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Joseph N. S. Eisenberg is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with significant contributions to Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Infectious Diseases, Nutrition and Dietetics, General Health Professions, and Modeling and Simulation.

The scientist's work addresses several main topics, including:

  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Mosquito-borne diseases and control
  • Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
  • Malaria Research and Control
  • Viral Infections and Vectors

Eisenberg has contributed to a variety of frequent publication venues, such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • PLoS neglected tropical diseases
  • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
  • Current Developments in Nutrition
  • Environmental Science & Technology

Key recent papers include:

  • Understanding the Impact of Rainfall on Diarrhea: Testing the Concentration-Dilution Hypothesis Using a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2020), Environmental Health Perspectives
  • An urban-to-rural continuum of malaria risk: new analytic approaches characterize patterns in Malawi (2021), Malaria Journal
  • Characterizing dengue transmission in rural areas: A systematic review (2023), PLoS neglected tropical diseases
  • The biting rate of Aedes aegypti and its variability: A systematic review (1970-2022) (2023), PLoS neglected tropical diseases
  • Long-term projections of the impacts of warming temperatures on Zika and dengue risk in four Brazilian cities using a temperature-dependent basic reproduction number (2023), PLoS neglected tropical diseases

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Gwenyth O. Lee
  • Gabriel Trueba
  • Karen Lévy
  • William Cevallos
  • Joséfina Coloma

Best Publications

  • Do U.S. Environmental Protection Agency water quality guidelines for recreational waters prevent gastrointestinal illness? A systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Timothy J Wade;Nitika Pai;Joseph N S Eisenberg;John M Colford

  • Seasonality of rotavirus disease in the tropics: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Karen Levy;Alan E Hubbard;Joseph N S Eisenberg

  • Environmental Determinants of Infectious Disease: A Framework for Tracking Causal Links and Guiding Public Health Research

    Joseph N.S. Eisenberg;Manish A. Desai;Karen Levy;Sarah J. Bates

  • Heavy Rainfall Events and Diarrhea Incidence: The Role of Social and Environmental Factors

    Elizabeth J. Carlton;Joseph N. S. Eisenberg;Jason Goldstick;William Cevallos

  • Integrating Disease Control Strategies: Balancing Water Sanitation and Hygiene Interventions to Reduce Diarrheal Disease Burden

    Joseph N.S. Eisenberg;James C. Scott;Travis Porco

  • Environmental change and infectious disease: how new roads affect the transmission of diarrheal pathogens in rural Ecuador

    Joseph N. S. Eisenberg;William Cevallos;Karina Ponce;Karen Levy

  • Dynamics and Control of Infections Transmitted From Person to Person Through the Environment

    Sheng Li;Joseph N. S. Eisenberg;Ian H. Spicknall;James S. Koopman

  • The joint effects of efficacy and compliance: A study of household water treatment effectiveness against childhood diarrhea

    Kyle S. Enger;Kara L. Nelson;Joan B. Rose;Joseph N.S. Eisenberg

  • Epidemiology of the Silent Polio Outbreak in Rahat, Israel, Based on Modeling of Environmental Surveillance Data

    Andrew F. Brouwer;Joseph N. S. Eisenberg;Connor D. Pomeroy;Lester M. Shulman;Lester M. Shulman

  • Following the water: a controlled study of drinking water storage in northern coastal Ecuador

    Karen Levy;Kara L. Nelson;Alan Hubbard;Joseph N.S. Eisenberg

  • Disease transmission models for public Health decision making: Analysis of epidemic and endemic conditions caused by waterborne pathogens

    Joseph N S Eisenberg;M Alan Brookhart;Glenn Rice;Mary Brown

  • Sustainable control of water-related infectious diseases: a review and proposal for interdisciplinary health-based systems research.

    Stuart Batterman;Joseph Eisenberg;Rebecca Hardin;Margaret E. Kruk

  • A Modeling Framework for the Evolution and Spread of Antibiotic Resistance: Literature Review and Model Categorization

    Ian H. Spicknall;Betsy Foxman;Carl F. Marrs;Joseph N. S. Eisenberg

  • Impacts of Climate Change on Public Health in India: Future Research Directions

    Kathleen F. Bush;George Luber;S. Rani Kotha;R. S. Dhaliwal

  • Norovirus outbreaks: a systematic review of commonly implicated transmission routes and vehicles.

    E. J. Bitler;J. E. Matthews;B. W. Dickey;J. N. S. Eisenberg

  • Opinion: Mathematical models: A key tool for outbreak response

    Eric T. Lofgren;M. Elizabeth Halloran;Caitlin M. Rivers;John M. Drake

  • Quantifying Water Pathogen Risk in an Epidemiological Framework

    Joseph N. Eisenberg;Edmund Y. W. Seto;Adam W. Olivieri;Robert C. Spear

  • Shared Sanitation and the Prevalence of Diarrhea in Young Children: Evidence from 51 Countries, 2001-2011.

    James A. Fuller;Thomas Clasen;Marieke Heijnen;Joseph N. S. Eisenberg

  • I get height with a little help from my friends: herd protection from sanitation on child growth in rural Ecuador

    James A. Fuller;Eduardo Villamor;William Cevallos;James Trostle

  • Understanding the Impact of Rainfall on Diarrhea: Testing the Concentration-Dilution Hypothesis Using a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

    Alicia N. M. Kraay;Olivia Man;Morgan C. Levy;Karen Levy

  • Drivers of water quality variability in northern coastal Ecuador.

    Karen Levy;Alan E. Hubbard;Kara L. Nelson;Joseph N.S. Eisenberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Kara L. Nelson
Kara L. Nelson University of California, Berkeley
Thomas Clasen
Thomas Clasen Emory University
Carl F. Marrs
Carl F. Marrs University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Betsy Foxman
Betsy Foxman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
George Tchobanoglous
George Tchobanoglous University of California, Davis
Christine L. Moe
Christine L. Moe Emory University
Stuart Batterman
Stuart Batterman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Sajjad Ahmad
Sajjad Ahmad University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Edmund Seto
Edmund Seto University of Washington
Lee W. Riley
Lee W. Riley University of California, Berkeley

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