Francisco Sy (Environmental and Occupational Health) gave a keynote presentation on "Confronting Emerging & Neglected Diseases and Climate Change: From Local to Global" during the Infectious Diseases and Climate Change meeting organized by the National Academy of Science and Technology on Feb. 17 in Manila, Philippines. 

Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) presented on "Vector control for malaria prevention during humanitarian emergencies: a systematic review and meta-analysis" during the 18th Vector Control Working Group annual meeting on Feb. 6-8 in Accra, Ghana. The results of this study led to the establishment of two new malaria vector…

Lung-Wen Antony Chen (Environmental and Occupational Health) is the recipient of the 2023 Frank A. Chambers Excellence in Air Pollution Control Award from the Air & Waste Management Association.  This award, established by resolution of A&WMA's Board of Directors in 1954, is for outstanding achievement by an individual in the science…

Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-published an article titled "Efficacy of pyriproxyfen-pyrethroid long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) and chlorfenapyr-pyrethroid LLINs compared with pyrethroid-only LLINs for malaria control in Benin: a cluster-randomised, superiority trial" in The Lancet journal.  New classes of…

Karen Callahan (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-published an article titled, "Lung cancer in never smokers: Distinct population-based patterns by age, sex, and race/ethnicity," in the journal Lung Cancer. In this study, researchers examined the patterns of lung cancer among people who never smoked, an understudied but sizable group. The…

Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-published an article titled, "Entomological Characteristics of Malaria Transmission across Benin: An Essential Element for Improved Deployment of Vector Control Interventions" in the journal Insects. Entomological surveillance in Benin has historically been limited to zones where indoor…

Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-published an article on "Multi-centre discriminating concentration determination of broflanilide and potential for cross-resistance to other public health insecticides in Anopheles vector populations" in the journal Scientific Reports. Novel insecticides are urgently needed to control…

Emylia Terry (Environmental and Occupational Health) has received a 2022 Injury and Violence Prevention Student Research Grant from the Colorado School of Public Health Injury and Violence Prevention Center (IVPC). This grant was created by IVPC to support students who are pursing research or evaluation projects in the field of injury and…

Lung-Wen Antony Chen (Environmental and Occupational Health), along with researchers from Desert Research Institute, University of California, Riverside, and California Air Resources Board,  recently published an article, "Evidence of non-tailpipe emission contributions to PM2.5 and PM10 near southern California highways…

Kristina Mihajlovski, Mark Buttner, Patricia Cruz, Brian Labus, Elizabeth Detrick (all Environmental and Occupational Health), and Barbara St. Pierre Schneider (University of Texas at Arlington) co-authored the article "SARS-CoV-2 Surveillance with Environmental Surface Sampling in Public Areas" in the journal PLoS ONE. The objective of this…

Bertille Assoumou (Medicine), Courtney Coughenour (Environmental and Occupational Health), Amruta Godbole (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and Ian McDonough (Economics) published an article titled, "Senior food insecurity in the USA: a systematic literature review," in the journal Public Health Nutrition. After examining 20 articles, they found…

Chad Cross (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) and Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-published an article on "Epidemiological, Entomological, and Climatological Investigation of the 2019 Dengue Fever Outbreak in Gewane District, Afar Region, North-East Ethiopia" in the journal Insects. Dengue Fever (DF) is an important…