2025

• Cao, Y., Li, T., Chen, H., Zhao, Q., Sun, J., Grépin, K. A., & Kang, J.-Y. (2025). Evaluating geographic accessibility to COVID-19 vaccination across 54 countries/regions. BMJ Global Health, 10(2), e017761. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2024-017761

• Cao, Y., Sun, J., Ahmed, S., Twea, P., Banda, J. C., Watkins, D. A., & Su, Y. (2025). Examining healthcare inequality for non-communicable diseases in Malawi: a hierarchical geospatial modelling approach. BMJ health & care informatics, 32(1), e101641. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjhci-2025-101641

• Kolak, M., Cao, Y., & Desjardins, M. R. (2025). Innovations in mapping health & structural drivers of disease & well-being: a Journal of Maps collection. Journal of Maps, 21(1), 2553512. https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2025.2553512

• Wang, X., Cao, Y., & DeJohn, A. (2025). Spatial Disparities in Access to Public and Private Long-Term Care Facilities in Hong Kong. The Professional Geographer, 77(5), 611-627. https://doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2025.2543540

• Xie, R., Cao, Y., Yang, J.-A., Tribby, C. P., Voong, C., & Jankowska, M. M. (2025). Measuring Access to Culturally Appropriate Food and Associations with Diabetes among Asian Americans and Native Hawaiians or Pacific Islanders. Public health nutrition, 28(1), 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980025101444

• Yang, X., Li, T., Cao, Y., Zheng, X., & Tang, L. (2025). A novel framework integrating GeoAI and human perceptions to estimate walkability in Wuhan, China. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 25377. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-09779-1

2024

• Cao, Y., Yang, JA., Nara, A. et al. Designing and Evaluating a Hierarchical Framework for Matching Food Outlets across Multi-sourced Geospatial Datasets: a Case Study of San Diego County. J Urban Health 101, 155–169 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-023-00817-9

• Ahmed S, Cao Y, Wang Z, et al. Service readiness for the management of non-communicable diseases in publicly financed facilities in Malawi: findings from the 2019 Harmonised Health Facility Assessment census survey. BMJ Open 2024;14:e072511. https://doi/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-072511

2023

• Yang, X., Zheng, X., Cao, Y., Chen, H., Tang, L., & Yang, H. (2023). Connectivity analysis in pedestrian networks: A case study in Wuhan, China. Applied Geography, 151, 102843. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2022.102843

• Kesia Esther Da, S., Kashmira, D., Nilma, H., Christopher, L., Niniya, J., Priyanka, B., Joshua, W., Rahul, S., Seth Ari Sim-Son, H., Matthew, M., Pankaj, B., Yanjia, C., Shanta, D., Stephen, P. L., & Jason, R. A. (2023). Population structure and antimicrobial resistance patterns of Salmonella; Typhi and Paratyphi A amid a phased municipal vaccination campaign in Navi Mumbai, India. medRxiv, 2023.2002.2023.23286256. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.02.23.23286256

• Yang, X., Yang, M., Cao, Y., Ren, C., Zhang, F., & Tang, L. (2023). Three-dimensional structure determination of grade-separated road intersections from crowdsourced trajectories. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 125, 103598. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2023.103598

• Chen, H., Cao, Y., Feng, L., Zhao, Q., & Torres, J. R. V. (2023). Understanding the spatial heterogeneity of COVID-19 vaccination uptake in England. BMC public health, 23(1), 895. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-15801-w

2022

• Chen, H., Cao, Y., Feng, L., & Zhao, Q. (2022). Measuring and validating spatial accessibility to Covid-19 vaccination sites: a case study in England.

• Chen, H., Cao, Y., Feng, L., & Zhao, Q. (2022). Modelling the COVID-19 vaccine uptake rates in a geographical and socioeconomic context: a case study of England.

• Yang, X., Hou, L., Guo, M., Cao, Y., Yang, M., & Tang, L. (2022). Road intersection identification from crowdsourced big trace data using Mask‐RCNN. Transactions in GIS, 26(1), 278-296. https://doi.org/10.1111/tgis.12851

• Cao, Y., Jankowska, M. M., Yang, J.-A., & Shi, Y. (2022). Spatial and temporal pattern of cannabis use disorder in California 2010-2019. Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology, 42, 100520. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sste.2022.100520

• da Silva, K. E., Tanmoy, A. M., Pragasam, A. K., Iqbal, J., Sajib, M. S. I., Mutreja, A., Veeraraghavan, B., Tamrakar, D., Qamar, F. N., Dougan, G., Bogoch, I., Seidman, J. C., Shakya, J., Vaidya, K., Carey, M. E., Shrestha, R., Irfan, S., Baker, S., Luby, S. P., . . . Andrews, J. R. (2022). The international and intercontinental spread and expansion of antimicrobial-resistant Salmonella Typhi: a genomic epidemiology study. The Lancet Microbe, 3(8), e567-e577. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2666-5247(22)00093-3

• Chen, H., Cao, Y., Feng, L., Zhao, Q., & Torres, J. R. V. (2022). Understanding the spatial heterogeneity of Covid-19 vaccination uptake: a case study of England.

2021

• Cao, Y., Karthikeyan, A., Krishna, S., Raju, R., Sindh, C., Srinivasan, M., Ramanujam, K., Mohan, V., Kang, G., John, J., Andrews, J., Lo, N. (2021) Geospatial pattern of typhoid fever in India: a model-based estimate of cohort and surveillance data. Journal of Infectious Diseases 224 (Sppl_5), S475-S483. doi:10.1093/infdis/jiab187

• Yang, X., Cao, Y., Liu R., Guo, M., Tang, L. (2021) Accessibility assessment of buildings based on multi-source spatial data: taking Wuhan as a case study. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 10(10), 701. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi10100701

2020

• Tamrakar, D., Vaidya, K., Yu, A., Aiemjoy, K., Naga, S. R., Cao, Y., Bern, C., Shrestha, R., Karmacharya, B., Pradhan, S., Qamar, F., Saha, S., Date, K., Longley, A., Hemlock, C., Luby, S., Garrett, D., Bogoch, I., Andrews, J. (2020) Spatial heterogeneity of enteric fever in 2 diverse communities in Nepal. Clinical Infectious Diseases 71 (Sppl_3), S205-S213. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa1319

• Cao, Y., Stewart, K., Factor, J., Billing, A., Massey E., Artigiani, E., Wagner, M., Dezman, Z., Wish, E. (2020). Using socially-sensed data to infer ZIP level characteristics for the spatial temporal analysis of drug-related health problems in Maryland. Health & Place, 63, 102345. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2020.102345

2019

• Cao, Y., Stewart, K., Wish, E., Artigiani, E., Sorg, M. (2019). Determining spatial access to opioid use disorder treatment and emergency medical services in New Hampshire. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 101, 55-66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsat.2019.03.013

2017

• Stewart, K., Cao, Y., Hsu, M. H., Artigiani, E., & Wish, E. (2017). Geospatial Analysis of Drug Poisoning Deaths Involving Heroin in the USA, 2000-2014. Journal of Urban Health, 94, 4, 572-586. http://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-017-0177-7

2016

• Cao, Y., Stewart, K., & Kalil, R. (2016). Geographic patterns of end-stage renal disease and kidney transplants in the Midwestern United States. Applied Geography, 71, 133–143. doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2016.05.001