Sze Yan Liu

Biography

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7148-356X

Research

Health equity, political and structural determinants of health, women's health

Political and structural determinants of health

SY Liu, E Grinshteyn, D Cook, R Pabayo. Voting Restrictions and Increased Odds of Adverse Birth Outcomes in the US. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. 2026 Feb;13(1):378-87 MH Kim, SY Liu, WD Brenowitz, AR Murchland, TT Nguyen, JJ Manly, VJ Howard, MD Thomas, T Hill-Jarrett, M Crowe, CF Murchison. State schooling policies and cognitive performance trajectories: a natural experiment in a national US cohort of black and white adults. Epidemiology. 2025 Jan 1;36(1):79-87. Hunter S, Liu SY, Cook DM, Davis KL, Smith BT, Pabayo R. The cross-sectional association between state-level public health funding per capita and physical health among adults in the United States. Plos one. 2025 Apr 1;20(4):e0320920.

Health systems and healthcare utilization

SY Liu. Increased female political representation associated with lower county-level uninsured and preventable hospitalizations rates in the United States, 2013–2018. Public Health. 2023 Mar 1;216:7-12. SY Liu, S Lim. Difference in Hospital Utilization Within the First 12 Months Among Low-Birth-Weight Infants in Medicaid Managed Care Versus Fee-for-Service: A Regression Discontinuity Study. Matern Child Health J (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10995-021-03185-5

Women's health throughout the life course

SY Liu, C Benny, E Grinshteyn, A Ehntholt, D Cook, R Pabayo. The association between reproductive rights and access to abortion services and mental health among US women. Soc Sci Med Pop Health. 2023