Research Projects by Country
Argentina
Paul Gertler
Evaluation of provider pay for performance in maternal and child health care and health outcomes
Brazil (Salvador)
Lee Riley
Urban, favela (shantytown)
Leptospirosis: risk factors
Interventions being examined: new diagnostic test for early interventions, Rheumatic Heart Disease
Brazil (Sao Paulo)
Lee Riley
Urban, low-socioeconomic neighborhood
Incidence of TB among close contacts
Intervention: diagnostic test to predict those at high risk progressing to TB
Brazil (Rio de Janeiro)
Lee Riley
Urban, low-socioeconomic neighborhood
Drug Resistant Infections, TB
Chile
Allan Smith
Arsenic
Costa Rica
William Dow
National
Mortality, disability, allostatic load
Life-course behaviors
Costa Rica
Brenda Eskenazi
Agricultural, poor
Pesticides in children
Dominican Republic
Paul Gertler, Stef Bertozzi, Nancy Padian
Evaluation of impact of randomized job training and life skills training on risk behaviors.
Ecuador
Lia Fernald
Rural and urban, poor
Conditional cash transfer program and child health outcomes
Guatemala
Kirk R. Smith, John Balmes, Nina Holland
Rural, highland, indigenous
Childhood respiratory health, growth of lung function; chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in adult women, heart disease indicators, biomarkers of genetic susceptibility and oxidative stress, development and testing of innovative pollution monitoring and time-activity assessment technologies, interaction of spatial factors with disease and exposure, temperature as a risk factor for disease.
Intervention (randomized): improved stove with chimney in wood-burning households
Ecuador
Karen Sokal-Gutierrez
Rural and urban, children and adults
The relationship between oral health and malnutrition
Inexpensive interventions (fluoride varnish, health education) to improve health and oral health outcomes
Nicaragua (Managua)
Eva Harris
Urban, mostly poor
Acute febrile illness; dengue; influenza-like illness; prospective cohort, hospital-based and community-based studies
Interventions: moving towards vaccine trials of tetravalent dengue vaccine; implementation of information technologies in Ministry of Health for improved vaccination efficiency and pre-natal care; evidence-based, community-derived interventions for mosquito control for prevention of dengue
Mexico
Paul Gertler & Lia Fernald
Rural and urban, poor
Cognitive stimulation interventions on child health and development
Mexico
Paul Gertler, Lia Fernald, Stef Bertozzi
Rural and urban, poor
Randomized conditional cash transfer program on child and adult health
Mexico
Lia Fernald
Semi-urban, poor
Growth trajectories, obesity, micro-nutrient supplementation
Mexico
Lia Fernald & Paul Gertler
Rural and urban poor
Stress and mental health outcomes
Mexico
Brenda Eskenazi, Lisa Goldman, Lynnette Neufeld
Michoacan, Guanajuato, Jalisco
Childhood Obesity
Mexico
Brenda Eskenazi, Nina Holland
Migration, pesticidas and obesity
Mexico
Brenda Eskenazi, Asa Bradman, Lisa Goldman
Michoacan, Guanajuato, Jalisco
PBDE, DDT in children
Peru
Rita Hamad, Lia Fernald, Ndola Prata
Rural and urban
Impact of microcredit intervention on child health
Peru
Karen Sokal-Gutierrez
Rural and urban children
The relationship between oral health and malnutrition
Inexpensive interventions (fluoride varnish, health education) to improve health and oral health outcomes
Bangladesh
Ndola Prata
Rural
Community distribution of misoprostol for prevention of PPH
China (Beijing and Guangzhou)
Martyn Smith
Chemicals in the workplace
China (Tianjin)
Brenda Eskenazi, Steve Rappaport, Luoping Zhang
Benzene and sperm
China
Robert Spear
Schistosomiasis projects (NSF/NIH EID grant, NIH R01)
China
Kirk R. Smith
Validation and assessment of rural energy technologies for co-benefits, i.e., reductions in greenhouse emissions and improvements in health with a focus on women and young children
Intervention: Advanced low emissions household energy technologies
India, Bangladesh
Allan Smith
Arsenic
India (Rural Uttar Pradesh and Bihar)
Julia Walsh
Evaluation of Ehealth social franchise system providing family planning and health care rural health practitioners, Ashas, and physicians connected by mobile phones and web video conferencing
India (Bangalore)
Suneeta Krishnan
HIV, STI’s
Epidemiological study
India (Mysore)
Art Reingold, Purnima Madhivanan
Rural
Effectiveness of traditional birth attendants
India
Paul Gertler
Randomized health insurance trial
India (Chandigarh, Chennai)
Kirk R. Smith, Michael Bates
TB and air pollution; development of innovative IT-based exposure and time-activity assessment technologies
Nepal
Karen Sokal-Gutierrez
Rural and urban, children
The relationship between oral health and malnutrition
Inexpensive interventions (fluoride varnish, health education) to improve health and oral health outcomes
Nepal
Kirk R. Smith, Michael Bates
TB, cataracts, lens opacity as a biomarker of long-term exposure to air pollution
Palestinian Territories
Jess Ghannam
Refugee Health in Conflict Areas
Chronic illness, PTSD, and Health and Wellness Promotion among at-risk refugee populations
Thailand
William Dow
Rural smokers
Individual-level randomized intervention
Vietnam
Karen Sokal-Gutierrez
Rural and urban, children
The relationship between oral health and malnutrition
Inexpensive interventions (fluoride varnish, health education) to improve health and oral health outcomes
Cote D'Ivoire
Mike Wilson, Megan Schwarman
Urban, children, adults, men, women
Health and Environmental Impacts of the Electronic Waste Disposal Industry
Occupational Studies of Health and Environmental Impacts
Ethiopia
Ndola Prata
Rural, poor, highland
Community distribution of misoprostol for prevention of PPH
Safety and feasibility of community-base provision of DMPA (injectable contraceptive)
Ghana
Kara Nelson (CEE)
Urban and farming populations
Water and sanitation; solar disinfection for urban irrigation
Kenya (Kisumu)
Colette (Coco) Auerswald
Street children and youth in urban Western Kenya
Kisumu Street Children: A Pilot Study of STIs and HIV in Social Context
Mixed epidemiological and qualitative study of HIV and STIs in street children/youth
Magadascar
Lia Fernald
Rural, poor
Community-based nutrition intervention for moms of young children
Nigeria
Ndola Prata
Rural
Community distribution o f misoprostol for prevention of PPH
Tanzania
William Dow
Randomized HIV/STI prevention trial
Conditional cash transfers
Tanzania
Ndola Prata
Rural
Community distribution of misoprostol for treatment of PPH
Safety, feasibility, and effectiveness of misoprostol distribution through antenatal care visits
Tanzania
Julia Walsh
National
Forecasts of potential demand for seven new diagnostics
Uganda
Kirk R. Smith
Measurement of co-benefits of large-scale household energy intervention – greenhouse pollutant reductions and improved health in women and children.
Interventions: Improved wood and charcoal stoves.
Uganda
Grant Dorsey, Art Reingold
Urban and rural, mostly poor
Malaria surveillance
Zambia
Suellen Miller
Urban and Peri-urban
Randomized Cluster Trial of Early Application of NASG vs. Standard Treatment of hypovolemic shock secondary to obstetric hemorrhage
Zimbabwe
Nancy Padian
Urban and peri-urban
HIV, STIs
Effectiveness of diaphragms, plus male condoms
Zimbabwe
Nancy Padian
Peri-urban
HIV, STIs, unintended pregnancy
Vocational training
Zanzibar
Edmund Seto, Art Reingold, Brian Greenhouse (UCSF)
Mapping malaria parasite transmission via GPS
South Africa
Brenda Eskenazi
Limpopo
DDT and neurodevelopment
South Africa
Lia Fernald
Rural and urban, poor
Microcredit intervention and psychological health
South Africa
Brenda Eskenazi
Malaria and DDT applications: health effects
Rwanda
Paul Gertler, Stef Bertozzi
Evaluation provider pay-for-performance in maternal and child health care, malaria prevention and treatment, and HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment