Publications & Protocols
PROTOCOLS
Analysis protocols and replication files are available on the Open Science Framework: https://osf.io/tprw2/
Analysis protocols and replication files are available on the Open Science Framework: https://osf.io/tprw2/
STUDY DESIGN AND RATIONALE
Cluster-randomised controlled trials of individual and combined water, sanitation, hygiene and nutritional interventions in rural Bangladesh and Kenya: the WASH Benefits study design and rationale. Arnold, B. F.; Null, C.; Luby, S. P.; Unicomb, L.; Stewart, C. P.; Dewey, K. G.; Ahmed, T.; Ashraf, S.; Christensen, G.; Clasen, T.; Dentz, H. N.; Fernald, L. C. H.; Haque, R.; Hubbard, A. E.; Kariger, P.; Leontsini, E.; Lin, A.; Njenga, S. M.; Pickering, A. J.; Ram, P. K.; Tofail, F.; Winch, P. J. & Colford J. M. BMJ Open, 2013, 3, e003476.
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Internal replication of computational workflows in scientific research [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]. Benjamin-Chung J, Colford, Jr. JM, Mertens A et al. Gates Open Res 2020, 4:17 (https://doi.org/10.12688/gatesopenres.13108.1)
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Internal replication of computational workflows in scientific research [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]. Benjamin-Chung J, Colford, Jr. JM, Mertens A et al. Gates Open Res 2020, 4:17 (https://doi.org/10.12688/gatesopenres.13108.1)
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PRIMARY OUTCOMES
Effects of Source- versus Household Contamination of Tubewell Water on Child Diarrhea in Rural Bangladesh: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Ayse Ercumen , Abu Mohd. Naser , Leanne Unicomb, Benjamin F. Arnold, John M. Colford Jr., Stephen P. Luby. PloS One 10, e0121907 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0121907
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Effects of water quality, sanitation, handwashing, and nutritional interventions on diarrhoea and child growth in rural Kenya: a cluster-randomised controlled trial. Null, C., Stewart, C. P., Pickering, A. J., Dentz, H. N., Arnold, B. F., Arnold, C. D., & ... Colford, J. M. The Lancet Global Health, doi:10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30005-6
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Effects of water quality, sanitation, handwashing, and nutritional interventions on diarrhoea and child growth in rural Bangladesh: a cluster randomised controlled trial. Luby, S. P., Rahman, M., Arnold, B. F., Unicomb, L., Ashraf, S., Winch, P. J., & ... Colford, J. M. (2018). The Lancet Global Health, doi:10.1016/S2214-109X(17)30490-4
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Implications of WASH Benefits trials for water and sanitation. Cumming, O., Curtis, V. (2018). The Lancet Global Health, doi:10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30192-X
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Implications of WASH Benefits trials for water and sanitation. Coffey, D., Spears, D. (2018). The Lancet Global Health, doi:10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30225-0
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Implications of WASH Benefits trials for water and sanitation – Authors' reply. Arnold, B., Null, C., Luby, S.P., Colford, J. (2018). The Lancet Global Health, doi:10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30229-8
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The WASH Benefits and SHINE trials: interpretation of WASH intervention effects on linear growth and diarrhoea. Amy J Pickering, Clair Null, Peter J Winch, Goldberg Mangwadu, Benjamin F Arnold, Andrew J Prendergast, Sammy M Njenga, Mahbubur Rahman, Robert Ntozini, Jade Benjamin-Chung, Christine P Stewart, Tarique M N Huda, Lawrence H Moulton, John M Colford Jr, Stephen P Luby, Jean H Humphrey. Volume 7, Issue 8, August 2019, Pages e1139-e1146.
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The implications of three major new trials for the effect of water, sanitation and hygiene on childhood diarrhea and stunting: a consensus statement. Cumming O, Arnold BF, Ban R, Clasen T, Esteves Mills J, Freeman MC, Gordon B, Guiteras R, Howard G, Hunter PR, Johnston RB, Pickering AJ, Prendergast AJ, Prüss-Ustün A, Rosenboom JW, Spears D, Sundberg S, Wolf J, Null C, Luby SP, Humphrey JH, Colford JM Jr. BMC Med. 2019 Aug 28;17(1):173. doi: 10.1186/s12916-019-1410-x. PMID: 31462230. PMCID: PMC6712663.
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PRIMARY OUTCOMES
Effects of Source- versus Household Contamination of Tubewell Water on Child Diarrhea in Rural Bangladesh: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Ayse Ercumen , Abu Mohd. Naser , Leanne Unicomb, Benjamin F. Arnold, John M. Colford Jr., Stephen P. Luby. PloS One 10, e0121907 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0121907
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Effects of water quality, sanitation, handwashing, and nutritional interventions on diarrhoea and child growth in rural Kenya: a cluster-randomised controlled trial. Null, C., Stewart, C. P., Pickering, A. J., Dentz, H. N., Arnold, B. F., Arnold, C. D., & ... Colford, J. M. The Lancet Global Health, doi:10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30005-6
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Effects of water quality, sanitation, handwashing, and nutritional interventions on diarrhoea and child growth in rural Bangladesh: a cluster randomised controlled trial. Luby, S. P., Rahman, M., Arnold, B. F., Unicomb, L., Ashraf, S., Winch, P. J., & ... Colford, J. M. (2018). The Lancet Global Health, doi:10.1016/S2214-109X(17)30490-4
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Implications of WASH Benefits trials for water and sanitation. Cumming, O., Curtis, V. (2018). The Lancet Global Health, doi:10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30192-X
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Implications of WASH Benefits trials for water and sanitation. Coffey, D., Spears, D. (2018). The Lancet Global Health, doi:10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30225-0
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Implications of WASH Benefits trials for water and sanitation – Authors' reply. Arnold, B., Null, C., Luby, S.P., Colford, J. (2018). The Lancet Global Health, doi:10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30229-8
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The WASH Benefits and SHINE trials: interpretation of WASH intervention effects on linear growth and diarrhoea. Amy J Pickering, Clair Null, Peter J Winch, Goldberg Mangwadu, Benjamin F Arnold, Andrew J Prendergast, Sammy M Njenga, Mahbubur Rahman, Robert Ntozini, Jade Benjamin-Chung, Christine P Stewart, Tarique M N Huda, Lawrence H Moulton, John M Colford Jr, Stephen P Luby, Jean H Humphrey. Volume 7, Issue 8, August 2019, Pages e1139-e1146.
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The implications of three major new trials for the effect of water, sanitation and hygiene on childhood diarrhea and stunting: a consensus statement. Cumming O, Arnold BF, Ban R, Clasen T, Esteves Mills J, Freeman MC, Gordon B, Guiteras R, Howard G, Hunter PR, Johnston RB, Pickering AJ, Prendergast AJ, Prüss-Ustün A, Rosenboom JW, Spears D, Sundberg S, Wolf J, Null C, Luby SP, Humphrey JH, Colford JM Jr. BMC Med. 2019 Aug 28;17(1):173. doi: 10.1186/s12916-019-1410-x. PMID: 31462230. PMCID: PMC6712663.
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SECONDARY AND TERTIARY OUTCOMES
Effect of sanitation improvements on pathogens and microbial source tracking markers in the rural Bangladeshi household environment. Fuhrmeister ER, Ercumen A, Pickering AJ, Jeanis KM, Crider Y, Ahmed M, Brown S, Alam M, Sen D, Islam S, Kabir MH, Islam M, Rahman M, Kwong LH, Arnold BF, Luby SP, Colford JM, Nelson KL. Environ Sci Technol. 2020 Mar 13. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.9b04835. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 32167305
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The role of water, sanitation and hygiene interventions in reducing soil-transmitted helminths: interpreting the evidence and identifying next steps. Vaz Nery S, Pickering AJ, Abate E, Asmare A, Barrett L, Benjamin-Chung J, Bundy DAP, Clasen T, Clements ACA, Colford JM Jr, Ercumen A, Crowley S, Cumming O, Freeman MC, Haque R, Mengistu B, Oswald WE, Pullan RL, Oliveira RG, Einterz Owen K, Walson JL, Youya A, Brooker SJ. Parasit Vectors. 2019 May 28;12(1):273. doi: 10.1186/s13071-019-3532-6. PMID: 31138266; PMCID: PMC6540378.
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Effects of single and integrated water, sanitation, handwashing, and nutrition interventions on child soil-transmitted helminth and Giardia infections: A cluster randomized controlled trial in rural Kenya. Pickering AJ, Njenga SM, Steinbaum L,
Swarthout J, Lin A, Arnold BF, et al. PLoS Med 16(6): e1002841. 26 June 2019. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002841
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Effects of water, sanitation, handwashing and nutritional interventions on soil-transmitted helminth infections in young children: A cluster-randomized controlled trial in rural Bangladesh. Ayse Ercumen, Jade Benjamin-Chung , Benjamin F. Arnold, Audrie Lin, Alan E. Hubbard, Christine Stewart, Zahidur Rahman, Sarker Masud Parvez, Leanne Unicomb, Mahbubur Rahman, Rashidul Haque, John M. Colford Jr., Stephen P. Luby. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 13(5): e0007323. 03 May 2019. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0007323.
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Effects of water, sanitation, handwashing, and nutritional interventions on environmental enteric dysfunction in young children: a cluster-randomized controlled trial in rural Bangladesh. Audrie Lin, Shahjahan Ali, Benjamin F Arnold, Md Ziaur Rahman, Mohammad Alauddin, Jessica Grembi, Andrew N Mertens, Syeda L Famida, Salma Akther, Md Saheen Hossen Palash Mutsuddi, Abul K Shoab, Zahir Hussain, Mahbubur Rahman, Leanne Unicomb, Sania Ashraf, Abu Mohd Naser, Sarker M Parvez, Ayse Ercumen, Jade Benjamin-Chung, Rashidul Haque, Tahmeed Ahmed, Md Iqbal Hossain, Nuzhat Choudhury, Kaniz Jannat, Sarah T Alauddin, Sandra G Minchala, Rabije Cekovic, Alan E Hubbard, Christine P Stewart, Kathryn G Dewey, John M Colford, Jr Stephen P Luby, MD. Clinical Infectious Diseases. ciz291. 09 April 2019. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciz291
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Effect of water quality, sanitation, hand washing, and nutritional interventions on child development in rural Bangladesh (WASH Benefits Bangladesh): a cluster-randomised controlled trial. Fahmida Tofail, Lia CH Fernald, Kishor K Das, Mahbubur Rahman, Tahmeed Ahmed, Kaniz K Jannat, Leanne Unicomb, Benjamin F Arnold, Sania Ashraf, Peter J Winch, Patricia Kariger, Christine P Stewart, John M Colford Jr, Stephen P Luby. The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health. Feb 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/ S2352-4642(18)30031-2.
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Effects of water quality, sanitation, handwashing, and nutritional interventions on child development in rural Kenya (WASH Benefits Kenya): a cluster-randomised controlled trial. Christine P Stewart, Patricia Kariger, Lia Fernald, Amy J Pickering, Charles D Arnold, Benjamin F Arnold, Alan E Hubbard, Holly N Dentz, Audrie Lin, Theodora J Meerkerk, Erin Milner, Jenna Swarthout, John M Colford, Clair Null. The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health. Feb 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2352-4642(18)30025-7.
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Effects of water, sanitation, handwashing, and nutritional interventions on enteric protozoan infections in young children: a cluster-randomised controlled trial in rural Bangladesh. Lin, A., Ercumen, A., Benjamin-Chung, J., Arnold, B.F., Das, S., Haque, R., Ashraf, S., Parvez, S.M., Unicomb, L., Rahman, M., Hubbard, A.E., Stewart, C.P., Colford, J.M., Luby, S.P. Clinical Infectious Diseases. Apr 2018.
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Complementary feeding practices among rural Bangladeshi mothers: Results from WASH Benefits study. Kaniz Jannat, Stephen P. Luby, Leanne Unicomb, Mahbubur Rahman, Peter J. Winch, Parvez M. Marker, Kishor K. Das, Elli Leontsini, Pavani K. Ram, Christine P. Stewart. Maternal & Child Nutrition. Aug 2018.
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Effects of single and combined water, sanitation and handwashing interventions on fecal contamination in the domestic environment: a cluster-randomized controlled trial in rural Bangladesh. Ercumen A, Mertens A, Arnold BF, Benjamin-Chung J, Hubbard AE, Ahmed MA, Kabir MH, Khalil MMR, Kumar A, Rahman MS, Parvez SM, Unicomb L, Rahman M, Ram P, Clasen TF, Luby SP, Colford JM. Environ Sci Technol. 2018 Sep 26. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.8b05153.
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Do sanitation improvements reduce fecal contamination of water, hands, food, soil and flies? Evidence from a cluster-randomized controlled trial in rural Bangladesh. Ercumen A, Pickering A, Kwong LH, Mertens A, Arnold BF, Benjamin-Chung J, Hubbard AE, Alam M, Sen D, Islam S, Khalil MMR, Kullmann C, Chase C, Ahmed R, Parvez SM, Unicomb L, Rahman M, Ram P, Clasen TF, Luby SP, Colford JM. Environ Sci Technol. 2018 Sep 26. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.8b02988.
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Effects of lipid-based nutrient supplements and infant and young child feeding counseling with or without improved water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) on anemia and micronutrient status: results from 2 cluster-randomized trials in Kenya and Bangladesh. Christine P. Stewart, Kathryn G. Dewey, Audrie Lin, Amy J. Pickering, Kendra A. Byrd, Kaniz Jannat, Shahjahan Ali, Gouthami Rao, Holly N. Dentz, Marion Kiprotich, Charles D. Arnold, Benjamin F. Arnold, Lindsay H. Allen, Setareh Shahab-Ferdows, Ayse Ercumen, Jessica A. Grembi, Abu Mohd Naser, Mahbubur Rahman, Leanne Unicomb, John M. Colford, Jr, Stephen P. Luby, Clair Null. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 09 Jan. 2019, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/nqy239.
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Effects of Water, Sanitation, Handwashing, and Nutritional Interventions on Child Enteric Protozoan Infections in Rural Bangladesh: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial. Audrie Lin, Ayse Ercumen, Jade Benjamin-Chung, Benjamin F Arnold, Shimul Das, Rashidul Haque, Sania Ashraf, Sarker M Parvez, Leanne Unicomb, Mahbubur Rahman, Alan E Hubbard, Christine P Stewart, John M Colford, Jr, and Stephen P Luby. Clin Infect Dis. 2018;67(10):1515–1522. doi:10.1093/cid/ciy320
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The Interaction of Deworming, Improved Sanitation, and Household Flooring with Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infection in Rural Bangladesh. Benjamin-Chung, J., Nazneen, A., Halder, A. K., Haque, R., Siddique, A., Uddin, M. S., Koporc, K., Arnold, B. F., Hubbard, A. E., Unicomb, L., Luby, S. P., Addiss, D. G. & Colford, J. M., Jr. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 9, e0004256 (2015).
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Potential sources of bias in the use of Escherichia coli to measure waterborne diarrhoea risk in low-income settings. Ercumen, A., Arnold, B. F., Naser, A. M., Unicomb, L., Colford, J. M. & Luby, S. P. Trop Med Int Health 22, 2–11 (2017).
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Effect of water quality, sanitation, hand washing, and nutritional interventions on child development in rural Bangladesh (WASH
Benefits Bangladesh): a cluster-randomised controlled trial. Tofail, F., Fernald, L. C. H., Das, K. K., Rahman, M., Ahmed, T., Jannat, K. K., Unicomb, L., Arnold, B. F., Ashraf, S., Winch, P. J., Kariger, P., Stewart, C. P., Colford, J. M. & Luby, S. P. Lancet Child Adolesc. Health 2, 255–268 (2018).
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Achieving Equitable Uptake of Handwashing and Sanitation by Addressing Both Supply and Demand-based Constraints: Findings From a Randomized Controlled trial in Rural Bangladesh. Parvez, S.M., Rahman, M.J., Azad, R., Rahman, M., Unicomb, L., Ashraf, S., Mondol, M.H., Jahan, F., Winch, P.J., Luby, S.P. International Journal for Equity in Health, 27 August 2020, doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-68489/v1
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Effect of water, sanitation, handwashing, and nutrition interventions on environmental contamination. Pickering, A. in (2017).
Effect of sanitation improvements on pathogens and microbial source tracking markers in the rural Bangladeshi household environment. Fuhrmeister ER, Ercumen A, Pickering AJ, Jeanis KM, Crider Y, Ahmed M, Brown S, Alam M, Sen D, Islam S, Kabir MH, Islam M, Rahman M, Kwong LH, Arnold BF, Luby SP, Colford JM, Nelson KL. Environ Sci Technol. 2020 Mar 13. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.9b04835. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 32167305
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The role of water, sanitation and hygiene interventions in reducing soil-transmitted helminths: interpreting the evidence and identifying next steps. Vaz Nery S, Pickering AJ, Abate E, Asmare A, Barrett L, Benjamin-Chung J, Bundy DAP, Clasen T, Clements ACA, Colford JM Jr, Ercumen A, Crowley S, Cumming O, Freeman MC, Haque R, Mengistu B, Oswald WE, Pullan RL, Oliveira RG, Einterz Owen K, Walson JL, Youya A, Brooker SJ. Parasit Vectors. 2019 May 28;12(1):273. doi: 10.1186/s13071-019-3532-6. PMID: 31138266; PMCID: PMC6540378.
[link] [PDF]
Effects of single and integrated water, sanitation, handwashing, and nutrition interventions on child soil-transmitted helminth and Giardia infections: A cluster randomized controlled trial in rural Kenya. Pickering AJ, Njenga SM, Steinbaum L,
Swarthout J, Lin A, Arnold BF, et al. PLoS Med 16(6): e1002841. 26 June 2019. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002841
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Effects of water, sanitation, handwashing and nutritional interventions on soil-transmitted helminth infections in young children: A cluster-randomized controlled trial in rural Bangladesh. Ayse Ercumen, Jade Benjamin-Chung , Benjamin F. Arnold, Audrie Lin, Alan E. Hubbard, Christine Stewart, Zahidur Rahman, Sarker Masud Parvez, Leanne Unicomb, Mahbubur Rahman, Rashidul Haque, John M. Colford Jr., Stephen P. Luby. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 13(5): e0007323. 03 May 2019. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0007323.
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Effects of water, sanitation, handwashing, and nutritional interventions on environmental enteric dysfunction in young children: a cluster-randomized controlled trial in rural Bangladesh. Audrie Lin, Shahjahan Ali, Benjamin F Arnold, Md Ziaur Rahman, Mohammad Alauddin, Jessica Grembi, Andrew N Mertens, Syeda L Famida, Salma Akther, Md Saheen Hossen Palash Mutsuddi, Abul K Shoab, Zahir Hussain, Mahbubur Rahman, Leanne Unicomb, Sania Ashraf, Abu Mohd Naser, Sarker M Parvez, Ayse Ercumen, Jade Benjamin-Chung, Rashidul Haque, Tahmeed Ahmed, Md Iqbal Hossain, Nuzhat Choudhury, Kaniz Jannat, Sarah T Alauddin, Sandra G Minchala, Rabije Cekovic, Alan E Hubbard, Christine P Stewart, Kathryn G Dewey, John M Colford, Jr Stephen P Luby, MD. Clinical Infectious Diseases. ciz291. 09 April 2019. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciz291
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Effect of water quality, sanitation, hand washing, and nutritional interventions on child development in rural Bangladesh (WASH Benefits Bangladesh): a cluster-randomised controlled trial. Fahmida Tofail, Lia CH Fernald, Kishor K Das, Mahbubur Rahman, Tahmeed Ahmed, Kaniz K Jannat, Leanne Unicomb, Benjamin F Arnold, Sania Ashraf, Peter J Winch, Patricia Kariger, Christine P Stewart, John M Colford Jr, Stephen P Luby. The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health. Feb 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/ S2352-4642(18)30031-2.
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Effects of water quality, sanitation, handwashing, and nutritional interventions on child development in rural Kenya (WASH Benefits Kenya): a cluster-randomised controlled trial. Christine P Stewart, Patricia Kariger, Lia Fernald, Amy J Pickering, Charles D Arnold, Benjamin F Arnold, Alan E Hubbard, Holly N Dentz, Audrie Lin, Theodora J Meerkerk, Erin Milner, Jenna Swarthout, John M Colford, Clair Null. The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health. Feb 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2352-4642(18)30025-7.
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Effects of water, sanitation, handwashing, and nutritional interventions on enteric protozoan infections in young children: a cluster-randomised controlled trial in rural Bangladesh. Lin, A., Ercumen, A., Benjamin-Chung, J., Arnold, B.F., Das, S., Haque, R., Ashraf, S., Parvez, S.M., Unicomb, L., Rahman, M., Hubbard, A.E., Stewart, C.P., Colford, J.M., Luby, S.P. Clinical Infectious Diseases. Apr 2018.
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Complementary feeding practices among rural Bangladeshi mothers: Results from WASH Benefits study. Kaniz Jannat, Stephen P. Luby, Leanne Unicomb, Mahbubur Rahman, Peter J. Winch, Parvez M. Marker, Kishor K. Das, Elli Leontsini, Pavani K. Ram, Christine P. Stewart. Maternal & Child Nutrition. Aug 2018.
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Effects of single and combined water, sanitation and handwashing interventions on fecal contamination in the domestic environment: a cluster-randomized controlled trial in rural Bangladesh. Ercumen A, Mertens A, Arnold BF, Benjamin-Chung J, Hubbard AE, Ahmed MA, Kabir MH, Khalil MMR, Kumar A, Rahman MS, Parvez SM, Unicomb L, Rahman M, Ram P, Clasen TF, Luby SP, Colford JM. Environ Sci Technol. 2018 Sep 26. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.8b05153.
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Do sanitation improvements reduce fecal contamination of water, hands, food, soil and flies? Evidence from a cluster-randomized controlled trial in rural Bangladesh. Ercumen A, Pickering A, Kwong LH, Mertens A, Arnold BF, Benjamin-Chung J, Hubbard AE, Alam M, Sen D, Islam S, Khalil MMR, Kullmann C, Chase C, Ahmed R, Parvez SM, Unicomb L, Rahman M, Ram P, Clasen TF, Luby SP, Colford JM. Environ Sci Technol. 2018 Sep 26. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.8b02988.
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Effects of lipid-based nutrient supplements and infant and young child feeding counseling with or without improved water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) on anemia and micronutrient status: results from 2 cluster-randomized trials in Kenya and Bangladesh. Christine P. Stewart, Kathryn G. Dewey, Audrie Lin, Amy J. Pickering, Kendra A. Byrd, Kaniz Jannat, Shahjahan Ali, Gouthami Rao, Holly N. Dentz, Marion Kiprotich, Charles D. Arnold, Benjamin F. Arnold, Lindsay H. Allen, Setareh Shahab-Ferdows, Ayse Ercumen, Jessica A. Grembi, Abu Mohd Naser, Mahbubur Rahman, Leanne Unicomb, John M. Colford, Jr, Stephen P. Luby, Clair Null. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 09 Jan. 2019, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/nqy239.
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Effects of Water, Sanitation, Handwashing, and Nutritional Interventions on Child Enteric Protozoan Infections in Rural Bangladesh: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial. Audrie Lin, Ayse Ercumen, Jade Benjamin-Chung, Benjamin F Arnold, Shimul Das, Rashidul Haque, Sania Ashraf, Sarker M Parvez, Leanne Unicomb, Mahbubur Rahman, Alan E Hubbard, Christine P Stewart, John M Colford, Jr, and Stephen P Luby. Clin Infect Dis. 2018;67(10):1515–1522. doi:10.1093/cid/ciy320
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The Interaction of Deworming, Improved Sanitation, and Household Flooring with Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infection in Rural Bangladesh. Benjamin-Chung, J., Nazneen, A., Halder, A. K., Haque, R., Siddique, A., Uddin, M. S., Koporc, K., Arnold, B. F., Hubbard, A. E., Unicomb, L., Luby, S. P., Addiss, D. G. & Colford, J. M., Jr. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 9, e0004256 (2015).
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Potential sources of bias in the use of Escherichia coli to measure waterborne diarrhoea risk in low-income settings. Ercumen, A., Arnold, B. F., Naser, A. M., Unicomb, L., Colford, J. M. & Luby, S. P. Trop Med Int Health 22, 2–11 (2017).
[link] [PDF]
Effect of water quality, sanitation, hand washing, and nutritional interventions on child development in rural Bangladesh (WASH
Benefits Bangladesh): a cluster-randomised controlled trial. Tofail, F., Fernald, L. C. H., Das, K. K., Rahman, M., Ahmed, T., Jannat, K. K., Unicomb, L., Arnold, B. F., Ashraf, S., Winch, P. J., Kariger, P., Stewart, C. P., Colford, J. M. & Luby, S. P. Lancet Child Adolesc. Health 2, 255–268 (2018).
[link] [PDF]
Achieving Equitable Uptake of Handwashing and Sanitation by Addressing Both Supply and Demand-based Constraints: Findings From a Randomized Controlled trial in Rural Bangladesh. Parvez, S.M., Rahman, M.J., Azad, R., Rahman, M., Unicomb, L., Ashraf, S., Mondol, M.H., Jahan, F., Winch, P.J., Luby, S.P. International Journal for Equity in Health, 27 August 2020, doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-68489/v1
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Effect of water, sanitation, handwashing, and nutrition interventions on environmental contamination. Pickering, A. in (2017).
STUDY IMPLEMENTATION
Achieving optimal technology and behavioral uptake of single and combined interventions of water, sanitation hygiene and nutrition, in an efficacy trial (WASH benefits) in rural Bangladesh. Parvez, S.M., Azad, R., Rahman, M., Unicomb, L., Ram, P., Naser, A.M., Stewart, C., Jannat, K., Rahman, M.J., Leontsini, E., Winch, P., Luby, S. Trials. 7/6/2018, Vol. 19 Issue 1, pN.PAG-N.PAG. 1p. doi: 10.1186/s13063-018-2710-8
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WASH Benefits Bangladesh trial: system for monitoring coverage and quality in an efficacy trial. Rahman, M., Ashraf, S., Unicomb, L., Mainuddin, A. K. M., Parvez, S., Begum, F., Das, K., Naser, A., Hussain, F., Clasen, T., Luby, S., Leontsini, E., Winch, P., Trials. 7/6/2018, Vol. 19 Issue 1, pN.PAG-N.PAG. 1p. DOI: 10.1186/s13063-018-2708-2
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WASH Benefits Bangladesh trial: management structure for achieving high coverage in an efficacy trial. Unicomb, L., Begum, F., Leontsini, E., Rahman, M., Ashraf, S., Naser, A. M., & ... Winch, P. J. (2018). Trials, 19(1), N.PAG. doi:10.1186/s13063-018-2709-1
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PILOT STUDIES
Effect of Groundwater Iron on Residual Chlorine in Water Treated with Sodium Dichloroisocyanurate Tablets in Rural Bangladesh. Abu Mohd. Naser, Eilidh M. Higgins, Shaila Arman, Ayse Ercumen, Sania Ashraf, Kishor K. Das, Mahbubur Rahman, Stephen P. Luby and Leanne Unicomb. The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.16-0954
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Pilot Cluster Randomized Controlled Trials to Evaluate Adoption of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Interventions and Their Combination in Rural Western Kenya. Garret Christensen, Holly N. Dentz, Amy J. Pickering, Tomoe´ Bourdier, Benjamin F. Arnold, John M. Colford Jr, and Clair Null. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2015 Feb;92(2):437-47.
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Household Environmental Conditions Are Associated with Enteropathy and Impaired Growth in Rural Bangladesh. Lin, A.; Arnold, B. F.; Afreen, S.; Goto, R.; Huda, T. M. N.; Haque, R.; Raqib, R.; Unicomb, L.; Ahmed, T.; Colford Jr, J. M. & Luby, S. P. Am J Trop Med Hyg, 2013, 89(1), 130-137.
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An improved tool for household faeces management in rural Bangladeshi communities. Sultana, R.; Mondal, U. K.; Rimi, N. A.; Unicomb, L.; Winch, P. J.; Nahar, N. & Luby, S. P. An improved tool for household faeces management in rural Bangladeshi communities. Trop Med Int Health, 2013, 18(7), 854-860.
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Designing a handwashing station for infrastructure-restricted communities in Bangladesh using the integrated behavioural model for water, sanitation and hygiene interventions (IBM-WASH). Kristyna RS Hulland, K.R.S; Leontsini, E; Dreibelbis, R.; Unicomb, L; Afroz, A; Dutta, N.C; Nizame, F.A.; Luby, S.P.; Ram, P.K. & Winch, P.J. BMC Public Health, 2013, 13:877.
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Toys and toilets: cross-sectional study using children’s toys to evaluate environmental faecal contamination in rural Bangladeshi households with different sanitation facilities and practices. Jelena Vujcic, Pavani K. Ram, Faruqe Hussain, Leanne Unicomb, Partha Sarathi Gope, Jaynal Abedin, Zahid Hayat Mahmud, M. Sirajul Islam and Stephen P. Luby. Trop Med Int Health. 2014 May;19(5):528-36.
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Adapting and Evaluating a Rapid, Low-Cost Method to Enumerate Flies in the Household Setting. Marlene K. Wolfe, Holly N. Dentz, Beryl Achando, MaryAnne Mureithi, Tim Wolfe, Clair Null, Amy J. Pickering. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2016 16-0162.
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Nonrandomized Trial of Feasibility and Acceptability of Strategies for Promotion of Soapy Water as a Handwashing Agent in Rural Bangladesh. Sania Ashraf, Fosiul A. Nizame, Mahfuza Islam, Notan C. Dutta, Dahlia Yeasmin, Sadika Akhter, Jaynal Abedin, Peter J. Winch, Pavani K. Ram, Leanne Unicomb, Elli Leontsini, Stephen P. Luby. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2016 16-0304.
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Detecting and enumerating soil-transmitted helminth eggs in soil: New method development and results from field testing in Kenya and Bangladesh. Steinbaum L, Kwong LH, Ercumen A, Negash MS, Lovely AJ, et al. (2017) Detecting and enumerating soil-transmitted helminth eggs in soil: New method development and results from field testing in Kenya and Bangladesh. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 11(4): e0005522. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005522.
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Advantages and limitations for users of double pit pour-flush latrines: a qualitative study in rural Bangladesh. Hussain, F., Clasen, T., Akter, S., Bawel, V., Luby, S. P., Leontsini, E., & ... Winch, P. J. (2017). Advantages and limitations for users of double pit pour-flush latrines: a qualitative study in rural Bangladesh. BMC Public Health, 171-9. doi:10.1186/s12889-017-4412-7
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Assessment of the Acceptability and Feasibility of Child Potties for Safe Child Feces Disposal in Rural Bangladesh. Faruqe Hussain, Stephen P. Luby, Leanne Unicomb, Elli Leontsini, Tania Naushin, Audrey J. Buckland and Peter J. Winch. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. doi:10.4269/ajtmh.15-0932
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Unsafe Disposal of Feces of Children <3 years among Households with Latrine Access in Rural Bangladesh: Association with Household Characteristics, Fly Presence and Child Diarrhea .Islam, M., Ercumen, A., Ashraf, S., Rahman, M., Shoab, A., Luby, S., Unicomb, L. Plos ONE, 3(4), 1-13. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0195218
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Snack food consumption among Bangladeshi children, supplementary data from a large RCT. Kaniz Jannat, Stephen P. Luby, Leanne Unicomb, Mahbubur Rahman, Peter J. Winch, Md. Iqbal Hossain, Christine P. Stewart. Matern Child Nutr. 2020; e12994. https://doi.org/10.1111/mcn.12994.
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Soil ingestion among young children in rural Bangladesh. Laura H. Kwong, Ayse Ercumen, Amy J. Pickering, Leanne Unicomb, Jennifer Davis, James O. Leckie & Stephen P. Luby . J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol (2019) doi:10.1038/s41370-019-0177-7.
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Predictors of Enteric Pathogens in the Domestic Environment from Human and Animal Sources in Rural Bangladesh. Fuhrmeister ER, Ercumen A, Pickering AJ, Jeanis KM, Ahmed M, Brown S, Arnold BF, Hubbard AE, Alam M, Sen D, Islam S, Kabir MH, Kwong LH, Islam M, Unicomb L, Rahman M, Boehm AB, Luby SP, Colford JM Jr, Nelson KL. Environ Sci Technol. 2019 Sep 3;53(17):10023-10033. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.8b07192. Epub 2019 Aug 16. PMID: 31356066; PMCID: PMC6727619.
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Microbiological contamination of young children's hands in rural Bangladesh: Associations with child age and observed hand cleanliness as proxy. Parvez SM, Azad R, Pickering AJ, Kwong LH, Arnold BF, Rahman MJ, Rahman MZ, Alam M, Sen D, Islam S, Rahman M, Colford JM Jr, Luby SP, Unicomb L, Ercumen A. PLoS One. 2019 Sep 10;14(9):e0222355. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0222355. PMID: 31504064; PMCID: PMC6736272.
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Effect of a sanitation intervention on soil-transmitted helminth prevalence and concentration in household soil: A cluster-randomized controlled trial and risk factor analysis. Lauren Steinbaum, John Mboya, Ryan Mahoney, Sammy M. Njenga, Clair Null, Amy J. Pickering. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 13(2): e0007180
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Sickle Cell and α+-Thalassemia Traits Influence the Association between Ferritin and Hepcidin in Rural Kenyan Children Aged 14–26 Months. Kendra A Byrd, Thomas N Williams, Audrie Lin, Amy J Pickering, Benjamin F Arnold, Charles D Arnold, Marion Kiprotich, Holly N Dentz, Sammy M Njenga, Gouthami Rao, John M Colford Jr, Clair Null, Christine P Stewart. The Journal of Nutrition. 2018 Dec. 05.
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A behaviour change intervention with lipid‐based nutrient supplements had little impact on young child feeding indicators in rural Kenya. Kendra Byrd, Holly N. Dentz, Anne Williams, Marion Kiprotich, Amy J. Pickering, Ronald Omondi, Osborne Kwena, Gouthami Rao, Charles D. Arnold, Benjamin F. Arnold, Kathryn G. Dewey, John M. Colford Jr, Clair Null, Christine P. Stewart. Matern Child Nutr. 2018; doi: 10.1111/mcn.12660
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Fecal indicator bacteria along multiple environmental transmission pathways (water, hands, food, soil, flies) and subsequent child diarrhea in rural Bangladesh. Amy J Pickering, Ayse Ercumen, Benjamin F. Arnold, Laura H. Kwong, Sarker Masud Parvez, Mahfuja Alam, Debashis Sen, Sharmin Islam, Craig Kullmann, Claire Chase, Rokeya Ahmed, Leanne Unicomb, John M. Colford, and Stephen P. Luby. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2018 June 14; doi: 10.1021/acs.est.8b00928.
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Prevalence and Association of Escherichia coli and Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli in Stored Foods for Young Children and Flies Caught in the Same Households in Rural Bangladesh. Solaiman Doza, Musarrat Jabeen Rahman, Mohammad Aminul Islam, Laura H. Kwong, Leanne Unicomb, Ayse Ercumen, Amy J. Pickering, Sarker Masud Parvez, Abu Mohd Naser, Sania Ashraf, Kishor Kumar Das and Stephen P. Luby. The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.17-0408.
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Effects of water, sanitation, handwashing, and nutritional interventions on telomere length among children in a cluster-randomized controlled trial in rural Bangladesh. Audrie Lin, Benjamin F Arnold, Andrew N Mertens, Jue Lin, Jade Benjamin-Chung, Shahjahan Ali, Alan E Hubbard, Christine P Stewart, Abul K Shoab Md, Ziaur Rahman Md, Saheen Hossen, Palash Mutsuddi, Syeda L Famida, Salma Akther, Mahbubur Rahman, Leanne Unicomb, Firdaus S Dhabhar, Lia C H Fernald, John M Colford Jr., Stephen P Luby. eLife 2017;6:e29365.
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Infant serum and maternal milk vitamin B-12 are positively correlated in Kenyan infant-mother dyads at 1 to 6 months postpartum, irrespective of infant feeding practice. Williams AM, Stewart CP, Shahab-Ferdows S, Hampel D, Kiprotich M, Achando B, Lin A, Null C, Allen LH, Chantry CJ. .J Nutr. 2018 Jan 1;148(1):86-93. PMID: 29378045.
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The integrated behavioural model for water, sanitation, and hygiene: a systematic review of behavioural models and a framework for designing and evaluating behaviour change interventions in infrastructure-restricted settings. Robert Dreibelbis; Peter J Winch; Elli Leontsini; Kristyna RS Hulland; Pavani K Ram; Leanne Unicomb; Stephen P Luby. BMC Public Health 2013, 13:1015.
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Vitamin B-12 Concentrations in Breast Milk Are Low and Are Not Associated with Reported Household Hunger, Recent Animal-Source Food, or Vitamin B-12 Intake in Women in Rural Kenya. Williams AM, Chantry CJ, Young SL, Achando BS, Allen LH, Arnold BF, Colford JM Jr, Dentz HN, Hampel D, Kiprotich MC, Lin A, Null CA,Nyambane GM, Shahab-Ferdows S, Stewart CP. J Nutr. 2016 May;146(5):1125-31.
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Hand- and Object-Mouthing of Rural Bangladeshi Children 3-18 Months Old. Kwong LH, Ercumen A, Pickering AJ, Unicomb L, Davis J, Luby SP. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2016 Jun 4;13(6).
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Soil-Transmitted Helminth Eggs Are Present in Soil at Multiple Locations within Households in Rural Kenya. Lauren Steinbaum, Sammy M. Njenga, Jimmy Kihara, Alexandria B. Boehm, Jennifer Davis, Clair Null, Amy J. Pickering. PLOS. Published: June 24, 2016.
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Hygiene Practices During Food Preparation in Rural Bangladesh: Opportunities to Improve the Impact of Handwashing Interventions. Fosiul A. Nizame, Elli Leontsini, Stephen P. Luby, Md. Nuruzzaman, Shahana Parveen, Peter J. Winch, Pavani K. Ram, Leanne Unicomb. Published online June 13, 2016, doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.15-0377. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2016 vol. 95 no. 2 288-297.
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Towards a Scalable and Sustainable Intervention for Complementary Food Safety. Rahman MJ, Nizame FA, Nuruzzaman M, Akand F, Islam MA, Parvez SM, Stewart CP, Unicomb L, Luby SP, Winch PJ. Food and Nutrition Bulletin. 2016 Jun;37(2):186-201.
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Occurrence of Host-Associated Fecal Markers on Child Hands, Household Soil, and Drinking Water in Rural Bangladeshi Households. Alexandria B. Boehm, Dan Wang, Ayse Ercumen, Meghan Shea, Angela R. Harris, Orin C. Shanks, Catherine Kelty, Alvee Ahmed, Zahid Hayat Mahmud, Benjamin F. Arnold, Claire Chase, Craig Kullmann, John M. ColfordJr., Stephen P. Luby, and Amy J. Pickering. Publication Date (Web): October 13, 2016. Environ. Sci. Technol. Lett. DOI: 10.1021/acs.estlett.6b00382.
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E. coli contamination of child complementary foods and association with domestic hygiene in rural Bangladesh. Parvez, S. M., Kwong, L., Rahman, M. J., Ercumen, A., Pickering, A. J., Ghosh, P. K., Rahman, Md. Z., Das, K. K., Luby, S. P. and Unicomb, L. (2017). Trop Med Int Health. Accepted Author Manuscript. doi:10.1111/tmi.12849.
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Climate and health co-benefits in low-income countries: a case study of carbon financed water filters in Kenya and a call for independent monitoring. Pickering AJ, Arnold BF, Dentz HN, Colford JM Jr., Null C. 2017. Environ Health Perspect 125:278-283; http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/EHP342.
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Differences in Hepcidin Concentrations by Sickle Cell and α+-Thalassemia Genotype: A Cross-Sectional Study Nested Within the Kenya WASH Benefits Trial. Kendra Byrd, Gouthami Rao, Audrie Lin, Charles D. Arnold, Marion Kiprotich, Holly N. Dentz, Thomas N. Williams, Amy Pickering, A. Clair Null, Christine P. Stewart. FASEB J April 2017 31:43.4.
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Animal feces contribute to domestic fecal contamination: Evidence from E. coli measured in water, hands, food, flies and soil in Bangladesh. Ayse Ercumen, Amy Janel Pickering, Laura H. Kwong, Benjamin Arnold, Sarker Masud Parvez, Mahfuja Alam, Debashis Sen, Sharmin Islam, Craig Kullmann, Claire Chase, Rokeya Ahmed, Leanne Unicomb, Stephen Luby, and John M. Colford. Environmental Science & Technology, Just Accepted Manuscript. doi:10.1021/acs.est.7b01710
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Following the Worms: Detection of Soil-Transmitted Helminth Eggs on Mothers’ Hands and Household Produce in Rural Kenya. Lauren Steinbaum, Jenna Swarthout, John Mboya, and Amy J. Pickering. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.17-0072
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A Randomized Controlled Trial to Measure Spillover Effects of a Combined Water, Sanitation, and Handwashing Intervention in Rural Bangladesh: . Benjamin-Chung J, Amin N, Ercumen A, Arnold BF, Hubbard A, Unicomb L, Rah- man M, Luby SP, Colford JM. AJE. 2018 March 27. doi:10.1093/aje/kwy046
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A Cross Sectional Study of the Association between Sanitation Type and Fecal Contamination of the Household Environment in Rural Bangladesh. Nurul Huda, T. M., Schmidt, W., Pickering, A. J., Mahmud, Z. H., Islam, M. S., Rahman, M. S., & ... Biran, A. American Journal Of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene, 98(4), 967. doi:10.4269/ajtmh.16-0724
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Age-related changes to environmental exposure: variation in the frequency that young children place hands and objects in their
mouths. Laura H. Kwong, Ayse Ercumen, Amy J. Pickering, Leanne Unicomb, Jennifer Davis, Stephen P. Luby. Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology. 2019 February 06. doi: 10.1038/s41370-019-0115-8
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Microbiological Contamination of Drinking Water Associated with Subsequent Child Diarrhea. Luby, S. P., Halder, A. K., Huda, T. M., Unicomb, L., Islam, M. S., Arnold, B. F. & Johnston, R. B. Am J Trop Med Hyg 93, 904–911 (2015).
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Effects of water, sanitation, handwashing and nutritional interventions on enteropathogen burden in young children: a cluster randomized controlled trial in rural Bangladesh. Grembi, J., Karim, M. A., Islam, M. O., Miah, R., Lin, A., Arnold, B. F., Rogawski, E., Platts-Mills, J., Taniuchi, M., Liu, J., Houpt, E., Haque, R., Holmes, S. & Luby, S. in American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Annual MeetingLB–5197 (2018).
Ruminant Fecal Contamination of Drinking Water Introduced Post-Collection in Rural Kenyan Households. Hamzah, L., Boehm, A.B., Davis, J., Pickering, A.J., Wolfe, M., Mureithi, M., Harris, A. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17(2), 608.
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COVID-19: urgent actions, critical reflections and future relevance of 'WaSH': lessons for the current and future pandemics. Howard, G., Bartram, J., Brocklehurst, C., Colford, J.M. Jr., Costa, F., Cunliffe, D., Dreibelbis, R., Eisenberg, J.N.S., Evans, B., Girones, R., Hrudey, S., Willetts. J., Wright, C.Y. Journal of Water & Health. 2020. 18 (5): 613-630. doi: 10.2166/wh.2020.162
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Snack food consumption among Bangladeshi children, supplementary data from a large RCT. Kaniz Jannat, Stephen P. Luby, Leanne Unicomb, Mahbubur Rahman, Peter J. Winch, Md. Iqbal Hossain, Christine P. Stewart. Matern Child Nutr. 2020; e12994. https://doi.org/10.1111/mcn.12994.
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Soil ingestion among young children in rural Bangladesh. Laura H. Kwong, Ayse Ercumen, Amy J. Pickering, Leanne Unicomb, Jennifer Davis, James O. Leckie & Stephen P. Luby . J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol (2019) doi:10.1038/s41370-019-0177-7.
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Predictors of Enteric Pathogens in the Domestic Environment from Human and Animal Sources in Rural Bangladesh. Fuhrmeister ER, Ercumen A, Pickering AJ, Jeanis KM, Ahmed M, Brown S, Arnold BF, Hubbard AE, Alam M, Sen D, Islam S, Kabir MH, Kwong LH, Islam M, Unicomb L, Rahman M, Boehm AB, Luby SP, Colford JM Jr, Nelson KL. Environ Sci Technol. 2019 Sep 3;53(17):10023-10033. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.8b07192. Epub 2019 Aug 16. PMID: 31356066; PMCID: PMC6727619.
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Microbiological contamination of young children's hands in rural Bangladesh: Associations with child age and observed hand cleanliness as proxy. Parvez SM, Azad R, Pickering AJ, Kwong LH, Arnold BF, Rahman MJ, Rahman MZ, Alam M, Sen D, Islam S, Rahman M, Colford JM Jr, Luby SP, Unicomb L, Ercumen A. PLoS One. 2019 Sep 10;14(9):e0222355. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0222355. PMID: 31504064; PMCID: PMC6736272.
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Effect of a sanitation intervention on soil-transmitted helminth prevalence and concentration in household soil: A cluster-randomized controlled trial and risk factor analysis. Lauren Steinbaum, John Mboya, Ryan Mahoney, Sammy M. Njenga, Clair Null, Amy J. Pickering. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 13(2): e0007180
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Sickle Cell and α+-Thalassemia Traits Influence the Association between Ferritin and Hepcidin in Rural Kenyan Children Aged 14–26 Months. Kendra A Byrd, Thomas N Williams, Audrie Lin, Amy J Pickering, Benjamin F Arnold, Charles D Arnold, Marion Kiprotich, Holly N Dentz, Sammy M Njenga, Gouthami Rao, John M Colford Jr, Clair Null, Christine P Stewart. The Journal of Nutrition. 2018 Dec. 05.
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A behaviour change intervention with lipid‐based nutrient supplements had little impact on young child feeding indicators in rural Kenya. Kendra Byrd, Holly N. Dentz, Anne Williams, Marion Kiprotich, Amy J. Pickering, Ronald Omondi, Osborne Kwena, Gouthami Rao, Charles D. Arnold, Benjamin F. Arnold, Kathryn G. Dewey, John M. Colford Jr, Clair Null, Christine P. Stewart. Matern Child Nutr. 2018; doi: 10.1111/mcn.12660
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Fecal indicator bacteria along multiple environmental transmission pathways (water, hands, food, soil, flies) and subsequent child diarrhea in rural Bangladesh. Amy J Pickering, Ayse Ercumen, Benjamin F. Arnold, Laura H. Kwong, Sarker Masud Parvez, Mahfuja Alam, Debashis Sen, Sharmin Islam, Craig Kullmann, Claire Chase, Rokeya Ahmed, Leanne Unicomb, John M. Colford, and Stephen P. Luby. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2018 June 14; doi: 10.1021/acs.est.8b00928.
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Prevalence and Association of Escherichia coli and Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli in Stored Foods for Young Children and Flies Caught in the Same Households in Rural Bangladesh. Solaiman Doza, Musarrat Jabeen Rahman, Mohammad Aminul Islam, Laura H. Kwong, Leanne Unicomb, Ayse Ercumen, Amy J. Pickering, Sarker Masud Parvez, Abu Mohd Naser, Sania Ashraf, Kishor Kumar Das and Stephen P. Luby. The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.17-0408.
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Effects of water, sanitation, handwashing, and nutritional interventions on telomere length among children in a cluster-randomized controlled trial in rural Bangladesh. Audrie Lin, Benjamin F Arnold, Andrew N Mertens, Jue Lin, Jade Benjamin-Chung, Shahjahan Ali, Alan E Hubbard, Christine P Stewart, Abul K Shoab Md, Ziaur Rahman Md, Saheen Hossen, Palash Mutsuddi, Syeda L Famida, Salma Akther, Mahbubur Rahman, Leanne Unicomb, Firdaus S Dhabhar, Lia C H Fernald, John M Colford Jr., Stephen P Luby. eLife 2017;6:e29365.
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Infant serum and maternal milk vitamin B-12 are positively correlated in Kenyan infant-mother dyads at 1 to 6 months postpartum, irrespective of infant feeding practice. Williams AM, Stewart CP, Shahab-Ferdows S, Hampel D, Kiprotich M, Achando B, Lin A, Null C, Allen LH, Chantry CJ. .J Nutr. 2018 Jan 1;148(1):86-93. PMID: 29378045.
[link][PDF]
The integrated behavioural model for water, sanitation, and hygiene: a systematic review of behavioural models and a framework for designing and evaluating behaviour change interventions in infrastructure-restricted settings. Robert Dreibelbis; Peter J Winch; Elli Leontsini; Kristyna RS Hulland; Pavani K Ram; Leanne Unicomb; Stephen P Luby. BMC Public Health 2013, 13:1015.
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Vitamin B-12 Concentrations in Breast Milk Are Low and Are Not Associated with Reported Household Hunger, Recent Animal-Source Food, or Vitamin B-12 Intake in Women in Rural Kenya. Williams AM, Chantry CJ, Young SL, Achando BS, Allen LH, Arnold BF, Colford JM Jr, Dentz HN, Hampel D, Kiprotich MC, Lin A, Null CA,Nyambane GM, Shahab-Ferdows S, Stewart CP. J Nutr. 2016 May;146(5):1125-31.
[link][PDF]
Hand- and Object-Mouthing of Rural Bangladeshi Children 3-18 Months Old. Kwong LH, Ercumen A, Pickering AJ, Unicomb L, Davis J, Luby SP. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2016 Jun 4;13(6).
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Soil-Transmitted Helminth Eggs Are Present in Soil at Multiple Locations within Households in Rural Kenya. Lauren Steinbaum, Sammy M. Njenga, Jimmy Kihara, Alexandria B. Boehm, Jennifer Davis, Clair Null, Amy J. Pickering. PLOS. Published: June 24, 2016.
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Hygiene Practices During Food Preparation in Rural Bangladesh: Opportunities to Improve the Impact of Handwashing Interventions. Fosiul A. Nizame, Elli Leontsini, Stephen P. Luby, Md. Nuruzzaman, Shahana Parveen, Peter J. Winch, Pavani K. Ram, Leanne Unicomb. Published online June 13, 2016, doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.15-0377. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2016 vol. 95 no. 2 288-297.
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Towards a Scalable and Sustainable Intervention for Complementary Food Safety. Rahman MJ, Nizame FA, Nuruzzaman M, Akand F, Islam MA, Parvez SM, Stewart CP, Unicomb L, Luby SP, Winch PJ. Food and Nutrition Bulletin. 2016 Jun;37(2):186-201.
[link][PDF]
Occurrence of Host-Associated Fecal Markers on Child Hands, Household Soil, and Drinking Water in Rural Bangladeshi Households. Alexandria B. Boehm, Dan Wang, Ayse Ercumen, Meghan Shea, Angela R. Harris, Orin C. Shanks, Catherine Kelty, Alvee Ahmed, Zahid Hayat Mahmud, Benjamin F. Arnold, Claire Chase, Craig Kullmann, John M. ColfordJr., Stephen P. Luby, and Amy J. Pickering. Publication Date (Web): October 13, 2016. Environ. Sci. Technol. Lett. DOI: 10.1021/acs.estlett.6b00382.
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E. coli contamination of child complementary foods and association with domestic hygiene in rural Bangladesh. Parvez, S. M., Kwong, L., Rahman, M. J., Ercumen, A., Pickering, A. J., Ghosh, P. K., Rahman, Md. Z., Das, K. K., Luby, S. P. and Unicomb, L. (2017). Trop Med Int Health. Accepted Author Manuscript. doi:10.1111/tmi.12849.
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Climate and health co-benefits in low-income countries: a case study of carbon financed water filters in Kenya and a call for independent monitoring. Pickering AJ, Arnold BF, Dentz HN, Colford JM Jr., Null C. 2017. Environ Health Perspect 125:278-283; http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/EHP342.
[link][PDF]
Differences in Hepcidin Concentrations by Sickle Cell and α+-Thalassemia Genotype: A Cross-Sectional Study Nested Within the Kenya WASH Benefits Trial. Kendra Byrd, Gouthami Rao, Audrie Lin, Charles D. Arnold, Marion Kiprotich, Holly N. Dentz, Thomas N. Williams, Amy Pickering, A. Clair Null, Christine P. Stewart. FASEB J April 2017 31:43.4.
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Animal feces contribute to domestic fecal contamination: Evidence from E. coli measured in water, hands, food, flies and soil in Bangladesh. Ayse Ercumen, Amy Janel Pickering, Laura H. Kwong, Benjamin Arnold, Sarker Masud Parvez, Mahfuja Alam, Debashis Sen, Sharmin Islam, Craig Kullmann, Claire Chase, Rokeya Ahmed, Leanne Unicomb, Stephen Luby, and John M. Colford. Environmental Science & Technology, Just Accepted Manuscript. doi:10.1021/acs.est.7b01710
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Following the Worms: Detection of Soil-Transmitted Helminth Eggs on Mothers’ Hands and Household Produce in Rural Kenya. Lauren Steinbaum, Jenna Swarthout, John Mboya, and Amy J. Pickering. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.17-0072
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A Randomized Controlled Trial to Measure Spillover Effects of a Combined Water, Sanitation, and Handwashing Intervention in Rural Bangladesh: . Benjamin-Chung J, Amin N, Ercumen A, Arnold BF, Hubbard A, Unicomb L, Rah- man M, Luby SP, Colford JM. AJE. 2018 March 27. doi:10.1093/aje/kwy046
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A Cross Sectional Study of the Association between Sanitation Type and Fecal Contamination of the Household Environment in Rural Bangladesh. Nurul Huda, T. M., Schmidt, W., Pickering, A. J., Mahmud, Z. H., Islam, M. S., Rahman, M. S., & ... Biran, A. American Journal Of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene, 98(4), 967. doi:10.4269/ajtmh.16-0724
[link][PDF]
Age-related changes to environmental exposure: variation in the frequency that young children place hands and objects in their
mouths. Laura H. Kwong, Ayse Ercumen, Amy J. Pickering, Leanne Unicomb, Jennifer Davis, Stephen P. Luby. Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology. 2019 February 06. doi: 10.1038/s41370-019-0115-8
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Microbiological Contamination of Drinking Water Associated with Subsequent Child Diarrhea. Luby, S. P., Halder, A. K., Huda, T. M., Unicomb, L., Islam, M. S., Arnold, B. F. & Johnston, R. B. Am J Trop Med Hyg 93, 904–911 (2015).
[link][PDF]
Effects of water, sanitation, handwashing and nutritional interventions on enteropathogen burden in young children: a cluster randomized controlled trial in rural Bangladesh. Grembi, J., Karim, M. A., Islam, M. O., Miah, R., Lin, A., Arnold, B. F., Rogawski, E., Platts-Mills, J., Taniuchi, M., Liu, J., Houpt, E., Haque, R., Holmes, S. & Luby, S. in American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Annual MeetingLB–5197 (2018).
Ruminant Fecal Contamination of Drinking Water Introduced Post-Collection in Rural Kenyan Households. Hamzah, L., Boehm, A.B., Davis, J., Pickering, A.J., Wolfe, M., Mureithi, M., Harris, A. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17(2), 608.
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COVID-19: urgent actions, critical reflections and future relevance of 'WaSH': lessons for the current and future pandemics. Howard, G., Bartram, J., Brocklehurst, C., Colford, J.M. Jr., Costa, F., Cunliffe, D., Dreibelbis, R., Eisenberg, J.N.S., Evans, B., Girones, R., Hrudey, S., Willetts. J., Wright, C.Y. Journal of Water & Health. 2020. 18 (5): 613-630. doi: 10.2166/wh.2020.162
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