A5005738346- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Higher Education Research Studies
- Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
- Head and Neck Cancer Studies
- Geography Education and Pedagogy
- Mosquito-borne diseases and control
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- COVID-19 diagnosis using AI
- Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
- Critical Race Theory in Education
- Immune responses and vaccinations
- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Diversity and Career in Medicine
- Environmental and Social Impact Assessments
- Career Development and Diversity
- Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Global Cancer Incidence and Screening
- Parasites and Host Interactions
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Trypanosoma species research and implications
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
Harvard University
2021-2022
Harvard Global Health Institute
2021
Michigan State University
2017-2020
Emory University
2014
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
2012
Under-five child mortality declined 47% since 2000 following the implementation of United Nation's (UN) Millennium Development Goals. To further reduce under-five mortality, UN's Sustainable Goals (SDGs) will focus on interventions to address neonatal a major contributor mortality. The African region has highest rate (28.0 per 1000 live births), followed by that Eastern Mediterranean (26.6) and South-East Asia (24.3). This study used Demographic Health Survey Birth Recode data...
There are many outstanding questions about how to control the global COVID-19 pandemic. The information void has been especially stark in World Health Organization Africa Region, which low per capita reported cases, testing rates, access therapeutic drugs, and longest wait for vaccines. As with all disease, central challenge responding is that it requires integrating complex health systems incorporate prevention, testing, front line care, reliable data inform policies their implementation...
Underrepresentation among U.S. citizen racial and ethnic minorities in geography has a long history, one perpetuated through-and readily measurable by-its doctoral degree-granting record. This article examines the history of efforts to redress underrepresentation since 1960s, explores modern underrepresentation, measures degree its persistence discipline within individual departments, identifies drivers that exacerbate representation disparity citizens programs. To quantify which is...
Domestic racial and ethnic minorities have been persistently underrepresented in U.S. geography doctoral programs. Efforts to improve diversity taken many forms over the years, but most short-lived with limited success. In this article, we introduce Advancing Geography Through Diversity Program (AGTDP), a four-pronged cohort-based model that systematically sustainably increases presence of African Americans, Hispanic Native Americans The program is currently its fourth year Department...
Abstract Studies demonstrate that economically deprived minority communities are often disproportionately located in close proximity to industrial sources of pollution, and these pollutants known cause cancer. Additionally, prolonged exposure toxins such as, benzene 1,3 butadiene, human carcinogens by-products petroleum refining, can result high premature cancer mortality. Recent studies have revealed an increased risk for port communities, similar Galena Park, Texas along the Houston Ship...