Publications

June 2015
Bioeconomic analysis of child-targeted subsidies for artemisinin combination therapies: a cost-effectiveness analysis
Malaria
January 2014
The impact of heterogeneous transmission on the establishment and spread of antimalarial drug resistance
Antibiotic Resistance, Malaria
February 2013
Antimalarial drug resistance: A review of the biology and strategies to delay emergence and spread
Antibiotic Resistance, Malaria
November 2012
From Financing to Fevers: Lessons of an Antimalarial Subsidy Program
Malaria, Malaria
October 2012
The Future of the Affordable Medicines Facility-malaria: Will AMFm Play On?
Antibiotic Resistance, Malaria
Has AMFm been effective? How will it continue in the future?Read more
October 2012
Primaquine for reducing Plasmodium falciparum transmission (Review)
Malaria, Malaria
Should people treated for malaria caused by P. falciparum infection take a single dose of primaquine along with primary treatment?Read more
October 2012
A Matter of Life and Death
Malaria, Antibiotic Resistance
What broad-based economic solutions could help fight the growing threat of antibiotic resistance?Read more
June 2012
Seasonality and Temporal Correlation between Community Antibiotic Use and Resistance in the United States
Malaria, Antibiotic Resistance
April 2012
Malaria resurgence: a systematic review and assessment of its causes
Malaria, Malaria
Why have there been so many historical failures to maintain gains in malaria control?Read more
November 2011
Communicating trends in resistance using a drug resistance index
Malaria, Antibiotic Resistance
This article develops a method for aggregating bacterial resistance to multiple antibiotics, creating a drug resistance index comparable to the composite economic indices that measure consumer prices and stock market values.Read more
September 2011
Travel risk, malaria importation and malaria transmission in Zanzibar
Antibiotic Resistance, Malaria
August 2011
Situation Analysis and Recommendations: Antibiotic Use and Resistance in Kenya, Executive Summary
Malaria, Antibiotic Resistance
This report surveys antibiotic use and resistance in Kenya and offers actionable policy proposals to lessen the burden of bacterial infections in the country.Read more
July 2011
Seasonal and Temperature-Associated Increases in Gram-Negative Bacterial Bloodstream Infections Among Hospitalized Patients
Malaria
June 2011
Solving the Sisyphean Problem of Malaria in Zanzibar
Antibiotic Resistance, Malaria
With malaria once again nearing elimination in Zanzibar, will a disruption in funding cause a resurgence in the disease?Read more
March 2011
Improving Antimicrobial Stewardship: The Evolution of Programmatic Strategies and Barriers
Malaria, Antibiotic Resistance
Antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) have expanded in the past decade. What are the characteristics of current ASPs and what barriers remain to their implementation?Read more
March 2011
Is Physician Education Effective in Promoting Antibiotic Stewardship?
Malaria, Antibiotic Resistance
January 2011
Malaria
Health and Development, Malaria
December 2010
Pharmacologic Advances in the Global Control and Treatment of Malaria: Combination Therapy and Resistance
Antibiotic Resistance, Malaria
December 2010
An Exploratory Pilot Study on Knowledge, Attitudes, and Perceptions Concerning Antimicrobial Resistance and Antibiotic Use Practices among Hospital Staff in Kenya
Malaria, Antibiotic Resistance
What is the knowledge and what are the perceptions of hospital staff in Kenya on antimicrobial resistance and antibiotic use practices?Read more
December 2010
Costs and financial feasibility of malaria elimination
Antibiotic Resistance, Malaria, Health and Development
In examining potential short-term to medium-term financial savings, what are the marginal costs and benefits of converting malaria programmes from a control to an elimination goal?Read more
November 2010
Prereferral rectal artesunate for treatment of severe childhood malaria: a cost-effectiveness analysis
Malaria, Malaria
What is the cost-effectiveness of an intervention to supply prereferral rectal artesunate to children with suspected malaria?Read more
November 2010
Operational strategies to achieve and maintain malaria elimination
Malaria, Health and Development, Malaria
What strategies best support malaria elimination, taking into account both transmission within an endemic country and imported cases of the disease?Read more
November 2010
Ranking of elimination feasibility between malaria-endemic countries
Antibiotic Resistance, Malaria
What is the relative feasibility of eliminating malaria across malaria-endemic countries?Read more
November 2010
How absolute is zero? An evaluation of historical and current definitions of malaria elimination
Antibiotic Resistance, Malaria
What do we mean when we talk about malaria control vs. elimination vs. eradication? This paper provides a historical overview of terminology, and proposes new conceptual definitions.Read more
October 2010
Adult and child malaria mortality in India: a nationally representative mortality survey
Malaria, Malaria
Has the number of malaria deaths in India been substantially underestimated?Read more
October 2010
The value of information: Methodological Frontiers and New Applications for Realizing Social Benefit workshop
Malaria, Environmental Health
What is meant by value of information? When does information have value? What are state-of-the-practice methods to ascribe value to information?Read more
August 2010
Five Years of Large-Scale dhfr and dhps Mutation Surveillance Following the Phased Implementation of Artesunate Plus Sulfadoxine-Pyrimethamine in Maputo Province, Southern Mozambique
Antibiotic Resistance, Malaria
Limiting the spread of antimalarial resistance is one of the key rationales motivating ACT deployment, but surprisingly little research has been conducted on the spread of antimalarial resistance following large-scale ACT deployment. This study reports on the large-scale surveillance of dhfr and...Read more
August 2010
Operational Challenges of Implementing Multiple First-Line Therapies for Malaria in Endemic Countries
Malaria, Malaria
Multiple first-line therapies (MFT) have the potential to decrease mortality and morbidity while maximizing the useful therapeutic life of ACTs by delaying the development of drug resistance. However, the effectiveness and success of any strategy will also depend on the financial and operational...Read more
August 2010
Prospective strategies to delay the evolution of anti-malarial drug resistance: weighing the uncertainty
Malaria, Malaria
There is strong evidence to support the implementation of multiple first-line therapies (MFTs) to delay the evolution of anti-malarial drug resistance, particularly given the uncertainty about timeline for the emergence of such resistance.Read more
August 2010
Bacteriophages: A New Old Biomedical Technology
Malaria, Antibiotic Resistance
Could a neglected technology turn out to be an important mechanism against antibiotic resistance?Read more

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