Infectious Diseases

Infectious diseases are one of the main drivers of global mortality and morbidity and are a major factor in health inequities. The Yale School of Public Health has well-established interdisciplinary strengths in HIV/AIDS, vaccine development and disease modeling and is a leader in the international response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, the school is known for its etiological research in vector-borne diseases, neglected tropical diseases and global health.

Laboratory Science

The Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases has an established record of public health discovery through laboratory science. In the school’s first century, YSPH led the fight against poliomyelitis, housed the Arbovirus Research Unit which moved from the Rockefeller Foundation to Yale in 1964 (and was home to Nobel prize-winning scientist Max Theiler and other prominent scientists), as well as the WHO serum bank. Today, Yale is home to several modern laboratories that address vector-borne diseases transmitted by tsetse flies, ticks, mosquitoes and sand flies. In addition, our scientists are pursuing solutions to respiratory ailments, antibiotic resistance, diagnostic testing, vaccine development and infections related to STIs and intravenous drug use.

Recent Publications

Long-read nanopore shotgun metagenomic DNA sequencing for river biodiversity, wildlife, pollution, and environmental health monitoring.Nousias O, Duffy FG, Duffy IJ, McCauley M, Whilde J, Duffy DJ. NAR Genom Bioinform. 2026 Jun; 2026 Apr 24. PMID: 42038409.
Evaluation of an innovative model for leadership and management development among national immunization program teams.Bechtold K, Ineza L, Mwisongo A, Biwole V, Wong R, Linnander E. Public Health Pract (Oxf). 2026 Jun; 2026 Feb 12. PMID: 41768267.
Epidemiological impacts of nonpharmaceutical interventions are modulated by immunity exposure trade offs.Saad-Roy CM, Nielsen BF, Lind ML, Wagner CE, Traulsen A, Metcalf CJE, Boots M, Cummings DAT, Grenfell BT. Commun Med (Lond). 2026 May 1; 2026 May 1. PMID: 42062463.
Using Nominal Group Technique With Human-Centered Design to Inform Preimplementation Planning for Combined Rapid-Start Initiation of Antiretroviral and Opioid Agonist Therapies in People Who Inject Drugs With HIV in Ukraine.Johnson AE, Tate M, Filippovych M, Bromberg DJ, Kiriazova T, Madden LM, Dvoriak S, Altice FL. J Assoc Nurses AIDS Care. 2026 May-Jun 01. PMID: 42043845.
Heart Failure Outcomes Among Medicare Beneficiaries Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Sawano M, Xin X, Wu Q, Wang Y, Khera R, Lin Z, Krumholz HM. Am J Cardiol. 2026 May 1; 2026 Feb 11. PMID: 41687911.
Chronic Conditions as Risk Factors for COVID-19-Associated Hospitalization Among Adults, 2020-2023.Hamid S, Derado G, Pham H, Woodruff RC, Melgar M, Roland JL, Kawasaki B, Meek J, Witt LS, Monroe ML, Reeg L, Martin E, Akpo JE, Barney G, Felsen CB, Moran N, Sutton M, Talbot HK, Swain A, Havers FP, Taylor CA. Am J Prev Med. 2026 May; 2025 Dec 19. PMID: 41423029.
Displacement and the disruption of drug use patterns and risks: Experiences of people living with HIV in two urban neighbourhoods.Chayama KL, Narayan P, McNeil R, Boyd J, McDougall P, Knight R. Int J Drug Policy. 2026 Apr 29; 2026 Apr 29. PMID: 42061343.
Multi-ancestry genome-wide association and integrated multi-omics analyses of endometriosis and its clinical manifestations.Koller D, He J, Løkhammer S, Aranda S, Qiu D, Davtian D, Chen Q, Xu Z, Mao Z, Friligkou E, Karaca S, Cormand B, Flores I, Altmäe S, Mitjans M, Cabrera-Mendoza B, Polimanti R. Nat Genet. 2026 Apr 29; 2026 Apr 29. PMID: 42056605.
National- and State-level SARS-CoV-2 Immunity Trends From January 2020 to December 2023: a Mathematical Modeling Analysis.Klaassen F, Swartwood NA, Chitwood MH, Lopes R, Haraguchi M, Salomon JA, Cohen T, Menzies NA. J Infect Dis. 2026 Apr 29. PMID: 41129530.
Substance Use is Linked to Less Facility-Based but Greater Self-HIV Testing Willingness Among African Refugee Male Sex Workers in Italy: A Cross-Sectional Study.Rigo C, Dakpui HD, Nichols SS, Saaka MS, Shamrock OW, Aleakwe K, Majeck BS, Zardini GA, Abu-Ba'are GR. J Assoc Nurses AIDS Care. 2026 Apr 27; 2026 Apr 27. PMID: 42041168.
Activation mechanism of the full-length histidine kinase LvrB from pathogenic Leptospira.Agustoni E, Mechaly A, Dalla Rizza J, Beriashvili D, Pluhackova K, Isaikina P, Trajtenberg F, Müntener T, Wunder EA Jr, Ko AI, Schirmer T, Buschiazzo A, Hiller S. Nat Commun. 2026 Apr 16; 2026 Apr 16. PMID: 41991510.
Population health and implementation outcomes of self-testing for SARS-CoV-2 using antigen detecting diagnostics: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Brümmer LE, Faehling V, McGrath S, Zorger AM, Worbes K, Erdmann C, Tolle H, Katzenschlager S, Yerlikaya S, Grilli M, Pollock NR, Erkosar B, Mace A, Ongarello S, Johnson CC, Sacks JA, Cunningham J, Skoetz N, Denkinger CM, Lee RA. EClinicalMedicine. 2026 Apr; 2026 Apr 7. PMID: 42005922.
Optimising COVID-19 episode identification using serology and PCR/rapid antigen testing: insights from the BRACE trial.McDonald E, Pittet LF, Bonten M, Byrne A, Campbell J, Croda J, Dalcolmo M, Davidson AJ, Dos Santos G, Gardiner K, Gwee A, Jardim B, Lacerda M, Lucas M, Lynn DJ, Manning L, Marshall H, Perrett KP, Prat-Aymerich C, Puga MAM, Richmond P, Rodríguez-Baño J, Wadia U, Warris A, Wood N, Curtis N, Messina NL. BMC Infect Dis. 2026 Apr 7; 2026 Apr 7. PMID: 41947067.
HHBayes: A Flexible Bayesian Framework for Simulating and Analyzing Household Transmission Dynamics.Li K, Hou Y, Mukherjee B, Pitzer VE, Weinberger DM. medRxiv. 2026 Apr 3; 2026 Apr 3. PMID: 41959791.
Building better conversations: results of a community-based online health misinformation and motivational interviewing training program in Alaska.Cameron DB, Grage L, Hennessy TW, Cheng A, Quinn M, Van Wyck R, Meyer JA, Garcia G, Mapaye JC, Cueva K. BMC Public Health. 2026 Apr 2; 2026 Apr 2. PMID: 41923017.
Performance of Three Commercial Rapid Diagnostic Tests for Detection of IgM and IgG Antibodies Against SARS-CoV-2.Portilho MM, de Oliveira Tosta SF, Pellizzaro M, Dos Anjos RO, de Oliveira EC, de Santana PDSN, Dos Santos Moreira PS, Jacob-Nascimento LC, da Silva Souza MM, Mothé DB, Brodskyn C, Reis MG, Cardoso CW, Ribeiro GS. Immun Inflamm Dis. 2026 Apr. PMID: 42036989.
Absence of SARS-CoV-2 in Placental Tissue After Maternal COVID-19.Farhadian SF, Orlinick B, Milano KM, Mekael D, Kliman HJ. JAMA Netw Open. 2026 Apr 1; 2026 Apr 1. PMID: 42018327.
e3SIM: Epidemiological-ecological-evolutionary simulation framework for genomic epidemiology.Xu P, Liang S, Hahn A, Zhao V, Lo WT', Haller BC, Sobkowiak B, Chitwood MH, Colijn C, Cohen T, Rhee KY, Messer PW, Wells MT, Clark AG, Kim J. Methods Ecol Evol. 2026 Apr; 2026 Mar 5. PMID: 41953710.
Genomic epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Malawi: using global phylogeography to understand the impact of geographically focused interventions.Beams AB, Song Y, McNichol J, Jones BR, Sobkowiak B, MacPherson P, Nliwasa M, Ndhlovu V, Phiri MD, Cohen T, Colijn C. Microb Genom. 2026 Apr. PMID: 41949012.
Empiric azithromycin alters the upper respiratory microbiome and resistome without anti-inflammatory benefit in COVID-19.Glascock A, Maguire C, Phan HV, Lydon EC, Schaenman J, Calfee CS, Melamed E, Greenland J, Corry DB, Kheradmand F, Baden LR, Sekaly R, McComsey GA, Haddad EK, Cairns CB, Geng LN, Pulendran B, Fernandez-Sesma A, Simon V, Metcalf JP, Agudelo Higuita NI, Messer WB, Davis MM, Nadeau KC, Kraft M, Bime C, Erle DJ, Atkinson MA, Brakenridge SC, Ehrlich LIR, Montgomery RR, Shaw AC, Hough CL, Hafler DA, Augustine AD, Becker PM, Peters B, Ozonoff A, Hoch A, Kim-Schulze S, Krammer F, Bosinger S, Eckalbar W, Altman MC, Wilson M, Guan L, Maecker H, Steen H, Diray-Arce J, Rouphael N, Kleinstein SH, Jayavelu ND, Reed EF, Levy O, Chu VT, Langelier CR. Nat Microbiol. 2026 Apr; 2026 Mar 16. PMID: 41840216.
Metagenomic surveillance reveals off-season circulation of respiratory viruses during the COVID-19 pandemic in Salvador, Brazil.Aguilar Ticona JP, Amorim Santos L, Meng X, Nery N Jr, Fofana MO, de Moraes L, Morais Strobel I, Vitoriano R, Silveira Cucco M, Andrade Belitardo EMM, Thakku G, Cruz JS, Detweiler AM, Neff N, Tato CM, Reis MG, Costa F, Cummings DAT, Ko AI, Khouri R. New Microbes New Infect. 2026 Apr; 2026 Feb 6. PMID: 41732520.
Epigenetic Age Acceleration and Frailty Among People with HIV.Oursler KK, Sun YV, Lozano AJ, Xu K, So-Armah KA, Montano M, Justice AC, Marconi VC. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses. 2026 Apr; 2025 Dec 26. PMID: 41468122.
Retention and morale in the ICU: interprofessional team members' perspectives on interprofessional staffing in adult ICUs.Fitzpatrick Rosenbaum KE, Wright NC, Feder SL, Yakusheva O, Costa DK. Intensive Crit Care Nurs. 2026 Apr; 2025 Nov 24. PMID: 41289629.
The global phylogeography of rapidly expanding multidrug resistant Ural lineage 4.2 Mycobacterium tuberculosis.Chitwood MH, Rancu I, Song Y, Potter BI, Chew YT, Ciobanu N, Crudu V, Colijn C, Cohen T, Sobkowiak B. Nat Commun. 2026 Mar 31; 2026 Mar 31. PMID: 41917024.
Displacement Stressors and Sexual and Reproductive Health Challenges for Internally Displaced Young Adults in Northern Mozambique: A Qualitative Study Using the Socio-ecological Framework for Refugee Distress.Chantre CL, Suleman A, Dos Santos PF, Dos Santos K, Xaria M, Khoshnood K, Wainberg ML, Mello M, Wessels M, Mootz JJ. AIDS Behav. 2026 Mar 28; 2026 Mar 28. PMID: 41903025.
Global epidemiology of ovarian cancer: patterns, trends, and risk factors.Li R, Zhao A, Liu M, Lu L, Li B, Zeng H. Cancer Biol Med. 2026 Mar 24; 2026 Mar 24. PMID: 41877375.
Association of genetic variants in the autophagy gene ATG4B with asthma.Nicholson D, DeWan AT. medRxiv. 2026 Mar 23; 2026 Mar 23. PMID: 41929293.
Ocular Symptoms in Long COVID: A Cross-Sectional Study.Kaleem S, Sawano M, Arun AS, Warner F, Zhou T, Huang C, Bhattacharjee B, Lu Y, Iwasaki A, Nwanyanwu K, Ahmed IIK, Krumholz HM. Clin Ophthalmol. 2026; 2026 Mar 23. PMID: 41907807.
Real-world effectiveness of perinatal RSV immunoprophylaxis: protocol for a test-negative case-control study.Aparicio Llorente C, Wats A, Araujo BL, Moniz Ganem J, Oliva IO, Xu H, Brodsky NN, Lucas CL, Aronson PL, Grubaugh ND, Breban M, Redmond S, Shapiro ED, Niccolai LM, Weinberger DM, Oliveira CR. BMJ Open. 2026 Mar 19; 2026 Mar 19. PMID: 41856594.
Effectiveness of routine tuberculosis education in a high-burden setting: A prospective observational cohort study.Johnson TS, Nanziri L, Gupta AJ, Ggita JM, Armstrong-Hough M, Ayakaka I, Shenoi SV, Katamba A, Davis JL. PLoS One. 2026; 2026 Mar 18. PMID: 41849373.
DMEM and EMEM as alternate growth media for pathogenic Leptospira.Garcia LE, Lin Z, Culos S, Muenker MC, Johnson EE, Wang Z, Lopez-Giraldez F, Giraud-Gatineau A, Jackson AM, Picardeau M, Goodlett DR, Townsend JP, Pětrošová H, Wunder EA Jr. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2026 Mar; 2026 Mar 17. PMID: 41843624.
Lipidome changes indicate oxidative stress, inflammation, and specific loss of glycerophosphoserine inflammatory protection in patients with lupus.Koelmel JP, Ramos PS, Costa KA, Godri-Pollitt KJ, Kamen DL, Bowden JA. J Pharm Biomed Anal. 2026 Mar 15; 2025 Dec 3. PMID: 41389493.
Diagnostic Accuracy of Molecular Testing on Saliva and Oral Swabs for Pulmonary Tuberculosis.Vargas DA, Fuertes-Bucheli JF, Sanchez-Hidalgo A, Palomares Velosa J, Lasso AM, Gupta AJ, Martinez-Valencia AJ, Díaz G, Luna L, Alexander N, Ferro BE, Davis JL. Clin Infect Dis. 2026 Mar 12; 2026 Mar 12. PMID: 41817395.
Differentiated HIV Service Delivery vs Conventional Care: Tuberculosis Preventive Therapy Outcomes for People Living with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa.Johnson A, Chimoyi L, Charalambous S, Kawaza N, Hoffmann CJ, Davis JL, Chihota V. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2026 Mar 11; 2026 Mar 11. PMID: 41812010.
The Role of Community Health Workers in Tobacco Cessation: A Scoping Review.Woodruff D, Sawyer S, Taggart T. Am J Health Promot. 2026 Mar 11; 2026 Mar 11. PMID: 41808606.
A tiled amplicon protocol for culture-free whole-genome sequencing of M. tuberculosis from clinical specimens.Kalinich CC, Gonzalez FL, Osmaston A, Breban MI, Distefano I, Leon C, Coronel J, Tan G, Crudu V, Ciobanu N, Codreanu A, Solano W, Ráez J, Sheen P, Zimic M, Allicock OM, Chaguza C, Wyllie AL, Brandt M, Weinberger DM, Sobkowiak B, Cohen T, Grandjean L, Grubaugh ND, Redmond SN. J Clin Microbiol. 2026 Mar 11; 2026 Feb 9. PMID: 41660836.
Co-production of informal settlement health: a community based participatory research program for building healthy communities in urban informal settlements of Salvador, Brazil.Mogaji H, Alexandra Alzate LY, Figuerêdo LA, Araujo Virgens JH, Aliaga MA, Argibay HD, Salles I, Pereira Moreira A, Lima E Silva TJ, Cristina Dos Santos S, Batista R, Cardoso E, Neves Santos EC, Leal Dos Santos E, Rodrigues Dos Santos E, da Mata Barreto T, Dos Santos Mattos TA, Nery N Jr, Cruz J, Carneiro I, Lustosa R, Dedavid Ferreira VC, Reis M, Ko AI, Costa F, Begon M, Khalil H. Front Public Health. 2026; 2026 Mar 10. PMID: 41883820.
Ethical Principles and Practices in HIV Acquisition Research in Humanitarian Crises: A Cross-Sectional Study.Garmroudi D, Harsono D, Atre S, Ho W, Jin J, Nyhan K, Peterson H, Davis JL, Khoshnood K. J Law Med Ethics. 2026 Mar 10; 2026 Mar 10. PMID: 41802995.
Component Clinical and Cost Outcomes Complementing Value of Information: Case Study of a Tuberculosis Diagnostics Clinical Trial.Pei P, Qoshe L, Florance G, Pandya A, Weinstein MC, Freedberg KA, Paltiel AD, Reddy KP. Pharmacoeconomics. 2026 Mar 6; 2026 Mar 6. PMID: 41792541.
"It becomes more difficult when people don't empathize with us": COVID-19-related stigmatization experienced by survivors in Nepal.Bhandari B, Thapa P, Timilsina A, Karn RR, Ali H, Hagaman A, Shrestha A. PLoS One. 2026; 2026 Mar 6. PMID: 41790720.
Serotype-specific pneumococcal invasiveness: a global meta-analysis of paired estimates of disease incidence and carriage prevalence.Gallagher KE, Odiwour F, Bottomley C, Ojal J, Adamu A, Muthumbi E, Kagucia EW, Hammitt LL, Massora S, Sigaúque B, Chaúque A, Vilanculos L, Verani JR, da Gloria Carvalho M, von Gottberg A, Kleynhans J, Madhi SA, Olwagen CP, Mackenzie G, Salaudeen R, Gierke R, Kobayashi M, Pelton S, Yildirim I, Thomas S, Tunali A, Farley M, Swarthout TD, Kalizang'oma A, Heyderman RS, French N, Choi Y, Andrews N, Ladhani S, Miller E, Scott JAG. Lancet Microbe. 2026 Mar; 2026 Feb 23. PMID: 41747754.
Toward a mechanistic understanding of LGBTQ-affirmative cognitive-behavioral therapy: Testing treatment mediators in a randomized controlled trial with young gay and bisexual men.Burger J, Wang K, Hollinsaid NL, Safren SA, Pachankis JE. Behav Res Ther. 2026 Mar; 2026 Jan 23. PMID: 41638164.
"In God's Hands": Qualitative Study of Religion/Spirituality and HIV-Related Intersectional Stigma Among Black Women Living With HIV in Washington, DC.Taggart T, Jones MA, Habib MA, Price N, Kerr G 3rd, Magnus M, Abdullah K. J Assoc Nurses AIDS Care. 2026 Mar-Apr 01; 2026 Jan 9. PMID: 41505628.
Estimated Burden of COVID-19 Illnesses, Medical Visits, Hospitalizations, and Deaths in the US From October 2022 to September 2024.Koumans EHA, Khan D, Trejo I, Deng L, Devine O, Smith-Jeffcoat SE, Hamid S, Patton ME, Carter E, Aggarwal M, Pham H, Patel K, Whitaker M, Wiegand RE, Gregory CO, Ortega-Sanchez IR, Derado G, Iuliano AD, Reed C, Hall AJ, Taylor CA, Havers F, Anderson BJ, Asturias E, Bowman NM, Chai SJ, Chu HY, Como-Sabetti K, Ellingson KD, Felsen CB, Grijalva CG, Hill M, Kawasaki B, Lutrick K, Maldonado Y, Martin ET, Monto AS, Morrissey KG, Naleway AL, Nguyen HQ, Plano J, Rao S, Ryan PA, Sosin DM, Stockwell MS, Sutton M, Talbot HK, Witt LS. JAMA Intern Med. 2026 Mar 1. PMID: 41489910.
Beyond Neighbors: Social Capital and Self-Empowerment Among Older Adults Diagnosed with HIV Late.Chantre CL, Vu T, Lee M, Wang M, Girma M, Dunham K, Lin-Schweitzer A, Aoun-Barakat L, Shenoi S, Virata M, Taggart T, Ransome Y. AIDS Behav. 2026 Mar; 2025 Nov 1. PMID: 41175146.
Acceptability of a Culturally Tailored eHealth Video Intervention "Put Yourself First" to Promote Preexposure Prophylaxis Awareness and Knowledge Among Young Black Women: Mixed Methods Pilot Study.Bond KT, Williams PM, Thomas P, Babayev D, Gunn A. JMIR Form Res. 2026 Feb 26; 2026 Feb 26. PMID: 41747239.
Formative Research to Identify Contributors to Risky Drinking and Adapt an Alcohol Reduction Intervention Among Young Adults Vulnerable to HIV: Qualitative Focus Group Study.Sesenu F, Kirklewski S, Takenaka B, Brown J, Nicholson E, Haney K, Carroll K, Restar A, Boyd DT, Fallin-Bennett K, Kershaw T, Lauckner C. JMIR Form Res. 2026 Feb 26; 2026 Feb 26. PMID: 41747216.
Rare variant analyses provide insights into the genetic architecture of endometriosis.Gui Y, Xie Y, Tong X, Zhao H. Hum Genomics. 2026 Feb 24; 2026 Feb 24. PMID: 41736152.
Unexpected diversification of DENV2 genotype III in Colombia: New Insights and application of the globalized nomenclature.Calvo EP, Madroñero LJ, Hernández LM, Arturo JA, Pinzón H, Delgado FG, Velandia-Romero ML, Hill V, Grubaugh ND, Castellanos JE. PLoS One. 2026; 2026 Feb 24. PMID: 41734239.
HBCUs as sites for sexual health promotion among Black emerging adults.Rutledge JD, Lindsay J, Abrams J, Benson L, Opara I. J Am Coll Health. 2026 Feb 17; 2026 Feb 17. PMID: 41700967.
A Cluster Randomized Trial of a Vaccination Communication Educational Intervention: Impact on COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake in Veterans.Seal KH, Kaplan A, Manuel JK, Bertenthal D, Purcell N, DeRonne BM, Oliver KA, Esserman D, McCamish N, Mesidor M, Griffin B, Borsari B, Woodruff NA, Usman H, Pyne JM. J Gen Intern Med. 2026 Feb 12; 2026 Feb 12. PMID: 41680545.
Food insecurity and COVID-19-related experiences among people with HIV: A mixed methods analysis and conceptual framework.Harsono D, Sklar K, Silver M, Frederick M, Villanueva M, Edelman EJ, Yager JE. PLoS One. 2026; 2026 Feb 12. PMID: 41678510.
Feasibility and acceptability of daily oral emtricitabine/tenofovir alafenamide fumarate (FTC/TAF) for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis among people who inject drugs with opioid use disorder.Gautam K, Paudel K, Wickersham JA, Altice FL, Bellia G, Jadkarim L, Liew Z, Khati A, Copenhaver M, Shrestha R. Sex Transm Infect. 2026 Feb 10; 2026 Feb 10. PMID: 41667236.
The catastrophic financial burden of extrapulmonary tuberculosis and asset index-based inequality analysis: A prospective cohort study analysing patients' impoverishment.Hassan S, Kanthali M, Purohit MR, Mustafa T. PLOS Glob Public Health. 2026; 2026 Feb 9. PMID: 41662362.
Long-term Mortality Trends Among Individuals With Tuberculosis: A Retrospective Cohort Study of Individuals Diagnosed With Tuberculosis in Brazil.Kim S, Pelissari DM, Harada LO, Sanchez M, Oliveira PB, Johansen FDC, Maciel ELN, Cohen T, Castro MC, Menzies NA. Clin Infect Dis. 2026 Feb 9. PMID: 40249758.
Immune-mediated protection and enhancement of dengue drives patterns of infant cases in Brazil.Hitchings MDT, Huang AT, Ranzani OT, García-Carreras B, Nogueira ML, Ko AI, Croda J, Salje H, Cummings DAT. Nat Commun. 2026 Feb 6; 2026 Feb 6. PMID: 41651817.
Use of Animal-Derived Products for Medicinal and Belief-Based Purposes in Urban Cities of Southwestern Nigeria: A One Health Perspective.Akpan SN, Buij R, van Langevelde F, Thomas LF, Sijuwola AE, Ogunsanya OA, Hooft PV, Adedokun OA, Adeyemo AA, Ayinla AO, Zimmerman DM, Cook EAJ, Masudi SP, Hassell JM, Happi CT, Happi AN. Animals (Basel). 2026 Feb 5; 2026 Feb 5. PMID: 41681482.
Evaluating peer navigation in promoting digital secondary distribution of HIV self-testing among men who have sex with men in China: study protocol for a two-arm randomized controlled trial.Ren H, Jing F, Zhang X, Hu S, Luo Z, Li R, Luo J, Han Y, Xie Y, Cheng W, He X, Ye Y, Wang C, Fan J, Wu D, Zhou Y, Tang W. BMC Public Health. 2026 Feb 5; 2026 Feb 5. PMID: 41639850.
Impact of time zero designation on estimated COVID-19 antiviral effectiveness in observational studies.Bajema KL, Yan L, Berry K, Bui D, Lin HM, Huang Y, Li Y, Rajeevan N, Maciejewski ML, Smith VA, Bohnert ASB, Hynes DM, Aslan M, Ioannou GN. Am J Epidemiol. 2026 Feb 5. PMID: 41078178.
Epidemiologic and Bacterial Factors Facilitating Long-term Transmission of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Shanghai, China.Lu X, Jiang Y, Zhang R, Zhang Y, Li J, Wang L, Ye Q, Hou R, Lu Y, Zhu X, Ji Y, Gan M, Li M, Liu Q, Shen X, Yang C. Clin Infect Dis. 2026 Feb 4. PMID: 40576551.
Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Tuberculosis Outcomes in the United States: A Bayesian Analysis.Swartwood NA, Cohen T, Marks SM, Hill AN, Beeler Asay GR, Self J, Feng PI, Horsburgh CR, Salomon JA, Menzies NA. Clin Infect Dis. 2026 Feb 4. PMID: 40036593.
Core-sheath coupling controls flagellar curvature and motility in Leptospira.San Martin F, Brady MR, Fule L, Nouchikian L, Rodriguez A, Mondino S, Larrieux N, Wunder EA Jr, Ko AI, Rey M, Chamot-Rooke J, Duran R, Trajtenberg F, Picardeau M, Sindelar CV, Buschiazzo A. bioRxiv. 2026 Feb 3; 2026 Feb 3. PMID: 41676522.
Clinical Pharmacists, Medications, and Contingency Management for Targeting Smoking in HIV Clinics: A Randomized Clinical Trial.Edelman EJ, Deng Y, Dziura J, Nahum-Shani I, Weiss JM, Aoun-Barakat L, Bold KW, Harsono D, Mistler C, Payne E, Aiudi S, Sigel KM, Yager JE, Ledgerwood DM, Bernstein SL. JAMA Netw Open. 2026 Feb 2; 2026 Feb 2. PMID: 41758512.
Guideline Adherence of Perioperative Antibiotics and Surgical Site Infections in Noncardiac Surgery.Bardia A, Lin HM, Zhao X, Michel G, Wai M, Fisher C, Shuster KM, Colquhoun DA, Mathis MR, McGee M, Kheterpal S, Mhyre J, Schonberger RB. JAMA Netw Open. 2026 Feb 2; 2026 Feb 2. PMID: 41706452.
Uncovering the genetic landscape of cholangiocarcinoma and its subtypes via GWAS and integrative analyses.Han Y, Byun J, VanLith CJ, Cooley MA, Shaw VR, Hatia RI, Ahmed FY, Giama NH, Ali HM, Campbell NA, Hassan M, Andersen JB, Ankoma-Sey V, Banales JM, Bujanda L, Bathe OF, Bekaii-Saab TS, Borad MJ, Björkström NK, Chan CHF, Cleary SP, Cornillet M, Folseraas T, Galle PR, Genkinger JM, MacInnis RJ, Gores GJ, Goyal L, Houlston RS, Ilyas SI, Javle M, Johansen JS, Christensen TD, Kamath AS, Kelley RK, Khan SA, Kim RD, Kwee SA, Lamarca A, Lammert F, LaRusso NF, Lindsey S, Macias RIR, Malhi H, Patel TC, Permuth JB, Reeves HL, Rossi S, Sanchez W, Smoot RL, Swerdlow AJ, Tran Cao HS, Valle JW, Weinmann A, Weinmann-Menke J, Wong LL, Zhang X, Zimmer V, Zhu AX, Lazaridis KN, Juran BD, Jalal P, Knox JJ, Hutchinson A, Hicks B, Koshiol JE, Chanock SJ, Hassan MM, Amos CI, McGlynn KA, Roberts LR. Hepatology. 2026 Feb 2; 2026 Feb 2. PMID: 41627892.
A Tutorial on Implementing Statistical Methods for Estimating Excess Death With a Case Study and Simulations on Estimating Excess Death in the Post-COVID-19 United States.Rountree L, Zimmermann L, Teed L, Weinberger DM, Mukherjee B. Stat Med. 2026 Feb. PMID: 41677307.
Corrigendum to "Impact of strategic public health interventions to reduce tuberculosis incidence in Brazil: a Bayesian structural time-series scenario analysis" - The Lancet Regional Health - Americas 2025; Volume 41: 100963; DOI: 10.1016/j.lana.2024.100963.Villalva-Serra K, Barreto-Duarte B, Rodrigues MM, Queiroz ATL, Martinez L, Croda J, Rolla VC, Kritski AL, Cordeiro-Santos M, Sterling TR, Araújo-Pereir M, Andrade BB. Lancet Reg Health Am. 2026 Feb; 2026 Jan 29. PMID: 41658953.
Causal Covariate Selection for the Regression Calibration Method for Exposure Measurement Error Bias Correction.Tang W, Spiegelman D, Wu Y, Wang M. Stat Med. 2026 Feb. PMID: 41636390.
The potential effect of a geographically focused intervention against tuberculosis in the USA: a simulation modelling study.Regan M, Cui H, Swartwood NA, Li Y, Marks SM, Barham T, Khan A, Winston CA, Cohen T, Horsburgh CR Jr, Salomon JA, Menzies NA. Lancet Public Health. 2026 Feb. PMID: 41611367.
Estimating the number of incorrect tuberculosis diagnoses in low- and middle-income countries.van Lieshout Titan A, Dodd PJ, Cohen T, Menzies NA. Nat Med. 2026 Feb; 2026 Jan 7. PMID: 41501491.
Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Cascade Outcomes Among Black Cisgender Women in the Southern United States.Shangani S, Sharma AR, Shourya S, Assoumou SA, Sales JM, Rodriguez-Diaz CE. AIDS Patient Care STDS. 2026 Feb; 2025 Nov 25. PMID: 41335508.
Perspective: Infant Feeding Policies among Women Living with HIV in Latin America and the Caribbean: Should They Be Updated?Pérez-Escamilla R, Hernández-Cordero S, Gupta T. Adv Nutr. 2026 Feb; 2025 Jun 24. PMID: 40571099.
Increasing trust in science through a "Do Your Own Research" intervention.Winters M, Warren JL, Melchinger H, Christie S, Omer SB. Sci Rep. 2026 Jan 31; 2026 Jan 31. PMID: 41620465.
Failure of Endophthalmitis Prophylaxis: A Laboratory Model Comparing Antibiotics and Bacterial Loads.Moon M, Mathews S, Mahjabin F, Karaiskos K, Libre PE. J Cataract Refract Surg. 2026 Jan 29; 2026 Jan 29. PMID: 41642980.
Estimating the burden of RSV- and influenza-associated ED visits, hospitalizations, ICU admissions, and deaths across age and socioeconomic groups in New York State, 2005-2019.Xu H, Pitzer VE, Warren JL, Shapiro ED, Perniciaro S, Weinberger DM. BMC Infect Dis. 2026 Jan 28; 2026 Jan 28. PMID: 41606523.
COVID-19 pandemic changes in social behavior relevant for transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.Nelson KN, Harton P, Cohen T, Willis F, Yoshii H, Naidoo K, Lutchminarain K, Campbell A, Omar SV, Auld SC, Brust JCM, Gandhi NR, Shah NS. BMC Res Notes. 2026 Jan 24; 2026 Jan 24. PMID: 41580819.
Potential long-acting tuberculosis treatment for people with HIV: cost-effectiveness benchmarks.Zheng A, Pletner E, Middelkoop K, Neilan AM, Horsburgh CR, Paltiel AD, Freedberg KA, Wood R, Reddy KP. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2026 Jan 23; 2026 Jan 23. PMID: 41721756.
Assessing the comorbidity between asthma and depression through polygenic risk scoring and time-to-event models.Wang X, He J, Cabrera-Mendoza B, Qiu D, Mao Z, Gu W, Liu Y, Kim J, Polimanti R. BMC Med. 2026 Jan 22; 2026 Jan 22. PMID: 41572266.
Cerebrospinal Fluid Immune Cell Alterations in Women With Neuropsychiatric Long COVID.Orlinick B, Mehta S, McAlpine L, Khoshbakht S, Fertuzinhos S, Nelson A, Chiarella J, Das B, Patel V, Filippidis P, Corley MJ, Spudich SS, Farhadian SF. J Infect Dis. 2026 Jan 17. PMID: 40920586.
Hygiene knowledge and practices in the Lagos wild meat value chain: Cultural influences, regulatory gaps, and infrastructure needs.Akpan SN, Cook EAJ, van Langevelde F, van Hooft P, Zimmerman DM, Buij R, Hassell JM, Masudi SP, Happi CT, Happi AN, Thomas LF. PLOS Glob Public Health. 2026; 2026 Jan 16. PMID: 41544141.
Mixed methods assessment of an integrated hypertension and HIV care model: Acceptability, feasibility, and clinical outcomes at primary healthcare clinics in Wakiso District, Uganda.Semitala FC, Kiggundu JB, Giibwa L, Ayebare F, Ssinabulya I, Schwartz JI, Spiegelman D, Muddu M, Katahoire AR, Longenecker CT. J Public Health Afr. 2026; 2026 Jan 13. PMID: 41646509.
Proceedings of the inaugural symposium on dengue human challenge studies "Challenging the norm: Accelerating dengue countermeasures through human studies".Kalimuddin S, Waickman AT, Avirutnan P, Alam MS, Chiu C, Young BE, Woods CW, Fay PC, Pakir SK, Manski-Nankervis JA, Bolte C, Pengilley A, Cavaleri M, Lim JCW, Thomas SJ, Ko AI, Ooi EE. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2026 Jan; 2026 Jan 9. PMID: 41511926.
Associations Between COVID-19 Business and Social Gathering Restrictions and Deaths by Suicide in the United States: A Cross-Sectional County-Level Analysis.Spiegel M, Pietrzak RH, Na PJ. Psychiatr Q. 2026 Jan 6; 2026 Jan 6. PMID: 41493759.
Normalization of Seasonality and Age Distribution of Pediatric RSV Infection Following the Pandemic Disruption in the Netherlands.Rave N, de Bruijne MEM, Stellato RK, Bannier MAGE, Weinberger DM, Löwensteyn YN, Wildenbeest JG, Bont LJ. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2026 Jan; 2025 Dec 30. PMID: 41477533.
COVID-19 vaccine trust and uptake: the role of media, interpersonal and institutional trust in a large population-based survey.Coelho LE, Goedert GT, Genari J, Luz PM, Carvalho LM, Santos CVBD, Csillag D, Konečný T, Campos Pellanda L, Struchiner CJ, Freitas da Silveira M, Hallal PC. Lancet Reg Health Am. 2026 Jan; 2025 Dec 8. PMID: 41467112.
History of self-reported COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in the Brazilian population: a countrywide survey.Brito Dos Santos CV, Coelho LE, Luz PM, Goedert GT, Csillag D, Gennari J, Leão OAA, Blumenberg C, Siqueira FV, de Assis DM, da Silva AMS, do Carmo GMI, Barros FC, Struchiner CJ, Victora CG, Hallal PC. Int J Epidemiol. 2026 Jan 1. PMID: 41408845.
Associations Between Prior and Current Unhealthy Alcohol Use and Liver Morbidity Risk and Mortality Among Veterans With a History of Hepatitis C Who Have Achieved Sustained Virological Response.Feelemyer J, Ban FK, Braithwaite RS, Bhattacharya D, Caniglia EC, Justice AC, Lim JK, Re VL, Scheidell J, Rentsch CT, Khan M. J Viral Hepat. 2026 Jan. PMID: 41376520.
In a shifting policy era: California provider knowledge and practice of medical exemption laws during the COVID-19 pandemic.Schuh HB, Delamater P, Proveaux TM, Dudley MZ, Buttenheim AM, Schwartz JL, Klein NP, Goddard K, Patel KM, Omer SB, Salmon DA. Vaccine. 2026 Jan 1; 2025 Nov 19. PMID: 41265003.
An Approach to Building a Strong Public Health Workforce: The Connecticut Public Health Fellowship Program.Nappi S, Allen N, Hill K, Aviles E, Meise-Munns E, Petros M, Asada Y, Jarpe-Ratner E, Lane J, Pérez-Escamilla R. J Public Health Manag Pract. 2026 Jan-Feb 01; 2025 Nov 18. PMID: 41260590.
Transmission of bedaquiline-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.Sobol R, Omar SV, Brown TS, Joseph L, Lutchminarian K, Tang L, Lan Y, Willis F, Campbell A, Warren JL, Cohen T, Brust JCM, Naidoo K, Shah NS, Gandhi NR, Mathema B. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2026 Jan 1. PMID: 41026808.
Multiple Discrimination, Substance-Related Coping, and Depression Among Sexual Minority Men with HIV.Chiu C, Shin HJ, Baldwin HT, O'Cleirigh C, Mayer KH, Batchelder AW. J Homosex. 2026; 2025 Jul 14. PMID: 40658755.
Estimation and inference for causal spillover effects in egocentric-network randomized trials in the presence of network membership misclassification.Chao A, Spiegelman D, Buchanan A, Forastiere L. Biostatistics. 2025 Dec 31. PMID: 40159413.
County-Level Influenza-Attributable Emergency Department Visits and Their Spatial Correlates in the United States: Cross-Sectional Observational Study.Huang XF, Warren JL, Lin S, Ebelt S, Chang HH. JMIR Public Health Surveill. 2025 Dec 30; 2025 Dec 30. PMID: 41468575.
Exploring barriers and facilitators in implementing the Health4All module for HIV stigma reduction in Malaysia healthcare setting, a Delphi study.Salaton NF, Zaki R, Khamis N, Saimy IS, Noris NJ, Nasir NN, Lim SH, Kamarulzaman A, Altice FL. BMC Res Notes. 2025 Dec 29; 2025 Dec 29. PMID: 41462372.
Guidance on the management of asymptomatic blood donors who test positive for Babesia.Bloch EM, Jacobs JW, Vannier E, Wormser GP, Gelfand JA, Sikand VK, Heller HM, Sood SK, Kirkman L, Johnson JE, Marcos LA, Lemieux JE, Smith RP, Woolley AE, Perry WA, Polgreen PM, Beekmann SE, Sullivan DJ, Auwaerter PG, Krause PJ. Clin Infect Dis. 2025 Dec 26; 2025 Dec 26. PMID: 41452032.
Effectiveness of the 2024-2025 KP.2 COVID-19 vaccines in the United States during long-term follow-up.Ioannou GN, Berry K, Yan L, Huang Y, Lin HM, Bui D, Hynes DM, Boyko EJ, Ferguson JM, Aslan M, Bajema KL. Nat Commun. 2025 Dec 24; 2025 Dec 24. PMID: 41444246.
MTHFR allele and one-carbon metabolic profile predict severity of COVID-19.Petrova B, Syphurs C, Culhane AJ, Chen J, Chen E, Cotsapas C, Esserman D, Montgomery RR, Kleinstein SH, Smolen KK, Mendez K, Lasky-Su J, Steen H, Levy O, Diray-Arce J, Kanarek N. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2025 Dec 23; 2025 Dec 18. PMID: 41410771.
The coronaviral landscape across diverse mammalian species in the Northeastern United States.Ibemgbo S, Compton S, Breban MI, Redmond S, Grubaugh ND, Linske M, Williams S, Zyskowski K, Watkins-Colwell G, Lewis J, Syracuse M, Risatti G, Tanner WD, Zeiss C. Sci Rep. 2025 Dec 20; 2025 Dec 20. PMID: 41422148.
Why Americans are Dying Younger? NIH Is Not the Problem. Our Broken Healthcare Delivery Is.Ignacio RB, Pagkas-Bather J, Gonsalves G, Gianella S. J Infect Dis. 2025 Dec 20; 2025 Dec 20. PMID: 41420662.
Why Americans are Dying Younger? NIH Is Not the Problem. Our Broken Healthcare Delivery Is.Ignacio RB, Pagkas-Bather J, Gonsalves G, Gianella S. Clin Infect Dis. 2025 Dec 20; 2025 Dec 20. PMID: 41420651.

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