Research in Latin America
Faculty
Argentina
Paul Gertler: water provision, child mortality, poverty
Brazil
Jason Coburn: slum and urban health, environmental policy and planning, healthy cities
Karen Nelson: environmental engineering, drinking water and sanitation
Lee Riley: slum health, tuberculosis, drug-resistant gram-negative bacterial infections
Art Reingold: HIV/AIDS, emerging/re emerging infections, vaccine preventable diseases, surveillance
Julia Walsh: maternal and child health, vaccines, cost-effectiveness analysis and resource allocation, technology
Chile
Allan Smith: arsenic, drinking water
Richard Scheffler: health policy and economics
Costa Rica
William Dow: policy analysis, mortality, disability, allostatic load, life-course behaviors
Brenda Eskenazi: effects of environmental exposure on reproductive, perinatal, and child health
Dominican Republic
Paul Gertler, Stef Bertozzi, Nancy Padian: evaluation of impact of randomized job training and life skills training on risk behaviors
Ecuador
Lia Fernald: rural and urban poor, conditional cash transfer programs, child health
Karen Sokal-Gutierrez: child oral health, malnutrition, oral health interventions
El Salvador
Karen Sokal-Gutierrez: child oral health, malnutrition, oral health interventions
Guatemala
Kirk R. Smith, John Balmes, Nina Holland: Childhood respiratory health, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, biomarkers of genetic susceptibility and oxidative stress, pollution monitoring and time-activity assessment technologies, interaction of spatial factors with disease and exposure, temperature as a risk factor for disease, indoor air pollution (wood burning stoves)
Mexico
Stefano Bertozzi: evaluation research, conditional cash transfer programs, health economics/policy
John Colford: waterborne infectious disease, safe water
Brenda Eskenazi: childhood obesity, migration, pesticides (PBDE, DDT)
Lia Fernald: growth trajectories, obesity, micro-nutrient supplementation, child health and development, conditional cash transfer programs, mental health
Paul Gertler: mental health, child health and development, conditional cash transfer programs
Nina Holland: childhood obesity, migration, pesticides
Kara Nelson: safe water, sanitation
Julia Walsh: rotavirus vaccine, vaccine cost-effective analysis
Nicaragua
Aubree Gordon:dengue epidemiology
Eva Harris: dengue prevention and control epidemiology; acute febrile illness; influenza-like illness; prospective cohort, hospital-based and community-based studies
Peru
Lia Fernald: microcredits, child health
Ndola Prata: microcredits, child health
Karen Sokal-Gutierrez: child oral health, malnutrition, oral health interventions
Publications focusing on Latin America Region
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Viral genome-based Zika virus transmission dynamics in a pediatric cohort during the 2016 Nicaragua epidemic
UC BERKELEY AUTHORS: Raquel A Binder, Fausto Bustos Carrillo, Eva Harris DATE OF PUBLICATION: October 2021 REGION: Nicaragua DOI: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2021.103596 SUMMARY/ABSTRACT: Nicaragua experienced a large Zika epidemic in 2016, with up to 50% of the population in Managua infected. With the domesticated Aedes aegypti mosquito as its vector, it is w... - 11/02/2021in Faculty Research in Africa, Faculty Research in Asia, Faculty Research in Latin America, Research
Correction to: Slum Health: Arresting COVID-19 and Improving Well-Being in Urban Informal Settlements
UC BERKELEY AUTHORS: Jason Corburn, Lee Riley DATE OF PUBLICATION: February 2021 REGION: Global South (Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Pacific Islands, and the developing countries in Asia) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-020-00491-1 SUMMARY/ABSTRACT: The informal settlements of the Global South are the least prepared for the pandemic ... - 11/02/2021in Faculty Research in Latin America, Research
Pre-existing T-cell immunity to SARS-CoV-2 in unexposed healthy controls in Ecuador, as detected with a COVID-19 Interferon-Gamma Release Assay
UC BERKELEY AUTHORS: Josefina Coloma DATE OF PUBLICATION: February 2021 REGION: Ecuador DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2021.02.034 SUMMARY/ABSTRACT: Studies of T-cell immune responses against SARS-CoV-2 are important in understanding the immune status of individuals or populations. Here, we use a simple, cheap and rapid whole blood stimulation... - 05/02/2021in Faculty Research in Latin America, Research
Developmental outcomes in children exposed to Zika virus in utero from a Brazilian urban slum cohort study
UC BERKELEY AUTHORS: Magelda Montoya, Athena Chin, Eva Harris DATE OF PUBLICATION: February 2021 REGION: South America DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009162 SUMMARY/ABSTRACT: The prevalence of developmental alterations associated with in-utero Zika virus (ZIKV) exposure in children is not well understood. Furthermore, estimation of the ...