Recent Lab Publications
Highlighted publications
Pape, M., Miyagi, M., Ritz, S. A., Boulicault, M., Richardson, S. S., & Maney, D. L. (2024). Sex contextualism in laboratory research: Enhancing rigor and precision in the study of sex-related variables. Cell, 187(6), 1316–1326. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2024.02.008
Borsa, A., Miyagi, M., Ichikawa, K., De Jesus, K., Jillson, K., Boulicault, M., Richardson, S.S. “The New Genetics of Sexuality.” GLQ (2024) 30 (1): 119-140
Lee, K.M.N., Rushovich, T., Gompers, A., Boulicault, M., Worthington, S., Lockhart, J., Richardson, S.S. “A Gender Hypothesis of sex disparities in adverse drug events.” Social Science & Medicine, 339. (2023).
Rushovich, T., Gompers, A., Lockhart, J.W., Omidiran, I., Worthington, S., Richardson, S.S., and Lee, K.M.N. “Adverse Drug Events by Sex After Adjusting for Baseline Rates of Drug Use.” JAMA Network Open (2023).
Zhao, H., DiMarco, M., Ichikawa, K., Boulicault, M., Perret, M., Jillson, K., Fair, A., DeJesus, K.D., and Richardson, S.S. “Making a ‘sex-difference fact’: Ambien dosing at the interface of policy, regulation, women’s health, and biology.” Social Studies of Science (2023).
Bruch, J.D. and Richardson, S.S. “Women's Health, Inc.” The Lancet 401, no. 10384 (2023): 1258-1259
Sudai, M., Borsa, A., Ichikawa, K., Shattuck-Heidorn, H., Zhao, H., and Richardson, S.S. Law, policy, biology, and sex: Critical issues for researchers. (2022 May 20). Science 376 (6595).
DiMarco, M., Zhao, H., Boulicault, M., Richardson S.S. Why “Sex as a Biological Variable” conflicts with precision medicine initiatives. (2022 April 19). Cell Reports Medicine, (3)4.
Danielsen, A.C., Lee, K.M.N., Boulicault, M., Rushovich, T., Gompers, A., Tarrant, A., Reiches, M., Shattuck-Heidorn, H., Miratrix, L.W, Richardson, S.S. Sex disparities in COVID-19 outcomes in the United States: Quantifying and contextualizing variation. Social Science & Medicine, 294. 2022.
Gompers, A., Bruch, J.D., and Richardson, S.S. Are COVID-19 Case Fatality Rates a Reliable Measure of Sex Disparities? (2021, November 26). Women’s Health Issues.
Shattuck-Heidorn, H., Danielsen, A.C., Gompers, A., Bruch, J.D., Zhao, H., Boulicault, M., Marsella, J., and Richardson, S.S. A finding of sex similarities rather than differences in COVID-19 outcomes. (2021, Sept. 22). Nature.
Borsa, A. and Bruch, J.D. Prevalence and performance of private equity-affiliated fertility practices in the United States. (2021, Sept. 15). Fertility and Sterility.
Boulicault, M., Perret, M., Galka, J., Borsa, A., Gompers, A., Reiches, M. & Richardson, S.S. The future of sperm: a biovariability framework for understanding global sperm count trends. (2021, May 10). Human Fertility. DOI: 10.1080/14647273.2021.1917778
Perret, M., Jillson, K., Danielsen, A.C., Trinh, M., Zubizarreta, Z., DuBois, Z.L. COVID-19 Data on Trans and Gender-Expansive People, Stat! (2021, May 12). Health Affairs Blog.
Rushovich, T., Boulicault, M., Chen, J., Danielsen, A.C., Tarrant, A., Richardson, S.S, & Shattuck-Heidorn, H. Sex Disparities in COVID-19 Mortality Vary Across US Racial Groups. (2021, April 5). Journal of General Internal Medicine. (see this pdf if you hit a paywall)
Bruch, J. D., Borsa, A., Song, Z., et al. Expansion of Private Equity Involvement in Women’s Health Care. (2020, August 24). JAMA Internal Medicine.
Boulicault, M., Danielsen, A. C., Bruch, J., Tarrant, A., Borsa, A., & Richardson, S. Socially Relevant Variables In US State COVID-19 Surveillance Reporting: A Report Card. (2020, July 14). Health Affairs Blog.
Richardson, S. S., Reiches, M. W., Brunch, J., Boulicault, M., Noll, N. E., & Shattuck-Heidorn, H. Is There a Gender-Equality Paradox in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM)? Commentary on the Study by Stoet and Geary (2018). (2020, February 11). Psychological Science, 31(3), 338–341.
more publications
Ichikawa, K., DiMarco, M., DeJesus, K.D. “The risks of sex-based drug dosing recommendations.” Vox. (2023 Aug 15)
Boulicault, M., Gompers, A., Lee, K.M.N., & Shattuck-Heidorn, H. A Feminist Approach to Analyzing Sex Disparities in COVID-19 Outcomes. (2022 March). International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics. https://doi.org/10.3138/ijfab-15.1.29
Zhao, H. and Perret, M. The Search for Gay Genes: Should Queer People Support It? (2021, Nov. 14). Ms. Magazine.
Boulicault, M. and Reiches M. Falling sperm counts aren’t as alarming as they sound. (2021, June 7). The Guardian.
Borsa, A., Boulicault, M., Reiches, M., & Richardson, S.S. The Doomsday Sperm Theory Embraced by the Far Right. (2021, May 14). Slate.
Rushovich, T. and Richardson, S. S. The intersection of Black women, COVID, and death rates. (2021, April 5). Boston Globe. (see this link if you hit a paywall)
Borsa, A., Bruch, J.D., & Richardson, S.S. When private equity firms invest in women’s health clinics, who benefits? (2020, Sept. 14). STAT.
Shattuck-Heidorn, H., Reiches, M. W., & Richardson, S. S. What’s Really Behind the Gender Gap in Covid-19 Deaths? (2020, June 4). The New York Times.
Reiches, M., & Richardson, S. S. We Dug Into Data to Disprove a Myth About Women in STEM. (2020, February 11) Slate.
Richardson, R,. Borsa, A., Boulicault, M., Galka, J., Ghosh, N., Gompers, A., Noll, N., Perret, M., Reiches, M., Becerra, J., Shattuck-Heidorn, H., Vitti, J., Weir, B., & Zhao, H. Genome Studies Must Account for History. (2019, December 20). Science 366 (6472): 1461.
Shattuck-Heidorn, H., & Richardson, S. S. Sex/Gender and the Biosocial Turn. (2019, March 21). The Scholar and Feminist Online, Spring.
Shattuck-Heidorn, H., & Richardson, S. S. Focusing on differences between the sexes is leading medical researchers astray. (2019, May 30) Washington Post.
Richardson, S. S. Transphobia, Cloaked in Science. (2018, November 21). In Los Angeles Review of Books.