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Matthew C. Freeman

Matthew C. Freeman

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
56
Citations
15937
World Ranking
3578
National Ranking
1366

Overview

Matthew C. Freeman is affiliated with Emory University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with extensive work in the subfields of nutrition and dietetics, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, infectious diseases, general health professions, and health.

Their research encompasses a range of topics that include:

  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
  • Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
  • Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
  • Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research

Freeman has been published frequently in several scientific venues. The most common include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • BMJ Global Health
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health
  • Environmental Health Perspectives

Their frequent collaborators are:

  • Bethany A. Caruso
  • Jedidiah S. Snyder
  • Zoë Sakas
  • Karen Lévy
  • Emily Awino Ogutu

Selected recent papers demonstrate their focus on sanitation, hygiene, water insecurity, and related health outcomes. These include:

  • Effectiveness of interventions to improve drinking water, sanitation, and handwashing with soap on risk of diarrhoeal disease in children in low-income and middle-income settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis, 2022, The Lancet
  • 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
  • Effectiveness of handwashing with soap for preventing acute respiratory infections in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis, 2023, The Lancet
  • Household water insecurity will complicate the ongoing COVID-19 response: Evidence from 29 sites in 23 low- and middle-income countries, 2021, International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health
  • Measuring Environmental Exposure to Enteric Pathogens in Low-Income Settings: Review and Recommendations of an Interdisciplinary Working Group, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology

Best Publications

  • Burden of disease from inadequate water, sanitation and hygiene in low- and middle-income settings: a retrospective analysis of data from 145 countries

    Annette Prüss-Ustün;Jamie K. Bartram;Thomas Clasen;John M. Colford

  • Burden of disease from inadequate water, sanitation and hygiene for selected adverse health outcomes: An updated analysis with a focus on low- and middle-income countries.

    Annette Prüss-Ustün;Jennyfer Wolf;Jamie Bartram;Thomas Clasen

  • Water, Sanitation, Hygiene, and Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infection: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    Eric C. Strunz;David G. Addiss;Meredith E. Stocks;Stephanie Ogden

  • Effectiveness of a rural sanitation programme on diarrhoea, soil-transmitted helminth infection, and child malnutrition in Odisha, India: a cluster-randomised trial

    Thomas Clasen;Thomas Clasen;Sophie Boisson;Parimita Routray;Belen Torondel

  • Hygiene and health: systematic review of handwashing practices worldwide and update of health effects

    Matthew C Freeman;Meredith E Stocks;Oliver Cumming;Aurelie Jeandron

  • Assessing the impact of drinking water and sanitation on diarrhoeal disease in low- and middle-income settings: systematic review and meta-regression.

    Jennyfer Wolf;Jennyfer Wolf;Jennyfer Wolf;Annette Prüss-Ustün;Oliver Cumming;Jamie Bartram

  • Impact of drinking water, sanitation and handwashing with soap on childhood diarrhoeal disease: updated meta-analysis and meta-regression

    Jennyfer Wolf;Paul R. Hunter;Paul R. Hunter;Matthew C. Freeman;Oliver Cumming

  • Exposure to Animal Feces and Human Health: A Systematic Review and Proposed Research Priorities

    Gauthami Penakalapati;Jenna Swarthout;Miranda J. Delahoy;Lydia McAliley

  • The roles of water, sanitation and hygiene in reducing schistosomiasis: a review

    Jack Et T. Grimes;David Croll;David Croll;Wendy E. Harrison;Jürg Utzinger;Jürg Utzinger

  • The relationship between water, sanitation and schistosomiasis: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Jack E. T. Grimes;David Croll;Wendy E. Harrison;Jürg Utzinger

  • The impact of sanitation on infectious disease and nutritional status: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    Matthew C. Freeman;Joshua V. Garn;Gloria D. Sclar;Sophie Boisson

  • Sanitation-related psychosocial stress: A grounded theory study of women across the life-course in Odisha, India.

    Krushna Chandra Sahoo;Kristyna R.S. Hulland;Bethany A. Caruso;Rojalin Swain

  • Assessing the impact of a school-based water treatment, hygiene and sanitation programme on pupil absence in Nyanza Province, Kenya: a cluster-randomized trial.

    Matthew C. Freeman;Matthew C. Freeman;Leslie E. Greene;Robert Dreibelbis;Robert Dreibelbis;Shadi Saboori

  • Effect of water, sanitation, and hygiene on the prevention of trachoma: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Meredith E. Stocks;Stephanie Ogden;Danny Haddad;David G. Addiss

  • The impact of sanitation interventions on latrine coverage and latrine use: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Joshua V. Garn;Gloria D. Sclar;Matthew C. Freeman;Gauthami Penakalapati

  • Burden of disease attributable to unsafe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene in domestic settings: a global analysis for selected adverse health outcomes

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  • Geographical Inequalities in Use of Improved Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation across Sub-Saharan Africa: Mapping and Spatial Analysis of Cross-sectional Survey Data

    Rachel L. Pullan;Matthew C. Freeman;Peter W. Gething;Simon J. Brooker

  • Integration of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene for the Prevention and Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases: A Rationale for Inter-Sectoral Collaboration

    Matthew C. Freeman;Stephanie Ogden;Julie Jacobson;Daniel Abbott

  • The implications of three major new trials for the effect of water, sanitation and hygiene on childhood diarrhea and stunting: a consensus statement

    Oliver Cumming;Benjamin F. Arnold;Radu Ban;Thomas Clasen

  • Human diarrhea infections associated with domestic animal husbandry: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Laura D. Zambrano;Karen Levy;Neia P. Menezes;Matthew C. Freeman

  • The impact of a school-based safe water and hygiene programme on knowledge and practices of students and their parents: Nyanza Province, western Kenya, 2006

    C. E. O'reilly;M. C. Freeman;M. Ravani;J. Migele

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Clasen
Thomas Clasen Emory University
Simon Brooker
Simon Brooker Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Jürg Utzinger
Jürg Utzinger University of Basel
Annette Prüss-Ustün
Annette Prüss-Ustün World Health Organization
Howard H. Chang
Howard H. Chang Emory University
Christine L. Moe
Christine L. Moe Emory University
Patrick J. Lammie
Patrick J. Lammie The Task Force for Global Health
Julian P T Higgins
Julian P T Higgins University of Bristol
Sandy Cairncross
Sandy Cairncross University of London
Jamie Bartram
Jamie Bartram University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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