Publications - Parker Group Research

2024

Tarnas M., Abbara A., Desai A.N., Parker D.M. Ecological study measuring the association between conflict, environmental factors, and annual global cutaneous and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis incidence (2005 - 2022). PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0012549
Glendening N., Haileselassie W., Lee M.C., Taye B., Alemu Y., Belachew A., Deressa W., Yan. G., Parker D.M. A cross-sectional study investigating malaria prevalence and associated predictors of infection among migrants to a newly established gold mining settlement in the Gambella Region of Ethiopia. Malaria Journal 23, 292(2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-024-05117-4

2023

Glendening N., Haileselassie W., Parker D.M. A conceptual framework for understanding extractive settlements and disease: demography, environment, and epidemiology. Pp. 121 – 160, Chapter 5 in Planetary health approaches to understand and control vector-borne diseases, edited by Kimberly Fornace, Jan Conn, Maria Anice Mureb Sallum, Leonardo Suveges Moreira Chaves, and James Logan. Wageningen Academic, Leiden, The Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.3920/9789004688650_007
Tun S.T.T., Min M.C., Aguas R., Fornace K., Htoo G.N., White L.J., Parker D.M. (2023). Human movement patterns of farmers and forest workers from the Thailand-Myanmar border. Wellcome Open Research. 6:148. https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16784.2
Tarnas M.C., Al-Dheeb N., Zaman M.H., Parker D.M. (2023). Association between air raids and reported incidence of cholera in Yemen, 2016–19: an ecological modelling study.. The Lancet Global Health. 11, 12(2023). Pages e1955-e1963. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(23)00272-3
Nguyen T.D., Tran T.N.A., Parker D.M., White N.J., Boni M.F. (2023). Antimalarial mass drug administration in large populations and the evolution of drug resistance. PLOS Global Public Health 3(7): e0002200. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0002200
Haileselassie W., Adam R., Habtemichael M., David R.E., Solomon N., Workineh S., Haider J., Belachew A., Deressa W., Yan G., Kassaw N.A., Parker D.M. (2023). Socio-demographic and economic inequity in the use of insecticide-treated bed nets during pregnancy: a survey-based case study of four sub-Saharan African countries with a high burden of malaria. Archives of Public Health. 81, 64 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13690-023-01075-6
Parker D.M., Medina C., Bohl J., Lon C., Chea S., Lay S., Kong D., Nhek S., Man S., Doehl J.S.P., Leang R., Kry H., Rekol H., Oliveira F., Minin V.M., Manning J.E. (2023). Determinants of exposure to Aedes mosquitoes: A comprehensive geospatial analysis in peri-urban Cambodia. Acta Tropica. 239, 2023, 106829. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actatropica.2023.106829
Zhao Y., Aung P.L., Ruan S., Win K.M., Wu Z., Soe T.N., Soe M.T., Cao Y., Sattabongkot J., Kyaw M.P., Cui L., Menezes L., Parker D.M. (2023). Spatio-temporal trends of malaria incidence from 2011 to 2017 and environmental predictors of malaria transmission in Myanmar. Infectious Diseases of Poverty. 12, 2 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40249-023-01055-6
Tarnas M.C., Ching C., Lamb J.B., Parker D.M., Zaman M.H. Analyzing health of forcibly displaced communities through an integrated ecological lens. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.22-0624
Baker C.R., Barilar I., de Araujo L.S., Rimoin A.W., Parker D.M., Boyd R., Tobias J.L., Moonan P.K., Click E.S., Finlay A., Oeltmann J.E., Minin V.N., Modongo C., Zetola N.M., Niemann S., Shin S.S. (2023). High-resolution characterization of recent tuberculosis transmission in Botswana using geospatial and genomic data – the Kopanyo Study. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 29:5. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2905.220796
Haileselassie W., Ejigu A., Alemu T., Workneh S., Habtemichael M., David R.E., Lelisa K., Deressa W., Yan G., Parker D.M., Taye B. (2023). International border malaria transmission in the Ethiopian district of Lare, Gambella region: Implications for malaria spread into South Sudan. Malaria Journal. 22, 64 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-023-04479-5
Aung P.L., Soe M.T., Soe T.N., Oo T.L., Win K.M., Cui L., Kyaw M.P., Sattabongkot J., Okanurak K., Parker D.M. (2023). Factors hindering coverage of targeted mass treatment with primaquine in a malarious township of northern Myanmar in 2019–2020. Scientific Reports. 13, 5963 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-32371-4
Saita S., Roobsoong W., Khammaneechan P., Sukchan P., Lawpoolsri S., Sattabongkot J., Cui L., Okanurak K., Phuanukoonnon S., Parker D.M. (2022). Community acceptability, participation, and adherence to mass drug administration with primaquine for Plasmodium vivax elimination in Southern Thailand: a mixed methods approach. Malaria Journal. 22, 17 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-023-04443-3

2022

Bohl J.A., Lay S., Chea S., Ahyong V., Parker D.M., Gallagher S., Fintzi J., Man S., Ponce A., Sreng S., Kong D., Oliveira F., Kalantar K., Tan M., Fahsbender L., Sheu J., Neff N., Detweiler A.M., Yek C., Ly S., Sath R., Huch C., Kry H., Leang R., Huy R., Lon C., Tato C.M., DeRisi J.L., Manning J.E. Discovering disease-causing pathogens in resource-scarce Southeast Asia using a global metagenomic pathogen monitoring system. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(11): e2115285119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2115285119
Haileselassie W., Parker D.M., Taye B., Randy D.E., Zemene E., Lee M.C., Zhong D., Zhou G., Alemu T., Tadele G., Kazura J.W., Koepfli C., Deressa W., Yewhalaw D., Yan G. (2022). Burden of malaria, impact of interventions and climate variability in Western Ethiopia: an area with large irrigation based farming. BMC Public Health. 22: 196. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-12571-9
Haileselassie W., Habtemichael M., Adam R., Haidar J., David R.E., Belachew A., Mengesha A.T., Koepfli C., Deressa W., Parker D.M., Kassaw N.A. (2022). Regional and socio-economic disparity in use of insecticide-treated nets to prevent malaria among pregnant women in Kenya. International Health. ihac024. https://doi.org/10.1093/inthealth/ihac024
Rae J.D., Nosten S., Kajeechiwa L., Wiladphaingern J., Parker D.M., Landier J., Thu A.M., Dah H., Be A., Cho W.C., Paw K.N., Paw E.S., Shee P.B., Poe C., Nu C., Nyaw B., Simpson J.A., Devine A., Maude R.J., Moo K.L., Min M.C., Thwin M.M., Tun S.W., Nosten F.H. Surveillance to achieve malaria elimination in eastern Myanmar: a 7-year observational study. Malaria Journal. 21, 175 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-022-04175-w
Tarnas M.C., Desai A.N., Parker D.M., Almhawish N., Zakieh O., Rayes D., Whalen-Browne M., Abbarad A. Syndromic surveillance of respiratory infections during protracted conflict: experiences from northern Syria 2016-2021. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 122: 337-344. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2022.06.003
Haileselassie W., Getnet A., Solomon H., Deressa W., Yan G., Parker D.M. (2022). Mobile phone handover data for measuring and analysing human population mobility in Western Ethiopia: implication for malaria disease epidemiology and elimination efforts. Malaria Journal., 21, 323 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-022-04337-w

Selected older publications

Steinbrook E.; Min M.C.; Kajeechiwa L.; Wiladphaingern J.; Paw M.K.; Pimanpanarak M.; Hiranloetthanyakit W.; Min A.M.; Tun N.W.; Gilder M.E.; Nosten F.; McGready R., Parker D.M. (2021). Distance matters: barriers to antenatal care and safe childbirth in a migrant population on the Thailand-Myanmar border from 2007-2015, a pregnancy cohort study. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 21: 802 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-021-04276-5
Rijal K.R., Adhikari B., Ghimire B., Dhungel B., Pyakurel U.R., Shah P., Bastola A., Lekhak B., Banjara M.R., Pandey B.D., Parker D.M., Ghimire P. (2021) Epidemiology of dengue virus infections in Nepal, 2006–2019. Infectious Diseases of Poverty. 10(52): 2021. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40249-021-00837-0
Bruckner T.A., Parker D.M., Bartell S.M., Khan S., Noymer A., Drum E., Albala B., Zahn M., Boden-Albala B. (2021) Estimated seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies among adults in Orange County, California. Scientific Reports. 11(3081): 2021. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-82662-x
Parker D.M., Tun S.T.T., White L.J., Kajeechiwa L., Thwin M.M., Landier J., Chaumeau V., Corbel V., Dondorp A.M., von Seidlein L., White N.J., Maude R.J., Nosten F. (2019). Potential herd protection against Plasmodium falciparum infections conferred by mass antimalarial drug administrations. eLife. 8: e41023. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.41023
Saita S., Pan-ngum W., Phuanukoonnon S., Sriwichai P., Silawan T., White L.J., Parker D.M. (2019). Human population movement and behavioural patterns in malaria hotspots on the Thai-Myanmar border: implications for malaria elimination. Malaria Journal 18: 64. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-019-2704-3
Landier J., Parker D.M., Thu A.M., Lwin K.M., Delmas G., Nosten F., the Malaria Elimination Task Force Group (2018). Effect of generalized access to early diagnosis and treatment and targeted mass drug administration on Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Eastern Myanmar: an observational study of a regional elimination programme. The Lancet, 391: 1916 - 1926. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(18)30792-X
Thu A., Phyo A., Landier J., Parker D.M., Nosten F. (2017). Combating multi-drug resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria. The FEBS Journal, 284(16): 2569 – 2578. https://doi.org/10.1111/febs.14127