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  • 2019 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Gagandeep Kang is affiliated with the Christian Medical College & Hospital in India and has made significant contributions primarily within the field of Medicine, with a focus on Infectious Diseases, Nutrition and Dietetics, Food Science, Health, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

The scientist's research topics encompass a diverse range of public health and biomedical concerns. The main topics include:

  • Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology
  • Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
  • Hepatitis Viruses Studies and Epidemiology
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies

Frequent publication venues for their work are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • International Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • The Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • Vaccine
  • UNC Libraries

Among the notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Gagandeep Kang are:

  • The COVID-19 vaccines rush: participatory community engagement matters more than ever, 2020, The Lancet
  • A multinational Delphi consensus to end the COVID-19 public health threat, 2022, Nature
  • Burden of disease attributable to unsafe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene in domestic settings: a global analysis for selected adverse health outcomes, 2023, The Lancet
  • Operation Warp Speed: implications for global vaccine security, 2021, The Lancet Global Health
  • Evaluation of post-introduction COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness: Summary of interim guidance of the World Health Organization, 2021, Vaccine

The researcher collaborates frequently with several colleagues, including:

  • Jacob John
  • Venkata Raghava Mohan
  • Balaji Veeraraghavan
  • Margaret Kosek
  • Tahmeed Ahmed

In recognition of their scientific contributions, Gagandeep Kang was awarded the title of Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, in 2019.

Best Publications

  • Estimates of the global, regional, and national morbidity, mortality, and aetiologies of diarrhoea in 195 countries: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Christopher Troeger;Brigette F Blacker;Ibrahim A Khalil;Puja C Rao

  • A review of the global burden, novel diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccine targets for cryptosporidium

    William Checkley;William Checkley;A. Clinton White;Devan Jaganath;Michael J. Arrowood

  • Pathogen-specific burdens of community diarrhoea in developing countries: a multisite birth cohort study (MAL-ED).

    James A Platts-Mills;Sudhir Babji;Ladaporn Bodhidatta;Jean Gratz;Jean Gratz

  • Rotavirus Vaccination and the Global Burden of Rotavirus Diarrhea Among Children Younger Than 5 Years.

    Christopher Troeger;Ibrahim A. Khalil;Puja C. Rao;Shujin Cao

  • Morbidity and mortality due to shigella and enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli diarrhoea: the Global Burden of Disease Study 1990-2016.

    Ibrahim A Khalil;Christopher Troeger;Brigette F Blacker;Puja C Rao

  • Global, regional, national, and selected subnational levels of stillbirths, neonatal, infant, and under-5 mortality, 1980-2015: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    Haidong Wang;Zulfiqar A Bhutta;Zulfiqar A Bhutta;Matthew M Coates;Megan Coggeshall

  • Rotavirus genotyping: keeping up with an evolving population of human rotaviruses

    Miren Iturriza-Gómara;Gagandeep Kang;Jim Gray

  • Morbidity, mortality, and long-term consequences associated with diarrhoea from Cryptosporidium infection in children younger than 5 years: a meta-analyses study

    Ibrahim A Khalil;Christopher Troeger;Puja C Rao;Brigette F Blacker

  • Use of quantitative molecular diagnostic methods to investigate the effect of enteropathogen infections on linear growth in children in low-resource settings: Longitudinal analysis of results from the MAL-ED cohort study

    Elizabeth T Rogawski;Jie Liu;James A Platts-Mills;Furqan Kabir

  • Use of quantitative molecular diagnostic methods to assess the aetiology, burden, and clinical characteristics of diarrhoea in children in low-resource settings: a reanalysis of the MAL-ED cohort study.

    James A Platts-Mills;Jie Liu;Elizabeth T Rogawski;Furqan Kabir

  • Assessment of the anthelmintic efficacy of albendazole in school children in seven countries where soil-transmitted helminths are endemic.

    Bruno Levecke;Antonio Montresor;Marco Albonico;Shaali M. Ame

  • Fecal markers of intestinal inflammation and permeability associated with the subsequent acquisition of linear growth deficits in infants

    Margaret Kosek;Rashidul Haque;Aldo Lima;Sudhir Babji

  • The MAL-ED Study: A Multinational and Multidisciplinary Approach to Understand the Relationship Between Enteric Pathogens, Malnutrition, Gut Physiology, Physical Growth, Cognitive Development, and Immune Responses in Infants and Children Up to 2 Years of Age in Resource-Poor Environments

    Angel Mendez Acosta;Cesar Banda Chavez;Julian Torres Flores

  • A new twenty-first century science for effective epidemic response

    Juliet Bedford;Jeremy Farrar;Chikwe Ihekweazu;Gagandeep Kang

  • Efficacy of a monovalent human-bovine (116E) rotavirus vaccine in Indian infants: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.

    Nita Bhandari;Temsunaro Rongsen-Chandola;Ashish Bavdekar;Jacob John

  • Analysis of human immune responses in quasi-experimental settings: tutorial in biostatistics

    Rajiv Sarkar;Sitara S Ajjampur;Honorine D Ward;Honorine D Ward;Gagandeep Kang

  • Measuring socioeconomic status in multicountry studies: results from the eight-country MAL-ED study

    Stephanie R Psaki;Stephanie R Psaki;Jessica C Seidman;Jessica C Seidman;Mark Miller;Michael Gottlieb

  • Protective Effect of Natural Rotavirus Infection in an Indian Birth Cohort

    Beryl P. Gladstone;Sasirekha Ramani;Indrani Mukhopadhya;Jayaprakash Muliyil

  • Water contamination in urban south India: household storage practices and their implications for water safety and enteric infections.

    Thomas Brick;Beryl Primrose;R. Chandrasekhar;Sheela Roy

  • Human stool contains a previously unrecognized diversity of novel astroviruses

    Stacy R Finkbeiner;Lori R Holtz;Yanfang Jiang;Priya Rajendran

Frequent Co-Authors

Honorine D. Ward
Honorine D. Ward Tufts University
Miren Iturriza-Gomara
Miren Iturriza-Gomara University of Liverpool
Eric R. Houpt
Eric R. Houpt University of Virginia
Aldo A. M. Lima
Aldo A. M. Lima Universidade Federal do Ceará
Zulfiqar A Bhutta
Zulfiqar A Bhutta Aga Khan University
Umesh D. Parashar
Umesh D. Parashar Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Richard L. Guerrant
Richard L. Guerrant University of Virginia
Nicholas C. Grassly
Nicholas C. Grassly Imperial College London
Rashidul Haque
Rashidul Haque International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research
Jim Gray
Jim Gray Government of the United Kingdom

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