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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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
