ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES

  1. Basch C.H., Basch C.E., Hillyer G.C. & Meleo-Erwin, Z.C. (2022).Social media, public health, and community mitigation of COVID-19: Challenges, risks, and benefits. Journal of Medical Internet Research. [Epub ahead of print]

  2. Meleo-Erwin, Z., Basch, C.H., Fera, J. & Smith, B. (2021). Discussion of weight loss surgery in Instagram posts: Successive sampling study. JMIR Perioperative Medicine, 4(2). [Epub ahead of print]

  3. Basch, C.H., Meleo-Erwin, Z., Mohlman, J., Fera, J. & Quinones, N. (2021). Use of the Instagram hashtags #winemom and #momjuice among mothers during the COVID-19 pandemic: A descriptive, cross-sectional study. JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting, 4(2):e28991

  4. Basch, C.E., Basch, C.H., Hillyer, G.C., Meleo-Erwin, Z.C., & Zagnit, E.A. (2021). YouTube and informed decision-making about Covid-19 vaccination: A successive sampling study. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, 7(5):e28352. PMID: 33886487 DOI: 10.2196/28352

  5. Meleo-Erwin, Z., Basch, C., Fera, J. & Arrowood, M. (2021). How did individuals on Instagram discuss COVID-19 in the month following official pandemic status?: A examination of user content. Journal of Prevention and Intervention in the Community, 49(2):110-118. DOI: 10.1080/10852352.2021.1908205

  6. Basch C.H., Meleo-Erwin Z.C., Fera, J., Jaime C. & Basch C.E. (2021). A global pandemic in the time of viral memes:  COVID-19 vaccine misinformation and disinformation on TikTok. Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics. PMID: 33764283 DOI: 10.1080/21645515.2021.1894896 [Epub ahead of print]

  7. Meleo-Erwin, Z., Kollia, B., Fera, J., Jahren, A.M. & Basch, C. (2021) Online support information for students with disabilities in colleges and universities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Disability and Health Journal, 14(1) DOI: 10.1016/j.dhjo.2020.101013 [Epub ahead of print]

  8. Meleo-Erwin, Z., Basch, C., Fera, J. & Garcia, P. (2020). Readability of online dengue materials: The need for accessible information as part of infectious disease prevention and control efforts. Infection, Disease & Health, 25(4): 277-282. DOI: 10.1016/j.idh.2020.04.005

  9. Ethan, D., Meleo-Erwin, Z., Fera, J., Garcia, P. & Basch, C. (2020). Readability of online information on celiac disease: A brief report. Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet, 24(2), 126-134. DOI: 10.1080/15398285.2020.1752028

  10. Basch, C.H., Hillyer, G.C., Meleo-Erwin, Z.C., Mohlman, J., Cosgrove, A. & Quinones, N. (2020). News coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic: Missed opportunities to promote health-sustaining behaviors. Infection, Disease & Health, 25(3): 205-209. DOI: 10.1016/j.idh.2020.05.001 [Epub ahead of print]

  11. Basch C.H., Hillyer G.C., Meleo-Erwin Z.C., Jaime C., Mohlman J., & Basch C.E. (2020). Preventive Behaviors Conveyed on YouTube to Mitigate Transmission of COVID-19: Cross-Sectional Study. JMIR Public Health Surveillance, 6(2):e18807. DOI: 10.2196/18807 PMID: 32240096 

  12. Meleo-Erwin, Z., Basch, C., Fera, J., & Smith, B. (2020). #celiacdisease: The use of Instagram in contending with chronic illness. Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet, 24(1): 35-42. DOI: 10.1080/15398285.2019.1711004

  13. Kecojevic, A., Meleo-Erwin, Z., Basch, C.H., & Hammouda, M. (2020). A thematic analysis of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) YouTube videos. Journal of Homosexuality. DOI: 10.1080/00918369.2020.1712142

  14. Meleo-Erwin, Z., Basch, C., & MacLean, S. (2020). Understanding online discussions of key public health issues using a mixed-methods approach. SAGE Research Methods Cases. 

  15. Meleo-Erwin, Z. (2020). Using thematic analysis to explore online patient conversations about bariatric surgery: Strengths, limitations, and ethical considerations. SAGE Research Methods Cases. 

  16. Meleo-Erwin, Z. (2020). Bariatric biosociality: Pushed together, pulled apart. SAGE Open, 10(1), 1-14. doi.org/10.1177/2158244019899060

  17. Meleo-Erwin, Z., Basch, C., Fera, J., Ethan, D. & Garcia, P. (2019). Readability of online patient-based information on bariatric surgery. Health Promotion Perspectives, 9(2), 156-160. DOI: 10.15171/hpp.2019.22

  18. Meleo-Erwin, Z. (2019). “No one is as invested in your continued good health as you should be:” An exploration of the post-surgical relationships between weight-loss surgery patients and their home bariatric clinics. Sociology of Health and Illness, 41(2), 285-302. DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.12823

  19. Meleo-Erwin, Z., Basch, C.; MacLean, S., Scheibner, C., & Cadorett, V. (2017). “To each his own:” Discussions of vaccine decision-making in top parenting blogs. Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics,13(8). DOI: 10.1080/21645515.2017.1321182

  20. Meleo-Erwin, Z. (2015). ‘Shape carries story:’ Navigating the world as fat. M/C Journal, 18(3). 

  21. Meleo-Erwin, Z. (2012) Disrupting normal. Toward the ‘ordinary and familiar’ in fat politics. Feminism and Psychology, 22(3): 388-402.

  22. Meleo-Erwin, Z. (2011). ‘A beautiful show of strength:’ Weight loss and the fat activist self. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 15(2): 188-205.

  23. Meleo-Erwin, Z. (2010). Fat bodies, qualitative research, and the spirit of participatory action research. International Review of Qualitative Research, 3(3): 335-350. 

BOOKS & BOOK CHAPTERS

  1. Spurgas, A. & Meleo-Erwin, Z. (2023). Decolonize Self-Care. OR Books.

  2. Meleo-Erwin, Z. (2016). Queering the linkages and divergences: The relationship between fatness and disability and the hope for a livable world. In S. Murray, C. Pause, & J.Wykes (eds) Queering Fat Embodiment. Routledge. pp.97-114.

  3. Meleo-Erwin, Z. (2012). ‘I just couldn’t keep it in control anymore:’ Weight loss surgery, food addiction, and anti-fat stigma. In J. Netherland (ed.) Critical Perspectives on Addiction (Advances in Medical Sociology, Volume 14), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.201-224.

  4. Meleo-Erwin, Z. & Katz Rothman, B. (2010). ‘Choice’ and justice: Motherhood in a global context. In L. Davies, R. Daellenbach, & M. Kensington (eds) Sustainability, Midwifery, and Birth. Routledge.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

  1. Meleo-Erwin, Z. (2019). Risks and responsibility: Navigating the long-term care of bariatric patients. Sociology Lens. 

  2. Meleo-Erwin, Z. (2013). “‘Banding Together:’ Biosociality, Weight Loss Surgery, and Neoliberal Discourses Around Obesity.” (Doctoral Dissertation). Committee: Drs. Victoria Pitts-Taylor (Chair), Barbara Katz Rothman, Setha Low, & Jessie Daniels. 

  3. Freudenberg, N.; Daniels, J. & Meleo-Erwin, Z. (2008, Jan). Youth-involved street survey of health-enhancing and health-damaging messages in disparate urban neighborhoods using digital technology. Corporations and Health Watch. 

  4. Meleo-Erwin, Z. (2008). Fat activism. The Cultural Encyclopedia of the Body. (Pitts-Taylor, V. Ed.) Santa Barbara: Greenwood Press.

  5. Meleo-Erwin, Z. (2007, Nov). McDonald’s and children’s health: The production of new customers. Corporations and Health Watch. 

PRESENTATIONS

ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS

  1. Meleo-Erwin, Z. Using ethnographic methods to explore framings of health and responsibility in post-operative bariatric outcomes. 8th Ethnography and Qualitative Research Conference. Virtual. June 11, 2021.

  2. Spurgas, A. & Meleo-Erwin, Z. When the antidote is more of the same poison: The race, class, and gender implications of the selling of self-care. National Women's Studies Association Annual Conference. San Francisco, California. November 15, 2019.

  3. Meleo-Erwin, Z. Body autonomy and the seductive power of normal: Where weight loss surgery and fat activism meet. Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis Conference. University of Toronto. Toronto, Ontario, Canada. October 5, 2019. 

  4. Spurgas, A. & Meleo-Erwin, Z. A softer, gentler neoliberalism? Self-help feminism, alternative medicine, and the white feminization of the marketplace. American Sociological Association Annual Conference. New York, New York. August 12, 2019. 

  5. Meleo-Erwin, Z. Navigating post-operative care, services, and support for weight-loss surgery patients: The perspective of bariatric professionals. Explorations. William Paterson University, Wayne, N.J. April 11, 2019. 

  6. Meleo-Erwin, Z. Patients' perspectives on the role of post-operative support following bariatric surgery: A qualitative analysis. Explorations. William Paterson University, Wayne, N.J. April 17, 2018.

  7. Meleo-Erwin, Z. Post-surgical relationships between bariatric patients and their home bariatric clinics. 23rd Annual Public Health Symposium. (Poster presentation). Rutgers University - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, N.J. April 2, 2018. 

  8. Hammouda, M., Basch, C. H., Meleo-Erwin, Z., Kecojevic, A. A narrative analysis of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) YouTube videos. 23rd Annual Public Health Symposium. (Poster Presentation). Rutgers School of Public Health, Piscataway, NJ, United States. April 2, 2018.

  9. Meleo-Erwin, Z. "No one is as invested in your continued health as you should be:" An exploration of post-surgical relationships between bariatric patients and their home bariatric clinics. Eastern Sociological Society Annual Conference. Baltimore, M.D. February 25, 2018.

  10. Meleo-Erwin, Z. Controlling the uncontrollable: Bariatric surgery, 'food addiction,' and anti-fat stigma. National Women's Studies Association Annual Conference. Milwaukee, W.I. November 15, 2015

  11. Meleo-Erwin, Z. Shifting calculations: The invisible work of weight loss. Eastern Sociological Society Annual Conference.  New York, N.Y. February 28, 2015.

  12. Meleo-Erwin, Z. ‘I just couldn’t keep it in control anymore:’ Weight loss surgery, food addiction, and anti-fat stigma. Eastern Sociological Society Annual Conference. Boston, Massachusetts. March 23, 2013.

  13. Meleo-Erwin, Z. Queer bodies: Forging strategic connections between fatness and disability. Cripples, Idiots, Lepers, and Freaks: Extraordinary Bodies / Extraordinary Minds. CUNY Graduate Center. March 23, 2012.

  14. Meleo-Erwin, Z. ‘Banding together:’ The biosociality of weight loss surgery. Eastern Sociological Society Annual Conference. New York, NY. February 23, 2012.

  15. Meleo-Erwin, Z. Navigating the shift from fat to thin(er): The Biosociality of weight loss surgery support forums. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. New York, NY. February 24, 2012.

  16. Meleo-Erwin, Z. Queering the linkages and divergences: The relationship between fatness and disability and the hope for a livable world. Breaking Boundaries: Body Politics and the Dynamics of Difference. Sarah Lawrence College. March 5, 2011. 

INVITED TALKS

  1. Meleo-Erwin, Z. Connection and Conflict: How neoliberal healthism and inequity shape bariatric surgery patient support forum dynamics. The University of Oxford, School of Anthropology, Oxford, United Kingdom. [Zoom presentation]. November 19, 2020.

  2. Meleo-Erwin, Z. Bringing a decolonizing perspective to disciplinary content: Public Health. Center for Teaching Excellence & Social Justice Project Pedagogy Workshop Series. William Paterson University. [Zoom presentation]. October 30, 2020.

  3. Meleo-Erwin, Z. Health beliefs, practices, and experiences in socio-political and cultural contexts: Considerations for medical practitioners. Health Equity Week 2020. American Medical Student Association. [webinar]. January 31, 2020.

  4. Meleo-Erwin, Z. Using document analysis to explore online health information: Strengths, limitations, and ethical considerations. City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy. November 19, 2018.

  5. Meleo-Erwin, Z. Obligations of weight loss surgery: Who is responsible for the long-term care of bariatric patients? Bioethics Club. William Paterson University. October 25, 2018.

  6. Meleo-Erwin, Z. Qualitative research methods in public health. City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy. November 13, 2017.

  7. Meleo-Erwin, Z. Fat bodies, neoliberal Times: Thinking through the connections between weight-based stigma, race, class, and gender. Marymount College. September 21, 2015.

  8. Meleo-Erwin, Z. Anti-fat stigma, health & subjectivity. Bucks County Community College. August 2, 2012

  9. Meleo-Erwin, Z. The fat body-self: A critical exploration. Bucks County Community College. July 26, 2011. 

SELECTED RESEARCH COMMUNNITY ACTIVITIES

  1. Session Co-Organizer. Public Health Interventions. 8th Ethnography and Qualitative Research Conference. Virtual. June 11, 2021.

  2. Co-Guest Editor, 2020, COVID-19 themed issue of Journal of Prevention and Intervention in the Community.

  3. Reviewer Board Member, 2019 - Present, The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

 MEDIA INTERVIEWS & MENTIONS

  1. Semigran, A. (2019, June 26). Healthcare for larger bodies: How to advocate for yourself when your doctor won't. Blood & Milk. Retrieved from: https://www.bloodandmilk.com/healthcare-for-larger-bodies-advocating-for-yourself-when-your-doctor-wont/

  2. Castaneda, R. (2017, August 17). 6 strategies for helping a teen who's being bullied about his or her weight. U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved from: https://health.usnews.com/wellness/family/articles/2017-08-17/6-strategies-for-helping-a-teen-whos-being-bullied-about-his-or-her-weight