Area of research
Infectious Diseases · Surgery
Research interest
Research interests include Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology, Diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis, Mycobacterium research and diagnosis, and Infectious Diseases and Tuberculosis.
Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Tuberculosis Outcomes in the United States: A Bayesian Analysis.
Tuberculosis Disease Prevalence Among People Who Smoke Illicit Drugs: A Respondent- Driven Sampling Study in the Western Cape, South Africa.
Uncovering household tuberculosis infection testing and care patterns using a novel bioinformatics linkage strategy.
Insights into the Role of Rifampicin Exposure and Clinical Baseline Covariates on the Response to Pulmonary Tuberculosis Treatment.
Efficacy and Safety of Higher Doses of Levofloxacin for Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis: A Randomized, Placebo-controlled Phase II Clinical Trial.
Urgent request for pretomanid label expansion to align with WHO guidelines and improve treatment accessibility and efficacy
Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Expanded Targeted Testing and Treatment of Latent Tuberculosis Infection Among the Medicare Population in 2022.
TB stigma in India: A narrative review of types of stigma, gender differences, and potential interventions
Tuberculosis Preventive Treatment for Pregnant People With HIV in South Africa: A Modeling Analysis of Clinical Benefits and Risks.
TB stigma in India: A narrative review of types of stigma, gender differences, and potential interventions.
The effectiveness of isoniazid preventive treatment among contacts of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: a systematic review and individual-participant meta-analysis
Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission in China during the COVID-19 pandemic period (2020–2021) compared with the pre-pandemic period (2017–2019)
The feasibility of respondent-driven sampling with people who use drugs in rural Western Cape, South Africa: A qualitative study.
Cost-effectiveness of screening with transcriptional signatures for incipient TB among U.S. migrants.
Contamination rates in serially sampled sputum specimens obtained during tuberculosis treatment to capture culture conversion
Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission in China during the COVID-19 pandemic period (2020-2021) compared with the pre-pandemic period (2017-2019).
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.
Effectiveness of preventive treatment among different age groups and Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection status: a systematic review and individual-participant data meta-analysis of contact tracing studies
Disparities in Tuberculosis Incidence by Race and Ethnicity Among the U.S.-Born Population in the United States, 2011 to 2021
The long-term effects of domestic and international tuberculosis service improvements on tuberculosis trends within the USA: a mathematical modelling study
Understanding the impact of pandemics on long-term medication adherence: directly observed therapy in a tuberculosis treatment cohort pre- and post-COVID-19 lockdowns
Disparities in Tuberculosis Incidence by Race and Ethnicity Among the U.S.-Born Population in the United States, 2011 to 2021 : An Analysis of National Disease Registry Data.
Research on the treatment of rifampin-susceptible tuberculosis—Time for a new approach
Research on the treatment of rifampin-susceptible tuberculosis-Time for a new approach.
A successful UN High-Level Meeting on antimicrobial resistance must build on the 2023 UN High-Level Meeting on tuberculosis
The impact of alcohol and illicit substance use on the pharmacokinetics of first-line TB drugs.
Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on TB outcomes in the United States: a Bayesian analysis
Recent advances in the treatment of tuberculosis
Clinical implications of molecular drug resistance testing for Mycobacterium tuberculosis: a 2023 TBnet/RESIST-TB consensus statement