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Heavy Metal Pollution and Stillbirth in Bangladesh | Christlee Doris Elmera | September 1, 2023
Bangladesh Stillbirth Metagenomics | Seth Hoffman | June 26, 2023
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Water & Health
20x20 | Developing innovative clean water solutions | Woods Institute for the Environment | October 18, 2024
5 Questions with Dr. Seth Ari Sim-Son Hoffman, Global Health Postdoctoral Affiliate | Jamie Hansen | Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health | May 3, 2023
Water & Health
Trends in antimicrobial resistance amongst Salmonella Typhi in Bangladesh: A 24-year retrospective observational study (1999-2022) | Arif Mohammad Tanmoy, Yogesh Hooda, Mohammad Saiful Islam Sajib, Hafizur Rahman, Anik Sarkar, Dipu Das, Nazrul Islam, Naito Kanon, Md. Asadur Rahman, Denise O. Garrett, Hubert P. Endtz, Stephen P. Luby, Mohammod Shahidullah, Md. Ruhul Amin, Jahangir Alam, Mohammed Hanif, Samir K. Saha, Senjuti Saha | PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases | October 4, 2024
Field Effectiveness of a Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine: The 2018 Navi Mumbai Pediatric TCV Campaign | Kashmira Date, Christopher LeBoa, Seth A. Hoffman, Pradeep Haldar, Pauline Harvey, Qian An, Chenhua Zhang, Vijay N. Yewale, Savita Daruwalla, Dhanya Dharmapalan, Jeetendra Gavhane, Shrikrishna Joshi, Rajesh Rai, Varsha Rathod, Keertana Shetty, Divyalatha S. Warrier, Shalini Yadav, Rahul Shimpi, Niniya Jayaprasad, Lily Horng, Kirsten Fagerli, Priyanka Borhade, Debjit Chakraborty, Arun Katkar, Abhishek Kunwar, Jason R. Andrews, Sunil Bahl, Pankaj Bhatnagar, Shanta Dutta, Stephen P. Luby | The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | October 2, 2024
Factors Influencing Vaccine Receipt During a 2018 Pediatric Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine Campaign in Navi Mumbai, India | Priyanka Borhade, Christopher LeBoa, Niniya Jayaprasad, Kashmira Date, Pradeep Haldar, Pauline Harvey, Rahul Shimpi, Qian An, Chenhua Zhang, Lily Horng, Kirsten Fagerli, Vijay N. Yewale, Savita Daruwalla, Dhanya Dharmapalan, Jeetendra Gavhane, Shrikrishna Joshi, Rajesh Rai, Varsha Rathod, Keertana Shetty, Divyalatha S. Warrier, Shalini Yadav, Debit Chakraborty, Sunil Bahl, Arun Katkar, Abhishek Kunwar, Jason R. Andrews, Pankaj Bhatnagar, Shanta Dutta, Stephen P. Luby, Seth A. Hoffman | The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | September 3, 2024
Improved Child Feces Management Mediates Reductions in Childhood Diarrhea from an On-Site Sanitation Intervention: Causal Mediation Analysis of a Cluster-Randomized Trial in Rural Bangladesh | Jesse D Contreras, Mahfuza Islam, Andrew Mertens, Amy J Pickering, Benjamin F Arnold, Jade Benjamin-Chung, Alan E Hubbard, Mahbubur Rahman, Leanne Unicomb, Stephen P Luby, John M Colford Jr, Ayse Ercumen | Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health | September 1, 2024
Air Pollution
20x20 | Reducing health impacts from brick kilns | Woods Institute for the Environment | October 18, 2024
Solving complex global health and environmental problems | Center for Innovation in Global Health | September 12, 2024
To save topsoil & reduce pollution, Bangladesh moves toward alternative bricks | Abu Siddique | Mongabay Conservation News | March 4, 2024
Saving Thousands of Lives by Improving Brick Manufacturing in Bangladesh | icddr,b | November 20, 2023
Solutions-Oriented Research is a Badly-Needed Shift in Culture | Reema Saleh | Stanford Impact Labs | September 1, 2023
Air Pollution
Building blocks of change: The energy, health, and climate co-benefits of more efficient brickmaking in Bangladesh | Nina Brooks, Debashish Biswas, Sameer Maithel, Sonal Kumar, Mohammad Rofi Uddin, Shoeb Ahmed, Moogdho Mahzab, Grant Miller, Mahbubur Rahman, Stephen P. Luby | Energy Research & Social Science | November 2024
A Business Case for Human Rights at Work? Experimental Evidence on Labor Trafficking and Child Labor at Brick Kilns in Bangladesh | Grant Miller, Debashish Biswas, Aprajit Mahajan, Kimberly Singer Babiarz, Nina R. Brooks, Jessie Brunner, Sania Ashraf, Jack Shane, et. al. | NBER Working Papers | August 2024
Air pollution mortality from India’s coal power plants: unit-level estimates for targeted policy | Kirat Singh, Tapas Peshin, Shayak Sengupta, Sumil K. Thakrar, Christopher W. Tessum, Jason D. Hill, Ines M. L. Azevedo , Stephen P. Luby | Environmental Research Letters | May 15, 2024
Bridging Data Gaps for Air Quality Monitoring: Daily PM2.5 Estimates for 10 km Grid Cells in India | Ayako Kawano, Makoto Kelp, Minghao Qiu, Eeshan Chaturvedi, Sunil Dahiya, Marshall Burke | AGU 2024 | March 7, 2024
Emerging Infections
'An important story to tell': Sara Cody reflects on the pandemic | Stanford Report | August 1, 2024
CIGH research director Steve Luby co-authors CIDRAP’s Nipah virus roadmap | Stephanie Soucheray | University of Minnesota: Center for Infectious Diseases Research & Policy (CIDRAP) | July 2, 2024
Canary in the sewer: Using wastewater as a disease early warning tool | Caroline Reinhart | Woods Institute for the Environment | June 20, 2024
Imagine a World Podcast: Episode 14: Community engagement in global health: Zahra Fazal | Stanford Knight-Hennessy Scholars | May 1, 2024
Data is a neighbor, not a number | Jamie Hansen | Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health | April 26, 2024
Opinion: How measles reemerged as a threat in California and elsewhere | Abraar Karan, Julie Parsonnet | Los Angeles Times | March 19, 2024
A turning point in Nigeria’s fight against cervical cancer | Jamie Hansen | Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health | March 13, 2024
Emerging Infections
Strategic vaccine stockpiles for regional epidemics of emerging viruses: A geospatial modeling framework | Colin J. Carlson, Romain Garnier, Andrew Tiu, Stephen P. Luby, Shweta Bansal | Vaccine | October 3, 2024
Towards integrated cross-sectoral surveillance of pathogens and antimicrobial resistance: Needs, approaches, and considerations for linking surveillance to action | Rachael Lappan, Steven L. Chown, Matthew French, Laura Perlaza-Jiménez, Nenad Macesic, Mark Davis, Rebekah Brown, Allen Cheng, Thomas Clasen, Lindus Conlan, Frederick Goddard, Rebekah Henry, Daniel R. Knight, Fuyi Li, Stephen Luby, Dena Lyras, Gaofeng Ni, Scott A. Rice, Francesca Short, Jiangning Song, Andrea Whittaker, Karin Leder, Trevor Lithgow, Chris Greening | Environment International | October 2, 2024
Informing an investment case for Japanese encephalitis vaccine introduction in Bangladesh | Mariana Perez Duque, Abu M Naser, Gabriel Ribeiro Dos Santos, Megan O'Driscoll, Kishor K Paul, Mahmudur Rahman, Mohammad S Alam, Hasan M Al-Amin, Mohammed Z Rahman, Mohammad E Hossain, Repon C Paul, Stephen P Luby, Simon Cauchemez, Jessica Vanhomwegen, Emily S Gurley, Henrik Salje | Science Advances | August 9, 2024
Measures to prevent and treat Nipah virus disease: research priorities for 2024-29 | Kristine A Moore, Angela J Mehr, Julia T Ostrowsky, Angela K Ulrich, Nicolina M Moua, Petra C Fay, Peter J Hart, Josephine P Golding, Virginia Benassi, Marie-Pierre Preziosi, Christopher C Broder, Emmie de Wit, Pierre B H Formenty, Alexander N Freiberg, Emily S Gurley, Kim Halpin, Stephen P Luby, Laura T Mazzola, Joel M Montgomery, Christina F Spiropoulou, Devendra T Mourya, Shahana Parveen, Mahmudur Rahman, Cathy Roth, Lin-Fa Wang, Michael T Osterholm | The Lancet Infectious Diseases | July 1, 2024
Child Cognitive Development
Health experts push for the elimination of a ‘remarkably harmful toxin’ | Rob Jordan | Stanford Report | November 5, 2024
20x20 | Combating lead contamination in a common spice | Woods Institute for the Environment | October 14, 2024
The world’s spending to fight global lead poisoning just doubled | Dylan Matthews | Vox | October 2, 2024
A lead poisoning mystery: How 2 detectives fingered a surprising culprit | Gabrielle Emanuel | NPR | September 23, 2024
We can protect millions of kids from a global killer — without billions of dollars | Samantha Powers, Alexander Berger | Washington Post | September 22, 2024
Lower-carbon concrete floors could pave the way to a health solution | Madison Pobis, Rob Jordan, Kurt Hickman, and Harry Gregory | Stanford Report | September 4, 2024
Child Cognitive Development
Removing lead from the global economy | Stephen P Luby, Jenna E Forsyth, Zafar Fatmi, Mahbubur Rahman, Jesmin Sultana, Erica L Plambeck, N Grant Miller, Eran Bendavid, Peter J Winch, Howard Hu, Bruce Lanphear, Philip J Landrigan | The Lancet Planetary Health | November 2024
Evidence of turmeric adulteration with lead chromate across South Asia | Jenna E. Forsyth, Dinsha Mistree, Emily Nash, Manyu Angrish, Stephen P. Luby | Science of The Total Environment | November 1, 2024
Stress Biomarkers and Child Development in Young Children in Bangladesh | Zachary Butzin-Dozier, Andrew N Mertens, Sophia T Tan, Douglas A Granger, Helen O Pitchik, Dora Il'yasova, Fahmida Tofail, Md Ziaur Rahman, Ivan Spasojevic, Idan Shalev, Shahjahan Ali, Mohammed Rabiul Karim, Sunny Shahriar, Syeda Luthfa Famida, Gabrielle Shuman, Abul K Shoab, Salma Akther, Md Saheen Hossen, Palash Mutsuddi, Mahbubur Rahman, Leanne Unicomb, Kishor K Das, Liying Yan, Ann Meyer, Christine P Stewart, Alan Hubbard, Ruchira Tabassum Naved, Kausar Parvin, Md Mahfuz Al Mamun, Stephen P Luby, John M Colford, Lia C H Fernald, Audrie Lin | Psychoneuroendocrinology | June 16, 2024
Preventing Human Extinction ~ Planetary Health
Stanford launches center focused on human and planetary health | Rob Jordan | Stanford Report | October 31, 2024
Bio-Strategies and Leadership Holds Inaugural Congressional Fellowship Program on Biotechnology Strategy | Hoover Institution | October 18, 2024
New climate and sustainability research efforts will focus on eight 'Solution Areas' | Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability | Stanford Report | August 6, 2024
Inaugural conference on pollution and health highlights the need for interdisciplinary effort : Video | Bethel Alebel Bayrau | Woods Institute for the Environment | June 3, 2024
Pollution and Health: Generating Evidence and Action to Advance Human and Planetary Health | Stanford Initiative on Business & Environmental Sustainability | May 21, 2024
Navigating the Complexities of Existential Risk: Insights from the 2023 Stanford Existential Risks Conference | Gabriella Ermanni | Stanford Freeman Spogli Institute | April 4, 2024
Preventing Human Extinction ~ Planetary Health
Risking Escalation for the Sake of Efficiency: Ethical Implications of AI Decision-Making in Conflicts | Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs | Max Lamparth | July 30, 2024
TomOpt: Differential optimisation for task- and constraint-aware design of particle detectors in the context of muon tomography | Giles C Strong ... Max Lamparth ... | Machine Learning: Science and Technology | July 3, 2024
Analyzing and Editing Inner Mechanisms of Backdoored Language Models | Max Lamparth, Anka Reuel | ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency (FAccT'24) | June 5, 2024
Escalation Risks from Language Models in Military and Diplomatic Decision-Making | Juan-Pablo Rivera ... Max Lamparth ... | ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency (FAccT'24) | June 5, 2024
Why the Military Can't Trust AI: Large Language Models can make bad decisions - and could trigger nuclear war | Max Lamparth, Jacquelyn Schneider | Foreign Affairs | April 29, 2024
Study Design
Solutions-Oriented Research is a Badly-Needed Shift in Culture | Reema Saleh | Stanford Impact Labs | September 1, 2023
Five Lessons from a Scientist as Problem Solver: Stephen Luby & Cleaner Brick Manufacturing in Bangladesh | Sarah Jane Staats | Stanford Impact Labs | December 9, 2021
Dishonest Politicians and Public Goods Provision | Moogdho Mahzab | Pacific Conference for Development Economics (PacDev2020), Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA), UC Berkeley | March 14, 2020
General News
BioMed Central (BMC)
GiveWell (2017)
Innovations for Poverty Action (ipa)
IQ.Wiki (Everipedia)
Rural and Remote Health (2012)
Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health (CIGH) Global Health Research Convening (2016)
Book References:
. One Health: Improving Food Safety Through a One Health Approach: Workshop Summary | Institute of Medicine (IOM) | September 2012
. P&G Study: Fundamentals of Water Security: Quantity, Quality and Equity in a Changing Climate | Jim A. Chamberlain, David A. Sabatini | John Wiley & Sons | 1992
