DGHI Research Roundup: May 2019

55 DGHI-affiliated authors—including faculty, staff and alumni—recently shared new discoveries on a variety of global health topics in peer-reviewed publications. Click on the article links below to learn more:

Joy Noel Baumgartner

• Cadernos de Saúde Pública – Implementing the Protocol of a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial for the Recovery-Oriented Intervention to People with Psychoses in Two Latin American Cities

Gary Bennett

• JMIR mHealth and uHealth – Comparing Self-Monitoring Strategies for Weight Loss in a Smartphone App: Randomized Controlled Trial 
• JMIR mHealth and uHealth – Log2Lose: Development and Lessons Learned from a Mobile Technology Weight Loss Intervention

Miriam Berger, Dori Steinberg, Sandy Askew, John Gallis, Cayla Treadway, Joseph Egger, Melissa Kay, Eric Finkelstein, Gary Bennett

• BMC Public Health – The Balance Protocol: A Pragmatic Weight Gain Prevention Randomized Controlled Trial for Medically Vulnerable Patients within Primary Care

Janet Prvu Bettger

• JAMA Neurology – Effect of a Quality Improvement Intervention on Adherence to Therapies for Patients with Acute Ischemic Stroke and Transient Ischemic Attack: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial

Coleen Cunningham

• Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal – Predictors of Poor Outcomes among Infants with Respiratory Syncytial Virus-Associated Acute Lower Respiratory Infection in Botswana 

Amy Finnegan, Eve Puffer, Yujung Choi (MS alumna), Eric Green

• PLOS One – The Prevalence and Process of Pediatric HIV Disclosure: A Population-Based Prospective Cohort Study in Zimbabwe

Anthony Fuller, Michael Haglund, Eric Green, Blandina Mmbaga, Catherine Staton, Joao Ricardo Nickenig Vissoci

• Journal of Neurosurgery – A Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Prognostic Model to Support In-Hospital Triage in A Low Income Country: A Machine Learning Based Approach

John Gallis, Liz Turner, Joanna Maselko

• BMJ Open – Cohort Profile: Perinatal Depression and Child Socioemotional Development; the Bachpan Cohort Study from Rural Pakistan

Eric Green, Alexandra Whitcomb (MS alumna)

• Gates Open Research – “What Is the Best Method Of Family Planning for Me?”: A Text Mining Analysis of Messages between Users and Agents of a Digital Health Service in Kenya

Eric Green, Nicholas Pearson, Chaya Bhat (undergraduate global health alumna)

• JMIR Research Protocols – Expanding Access to Depression Treatment in Kenya through Automated Psychological Support: Protocol for a Single-Case Experimental Design Pilot Study

Michael Haglund

• Journal of Neurosurgery – Operative and Consultative Proportions of Neurosurgical Disease Worldwide: Estimation from the Surgeon Perspective 

Julian Hertz, Deng Madut, Matthew Rubach

• Neuroepidemiology – Perceptions of Stroke and Associated Health-Care-Seeking Behavior in Northern Tanzania: A Community-Based Study

Megan Huchko

• Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry – “A Résumé for the Baby”: Biosocial Precarity and Care of Substance-Using, Pregnant Women in San Francisco 
• JAMA Network – Estimated Quality of Life and Economic Outcomes Associated with 12 Cervical Cancer Screening Strategies: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis 
• BMC: Infectious Agents and Cancer – Prevalence, Correlates, and Predictive Value of High-Risk Human Papillomavirus mRNA Detection in a Community-Based Cervical Cancer Screening Program in Western Uganda

Marc Jeuland

• International Journal of Water Resources Development – The Role of Hydropower in Visions of Water Resources Development for Rivers of Western Nepal

Godfrey Kisigo, Preeti Manavalan, Brandon Knettel, Blandina Mmbaga, Melissa Watt

• Journal of Loss and Trauma – Experiences of Fetal or Infant Loss among Tanzanian Women in HIV Care 

David Matchar

• Journal of the American Medical Directors Association – Effect of Housing Type and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Indicators on Survival after Low Falls in Older Adults 

M. Giovanna Merli

• The China Quarterly – Understanding Bachelorhood in Poverty-Stricken and High Sex Ratio Settings: An Exploratory Study in Rural Shaanxi, China 

Osondu Ogbuoji, Gavin Yamey

• The BMJ – Trends in Global Health Financing

Subhrendu Pattanayak, Marc Jeuland

• World Development – Returns to Rural Electrification: Evidence from Bhutan 

Subhrendu Pattanayak, Marc Jeuland, Faraz Usmani

• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences – Experimental Evidence on Promotion of Electric and Improved Biomass Cookstoves

Eve Puffer, Elsa Friis-Healy, Ali Giusto

• Global Social Welfare – Development and Implementation of a Family Therapy Intervention in Kenya: A Community-Embedded Lay Provider Model 

Megan Reller

• BMJ Open Respiratory Research – Chest Radiograph Reading Panel Performance in a Bangladesh Pneumococcal Vaccine Effectiveness Study 

Gavin Smith

• Viruses – Discovery and Characterization of Novel Bat Coronavirus Lineages from Kazakhstan 

Kearsley Stewart 

• Journal of Medical Internet Research: Mental Health – How Is the Caregiver Doing? Capturing Caregivers’ Experiences with a Reflective Toolkit
• Teaching Health Humanities (book chapter) – Art as Disruption in Global Health Humanities: The Humument Technique, a Sexual and Reproductive Health Archive, and Developing Flexible Student Thinking

Gita Sunejof

• Cancer – Advanced Stage at Diagnosis and Elevated Mortality among US Patients with Cancer Infected With HIV in the National Cancer Data Base 

Georgia Tomaras

• Journal of Infectious Diseases – Rapid Boosting of HIV-1 Neutralizing Antibody Responses in Humans Following a Prolonged Immunologic Rest Period 

Tu Tran, Anthony Fuller, Joao Ricardo Vissoci, Michael Haglund

• African Health Sciences – Surgical Need among the Ageing Population of Uganda 

Leah Watson (MS alumna)

• Lancet Public Health – Geospatial, Racial, and Educational Variation in Firearm Mortality in the USA, Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia, 1990–2015: A Comparative Analysis of Vital Statistics Data

Jim Zhang

• Psychology Research and Behaviour Management – Effects of Job Conditions, Occupational Stress, and Emotional Intelligence on Chronic Fatigue among Chinese Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Study
• BMJ Thorax – Urban Airborne Particle Exposure Impairs Human Lung and Blood Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Immunity 

Faculty, affiliates, scholars and alumni: Want your publications listed in the monthly Research Roundup? Email the communications team with the citation or a link to the article! The sooner you email us, the better—we encourage you to let us know when your publication has been accepted.