COVID-19 & Disasters

Disasters and crises have massive impacts on the social conditions of human lives, and such impacts are felt unevenly across social groups. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, I have been researching the social and mental health impacts of COVID-19 and disasters/crises, with particular attention to the inequality implications of these impacts. If you have difficulty accessing any of the full texts, please get in touch with me. 

Abouelenin, M. & Hu, Y. (2024). Food insecurity and affective well-being during COVID-19 in the Middle East and North Africa. Journal of Affective Disorders. [Open access]

Phraknoi, N., Sutanto, J., Hu, Y.*, Goh, YS., & Lee, C. (2023). Older people’s needs in urban disaster response: A systematic literature review. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. [Open access]

Hu, Y. & Qian, Y. (2022, equal authorship). Protecting older adults' mental health in the pandemic. BMJ (British Medical Journal). [PDF]

Nehring, D. & Hu, Y. (2021, equal authorship). COVID-19, Nation-States and Fragile Transnationalism. Sociology. [Open access]


Hu, Y. & Qian, Y. (2021, equal authorship). COVID-19, Inter-household Contact and Mental Well-being among Older Adults in the US and the UK. Frontiers in Sociology. [Open access]

Hu, Y. & Qian, Y. (2021). COVID-19 and adolescent mental health in the United Kingdom. Journal of Adolescent Health. [Open access]

Qian, Y. & Hu, Y. (2021, equal authorship). Couples’ changing work patterns in the United Kingdom and the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic. Gender, Work & Organization. [Open access]

Hu, Y. (2020). Intersecting ethnic and native-migrant inequalities in the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility. 68 (100528): 1–6. [PDF] [Slides]