Summary of Collaborative Work with Institute for Global Health
last updated 4 April 2013
NEW PROJECTS
Stephanie Duda and Mary Lou Lindegren, Faculty
IeDEA site assesment 1.0
Firas Wehbe, Faculty
Leveraging the IeDEA data exchange standard to build open-source tools.
Aaron Kipp, Faculty
Predictors of child mortality in WHO-AFRO countries.
Monica da Silva, Medical Student
Predictors of pre-ART LTFU in Mozambique.
Dave Silvestri, Medical Student
Students’ career preferences and intention to migrate.
Students' willingness to work rurally in traditionally undesirable areas.
Troy Moon, Faculty
Option B+ cluster randomized trial.
Deidra Parrish, Faculty
Etiology of Early Morbidity and Mortality Among HIV-infected Adults Receiving cART in North-Central Nigeria.
ACTIVE PROJECTS
Doug Heimburger, Faculty
Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholar and Fellows program outcomes.
Doug Heimburger, Faculty and Meg Ryan, Medical Student
Vitamin D Deciency among Expectant Mothers in Mysore, India
Sten Vermund, Faculty
HIV care and treatment outcomes in Mozambique.
Muktar Aliyu, Faculty
Data cleaning for FGH-Nigeria supported sites
Optimizing PMTCT Service Delivery in Rural Northcentral Nigeria
Natasha Halasa, Faculty
Vitamin D and birth outcomes of a newborn cohort in Amman, Jordan
NICU admission of a newborn cohort in Amman, Jordan
Accuracy of rapid diagnostics for u and respiratory syncytial virus among hospitalized children in Amman, Jordan.
Vitamin D Concordance among Mothers and Newborns in Amman, Jordan.
Han-Zhu Qian, Faculty
MP3 grant, Testing and Linkage to Care for MSM in Beijing, China.
The role of bundled HIV transmission prevention strategies in Beijing, China: a mathematical model
Meridith Blevins, Staff; Alfredo Vergara and Troy Moon, Faculty
Strengthening communities through intervention and programming (SCIP) baseline survey results and manuscript preparation.
Satellite imagery for survey research.
9 fact sheets using baseline survey data for programmatic use.
HIV counseling and testing
Barriers to antenatal care
Permanent income
Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) multi-dimensional poverty measurement
Carolyn Audet, Faculty
Positive prevention interventions among HIV patients in Zambezia, Mozambique.
Delay to HIV diagnosis in Zambezia, Mozambique.
Healer referrals in Zambezia, Mozambique.
SUBMITTED MANUSCRIPT
Muktar Aliyu, Faculty
Risk factors for delayed initiation of combination antiretroviral therapy in rural northcentral Nigeria.
Abraham Mukolu, Faculty
Strengthening communities through intervention and programming (SCIP) baseline survey results: HIV stigma and testing.
Doug Heimburger, Faculty
Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholar recruitment, 2005 to present.
Dave Silvestri, Medical Student
Health professional students' intentions to work abroad or in rural areas: an eight-country survey from Asia and Africa
Bryan Shepherd, Faculty and Meridith Blevins, Staff
Impact of definitions of loss to follow-up on estimates of retention, disease progression, and mortality: Application to an HIV program in Mozambique
Amy Fenoglio, Medical Student
Determining the Barriers to ART among HIV-infected Patients in Rural Zambezia, Mozambique.
John Koethe, Faculty
Combined NEMART/DGPLEAD results, does phosphate effect hold with the addition adult patients with higher CD4 or BMI?
Simon Chisele, CCPPZ and Vik Sahasrabuddhe, Faculty
Predicting high grade cervical neoplasia by lesion topography on visual inspection and digital cervicography in a 'screen-and-treat' cervical cancer prevention program in Zambia
Sharon Kapambwe, CCPPZ and Vik Sahasrabuddhe, Faculty
Predictors of invasive cervical cancer in reproductive age women in a 'screen-and-treat' cervical cancer prevention program in Zambia
Integrating screening for other non-communicable diseases within a 'screen and treat' cervical cancer prevention program in Zambia: evaluation of the ‘Well Woman’ project
Aaron Shibemba, CCPPZ and Vik Sahasrabuddhe, Faculty
Evaluation of factors affecting turnaround time for pathology reporting in the Cervical Cancer Prevention Program in Zambia
Mulindi Mwanahamuntu, CCPPZ and Vik Sahasrabuddhe, Faculty
Five-year trends in VIA positivity rates and enrollment patterns by HIV-serostatus in a 'screen-and-treat' cervical cancer prevention program in Zambia
Monitoring the performance of VIA-based 'screen-and-treat' cervical cancer prevention services in resource-constrained environments
PUBLICATIONS
Bart Victor and Alfredo Vegara and Abraham Mukolu, Faculty
Frustrated Freedom: The Effects of Agency and Wealth on Wellbeing in Rural Mozambique
Shoadong Ye, AITRP MPH Student
Effectiveness of Integrated HIV Prevention Interventions among Chinese Men Who Have Sex with Men: Evaluation of a 16-City Public Health Program. Journal 01/09/2013
Deidra Parrish, Faculty
Virologic, Immunologic and Clinical Responses in Foreign-Born versus US-Born HIV-1 Infected Adults Initiating Antiretroviral Therapy: An Observational Cohort Study.
Carolyn Audet, Faculty
HIV/AIDS-related attitudes and practices among traditional healers in Zambezia Province, Mozambique.
HIV knowledge and health-seeking behavior in Zambézia Province, Mozambique
Acceptability of cervical cancer screening in rural Mozambique.
John Koethe and Doug Heimburger, Faculty
Nutrition and inflammation serum biomarkers are associated with 12-week mortality among malnourished adults initiating antiretroviral therapy in Zambia.
Self-reported dietary intake and appetite predict early treatment outcome among low-BMI adults initiating HIV treatment in sub-Saharan Africa.
Phil Ciampa, Faculty
The Association among Literacy, Numeracy, HIV Knowledge and Health-Seeking Behavior: A Population-Based Survey of Women in Rural Mozambique.
Improving retention in the early infant diagnosis of HIV program in rural Mozambique by better service integration.
Troy Moon, Clinical Director
Enrolment and programmatic trends and predictors of antiretroviral therapy initiation from president's emergency plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)-supported public HIV care and treatment sites in rural Mozambique.
Doug Heimburger, Faculty and John Koethe, Fellow
Serum Phosphate Predicts Early Mortality in Adults Starting Antiretroviral Therapy in Lusaka, Zambia: A Prospective Cohort Study.
Rebecca Cook, Medical Student
Predictors of successful early infant diagnosis of HIV in a rural district hospital in Zambezia, Mozambique
Dave Silvestri, Medical Student
A Comparison of HIV Detection Rates Using Routine Opt-out Provider-Initiated HIV Testing and Counseling Versus a Standard of Care Approach in a Rural African Setting.
ONGOING RESPONSIBILITIES
Sample size estimates and statistical advice for grant applications.
Provide AIDS International Training/Research Program (AITRP) students with statistical guidance.
INACTIVE/COMPLETE PROJECTS
Bill Wester, Faculty
The Adult ART and Drug Resistance Study: NRTI-Focused in Botswana.
Determining the Barriers to Healthcare Access and Utilization Among Single Mothers in Rural Kenya.
Han-Zhu Qian
PrEP grant, demonstration project for efficacy of daily ARV prophylaxis taken by MSM in Beijing, China.
Joseph Conrad
Sample size for Helminth proposal.
Muktar Aliyu, Faculty
Predictors of Care Interruptions Among Adults Initiating Combination Antiretroviral Therapy (cART) at Secondary-Level Facilities in North-Central Nigeria
Power and sample size analysis: Hydroxyurea treatment for primary prevention of strokes in children with sickle cell anemia in Nigeria
Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholars and Fellows
Provide Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholars and Fellows with statistical advice
Give introductory lecures on biostatistics at Orientation in Bethesda, Maryland
Ken Wallston and Abraham Mukulo
Sample size for R34 proposal.
Doug Heimburger and Bill Wester, Faculty and John Koethe, Instructor
NUSTART R01, nutritional and inflammatory mechanisms of early ART mortality in Africa.
Diedra Parrish, Fellow
Sample size for FIRCS-F proposal.
Lara Vaz, Faculty
Sample size for R21.
Connie Haley, Faculty
Sample size for R21.
Vik Sahasrabuddhe, Faculty
Accuracy of cytology to detect CIN, meta-analysis.
Elizabeth Dale, Resident
Burn Repository in Kenya.
Carol Etherington, Faculty
Intimate Partner Violence in Middle Tennessee.
Social Empowerment and Newcomers' Assimilation.
Rachel Idowu, Fellow
Surgical Outcomes in Kenya.
Kate Groh, Medical Student
Focus Group Data for ART Adherence in Rural Zambezia, Mozambique.
Sari Acra, Faculty
Repeated measures from Eschershia Coli contaminated water.
Kevin Harvey, Staff
Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholar match results, 2009 to present.