S, Aoki RLF, Guan A, Torres JM, Shariff-Marco S, Yao S, Kushi LH, Gomez SL, Kroenke CH. (2024). A Validation Study for Measuring Asian- and Hispanic-serving Sociocultural Institutions in Neighborhoods using Business Listing Data and Potential Implications for Health. Social Science & Medicine. 356: 117143. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117143
Uong SP*, Torres JM, Alexeef SE, Morey BN, Caan BJ, Kushi LH, Kroenke CH. (2024). Differences in Smoking Behavior by Nativity, Race/Ethnicity, and Education among Women Diagnosed with Breast Cancer. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention. doi: https://doi.org/10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-23-0386
Oh H, Morey BN, Shi Y, Lee S. (2024). Distress, Multimorbidity, and Complex Multimorbidity among Chinese and Korean American Older Adults. PLoS ONE. 19(1):e0297035. doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0297035
Morey BN, Shi Y, Ryu S*, Redline S, Kawachi I, Park H**, Lee S. (2024). Risk of Sleep Apnea Associated with Higher Blood Pressure among Chinese and Korean Americans. Ethnicity and Health. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/13557858.2024.2311417
Morey BN, Penaia CS*, Tulua `A, Chang RC, Tanghal RB*, Tran JH, Ponce NA. (2024). Democratizing Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Data: Examining Community Accessibility of Data for Health and the Social Determinants of Health. American Journal of Public Health. 114(S1):e1-e9. doi: https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2023.307503
Ryu S, Morey BN, Shi Y, Lee S. (2023). Acculturation and Self-rated Health among Chinese and Korean Immigrants Aged 49 to 75. Frontiers in Public Health. 11:1272428. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1272428
Das A*, Morey BN, Bruckner TA. (2023). Mental health symptoms following the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. Social Science & Medicine. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116015
Iraheta S** & Morey BN. (2023). Mixed-Immigration Status Families During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Health Equity. 7.1. doi: 10.1089/heq.2022.0141
Lee S, Ryu S*, Lee GE**, Redline S, Morey BN. (2023). Risk of Sleep Apnea is Associated with Abdominal Obesity among Asian Americans: Comparing Waist-to-Hip Ratio and Body Mass Index. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40615-022-01507-z
Morey BN, Ryu S*, Shi Y, Lee S. (2023). The Mediating Role of Sleep Disturbance on the Association between Stress and Self-Rated Health in Chinese and Korean Americans. Preventing Chronic Disease. 20:220241. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5888/pcd20.220241
Ryu S*, Morey BN, Lee GE**, Kawachi I, Redline S, Lee S. (2022). The Cross-Sectional Association of Sleep Disturbance and Sleep Apnea with Complex Multimorbidity among Chinese and Korean Americans. American Journal of Epidemiology. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwac211
Escobedo AL, Morey BN, Sabado-Liwag MD, Ponce N. (2022). Lost on the Frontline, and Lost in the Data: COVID-19 Deaths among Filipinx Healthcare Workers in the United States. Frontiers in Public Health. 10:958530. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.958530
Morey BN, Chang RC, Tulua A, Penaia C, Thomas K, Tran VD, Pierson N, Greer JC, Bydalek MJ, Ponce N. (2022). No Equity without Data Equity: Data Reporting Gaps for Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders as a form of Structural Racism. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. 47(2):159-200. doi: 10.1215/03616878-9517177
Osborn B*, Morey BN, Billimek J, Ro A. (Accepted). Food insecurity and type 2 diabetes among Latinos: examining neighborhood cohesion as a protective factor. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities.
Morey BN, Ryu S*, Shi Y, Redline S, Kawachi I, Lee S. (2022). Associations between Sleep Apnea and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors among Chinese and Korean Americans. Sleep Epidemiology. 2. 1000037. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleepe.2022.100037
Subica AM, Aitaoto N, Li Q, Morey BN, Wu L-T, Iwamoto DK, Guerrero EG, Moss HB. (In press). Assessing the Health and Impact of COVID-19 on Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islanders. Public Health Reports.
Subica AM, Guerrero EG, Martin TKK, Okamoto SK, Aitaoto N, Moss HG, Morey BN, Wu L-T. (2022). Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Use, Mental Health, and Treatment Need during COVID-19. Drug and Alcohol Review. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/dar.13522
Bacong AM*, Hing AK*, Morey BN, Crespi CM, Lee N, Kabamalan MM, de Castro AB, Gee GC. (2022). Health Selection on Self-Rated Health and the Healthy Migrant Effect: Baseline and 1-Year Results from the Health of Philippine Emigrants Study. PLOS Global Public Health. 2(7):e0000324. doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0000324
Morey BN, Ryu S*, Shi Y, Park H**, Lee S. (2022). Acculturation and Cardiometabolic Abnormalities among Chinese and Korean Americans. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40615-022-01347-x
Gee GC, Morey BN, Bacong AM*, Doan T*, Penaia CS*. (2022). Considerations of Racism and Data Equity among Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in the Context of COVID-19. Current Epidemiology Reports. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40471-022-00283-y
Morey BN, Valencia C*, Lee S. (2022). Correlates of Undiagnosed Hypertension among Chinese and Korean American Immigrants. Journal of Community Health. 47:425-436. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10900-022-01069-5
Morey BN. (2022). A Measure of Hope: New Questions for Rebuilding Post-Pandemic. American Journal of Public Health. 112(3):345-347. doi: https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306668
Lee S, Ryu S*, Lee G**, Kawachi I, Morey BN, Slopen N. (2021). The Association of Acculturative Stress with Sleep Disturbance and Sleep Duration among Asian Americans. Sleep. 45(4):1-12. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsab298
Morey BN, Garcia SJ, Nieri T, Bruckner TA, Link BG. (2021). Symbolic disempowerment and Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential election: Mental health responses among Latinx and white populations. Social Science & Medicine. 289: 114417. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114417
Morey BN, Chang RC, Tulua A, Penaia C, Thomas K, Tran VD, Pierson N, Greer JC, Bydalek MJ, Ponce N. (202). No Equity without Data Equity: Data Reporting Gaps for Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders as a form of Structural Racism. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. 47(2):159-200. doi: 10.1215/03616878-9517177
Aoki RLF, Uong SP, Gomez SL, Alexeeff S, Caan B, Kushi LH, Torres J, Guan A, Canchola AJ, Morey BN, Lin K, Kroenke CH. (Accepted). Individual- and Neighborhood-Socioeconomic Status and Risk of Aggressive Breast Cancer Subtypes in a Pooled Cohort of Women from Kaiser Permanente Northern California. Cancer. 0:1-11. doi: 10.1002/cncr.33861
Penaia CS, Morey BN, Thomas K, Chang RC, Tran VD, Pierson N, Greer J, Ponce NA. (2021). Disparities in Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander COVID-19 Mortality: A Community-Driven Data Response. American Journal of Public Health. 111(S2): S49-S52. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2021.306370
Morey BN, Valencia C*, Park H, Lee S. (2021). The Central Role of Social Support in the Health of Chinese and Korean Immigrants. Social Science and Medicine. 284. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114229
Morey BN, Valencia C*, Lee S. (2021). The Influence of Asian Subgroup and Acculturation on Colorectal Cancer Knowledge and Attitudes among Chinese and Korean Americans. Journal of Cancer Education. doi: 10.1007/s13187-021-02042-x Free full text available at: https://rdcu.be/cmguv
Morey BN, Gee GC, Wang MC, von Ehrenstein O, Shariff-Marco S, Canchola AJ, Yang J, Lee SS-J, Bautista R, Tseng W, Chang P, Gomez SL. (2021). Neighborhood Contexts and Breast Cancer among Asian American Women. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-021-01196-6
Morey BN, Tulua A, Tanjasiri SP, Subica AM, Kaholokula JK, Penaia C, Thomas K, Chang RC, Tran VD, Ponce N, Ong P, Ong E. (2020). Structural Racism and its Effects on Native Hawaiian Pacific Islanders in the U.S.: Issues of Health Equity, Census Undercounting, and Voter Disenfranchisement. AAPI Nexus: Policy, Practice and Community. 17(1-2). http://www.aapinexus.org/2020/11/24/structural-racism-and-its-effects-on-native-hawaiians-and-pacific-islanders/
Ah Soon N, Akee R, Kagawa-Singer M, Morey BN, Ong E, Ong P, Ponce N, Samoa R, Tanjasiri SP. (2020). Counting Race and Ethnicity for Small Populations during the COVID-19 Pandemic. AAPI Nexus: Policy, Practice and Community. 17(1-2). http://www.aapinexus.org/2020/09/18/article-counting-race-and-ethnicity-for-small-populations-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/
Morey BN, Bacong AM, Hing A, de Castro AB, Gee GC. (2020). Heterogeneity in Migrant Health Selection: The Role of Immigrant Visas. Journal of Health and Social Behavior. doi: 10.1177/0022146520942896
Ðoàn LN, Bacong AM, Ma KPK, Morey BN. (2020). “Epidemiologists Count”: The Role of Diversity and Inclusion in the Field of Epidemiology. American Journal of Epidemiology. 189(10): 1033-1036. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwaa108
Morey BN, Gee GC, Shariff-Marco S, Yang J, Allen L, Gomez SL. (2020). Ethnic Enclaves, Discrimination, and Stress among Asian American Women: Differences by Nativity and Time in the U.S. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology. 26(4): 460-471. doi: 10.1037/cdp0000322
Morey BN, Gee GC, von Ehrenstein OS, Shariff-Marco S, Canchola AJ, Yang J, Allen L, Lee SS-J, Bautista R, La Chica T, Tseng W, Chang P, Gomez SL. (2019). Higher Breast Cancer Risk Among Immigrant Asian American Women Than Among US-Born Asian American Women. Preventing Chronic Disease. 16(20):180221. doi: 10.5888/pcd16.180221
Morey BN. (2018). Mechanisms by Which Anti-Immigrant Stigma Exacerbates Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities. American Journal of Public Health. 108(4): 460-463. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2017.304266
Morey BN, Gee GC, Muennig P, Hatzenbuehler ML. (2018). Community-Level Prejudice and Mortality among Immigrant Groups. Social Science and Medicine. 199: 56-66. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.04.020
Morey BN, Gee GC, Shariff-Marco S, Le GM, Canchola AJ, Yang J, Allen L, Lee S, Bautista R, Quema La Chica T, Tseng W, Chang P, Gomez SL. (2018). Nativity Differences in Stress among Asian and Pacific Islander Women. Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice. 11(1): 28-44. Available at: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/jhdrp/vol11/iss1/3
Alcalá HE, Sharif MZ, Morey BN. (2017). Misplaced Trust: Racial Differences in Use of Tobacco Products and Trust in Sources of Tobacco Health Information. Nicotine & Tobacco Research. 19(10):1199-1208. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntx080
Gee GC, Morey BN, Walsemann K, Ro A, Takeuchi D. (2016). Citizenship as Privilege and Social Identity: Implications for Psychological Distress. American Behavioral Scientist. 60(5-6):680-704. doi: 10.1177/0002764216632834
Gee GC, de Castro AB, Wang MC, Crespi CM, Morey BN, Fujishiro K. (2015). Feasibility of Conducting a Longitudinal, Transnational Study of Filipino Migrants to the United States: A Dual-Cohort Design. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. 26(2):488-504. doi: 10.1353/hpu.2015.0045
Morey BN. (2014). Environmental Justice for Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders in Los Angeles. Environmental Justice. 7(1):9-17. doi: 10.1089/env.2014.0003
* Published with a graduate student under direct supervision/guidance.
** Published with an undergraduate student under direct supervision/guidance.
Book Chapter
Gee GC, Sangalang C, Morey BN, Hing A. (2019). The Global and Historical Nature of Racism and Health Among Asian Americans. In CL Ford, DM Griffith, MA Bruce, K Gilbert (Eds.), Racism: Science & Tools for the Public Health Professional. Washington, DC: American Public Health Association.