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PUBLICATIONS
Brick Kilns
Brooks et al. 2025, "Reducing emissions and air pollution from informal brick kilns: Evidence from Bangladesh"
Miller et al. 2024, “A Business Case for Human Rights at Work? Experimental Evidence on Labor Trafficking and Child Labor at Brick Kilns in Bangladesh”
Brooks et al. 2024, “Building blocks of change: The energy, health, and climate co-benefits of more efficient brickmaking in Bangladesh”
Brooks et al. 2023, “Health consequences of small-scale industrial pollution: Evidence from the brick sector in Bangladesh
Project Unleaded
Forsyth et al. 2025, "Lead Exposure and Antisocial Behavior: A Systematic Review of Human and Animal Evidence"
Luby et al. 2024, "Removing lead from the global economy"
Forsyth et al. 2024, “Reductions in spice lead levels in the republic of Georgia: 2020–2022”
Forsyth et al. 2024, "Evidence of turmeric adulteration with lead chromate across South Asia"
Forsyth et al. 2023, "Food safety policy enforcement and associated actions reduce lead chromate adulteration in turmeric across Bangladesh"
Methane to Fish Feed
El Abbadi et al., 2021, Displacing fishmeal with protein derived from stranded methane
Read more about the Luby Lab's work on transforming methane to fish feed >
Pandemic Prevention
Moore et al. 2024, Measures to prevent and treat Nipah virus disease: research priorities for 2024–29
Islam et al. 2023, Nipah Virus Exposure in Domestic and Peridomestic Animals Living in Human Outbreak Sites, Bangladesh, 2013–2015
McKee et al. 2022, Nipah Virus Detection at Bat Roosts after Spillover Events, Bangladesh, 2012–2019
Nikolay et al. 2021, Assessing the feasibility of Nipah vaccine efficacy trials based on previous outbreaks in Bangladesh
McKee et al. 2020, The Ecology of Nipah Virus in Bangladesh: A Nexus of Land-Use Change and Opportunistic Feeding Behavior in Bats
Read more about the Luby Lab's work on pandemic prevention >
Revitalising Informal Settlements and their Environments
Kim et al. 2025, Contaminated drinking water facilitates Escherichia coli strain-sharing within households in urban informal settlements
Niven et al. 2025, Associations between weather extremes and faecal contamination along pathogen transmission pathways in rural Bangladeshi households: a prospective observational study
Siko et al. 2025, Environmental surveillance of soil-transmitted helminths and other enteric pathogens in settings without networked wastewater infrastructure
Existential Risks
Goldberg et al. 2025, Adolescent psychological health, temporal discounting, and climate distress under increased flood exposure in Bangladesh: a mixed-methods cross-sectional study
Zimmer 2025, The Power to Kill Life Itself: Michel Foucault, Biopolitics, and the Political Challenge of Human Extinction
Wild et al. 2025, Synthesizing the Evidence Base to Enhance Coordination between Humanitarian Mine Action and Emergency Care for Casualties of Explosive Ordnance and Explosive Weapons: A Scoping Review