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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

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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

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Getting Typhoid Shot
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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

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Air Pollution

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

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Air Pollution

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

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Emerging Infections

Innovative Solutions for a Healthier World: Announcing 16 new Stanford Global Health Seed Grants [Abraar Karan] | Stanford Global Health | June 13, 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

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Emerging Infections

Environmental monitoring for Ascaris egg remediation: a critical review | Nathaniel I Strong, Jack T Andraka, Sung-Geun Woo, Sahar H El Abbadi, Aaron J Lewis, Sindy K Y Tang, Stephen P Luby, Craig S Criddle | Environmental Science and Pollution Research | April 2, 2025

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 PugaRoberto 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

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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

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Child Cognitive Development

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

Equity in the effect of small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements on child growth, development and anemia | Pearl Anne Ante-Testard, Charles D. Arnold, K. Ryan Wessells, Seth Adu-Afarwuah, Per Ahorn, Elodie Becquey, Kenneth H. Brown, Parul Christian, John M. Colford Jr., Lia C. H. Fernald, Emanuela Galasso, Sonja Y. Hess, Jean H. Humphrey, Lieven Huybregts, Lora L. Iannotti, Stephen P. Luby, Kenneth Maleta, Clair Null, Andrew J. Prendergast, Ann M. Weber, Hasmot Ali, Shahjahan Ali, Ulla Ashorn, Jaden Bendabenda, Bernard Chasekwa, Loty Diop, Sherlie Jean-Louis Dulience, Kaniz Jannat, Chiza Kumwenda, Anna Lartey, Agnes Le Port, Jef L Leroy, Charles Mangani, Susana Matias, Malay Kanti Mridha, Robert Ntozini, Harriet Okronipa, Jean-Bosco Ouedraogo, John Phuka, Mahbubur Rahman, Lisy Ratsifandrihamanana, Saijuddin Shaikh, Abu Ahmed Shamim, Naume Tavengwa, Mariama Touré, Patricia Wolff, Tarik Benmarhnia, Christine P. Stewart, Kathryn G. Dewey, Benjamin F. Arnold | medRxiv | June 6, 2025

School and home-based educational intervention in urban Kenya: Sustained improvements in knowledge, attitudes, and practices for Aedes aegypti control | Prathik Kalva, Jenna Forsyth, Francis Mutuku, Gladys Agola, Mwashee Lutt, Angelle Desiree LaBeaud | PLOS Global Public Health | June 4, 2024

Biomarkers of environmental enteric dysfunction and neurodevelopmental outcomes among children in rural Bangladesh and Kenya: a prospective cohort study | Gene G Ho, Beryl S Achando, Shahjahan Ali, Caitlin Hemlock, Helen O Pitchik, Christine P Stewart, Fahmida Tofail, Md Ziaur Rahman, Mohammad Alauddin, Gouthami Rao, Holly N Dentz, John P Buleti, Cecilia Nekesa, Charles D Arnold, Syeda L Famida, Md Saheen Hossen, Palash Mutsuddi, Salma Akther, Jessica A Grembi, Sophia T Tan, Sarah T Alauddin, Theodora Meerkerk, Marlene K Wolfe, Priscah Cheruiyot, Sammy M Njenga, Abul K Shoab, Mahbubur Rahman, Leanne Unicomb, Benjamin F Arnold, Patricia Kariger, Alan E Hubbard, John M Colford Jr, Amy J Pickering, Clair Null, Stephen P Luby, Lia CH Fernald, Andrew N Mertens, Audrie Lin | American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | June 4, 2025

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Preventing Human Extinction ~ Planetary Health

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

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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

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Study Design

Geographic pair-matching in large-scale cluster randomized trials | Benjamin F. Arnold, Francois Rerolle, Christine Tedijanto, Sammy M. Njenga, Mahbubur Rahman, Ayse Ercumen, Andrew Mertens, Amy J. Pickering, Audrie Lin, Charles D. Arnold, Kishor Das, Christine P. Stewart, Clair Null, Stephen P. Luby, John M. Colford Jr., Alan E. Hubbard, Jade Benjamin-Chung | Nature Communications | February 5, 2024

Spillover effects on health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review | Benjamin-Chung J, Abedin J, Berger D, Clark A, Jimenez V, Konagaya E, Tran D, Arnold BF, Hubbard AE, Luby SP, Miguel E, Colford JM. | International Journal of Epidemiology | June 3, 2019

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