Sixty-one DGHI-affiliated authors—including faculty, staff and alumni—recently shared new discoveries on a variety of global health topics in peer-reviewed publications. Click on the article links below to learn more:
Jihad Abdelgadir (MS alumna), Cyrus Elahi (MS student), João Ricardo Nickenig Vissoci, Michael Haglund
- Journal of Neurosurgery – Trends in Neurosurgical Care in Western Uganda: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis
Jihad Abdelgadir (MS alumna), Michael Haglund, Emily Smith, Henry Rice, João Ricardo Nickenig Vissoci, Catherine Staton
Gary Bennett, Dori Steinberg
- American Journal of Preventive Medicine – Effectiveness of an App and Provider Counseling for Obesity Treatment in Primary Care
Axel Berky, Ernesto Ortiz, Joel Meyer, William Pan
- Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis – Predictors of Mitochondrial DNA Copy Number and Damage in a Mercury‐Exposed Rural Peruvian Population near Artisanal and Small‐Scale Gold Mining: An Exploratory Study
Emily Cherenack (DGHI doctoral scholar), Kathleen Sikkema, Melissa Watt
- AIDS and Behavior – Avoidant Coping Mediates the Relationship Between Self-Efficacy for HIV Disclosure and Depression Symptoms Among Men Who Have Sex with Men Newly Diagnosed with HIV
Cody Cichowitz (DGHI Doris Duke fellow), Melissa Watt
Coleen Cunningham, Svati Shah
- The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal – Pneumococcal Colonization and the Nasopharyngeal Microbiota of Children in Botswana
David Eagle, Jia Yao, Rae Jean Proeschold-Bell
- Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities – Disentangling Race and Socioeconomic Status in Health Disparities Research: An Examination of Black and White Clergy
Jane Fieldhouse (MS alumna), Kerry Mallinson (global health undergraduate), Rick Tsao (global health undergraduate), Gregory Gray
- Emerging Microbes and Infections – A Systematic Review of Evidence that Enteroviruses May Be Zoonotic
Tamara Fitzgerald
- Pediatric Surgery International – Children with Appendicitis on the US–Mexico Border Have Socioeconomic Challenges and are Best Served by a Freestanding Children’s Hospital
Michael Freemark
- New England Journal of Medicine – Determinants of Risk for Childhood Obesity
Eric Green, Arun Augustine (MS alumnus), Anna Karin Hess (global health undergraduate)
- Journal of Medical Internet Research – Developing a Digital Marketplace for Family Planning: Pilot Randomized Encouragement Trial
Michael Haglund
- Journal of Neurosurgery – Causes, Clinical Presentation, Management, and Outcomes of Chronic Subdural Hematoma at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital
- Journal of Neurosurgery – Introduction. Neurosurgical Opportunities in Global Health Inequities
Megan Huchko
- The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health – Effectiveness of Catch-Up Human Papillomavirus Vaccination on Incident Cervical Neoplasia in a US Health-Care Setting: A Population-Based Case-Control Study
Tazeen Jafar
- American Journal of Hypertension – Determinants of Uncontrolled Hypertension in Rural Communities in South Asia—Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka
Hussain Lalani (Duke undergraduate alumnus), Joseph Egger, Lawrence Park, Peter Kussin
- Annals of the American Thoracic Society – Intensive Care Outcomes and Mortality Prediction at a National Referral Hospital in Western Kenya
Paul Lantos, Sallie Permar
- Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery – Geographic and Racial Disparities in Infant Hearing Loss
Charles Nunn
- Sleep Health – Does the Moon Influence Sleep in Small-Scale Societies?
Michael Merson
Manoj Mohanan
- The Lancet Global Health – High-Quality Health Systems in the Sustainable Development Goals Era: Time for a Revolution
Zhao Ni (doctoral certificate student)
- International Journal of Nursing Sciences – An mHealth Intervention to Improve Medication Adherence among Patients with Coronary Heart Disease in China: Development of an Intervention
William Pan
- The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene – Individual and Spatial Risk of Dengue Virus Infection in Puerto Maldonado, Peru
Subhrendu Pattanayak
- Handbook of Environmental Economics – Through the Looking Glass: Environmental Health Economics in Low And Middle Income Countries
Laura Pulscher (MS alumna), Gregory Gray
- Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation – Field Evaluation of Two Commercial Real-time RT-PCR Assays for Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus Detection using Sera from Ill and Healthy Pigs, China
Alexandra Shannon (MS alumna), Faraz Usmani (DGHI doctoral scholar), Subhrendu Pattanayak, Marc Jeuland
- Environmental and Resource Economics – The Price of Purity: Willingness to Pay for Air and Water Purification Technologies in Rajasthan, India
Emily Smith, Brittney van de Water (DGHI doctoral certificate alumna), Mathama Malakha Bility (global health undergraduate alumna), João Ricardo Nickenig Vissoci, Michael Haglund, Janet Prvu Bettger
- BMC Health Services Research – Availability of Post-Hospital Services Supporting Community Reintegration for Children with Identified Surgical Need in Uganda
Nathan Thielman
- Journal of Graduate Medical Education – After Global Health Training—The Path Forward
Tu Tran (MS alumnus), Emily Smith, Michael Haglund
- International Journal of Surgery – Road Traffic Injuries: Cross-Sectional Cluster Randomized Countrywide Population Data from 4 Low-Income Countries
Melissa Watt, Elizabeth Knippler (global health undergraduate alumna), Brandon Knettel, Kathleen Sikkema
- AIDS and Behavior – HIV Disclosure Among Pregnant Women Initiating ART in Cape Town, South Africa: Qualitative Perspectives During the Pregnancy and Postpartum Periods
Gavin Yamey
- The BMG – The Extricable Links between Health, Wealth, and Profits
- The Lancet – Alma-Ata at 40 Years: Reflections from The Lancet Commission on Investing in Health
Faculty, affiliates, scholars and alumni: Want your publications listed in the monthly Research Roundup? Email the communications team with the citation or a link to the article! The sooner you email us, the better—we encourage you to let us know when your publication has been accepted.
