Global Health Equity Scholar Publications

• Exploration of the multi-level barriers to scaling up methadone for HIV prevention among people who inject drugs in Kazakhstan.Liberman AR, Rozental Y, Ivasiy R, Kussainova AZ, Primbetova S, Madden LM, Terlikbayeva A, Altice FL. J Subst Use Addict Treat. 2025 Feb 20; 2025 Feb 20. PMID: 39986387.
• Expanding the human gut microbiome atlas of Africa.Maghini DG, Oduaran OH, Olubayo LAI, Cook JA, Smyth N, Mathema T, Belger CW, Agongo G, Boua PR, Choma SSR, Gómez-Olivé FX, Kisiangani I, Mashaba GR, Micklesfield L, Mohamed SF, Nonterah EA, Norris S, Sorgho H, Tollman S, Wafawanaka F, Tluway F, Ramsay M, Wirbel J, Bhatt AS, Hazelhurst S. Nature. 2025 Feb; 2025 Jan 29. PMID: 39880958.
• Behavioral and sociodemographic correlates of sleep duration among children in Samoa.von Ash T, Choy CC, Dunsiger S, Soti-Ulberg C, Wang D, Reupena MS, Duckham RL, Naseri T, Hawley NL. Sleep Health. 2025 Feb; 2025 Jan 1. PMID: 39753399.
• Shaping childhood obesity: behavioral and environmental risk factors associated with body mass index trajectories between 2 and 9 years in Samoan children.Choy CC, Johnson W, Naseri T, Filipo V, Arorae MS, Tafunaina F, Unasa F, Savusa K, Reupena MS, Braun JM, Duckham RL, Soti-Ulberg C, McGarvey ST, Hawley NL. Int J Obes (Lond). 2025 Feb; 2024 Oct 29. PMID: 39472691.
• Barriers and Facilitators for the Use of Patient Lifts by Healthcare Workers: A Scoping Review.Khairallah GM, Mowafi H, Al-Hajj S, Brackett A, Sakr CJ. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2024 Dec 12; 2024 Dec 12. PMID: 39767498.
• Association of vaccine intention against COVID-19 using the 5C Scale and its constructs: a Pima County, Arizona cross-sectional survey.Block Ngaybe MG, Mantina N, Pope B, Raghuraman V, Marczak J, Velickovic S, Jordan D, Kinkade M, Perez-Velez CM, Krauss BJ, Advani SM, Bell M, Madhivanan P. PeerJ. 2024; 2024 Dec 6. PMID: 39655324.
• Breast Cancer Education and Empowerment in Ethiopia: Evaluating Community-Based Cancer Prevention Efforts Using the RE-AIM Framework.Lott BE, Yeo S, Bekele E, Birhanu F, Hussein R, Muktar S, Mengiste T, Asfaw E, Madhivanan P, Deressa BT. J Cancer Educ. 2024 Dec; 2024 May 28. PMID: 38805159.
• Factors Influencing Vaccine Receipt During a 2018 Pediatric Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine Campaign in Navi Mumbai, India.Borhade P, LeBoa C, Jayaprasad N, Date K, Haldar P, Harvey P, Shimpi R, An Q, Zhang C, Horng L, Fagerli K, Yewale VN, Daruwalla S, Dharmapalan D, Gavhane J, Joshi S, Rai R, Rathod V, Shetty K, Warrier DS, Yadav S, Chakraborty D, Bahl S, Katkar A, Kunwar A, Andrews JR, Bhatnagar P, Dutta S, Luby SP, Hoffman SA. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2024 Nov 6; 2024 Sep 3. PMID: 39348826.
• Reducing harm associated with prehospital tourniquet application in resource-limited settings.Wild H, Zeba ZAA, Nacanabo YA, Tertyshnyi SV, Niaone M, Bulger E, Mock C, Hedelin H. World J Surg. 2024 Nov; 2024 Oct 17. PMID: 39420470.
• Weight status underestimation and weight management goals among adults in the rural South of the United States.Waraich HA, Wirth MD, Wandji S, Graves JM, Abshire DA. J Rural Health. 2024 Oct 26; 2024 Oct 26. PMID: 39460475.
• Noninvasive in vivo photoacoustic detection of malaria with Cytophone in Cameroon.Yadem AC, Armstrong JN, Sarimollaoglu M, Kiki Massa C, Ndifo JM, Menyaev YA, Mbe A, Richards K, Wade M, Zeng Y, Chen R, Zhou Q, Meten E, Ntone R, Tchuedji YLGN, Ullah S, Galanzha EI, Eteki L, Gonsu HK, Biris A, Suen JY, Boum Y 2nd, Zharov VP, Parikh S. Nat Commun. 2024 Oct 25; 2024 Oct 25. PMID: 39455558.
• Field Effectiveness of a Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine: The 2018 Navi Mumbai Pediatric TCV Campaign.Date K, LeBoa C, Hoffman SA, Haldar P, Harvey P, An Q, Zhang C, Yewale VN, Daruwalla S, Dharmapalan D, Gavhane J, Joshi S, Rai R, Rathod V, Shetty K, Warrier DS, Yadav S, Shimpi R, Jayaprasad N, Horng L, Fagerli K, Borhade P, Chakraborty D, Katkar A, Kunwar A, Andrews JR, Bahl S, Bhatnagar P, Dutta S, Luby SP. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2024 Oct 2; 2024 Aug 13. PMID: 39137766.
• Fostering collective action for adolescent well-being: citizen science in a Colombian semi-rural area.Guerra AM, De La Vega-Taboada E, Sarmiento OL, Banchoff A, King AC, Stephens D, Revollo LD, Revollo AP, Montes F. Health Promot Int. 2024 Oct 1. PMID: 39471398.
• 'You have a lot of mirrors': structural and socioecological factors impacting adolescent pregnancy and reproductive health in the Amazon basin, Peru, a qualitative study.Woodson LL, Garcia Saldivar A, Brown HE, Magrath PA, Farland LV, Blas MM, Madhivanan P. Cult Health Sex. 2024 Oct; 2024 Feb 5. PMID: 38315608.
• Hematological and biochemical profiles, infection and habitat quality in an urban rat population.Carvalho-Pereira T, Pedra GG, de Oliveira DS, Souza FN, Zeppelini CG, Santos LRN, Couto RD, Bahiense TC, da Silva EM, Begon M, Reis MG, Ko AI, Childs JE, Costa F. Res Sq. 2024 Sep 11; 2024 Sep 11. PMID: 39315279.
• Detection of mobile colistin resistance genes mcr-9.1 and mcr-10.1 in Enterobacter asburiae from Ecuadorian children.Cifuentes SG, Graham J, Trueba G, Cádenas PA. Microbiol Resour Announc. 2024 Sep 10; 2024 Aug 20. PMID: 39162443.
• Racial and gender differences in relapse potential and treatment acceptance among rural residents in a substance use disorder treatment program.Wandji SR, Tavakoli AS, Davis JE, Pope R, Abshire DA. J Rural Health. 2024 Sep; 2024 Jun 2. PMID: 38825752.
• Concordance of weight status between mothers and children: a secondary analysis of the Pakistan Demographic and health survey VII.Alam F, Ali MK, Patel SA, Iqbal R. BMC Public Health. 2024 Aug 19; 2024 Aug 19. PMID: 39160501.
• Acceptability of HPV vaccination for cervical cancer prevention amongst emerging adult women in rural Mysore, India: a mixed-methods study.Coursey K, Muralidhar K, Srinivas V, Jaykrishna P, Begum F, Ningaiah N, Lee SJ, Madhivanan P. BMC Public Health. 2024 Aug 7; 2024 Aug 7. PMID: 39112938.
• A Perioperative Quality Improvement Program for Cesarean Delivery in Ethiopia: A Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial.Mammo TN, Feyssa MD, Nofal MR, Gebeyehu N, Shiferaw MA, Tesfaye A, Fikre T, Woldeamanuel H, Alemu SB, Miller K, Haile ST, Weiser TG. JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Aug 1; 2024 Aug 1. PMID: 39163043.
• Psychosocial risk factors and cognitive decline in people living with HIV: results from the Malaysian HIV and aging (MHIVA) study.Neelamegam M, Ahmad A, Chong ML, Wong PL, Zulhaimi NS, Cysique L, Earnshaw V, Omar SFS, Kamarulzaman A, Kamaruzzaman SB, Rajasuriar R. AIDS Care. 2024 Aug; 2023 Sep 4. PMID: 37666210.
• Quality of hospital labour and delivery care: A multilevel analysis in Southern Nations and Nationalities People's Region of Ethiopia.Bayou NB, Grant L, Riley SC, Bradley EH. PLoS One. 2024; 2024 Jun 18. PMID: 38889169.
• Noncommunicable disease risk behaviors and protective factors among children in Samoa: Retrospective trend analysis of global school-based health surveys in 2011 and 2017.Choy CC, Simi S, Soti-Ulberg C, Naseri T, Salinas YD, Hawley NL. PLOS Glob Public Health. 2024; 2024 Jun 11. PMID: 38861507.
• Associations of childhood BMI traits with blood pressure and glycated haemoglobin in 6-9-year-old Samoan children.Choy CC, Johnson W, Braun JM, Soti-Ulberg C, Reupena MS, Naseri T, Savusa K, Lupematasila VF, Arorae MS, Tafunaina F, Unasa F, Duckham RL, Wang D, McGarvey ST, Hawley NL. Pediatr Obes. 2024 Jun; 2024 Mar 4. PMID: 38439600.
• Review of a large trauma registry in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: insights into prehospital care and provider training for trauma quality improvement.Starr N, Ayehu M, Zhuang A, Minalu HT, Alemu GK, Fisseha S, Chekol S, Habtemariam A, Hadis M, Alemtsehay B, Mengiste M, Kefeni Bori A. Trauma Surg Acute Care Open. 2024; 2024 May 21. PMID: 38779367.
• Protocol for CARES-HAPIN: an ambidirectional cohort study on exposure to environmental tobacco smoke and risk of early childhood caries.Patil SS, Puttaswamy N, Cardenas A, Barr DB, Ghosh S, Balakrishnan K. BMJ Open. 2024 May 15; 2024 May 15. PMID: 38749682.
• Pediatric Surgery Collaboration in Uganda, the Benefits of Long Term Partnerships at Regional Referral Hospitals.Klazura G, Kayima P, Situma M, Musinguzi E, Mugarura R, Nyonyintono J, Yap A, Cope J, Akello R, Kiwanuka E, Odonkara M, Okellowange C, Adongpiny J, Lakwanyero D, Atim P, Cadrine AP, Olara J, Boppana A, Laverde R, d'Agostino S, Cigliano B, Ozgediz D, Sims T, Kisa P. Res Sq. 2024 May 7; 2024 May 7. PMID: 38766237.
• Gender differences in the perception of leptospirosis severity, behaviours, and Leptospira exposure risk in urban Brazil: a cross-sectional study.Delight EA, de Carvalho Santiago DC, Palma FAG, de Oliveira D, Souza FN, Santana JO, Hidano A, López YAA, Reis MGG, Ko AI, Marphatia AA, Cremonense C, Costa F, Eyre MT. medRxiv. 2024 Apr 30; 2024 Apr 30. PMID: 38746452.
• The downstream effects of COVID-19 on adolescent girls in the Peruvian Amazon: qualitative findings on how the pandemic affected education and reproductive health.Woodson LL, Garcia Saldivar A, Brown HE, Magrath PA, Antunez de Mayolo N, Pettygrove S, Farland LV, Madhivanan P, Blas MM. BMJ Glob Health. 2024 Apr 30; 2024 Apr 30. PMID: 38688564.
• Two mosquito salivary antigens demonstrate promise as biomarkers of recent exposure to P. falciparum infected mosquito bites.Lapidus S, Goheen MM, Sy M, Deme AB, Ndiaye IM, Diedhiou Y, Mbaye AM, Hagadorn KA, Sene SD, Pouye MN, Thiam LG, Ba A, Guerra N, Mbengue A, Raduwan H, Vigan-Womas I, Parikh S, Ko AI, Ndiaye D, Fikrig E, Chuang YM, Bei AK. medRxiv. 2024 Apr 22; 2024 Apr 22. PMID: 38712295.
• Child, family and household characteristics associated with physical activity in Samoan children aged 3-8 years: A cross-sectional study.Warmath CR, Choy CC, McGarvey ST, Sherar LB, Duckham RL, Soti-Ulberg C, Naseri T, Reupena MS, Wang D, Hawley NL. PLOS Glob Public Health. 2024; 2024 Apr 17. PMID: 38630845.
• Higher methadone dose at time of release from prison predicts linkage to maintenance treatment for people with HIV and opioid use disorder transitioning to the community in Malaysia.Ahmad A, Bromberg DJ, Shrestha R, Salleh NM, Bazazi AR, Kamarulzaman A, Shenoi S, Altice FL. Int J Drug Policy. 2024 Apr; 2024 Mar 14. PMID: 38484531.
• Systematic review study protocol of literature from 2018 to end of 2022 of stated preference studies about HIV care and prevention services around the world.Block Ngaybe MG, Ravi P, Rosales A, Camarena JL Jr, Madhivanan P. BMJ Open. 2024 Mar 28; 2024 Mar 28. PMID: 38548370.
• Multidrug-resistant conjugative plasmid carrying mphA confers increased antimicrobial resistance in Shigella.Asad A, Jahan I, Munni MA, Begum R, Mukta MA, Saif K, Faruque SN, Hayat S, Islam Z. Sci Rep. 2024 Mar 23; 2024 Mar 23. PMID: 38521802.
• Factors associated with depressive symptoms among returnee migrants and non-migrants working adults in Madi municipality in Nepal: a community-based cross-sectional study.Adhikary P, Devkota HR, Reingold AL, Ghimire DJ. BMC Public Health. 2024 Mar 20; 2024 Mar 20. PMID: 38509521.
• Expanding the human gut microbiome atlas of Africa.Maghini DG, Oduaran OH, Wirbel J, Olubayo LAI, Smyth N, Mathema T, Belger CW, Agongo G, Boua PR, Choma SS, Gómez-Olivé FX, Kisiangani I, Mashaba GR, Micklesfield L, Mohamed SF, Nonterah EA, Norris S, Sorgho H, Tollman S, Wafawanaka F, Tluway F, Ramsay M, Bhatt AS, Hazelhurst S. bioRxiv. 2024 Mar 14; 2024 Mar 14. PMID: 38559015.
• Pediatric Emergency Surgery Course in Uganda: Long-Term Follow-Up and Insights From Further Dissemination.Klazura G, Stephens C, Musinguzi E, Mugarura R, Nyonyintono J, Laverde R, Nimanya S, Situma M, Bua E, Yap A, Sims T, Ozgediz D, Kisa P. J Surg Res. 2024 Mar; 2024 Jan 8. PMID: 38194867.
• The Power of Poetry: Rethinking How We Use Language in Global Health Research.Woodson LL. Am J Public Health. 2024 Feb; 2023 Dec 14. PMID: 38096482.
• Extensive transmission of SARS-CoV-2 BQ.1* variant in a population with high levels of hybrid immunity: A prevalence survey.Aguilar Ticona JP, Xiao M, Li D, Nery N Jr, Hitchings M, Belitardo EMMA, Fofana MO, Victoriano R, Cruz JS, de Moraes L, Strobel IM, Silva JJ, Sena do Aragão Filho A, Ribeiro GS, Reis MG, Costa F, Khouri R, Ko AI, Cummings DAT. Int J Infect Dis. 2024 Feb; 2023 Dec 7. PMID: 38070701.
• Increasing transmission of dengue virus across ecologically diverse regions of Ecuador and associated risk factors.Katzelnick LC, Quentin E, Colston S, Ha TA, Andrade P, Eisenberg JNS, Ponce P, Coloma J, Cevallos V. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2024 Jan; 2024 Jan 31. PMID: 38295108.
• Perinatal colonization with extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing and carbapenem-resistant Gram-negative bacteria: a hospital-based cohort study.Styczynski A, Amin MB, Hoque KI, Parveen S, Md Pervez AF, Zeba D, Akhter A, Pitchik H, Islam MA, Hossain MI, Saha SR, Gurley ES, Luby S. Antimicrob Resist Infect Control. 2024 Jan 29; 2024 Jan 29. PMID: 38281974.
• Preferences and decisional considerations relating to opioid agonist therapy among Ukrainian people who use drugs: A conjoint analysis survey.Bromberg DJ, Madden LM, Fraenkel L, Muthulingam D, Rhoades D, Dvoriak S, Dumchev K, Pykalo I, Altice FL. PLOS Glob Public Health. 2024; 2024 Jan 26. PMID: 38277422.
• Knowledge and practice of family planning among pregnant tribal women in Southern India: an observational study.Muralidhar K, Nishimura H, Coursey K, Krupp K, Jaykrishna P, Srinivas V, Madhivanan P. Contracept Reprod Med. 2024 Jan 12; 2024 Jan 12. PMID: 38217011.
• Adolescent Social Networks and Physical Intimate Partner Violence Among Colombian Rural Adolescents.Rodríguez de la Rosa AL, Stephens D, Montes F, Sarmiento OL, De la Vega-Taboada EL, Eaton A, Compo NS, Madhivanan P. J Aggress Maltreat Trauma. 2024; 2023 Aug 1. PMID: 38715977.
• The Pediatric Emergency Surgery Course: Impact on Provider Practice in Rural Uganda.Klazura G, Situma M, Musinguzi E, Mugarura R, Nyonyintono J, Yap A, Stephens CQ, Ullrich S, Kakembo N, Sekabira J, Ssemeju A, Bwesigye M, Muzaki D, Sims T, Proscovia N, Mbambu J, Kwikiriza D, Arinda F, Ozgediz D, Kisa P. J Pediatr Surg. 2024 Jan; 2023 Oct 5. PMID: 37914591.
• Feasibility of Gastrografin Use for Adhesive Small Bowel Obstruction in Low-Income Countries.Starr N, Tadesse M, Igwebuike C, Sherefa K, Genetu A, Aregawi Y, Zewdu E, Tamirat D, Desalegn M, Getahun B, Harris H, Zemenfes D. J Surg Res. 2024 Jan; 2023 Oct 4. PMID: 37802018.
• Association between age at menarche and cardiometabolic risk among Samoan adults.Oyama S, Duckham RL, Pomer A, Rivara AC, Kershaw EE, Wood A, Fidow UT, Naseri T, Reupena MS, Viali S, McGarvey ST, Hawley NL. Am J Hum Biol. 2024 Jan; 2023 Sep 5. PMID: 37668413.
• Dynamics of chikungunya virus transmission in the first year after its introduction in Brazil: A cohort study in an urban community.Anjos RO, Portilho MM, Jacob-Nascimento LC, Carvalho CX, Moreira PSS, Sacramento GA, Nery Junior NRR, de Oliveira D, Cruz JS, Cardoso CW, Argibay HD, Plante KS, Plante JA, Weaver SC, Kitron UD, Reis MG, Ko AI, Costa F, Ribeiro GS. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2023 Dec; 2023 Dec 27. PMID: 38150470.
• Qualitative exploration of the early experiences of opioid use disorder patients from private clinics after Russia's invasion of Ukraine in five major cities in Ukraine.Mazhnaya A, Meteliuk A, Pykalo I, Altice FL. Front Public Health. 2023; 2023 Dec 12. PMID: 38162610.
• Predictors of Neurodevelopment in Microcephaly Associated with Congenital Zika Syndrome: A Prospective Study.Mattos AM, Rastely-Junior VN, Pires MM, Aguilar JP, Lessa MSA, Regis C, Wanderley M, Leony J, Bouzon J, Ballalai V, Vieira C, Carvalho GBS, Almeida JRM, Nery N Jr, Leal R, Costa F, Ko AI, Reis MG, Oliveira-Filho J. Children (Basel). 2023 Nov 21; 2023 Nov 21. PMID: 38136033.
• Early disruptions to syringe services programs during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.Nikitin BM, Bromberg DJ, Pykalo I, Ivasiy R, Islam Z, Altice FL. Front Public Health. 2023; 2023 Nov 21. PMID: 38074770.
• Environmental tobacco smoke and children's health: a bibliometric and altmetric analysis of 100 most cited articles.Patil SS, Puttaswamy N, Sarode SC, Sarode GS, Patil SS, Cardenas A, Gandhirajan RK, Balakrishnan K. BMC Public Health. 2023 Nov 9; 2023 Nov 9. PMID: 37946187.
• Preferences in medications for patients seeking treatment for opioid use disorder: A conjoint analysis.Muthulingam D, Hassett TC, Madden LM, Bromberg DJ, Fraenkel L, Altice FL. J Subst Use Addict Treat. 2023 Nov; 2023 Aug 5. PMID: 37544510.
• Addressing knowledge gaps in Surgical Safety Checklist use: statistical process control analysis of a surgical quality improvement programme in Ethiopia.Nofal MR, Starr N, Negussie Mammo T, Trickey AW, Gebeyehu N, Koritsanszky L, Alemu M, Tara M, Alemu SB, Evans F, Kahsay S, Weiser TG. Br J Surg. 2023 Oct 10. PMID: 37551706.
• Case Report: Congenital Pseudoacorea in an Ocular Axenfeld-Rieger Syndrome: What is it?Alza AG. J Clin Cases Rep. 2023 Oct; 2023 Mar 28. PMID: 37663013.
• The Creation of a Pediatric Surgical Checklist for Adult Providers.Rapolti D, Kisa P, Situma M, Nico E, Lobe T, Sims T, Ozgediz D, Klazura G. Res Sq. 2023 Sep 13; 2023 Sep 13. PMID: 37790469.
• Correlation of a commercial platform's results with post-vaccination SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibody response and clinical host factors.Slotkin R, Kyriakides TC, Kundu A, Stack G, Sutton RE, Gupta S. PLoS One. 2023; 2023 Aug 29. PMID: 37643190.
• Zika virus RNA persistence and recovery in water and wastewater: An approach for Zika virus surveillance in resource-constrained settings.Zhu K, Hill C, Muirhead A, Basu M, Brown J, Brinton MA, Hayat MJ, Venegas-Vargas C, Reis MG, Casanovas-Massana A, Meschke JS, Ko AI, Costa F, Stauber CE. Water Res. 2023 Aug 1; 2023 May 23. PMID: 37270953.
• Monitoring SARS-CoV-2 variants in wastewater of Dhaka City, Bangladesh: approach to complement public health surveillance systems.Haque R, Hossain ME, Miah M, Rahman M, Amin N, Rahman Z, Islam MS, Rahman MZ. Hum Genomics. 2023 Jul 7; 2023 Jul 7. PMID: 37420264.
• Prevalence and correlates of metabolic syndrome among women living in urban slums, Mysore, India.Krupp K, Rao AP, Pope B, Ravi K, Khan A, Srinivas V, Madhivanan P, Srinivas A. PLOS Glob Public Health. 2023; 2023 Jul 7. PMID: 37418350.
• Exploring the Use of a Fit-for-Purpose Surgical Headlight in Sub-Saharan Africa: Mixed Methods Study.Hussien M, Capo-Chichi N, Starr N, Johansen E, Negash S, Utam T, Negussie T, Fernandez K, Weiser TG. World J Surg. 2023 Jul; 2023 Mar 2. PMID: 36864223.
• Increasing trend of antibiotic resistance in Shigella in Bangladesh: a plasmid-mediated transfer of mphA macrolide resistance gene.Asad A, Jahan I, Munni MA, Begum R, Mukta MA, Saif K, Faruque SN, Hayat S, Islam Z. Res Sq. 2023 Jun 29; 2023 Jun 29. PMID: 37461575.
• Worldwide emergence of fluconazole-resistant Candida parapsilosis: current framework and future research roadmap.Daneshnia F, de Almeida Júnior JN, Ilkit M, Lombardi L, Perry AM, Gao M, Nobile CJ, Egger M, Perlin DS, Zhai B, Hohl TM, Gabaldón T, Colombo AL, Hoenigl M, Arastehfar A. Lancet Microbe. 2023 Jun; 2023 Apr 27. PMID: 37121240.
• Tracking antimalarial drug resistance using mosquito blood meals: a cross-sectional study.Ehrlich HY, Somé AF, Bazié T, Ebou CN, Dembélé EL, Balma R, Goodwin J, Wade M, Bei AK, Ouédraogo JB, Foy BD, Dabiré RK, Parikh S. Lancet Microbe. 2023 Jun; 2023 Apr 20. PMID: 37086737.
• Seeking Healing for a Mental Illness: Understanding the Care Experiences of Service Users at a Prayer Camp in Ghana.Gyimah L, Ofori-Atta A, Asafo S, Curry L. J Relig Health. 2023 Jun; 2022 Sep 6. PMID: 36066726.
• Increasing transmission of dengue virus across ecologically diverse regions of Ecuador and associated risk factors.Katzelnick LC, Quentin E, Colston S, Ha TA, Andrade P, Eisenberg JNS, Ponce P, Coloma J, Cevallos V. medRxiv. 2023 May 30; 2023 May 30. PMID: 37398346.
• Prevalence of and risk factors for vertebral fracture and low bone mineral density among Peruvian women aging with HIV.Cabrera DM, Cornejo MP, Slotkin R, Pinedo Y, Yu W, Guan W, Garcia PJ, Hsieh E. Arch Osteoporos. 2023 May 10; 2023 May 10. PMID: 37160770.
• Concordance of weight status between mothers and children: A secondary analysis of the Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey VII.Alam F, Ali MK, Patel SA, Iqbal R. medRxiv. 2023 May 5; 2023 May 5. PMID: 37205423.
• Positive Deep Initial Incision Margin Affects Outcomes in TORS for HPV+ Oropharynx Cancer.Kejner A, Gentile C, Porterfield Z, Carroll WR, Buczek EP. Laryngoscope. 2023 May; 2022 Jul 9. PMID: 35809041.
• Divided infrastructure: legal exclusion and water inequality in an urban slum in Mumbai, India.Lubeck-Schricker M, Patil-Deshmukh A, Murthy SL, Chaubey MD, Boomkar B, Shaikh N, Shitole T, Eliasziw M, Subbaraman R. Environ Urban. 2023 Apr; 2023 Jan 12. PMID: 37275771.
• Prediction of fat mass from anthropometry at ages 7 to 9 years in Samoans: a cross-sectional study in the Ola Tuputupua'e cohort.Choy CC, Johnson W, Duckham RL, Naseri T, Soti-Ulberg C, Reupena MS, Braun JM, McGarvey ST, Hawley NL. Eur J Clin Nutr. 2023 Apr; 2023 Jan 9. PMID: 36624192.
• An Adapted Self-screening Tool for Peripartum Cardiomyopathy in Haiti.Rene C, Faustin M, Bonhomme J, Deschamps MM, Jean-Gilles M, Rosenberg R, Ibrahim M, McNairy M, Pape JW, Devieux JG. Crit Pathw Cardiol. 2023 Mar 1; 2023 Jan 11. PMID: 36812340.
• Sociodemographic patterns of preterm birth and low birth weight among pregnant women in rural Mysore district, India: A latent class analysis.Kiplagat S, Ravi K, Sheehan DM, Srinivas V, Khan A, Trepka MJ, Bursac Z, Stephens D, Krupp K, Madhivanan P. J Biosoc Sci. 2023 Mar; 2022 Feb 7. PMID: 35129110.
• Serum Neutralizing Antibody Titers 12 Months After Coronavirus Disease 2019 Messenger RNA Vaccination: Correlation to Clinical Variables in an Adult, US Population.Zhao M, Slotkin R, Sheth AH, Pischel L, Kyriakides TC, Emu B, McNamara C, Shi Q, Delgobbo J, Xu J, Marhoffer E, Mercer-Falkoff A, Holleck J, Ardito D, Sutton RE, Gupta S. Clin Infect Dis. 2023 Feb 8. PMID: 35639598.
• Prevalence of malnutrition among Samoan children aged 5 to 11 years in 2019-2020.Choy CC, Lupematasila VF, Arorae MS, Tafunaina F, Unasa F, Soti-Ulberg C, Reupena MS, Duckham RL, Faasalele-Savusa K, Naseri T, Hawley NL. Ann Hum Biol. 2023 Feb. PMID: 37166449.
• Association of Perceived Neighbourhood Walkability with Self-Reported Physical Activity and Body Mass Index in South African Adolescents.Wayas FA, Smith JA, Lambert EV, Guthrie-Dixon N, Wasnyo Y, West S, Oni T, Foley L. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Jan 30; 2023 Jan 30. PMID: 36767815.
• Scoping review protocol of multicomponent interventions to address cardiometabolic disease risk among Pacific Islander children.Choy CC, Nyhan K, Savusa K, Soti-Ulberg C, Rosen RK, Naseri T, Hawley NL, Sharifi M. PLoS One. 2023; 2023 Jan 23. PMID: 36689458.
• Responding to health policy recommendations on managing opioid use disorder during Russia's invasion of Ukraine: Divergent responses from the frontline to the west.Ivasiy R, Galvez de Leon SJ, Meteliuk A, Fomenko T, Pykalo I, Bromberg DJ, Madden LM, Farnum SO, Islam Z, Altice FL. Front Public Health. 2022; 2023 Jan 13. PMID: 36711398.
• Exploring potential risk pathways with high risk groups for urban Rift Valley fever virus introduction, transmission, and persistence in two urban centers of Kenya.Gerken KN, Maluni J, Mutuku FM, Ndenga BA, Mwashee L, Ichura C, Shaita K, Mwaniki M, Orwa S, Seetah K, LaBeaud AD. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2023 Jan; 2023 Jan 12. PMID: 36634153.
• MicroRNAs: Emerging as Highly Promising Biomarkers for Early Breast Cancer Screening.Krupp K, Segar JM, Fernández-Martínez JL, Madhivanan P. J Clin Lab Med. 2023; 2023 Sep 6. PMID: 37937319.
• Bridging the know-do gap in low-income surgical environments: Creating contextually appropriate training videos to promote safer surgery in Ethiopia.Hawkins J, Rangel UJS, Tesfaye A, Gebeyehu N, Weiser TG, Bitew S, Mammo TN, Starr N. Surg Open Sci. 2023 Jan; 2022 Nov 7. PMID: 36466047.
• Racial/ethnic disparities in influenza risk perception and vaccination intention among Pima County residents in Arizona.Mantina NM, Block Ngaybe M, Johnson K, Velickovic S, Magrath P, Gerald LB, Krupp K, Krauss B, Perez-Velez CM, Madhivanan P. Hum Vaccin Immunother. 2022 Dec 30; 2022 Dec 7. PMID: 36476311.
• Our Voice in a rural community: empowering Colombian adolescents to advocate for school community well-being through citizen science.Montes F, Guerra AM, Higuera-Mendieta D, De La Vega-Taboada E, King AC, Banchoff A, Maturana ACR, Sarmiento OL. BMC Public Health. 2022 Dec 22; 2022 Dec 22. PMID: 36550541.
• Plasmodium infection is associated with cross-reactive antibodies to carbohydrate epitopes on the SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein.Lapidus S, Liu F, Casanovas-Massana A, Dai Y, Huck JD, Lucas C, Klein J, Filler RB, Strine MS, Sy M, Deme AB, Badiane AS, Dieye B, Ndiaye IM, Diedhiou Y, Mbaye AM, Diagne CT, Vigan-Womas I, Mbengue A, Sadio BD, Diagne MM, Moore AJ, Mangou K, Diallo F, Sene SD, Pouye MN, Faye R, Diouf B, Nery N Jr, Costa F, Reis MG, Muenker MC, Hodson DZ, Mbarga Y, Katz BZ, Andrews JR, Campbell M, Srivathsan A, Kamath K, Baum-Jones E, Faye O, Sall AA, Vélez JCQ, Cappello M, Wilson M, Ben-Mamoun C, Tedder R, McClure M, Cherepanov P, Somé FA, Dabiré RK, Moukoko CEE, Ouédraogo JB, Boum Y 2nd, Shon J, Ndiaye D, Wisnewski A, Parikh S, Iwasaki A, Wilen CB, Ko AI, Ring AM, Bei AK. Sci Rep. 2022 Dec 22; 2022 Dec 22. PMID: 36550362.
• Evaluating the moderating role of accredited social health activists on adverse birth outcomes in rural India.Kiplagat S, Khan A, Sheehan DM, Jaykrishna P, Ravi K, Jo Trepka M, Bursac Z, Stephens D, Krupp K, Madhivanan P. Sex Reprod Healthc. 2022 Dec; 2022 Oct 20. PMID: 36302276.
• The protective effect of rs373863828 on type 2 diabetes does not operate through a body composition pathway in adult Samoans.Hawley NL, Duckham RL, Carlson JC, Naseri T, Reupena MS, Lameko V, Pomer A, Wetzel A, Selu M, Lupematisila V, Unasa F, Vesi L, Fatu T, Unasa S, Faasalele-Savusa K, Rivara AC, Russell E, Delany JP, Viali S, Kershaw EE, Minster RL, Weeks DE, McGarvey ST. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2022 Dec; 2022 Oct 25. PMID: 36284436.
• The risk of hyperglycemia associated with use of dolutegravir among adults living with HIV in Kampala, Uganda: A case-control study.Namara D, Schwartz JI, Tusubira AK, McFarland W, Birungi C, Semitala FC, Muddu M. Int J STD AIDS. 2022 Dec; 2022 Oct 12. PMID: 36222490.
• Evaluation of changes in the faecal resistome associated with children's exposure to domestic animals and food animal production.Cifuentes SG, Graham J, Loayza F, Saraiva C, Salinas L, Trueba G, Cárdenas PA. J Glob Antimicrob Resist. 2022 Dec; 2022 Oct 3. PMID: 36202201.
• Acoustic regularities in infant-directed speech and song across cultures.Hilton CB, Moser CJ, Bertolo M, Lee-Rubin H, Amir D, Bainbridge CM, Simson J, Knox D, Glowacki L, Alemu E, Galbarczyk A, Jasienska G, Ross CT, Neff MB, Martin A, Cirelli LK, Trehub SE, Song J, Kim M, Schachner A, Vardy TA, Atkinson QD, Salenius A, Andelin J, Antfolk J, Madhivanan P, Siddaiah A, Placek CD, Salali GD, Keestra S, Singh M, Collins SA, Patton JQ, Scaff C, Stieglitz J, Cutipa SC, Moya C, Sagar RR, Anyawire M, Mabulla A, Wood BM, Krasnow MM, Mehr SA. Nat Hum Behav. 2022 Nov; 2022 Jul 18. PMID: 35851843.
• Perioperative provider safety in the pandemic: Development, implementation and evaluation of an adjunct COVID-19 Surgical Patient Checklist.Starr NE, Moore JN, Shreckengost CSH, Fernandez K, Ambulkar RP, Capo-Chichi N, Varallo JE, Ademuyiwa AO, Krouch S, Rana PS, Ingabire JA, Weiser TG, Mammo TN, Evans FM. Anaesth Intensive Care. 2022 Nov; 2022 Jun 29. PMID: 35765829.
• Interest without uptake: A mixed-methods analysis of methadone utilization in Kyrgyz prisons.Liberman AR, Bromberg DJ, Litz T, Kurmanalieva A, Galvez S, Rozanova J, Azbel L, Meyer JP, Altice FL. PLoS One. 2022; 2022 Oct 25. PMID: 36282864.
• Advancing the Science of Implementation for Resource-Limited Settings through Bidirectional Learning Around Cervical Cancer Screening.Adsul P, Hariprasad R, Lott BE, Varon ML. Ethn Dis. 2022 Fall; 2022 Oct 20. PMID: 36388865.
• Rickettsial Infections Causing Acute Febrile Illness in Urban Slums, Brazil.Fournier JB, Blanton LS, Nery N Jr, Wunder EA Jr, Costa F, Reis MG, Ribeiro GS, Walker DH, Ko AI. Emerg Infect Dis. 2022 Oct. PMID: 36148970.
• Pediatric surgery backlog at a Ugandan tertiary care facility: COVID-19 makes a chronic problem acutely worse.Klazura G, Kisa P, Wesonga A, Nabukenya M, Kakembo N, Nimanya S, Naluyimbazi R, Sekabira J, Ozgediz D, Langer M. Pediatr Surg Int. 2022 Oct; 2022 Jul 29. PMID: 35904621.
• Linking rattiness, geography and environmental degradation to spillover Leptospira infections in marginalised urban settings: An eco-epidemiological community-based cohort study in Brazil.Eyre MT, Souza FN, Carvalho-Pereira TSA, Nery N, de Oliveira D, Cruz JS, Sacramento GA, Khalil H, Wunder EA, Hacker KP, Hagan JE, Childs JE, Reis MG, Begon M, Diggle PJ, Ko AI, Giorgi E, Costa F. Elife. 2022 Sep 16; 2022 Sep 16. PMID: 36111781.
• Structural factors associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection risk in an urban slum setting in Salvador, Brazil: A cross-sectional survey.Fofana MO, Nery N Jr, Aguilar Ticona JP, de Andrade Belitardo EMM, Victoriano R, Anjos RO, Portilho MM, de Santana MC, Dos Santos LL, de Oliveira D, Cruz JS, Muenker MC, Khouri R, Wunder EA Jr, Hitchings MDT, Johnson O, Reis MG, Ribeiro GS, Cummings DAT, Costa F, Ko AI. PLoS Med. 2022 Sep; 2022 Sep 8. PMID: 36074784.
• Multiple Mechanisms Confer Resistance to Azithromycin in Shigella in Bangladesh: a Comprehensive Whole Genome-Based Approach.Nusrin S, Asad A, Hayat S, Islam B, Begum R, Nabila FH, Islam Z. Microbiol Spectr. 2022 Aug 31; 2022 Jul 25. PMID: 35876510.
• Reconstructing the course of the COVID-19 epidemic over 2020 for US states and counties: Results of a Bayesian evidence synthesis model.Chitwood MH, Russi M, Gunasekera K, Havumaki J, Klaassen F, Pitzer VE, Salomon JA, Swartwood NA, Warren JL, Weinberger DM, Cohen T, Menzies NA. PLoS Comput Biol. 2022 Aug; 2022 Aug 30. PMID: 36040963.
• A Mixed-Methods Participatory Intervention Design Process to Develop Intervention Options in Immediate Food and Built Environments to Support Healthy Eating and Active Living among Children and Adolescents in Cameroon and South Africa.Erzse A, Rwafa-Ponela T, Kruger P, Wayas FA, Lambert EV, Mapa-Tassou C, Ngwa E, Goldstein S, Foley L, Hofman KJ, Teguia S, Oni T, Assah F, Shung-King M, Abdool Karim S. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Aug 18; 2022 Aug 18. PMID: 36011902.
• Conceptual and methodological challenges in idioms of distress research: Common questions and a step-by-step guide.Weaver LJ, Krupp K, Madhivanan P. Transcult Psychiatry. 2022 Aug; 2022 Feb 15. PMID: 35167385.