Diana Margot Rosenthal

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow at NYU School of Global Public Health

Background: Youth experiencing homelessness (YEH) in East Asian Pacific (EAP) regions represent one of the most at-risk populations due to cultural and geographical factors. Effective mental health interventions, primarily researched in Western contexts, may not fully apply to YEH in EAP. Their lack of stable shelter, disrupted social networks, and...

Aim Families from socioeconomically deprived backgrounds appear to have been greatly impacted and face worsening inequalities as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. With more than half of children in Newham, East London, living in poverty, this study aimed to investigate the impact of the COVID-19 lockdowns on families with a child under 5 years-old...

Background: Youth experiencing homelessness (YEH) in East Asia Pacific (EAP) represent one of the most at-risk populations due to cultural and geographical factors. Effective mental health interventions, primarily researched in Western contexts, may not fully apply to YEH in EAP. Their lack of stable shelter, disrupted social networks, and limited...

Background: Child homelessness is a growing global public health crisis. These children have a higher life-long risk of developing chronic conditions, repeated cycles of homelessness and adverse childhood experiences. Under 5s experiencing homelessness in temporary accommodation (U5TA) are especially vulnerable because the first five years of life...

Background: Children < 5 years living in temporary accommodation (U5TA) are vulnerable to poor health outcomes. Few qualitative studies have examined service provider perspectives in family homelessness; none have focused on U5TA with a cross-sector approach. This study explored professionals' perspectives of the barriers and facilitators, includi...

Background Children younger than 5 years living in temporary accommodation due to homelessness (U5TA) are extremely vulnerable to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Few qualitative studies have examined provider perspectives in family homelessness, but none focused on U5TA specifically. We aimed to qualitatively explore professionals' perspectiv...

Aims On 23rd March 2020, the first of many COVID-19 lockdown measures were implemented in England, which affected the general population, but especially those already considered vulnerable. Homelessness is a known determinant of poor mental health. The objective was to determine whether experiencing homelessness while living in temporary accommodat...

Aims Children experiencing homelessness while living in temporary accommodation (TA) have a higher life-long risk of developing chronic conditions, repeated cycles of homelessness and adverse childhood experiences. The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionally negatively impacted vulnerable populations. The study objective was to quantitively explore...

Background Homeless populations (HPs) have difficulties obtaining necessary medical care, and primary health care service outreach (PHSO) might be useful to bridge this gap. Objective Using the Centre for Evidence-Based Management Critically Appraised Topics framework, to provide systematic evidence of the usefulness of PHSO interventions for HPs....

The first five years of life are critical for optimal growth, health, and cognitive development. Adverse childhood experiences, including experiencing homelessness, can be a risk factor for multiple health issues and developmental challenges. There is a dearth of data collected with and by families with children under age five living in temporary a...

Background In 2019, 585 000 children in England were homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. The pressure of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health-care delivery system has amplified the inequalities faced by marginalised children. Although the UK has had a series of successful health sector reforms, few have designed or implemented strategies that...

Background The first five years of life are critical for optimal growth, health and cognitive development during which ~90% of brain development occurs. However, many children experience poverty and/or homelessness. Data from 2019 suggested there could be more than 210,000 homeless children in temporary accommodation (TA) or sofa surfing, and ~585,...

BACKGROUND: The first 5 years of life are crucial for optimising growth, health, and cognitive development. However, many children do not reach their full cognitive and developmental potential because of multilevel barriers, including those resulting from poverty and homelessness. This review summarises the evidence characterising the barriers to a...

This study explored the divergence in population-level estimates of insufficient sleep (<6 h) by examining the explanatory role of race/ethnicity and contrasting values derived from logistic and Poisson regression modeling techniques. We utilized National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data to test our hypotheses among 20-85 year-old non-H...

Edited by Claire Cameron and Peter Moss Early childhood education and care has been a political priority in England since 1997, when government finally turned its attention to this long-neglected area. Public funding has increased, policy initiatives have proliferated and at each general election political parties aim to outbid each other in their...

Adequate nutrition during infancy and early childhood is essential for ensuring the growth, health, and development of children so that they can reach their full potential. There is a current void of data on infant and young child feeding practices (IYCF) in ethnic minority communities in the UK; specifically, it is difficult to find accurate Chine...

Adequate nutrition during infancy and early childhood is essential for ensuring the growth, health, and development of children so that they can reach their full potential. There is a current void of data on infant and young child feeding practices (IYCF) in ethnic minority communities in the UK; specifically, it is difficult to find accurate Chine...

The COVID-19 outbreak has sparked increased awareness of the importance of timely, system-wide data for examining trends and modelling different scenarios to inform policy response. 1-5 The scale and speed of data access and use has been unprecedented in public health history. Pre-print articles sharing results before peer review have proliferated...

Objectives To explore optimal infant feeding and care practices and their drivers within the British-Bangladeshi population of East London, UK, as an exemplar to inform development of a tailored, coadapted participatory community intervention. Design Qualitative community-based participatory research. Setting Community and children’s centres and...

Background: The aim of this study was to assess dietary intakes and complementary feeding practices of children aged 6-24 months who are from Bangladeshi ancestry and living in Tower Hamlets, London, and determine the feasibility of a larger, population-representative study. Methods: Questionnaires for demographic variables and feeding practices...

Background The first 5 years of life are crucial for optimising growth, health, and cognitive development. However, many children do not reach their full cognitive and developmental potential because of multilevel barriers, including those resulting from poverty and homelessness. This review aims to summarise the evidence characterising the barrier...

Background Inclusion Health aims to address and prevent the health harms of extreme inequity faced by excluded groups, including those affected by homelessness, drug addiction, imprisonment, and sex work. Engagement workshops with these groups have shown discordance between published research and what research they think is important. We aimed to i...

Background Growing evidence suggests that cancer and diabetes may share common risk factors such as age, race/ethnicity, obesity, insulin resistance, sedentary lifestyle, smoking, and alcohol consumption. However, little is known about how habitual sleep duration (a known cardiometabolic risk factor) may affect the relationship between cancer and d...

Background: While increasing evidence supports the beneficial effects of shared decision making (SDM) on patient outcomes, the mechanisms underlying this relationship is unclear. This study evaluated length of the patient-provider relationship as one potential factor that may explain how SDM affects medication adherence in patients with hypertensi...

Psychosocial risk factors are defined broadly as the influence of social factors on an individual’s psychological process and perceptions or behavior and to the interrelation of behavioral and social factors. Increasing evidence demonstrates that psychosocial factors play an important role in the development of hypertension. In this book chapter, w...

Sleep apnea is a prevalent sleep disorder that disproportionately affects blacks and has been previously studied among Caribbean-born blacks in Brooklyn, New York, but there has been negligible research in the Caribbean, specifically Haiti, and developing countries on this pressing health issue. A total of 373 medical students (mean age=20.6 years...

Background: Metabolic syndrome poses an increased global burden of disease and causes immense financial burden, warranting heightened public health attention. The present study assessed the prevalence and severity of cardiometabolic risk among foreign-born versus US-born blacks, while exploring potential gender-based effects. Methods: A total of...

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory/demyelinating and neurodegenerative disease of the central nervous system (CNS). Most patients experience a relapsing-remitting (RR) course, while about 15–20% of patients experience a primary progressive (PP) course. Cognitive impairment affects approximately 40–70% of all MS patients and differenc...

Objective To evaluate evidence from published randomised controlled trials (RCTs) for the use of task-shifting strategies for cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk reduction in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). Design Systematic review of RCTs that utilised a task-shifting strategy in the management of CVD in LMICs. Data Sources We search...