Current Appointments & Affiliations
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Global Health
·
2025 - Present
Duke Global Health Institute,
University Institutes and Centers
Recent Publications
Spatially heterogeneous and neighborhood impacts of deep tubewells on childhood diarrhea in rural Bangladesh.
Journal Article Social science & medicine (1982) · March 2026 Deep tubewells that procure groundwater from deep arsenic-free aquifers are crucial sources of safe drinking-water in rural Bangladesh. However, their health benefits may be heterogeneous and context dependent: inequitable distribution, long collection dis ... Full text CiteSociodemographic characteristics predict land use patterns by farmers near a protected area in Madagascar.
Journal Article Scientific reports · February 2026 Globally, most farms are smaller than 10 hectares. Land use by these smallholder farmers in agricultural frontiers is crucial to conservation, food security, and exposure to infectious diseases. However, solely survey-based land use studies miss the fine s ... Full text CiteA 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 CiteRecent Grants
US-Israel Collab: Market Integration, Land Use, and Pathogen Transmission in Rural Madagascar
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2023 - 2028A Satellite Informed Malaria Early Warning System for Malaria Elimination Settings
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 2022 - 2026Effectively Linking Molecular Informatics and Network Analytics to Reduce Malaria (ELIMINAR-Malaria)
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2024 - 2025View All Grants
Education
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill ·
2017
Ph.D.