Submissions from 2014
Saving of children's lives from drowning project in Bangladesh, Adnan A. Hyder, Olakunle Alonge, Siran He, Shirin Wadhwaniya, Fazlur Rahman, Aminur Rahman, and Shams El Arifeen
The ethics of health systems research in low- and middle-income countries: A call to action, Adnan A. Hyder, Bridget Pratt, Joseph Ali, Nancy Kass, and Nelson Sewankambo
Changing the Discourse on Health Systems Research: Response to Open Peer Commentaries on "Ethical Review of Health Systems Research in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Conceptual Exploration", Adnan A. Hyder and Abbas Rattani
Ethical Review of Health Systems Research in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Conceptual Exploration, Adnan A. Hyder, Abbas Rattani, Carleigh Krubiner, Abdulgafoor M. Bachani, and Nhan T. Tran
BRICS: Opportunities to improve road safety, Adnan A. Hyder and Andres I. Vecino-Ortiz
The association of meningococcal disease with influenza in the United States, 1989-2009, Jessica Hartman Jacobs, Cecile Viboud, Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen, Joel Schwartz, Claudia Steiner, Lone Simonsen, and Marc Lipsitch
Prevalence of small-for-gestational age and its mortality risk varies by choice of birth-weight-for-gestation reference population, Joanne D. Katz, Lauren A. Wu, Luke C. Mullany, Christian L. Coles, Anne C.C. Lee, Naoko Kozuki, and James M. Tielsch
Global health diplomacy training for military medical researchers, Rebecca L. Katz, David Blazes, Jennifer Blazes, Jennifer Bae, Nisha Puntambekar, Christopher L. Perdue, and Julie E. Fischer
Global health security agenda and the international health regulations: Moving forward, Rebecca Katz, Eliot Sorel, Sarah Kornblet, and Julie E. Fischer
Global Health Service Partnership: building health professional leadership, Vanessa B. Kerry and Fitzhugh Mullan
Spatio-temporal modeling of the African swine fever epidemic in the Russian Federation, 2007-2012, F. I. Korennoy, V. M. Gulenkin, J. B. Malone, C. N. Mores, S. A. Dudnikov, and M. A. Stevenson
A bioethical framework for health systems activity: a conceptual exploration applying ‘systems thinking’, Carleigh B. Krubiner and Adnan A. Hyder
Potent malaria transmission-blocking antibody responses elicited by Plasmodium falciparum Pfs25 expressed in Escherichia coli after successful protein refolding, Rajesh Kumar, Evelina Angov, and Nirbhay Kumar
Drivers of routine immunization coverage improvement in Africa: Findings from district-level case studies, Anne LaFond, Natasha Kanagat, Robert Steinglass, Rebecca Fields, Jenny Sequeira, and Sangeeta Mookherji
The effect of birth-month on the risk of RSV hospitalization in the first year of life in the United States, Patricia Calderon Lloyd, Larissa S. May, Daniel Hoffman, Richard Riegelman, and Lone Simonsen
Investigations of Koutango Virus Infectivity and Dissemination Dynamics in Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes, Jaime M.de Araújo Lobo, Rebecca C. Christofferson, and Christopher N. Mores
A network-patch methodology for adapting agent-based models for directly transmitted disease to mosquito-borne disease, Carrie A. Manore, Kyle S. Hickmann, James M. Hyman, Ivo M. Foppa, Justin K. Davis, Dawn M. Wesson, and Christopher N. Mores
Analysis of early dengue virus infection in mice as modulated by Aedes aegypti probing, M. K. McCracken, R. C. Christofferson, D. M. Chisenhall, and C. N. Mores
Aedes aegypti salivary protein "aegyptin" co-inoculation modulates dengue virus infection in the vertebrate host, M. K. McCracken, R. C. Christofferson, B. J. Grasperge, E. Calvo, D. M. Chisenhall, and C. N. Mores
Road traffic injuries in Yaoundé, Cameroon: A hospital-based pilot surveillance study, Jolion McGreevy, Kent A. Stevens, Martin Ekeke Monono, Georges Alain Etoundi Mballa, Marquise Kouo Ngamby, Adnan A. Hyder, and Catherine Juillard
Using a theory of change approach to analyze global health diplomacy practice in Myanmar, Sangeeta Mookherji, Holly Greb, and Rebecca Katz
The role of the mosquito in a dengue human infection model, Christopher N. Mores, Rebecca C. Christofferson, and Silas A. Davidson
Academic Medicine. Preface., Fitzhugh Mullan, Francis Omaswa, and Seble Frehywot
Preface, Fitzhugh Mullan, Francis Omaswa, and Seble Frehywot
Research ethics capacity building in sub-saharan Africa: A review of NIH fogarty-funded programs 2000-2012, Paul Ndebele, Douglas Wassenaar, Solomon Benatar, Theodore Fleischer, Mariana Kruger, Clement Adebamowo, Nancy Kass, and Adnan A. Hyder
Highlighting the C in ICT: Key communication and culture questions in ICT for health, Khadidiatou Ndiaye
Evolution of a multiuniversity monitoring and evaluation technical working group, Francis J. Njiri, Mara J. Child, Gabrielle O'Malley, Sarah Baird, Vincent Ojoome, Luke D. Davies, and James Kiarie
Growing partnerships: Leveraging the power of collaboration through the medical education partnership initiative, Emiola O. Olapade-Olaopa, Alexis M.G. Baird, Elsie Kiguli-Malwadde, and Joseph C. Kolars
Dosing of praziquantel by height in sub-Saharan African adults, Chiquita A. Palha de Sousa, Tracy Brigham, Bernard Chasekwa, Mduduzi N.N. Mbuya, James M. Tielsch, Jean H. Humphrey, and Andrew J. Prendergast
Health and human rights in eastern Myanmar prior to political transition: A population-based assessment using multistaged household cluster sampling, Parveen K. Parmar, Jade Benjamin-Chung, Linda S. Smith, Saw Nay Htoo, Sai Laeng, Aye Lwin, Mahn Mahn, Cynthia Maung, Daniel Reh, Eh Kalu Shwe Oo, Thomas Lee, and Adam K. Richards
The Prevalence of Mobile Phone Use Among Motorcyclists in Three Mexican Cities, Ricardo Pérez-Núñez, Elisa Hidalgo-Solórzano, Juan Daniel Vera-López, Jeffrey C. Lunnen, Aruna Chandran, Martha Híjar, and Adnan A. Hyder
"It depends on your pocket:" Findings from a qualitative study in Uganda exploring women's and health care providers' perspectives on family planning, Heather Pitorak, Susan Kambabazi Lubaale, and Tilly A. Gurman
Behavioral attitudes and preferences in cooking practices with traditional open-fire stoves in Peru, Nepal, and Kenya: Implications for improved cookstove interventions, Evelyn L. Rhodes, Robert Dreibelbis, Elizabeth M. Klasen, Neha Naithani, Joyce Baliddawa, Diana Menya, Subarna Khatry, Stephanie Levy, James M. Tielsch, J. Jaime Miranda, Caitlin Kennedy, and William Checkley
Erratum: An explosive epidemic of DENV-3 in Cairns, Australia (PLoS ONE (2013) 8, 7, (e68137) DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0068137), S. A. Ritchie, A. T. Pyke, S. Hall-Mendelin, A. Day, and C. N. Mores
Reflections on the potential of mHealth to strengthen health systems in low- and middle-income countries, Amira A. Roess, Tilly A. Gurman, Soma Ghoshal, and Sangeeta Mookherji
Family size, cognitive outcomes, and familial interaction in stable, two-parent families: United States, 1997-2002, John Sandberg and Patrick Rafail
Estimates of possible severe bacterial infection in neonates in sub-Saharan Africa, south Asia, and Latin America for 2012: A systematic review and meta-analysis, Anna C. Seale, Hannah Blencowe, Alexander A. Manu, Harish Nair, Rajiv Bahl, Shamim A. Qazi, Anita K. Zaidi, James A. Berkley, Simon N. Cousens, Joy E. Lawn, Dwi Agustian, Fernando Althabe, Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner, Abdullah H. Baqui, Daniel G. Bausch, Jose M. Belizan, Zulfi Qar Bhutta, and Robert E. Black
Effect of 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine on admissions to hospital 2 years after its introduction in the USA: a time series analysis, Lone Simonsen, Robert J. Taylor, Cynthia Schuck-Paim, Roger Lustig, Michael J. Haber, and K. P. Klugman
Humidity and gravimetric equivalency adjustments for nephelometer-based particulate matter measurements of emissions from solid biomass fuel in cookstoves, Sutyajeet Soneja, Chen Chen, James M. Tielsch, Joanne Katz, Scott L. Zeger, William Checkley, Frank C. Curriero, and Patrick L. Breysse
Prevalence and determinants of unintended childbirth in Ethiopia, Yibeltal Tebekaw, Bezuhan Aemro, and Charles Teller
The burden of underweight and overweight among women in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Yibeltal Tebekaw, Charles Teller, and Uriyoan Colón-Ramos
Erratum: The neglected burden of caregiving in low- and middle-income countries (Disability and Health Journal (2014) 7:3 (262-272) DOI: 10.1016/j.dhjo.2014.01.003), Aaron Thrush and Adnan Hyder
The neglected burden of caregiving in low- and middle-income countries, Aaron Thrush and Adnan Hyder
Ten lessons in public health: Inspiration for tomorrow's leaders, James M. Tielsch
Designs of two randomized, community-based trials to assess the impact of alternative cookstove installation on respiratory illness among young children and reproductive outcomes in rural Nepal, James M. Tielsch, Joanne Katz, Scott L. Zeger, Subarna K. Khatry, Laxman Shrestha, Patrick Breysse, William Checkley, Luke C. Mullany, and Steven C. LeClerq
Seatbelt wearing rates in middle income countries: A cross-country analysis, Andres I. Vecino-Ortiz, David Bishai, Aruna Chandran, Kavi Bhalla, Abdulgafoor M. Bachani, Shivam Gupta, Ekaterina Slyunkina, and Adnan A. Hyder
The use of cost-Benefit analysis in road assessments: A methodological inquiry, Andres I. Vecino-Ortiz and Adnan A. Hyder
Demonstrating the use of high-volume electronic medical claims data to monitor local and regional influenza activity in the US, Cecile G. Viboud, Vivek Charu, Donald R. Olson, Sebastien Ballesteros, Julia R. Gog, Farid Khan, Bryan T. Grenfell, and Lone Simonsen
A Systems approach to implementation of elearning in medical education: Five MEPI Schools' Journeys, Yianna Vovides, Selamawit Bedada Chale, Rumbidzayi Gadhula, Masego B. Kebaetse, Netsanet Animut Nigussie, Fatima Suleman, Dativa Tibyampansha, Glory Ramadhan Ibrahim, Moshi Ntabaye, Seble Frehywot, and Oathokwa Nkomazana
Afghanistan's health system: Moving forward in challenging circumstances 2002-2013, Ronald J. Waldman and William Newbrander
Trauma training course: innovative teaching models and methods for training health workers in active conflict zones of Eastern Myanmar, Charles H. Washington, Francis J. Tyler, Julia Davis, Douglas R. Shapiro, Adam Richards, Matthew Richard, Thomas J. Lee, Taryn L. Colton, Louis Berk, Loren Rauch, Eh Kalu Shwe Oo, Richard Hahn, and Lawrence M. Stock
Is the Kampala Trauma Score an effective predictor of mortality in low-resource settings? A comparison of multiple trauma severity scores, Sharon R. Weeks, Catherine J. Juillard, Martin E. Monono, Georges A. Etoundi, Marquise K. Ngamby, Adnan A. Hyder, and Kent A. Stevens
The cost of injury and trauma care in low-and middle-income countries: A review of economic evidence, Hadley K.H. Wesson, Nonkululeko Boikhutso, Abdulgafoor M. Bachani, Karen J. Hofman, and Adnan A. Hyder
The time trend temperature-mortality as a factor of uncertainty analysis of impacts of future heat waves: Wu et al. Respond, Jianyong Wu, Ying Zhou, Yang Gao, Joshua S. Fu, Brent A. Johnson, Cheng Huang, Young Min Kim, and Yang Liu
Estimation and uncertainty analysis of impacts of future heat waves on mortality in the Eastern United States, Jianyong Wu, Ying Zhou, Yang Gao, Joshua S. Fu, Brent A. Johnson, Cheng Huang, Young-Min Kim, and Yang Liu
The implications of demographic change on the future of medicare: Racial and gender disparities in longevity, physical stature, and lifetime medicare expenditures, Zhou Yang and Cheng Huang
Medicare eligibility age, health disparities, and Medicare reform, Zhou Yang, Cheng Huang, and Victoria Phillips
Bicyclist mortality between 2006 and 2010 in China: Findings from national disease surveillance points (DSP) data, Maigeng Zhou, Guoqing Hu, Lijun Wang, Sai Ma, Lin Wang, Qingfeng Li, and Adnan A. Hyder
Medicare eligibility age, health disparities, and Medicare reform, Yang Zhou, Cheng Huang, and Victoria Phillips
Submissions from 2013
The use of non-standard motorcycle helmets in low- and middle-income countries: A multicentre study, Williams Ackaah, Francis Afukaar, Williams Agyemang, Trinh Thuy Anh, A. R. Hejar, Ghaffar Abdul, Gopalkrishna Gururaj, Hidalgo Solórzano Elisa, Híjar Martha, Adnan A. Hyder, Cristina Inclán-Valadez, Subramaniam Kulanthayan, Robyn Norton, Wilson Odero, Eme T. Owoaje, Margie Peden, Krishnan Rajam, and Junaid Abdul Razzak
A call to teach medical students clinical human rights, Ramin Asgary
Bring global health and global medicine home., Ramin Asgary
To the Editor, Ramin Asgary
Perceived stigma and discrimination towards people living with HIV and AIDS in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: A qualitative approach, Ramin Asgary, Shyam Amin, Zoya Grigoryan, Ramesh Naderi, and Jane Aronson
Socio-medical challenges of asylum seekers prior and after coming to the US, Ramin Asgary, Beth Charpentier, and Delia C. Burnett
Systematic review of prevention and management strategies for the consequences of gender-based violence in refugee settings., Ramin Asgary, Eleanor Emery, and Marcia Wong
Hypertension, pre-hypertension, and associated risk factors in a subsistent farmer community in remote rural central India, Ramin Asgary, Sophie Galson, Hari Shankar, Caitlin O'Brien, and Shobha Arole
Comprehensive on-site medical and public health training for local medical practitioners in a refugee setting, Ramin Asgary and Karen Jacobson
New trends of short-term humanitarian medical volunteerism: Professional and ethical considerations, Ramin Asgary and Emily Junck
Domestic Global Health: A Curriculum Teaching Medical Students to Evaluate Refugee Asylum Seekers and Torture Survivors, Ramin Asgary, Pamela Saenger, Loretta Jophlin, and Delia C. Burnett
Ethical and Professional Considerations Providing Medical Evaluation and Care to Refugee Asylum Seekers, Ramin Asgary and Clyde L. Smith
Teaching Immigrant and Refugee Health to Residents: Domestic Global Health, Ramin Asgary, Clyde Lanford Smith, Blanca Sckell, and Gerald Paccione
Trends in prevalence, knowledge, attitudes, and practices of helmet use in Cambodia: Results from a two year study, Abdulgafoor M. Bachani, Casey Branching, Chariya Ear, Douglas R. Roehler, Erin M. Parker, Sotheary Tum, Michael F. Ballesteros, and Adnan A. Hyder
Prevalence, knowledge, attitude and practice of speeding in two districts in Kenya: Thika and Naivasha, Abdulgafoor M. Bachani, Yuen Wai Hung, Stephen Mogere, Daniel Akungah, Jackim Nyamari, Kent A. Stevens, and Adnan A. Hyder
Drinking & driving in Viet Nam: Prevalence, knowledge, attitudes, and practices in two provinces, Abdulgafoor M. Bachani, Nasreen S. Jessani, V. Cuong Pham, La Ngoc Quang, Phuong N. Nguyen, Jonathon Passmore, and Adnan A. Hyder
Income shocks and adolescent mental health, Sarah Baird, Jacobus de Hoop, and Berk Özler
The regressive demands of demand-driven development, Sarah Baird, Craig McIntosh, and Berk Özler
The prevalence of speeding and drink driving in two cities in China: A mid project evaluation of ongoing road safety interventions, Kavi Bhalla, Qingfeng Li, Leilen Duan, Yuan Wang, David Bishai, and Adnan A. Hyder
Latitudinal variations in seasonal activity of influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV): A global comparative review, Kimberly Bloom-Feshbach, Wladimir J. Alonso, Vivek Charu, James Tamerius, Lone Simonsen, Mark A. Miller, and Cecile Viboud
Prevalence of glaucoma in an urban west african population: The tema eye survey, Donald L. Budenz, Keith Barton, Julia Whiteside-De Vos, Joyce Schiffman, Jagadeesh Bandi, Winifred Nolan, Leon Herndon, Hanna Kim, Graham Hay-Smith, and James M. Tielsch
Author reply, Donald L. Budenz, Julia Whiteside-De Vos, and James Tielsch
The burden of pediatric diarrhea: A cross-sectional study of incurred costs and perceptions of cost among Bolivian families, Rachel M. Burke, Paulina A. Rebolledo, Sally R. Embrey, Laura Danielle Wagner, Carter L. Cowden, Fiona M. Kelly, Emily R. Smith, Volga Iñiguez, and Juan S. Leon
Health systems supports for community case management of childhood illness: Lessons from an assessment of early implementation in Malawi, Jennifer A. Callaghan-Koru, Kate Gilroy, Adnan A. Hyder, Asha George, Humphreys Nsona, Angella Mtimuni, Bernie Zakeyo, Josiah Mayani, Cristina V. Cardemil, and Jennifer Bryce
Impact of Road Traffic Deaths on Expected Years of Life Lost and Reduction in Life Expectancy in Brazil, Aruna Chandran, Geoffrey Kahn, Tanara Sousa, Flavio Pechansky, David M. Bishai, and Adnan A. Hyder
Disseminating childhood home injury risk reduction information in Pakistan: results from a community-based pilot study., Aruna Chandran, Uzma Rahim Khan, Nukhba Zia, Asher Feroze, Sarah Stewart de Ramirez, Cheng Ming Huang, Junaid A. Razzak, and Adnan A. Hyder
Mortality burden of the 2009-10 influenza pandemic in the United States: improving the timeliness of influenza severity estimates using inpatient mortality records, Vivek Charu, Lone Simonsen, Roger Lustig, Claudia Steiner, and Cecile Viboud
Risk of childhood undernutrition related to small-for-gestational age and preterm birth in low- and middle-income countries, Parul Christian, Sun Eun Lee, Moira Donahue Angel, Linda S. Adair, Shams E. Arifeen, Per Ashorn, Fernando C. Barros, Caroline H.D. Fall, Wafaie W. Fawzi, Wei Hao, Gang Hu, Jean H. Humphrey, Lieven Huybregts, Charu V. Joglekar, Simon K. Kariuki, Patrick Kolsteren, Ghattu V. Krishnaveni, and Enqing Liu
Development of a transmission model for dengue virus, Rebecca C. Christofferson, Michael K. McCracken, Ann Marie Johnson, Daniel M. Chisenhall, and Christopher N. Mores
Behavioral correlates of fruit and vegetable intake in Puerto Rico: Results from the health information national trends survey, Vivian Colón-López, Geetanjoli Banerjee, Alida María Gertz, Ana Patricia Ortiz, William Calo, Lila J. Finney-Rutten, Uriyoán Colón-Ramos, Bradford W. Hesse, and Guillermo Tortolero
Socio-demographic, behavioral, and health correlates of nutrition transition dietary indicators in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Uriyoan Colón-Ramos, Cynthia Pérez-Cardona, and Rafael Monge-Rojas
Behavior change and community participation: Assessing causal pathways affecting neonatal mortality, Gary L. Darmstadt and Wolfgang Munar
Diarrhea as a risk factor for acute lower respiratory tract infections among young children in low income settings, Christa L. Fischer Walker, Jamie Perin, Joanne D. Katz, James M. Tielsch, and Robert Black
Does comorbidity increase the risk of mortality among children under 3 years of age?, Christa L. Fischer Walker, Jamie Perin, Jodi L. Liu, Joanne Katz, James M. Tielsch, and Robert Black
E-learning in medical education in resource constrained low- and middle-income countries, Seble Frehywot, Yianna Vovides, Zohray Talib, Nadia Mikhail, Heather Ross, Hannah Wohltjen, Selam Bedada, Kristine Korhumel, Abdel Karim Koumare, and James Scott
A systematic review of the epidemiology of unintentional burn injuries in South Asia, Ashkan Golshan, Cyra Patel, and Adnan A. Hyder
Opposing roles for two molecular forms of replication protein A in Rad51-Rad54-mediated DNA recombination in Plasmodium falciparum, Anusha M. Gopalakrishnan and Nirbhay Kumar
Novel nanosomes for gene delivery to plasmodium falciparum-infected red blood cells, Anusha M. Gopalakrishnan, Anup K. Kundu, Tarun K. Mandal, and Nirbhay Kumar
Global health experiences of U.S. Physicians: A mixed methods survey of clinician-researchers and health policy leaders, S. Ryan Greysen, Adam K. Richards, Sidney Coupet, Mayur M. Desai, and Aasim I. Padela
Ten-year change in self-rated quality of life in a type 1 diabetes population: Wisconsin Epidemiologic Study of Diabetic Retinopathy, Flavio E. Hirai, James M. Tielsch, Barbara E.K. Klein, and Ronald Klein
Seatbelt use and speeding on three major roads in Egypt: A brief report, Connie Hoe, Prasanthi Puvanachandra, M. Hafizur Rahman, Hesham El Sayed, Soad Eldawy, Ayman El-Dabaa, Mourid Albert, and Adnan A. Hyder