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Grant Dorsey is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a substantial emphasis on public health, environmental and occupational health, immunology, pediatrics, perinatology, child health, infectious diseases, and parasitology.

The main topics of their work encompass malaria research and control, mosquito-borne diseases and control, global maternal and child health, parasites and host interactions, immune cell function and interaction, the complement system in diseases, and viral infections and vectors.

The scientist's recent publications include:

  • Sources of persistent malaria transmission in a setting with effective malaria control in eastern Uganda: a longitudinal, observational cohort study (2021, The Lancet Infectious Diseases)
  • Changing Prevalence of Potential Mediators of Aminoquinoline, Antifolate, and Artemisinin Resistance Across Uganda (2020, The Journal of Infectious Diseases)
  • Effect of long-lasting insecticidal nets with and without piperonyl butoxide on malaria indicators in Uganda (LLINEUP): a pragmatic, cluster-randomised trial embedded in a national LLIN distribution campaign (2020, The Lancet)
  • Evolution of Partial Resistance to Artemisinins in Malaria Parasites in Uganda (2023, New England Journal of Medicine)
  • Associations between environmental covariates and temporal changes in malaria incidence in high transmission settings of Uganda: a distributed lag nonlinear analysis (2021, BMC Public Health)

Grant Dorsey has frequently published in several venues, notably:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 29 publications
  • Malaria Journal with 22 publications
  • Research Square (Research Square) with 15 publications
  • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene with 7 publications
  • The Journal of Infectious Diseases with 6 publications

Their frequent coauthors include Moses R. Kamya with 134 joint publications, Joaniter I. Nankabirwa with 70, Emmanuel Arinaitwe with 61, Philip J. Rosenthal with 58, and Sarah G. Staedke with 57.

Best Publications

  • The evidence for improving housing to reduce malaria: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Lucy S Tusting;Matthew M Ippolito;Barbara A Willey;Immo Kleinschmidt

  • Polymorphisms in Plasmodium falciparum chloroquine Resistance Transporter and Multidrug Resistance 1 Genes: Parasite Risk Factors That Affect Treatment Outcomes for P. falciparum Malaria After Artemether-Lumefantrine and Artesunate-Amodiaquine

    Meera Venkatesan;Nahla B. Gadalla;Kasia Stepniewska;Prabin Dahal

  • Malaria in Uganda: challenges to control on the long road to elimination: I. Epidemiology and current control efforts.

    Adoke Yeka;Anne Gasasira;Arthur Mpimbaza;Jane Achan

  • Dihydroartemisinin–Piperaquine for the Prevention of Malaria in Pregnancy

    Abel Kakuru;Prasanna Jagannathan;Mary K. Muhindo;Paul Natureeba

  • Estimating the annual entomological inoculation rate for Plasmodium falciparum transmitted by Anopheles gambiae s.l. using three sampling methods in three sites in Uganda

    Maxwell Kilama;David L Smith;Robert Hutchinson;Ruth Kigozi

  • Novel serologic biomarkers provide accurate estimates of recent Plasmodium falciparum exposure for individuals and communities.

    Danica A. Helb;Kevin K. A. Tetteh;Philip L. Felgner;Jeff Skinner

  • Polymorphisms in the Plasmodium falciparum pfcrt and pfmdr-1 Genes and Clinical Response to Chloroquine in Kampala, Uganda

    Grant Dorsey;Moses R. Kamya;Ajay Singh;Philip J. Rosenthal

  • DISTINGUISHING RECRUDESCENCE FROM REINFECTION IN A LONGITUDINAL ANTIMALARIAL DRUG EFFICACY STUDY: COMPARISON OF RESULTS BASED ON GENOTYPING OF MSP-1, MSP-2, AND GLURP

    Adithya Cattamanchi;Daniel Kyabayinze;Alan Hubbard;Philip J. Rosenthal

  • Combination therapy for uncomplicated falciparum malaria in Ugandan children: a randomized trial.

    Grant Dorsey;Sarah Staedke;Tamara D. Clark;Denise Njama-Meya

  • Malaria Transmission, Infection, and Disease at Three Sites with Varied Transmission Intensity in Uganda: Implications for Malaria Control

    Moses R. Kamya;Emmanuel Arinaitwe;Humphrey Wanzira;Agaba Katureebe

  • Selection of Plasmodium falciparum pfmdr1 Alleles following Therapy with Artemether-Lumefantrine in an Area of Uganda where Malaria Is Highly Endemic

    Christian Dokomajilar;Samuel L. Nsobya;Bryan Greenhouse;Philip J. Rosenthal

  • Rapid diagnostic tests for malaria at sites of varying transmission intensity in Uganda.

    Heidi Hopkins;Lisa Bebell;Wilson Kambale;Christian Dokomajilar

  • In vivo parasitological measures of artemisinin susceptibility.

    Kasia Stepniewska;Kasia Stepniewska;Elizabeth Ashley;Elizabeth Ashley;Sue J. Lee;Sue J. Lee;Nicholas Anstey

  • Effect of HIV-1 Infection on Antimalarial Treatment Outcomes in Uganda: A Population-Based Study

    Moses R. Kamya;Anne F. Gasasira;Adoke Yeka;Nathan Bakyaita

  • Sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine alone or with amodiaquine or artesunate for treatment of uncomplicated malaria: a longitudinal randomised trial.

    Grant Dorsey;Denise Njama;Moses R Kamya;Adithya Cattamanchi

  • Artemether-Lumefantrine versus Dihydroartemisinin-Piperaquine for Treatment of Malaria: A Randomized Trial

    Moses R Kamya;Adoke Yeka;Hasifa Bukirwa;Myers Lugemwa

  • Factors Determining the Heterogeneity of Malaria Incidence in Children in Kampala, Uganda

    Tamara D. Clark;Bryan Greenhouse;Denise Njama-Meya;Bridget Nzarubara

  • Neurocognitive and Motor Deficits in HIV-Infected Ugandan Children With High CD4 Cell Counts

    Theodore D. Ruel;Michael J. Boivin;Hannah E. Boal;Paul Bangirana

  • Artemether-lumefantrine versus dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine for treating uncomplicated malaria: a randomized trial to guide policy in Uganda.

    Adoke Yeka;Grant Dorsey;Moses R. Kamya;Ambrose Talisuna

  • The Effect of Dosing Regimens on the Antimalarial Efficacy of Dihydroartemisinin-Piperaquine: A Pooled Analysis of Individual Patient Data

    Jane Achan;Ishag Adam;Emmanuel Arinaitwe;Elizabeth A. Ashley

Frequent Co-Authors

Moses R. Kamya
Moses R. Kamya Makerere University
Philip J. Rosenthal
Philip J. Rosenthal University of California, San Francisco
Sarah G. Staedke
Sarah G. Staedke Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Bryan Greenhouse
Bryan Greenhouse University of California, San Francisco
Diane V. Havlir
Diane V. Havlir University of California, San Francisco
Chris Drakeley
Chris Drakeley London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Edwin D. Charlebois
Edwin D. Charlebois University of California, San Francisco
Isabel Rodriguez-Barraquer
Isabel Rodriguez-Barraquer University of California, San Francisco
David L. Smith
David L. Smith University of Washington
Jordan W. Tappero
Jordan W. Tappero Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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