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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
What Are the Tradeoffs When People Have to Choose Between Clean Air and Clean Water? | North Carolina State University News | May 12, 2025
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
Water & Health
Evaluating the accuracy of Salmonella Typhi Hemolysin E and lipopolysaccharide IgA to discriminate enteric fever from other febrile illnesses in South Asia | Jessica C. Seidman, Kristen Aiemjoy, Mehreen Adnan, Irum Fatima Dehraj, Junaid Iqbal, Khalid Iqbal, Seema Irfan, Nahidul Islam, Md. Shakul Kabir, Nishan Katuwal, Noshi Maria, Muhammad Ashraf Memon, Sira Jam Munira, Shiva Ram Naga, Sailesh Pradhan, Anik Sarkar, Rajeev Shrestha, Sony Shrestha, Syed Muktadir Al Sium, Krista Vaidya, Douglas Ezra Morrison, Alice S. Carter, Senjuti Saha, Dipesh Tamrakar, Mohammad Tahir Yousafzai, Denise O. Garrett, Stephen P. Luby, Farah Naz Qamar, Samir Saha, Jason R. Andrews, Richelle C. Charles | medRxiv | June 22, 2025
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and typhoid conjugate vaccine introduction on typhoid fever in Nepal | Dipesh Tamrakar, Shivram Naga, Esther Jung, Basudha Shrestha, Pratibha Bista Roka, Rabin Sharma Pokharel, Sabin Bikram Shah, Arjya Tara Bajracharya, Surendra K. Mahadup, Nishan Katuwal, Kate Doyle, Jessica C. Seidman, Alice S. Carter, Stephen P. Luby, Isaac I. Bogoch, Kristen Aiemjoy, Denise O. Garrett, Rajeev Shrestha, Jason R. Andrews | medRxiv | June 18, 2025
Air Pollution
Stanford teams move emerging sustainability technologies and business models forward with TomKat Innovation Transfer awards: SoranoAI [Ayako Kawano] | TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy | September 2, 2025
Inventive, Impactful, and AI-Driven: Students Showcase Bold Ideas at Demo Day 2025 [Ayako Kawano] | Stanford Graduate School of Business | June 11, 2025
Stanford University Libraries Data Sharing Prizes for 2025 [Ayako Kawano] | Stanford Libraries | June 3, 2025
Study: How bricks are stacked impacts air quality in Bangladesh | Jonathan Lambert | NPR: Goats and Soda | May 18, 2025
Study finds cleaner brick kilns practices cut emissions by 20%, energy use by 23% | United News of Bangladesh (UNB) | May 14, 2025
Improving practices at Bangladesh’s brick kilns: a win-win for business and the environment | Nina Brooks, Debashish Biswas, Sameer Maithel, Grant Miller, Aprajit Mahajan, Md. Rofi Uddin, Shoeb Ahmed, Moogdho Mahzab, Mahbubur Rahman, Stephen P. Luby, Naomi Frim-Abrams | VoxDev | May 12, 2025
Research guides Bangladesh toward cleaner brick production | Rob Jordan | Stanford Report | May 8, 2025
Q&A: Cleaning up brick kiln pollution without legally enforced regulations | Rob Jordan | Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment | May 8, 2025
Simple, Effective Solutions Cut Emissions from Bangladesh’s Informal Brick Kilns | Scienmag | May 8, 2025
Innovative Approach Developed to Cut Emissions and Enhance Air Quality in Bangladesh’s Brick Manufacturing Industry | Scienmag | May 8, 2025
Clearing the air: Reducing pollution from coal-burning brick kilns in Asia | Rob Jordan | Momentum: Stanford Impact Labs | May 5, 2025
Air Pollution
Effectiveness and acceptability of ventilation modifications in healthcare facilities, Liberia 2022–2023 | Ronan F. Arthur, Ashley Styczynski, Krithika Srinivasan, Amos Tandanpolie, Philip Bemah, Ethan Bell, Jason R. Andrews, Tom Baer, Jorge L. Salinas | Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology | August 22, 2025
Cover Article: Reducing emissions and air pollution from informal brick kilns: Evidence from Bangladesh | Nina Brooks, Debashish Biswas, Sameer Maithel, Grant Miller, Aprajit Mahajan, M. Rofi Uddin, Shoeb Ahmed, Moogdho Mahzab, Mahbubur Rahman, Stephen P. Luby | Science | May 8, 2025
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
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
Emerging Infections
Abraar Karan, MD: June 2025 Recognitions | Stanford Medicine | July 11, 2025
Innovative Solutions for a Healthier World: Announcing 16 new Stanford Global Health Seed Grants: Assessing H5N1 Risk in California Communities through a Mixed-Methods, One Health-Focused Approach [Abraar Karan] | Stanford Global Health | June 13, 2025
You Can’t Acquire HIV From a Mosquito Bite; Here’s Why [Aly Singleton] | TheBody | May 14, 2025
Scientists hope far-UVC light could help stop the next airborne pandemic before it starts | CBS News | April 8, 2025
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
Beyond Acute Jaundice: refining case definitions for suspected hepatitis E in South Sudan and Bangladesh | Aybüke Koyuncu, Repon C. Paul, Robin Nesbitt, Kinya Vincent Asilaza, Catia Alvarez, Kajal C. Banik, Joseph Wamala, Arifa Nazneen, Melat Haile, Shariful Amin Sumon, Etienne Gignoux, Kishor K. Paul, Manuel Albela, Arifa Akram, Frederick Beden Loro, M. Salim Uzzaman, Duol Biem, Monica Rull, Stephen P. Luby, Isabella Eckerle, John Rumunu, Iza Ciglenecki, Emily S. Gurley, Andrew S. Azman | medRxiv | October 6, 2025
Reconstructing pathogen-specific antibody binding epitopes and age-dependent immune signatures from proteomic-scale peptide libraries | Everlyn Kamau, Nikolina Walas, Minlu Zhang, Kathy Kamath, Jack Reifert, John Shon, Shahjahan Ali, Md Ziaur Rahman, Abul K. Shoab, Syeda L. Famida, Salma Akther, Md. Saheen Hossen, Palash Mutsuddi, Mahbubur Rahman, Andrew N. Mertens, Richelle C. Charles, Daniel T. Leung, Stephen Luby, Audrie Lin, Benjamin F. Arnold | medRxiv | September 22, 2025
Co-circulation dynamics of henipaviruses, filoviruses and rubulaviruses in South Asian bat populations | Noam Ross, Ariful Islam, A Marm Kilpatrick, Stephen Hayes, Kevin J Olival, Emily S Gurley, Md Jubayer Hossain, Hume E Field, Gary Crameri, Lin-Fa Wang, Stephen P Luby, Peter Daszak, JH Epstein | Charles Sturt University | July 9, 2025
National burden and optimal vaccine policy for Japanese encephalitis virus in Bangladesh | Mariana Perez Duque, Kishor Kumar Paul, Rebeca Sultana, Gabriel Ribeiro dos Santos, Megan O’Driscoll, Abu M. Naser, Mahmudur Rahman, Mohammad Shafiul Alam, Hasan M. Al-Amin, Mohammed Ziaur Rahman, Mohammad Enayet Hossain, Repon C. Paul, Elias Teixeira Krainski, Stephen P. Luby, Simon Cauchemez, Jessica Vanhomwegen, Emily S. Gurley, Henrik Salje | medRxiv | July 7, 2025
Antispike IgG antibody decay after immunisation with fractional versus full booster doses of COVID-19 vaccines: a 6-month longitudinal analysis of the FRACT-COV trial in Brazil | Juliana Barros Verruck, Marco Antonio Moreira Puga, Roberto Dias de Oliveira, Patricia Vieira da Silva, Vivek Charu, Haley Hedlin, Di Lu, Amy Zhang, Victor Ritter, Blake Shaw, Joelle I Rosser, Jessica Couvillion Seidman, Alice Scott Carter, Farah Qamar, Stephen Luby, Denise Garret, Julio Croda | BMJ Public Health | July 5, 2025
Child Cognitive Development
Testing finds lead in popular protein powders | MedicalXpress | October 16, 2025 (Audio | KPVI) Also: US News and World Report
Report Finds Lead in Naked Protein Powders and Other Popular Brands | The New York Times | October 14, 2025
Case Study: Bangladesh Contaminated Spice | ChemMatters | October 2025
Study Finds Low-Level Arsenic Exposure in Public Drinking Water Associated with Reduced Birthweight and Increased Preterm Birth Risk | Scienmag | June 16, 2025
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
Child Cognitive Development
Lead exposure and antisocial behavior: A systematic review of human and animal evidence | Rachel M. Shaffer, Laura M. Carlson, Kirstin Hester, Haesoo Kim, Parker Duffney, Jenna E. Forsyth, Greg Ferraro, Christine Till, Amanda Haddock, Jenna Strawbridge, Charles C. Lanfear, Zahra Gohari, Alexandra L. Lee, Howard Hu, Ellen Kirrane | Environment International | September 16, 2025
Evaluation of a multicomponent child development intervention delivered through the government health system: a feasibility study | Jesmin Sultana, Helen O Pitchik, Abul Kasham Shoab, Tarique Md Nurul Huda, Rezaul Hasan, Fahmida Akter, Tania Jahir, Md Khobair Hossain, Jyoti Bhushan Das, Md Ruhul Amin, Farzana Yeasmin, Rizwana Khan, Jenna E Forsyth, Laura H Kwong, Jahangir Rashid, Sabina Ashrafee, Mahbubur Rahman, Malay K Mridha, Fahmida Tofail, Peter J Winch, Stephen P Luby, Lia C H Fernald | BMJ Global Health | July 20, 2025
Using machine learning to identify subgroups with the highest expected benefit in a population-based water, sanitation, handwashing, and nutrition intervention | Caitlin Hemlock, Laura H. Kwong, Lia C.H. Fernald, Alan E. Hubbard, John M. Colford, Fahmida Tofail, Md. Mahbubur Rahman, Sarker Parvez, Stephen P. Luby, Andrew N. Mertens | medRxiv | June 18, 2025
Preventing Human Extinction ~ Planetary Health
2025 Food@Stanford Snack Grants Pitch Presentation - Transforming Single Cell Protein into Healthy Sustainable Human Food | Stanford Bio-X | September 2, 2025
Announcing the 2025 Food@Stanford Snack Grants! [Stephen Luby: 2 grants] | Stanford Bio-X | September 2, 2025
The AI Doomsday Machine Is Closer to Reality Than You Think [Max Lamparth] | Politico | September 2, 2025
The hidden mental health cost of climate distress | Rob Jordan | Stanford Report | July 30, 2025
Inventive, Impactful, and AI-Driven: Students Showcase Bold Ideas at Demo Day 2025 [Ayako Kawano] | Stanford Graduate School of Business | June 11, 2025 [Story : YouTube]
All hope is not lost in the fight against the climate crisis | Victoria Bermudez | Stanford Human and Planetary Health: HPH Voices | May 14, 2025
"Our Unhealthy Planet: Implications for Medical Research and Practice" | Medicine Grand Rounds | Stanford Department of Medicine | Stephen Luby | March 5, 2025
Accelerating agricultural growth through tech advancements ‘crucial’ | The Financial Express (Bangladesh) | February 23, 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
Preventing Human Extinction ~ Planetary Health
Medical Impacts of Thermobaric Weapons: A Scoping Review | Aparna Cheran, Anika Gnaedinger, Ari Tolany, Eunice Obi, Serhii Tertyshnyii, Amila Ratnayake, Ahmed Mokhallalati, Hailemariam Eyayaw Mitiku, Teresa Jewell, Christopher LeBoa, Paul Amoroso, Arthur Van Coller, Hannah B H Wild | Military Medicine | September 15, 2025
Measuring and mitigating overreliance is necessary for building human-compatible AI | Lujain Ibrahim ... Max Lamparth .. | arXiv | September 8, 2025
Adolescent psychological health, temporal discounting, and climate distress under increased flood exposure in Bangladesh: a mixed-methods cross-sectional study | Sumaiya Tazin, Mahfuza Islam, Amy J Pickering, Laura H Kwong, Andrew Mertens, Caitlin Niven, Benjamin F Arnold, Alan E Hubbard, Mahfuja Alam, Debashis Sen, Sharmin Islam, Mahbubur Rahman, Leanne Unicomb, Stephen P Luby, John M Colford, Jade Benjamin-Chung, Ayse Ercumen | The Lancet Planetary Health | July 30, 2025
Flooding and elevated prenatal depression in rural Bangladesh: A mixed methods study | Suhi Hanif, Jannat-E-Tajreen Momo, Farjana Jahan, Liza Goldberg, Natalie Herbert, Afsana Yeamin, Abul Kasham Shoab, Reza Mostary Akhter, Sajal Kumar Roy, Gabriella Barratt Heitmann, Ayse Ercumen, Mahbubur Rahman, Fahmida Tofail, Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, Jade Benjamin-Chung | PLOS Global Public Health | July 21, 2025
Adolescent Psychological Health Under Chronic Climate Change-Related Stress: A Mixed-Methods Cross-Sectional Study in Bangladesh | Liza Goldberg, Stephen Luby, Noshin Sayiara Shuchi, Titly Sen, Nazmul Hossen, Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, Erik G. Jensen, Nicole M. Ardoin, Mahbubur Rahman, Farjana Jahan | Preprint: The Lancet: SSRN | December 4, 2024
Study Design
Solutions-Oriented Research is a Badly-Needed Shift in Culture | Reema Saleh | Stanford Impact Labs | September 1, 2023
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
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
Book Corner
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
