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Sandh S, Snyder KM, Walters SM, Gershon R, Palamar JJ, Ompad DC. “Keep them off the scaffolding!”: A qualitative study of substance use and harm reduction among construction workers in New York City. J Occup Environ Med (under review). 2026.

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Walters SM, Do H, Jaiswal J, Khezri M, Ivasiy R, Friedman SR, Ompad DC, El Shahawy O, Lim S, Schneider JA, Bouris A, Bluthenthal RN, Earnshaw VA, Huh J. HIV-Stigmatizing Beliefs and Attitudes as a Barrier to Early PrEP Care Continuum Engagement Among People Who Inject Drugs. AIDS Behav. 2026 Apr 9;. doi: 10.1007/s10461-026-05112-7. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 41954808.

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Ivasiy R, Earnshaw VA, Huh J, Cleland CM, Friedman SR, Schneider JA, Ompad D, Bluthenthal RN, Walters SM. Development and Validation of a Provider-Specific Anticipated Stigma Scale for People Who Inject Drugs. AIDS Behav. 2026 Aug;30(8):2461-2470. doi: 10.1007/s10461-026-05071-z. Epub 2026 Mar 14. PubMed PMID: 41831112; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC13486044.

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Tempalski B, Fong C, Doyle ST, Ompad DC. The geography of risk: understanding disparities in nonmedical opioid mortality and the role of socio-built environments in New Jersey. Harm Reduct J. 2026 Feb 21;23(1). doi: 10.1186/s12954-025-01332-7. PubMed PMID: 41723457; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC13393885.

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Lyngdoh P, Sarkar R, Wilson ML, Lyngdoh I, Kessler A, Carlton JM, Albert S. Malaria risk, treatment-seeking, and prevention in Northeastern India: clinic-based surveillance of persistent transmission. Malar J. 2025 Dec 12;25(1):39. doi: 10.1186/s12936-025-05721-y. PubMed PMID: 41388464; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12805679.

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Trombley C, El-Shahawy O, Frank D, Ompad DC, Jaiswal J, Earnshaw VA, Walters S. "Once You're Labeled a Drug User, You Might as Well Stay the F*** Home": Adverse Police Experiences Among People Who Inject Drugs. Subst Use Misuse. 2026;61(7):999-1007. doi: 10.1080/10826084.2025.2588639. Epub 2025 Dec 3. PubMed PMID: 41340430.

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Shrader CH, Robinson C, Hassan M, Brown B, Lee JY, Smith M, Latkin C, Schneider JA, Ompad DC, Duncan DT. "It's Whack, It's Not Gonna Work": Feasibility of Sociocentric Network Recruitment for Interventions Among Black, Latine, and Caribbean Priority Populations in New York City. AIDS Educ Prev. 2025 Aug;37(4):288-311. doi: 10.1521/aeap.2025.37.4.288. PubMed PMID: 40900185; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12617969.

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Pashalishvili M, Zurashvili T, Imerlishvili E, Salnikova A, Ompad DC, Djibuti M. Depression and anxiety among people living with HIV and key populations at risk for HIV in the Eastern European and Central Asian region: a scoping review. BMJ Public Health. 2025;3(2):e002114. doi: 10.1136/bmjph-2024-002114. eCollection 2025. PubMed PMID: 40756170; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12314948.

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Imerlishvili E, Gustafson DR, Pashalishvili M, Ompad DC, Djibuti M. Studies on cognitive performance among older people living with HIV in eastern Europe and central Asia: a scoping review. BMJ Open. 2025 Jun 6;15(6):e094427. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-094427. PubMed PMID: 40480666; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12161406.

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Khezri M, Kimball S, McKnight C, Rouhani S, Bunting AM, Karamouzian M, Ompad DC, Des Jarlais D. Harms associated with injecting in public spaces: a global systematic review and meta-analysis. Int J Drug Policy. 2025 Jun;140:104819. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2025.104819. Epub 2025 Apr 27. PubMed PMID: 40294496; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12952723.

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Salnikova A, Makarenko O, Sereda Y, Kiriazova T, Lunze K, DeHovitz J, Ompad DC. Depression among people living with tuberculosis and tuberculosis/HIV coinfection in Ukraine: a cross-sectional study. Glob Health Action. 2025 Dec;18(1):2448894. doi: 10.1080/16549716.2024.2448894. Epub 2025 Feb 13. PubMed PMID: 39943845; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11827038.

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Vörös A, Bellotti E, Nengnong CB, Passah M, Nongrum QD, Khongwir C, van Eijk AM, Kessler A, Sarkar R, Carlton JM, Albert S. A multilevel social network approach to studying multiple disease-prevention behaviors. Sci Rep. 2025 Jan 11;15(1):1718. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-85240-7. PubMed PMID: 39799220; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11724947.

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Mohanty S, Jones AM, Dash S, Chhatria SR, Padhan TK, Mohanty S, Carlton JM, Ompad DC, Kessler A, Sahu PK. Genetic Characterization of Plasmodium falciparum Histidine-Rich Protein 2 Deletions and Their Impact on Malaria Interventions in Odisha, India. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2025 Mar 5;112(3):601-609. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.24-0330. Print 2025 Mar 5. PubMed PMID: 39689364; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11884295.

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Hagen D, Bambra C, Ompad DC, Goldmann E. Macro-level determinants of gender differences in the prevalence of major depression and alcohol use disorder in the United States and across Europe. J Affect Disord. 2025 Feb 1;370:301-312. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2024.10.082. Epub 2024 Oct 26. PubMed PMID: 39490672; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12926991.

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Ompad DC, Shrader CH, Snyder KM, Netherland J, Vakharia SP, Walker I. "He's used drugs - he's biased! He's not a drug user - what would he know!": A cross-sectional, online study of drug researchers' experiential knowledge of drug use and disclosure. Drug Alcohol Depend Rep. 2024 Sep;12:100256. doi: 10.1016/j.dadr.2024.100256. eCollection 2024 Sep. PubMed PMID: 39100987; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11295455.

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Nikulkova M, Abdrabou W, Carlton JM, Idaghdour Y. Exploiting integrative metabolomics to study host-parasite interactions in Plasmodium infections. Trends Parasitol. 2024 Apr;40(4):313-323. doi: 10.1016/j.pt.2024.02.007. Epub 2024 Mar 19. Review. PubMed PMID: 38508901; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10994734.

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Nengnong CB, Passah M, Wilson ML, Bellotti E, Kessler A, Marak BR, Carlton JM, Sarkar R, Albert S. Community and health worker perspectives on malaria in Meghalaya, India: covering the last mile of elimination by 2030. Malar J. 2024 Mar 18;23(1):83. doi: 10.1186/s12936-024-04905-2. PubMed PMID: 38500097; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10949573.

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Coughlan C, Jäger HR, Brealey D, Carletti F, Hyare H, Pattnaik R, Sahu PK, Mohanty S, Logan S, Hoffmann A, Wassmer SC, Checkley AM. Adult Cerebral Malaria: Acute and Subacute Imaging Findings, Long-term Clinical Consequences. Clin Infect Dis. 2024 Feb 17;78(2):457-460. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciad651. PubMed PMID: 37897407; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10874268.

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Meteliuk A, Sazonova Y, Goldmann E, Xu S, Liutyi V, Liakh T, Spirina T, Lekholetova M, Islam Z, Ompad DC. The impact of the 2014 military conflict in the east of Ukraine and the Autonomous Republic of the Crimea among patients receiving opioid agonist therapies. J Subst Use Addict Treat. 2024 May;160:209312. doi: 10.1016/j.josat.2024.209312. Epub 2024 Feb 7. PubMed PMID: 38336264; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11413855.

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Du X, Ren B, Li C, Li Q, Kan S, Wang X, Bai W, Wu C, Kassegne K, Yan H, Niu X, Yan M, Xu W, Wassmer SC, Wang J, Chen G, Wang Z. PRL2 regulates neutrophil extracellular trap formation which contributes to severe malaria and acute lung injury. Nat Commun. 2024 Jan 29;15(1):881. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-45210-5. PubMed PMID: 38286811; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10825202.

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Ompad DC, Padhan TK, Kessler A, Tozan Y, Jones AM, van Eijk AM, Sullivan SA, Haque MA, Pradhan MM, Mohanty S, Carlton JM, Sahu PK. The effectiveness of malaria camps as part of the malaria control program in Odisha, India. Sci Rep. 2023 Dec 28;13(1):22998. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-46220-x. PubMed PMID: 38155156; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10754896.

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Wassmer SC, de Koning-Ward TF, Grau GER, Pai S. Unravelling mysteries at the perivascular space: a new rationale for cerebral malaria pathogenesis. Trends Parasitol. 2024 Jan;40(1):28-44. doi: 10.1016/j.pt.2023.11.005. Epub 2023 Dec 8. Review. PubMed PMID: 38065791; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11072469.

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Williams LD, Kolak M, Villanueva C, Ompad DC, Tempalski B. Creation and Validation of a New Socio-built Environment Index Measure of Opioid Overdose Risk for Use in Both Non-urban and Urban Settings. J Urban Health. 2023 Oct;100(5):1048-1061. doi: 10.1007/s11524-023-00754-7. Epub 2023 Aug 7. PubMed PMID: 37550500; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10618135.

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Singh US, Amdep FL, Kshiar A, Acharya P, Karumuthil T, Kale S, Mishra S, Khan N, Kharbisnop B, Kessler A, Carlton JM, Das A, Walton C, Albert S. Characterisation of Anopheles species composition and genetic diversity in Meghalaya, northeast India, using molecular identification tools. Infect Genet Evol. 2023 Aug;112:105450. doi: 10.1016/j.meegid.2023.105450. Epub 2023 May 23. PubMed PMID: 37230159.

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Bellotti E, Voros A, Passah M, Nongrum QD, Nengnong CB, Khongwir C, van Eijk A, Kessler A, Sarkar R, Carlton JM, Albert S. Social network and household exposure explain the use of malaria prevention measures in rural communities of Meghalaya, India. medRxiv. 2023 Apr 25;. doi: 10.1101/2023.04.23.23288997. PubMed PMID: 37162984; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10168486.

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Kale S, Uplekar SM, Bandyopadhyay N, Rao PN, Ali SZ, Sharma SK, Tandel N, Patel A, Singh R, Dank A, Ravishankaran S, Lakshmi Priya GS, Asokan A, Eapen A, Singh OP, Carlton JM, Mallick PK. Antimalarial Drug Resistance Profiling of Plasmodium falciparum Infections in India Using Next-Generation Sequencing. medRxiv. 2023 Apr 9;. doi: 10.1101/2023.04.08.23288321. PubMed PMID: 37066213; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10104178.

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Khan N, Awasthi G, Das A. How can the complex epidemiology of malaria in India impact its elimination?. Trends Parasitol. 2023 Jun;39(6):432-444. doi: 10.1016/j.pt.2023.03.006. Epub 2023 Apr 6. Review. PubMed PMID: 37031071; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10175201.

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Muppidi P, Wright E, Wassmer SC, Gupta H. Diagnosis of cerebral malaria: Tools to reduce Plasmodium falciparum associated mortality. Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2023;13:1090013. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2023.1090013. eCollection 2023. Review. PubMed PMID: 36844403; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9947298.

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Conroy AL, Datta D, Hoffmann A, Wassmer SC. The kidney-brain pathogenic axis in severe falciparum malaria. Trends Parasitol. 2023 Mar;39(3):191-199. doi: 10.1016/j.pt.2023.01.005. Epub 2023 Feb 2. Review. PubMed PMID: 36737313; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11071448.

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Ompad DC, Padhan TK, Kessler A, Mohanty S, Tozan Y, Jones AM, van Eijk AM, Sullivan SA, Haque MA, Pradhan MM, Mohanty S, Carlton JM, Sahu PK. The effectiveness of malaria camps as part of the malaria control program in Odisha, India. medRxiv. 2023 Jan 19;. doi: 10.1101/2023.01.18.23284743. PubMed PMID: 36711482; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9882634.

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Walters SM, Felsher M, Frank D, Jaiswal J, Townsend T, Muncan B, Bennett AS, Friedman SR, Jenkins W, Pho MT, Fletcher S, Ompad DC. I Don't Believe a Person Has to Die When Trying to Get High: Overdose Prevention and Response Strategies in Rural Illinois. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Jan 16;20(2). doi: 10.3390/ijerph20021648. PubMed PMID: 36674402; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9864395.

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Walters SM, Frank D, Felsher M, Jaiswal J, Fletcher S, Bennett AS, Friedman SR, Ouellet LJ, Ompad DC, Jenkins W, Pho MT. How the rural risk environment underpins hepatitis C risk: Qualitative findings from rural southern Illinois, United States. Int J Drug Policy. 2023 Feb;112:103930. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2022.103930. Epub 2023 Jan 13. PubMed PMID: 36641816; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9974910.

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Kirtadze I, Mgebrishvili T, Beselia A, Gvasalia T, Chokheli M, Ompad DC, Otiashvili D. No Good Time Without Drugs: Qualitative Study Among Nightlife Attendees in Tbilisi, Georgia. Adiktologie. 2022;22(3):152-160. doi: 10.35198/01-2022-003-0003. PubMed PMID: 36405630; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9671217.

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Ompad DC, Raghavan R. Course development: Implementation Research on HIV/AIDS. [Other]. Tbilisi, Georgia: Partnership for Research and Action for Health (PRAH); 2022.

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Carlton JM, Eapen A, Kessler A, Anvikar AR, Hoffmann A, Singh OP, Sullivan SA, Albert S, Sahu PK, Mohanty S, Wassmer SC. Advances in Basic and Translational Research as Part of the Center for the Study of Complex Malaria in India. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2022 Oct 11;107(4_Suppl):97-106. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.21-1333. Print 2022 Oct 11. PubMed PMID: 36228919; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9662212.

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Carlton JM, Sahu PK, Wassmer SC, Mohanty S, Kessler A, Eapen A, Tomko SS, Walton C, Joshi PL, Das D, Albert S, Peter BK, Pradhan MM, Dash AP, Das A. The Impact, Emerging Needs, and New Research Questions Arising from 12 Years of the Center for the Study of Complex Malaria in India. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2022 Oct 11;107(4_Suppl):90-96. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.21-1277. Print 2022 Oct 11. PubMed PMID: 36228922; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9662226.

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LoSchiavo C, D'Avanzo PA, Emmert C, Krause KD, Ompad DC, Kapadia F, Halkitis PN. Predictors of Anal High-Risk HPV Infection Across Time in a Cohort of Young Adult Sexual Minority Men and Transgender Women in New York City, 2015-2020. Am J Mens Health. 2022 Jul-Aug;16(4):15579883221119084. doi: 10.1177/15579883221119084. PubMed PMID: 36005272; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9421230.

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Passah M, Nengnong CB, Wilson ML, Carlton JM, Kharbamon L, Albert S. Implementation and acceptance of government-sponsored malaria control interventions in Meghalaya, India. Malar J. 2022 Jun 23;21(1):200. doi: 10.1186/s12936-022-04223-5. PubMed PMID: 35739533; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9223263.

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Tempalski B, Williams LD, Kolak M, Ompad DC, Koschinsky J, McLafferty SL. Conceptualizing the Socio-Built Environment: An Expanded Theoretical Framework to Promote a Better Understanding of Risk for Nonmedical Opioid Overdose Outcomes in Urban and Non-Urban Settings. J Urban Health. 2022 Aug;99(4):701-716. doi: 10.1007/s11524-022-00645-3. Epub 2022 Jun 7. PubMed PMID: 35672547; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9360264.

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Tan ASL, Weinreich E, Padon A, Sanchez M, Snyder KM, Vasilyeva A, Sandh S, Goldmann E, Goodman M, Ompad DC. Presence of Content Appealing to Youth on Cannabis-Infused Edibles Packaging. Subst Use Misuse. 2022;57(8):1215-1219. doi: 10.1080/10826084.2022.2069268. Epub 2022 May 2. PubMed PMID: 35491732; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9494197.

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Walters SM, Bolinski RS, Almirol E, Grundy S, Fletcher S, Schneider J, Friedman SR, Ouellet LJ, Ompad DC, Jenkins W, Pho MT. Structural and community changes during COVID-19 and their effects on overdose precursors among rural people who use drugs: a mixed-methods analysis. Addict Sci Clin Pract. 2022 Apr 25;17(1):24. doi: 10.1186/s13722-022-00303-8. PubMed PMID: 35468860; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9037978.

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Ompad DC, Snyder KM, Sandh S, Hagen D, Collier KJ, Goldmann E, Goodman MS, Tan ASL. Copycat and lookalike edible cannabis product packaging in the United States. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2022 Jun 1;235:109409. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2022.109409. Epub 2022 Mar 15. PubMed PMID: 35459519; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9106923.

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Bolinski RS, Walters S, Salisbury-Afshar E, Ouellet LJ, Jenkins WD, Almirol E, Van Ham B, Fletcher S, Johnson C, Schneider JA, Ompad D, Pho MT. The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Drug Use Behaviors, Fentanyl Exposure, and Harm Reduction Service Support among People Who Use Drugs in Rural Settings. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Feb 16;19(4). doi: 10.3390/ijerph19042230. PubMed PMID: 35206421; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8872091.

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Netherland J, Kral AH, Ompad DC, Davis CS, Bluthenthal RN, Dasgupta N, Gilbert M, Morgan R, Wheelock H. Principles and Metrics for Evaluating Oregon's Innovative Drug Decriminalization Measure. J Urban Health. 2022 Apr;99(2):328-331. doi: 10.1007/s11524-022-00606-w. Epub 2022 Feb 2. PubMed PMID: 35107693; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8809225.

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Gupta H, Wassmer SC. Harnessing the Potential of miRNAs in Malaria Diagnostic and Prevention. Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2021;11:793954. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2021.793954. eCollection 2021. Review. PubMed PMID: 34976869; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8716737.

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Sarkar R, Kessler A, Mawkhlieng B, Sullivan SA, Wilson ML, Carlton JM, Albert S. Household and individual level risk factors associated with declining malaria incidence in Meghalaya, India: implications for malaria elimination in low-endemic settings. Malar J. 2021 Dec 11;20(1):460. doi: 10.1186/s12936-021-03982-x. PubMed PMID: 34895233; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8665616.

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Liebermann E, Van Devanter N, Frías Gúzman N, Hammer MJ, Ompad D. Dominican Provider Attitudes Towards HPV Testing for Cervical Cancer Screening and, Current Challenges to Cervical Cancer Prevention in the Dominican Republic: a Mixed Methods Study. J Cancer Educ. 2021 Dec;36(6):1170-1185. doi: 10.1007/s13187-020-01746-w. PubMed PMID: 32307667; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7572473.

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Ravishankaran S, Asokan A, Justin NAJA, Thomas S, Joshua V, Mathai MT, Eapen A. Does the roof type of a house influence the presence of adult Anopheles stephensi, urban malaria vector? - evidence from a few slum settings in Chennai, India. Parasitol Res. 2022 Jan;121(1):105-114. doi: 10.1007/s00436-021-07376-5. Epub 2021 Nov 13. PubMed PMID: 34773504; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8995298.

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Walters SM, Frank D, Van Ham B, Jaiswal J, Muncan B, Earnshaw V, Schneider J, Friedman SR, Ompad DC. PrEP Care Continuum Engagement Among Persons Who Inject Drugs: Rural and Urban Differences in Stigma and Social Infrastructure. AIDS Behav. 2022 Apr;26(4):1308-1320. doi: 10.1007/s10461-021-03488-2. Epub 2021 Oct 9. PubMed PMID: 34626265; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8501360.

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Sahu PK, Hoffmann A, Majhi M, Pattnaik R, Patterson C, Mahanta KC, Mohanty AK, Mohanty RR, Joshi S, Mohanty A, Bage J, Maharana S, Seitz A, Bendszus M, Sullivan SA, Turnbull IW, Dondorp AM, Gupta H, Pirpamer L, Mohanty S, Wassmer SC. Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging Reveals Different Courses of Disease in Pediatric and Adult Cerebral Malaria. Clin Infect Dis. 2021 Oct 5;73(7):e2387-e2396. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1647. PubMed PMID: 33321516; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8492227.