Current Appointments & Affiliations
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Global Health
·
2025 - Present
Duke Global Health Institute,
University Institutes and Centers
Recent Publications
A Machine Learning-Based Dynamic SST Index for Long-Lead Malaria Prediction in the Peruvian Amazon.
Journal Article GeoHealth · January 2026 Malaria imposes a major health burden in the Peruvian Amazon, and its early warning is essential for effective disease prevention. The tropical sea surface temperature (SST) variability, fundamentally shaping the global weather patterns, may also alter mal ... Full text CiteOne Health Disparities and Blastocystis infection among smallholder farmers in northeastern Madagascar.
Journal Article PLOS global public health · January 2025 Blastocystis is a globally transmitted gastrointestinal protozoa that commonly infects people living in low- and middle-income countries. Transmission is thought to occur via consumption of contaminated water or food and through contact with infected anima ... Full text Open Access CiteDisentangling social, environmental, and zoonotic transmission pathways of a gastrointestinal protozoan (Blastocystis spp.) in northeast Madagascar.
Journal Article American journal of biological anthropology · November 2024 ObjectivesUnderstanding disease transmission is a fundamental challenge in ecology. We used transmission potential networks to investigate whether a gastrointestinal protozoan (Blastocystis spp.) is spread through social, environmental, and/or zoo ... Full text CiteRecent Grants
US-Israel Collab: Market Integration, Land Use, and Pathogen Transmission in Rural Madagascar
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2023 - 2028Effectively Linking Molecular Informatics and Network Analytics to Reduce Malaria (ELIMINAR-Malaria)
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2024 - 2028A Satellite Informed Malaria Early Warning System for Malaria Elimination Settings
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 2022 - 2026View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill ·
2017
Ph.D.