Ambient temperature during gestation and cold-related adult mortality in a Swedish cohort, 1915-2002.

CGPH FACULTY: Kirk R. Smith, Ralph Catalano DATE OF PUBLICATION: January 2014 REGION: Europe REFERENCE: Bruckner TA, van den Berg GJ, Smith KR, Catalano RA. Ambient temperature during gestation and cold-related adult mortality in a Swedish cohort, 1915-2002. Soc Sci Med. 2014 Jan 31. pii: S0277-9536(14)00076-8. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.01.049 SUMMARY/ABSTRACT: For all climatic regions, mortality due

Effects of woodsmoke exposure on airway inflammation in rural Guatemalan women

CGPH FACULTY: Kirk R. Smith DATE OF PUBLICATION: March 2014 REGION: Latin America REFERENCE: Guarnieri MJ, Diaz JV, Basu C, Diaz A, Pope D, Smith KR, Smith-Sivertsen T, Bruce N, Solomon C, McCracken J, Balmes JR. Effects of woodsmoke exposure on airway inflammation in rural Guatemalan women. PLoS One. 2014 Mar 13;9(3):e88455. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088455. eCollection

Characterisation of culturable vaginal Lactobacillus species among women with and without Bacterial Vaginosis from the United States and India: A cross-sectional study.

CGPH FACULTY: Lee Riley, Art Reingold DATE OF PUBLICATION: May 2014 REGION: Asia REFERENCE: Madhivanan P, Raphael E, Rumphs A, Krupp K, Ravi K, Srinivas V, Arun A, Reingold AL, Klausner JD, Riley LW. Characterisation of culturable vaginal Lactobacillus species among women with and without Bacterial Vaginosis from the United States and India: A cross-sectional

Migration and health: lessons from China

CGPH FACULTY: Hildy Fong DATE OF PUBLICATION: May 2014 REGION: Asia REFERENCE: Fong, Hildy & Mou, Jin. (2014). Migration and health: lessons from China. In S. Griffiths, J. Tang & E. Yeoh (Eds), Routledge Handbook of Global Public Health in Asia (pp. 39-61). New York, NY: Routledge. SUMMARY/ABSTRACT: Global public health is of growing concern

Millions dead: how do we know and what does it mean? Methods used in the comparative risk assessment of household air pollution.

CGPH FACULTY: Kirk Smith, John Balmes DATE OF PUBLICATION: April 2014 REGION: Global REFERENCE: Smith KR, Bruce N, Balakrishnan K, Adair-Rohani H, Balmes J, Chafe Z, Dherani M, Hosgood HD, Mehta S, Pope D, Rehfuess E; HAP CRA Risk Expert Group. Millions dead: how do we know and what does it mean? Methods used in

Burden of disease from inadequate water, sanitation and hygiene in low- and middle-income settings: a retrospective analysis of data from 145 countries.

CGPH FACULTY: John Colford DATE OF PUBLICATION: April 2014 REGION: Global REFERENCE: Prüss-Ustün A, Bartram J, Clasen T, Colford JM Jr, Cumming O, Curtis V, Bonjour S, Dangour AD, De France J, Fewtrell L, Freeman MC, Gordon B, Hunter PR, Johnston RB, Mathers C, Mäusezahl D, Medlicott K, Neira M, Stocks M, Wolf J, Cairncross

Serological measures of malaria transmission in haiti: comparison of longitudinal and cross-sectional methods.

CGPH FACULTY: John Colford DATE OF PUBLICATION: April 2014 REGION: Latin America REFERENCE: Arnold BF, Priest JW, Hamlin KL, Moss DM, Colford JM Jr, Lammie PJ. Serological measures of malaria transmission in haiti: comparison of longitudinal and cross-sectional methods. PLoS One. 2014 Apr 1;9(4):e93684. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0093684. eCollection 2014 SUMMARY/ABSTRACT: Efforts to monitor malaria transmission increasingly

mSpray: A mobile phone technology to improve malaria control efforts and monitor human exposure to malaria control pesticides in Limpopo, South Africa.

CGPH FACULTY: Brenda Eskenazi DATE OF PUBLICATION: April 2014 REGION: Africa REFERENCE: Eskenazi B, Quirós-Alcalá L, Lipsitt JM, Wu LD, Kruger P, Ntimbane T, Nawn JB, Bornman MS, Seto E. mSpray: A mobile phone technology to improve malaria control efforts and monitor human exposure to malaria control pesticides in Limpopo, South Africa. Environ Int. 2014

Are Hormonal Contraceptive Users More Likely to Misreport Unprotected Sex? Evidence From a Biomarker Validation Study in Zimbabwe.

CGPH FACULTY: DATE OF PUBLICATION: March 2014 REGION: Africa REFERENCE: McCoy SI, Ralph LJ, Padian NS, Minnis AM. Are Hormonal Contraceptive Users More Likely to Misreport Unprotected Sex? Evidence From a Biomarker Validation Study in Zimbabwe. AIDS Behav. 2014 Mar 12. SUMMARY/ABSTRACT: We analyzed biomarker validation data of unprotected sex from women in Zimbabwe to

Occurrence of trivalent monomethyl arsenic and other urinary arsenic species in a highly exposed juvenile population in Bangladesh.

CGPH FACULTY: Allan H. Smith DATE OF PUBLICATION: April 2014 REGION: Asia REFERENCE: Kalman DA, Dills RL, Steinmaus C, Yunus M, Khan AF, Prodhan MM, Yuan Y, Smith AH. Occurrence of trivalent monomethyl arsenic and other urinary arsenic species in a highly exposed juvenile population in Bangladesh. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2014 Mar-Apr;24(2):113-20. doi:

Seasonal variation of peripheral blood leukocyte telomere length in Costa Rica: A population-based observational study.

CGPH FACULTY: William Dow DATE OF PUBLICATION: May 2014 REGION: Latin America REFERENCE: Rehkopf DH, Dow WH, Rosero-Bixby L, Lin J, Epel ES, Blackburn EH. Seasonal variation of peripheral blood leukocyte telomere length in Costa Rica: A population-based observational study. Am J Hum Biol. 2014 May;26(3):367-75. doi: 10.1002/ajhb.22529. Epub 2014 Feb 25. SUMMARY/ABSTRACT: Peripheral blood

A Multiplex Nucleic Acid Amplification Test for the Diagnosis of Dengue, Malaria, and Leptospirosis.

CGPH FACULTY: Eva Harris DATE OF PUBLICATION: March 2014 REGION: Global REFERENCE: Waggoner JJ, Abeynayake J, Balassiano I, Lefterova M, Sahoo MK, Liu Y, Vital-Brazil JM, Gresh L, Balmaseda A, Harris E, Banaei N, Pinsky BA. A Multiplex Nucleic Acid Amplification Test for the Diagnosis of Dengue, Malaria, and Leptospirosis. J Clin Microbiol.2014 Mar 26.