Addressing the Burden of Disease Attributable to Air Pollution in India: The Need to Integrate across Household and Ambient Air Pollution Exposures

CGPH FACULTY: Kirk R. Smith DATE OF PUBLICATION: January 2014 REGION: Asia REFERENCE: Balakrishnan K, Cohen A, Smith KR. Addressing the Burden of Disease Attributable to Air Pollution in India: The Need to Integrate across Household and Ambient Air Pollution Exposures. Environ Health Perspect. 2014 Jan 1;122(1):A6-7. doi: 10.1289/ehp.1307822 SUMMARY/ABSTRACT: In the comparative risk assessment

Commitment contracts and team incentives: a randomized controlled trial for smoking cessation in Thailand

CGPH FACULTY: William Dow DATE OF PUBLICATION: November 2013 REGION: Asia (Thailand) REFERENCE: White JS, Dow WH, Rungruanghiranya S. Commitment contracts and team incentives: a randomized controlled trial for smoking cessation in Thailand. Am J Prev Med. 2013 Nov;45(5):533-42. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2013.06.020. SUMMARY/ABSTRACT: Treatment for tobacco dependence is not available in many low-resource settings, especially in

Estimating the incidence reporting rates of new influenza pandemics at an early stage using travel data from the source country.

CGPH FACULTY: Hildy Fong DATE OF PUBLICATION: May 2014 REGION: Asia REFERENCE: Chong KC, Fong HF, Zee CY. Estimating the incidence reporting rates of new influenza pandemics at an early stage using travel data from the source country. Epidemiol Infect. 2014 May;142(5):955-63. doi: 10.1017/S0950268813002550. Epub 2013 Oct 10. SUMMARY/ABSTRACT: During the surveillance of influenza pandemics,

Clinical presentation, etiology, and survival in adult acute encephalitis syndrome in rural Central India

CGPH FACULTY: John Colford, Art Reingold DATE OF PUBLICATION: September 2013 REGION: Global REFERENCE: Joshi R, Mishra PK, Joshi D, Santhosh SR, Parida MM, Desikan P, Gangane N, Kalantri SP, Reingold A, Colford JM Jr. Clinical presentation, etiology, and survival in adult acute encephalitis syndrome in rural Central India. Clin Neurol Neurosurg. 2013 Sep;115(9):1753-61. doi:

Modeling national average household concentrations of PM2.5 from solid cookfuel use for the global burden of disease -2010 assessment: results from cross-sectional assessments in India

CGPH FACULTY: Kirk R. Smith DATE OF PUBLICATION: September 2013 REGION: Asia (India) REFERENCE: Balakrishnan K, Ghosh S, Ganguli B, Sambandam S, Bruce N, Barnes DF, Smith KR. Modeling national average household concentrations of PM2.5 from solid cookfuel use for the global burden of disease -2010 assessment: results from cross-sectional assessments in India. Environ Health.

Evaluation of an educational intervention on villagers’ knowledge, attitude and behaviour regarding transmission of Schistosoma japonicum in Sichuan province, China

CGPH FACULTY: Robert Spear DATE OF PUBLICATION: September 2013 REGION: Asia (Sichuan, China) REFERENCE: Wang S, Carlton EJ, Chen L, Liu Y, Spear RC. Evaluation of an educational intervention on villagers’ knowledge, attitude and behaviour regarding transmission of Schistosoma japonicum in Sichuan province, China. Acta Trop. 2013 Sep;127(3):226-35. doi: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2013.05.009. Epub 2013 May 24. SUMMARY/ABSTRACT:

Chronic respiratory symptoms in children following in utero and early life exposure to arsenic in drinking water in Bangladesh

CGPH FACULTY: Allan H. Smith, John Balmes DATE OF PUBLICATION: August 2013 REGION: Asia (Bangladesh) REFERENCE: Smith AH, Yunus M, Khan AF, Ercumen A, Yuan Y, Smith MH, Liaw J, Balmes J, von Ehrenstein O, Raqib R, Kalman D, Alam DS, Streatfield PK, Steinmaus C. Chronic respiratory symptoms in children following in utero and early

Cluster-randomised controlled trials of individual and combined water, sanitation, hygiene and nutritional interventions in rural Bangladesh and Kenya: the WASH Benefits study design and rationale

CGPH AFFILIATED FACULTY: John Colford, Lia Fernald DATE OF PUBLICATION: August 2013 REGION: Africa (Kenya) and Asia (Bangladesh) REFERENCE: Arnold BF, Null C, Luby SP, Unicomb L, Stewart CP, Dewey KG, Ahmed T, Ashraf S, Christensen G, Clasen T, Dentz HN, Fernald LC, Haque R, Hubbard AE, Kariger P, Leontsini E, Lin A, Njenga SM,

How the Avahan HIV prevention program transitioned from the Gates Foundation to the government of India

CGPH AFFILIATED FACULTY: Stefano Bertozzi DATE OF PUBLICATION: July 2013 REGION: Asia (India) REFERENCE: Sgaier SK, Ramakrishnan A, Dhingra N, Wadhwani A, Alexander A, Bennett S, Bhalla A, Kumta S, Jayaram M, Gupta P, Piot PK, Bertozzi SM, Anthony J. How the Avahan HIV prevention program transitioned from the Gates Foundation to the government of

Health of China’s rural-urban migrants and their families: a review of literature from 2000 to 2012.

CGPH FACULTY: Hildy Fong DATE OF PUBLICATION: May 2014 REGION: Asia REFERENCE: Mou J, Griffiths SM, Fong H, Dawes MG. Health of China’s rural-urban migrants and their families: a review of literature from 2000 to 2012. Br Med Bull. 2013;106:19-43. doi: 10.1093/bmb/ldt016. Epub 2013 May 19. Review. SUMMARY/ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Socioeconomic transformation in China at the

Acute lower respiratory infection in childhood and household fuel use in Bhaktapur, Nepal

CGPH AFFILIATED FACULTY: Michael Bates, Kirk R. Smith DATE OF PUBLICATION: May 2013 REGION: Asia (Bhaktapur, Nepal) REFERENCE: Bates MN, Chandyo RK, Valentiner-Branth P, Pokhrel AK, Mathisen M, Basnet S, Shrestha PS, Strand TA, Smith KR. Acute lower respiratory infection in childhood and household fuel use in Bhaktapur, Nepal. Environ Health Perspect. 2013 May;121(5):637-42. doi:

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

CGPH AFFILIATED FACULTY: Allan H. Smith DATE OF PUBLICATION: April 2013 REGION: Asia (Bangladesh) 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. 2013