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Risk Factors Associated with Stillbirth in a Case-Control Study in Faridpur, Bangladesh, 2022-2023 | Sofia Pesantez, Ashley Styczynski, Allison Sherris, Seth Hoffman, Md. Zahid Hossain, Hafsa Hossain Atia, Shahana Parveen, Gary Shaw, Stephen Luby | 2025 Stanford Global Health Research Convening | January 29, 2025
Heavy Metal Pollution and Stillbirth in Bangladesh | Christlee Doris Elmera | September 1, 2023
Bangladesh Stillbirth Metagenomics | Seth Hoffman | June 26, 2023
NEWS & PUBLICATIONS
Water & Health
Improving global health: A closer look at WASH interventions | Water Quality | Research | University of Michigan School of Public Health | January 28, 2025
POLICY ANALYSIS: Assessing regional strategies to cope with drought, climate, and environmental flow policy impacts for a sustainable water supply: A case study of the Bay Area | Bridget C. Gile, Randall T. Holmes, Allison R. Sherris, Scott Fendorf, Richard G. Luthy | MAVEN'S NOTEBOOK | California Water News Central | January 6, 2025
20x20 | Developing innovative clean water solutions | Woods Institute for the Environment | October 18, 2024
Atomizing Atomic Habits: The Fourth Law of Behavior Change | Alex Dahms | Hive Digital | July 22, 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
Sensor-measured versus reported latrine use to characterize sanitation intervention uptake in a randomized controlled trial among households in rural Bangladesh | Mahfuza Islam, Jesse D. Contreras, Leanne Unicomb, Mahbubur Rahman, Benjamin F. Arnold, John M. Colford, Stephen P. Luby, Evan A. Thomas, Ayse Ercumen | International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health | March 2025
Associations between weather extremes and faecal contamination along pathogen transmission pathways in rural Bangladeshi households: a prospective observational study | Caitlin G Niven, Mahfuza Islam, Anna Nguyen, Jessica A Grembi, Andrew Mertens, Amy J Pickering, Laura H Kwong, Mahfuja Alam, Debashis Sen, Sharmin Islam, Mahbubur Rahman, Leanne Unicomb, Alan E Hubbard, Stephen P Luby, John M Colford Jr, Benjamin F Arnold, Jade Benjamin-Chung, Ayse Ercumen | The Lancet Planetary Health | January 2025
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
The Influence of Wildfire Smoke on Ambient PM2.5 Chemical Species Concentrations in the Contiguous US | Emma Krasovich Southworth, Minghao Qiu, Carlos F. Gould, Ayako Kawano, Jeff Wen, Sam Heft-Neal, Kara Kilpatrick Voss, Alandra Lopez, Scott Fendorf, Jennifer Anne Burney, Marshall Burke | Environmental Science & Technology February 3, 2025
Improved daily PM2.5 estimates in India reveal inequalities in recent enhancement of air quality | Ayako Kawano, Makoto Kelp, Minghao Qiu, Kirat Singh, Eeshan Chaturvedi, Sunil Dahiya, Inés Azevedo, Marshall Burke | Science Advances | January 24, 2025
Estimating the Exposure–Response Relationship between Fine Mineral Dust Concentration and Coccidioidomycosis Incidence Using Speciated Particulate Matter Data: A Longitudinal Surveillance Study | Amanda K. Weaver, Nicole Keeney, Jennifer R. Head, Alexandra K. Heaney, Simon K. Camponuri, Philip Collender, Abinash Bhattachan, Gregory S. Okin, Ellen A. Eisen, Gail Sondermeyer-Cooksey, Alexander Yu, Duc J. Vulgia, Seema Jain, John Balmes, John Taylor, Justin V. Remais, Matthew J. Strickland | Environmental Health Perspectives | January 13, 2025
The Impact of Clean Grid Transition on Wastewater Sector Greenhouse Gas Emissions | Xiatong Li, Cuihong Song, Sahar H. El Abbadi, Jennifer R. Stokes-Draut, Zhiyong Jason Ren | Environmental Science & Technology Letters | January 8, 2025
Emerging Infections
Why This Bird Flu Is Way Worse Than Before | So Expensive | Business Insider | April 3, 2025
Bird flu on the rise | The Lancet Voice | Podcast on Spotify | March 27, 2025
Expert insights on avoiding a bird flu epidemic | Jamie Hansen | Stanford Report | March 27, 2025
A prevention plan for avoiding a bird flu epidemic | Jamie Hansen | Scope | March 27, 2025
As dengue cases rise, research points to a simple solution: trash cleanup | Jamie Hansen | Stanford Report | January 13, 2025
Celebrating World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week | Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health | November 20, 2024
Emerging Infections
Immunogenicity and reactogenicity of fractional vs. full booster doses of COVID-19 vaccines: a non-inferiority, randomised, double-blind, phase IV clinical trial in Brazil | Marco Antonio Moreira Puga, Roberto Dias de Oliveira, Patricia Vieira da Silva, Vivek Charu, Haley Hedlin, Di Lu, Amy Zhang, Blake Shaw, Joelle Ivy Rosser, Jessica Couvillion Seidman, Alice Scott Carter, Farah Naz Qamar, Stephen P. Luby, Denise O. Garrett, Julio Croda | The Lancet Regional Health - Americas | April 1, 2025
Changes in enteric fever trends during the COVID-19 pandemic from the Surveillance for Enteric Fever in Asia Project: a cross-sectional study | Sira Jam Munira, Shiva R. Naga, Irum Fatima Dehraj, Kate Doyle, Naito Kanon, Mohammad Tahir Yousafzai, Dipesh Tamrakar, Afshan Piyar Ali, Annaya Barman Jui, Alice S. Carter, Dipu Chandra Das, Surrendar Dawani, Khalid Iqbal, Seema Irfan, Mohammad Shahidul Islam, Muhammad Ashraf Memon, Tuba Khan, Shamsun Nahar, Md. Hafizur Rahman, Nasir Saleem Saddal, Jessica C. Seidman, Rajeev Shrestha, Humaira Susmita, Jason R. Andrews, Stephen P. Luby, Denise O. Garrett, Farah Naz Qamar, Samir K. Saha, Senjuti Saha | The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia | March 29, 2025
Population-based estimates of hepatitis E virus associated mortality in Bangladesh | The Journal of Infectious Diseases | Repon C Paul, Heather F Gidding, Arifa Nazneen, Kajal C Banik, Shariful Amin Sumon, Kishor K Paul, Arifa Akram, M Salim Uzzaman, Alexandra Tejada-Strop, Saleem Kamili, Stephen P. Luby, Andrew Hayen, Emily S Gurley | The Journal of Infectious Diseases | March 13, 2025
Expanding testing early in the H5N1 outbreak | Abraar Karan, Grant Higerd-Rusli, Matthew Hernandez, Ranu Dhillon, Benjamin A. Pinsky | The Lancet | March 8, 2025
Steps to prevent and respond to an H5N1 epidemic in the USA | Ranu S. Dhillon, Abraar Karan, Robert F. Garry, Devabhaktuni Srikrishna | Nature Medicine | February 24, 2025
Child Cognitive Development
Strengthening MELIA: Insights from Cristiano Rossignoli (WorldFish) & Moogdho Mahzab (IFPRI) on CGIAR Evaluations | Cristiano Rossignoli, Moogdho Mahzab | IAES | CGIAR | March 24, 2025
Adopt renewable energy immediately for a better future: experts | The Daily Star | February 6, 2025
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
Child Cognitive Development
Maternal experience of intimate partner violence, maternal depression, and parental stress are not associated with child telomere length in Bangladesh | Diego Figueroa, Md. Mahfuz Al Mamun, Da Kyung Jung, Gaoge Li, Sophia T. Tan, Farheen Jamshed, Zachary Butzin-Dozier, Andrew N. Mertens, Jue Lin, Helen O. Pitchik, Kausar Parvin, Alexis Silvera, Lia C. H. Fernald, Benjamin F. Arnold, Shahjahan Ali, Abul K. Shoab, Syeda Luthfa Famida, Salma Akther, Md. Ziaur Rahman, Md. Saheen Hossen, Palash Mutsuddi, Mahbubur Rahman, Leanne Unicomb, Patricia Kariger, Christine P. Stewart, Alan E. Hubbard, Jade Benjamin-Chung, Firdaus S. Dhabhar, Stephen P. Luby, John M. Colford Jr., Ruchira Tabassum Naved, Audrie Lin | Scientific Reports | March 12, 2025
Treatment heterogeneity of water, sanitation, hygiene, and nutrition interventions on child growth by environmental enteric dysfunction and pathogen status for young children in Bangladesh | PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases | Zachary Butzin-Dozier, Yunwen Ji, Jeremy Coyle, Ivana Malenica, Elizabeth T. Rogawski McQuade, Jessica Anne Grembi, James A. Platts-Mills, Eric R. Houpt, Jay P. Graham, Shahjahan Ali, Md Ziaur Rahman, Mohammad Alauddin, Syeda L. Famida, Salma Akther, Md. Saheen Hossen, Palash Mutsuddi, Abul K. Shoab, Mahbubur Rahman, Md. Ohedul Islam, Rana Miah, Mami Raniuchi, Jie Liu, Sarah T. Alauddin, Christine P. Stewart, Stephen P. Luby, John M. Colford Jr., Alan E. Hubbard, Andrew N. Mertens, Audrie Lin | PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases | February 18, 2025
Water, sanitation, handwashing, and nutritional interventions can reduce child antibiotic use: evidence from Bangladesh and Kenya | Ayse Ercumen, Andrew N. Mertens, Zachary Butzin-Dozier, Da Kyung Jung, Shahjahan Ali, Beryl S. Achando, Gouthami Rao, Caitlin Hemlock, Amy J. Pickering, Christine P. Stewart, Sophia T. Tan, Jessica A. Grembi, Jade Benjamin-Chung, Marlene Wolfe, Gene G. Ho, Md. Ziaur Rahman, Charles D. Arnold, Holly N. Dentz, Sammy M. Njenga, Theodora Meerkerk, Belinda Chen, Maya Nadimpalli, Mohammad Aminul Islam, Alan E. Hubbard, Clair Null, Leanne Unicomb, Mahbubur Rahman, John M. Colford Jr, Stephen P. Luby, Benjamin F. Arnold, Audrie Lin | Nature Communications | January 9, 2025
Preventing Human Extinction ~ Planetary Health
"Our Unhealthy Planet: Implications for Medical Research and Practice" | Medicine Grand Rounds | Stanford Department of Medicine | Stephen Luby | March 5, 2025
Health Equity Symposium speakers stress partnerships in addressing disparities | John Sanford | Stanford Medicine | January 16, 2025
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
Preventing Human Extinction ~ Planetary Health
The Power to Kill Life Itself: Michel Foucault, Biopolitics, and the Political Challenge of Human Extinction | Daniel P. Zimmer | Cambridge University Press: Cambridge Core: Perspectives on Politics | March 20, 2025
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
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
