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Stephen P. Luby is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and works primarily within the field of Medicine. Their research spans multiple subfields including Nutrition and Dietetics, Infectious Diseases, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Food Science, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The scientist's research covers a variety of main topics such as Child Nutrition and Water Access, Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology, Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology, Vibrio bacteria research studies, Global Maternal and Child Health, Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations, and Viral Infections and Vectors.

Stephen P. Luby has published extensively, with a selection of recent papers that reflect the focus of their work. These include:

  • Impact of community masking on COVID-19: A cluster-randomized trial in Bangladesh (2022), published in Science
  • Nipah virus dynamics in bats and implications for spillover to humans (2020), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Uncertainties in estimating SARS-CoV-2 prevalence by wastewater-based epidemiology (2021), published in Chemical Engineering Journal
  • The Impact Of Community Masking On COVID-19: A Cluster-Randomized Trial In Bangladesh (2021), published in PubMed
  • Addressing Climate Change and Its Effects on Human Health: A Call to Action for Medical Schools (2020), published in Academic Medicine

Frequent collaborators in their research include Mahbubur Rahman, Benjamin F. Arnold, John M. Colford, Jade Benjamin-Chung, and Ayşe Ercümen.

The scholar often publishes in venues that have hosted multiple papers from them, such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Clinical Infectious Diseases, SSRN Electronic Journal, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, and the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

Best Publications

  • The global burden of typhoid fever.

    John A. Crump;Stephen P. Luby;Eric D. Mintz

  • Effect of handwashing on child health: a randomised controlled trial

    Stephen P Luby;Mubina Agboatwalla;Daniel R Feikin;John Painter

  • Effects of water quality, sanitation, handwashing, and nutritional interventions on diarrhoea and child growth in rural Bangladesh: a cluster randomised controlled trial.

    Stephen P Luby;Mahbubur Rahman;Benjamin F Arnold;Leanne Unicomb

  • Morbidity and mortality due to shigella and enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli diarrhoea: the Global Burden of Disease Study 1990-2016.

    Ibrahim A Khalil;Christopher Troeger;Brigette F Blacker;Puja C Rao

  • Foodborne transmission of Nipah virus, Bangladesh.

    Stephen P. Luby;Mahmudur Rahman;M. Jahangir Hossain;Lauren S Blum

  • Person-to-Person Transmission of Nipah Virus in a Bangladeshi Community

    Emily S. Gurley;Joel M Montgomery;M. Jahangir Hossain;Michael Bell

  • Recurrent Zoonotic Transmission of Nipah Virus into Humans, Bangladesh, 2001–2007

    Stephen P. Luby;M. Jahangir Hossain;Emily S. Gurley;Be-Nazir Ahmed

  • Transmission of Human Infection with Nipah Virus

    Stephen P. Luby;Emily S. Gurley;M. Jahangir Hossain

  • Effect of Intensive Handwashing Promotion on Childhood Diarrhea in High-Risk Communities in Pakistan: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    Stephen P. Luby;Mubina Agboatwalla;John Painter;Arshad Altaf

  • A Strategy To Estimate Unknown Viral Diversity in Mammals

    Simon John Anthony;Simon John Anthony;Jonathan H. Epstein;Kris A. Murray;Isamara Navarrete-Macias

  • Household Environmental Conditions Are Associated with Enteropathy and Impaired Growth in Rural Bangladesh

    Audrie Lin;Benjamin F. Arnold;Sadia Afreen;Rie Goto

  • The WASH Benefits and SHINE trials: interpretation of WASH intervention effects on linear growth and diarrhoea

    Amy J Pickering;Clair Null;Peter J Winch;Goldberg Mangwadu

  • Clinical Presentation of Nipah Virus Infection in Bangladesh

    M. Jahangir Hossain;Emily S. Gurley;Joel M. Montgomery;Michael Bell

  • The Integrated Behavioural Model for Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene: a systematic review of behavioural models and a framework for designing and evaluating behaviour change interventions in infrastructure-restricted settings

    Robert Dreibelbis;Peter J Winch;Elli Leontsini;Kristyna R S Hulland

  • The relationship between therapeutic injections and high prevalence of hepatitis C infection in Hafizabad, Pakistan.

    S. P. Luby;K. Qamruddin;A. A. Shah;A. Omair

  • Cluster-randomised controlled trials of individual and combined water, sanitation, hygiene and nutritional interventions in rural Bangladesh and Kenya: the WASH Benefits study design and rationale.

    Benjamin F. Arnold;Clair Null;Clair Null;Stephen Patrick Luby;Leanne Unicomb

  • Unsafe injections and the transmission of hepatitis B and C in a periurban community in Pakistan

    Aamir J. Khan;Stephen P. Luby;Fariyal Fikree;Anita Karim

  • Bacteremic typhoid fever in children in an urban slum, Bangladesh.

    W. Abdullah Brooks;Anowar Hossain;Doli Goswami;Amina Tahia Sharmeen

  • Hygiene: New Hopes, New Horizons

    Val Curtis;Wolf Schmidt;Stephen Luby;Rocio Florez

  • Effect of intensive handwashing promotion on childhood diarrhea in high-risk communities in Pakistan.

    Luby Sp;Agboatwalla M;Painter J;Altaf A

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter J. Winch
Peter J. Winch Johns Hopkins University
Robert F. Breiman
Robert F. Breiman Emory University
Peter Daszak
Peter Daszak Columbia University
W. Abdullah Brooks
W. Abdullah Brooks Johns Hopkins University
Mustafizur Rahman
Mustafizur Rahman International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research
Rashidul Haque
Rashidul Haque International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research
Jonathan H. Epstein
Jonathan H. Epstein EcoHealth Alliance
Thomas Clasen
Thomas Clasen Emory University
Alicia M. Fry
Alicia M. Fry Emory University
Joseph S. Bresee
Joseph S. Bresee Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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