Submissions from 2016
Maternity Leave Access and Health: A Systematic Narrative Review and Conceptual Framework Development., Ellie Andres, Sarah Baird, Jeffrey Bart Bingenheimer, and Anne Rossier Markus
Drinking and driving in Brazil: same problem, same loophole, Gabriel Andreuccetti, Vilma Leyton, Heraclito Barbosa de Carvalho, Daniele Mayumi Sinagawa, Katharine A. Allen, and Adnan A. Hyder
Is Aerosalization a Problem With Carbapenem-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in Thailand Hospital?, Anucha Apisarnthanarak, Ploenpit Tantajina, Pornpimol Laovachirasuwan, David J Weber, and Nalini Singh
MHealth to Train Community Health Nurses in Visual Inspection with Acetic Acid for Cervical Cancer Screening in Ghana, Ramin Asgary, Philip Baba Adongo, Adanna Nwameme, Helen V.S. Cole, Ernest Maya, Mengling Liu, Karen Yeates, Richard Adanu, and Olugbenga Ogedegbe
Cervical Cancer Screening Among Homeless Women of New York City Shelters, Ramin Asgary, Analena Alcabes, Rebecca Feldman, Victoria Garland, Ramesh Naderi, Gbenga Ogedegbe, and Blanca Sckell
A collaborative clinical and population-based curriculum for medical students to address primary care needs of the homeless in New York City shelters: Teaching homeless healthcare to medical students, Ramin Asgary, Ramesh Naderi, Margaret Gaughran, and Blanca Sckell
Rates and predictors of uncontrolled hypertension among hypertensive homeless adults using new york city shelter-based clinics, Ramin Asgary, Blanca Sckell, Analena Alcabes, Ramesh Naderi, Antoinette Schoenthaler, and Gbenga Ogedegbe
Characterizing disability at the Iganga-Mayuge Demographic Surveillance System (IM-DSS), Uganda, Abdulgafoor M. Bachani, Edward Galiwango, Daniel Kadobera, Jacob A. Bentley, David Bishai, Stephen Wegener, Nukhba Zia, and Adnan A. Hyder
A Scoping Study on the Ethics of Health Systems Research, Abdulgafoor M. Bachani, Abbas Rattani, and Adnan A. Hyder
Commentary: Assessing Long-Run Deworming Impacts on Education and Economic Outcomes: A Comment on Jullien, Sinclair and Garner (2016)., Sarah Baird, Joan Hamory Hicks, Michael Kremer, and Edward Miguel
Worms at Work: Long-run Impacts of a Child Health Investment, Sarah Baird, Joan Hicks, Michael Kremer, and Edward Miguel
Depression screening in primary care and correlations with comorbidities in Romania, Paul Bălănescu, Ileana Botezat-Antonescu, Claudia Dima, Sever Cristian Oană, and Eliot Sorel
Insight into phagocytosis of mature sexual (gametocyte) stages of Plasmodium falciparum using a human monocyte cell line, Geetha P. Bansal, Corey S. Weinstein, and Nirbhay Kumar
Oral health status, knowledge, attitudes and behaviours among marginalized children in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Delia Burnett, Jane Aronson, and Ramin Asgary
Immunological cross-reactivity between malaria vaccine target antigen P48/45 in plasmodium vivax and P. falciparum and cross-boosting of immune responses, Yi Cao, Geetha P. Bansal, Kristen Merino, and Nirbhay Kumar
Zoonotic tuberculosis in Africa: challenges and ways forward., Lauren Carruth, Amira A. Roess, Yitagele Tefere Mekonnen, Simenew Keskes Melaku, Mark Nichter, and Mo Salman
World Health Organization and emergency health: if not now, when?, Francesco Checchi, Ronald J. Waldman, Leslie F Roberts, Alastair Ager, Ramin Asgary, Marie T Benner, and +12 additional authors
Validation of an Obstetric Fistula Screening Questionnaire in Rural Nepal: a Community-based Cross-sectional and Nested Case-control Study with Clinical Examination., Ccg Chen, D Barry, S K Khatry, E M Klasen, M Singh, S C LeClerq, J Katz, James M. Tielsch, and L C Mullany
Estimating Indoor PM2.5 and CO Concentrations in Households in Southern Nepal: The Nepal Cookstove Intervention Trials, C. Chen, S. Zeger, P. Breysse, J. Katz, W. Checkley, F. Curriero, and James Tielsch
Characterizing the Reproduction Number of Epidemics with Early Subexponential Growth Dynamics., Gerardo Chowell, Cécile Viboud, Lone Simonsen, and Seyed M Moghadas
Potential for Extrinsic Incubation Temperature to Alter Interplay between Transmission Potential and Mortality of Dengue-Infected Aedes aegypti, Rebecca C. Christofferson and Christopher N. Mores
Bridging the gap between experimental data and model parameterization for chikungunya virus transmission predictions, Rebecca C. Christofferson, Christopher N. Mores, and Helen J. Wearing
Respiratory syncytial virus infection in infants in rural Nepal., Helen Y. Chu, Joanne Katz, James Tielsch, Subarna K. Khatry, Laxman Shrestha, Steven C. Leclerq, Amalia Magaret, Jane Kuypers, Mark Steinhoff, and Janet A. Englund
Clinical Presentation and Birth Outcomes Associated with Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection in Pregnancy., HY Chu, Joanne D. Katz, James Tielsch, Subarna K. Khatry, Laxman Shrestha, Steven C. LeClerq, Amalia Magaret, Jane Kuypers, Mark Steinhoff, and Janet A. Englund
Community coping strategies in response to hardship and human rights abuses among Burmese refugees and migrants at the Thai-Burmese border: A qualitative approach, Shawn Cohen and Ramin Asgary
Short Report: Serological Evidence of Under-Reported Dengue Circulation in Sierra Leone, Jaime M. de Araújo Lobo, Christopher N. Mores, Daniel G. Bausch, and Rebecca C. Christofferson
Are we making progress in the prevention and control of childhood obesity? It all depends on how you look at it., William H. Dietz
New Strategies to Prioritize Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity Interventions., William H. Dietz and Steven L. Gortmaker
Timing of initiation, patterns of breastfeeding, and infant survival: Prospective analysis of pooled data from three randomised trials, Karen Edmond, Sam Newton, Lisa Hurt, Caitlin S. Shannon, Betty R. Kirkwood, Sarmila Mazumder, Sunita Taneja, Nita Bhandari, Emily R. Smith, Masanja Honorati, Wafaie Fawzi, Ellen Piwoz, Rajiv Bahl, Sachiyo Yoshida, and Jose C. Martines
Impact of the Ebola outbreak on health systems and population health in Sierra Leone., J W T Elston, A J Moosa, F Moses, G Walker, N Dotta, Ronald J. Waldman, and J Wright
Evaluation of the evidence base for the alcohol industry's actions to reduce drink driving globally, Marissa B. Esser, James Bao, David H. Jernigan, and Adnan A. Hyder
Characteristics associated with alcohol consumption among emergency department patients presenting with road traffic injuries in Hyderabad, India, Marissa B. Esser, Shirin Wadhwaniya, Shivam Gupta, Shailaja Tetali, Gopalkrishna Gururaj, Kent A. Stevens, and Adnan A. Hyder
High perceived social standing is associated with better health in HIV-infected Ugandan adults on highly active antiretroviral therapy, A. E. Ezeamama, D. Guwatudde, M. Wang, D. Bagenda, K. Brown, R. Kyeyune, Emily Smith, H. Wamani, Y. C. Manabe, and W. W. Fawzi
Relationship of suicide rates with climate and economic variables in Europe during 2000–2012, Konstantinos Fountoulakis, Isaia Chatzikosta, Konstantinos Pastiadis, Prodromos Zanis, Wolfram Kawohl, Eliot Sorel, and +45 additional authors
Novel lesions of bones and joints associated with chikungunya virus infection in two mouse models of disease: New insights into disease pathogenesis, Brad A. Goupil, Margaret A. McNulty, Matthew J. Martin, Michael K. McCracken, Rebecca C. Christofferson, and Christopher N. Mores
A review of chikungunya virus-induced arthralgia: Clinical manifestations, therapeutics, and pathogenesis, Brad A. Goupil and Christopher N. Mores
Cervical Cancer Among Asian Americans, Patti E. Gravitt, R.H. N. Nguyen, and G X. Ma
Exploring geographic distributions of high-risk water, sanitation, and hygiene practices and their association with child diarrhea in Uganda, Mitsuaki Hirai, Amira A. Roess, Cheng Huang, and Jay P. Graham
A New Look at Care in Pregnancy: Simple, Effective Interventions for Neglected Populations, Stephen Hodgins, James M. Tielsch, Kristen Rankin, Amber Robinson, Annie Kearns, and Jacquelyn Caglia
“Quitting like a Turk:” How political priority developed for tobacco control in Turkey, Connie Hoe, Daniela C. Rodriguez, Yeşim Üzümcüoğlu, and Adnan A. Hyder
Infant vaccination timing: Beyond traditional coverage metrics for maximizing impact of vaccine programs, an example from southern Nepal., Michelle M Hughes, Joanne Katz, Janet A Englund, Subarna K Khatry, Laxman Shrestha, Steven C LeClerq, Mark Steinhoff, and James M. Tielsch
Road safety and teen and novice drivers in low-and middle-income countries, Adnan A. Hyder and Jeffrey C. Lunnen
The Road Traffic Injuries Research Network: A decade of research capacity strengthening in low- and middle-income countries, Adnan A. Hyder, Robyn Norton, Ricardo P�rez-N��ez, Francisco R. Mojarro-I�iguez, Margie Peden, Olive Kobusingye, Road Traffic Injuries Research Network's Group, Shanthi Ameratunga, Alfredo Celis, Abdul Ghaffar, Gururaj Gopalakrishna, Martha H�jar, Karen Hofman, Rebecca Ivers, Eva Jarawan, Ahmad Farhan Mohd Sadullah, Son Nguyen, and Wilson Odero
Ethical challenges in designing and implementing health systems research: Experiences from the field, Adnan Hyder and Carleigh Krubiner
Pooled amplicon deep sequencing of candidate plasmodium falciparum transmission-blocking vaccine antigens, Jonathan J. Juliano, Christian M. Parobek, Nicholas F. Brazeau, Billy Ngasala, Milijaona Randrianarivelojosia, Chanthap Lon, Kashamuka Mwandagalirwa, Antoinette Tshefu, Ravi Dhar, Bidyut K. Das, Irving Hoffman, Francis Martinson, Andreas Mårtensson, David L. Saunders, Nirbhay Kumar, and Steven R. Meshnick
Socioeconomic correlates of trauma: An analysis of emergency ward patients in Yaoundé, Cameroon, Seema Kacker, David Bishai, Georges Alain Etoundi Mballa, M. E. Monono, Eric B. Schneider, Marquise Kouo Ngamby, Adnan A. Hyder, and Catherine J. Juillard
Bioethics training programmes for Africa: evaluating professional and bioethics-related achievements of African trainees after a decade of Fogarty NIH investment, Nancy E. Kass, Joseph Ali, Kristina Hallez, and Adnan A. Hyder
Malaria case clinical profiles and Plasmodium falciparum parasite genetic diversity: A cross sectional survey at two sites of different malaria transmission intensities in Rwanda, Fredrick Kateera, Sam L. Nsobya, Stephen Tukwasibwe, Petra F. Mens, Emmanuel Hakizimana, Martin P. Grobusch, Leon Mutesa, Nirbhay Kumar, and Michele Van Vugt
Molecular surveillance of Plasmodium falciparum drug resistance markers reveals partial recovery of chloroquine susceptibility but sustained sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine resistance at two sites of different malaria transmission intensities in Rwanda, Fredrick Kateera, Sam L. Nsobya, Steven Tukwasibwe, Emmanuel Hakizimana, Leon Mutesa, Petra F. Mens, Martin P. Grobusch, Michèle van Vugt, and Nirbhay Kumar
Implementation and evaluation of a curriculum to teach reproductive health to adolescents in northern Madagas, Amanda Klinger and Ramin Asgary
Community survey on awareness and use of obstetric ultrasonography in rural Sarlahi District, Nepal., Naoko Kozuki, Joanne Katz, Subarna K. Khatry, James M. Tielsch, Steven C. LeClerq, and Luke C. Mullany
Accuracy of Home-Based Ultrasonographic Diagnosis of Obstetric Risk Factors by Primary-Level Health Care Workers in Rural Nepal, Naoko Kozuki, Luke C Mullany, Subarna K Khatry, Ram K Ghimire, Sharma Paudel, Karin Blakemore, Christine Bird, James M. Tielsch, Steven C LeClerq, and Joanne Katz
Validity of home-based sonographic diagnosis of obstetric risk factors by auxiliary nurse midwives in rural Nepal, Naoko Kozuki, Luke C. Mullany, Subarna K. Khatry, Ram Ghimire, Sharma Paudel, James M. Tielsch, and +5 additional authors
The right stand by ASM regarding journal impact factors, Nirbhay Kumar and Geetha P. Bansal
Observational studies and the difficult quest for causality: lessons from vaccine effectiveness and impact studies., Marc Lipsitch, Ayan Jha, and Lone Simonsen
Children and road traffic injuries: Can't the world do better?, Qingfeng Li, Olakunle Alonge, and Adnan A. Hyder
One outcome, many trends: Understanding national data sources for road traffic fatalities in China, Qingfeng Li, Huan He, Hailun Liang, David M. Bishai, and Adnan A. Hyder
Animal Husbandry Practices and Perceptions of Zoonotic Infectious Disease Risks Among Livestock Keepers in a Rural Parish of Quito, Ecuador., Christopher Lowenstein, William F Waters, Amira Roess, Jessica H Leibler, and Jay P Graham
In response, Ekaterina Lukianova-Hleb, Sarah Bezek, Reka Szigeti, Alexander Khodarev, Thomas Kelley, Andrew Hurrell, Michail Berba, Nirbhay Kumar, Umberto D’Alessandro, and Dmitri Lapotko
Attitudes and factors affecting acceptability of self-administered cervicovaginal sampling for human papillomavirus (HPV) genotyping as an alternative to Pap testing among multiethnic Malaysian women., Mahirah Ma'som, Nirmala Bhoo-Pathy, Nazrila Hairizan Nasir, Jerome Bellinson, Shridevi Subramaniam, Yuntong Ma, Siew-Hwei Yap, Pik-Pin Goh, Patti Gravitt, and Yin Ling Woo
Reduced immunogenicity of Plasmodium falciparum gamete surface antigen (Pfs48/45) in mice after disruption of disulphide bonds – evaluating effect of interferon-γ-inducible lysosomal thiol reductase, Kristen M. Merino, Geetha P. Bansal, and Nirbhay Kumar
Risk factors for small-for-gestational-age and preterm births among 19,269 Tanzanian newborns, Alfa Muhihi, Christopher R. Sudfeld, Emily R. Smith, Ramadhani A. Noor, Salum Mshamu, Christina Briegleb, Mohamed Bakari, Honorati Masanja, Wafaie Fawzi, and Grace Jean Yee Chan
Ethical Issues in Health Systems Research in Low and Middle-Income Countries, Paul Ndebele and Adnan A. Hyder
Molecular markers of radiation induced attenuation in intrahepatic plasmodium falciparum parasites, Miranda S. Oakley, Nitin Verma, Hong Zheng, Vivek Anantharaman, Kazuyo Takeda, Yamei Gao, Timothy G. Myers, Phuong Thao Pham, Babita Mahajan, Nirbhay Kumar, Davison Sangweme, Abhai K. Tripathi, Godfree Mlambo, L. Aravind, and Sanjai Kumar
Building capacity in implementation science research training at the University of Nairobi., George O Osanjo, Julius O Oyugi, Isaac O Kibwage, Walter O Mwanda, Elizabeth N Ngugi, Fredrick C Otieno, Wycliffe Ndege, Mara Child, Carey Farquhar, Jeremy Penner, Zohray Talib, and James N Kiarie
An Index of Community-Level Socioeconomic Composition for Global Health Research., Shivani Patel, Susan Sherman, Subarna Khatry, Steven LeClerq, James M. Tielsch, and Parul Christian
Prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum transmission reducing immunity among primary school children in a malaria moderate transmission region in Zimbabwe, Noah H. Paul, Arthur Vengesai, Takafira Mduluza, James Chipeta, Nicholas Midzi, Geetha P. Bansal, and Nirbhay Kumar
If Research Is a Pillar of Health System Development, Why Only Focus on Clinical Trials?, Bridget Pratt, Joseph Ali, and Adnan A. Hyder
Health Systems Research Consortia and the Promotion of Health Equity in Low and Middle-Income Countries, Bridget Pratt, Katharine A. Allen, and Adnan A. Hyder
Promoting equity through health systems research in low- and middle-income countries: Practices of researchers, Bridget Pratt, Katharine A. Allen, and Adnan A. Hyder
Governance of Transnational Global Health Research Consortia and Health Equity, Bridget Pratt and Adnan A. Hyder
How can health systems research reach the worst-off? A conceptual exploration, Bridget Pratt and Adnan A. Hyder
Towards deep inclusion for equity-oriented health research priority-setting: A working model, Bridget Pratt, Maria Merritt, and Adnan A. Hyder
Implementation and feasibility of an adapted two-stage visual inspection with acetic acid/cryotherapy-based cervical cancer screening programme for HIV-infected women in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, J. T. Price and R. Asgary
Burden, timing and causes of maternal and neonatal deaths and stillbirths in sub- Saharan Africa and South Asia: Protocol for a prospective cohort study, Mohammad Abdul Quaiyum, Antoinette Tshefu, John Otomba, Michel Kalonji, Andre Nguwo, Seige Ngaima, Betty Kirkwood, Caitlin Shannon, Seyi Soremekun, Maureen O'Leary, Samuel Newton, Nita Bhandari, Sarmila Mazumder, Sunita Taneja, Kiran Bhatia, Jasmine Kaur, Vishwajeet Kumar, and Aarti Kumar
Descriptive epidemiology of injury cases: findings from a pilot injury surveillance system in Abu Dhabi, M. Hafizur Rahman, Katharine A. Allen, Adnan A. Hyder, and Health Authority Abu Dhabi
Modeling mosquito-borne disease spread in U.S. Urbanized areas: The case of dengue in Miami, Michael A. Robert, Rebecca C. Christofferson, Noah J.B. Silva, Chalmers Vasquez, Christopher N. Mores, and Helen J. Wearing
Camels, MERS-CoV, and other emerging infections in east Africa., Amira Roess, Lauren Carruth, Sally Lahm, and Mo Salman
Unintended Pregnancies in Brazil - A Challenge for the Recommendation to Delay Pregnancy Due to Zika, Cynthia Schuck-Paim, Daniel Lopez, Lone Simonsen, and Wladimir Alonso
Maternal Deaths Account for a Small Proportion of the Total Deaths Among Reproductive Age Women., Carolyn G Scrafford and James M. Tielsch
Evaluation of Digital Auscultation to Diagnose Pneumonia in Children 2 to 35 Months of Age in a Clinical Setting in Kathmandu, Nepal: A Prospective Case-Control Study, C. G. Scrafford, S. C. Basnet, I. Ansari, L. Shrestha, S. Shrestha, R. Ghimire, J. Katz, S. K. Khatry, W. Checkley, S. Basnet, M. Shrestha, S. B. Thapa, P. Kansakar, S. Puree, V. Todi, and J. M. Tielsch
The effect of neonatal vitamin A supplementation on morbidity and mortality at 12 months: A randomized trial, Emily R. Smith, Alfa Muhihi, Salum Mshamu, Christopher R. Sudfeld, Ramadhani Abdallah Noor, Donna Spiegelman, Roger L. Shapiro, Honorati Masanja, and Wafaie Fawzi
Household food insecurity as a determinant of overweight and obesity among low-income Hispanic subgroups: Data from the 2011-2012 California Health Interview Survey., Teresa M. Smith, Uriyoán Colón-Ramos, Courtney A. Pinard, and Amy L. Yaroch
Highlighting Uncertainty and Recommendations for Improvement of Black Carbon Biomass Fuel-Based Emission Inventories in the Indo-Gangetic Plain Region., Sutyajeet I Soneja, James M. Tielsch, Subarna K Khatry, Frank C Curriero, and Patrick N Breysse
Comparative analysis of three prehospital emergency medical services organizations in India and Pakistan, V. Sriram, G. Gururaj, J. A. Razzak, R. Naseer, and A. A. Hyder
Effect of an improved biomass stove on acute lower respiratory infections in young children in rural Nepal: a cluster-randomised, step-wedge trial, James M. Tielsch, Joanne Katz, Subarna K. Khatry, Laxman Shrestha, Patrick N. Breysse, Scott L. Zeger, and +5 additional authors
An exploratory multi-centric depression screening study in primary care setting from India, Adarsh Tripathi, Roy A. Kallivayalil, Dipesh Bhagabati, and Eliot Sorel
A generalized-growth model to characterize the early ascending phase of infectious disease outbreaks, Cecile Viboud, Lone Simonsen, and Gerardo Chowell
Global Mortality Impact of the 1957–1959 Influenza Pandemic, Cecile Viboud, Lone Simonsen, Rodrigo Fuentes, Jose Flores, Mark A. Miller, and Gerardo Chowell
Global, regional, national, and selected subnational levels of stillbirths, neonatal, infant, and under-5 mortality, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015, Haidong Wang, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Matthew M. Coates, Megan Coggeshall, Lalit Dandona, Khassoum Diallo, Elisabeth Barboza Franca, Maya Fraser, Nancy Fullman, Peter W. Gething, Simon I. Hay, Yohannes Kinfu, Maaya Kita, Xie Rachel Kulikoff, Heidi J. Larson, Juan Liang, Xiaofeng Liang, and Stephen S. Lim
Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015, H. Wang, M. Naghavi, C. Allen, R. M. Barber, A. Carter, D. C. Casey, F. J. Charlson, A. Z. Chen, M. M. Coates, M. Coggeshall, L. Dandona, D. J. Dicker, H. E. Erskine, A. J. Ferrari, C. Fitzmaurice, K. Foreman, M. H. Forouzanfar, and M. S. Fraser
Informing road traffic intervention choices in South Africa: the role of economic evaluations, Hadley K.H. Wesson, Nkuli Boikhutso, Adnan A. Hyder, Melanie Bertram, and Karen J. Hofman
A study of depression screening in primary care setting of China, Layan Zhang, Zou Tao, Yanhong Hao, and Eliot Sorel
Submissions from 2015
An ultrasensitive reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction assay to detect asymptomatic low-density Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax infections in small volume blood samples, Matthew Adams, Sudhaunshu N. Joshi, Gillian Mbambo, Amy Z. Mu, Shay M. Roemmich, Biraj Shrestha, Kathy A. Strauss, Nicole Eddington Johnson, Khine Zaw Oo, Tin Maung Hlaing, Zay Yar Han, Kay Thwe Han, Si Thura, Adam K. Richards, Fang Huang, Myaing M. Nyunt, and Christopher V. Plowe
When should governments subsidize health? The case of mass deworming., Amrita Ahuja, Sarah Baird, Joan Hicks, Michael Kremer, Edward Miguel, and et al.
A global map of hemispheric influenza vaccine recommendations based on local patterns of viral circulation, Wladimir J. Alonso, Christine Yu, Cecile Viboud, Stephanie A. Richard, Cynthia Schuck-Paim, Lone Simonsen, Wyller A. Mello, and Mark A. Miller
Epidemiology of occupational injuries by nationality in Qatar: Evidence for focused occupational safety programmes, Hassan Al-Thani, Ayman El-Menyar, Rafael Consunji, Ahammed Mekkodathil, Ruben Peralta, Katharine A. Allen, and Adnan A. Hyder
Evolution and conservation of Central African biodiversity: Priorities for future research and education in the Congo Basin and Gulf of Guinea, Nicole M. Anthony, Christiane Atteke, Michael W. Buford, Francisco Dallmeier, Adam Freedman, Sally A. Lahm, and +15 additional authors