Jason Corburn, David Vlahov, Blessing Mberu, Lee W. Riley et al.
The informal settlements of the Global South are the least prepared for the pandemic of COVID-19 since basic needs such as water, toilets, sewers, drainage, waste collection, and secure and adequate housing are already in short supply or non-existent. Further, space constraints, violence, and overcr...
M. M. Sheikh, N. Manzoor, Jafari Ali Ashraf, Muhammad Adnan et al.
Over the last few decades, weather and climate extremes have become a major focus of researchers, the media and general public due to their damaging effects on human society and infrastructure. Trends in indices of climate extremes are studied for the South Asian region using high-quality records of...
Lalit Kumar, Ngawang Chhogyel, Tharani Gopalakrishnan, Md Kamrul Hasan et al.
Climate change is affecting many facets of our lives and livelihoods, and food production is one of them. While the world population continues to increase, agricultural land and food production are being impacted by climate change at an ever-increasing rate. This chapter looks at climate change and ...
Tharani Gopalakrishnan, Md Kamrul Hasan, A. T. M. Sanaul Haque, S. Jayasinghe et al.
Climatic and non-climatic stressors, such as temperature increases, rainfall fluctuations, population growth and migration, pollution, land-use changes and inadequate gender-specific strategies, are major challenges to coastal agricultural sustainability. In this paper, we discuss all pertinent issu...
J. V. Revadekar, Sultan Hameed, Daniel S. Collins, M. J. Manton et al.
Abstract South Asia covers more than 30° of latitude with weather observation stations situated from 6°N at Galle, Sri Lanka, to 36°N at Chitral in Pakistan. Moreover, the South Asian station network ranges in altitude from sea level to nearly 4000 m above sea level. This paper uses time series of 1...
Rashan Haniffa, Mavuto Mukaka, Sithum Munasinghe, Ambepitiyawaduge Pubudu De Silva et al.
BACKGROUND: Current critical care prognostic models are predominantly developed in high-income countries (HICs) and may not be feasible in intensive care units (ICUs) in lower- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Existing prognostic models cannot be applied without validation in LMICs as the differ...
Maria Deloria Knoll, Julia C. Bennett, Maria Garcia Quesada, E. Wangeci Kagucia et al.
Serotype-specific surveillance for invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) is essential for assessing the impact of 10- and 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCV10/13). The Pneumococcal Serotype Replacement and Distribution Estimation (PSERENADE) project aimed to evaluate the global evidence to...
Julia C. Bennett, Maria Deloria Knoll, E. Wangeci Kagucia, Maria Garcia Quesada et al.
BACKGROUND: Pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs) that are ten-valent (PCV10) and 13-valent (PCV13) became available in 2010. We evaluated their global impact on invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) incidence in all ages. METHODS: Serotype-specific IPD cases and population denominators were obtained...
Wikum H. Jayasinghe, Md. Shamim Akhter, Kenji Nakahara, M. N. Maruthi
Aphids severely affect crop production by transmitting many plant viruses. Viruses are obligate intracellular pathogens that mostly depend on vectors for their transmission and survival. A majority of economically important plant viruses are transmitted by aphids. They transmit viruses either persis...
S. Jayasinghe, Lalit Kumar, Md Kamrul Hasan
How the current distribution of tea cultivation is influenced by specific environmental conditions in Sri Lanka is yet to be explored. Therefore, this study aims to assess the differences between tea and non-tea growing areas with respect to climatic and topographic covariates, and to determine the ...
Julia C. Bennett, Marissa K. Hetrich, Maria Garcia Quesada, Jenna N. Sinkevitch et al.
serotype 1 (ST1) was an important cause of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) globally before the introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs) containing ST1 antigen. The Pneumococcal Serotype Replacement and Distribution Estimation (PSERENADE) project gathered ST1 IPD surveillance data f...
Himali S. Jayasinghearachchi, Enoka Corea, Kumari I. Jayaratne, G. R. A. Fonseka et al.
BACKGROUND: Melioidosis is a potentially fatal infectious disease caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei and the disease is endemic in Southeast Asia and Northern Australia. It has been confirmed as endemic in Sri Lanka. Genomic epidemiology of B. pseudomallei in Sri Lanka is largely unexplored. This s...
Dovini Jayasinghe, Md. Moksedul Momin, Kerri Beckmann, Elina Hyppönen et al.
The use of polygenic risk score (PRS) models has transformed the field of genetics by enabling the prediction of complex traits and diseases based on an individual's genetic profile. However, the impact of genotype-environment interaction (GxE) on the performance and applicability of PRS models rema...
Namalie Jayasinghe, Momotaz Khatun, Moses Okwii
<html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> This report examines women’s leadership in locally led humanitarian action with case studies from Bangladesh and South Sudan. Co-authored with two women’s organizations, Ashroy Foundation of Bangladesh and Rural Women for Development in South ...
Laurie Parsons, Ricardo Safra de Campos, Alice Moncaster, Ian Cook et al.
Climate-linked disasters result when natural hazards meet socioeconomic precarity. Recognizing this, scholarship in recent years has emphasized how the precarity that turns climate-linked hazards into disasters is produced within the same global political economy that enables climate change. Neverth...