Search Results - "Lund, Andrea J"
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Study design and baseline to evaluate water service provision among peri-urban communities in Kasai Oriental, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Published in PloS one (13-04-2023)“…We present a study design and baseline results to establish the impact of interventions on peri-urban water access, security and quality in Kasai Oriental…”
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Exposure, hazard, and vulnerability all contribute to Schistosoma haematobium re-infection in northern Senegal
Published in PLoS neglected tropical diseases (01-10-2021)“…Infectious disease risk is driven by three interrelated components: exposure, hazard, and vulnerability. For schistosomiasis, exposure occurs through contact…”
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Open-source environmental data as an alternative to snail surveys to assess schistosomiasis risk in areas approaching elimination
Published in International journal of health geographics (02-06-2023)“…Although the presence of intermediate snails is a necessary condition for local schistosomiasis transmission to occur, using them as surveillance targets in…”
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Schistosome infection in Senegal is associated with different spatial extents of risk and ecological drivers for Schistosoma haematobium and S. mansoni
Published in PLoS neglected tropical diseases (01-09-2021)“…Schistosome parasites infect more than 200 million people annually, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa, where people may be co-infected with more than one species of…”
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Integrating genomic and epidemiologic data to accelerate progress toward schistosomiasis elimination
Published in eLife (30-08-2022)“…The global community has adopted ambitious goals to eliminate schistosomiasis as a public health problem, and new tools are needed to achieve them. Mass drug…”
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Environmental Persistence of the World's Most Burdensome Infectious and Parasitic Diseases
Published in Frontiers in public health (08-07-2022)“…Humans live in complex socio-ecological systems where we interact with parasites and pathogens that spend time in abiotic and biotic environmental reservoirs…”
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Land use impacts on parasitic infection: a cross-sectional epidemiological study on the role of irrigated agriculture in schistosome infection in a dammed landscape
Published in Infectious diseases of poverty (22-03-2021)“…Water resources development promotes agricultural expansion and food security. But are these benefits offset by increased infectious disease risk? Dam…”
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Visualization of schistosomiasis snail habitats using light unmanned aerial vehicles
Published in Geospatial health (08-01-2021)“…Schistosomiasis, or "snail fever", is a parasitic disease affecting over 200 million people worldwide. People become infected when exposed to water containing…”
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Improving rural health care reduces illegal logging and conserves carbon in a tropical forest
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (10-11-2020)“…Tropical forest loss currently exceeds forest gain, leading to a net greenhouse gas emission that exacerbates global climate change. This has sparked…”
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Precision mapping of snail habitat provides a powerful indicator of human schistosomiasis transmission
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (12-11-2019)“…Recently, the World Health Organization recognized that efforts to interrupt schistosomiasis transmission through mass drug administration have been…”
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A planetary health innovation for disease, food and water challenges in Africa
Published in Nature (London) (27-07-2023)“…Many communities in low- and middle-income countries globally lack sustainable, cost-effective and mutually beneficial solutions for infectious disease, food,…”
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Pyrethroid insecticides pose greater risk than organophosphate insecticides to biocontrol agents for human schistosomiasis
Published in Environmental pollution (1987) (15-02-2023)“…Use of agrochemicals, including insecticides, is vital to food production and predicted to increase 2–5 fold by 2050. Previous studies have shown a positive…”
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Unavoidable Risks: Local Perspectives on Water Contact Behavior and Implications for Schistosomiasis Control in an Agricultural Region of Northern Senegal
Published in The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene (01-01-2019)“…Human schistosomiasis is a snail-borne parasitic disease affecting more than 200 million people worldwide. Direct contact with snail-infested freshwater is the…”
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How to identify win–win interventions that benefit human health and conservation
Published in Nature sustainability (01-04-2021)“…To reach the Sustainable Development Goals, we may need to act on synergies between some targets while mediating trade-offs between other targets. But what,…”
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Cholera control and anti-Haitian stigma in the Dominican Republic: from migration policy to lived experience
Published in Anthropology & medicine (01-08-2019)“…As cholera spread from Haiti to the Dominican Republic, Haitian migrants, a largely undocumented and stigmatized population in Dominican society, became a…”
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Modelled effects of prawn aquaculture on poverty alleviation and schistosomiasis control
Published in Nature sustainability (01-07-2019)“…Recent evidence suggests that snail predators may aid efforts to control the human parasitic disease schistosomiasis by eating aquatic snail species that serve…”
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Prospects for genomic surveillance for selection in schistosome parasites
Published in Frontiers in Epidemiology (Online) (29-09-2022)“…Schistosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease caused by multiple parasitic species, and which impacts over 200 million people globally, mainly in low- and…”
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Ecological and socioeconomic factors associated with the human burden of environmentally mediated pathogens: a global analysis
Published in The Lancet. Planetary health (01-11-2022)“…Billions of people living in poverty are at risk of environmentally mediated infectious diseases—that is, pathogens with environmental reservoirs that affect…”
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Prevalence of cholera risk factors between migrant Haitians and Dominicans in the Dominican Republic
Published in Revista panamericana de salud pública (01-03-2015)“…To determine whether cholera risk factor prevalence in the Dominican Republic can be explained by nationality, independent of other factors, given the…”
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Ethnic Differences in Predictors of HPV Vaccination: Comparisons of Predictors for Latina and Non-Latina White Women
Published in The Journal of sex research (01-11-2013)“…The purpose of this study was to examine how social and behavioral factors such as age of first intercourse, mother-daughter communication, and perceived norms…”
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