Summary of Collaborative Work with Institute for Global Health

• 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.

• Doug Heimburger, Faculty
  • Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholar and Fellows program outcomes.
• Doug Heimburger, Faculty and Meg Ryan, Medical Student
  • Vitamin D Deciency 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.

• 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

• 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.

• Sample size estimates and statistical advice for grant applications.
• Provide AIDS International Training/Research Program (AITRP) students with statistical guidance.

• 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.