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Overview

Michael Emch is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a significant emphasis on subfields such as public health, environmental and occupational health, epidemiology, infectious diseases, modeling and simulation, and endocrinology. The scope of their work encompasses a range of topics, notably malaria research and control, mosquito-borne diseases and control, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, Vibrio bacteria research, HIV/AIDS research and interventions, hepatitis C virus research, and global maternal and child health.

Their recent scholarly output includes publications across diverse scientific journals and venues. Notable recent papers are:

  • The epidemiology of Plasmodium vivax among adults in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Evaluating malaria prevalence and land cover across varying transmission intensity in Tanzania using a cross-sectional survey of school-aged children (2022, Malaria Journal)
  • Changes in the associations between heatwaves and human mortality during two extreme hot summers in Shanghai, China (2023, Sustainable Cities and Society)
  • Effectiveness of a national mass distribution campaign of long-lasting insecticide-treated nets and indoor residual spraying on clinical malaria in Malawi, 2018-2020 (2021, BMJ Global Health)
  • Asymptomatic Plasmodium falciparum malaria prevalence among adolescents and adults in Malawi, 2015-2016 (2020, Scientific Reports)

Michael Emch has collaborated frequently with several researchers in their field, including Jonathan J. Juliano, Jonathan B. Parr, Varun Goel, Mohammad Yunus, and Jessie K. Edwards.

Their work has been published extensively in several venues, with a concentration in:

  • UNC Libraries
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • PLOS Global Public Health
  • Cancer Research
  • Health & Place

Best Publications

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

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

  • Perinatal exposure to hazardous air pollutants and autism spectrum disorders at age 8.

    Amy E. Kalkbrenner;Julie L. Daniels;Jiu Chiuan Chen;Charles Poole

  • Variation in the Microbiota of Ixodes Ticks with Regard to Geography, Species, and Sex

    Will van Treuren;Loganathan Ponnusamy;R. Jory Brinkerhoff;Antonio Gonzalez

  • Enhancing spatial detection accuracy for syndromic surveillance with street level incidence data.

    David J Savory;Kenneth L Cox;Michael Emch;Farrokh Alemi

  • Seasonality of cholera from 1974 to 2005: a review of global patterns

    Michael Emch;Caryl Feldacker;M Sirajul Islam;Mohammad Ali

  • Comparison of fecal indicators with pathogenic bacteria and rotavirus in groundwater

    Andrew S. Ferguson;Alice C. Layton;Brian J. Mailloux;Patricia J. Culligan

  • Use of a geographic information system for defining spatial risk for dengue transmission in Bangladesh: role for Aedes albopictus in an urban outbreak.

    Mohammad Ali;Yukiko Wagatsuma;Michael Emch;Robert F. Breiman

  • Disruption, not displacement: Environmental variability and temporary migration in Bangladesh.

    Maia A. Call;Clark Gray;Mohammad Yunus;Michael Emch

  • Pfhrp2-Deleted Plasmodium falciparum Parasites in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: A National Cross-sectional Survey

    Jonathan B. Parr;Robert Verity;Stephanie M. Doctor;Mark Janko

  • Air Pollution and Pulmonary Tuberculosis: A Nested Case-Control Study among Members of a Northern California Health Plan.

    Geneé S. Smith;Stephen K. Van Den Eeden;Cynthia Garcia;Jun Shan

  • Evolution of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza viruses in Vietnam between 2001 and 2007.

    Xiu Feng Wan;Xiu Feng Wan;Tung Nguyen;C. Todd Davis;Catherine B. Smith

  • The legacy of redlining in the effect of foreclosures on Detroit residents' self-rated health

    Elizabeth McClure;Lydia Feinstein;Evette Cordoba;Christian Douglas

  • Identifying environmental risk factors for endemic cholera: a raster GIS approach

    Mohammad Ali;Michael Emch;J.P. Donnay;Mohammad Yunus

  • Relationship between school dropout and teen pregnancy among rural South African young women

    Molly Rosenberg;Audrey Pettifor;William C Miller;Harsha Thirumurthy

  • Climate variability and the outbreaks of cholera in Zanzibar, East Africa: a time series analysis.

    Rita Reyburn;Deok Ryun Kim;Michael Emch;Ahmed Khatib

  • Population, behavioural and environmental drivers of malaria prevalence in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

    Jane P Messina;Steve M Taylor;Steve M Taylor;Steven R Meshnick;Andrew M Linke

  • Diarrheal disease risk in Matlab, Bangladesh.

    Michael Emch

  • The spatial epidemiology of cholera in an endemic area of Bangladesh

    Mohammad Ali;Michael Emch;J.P. Donnay;Mohammad Yunus

  • Fecal Contamination of Shallow Tubewells in Bangladesh Inversely Related to Arsenic

    Alexander van Geen;Kazi Matin Ahmed;Yasuyuki Akita;Md. Jahangir Alam

  • Highly localized sensitivity to climate forcing drives endemic cholera in a megacity

    Robert C. Reiner;Aaron A. King;Michael Emch;Mohammad Yunus

  • Simple Sari Cloth Filtration of Water Is Sustainable and Continues To Protect Villagers from Cholera in Matlab, Bangladesh

    Anwar Huq;Mohammed Yunus;Syed Salahuddin Sohel;Abbas Bhuiya

  • Molecular malaria epidemiology: mapping and burden estimates for the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2007.

    Steve M. Taylor;Steve M. Taylor;Jane P. Messina;Carla C. Hand;Jonathan J. Juliano

  • Guidelines on the use of DHS GPS data

    Carolina Perez-Haydrich;Joshua L. Warren;Clara R. Burgert;Michael E. Emch

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven R. Meshnick
Steven R. Meshnick University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
John D. Clemens
John D. Clemens University of California, Los Angeles
Larry D. McKay
Larry D. McKay University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Brian J. Mailloux
Brian J. Mailloux Barnard College
Kazi Matin Ahmed
Kazi Matin Ahmed University of Dhaka
Joseph D. Tucker
Joseph D. Tucker University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
William C. Miller
William C. Miller The Ohio State University
Alexander van Geen
Alexander van Geen Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Irving F. Hoffman
Irving F. Hoffman University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Audrey Pettifor
Audrey Pettifor University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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