Laura Vargas, PhD

Publications

• Weigend Vargas E, Goldstick J, Vargas L. Firearm-related threats before migrating to the USA from Latin America and the Caribbean. Inj Prev. 2026 Jan 20;32(1):155-158. PubMed PMID: 39442946
• Rivara FP, Richmond TS, Hargarten S, Branas CC, Rowhani-Rahbar A, Webster D, Richardson J Jr, Ayanian JZ, Boggan D, Braga AA, Buggs SAL, Cerdá M, Chen F, Chitkara A, Christakis DA, Crifasi C, Dawson L, deRoon-Cassini TA, Dicker R, Erete S, Galea S, Hemenway D, La Vigne N, Levine AS, Ludwig J, Maani N, McCarthy RL, Patton DU, Quick JD, Ranney ML, Rimanyi E, Ross JS, Sakran JV, Sampson RJ, Song Z, Tucker J, Ulrich MR, Vargas L, Wilcox RB Jr, Wilson N, Zimmerman MA. Toward a Safer World by 2040: The JAMA Summit Report on Reducing Firearm Violence and Harms. JAMA. 2025 Dec 23;334(24):2208-2219. PubMed PMID: 41182880
• Ali DA, Olstein BC, Vargas L, Hale EW, Adi A, Savin D, Epperson CN. Refugee and asylum seeker child and adolescent mental health: A systematic review of racial, ethnic, and contextual disparities. Am J Orthopsychiatry. 2025 Jun 12. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 40504633
• Fleegler EW, Vargas L, Pulcini CD, Hargarten S. Bullets as Pathogen-The Need for Public Health and Policy Approaches. JAMA. 2025 Feb 18;333(7):565-566. PubMed PMID: 39652065
• Vargas LX, Ariefdjohan M, Page CE, Meisel ZF, Ulrich CM, Alegría M, Pimentel N, Epperson CN, Richmond TS. Field Notes from the Border: Lessons Learned in Conducting Mental Health Research Involving Newly Arrived Latinx Immigrants as Study Participants. J Immigr Minor Health. 2025 Feb;27(1):181-189. PubMed PMID: 39503832
• Fleegler EW, Vargas L, Pulcini CD, Hargarten S. Bullets as Pathogen-The Need for Public Health and Policy Approaches. JAMA. 2024 Dec 9. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 39652065
• Vargas LX, Ariefdjohan M, Page CE, Meisel ZF, Ulrich CM, Alegría M, Pimentel N, Epperson CN, Richmond TS. Field Notes from the Border: Lessons Learned in Conducting Mental Health Research Involving Newly Arrived Latinx Immigrants as Study Participants. J Immigr Minor Health. 2025 Feb;27(1):181-189. PubMed PMID: 39503832
• Weigend Vargas E, Goldstick J, Vargas L. Firearm-related threats before migrating to the USA from Latin America and the Caribbean. Inj Prev. 2024 Oct 23. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 39442946
• Degli Esposti M, Pulcini CD, Fleegler EW, Weigend Vargas E, Vargas L, Yock-Corrales A, Hargarten S. Youth Firearm Mortality in the Americas From 2015 to 2022. JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Oct 1;7(10):e2437395. PubMed PMID: 39356508
• Vargas L, Epperson CN, Richmond TS, Sharif S, Berkowitz L, Giano Z, Hargarten S, Ungar M, Weigend-Vargas E, Sakai J. Extortion experiences of recent adult immigrants from Latin America: self-reported prevalence, associated costs, and current mental health. Inj Epidemiol. 2024 Sep 5;11(1):43. PubMed PMID: 39238066
• Weigend Vargas E, Degli Esposti M, Hargarten S, Vargas L, Goldstick JE. Examining firearm-related deaths in Mexico, 2015-2022. Inj Epidemiol. 2024 Jul 29;11(1):33. PubMed PMID: 39075625
• Vargas LX, Sammel MD, Richmond TS, Ulrich CM, Giano ZD, Berkowitz L, Epperson CN. Traumatic experiences and place of occurrence: An analysis of sex differences among a sample of recently arrived immigrant adults from Latin America. PLoS One. 2024;19(6):e0302363. PubMed PMID: 38875238
• Lake E., Perez A., Vargas L., Villarruel A. (2022) Summit to advance Ph.D. nursing programs in Latin America and the Caribbean. Links Magazine, official journal of The Global Network of WHO Collaborating Centers For Nursing & Midwifery. June 2022.
• Kumodzi T., Kassam-Adams N., Vargas L., Reilly P.M., Richmond T.S. (2022) Comparison of two screeners predicting the future development of depression and posttraumatic stress disorder in Black men after serious injury. Injury, 53(5), 1678-1683.

Practice Locations

CU Medicine Psychiatry - Outpatient Clinic
1890 N Revere Ct
Anschutz Health Sciences Bldg, Suite 4020
Aurora, CO 80045
303-724-1000

Specialty Information

Specialties

• Psychology