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2024 Review: Office of Fellowships & Training

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41-New-Awardees-2024The Office of Fellowships and Training at the UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases ensures educational and mentored research training and field experience for eligible masters, doctoral or post-doctoral candidates. Managed by Kristin Reed, MPH; Marla Allen, MPH; Dzidzai Muyengwa, MPH; and Benjamin Chi, MD, MSc, following is a monthly look back at a busy year of training activities that saw 41 new awardees seek professional and growth in global health, bringing the total current trainees to 107.

 

FEBRUARY

Trainee Professional Development

1. The UJMT LAUNCH D43 sponsored four trainees and alumni for an Implementation Science workshop in Ghana. The Associate Director for UJMT from Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Bhakti Hansoti, co-facilitated this workshop.

2. Thirteen trainees and alumni presented research at the 2nd Annual Global Health Scholars Symposium

  • Mitch Matoga, MBBS, PhD (M-HIRST D43) 1.) “Effectiveness of an intervention to increase uptake of voluntary medical male circumcision among men with sexually transmitted infections in Malawi: a pre- and post-interventional study” and 2.) “HIV and Urethritis: Time required for antiretroviral therapy to suppress HIV in semen”
  • Simon Nicholas (M-HIRST D43) “Barriers and Facilitators to HIV Oral Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Lilongwe, Malawi”
  • Petros Tembo (M-HIRST D43) “Spatial distribution of clients reporting for clinic appointments and factors associated with missed appointments at largest public ART clinic in Lilongwe, Malawi: a retrospective cohort study”
  • Yaoska Reyes, PhD (NEED D43) “Histo-blood groups antigens and the susceptibility to norovirus and rotavirus AGE in a Nicaraguan birth cohort”
  • Luis Zambrana (NEED D43) “Investigating the Impact of Human Milk Oligosaccharides on Child Development”
  • Kristin Banek, PhD (UJMT LAUNCH D43) “Using Cascade Analysis to Improve Malaria Diagnosis and Treatment in Congolese Children”
  • Maria Faidas (UJMT LAUNCH D43) “Health stigma & discrimination experienced by adolescents living with HIV and comorbid depression in Malawi”
  • Nadia Hoekstra, MD (UJMT LAUNCH D43) “Development of a Novel Scoring Tool to Detect Child Pneumonia Aspiration Risk Using Healthy Breastfed Infants in Malawi”
  • Ramya Kumar, PhD (UJMT LAUNCH D43) “PrEPared for Change: Injectable PrEP Interest Among Women Engaged in Sex Work in Zambia, a Rapid Qualitative Study”
  • Camille Morgan (UJMT LAUNCH D43) “Investigating household hepatitis B transmission using whole-genome sequencing and serological profiles in Kinshasa Province, Democratic Republic of Congo”
  • Rebecca Rubenstein (UJMT LAUNCH D43) “Human milk oligosaccharides and secretor status positively associated with the risk of Campylobacter jejuni gastroenteritis in breastfeeding Nicaraguan infants”
  • Thuy Dao (VISA D43) “Friendship Bench Intervention to Address Depression and Improve HIV Care Engagement Among Adolescents Living with HIV in Malawi: Study Protocol for a Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial”
  • Khanh Nguyen, MD (VISA D43) “Mycoplasma genitalium infections among men who have sex with men in a human immunodeficiency virus pre-exposure prophylaxis program in Hanoi, Vietnam”

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MARCH

Trainee Professional Development

  • UJMT LAUNCH D43 postdoctoral trainee James January completed a short-term training at UNC. January’s short-term attachment included a range of scholarly activities at the Institute of Global Health and Infectious Diseases. With weekly progress meetings and mentorship from Dr. Joy Noel Baumgartner, James participated in various training sessions, webinars, and workshops on research leadership, qualitative methods, and systematic reviews. He also attended the CUGH 2024 Conference and engaged in consultations on arts-based mental health interventions. January is an alumnus of the WARMHEART D43 program.
  • STI/HIV T32 sponsored the attendance of postdoctoral fellow Alexander Commanday to the CROI 2024 Conference in Colorado.

Other Activities

  • UJMT LAUNCH D43 Alumnus Stephen Kimani represented the program during a panel at CUGH 2024 in Los Angeles, California. He spoke about his cancer research in Malawi and career as a physician-scientist in global cancer care.

APRIL

New Awardee

  • M-CORP D43 awarded UNC Project-Malawi Cancer Research Clinical Officer Edwards Kasonkanji a one-month short-term training opportunity at UNC. Under the supervision of Dr. Yuri Fedoriw, Kasonkanji developed an SOP for bone marrow smears that was submitted as recommendation to Kamuzu Central Hospital Cancer Center facility in Malawi. He engaged in palliative care training, attended several oncology lectures, met with UNC faculty, and presented bone marrow work at the virtual Annual Symposium on Global Oncology Research.

Trainee Professional Development

  1. A five-day writing retreat was held in Malawi, with participation from the WARMHEART, M-CORP, M-HIRST, and UJMT D43s. Twenty-six participants attended across the four programs.
  2. STI/HIV T32 trainees presented their research at the IGHID Friday Conference:
  • Grace Mulholland, PhD (postdoctoral fellow) “HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis persistence in an STI clinic in urban Malawi”
  • Cynthia Thomas (doctoral candidate) “Determining vaccine antigens that promote protection from Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection”
  • Kacy Yount, PhD (former postdoctoral fellow) “Deciphering Natural Immunity to Chlamydia trachomatis: Insights from T Cell Profiles of a Highly Exposed Cohort of Women”
  • UJMT LAUNCH D43 sponsored Samuel Eitenbichler’s (2023-2024 predoctoral trainee) attendance to the American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting in Colorado.

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MAY

Trainee Professional Development

  1. UJMT LAUNCH D43 co-sponsors Asia regional workshop with attendance from trainees and alumni. The workshop aimed to provide a platform for trainees and alumni to share research, enhance specific skills, and create networking opportunities within the Asia region. The agenda featured plenary sessions, research updates, and skill-building workshops. UJMT sponsored attendance for three trainees and supported Gifty Marley and Zhuoheng Yin from UNC Project-China/SESH Global (Guangzhou, China) as workshop facilitators. They led sessions on crowdsourcing, designathons, and co-creating health interventions.
  2. ID Pathogenesis T32 trainees presented their research at IGHID Friday Conference:
  • Farhang Aghakhanian, PhD (postdoctoral fellow) “Treponema pallidum subsq. pallidum genomic epidemiology and implications for syphilis vaccine design”
  • Allaura Cone, PhD (former postdoctoral fellow) “CD81 fusion alters SARS-CoV-2 Spike trafficking – implications for vaccine design”
  • Thomas Holowka, MD (postdoctoral fellow) “Nutrition and microbiota determinants of multidrug-resistant Enterobacterales intestinal colonization dynamics”

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Other Activities

  • STI/HIV T32 invited Dr. Kenneth Mayer to UNC as part his role as External Advisory Board member for the program. He gave a talk during ID/IGHID/CFAR Friday Conference on “Optimizing PrEP to Achieve Population Impact” and met with STI/HIV T32 trainees to discuss their training experience on the T32.

JUNE

New Awardees

  • ID Pathogenesis T32 welcomed Nathaniel Chapman, PhD, and Zachary Popkin-Hall, PhD as two new postdoctoral fellows.Viiv-Logo-Adimora-Fellowship

New Training Opportunities

  • ViiV Healthcare establishes a research training fellowship program in memorial of Dr. Ada Adimora.
  • The office agrees to manage coordination of the training component of the Gates Foundation-funded PaluSeq grant (PI: Jonathan Parr). This program supports trainees to complete MSc degrees and laboratory training to build capacity for malaria research in the DRC.

Trainee Professional Development

  1. M-CORP D43 sponsored the attendance of MMed trainee Gugu Mapurisa to the SIOP 2024 Conference in South Africa.
  2. STI/HIV T32 sponsored the attendance of predoctoral trainee Tess Filipowicz to the SER Conference in Texas to present her research “Common mental disorder improvement after 6-week-talk-therapy intervention among people with HIV on methadone maintenance treatment in Hanoi, Vietnam.
  3. Three of our trainees presented their research at the UNC D43 Symposium:
  • Kondwani Katundu (M-HIRST D43) “Prevalence of dyslipidemia among people living with HIV”.
  • Phung Khanh Lam (VISA D43) “Mental health and ART adherence among adolescents”
  • Charles Masulani (WARMHEART D43) “Validation of Chichewa version of the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS) and Suicide Risk Assessment Protocol SRAP for Categorizing Suicide Behaviors in a Sample of Psychiatric Outpatients in Malawi.”

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Other Activities

  1. The renewal application for the WARMHEART D43 (MPI: Brad Gaynes and Kaz Kulisewa) was submitted by training collaborators at Kamuzu University of Health Sciences in Blantyre, Malawi. This program has been critical in building capacity for psychiatry research and clinical practice in Malawi.
  2. The ID and ICHID Fellowship celebrated the graduation of four ID fellows: Briana Castillo, MD, Alexander Commanday, MD, John Franzone, MD, and Stephanie Switzer, MD, MPH; and two ICHID Fellows: Elizabeth Arant, MD, MSPH and Nida Ashraf, MBBS.
  • Briana Castillo is continuing her education at Massachusetts General Hospital with Harvard Medical School as a Medical Microbiology Fellow.
  • Alexander Commanday and Stephanie Sweitzer are continuing their research as 3rd year ID Fellows via the STI/HIV T32.
  • Elizabeth Arant and John Franzone have both joined our ID faculty as Assistant Professors.
  • Nida Ashraf has joined faculty at the University of Maryland as an Assistant Professor.
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Scholars and fellows attended the UJMT LAUNCH orientation in July, a one-week event in Bethesda, MD, along with program faculty and staff.

JULY

New Awardees Welcomed

  1. The ID and ICHID Fellowships welcomed five new fellows: Bhavita Gaglani, MD (ICHID), Michael Motley, MD, PhD, Adam Schafer, MD, PhD, Joseph Stromberg, MD, and Robert Williams, MD.
  2. M-HIRST D43 awarded nine data internships: Shamim Buleya; Vivien Chipolombwe; Grace Jailosi; Memory Kanyemba; John Lichenya; Gomezgani Lukhanda, MBBS; Vitumbiko Mandiwa, MBBS; Rebecca Nchocholo, MBBS; and Annie Thom. The data internships are a practical experience for trainees to join an ongoing implementation science project based at UNC Project-Malawi or one of M-HIRST’s partner organizations.
  3. STI/HIV T32 welcomed Cara Broshkevitch (predoctoral trainee), and Stephanie Sweitzer, MD, MPH (postdoctoral fellow) to the grant.
  4. UJMT LAUNCH D43 awarded 17 new scholars and fellows. Research countries are indicated in parentheses:
  • Six international postdoctoral fellows: Gaitree Baldewsingh, MD, PhD (Suriname); Paula Carballo Jimenez, MD (Bolivia); Deborah Charles-Stijnberg, MD (Suriname); Chikondi Malamba Banda, PhD (Malawi); Charity Nakanga, MBBS (Malawi); Catherine Nakaye, MBChB (Uganda)
  • Six US postdoctoral fellows: Lynne Fakeye, MD (Peru); Erika Gazzetta, MD (Zambia); Madeline Helwig, MD (Uganda); Cathy Luo, MD (Malawi); Malya Sahu, MD (Zambia); Gabriel Sneh, MD (Zambia)
  • Three U.S. predoctoral fellows: Vanessa Amabo (Zambia); Sarah Cory (Suriname); Melissa Issa-Boube (Malawi)
  • Two U.S. predoctoral Fulbright-Fogarty fellows: Ashwin Reddy (Nepal); Meredith Wells (Peru)

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Trainee Professional Development

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    Maria Faidas (left) at the AIDS conference in Germany.

    LAUNCH orientation: 16 of our 17 UJMT LAUNCH scholars and fellows attended the one-week event in Bethesda, MD, along with program faculty and staff.

  2. UJMT LAUNCH D43 postdoctoral trainee Tilinde Chokotho completed a short-term training attachment at UNC. This short-term attachment experience included an opportunity to present at the Fogarty LAUNCH Orientation and serve on a panel discussion on building south to south collaborations and research capacity building.
  3. UJMT LAUNCH D43 sponsored the attendance of predoctoral trainee Maria Faidas to present her research at the AIDS conference in Germany. Faidas presented on the health stigma and discrimination experienced by adolescents living with HIV and comorbid depression in Malawi.
  4. STI/HIV T32 sponsored the attendance of predoctoral trainee Bryce Stamp to give an oral presentation his research “Tough Talks virtual simulation HIV disclosure intervention for young men who have sex with men living with HIV “and the poster “Factors associated with prediction of sex for hypothetical on-demand PrEP use among young men who have sex with men in the U.S.” at the AIDS conference in Germany.

 

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Tilinde Chokotho (second from left) completed a short-term training attachment at UNC which included an opportunity to speak at the Fogarty LAUNCH Orientation (right).

AUGUST

New Awardees

  • Wits-UNC D43 awarded seed funding to Rutendo Bothma and Dorothy Nyemba-Machemedze, PhD, at Wits RHI in South Africa. Their research focuses on organizational readiness of healthcare facilities to implement changes.
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Benjamin Kumwenda, Samuel Gwayi, and Yuri Fedoriw

Trainee Professional Development

  • M-CORP D43 predoctoral trainee Samuel Gwayi completed a short-term training attachment at UNC. Samuel is a doctoral student at Kamuzu University of Health Sciences in Malawi. Read more about Samuel’s research here.
  • WARMHEART D43 sponsored the attendance of postdoctoral fellow Jonathan Banda to the African Summit on NCDs in Ethiopia.
  • UJMT LAUNCH D43 trainee Chikondi Malamba-Banda received a CRDF award which will supplement her ongoing UJMT research.

Other Program Activities

  • The renewal application for the M-HIRST D43 (MPI: Mina Hosseinipour and Victor Mwapasa) was submitted by training collaborators at Kamuzu University of Health Sciences in Blantyre, Malawi. M-HIRST has provided over 90 training opportunities to Malawian researchers since 2015, ranging from short-term data internships to PhD degree funding.
  • The renewal application for the Wits-UNC D43 (PIs: Audrey Pettifor and Rohit Ramaswamy) was submitted by training collaborators at Wits RHI in Johannesburg, South Africa. The program has been integral to establishing implementation science expertise in the region, through MSc and PhD degrees as well as postdoctoral mentored research opportunities.

SEPTEMBER

New Awardees

  • M-CORP D43 awarded Lusayo Simwinga a scholarship to complete an MMed in Clinical Oncology at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS), Tanzania.

Trainee Professional Development

1.WARMHEART sponsored a two-day Mental Health Conference in Salima, Malawi, with 183 attendees. Five current WARMHEART trainees and one program alumnus gave presentations on research:

  • Mwawi-N’goma-Presenting-Spain-2024-ReviewJonathan Banda, PhD (Postdoctoral Fellow) “The burden of suicide ideation, measurement validation, and comparison of treatment models of psychotherapy among patients living with cancer at Kamuzu Central Hospital in Malawi”
  • Joshua Chienda, MBBS (MMed Scholar) 1) “Experiences of caregivers for people with psychosis in Blantyre, Malawi”; & 2) “Feasibility, Acceptability, and Preliminary Efficacy of the Manualized Family Treatment Component of Coordinated Specialty Care (CSC) among Patients Living with Psychosis at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH)”
  • James January, PhD (Former Postdoctoral Fellow) “Using the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) and the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) to assess suicidal ideation among women attending postnatal care in two rural districts in Zimbabwe”
  • Gloria Kalolo, MBBS (MMed Scholar) “Perceptions of primary healthcare workers towards video-based health professional education for postpartum psychosis in Thyolo, Malawi”
  • Charles Masulani, PhD (Postdoctoral Fellow) “Validation of Chichewa Version of the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale [C-SSRS] and Suicide Risk Assessment Protocol (SRAP) for Categorizing Suicide Behaviors in a Sample of Psychiatric Outpatients in Malawi”
  • Patrick Nyirongo, MBBS (MMed Scholar) “Enhancing post-acute mental health outcomes for patients with psychosis: The ENHANCE Pilot Trial.”

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2. NEED D43 sponsored the attendance of predoctoral trainee Omar Zepeda to present his research “Outbreak of DenV-4 in Nicaragua associated with an emerging variant” at the Congress of Microbiology Symposium in Costa Rica.

3. WARMHEART D43 sponsored the attendance of postdoctoral fellow Mwawi N’goma to present her research “Piloting a psychosocial intervention for perinatal depression, the Thinking Healthy Programme – Peer delivered (THPP) in Lilongwe District, Malawi: challenges and opportunities” at the International Marce Society for Perinatal Mental Health Conference in Spain.

Other Program Activities

  • UJMT LAUNCH D43 was awarded an administrative supplement to provide structured global health research opportunities for medical students at Morehouse School of Medicine. Trainees selected for the Fogarty Pathway Program will complete three-week training attachments at our partnering institutions in Ghana and Jamaica.
  • The office submitted the renewal application for the ID Pathogenesis T32 (PI: Jonathan Juliano). Now in its 45th year, this program has trained a collective 112 postdoctoral fellows including eight current UNC faculty members.
  • The office submitted an application for the Interdisciplinary Mentoring Program for Antimicrobial Resistance Training (IMPART) T32 (MPI: David van Duin and Sid Thakur). If funded, this will be a collaborative training program between UNC and NC State University.

OCTOBER

New Awardees

• PaluSeq awarded Ismaël Botelanyele a scholarship to complete an MSc in molecular microbiology and biotechnology at Maseno University in Kenya.

Trainee Professional Development

  • STI/HIV T32 sponsored the attendance of predoctoral trainee Carolina Ruiz to the APHA conference in Minneapolis.
  • STI/HIV T32 postdoctoral fellow Alexander Commanday and ID Pathogenesis T32 postdoctoral fellow Thomas Holowka both attended and presented research during IDWeek in Los Angeles. Alex presented a poster (photo below) on “Reason for Hospitalization Contrasting Adjudication versus ICD-10 Coding Among Persons with HIV, 2016-2019” and Tom had an oral presentation on “Modeling Strain-Dependent Variability in Carbapenem-Resistant Klebsiella Pneumoniae Colonization in the Malnourished Host.”
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During ID Week, Alexander Commanday presented a poster on the “Reason for Hospitalization Contrasting Adjudication versus ICD-10 Coding Among Persons with HIV, 2016-2019.”
  • UJMT LAUNCH D43 supported the attendance of program alumni Delmaliz Barreto-Vazquez to present her research “SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence of Surinamese children and factors associated with seropositivity” at the 2024 World Pediatrics Conference in Japan.
  • UJMT LAUNCH D43 sponsored the attendance of program alumni Shay Slifko to present an abstract on her research “The role of social support among HIV-positive, violence-exposed perinatal women in Johannesburg” at the SVRI Forum in South Africa.
  • WARMHEART D43 postdoctoral fellow Esther Kip, PhD, and MMed trainee Joshua Chienda, MBBS, presented posters at the KUHeS Research Dissemination Conference in Malawi. Esther’s poster was on “Cultural adaptation of a psychosocial screening tool for adolescents living with HIV/AIDS in an antiretroviral therapy program in Malawi” (photo below), and Joshua’s poster was on “Caregiving experiences of caregivers for people with psychosis in Blantyre, Malawi.” Esther is also an alumnus of the UJMT LAUNCH D43 program.

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Other Program Activities

  • The Deputy Director of the Fogarty International Center, Dr. Peter Kilmarx, visited UNC. He met with IGHID and SPH leadership, our D43 PIs and senior faculty, and gave a talk on his international research career.
  • M-CORP D43 sponsored Dr. Benjamin Kumwenda’s visit to UNC. Dr Kumwenda is site PI for Kamuzu University of Health Sciences in Malawi for the M-CORP D43.
  • WARMHEART D43, along with the ongoing mental health research projects in Malawi, provided support for a Technical Working Group meeting organized by NCD and Mental Health Division, Malawi Ministry of Health. This meeting provided a platform for key stakeholders to discuss ongoing research and innovations for NCDs, injury, and mental health. WARMHEART was represented at the meeting by training faculty Dr. Melissa Stockton, who gave a presentation on the D43, and program alumnus Dr. Michael Udedi.

NOVEMBER

Trainee Professional Development

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    Esther Kip, PhD, and MMed trainee Joshua Chienda, MBBS, presented posters at the KUHeS Research Dissemination Conference in Malawi.

    ID Pathogenesis T32 sponsored postdoctoral fellow Thomas Holowka, who presented a poster entitled “Pervasive Intestinal Carriage with Multiple Stains of Multidrug-resistance Enterobacterales in Children Admitted for Severe Acute Malnutrition at a Tertiary Hospital in Lilongwe, Malawi” at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Conference in New Orleans.

  • WARMHEART D43 MMed trainees Gloria Kalolo and Joshua Chienda presented their research at the Africa Global Mental Health Institute Conference in Nairobi, Kenya. Gloria received a travel award from the conference organizers to attend and gave an oral presentation on “Perceptions of primary healthcare workers towards video-based health professional education for postpartum psychosis in Thyolo, Malawi. Joshua was awarded second place for his poster on “Feasibility, Acceptability, and Preliminary Efficacy of the Manualized Family Treatment Component of Coordinated Specialty Care (CSC) among Patients Living with Psychosis at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH).”
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Joshua Chienda (right) was awarded second place at the Africa Global Mental Health Institute Conference in Nairobi, Kenya.

DECEMBER

Trainee Professional Development

  • STI/HIV T32 doctoral trainee Cara Broshkevitch will present her research “Sequencing HIV Diagnostic Samples to Detect Genetic Clusters and Assess Sequence Coverage Gaps” during the CFAR Clinical Core WIP Meeting.

Other Activities

  • The ID Fellowship Program matched four Infectious Disease fellows and two Compromised Host/Transplant ID Fellows. Learn more.

 

PUBLICATIONS

Trainees published 105 papers in 2024. Click on the arrow (far right) to open a collection of publications for each training program. (Note: names of current trainees are bolded. Names of alumni are underlined.)

Publications for Eli Arant, Alex Commanday, and Tom Holowka are listed in their respective T32 programs below.

  1. Saal RC, Bramson B, Miedema JR, Mackow NA. Painful Anal Lesions in a Patient With HIV. Cutis. 2024 Jul;114(1):E29-E30. doi: 10.12788/cutis.1061. PMID: 39159353.
  2. Franzone JP, Mackow NA, van Duin D. Current treatment options for pneumonia caused by carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii. Curr Opin Infect Dis. 2024 Apr 1;37(2):137-143. doi: 10.1097/QCO.0000000000001001. Epub 2024 Jan 3. PMID: 38179988; PMCID: PMC10922681.
  3. Mackow NA, van Duin D. Reviewing novel treatment options for carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales. Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther. 2024 Jan-Jun;22(1-3):71-85. doi: 10.1080/14787210.2024.2303028. Epub 2024 Feb 12. PMID: 38183224; PMCID: PMC11500727.
  4. Saunders E, et al. Alpha-gal Seropositivity Among Screened Cohorts In NC and SC. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Volume 153, Issue 2, AB46, 2024 Feb. Doi: 10/1016/j.jaci.2023.11.168.
  5. Sri-Pathmanathan C, Bao H, Diluka PAE, Mee A, Andari B, Saunders E, Wijegunawardana A, Weerasinghe I, Hetti NP, Samaraweera S, Tang W, Tucker JD. Enhancing Community Participation in Dengue Control Through Digital Crowdsourcing: An Analysis of a World Mosquito Program Digital Open Call in Sri Lanka. J Infect Dis. 2023 Nov 28;228(11):1482-1490. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiad439. PMID: 37804520.
  6. Zychowski DL*, Bamunuarachchi G, Commins SP, Boyce RM, Boon ACM. Evidence of Human Bourbon Virus Infections, North Carolina, USA. Emerg Infect Dis. 2024 Nov;30(11):2396-2399. doi: 10.3201/eid3011.240499. Epub 2024 Oct 9. PMID: 39387510; PMCID: PMC11521162.
  7. Zychowski DL*, Alvarez C, Abernathy H, Giandomenico D, Choudhary SK, Vorobiov JM, Boyce RM, Nelson AE, Commins SP. Tick-Borne Disease Infections and Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain. JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Jan 2;7(1):e2351418. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.51418. PMID: 38206624; PMCID: PMC10784854.
  8. Sweitzer SF, Sickbert-Bennett EE, Seidelman J, Anderson DJ, Lim MR, Weber DJ. The impact of minimally invasive surgical approaches on surgical-site infections. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2024 May;45(5):557-561. doi: 10.1017/ice.2023.277. Epub 2024 Jan 3. PMID: 38167421.
  9. Cao F, Xiu Y, Mohnasky M, Serody JS, Armistead P, Dotti G, Smith M, Huggins J, Messina J, Ramachandran B, Saullo J, Stromberg J, Saha MK, Walsh M, Savoldo B, Grover N, Henderson HI, Andermann TM. Infectious Complications Following CD30 Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell Therapy in Adults. medRxiv [Preprint]. 2024 Jul 11:2024.07.10.24310235. doi: 10.1101/2024.07.10.24310235. PMID: 39040188; PMCID: PMC11261934.

*Dr. Zychowski’s research is supported by the TIDE training program, which is housed in the Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health (T32 AI070114; PI: Brian Pence).

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  1. Carey-Ewend K, Popkin-Hall ZR, Simkin A, Muller M, Hennelly C, He W, Moser KA, Gaither C, Niaré K, Aghakanian F, Feleke S, Brhane BG, Phanzu F, Mwandagalirwa K, Aydemir O, Sutherland CJ, Ishengoma DS, Ali IM, Ngasala B, Kalonji A, Tshefu A, Parr JB, Bailey JA, Juliano JJ, Lin JT. Population genomics of Plasmodium ovalespecies in sub-Saharan Africa. bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2024 Sep 19:2024.04.10.588912. doi: 10.1101/2024.04.10.588912. PMID: 39345628; PMCID: PMC11429939.
  2. Popkin-Hall ZR, Carey-Ewend K, Aghakhanian F, Oriero EC, Seth MD, Kashamuka MM, Ngasala B, Ali IM, Mukomena ES, Mandara CI, Kharabora O, Sendor R, Simkin A, Amambua-Ngwa A, Tshefu A, Fola AA, Ishengoma DS, Bailey JA, Parr JB, Lin JT, Juliano JJ. Population Genomics of Plasmodium malariae from Four African Countries. medRxiv [Preprint]. 2024 Sep 9:2024.09.07.24313132. doi: 10.1101/2024.09.07.24313132. PMID: 39314932; PMCID: PMC11419228.
  3. Juliano JJ, Giesbrecht DJ, Simkin A, Fola AA, Lyimo BM, Pereus D, Bakari C, Madebe RA, Seth MD, Mandara CI, Popkin-Hall ZR, Moshi R, Mbwambo RB, Niaré K, MacInnis B, Francis F, Mbwambo D, Garimo I, Chacky F, Aaron S, Lusasi A, Molteni F, Njau RJA, Nhiga SL, Mohamed A, Bailey JA, Ishengoma DS. Prevalence of mutations associated with artemisinin partial resistance and sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine resistance in 13 regions in Tanzania in 2021: a cross-sectional survey. Lancet Microbe. 2024 Oct;5(10):100920. doi: 10.1016/S2666-5247(24)00160-5. Epub 2024 Aug 16. PMID: 39159629; PMCID: PMC11464622.
  4. Seña AC, Matoga MM, Yang L, Lopez-Medina E, Aghakhanian F, Chen JS, Bettin EB, Caimano MJ, Chen W, Garcia-Luna JA, Hennelly CM, Jere E, Jiang Y, Juliano JJ, Pospíšilová P, Ramirez L, Šmajs D, Tucker JD, Vargas Cely F, Zheng H, Hoffman IF, Yang B, Moody MA, Hawley KL, Salazar JC, Radolf JD, Parr JB. Clinical and genomic diversity of Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum to inform vaccine research: an international, molecular epidemiology study. Lancet Microbe. 2024 Sep;5(9):100871. doi: 10.1016/S2666-5247(24)00087-9. Epub 2024 Aug 22. PMID: 39181152; PMCID: PMC11371664.
  5. Cone AS, Zhou Y, McNamara RP, Eason AB, Arias GF, Landis JT, Shifflett KW, Chambers MG, Yuan R, Willcox S, Griffith JD, Dittmer DP. CD81 fusion alters SARS-CoV-2 Spike trafficking. mBio. 2024 Sep 11;15(9):e0192224. doi: 10.1128/mbio.01922-24. Epub 2024 Aug 14. PMID: 39140770; PMCID: PMC11389398.
  6. Liang K, Barnett KC, Hsu M, Chou WC, Bais SS, Riebe K, Xie Y, Nguyen TT, Oguin TH 3rd, Vannella KM, Hewitt SM, Chertow DS, Blasi M, Sempowski GD, Karlsson A, Koller BH, Lenschow DJ, Randell SH, Ting JP. Initiator cell death event induced by SARS-CoV-2 in the human airway epithelium. Sci Immunol. 2024 Jul 12;9(97):eadn0178. doi: 10.1126/sciimmunol.adn0178. Epub 2024 Jul 12. Erratum in: Sci Immunol. 2024 Oct 18;9(100):eadt4547. doi: 10.1126/sciimmunol.adt4547. PMID: 38996010.
  7. Schmalstig AA, Wiggins A, Badillo D, Wetzel KS, Hatfull GF, Braunstein M. Bacteriophage infection and killing of intracellular Mycobacterium abscessus. mBio. 2024 Jan 16;15(1):e0292423. doi: 10.1128/mbio.02924-23. Epub 2023 Dec 7. PMID: 38059609; PMCID: PMC10790704.

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