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John M. Colford

Berkeley Public Health Division · US
Area of research
Nutrition and Dietetics · Water Science and Technology
Research interest
Research interests include Child Nutrition and Water Access, Fecal contamination and water quality, Global Maternal and Child Health, and Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology.
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74
citations
22,707
works
327
NIH funding
primary concept
Medicine
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Recent publications

Assessing equity in effects of nutritional supplementation for child growth, development, and anemia
2025cited by 0position: contributordoi
Using machine learning to identify subgroups with the highest expected benefit in a population-based water, sanitation, handwashing, and nutrition intervention
2025cited by 0position: contributordoi
SSRI use during acute COVID-19 and risk of Long COVID among patients with depression
BMC Medicine 2024cited by 12position: middledoi
Social Desirability Bias in a Randomized Controlled Trial That Included Breastfeeding Promotion in Western Kenya
Current Developments in Nutrition 2024cited by 7position: middledoi
Predicting Long COVID in the National COVID Cohort Collaborative Using Super Learner: Cohort Study.
2024cited by 6position: contributordoi
Predicting Long COVID in the National COVID Cohort Collaborative Using Super Learner: Cohort Study
JMIR Public Health and Surveillance 2024cited by 5position: middledoi
Improved Child Feces Management Mediates Reductions in Childhood Diarrhea from an On-Site Sanitation Intervention: Causal Mediation Analysis of a Cluster-Randomized Trial in Rural Bangladesh
Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health 2024cited by 4position: middledoi
Improved Child Feces Management Mediates Reductions in Childhood Diarrhea from an On-Site Sanitation Intervention: Causal Mediation Analysis of a Cluster-Randomized Trial in Rural Bangladesh.
2024cited by 2position: contributordoi
Burden of disease attributable to unsafe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene in domestic settings: a global analysis for selected adverse health outcomes
The Lancet 2023cited by 285position: middledoi
Causes and consequences of child growth faltering in low-resource settings
Nature 2023cited by 112position: middledoi
Early-childhood linear growth faltering in low- and middle-income countries
Nature 2023cited by 109position: middledoi
Child wasting and concurrent stunting in low- and middle-income countries
Nature 2023cited by 104position: middledoi
Effects of water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions on detection of enteropathogens and host-specific faecal markers in the environment: a systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis
The Lancet Planetary Health 2023cited by 23position: middledoi
Predicting Long COVID in the National COVID Cohort Collaborative Using Super Learner: Cohort Study (Preprint)
2023cited by 1position: contributordoi
Geographic pair-matching in large-scale cluster randomized trials
2023cited by 0position: contributordoi
Stress Biomarkers and Child Development in Young Children in Bangladesh
2023cited by 0position: contributordoi
Effectiveness of interventions to improve drinking water, sanitation, and handwashing with soap on risk of diarrhoeal disease in children in low-income and middle-income settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis
The Lancet 2022cited by 336position: middledoi
Preventive small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements reduce severe wasting and severe stunting among young children: an individual participant data meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2022cited by 48position: middledoi
Preventive small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements reduce severe wasting and severe stunting among young children: an individual participant data meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.
2022cited by 33position: contributordoi
Influence of community-level sanitation coverage and population density on environmental fecal contamination and child health in a longitudinal cohort in rural Bangladesh
International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health 2022cited by 27position: middledoi
Evaluation of an on-site sanitation intervention against childhood diarrhea and acute respiratory infection 1 to 3.5 years after implementation: Extended follow-up of a cluster-randomized controlled trial in rural Bangladesh.
2022cited by 12position: contributordoi
Understanding the effectiveness of water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions: a counterfactual simulation approach to generalizing the outcomes of intervention trials
2022cited by 0position: contributordoi
Influence of climatic and environmental risk factors on child diarrhea and enteropathogen infection and predictions under climate change in rural Bangladesh
2022cited by 0position: contributordoi
Preventive small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements reduce severe wasting and severe stunting among young children: an individual participant data meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
2022cited by 0position: contributordoi
Characteristics that modify the effect of small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplementation on child growth: an individual participant data meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2021cited by 88position: middledoi
Characteristics that modify the effect of small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplementation on child growth: an individual participant data meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.
2021cited by 70position: contributordoi
Household finished flooring and soil-transmitted helminth and Giardia infections among children in rural Bangladesh and Kenya: a prospective cohort study
The Lancet Global Health 2021cited by 42position: middledoi
Effect of sanitation improvements on soil-transmitted helminth eggs in courtyard soil from rural Bangladesh: Evidence from a cluster-randomized controlled trial.
2021cited by 12position: contributordoi
Characteristics that modify the effect of small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplementation on child growth: an individual participant data meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
2021cited by 1position: contributordoi
Substantial underestimation of SARS-CoV-2 infection in the United States
Nature Communications 2020cited by 403position: middledoi

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Frequent collaborators

Benjamin F. Arnold · Centre de Recherche en Santé de Nouna17 papers (2012–2024)Ayşe Ercümen · North Carolina State University13 papers (2016–2024)Stephen P. Luby · Palo Alto University13 papers (2013–2024) · 12 papers (2020–2025)Thomas Clasen · Emory University12 papers (2013–2023)Amy J. Pickering · University of California, Berkeley11 papers (2013–2024)Andrew Mertens · University of California, Berkeley10 papers (2018–2024)Jade Benjamin‐Chung · Palo Alto University9 papers (2018–2024)Alan Hubbard · University of California, Berkeley9 papers (2013–2024)Benjamin F. Arnold · Centre de Recherche en Santé de Nouna8 papers (2019–2024)Andrew Mertens · Harvard University8 papers (2022–2025) · 8 papers (2013–2024) · 7 papers (2018–2024)Oliver Cumming · International Livestock Research Institute7 papers (2014–2023)Stephen P. Luby · Stanford University7 papers (2022–2025)Alan Hubbard · University of California System7 papers (2022–2025)Matthew C. Freeman · Emory University7 papers (2014–2023)Annette Prüss‐Üstün · World Health Organization6 papers (2014–2023)Clair Null · Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations6 papers (2013–2024)Jade Benjamin-Chung · Centre de recherche en Epidémiologie et Santé des Populations6 papers (2021–2024)