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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Prince Mahidol Award
  • 2010 - Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal, Sabin Vaccine Institute
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa

Overview

John D. Clemens is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on subfields such as Endocrinology, Infectious Diseases, Food Science, Health, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

The main topics addressed in their work include Vibrio bacteria research studies, Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology, viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, vaccine coverage and hesitancy, antibiotic resistance in bacteria, and COVID-19 clinical research studies.

Frequent publication venues in which Clemens has contributed include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, UNC Libraries, The Lancet Global Health, and PLoS ONE.

Several coauthors have frequently collaborated with Clemens. These include Firdausi Qadri, Farhana Khanam, Andrew J. Pollard, and Tahmeed Ahmed.

Examples of Clemens's recent papers are:

  • A Community-Based Intervention for Managing Hypertension in Rural South Asia, 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Protection by vaccination of children against typhoid fever with a Vi-tetanus toxoid conjugate vaccine in urban Bangladesh: a cluster-randomised trial, 2021, The Lancet
  • Global diversity and antimicrobial resistance of typhoid fever pathogens: Insights from a meta-analysis of 13,000 Salmonella Typhi genomes, 2023, eLife
  • Acute food insecurity and short-term coping strategies of urban and rural households of Bangladesh during the lockdown period of COVID-19 pandemic of 2020: report of a cross-sectional survey, 2020, BMJ Open
  • Antibody responses after COVID-19 infection in patients who are mildly symptomatic or asymptomatic in Bangladesh, 2020, International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Throughout their career, Clemens has received several awards, including the Prince Mahidol Award in 2018, the Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal from the Sabin Vaccine Institute in 2010, and was recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa.

Best Publications

  • Global Burden of Shigella Infections: Implications for Vaccine Development and Implementation of Control Strategies

    K. L. Kotloff;J. P. Winickoff;B. Ivanoff;J. D. Clemens

  • Vaccination greatly reduces disease, disability, death and inequity worldwide.

    FE Andre;R Booy;HL Bock;J Clemens

  • The protective efficacy of polyvalent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine.

    Eugene D. Shapiro;Anne T. Berg;Robert Austrian;Donna Schroeder

  • Evidence for several waves of global transmission in the seventh cholera pandemic

    Ankur Mutreja;Dong Wook Kim;Dong Wook Kim;Nicholas R Thomson;Thomas R Connor

  • Trial of Calcium to Prevent Preeclampsia

    Richard J. Levine;John C. Hauth;Luis B. Curet;Baha M. Sibai

  • A study of typhoid fever in five asian countries: disease burden and implications for controls

    R Leon Ochiai;Camilo J Acosta;M Carolina Danovaro-Holliday;Dong Baiqing

  • The global burden of cholera

    Mohammad Ali;Anna Lena Lopez;Young Ae You;Young Eun Kim

  • Looking beyond COVID-19 vaccine phase 3 trials.

    Jerome H. Kim;Florian Marks;Florian Marks;Florian Marks;John D. Clemens;John D. Clemens

  • Field trial of oral cholera vaccines in Bangladesh: results from three-year follow-up

    J.D Clemens;D.A Sack;J.R Harris;F van Loon

  • A multicentre study of Shigella diarrhoea in six Asian countries: disease burden, clinical manifestations, and microbiology.

    Lorenz von Seidlein;Deok Ryun Kim;Mohammad Ali;Hyejon Lee

  • Typhoid fever in children aged less than 5 years

    Anju Sinha;Sunil Sazawal;Sunil Sazawal;Ramesh Kumar;Seema Sood

  • Cross-Protection by B Subunit-Whole Cell Cholera Vaccine Against Diarrhea Associated with Heat-Labile Toxin-Producing Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli: Results of a Large-Scale Field Trial

    John D. Clemens;David A. Sack;Jeffrey R. Harris;J. Chakraborty

  • Helicobacter in the developing world

    Robert W. Frenck;John Clemens

  • Field trial of oral cholera vaccines in Bangladesh

    John D. Clemens;Jeffrey R. Harris;Jeffrey R. Harris;M. R. Khan;Bradford A. Kay;Bradford A. Kay

  • The Global Enteric Multicenter Study (GEMS) of Diarrheal Disease in Infants and Young Children in Developing Countries: Epidemiologic and Clinical Methods of the Case/Control Study

    Karen L. Kotloff;William C. Blackwelder;Dilruba Nasrin;James P. Nataro

  • Herd immunity conferred by killed oral cholera vaccines in Bangladesh: a reanalysis.

    Mohammad Ali;Michael Emch;Lorenz von Seidlein;Mohammad Yunus

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  • Incidence of invasive salmonella disease in sub-Saharan Africa: a multicentre population-based surveillance study

    Florian Marks;Vera von Kalckreuth;Peter Aaby;Yaw Adu-Sarkodie

  • A Controlled Evaluation of the Protective Efficacy of Pneumococcal Vaccine for Patients at High Risk of Serious Pneumococcal Infections

    Eugene D. Shapiro;John D. Clemens

  • Effectiveness of Mass Oral Cholera Vaccination in Beira, Mozambique

    Marcelino E.S. Lucas;Jacqueline L. Deen;Lorenz Von Seidlein;Xuan Yi Wang

  • Serum Cotinine Concentration and Self-reported Smoking during Pregnancy

    Mark A. Klebanoff;Richard J. Levine;John D. Clemens;Rebecca DerSimonian

  • Maternal Smoking, Alcohol Drinking, Caffeine Consumption, and Fetal Growth: Results from a Prospective Study

    Xiao Ou Shu;Maureen C. Hatch;James Mills;John Clemens

Frequent Co-Authors

Lorenz von Seidlein
Lorenz von Seidlein Mahidol University
Thomas F. Wierzba
Thomas F. Wierzba Wake Forest University
David A. Sack
David A. Sack Johns Hopkins University
Firdausi Qadri
Firdausi Qadri International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research
Sujit K. Bhattacharya
Sujit K. Bhattacharya Indian Council of Medical Research
Zulfiqar A Bhutta
Zulfiqar A Bhutta Aga Khan University
Ashraful Islam Khan
Ashraful Islam Khan International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research
Jan Holmgren
Jan Holmgren University of Gothenburg
Stephen Baker
Stephen Baker Agency for Science, Technology and Research
Michael Emch
Michael Emch University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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