Sidath Kapukotuwa, Tim Grigsby (both Social and Behavioral Health), and Jay Shen (Healthcare Administration and Policy) published an article on "Emergency Department Visits Among Adolescents for Intentional Assault, Firearm, Poison, and Self-Harm Injuries Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States" in the journal Cureus.

This study aimed to examine changes in adolescent emergency department visits for firearm, poison, self-harm, and intentional assault injuries before and during the COVID-19 pandemic and to identify sociodemographic factors influencing these variations.

Kapukotuwa is a doctoral student.