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Abdullah
Brooks
,
MD

Senior Associate
Abdullah Brooks

Departmental Affiliations

Affiliated
Division
Global Disease Epidemiology and Control

Center & Institute Affiliations

Contact Info

103 E MT ROYAL RM 2B
Baltimore
Maryland
21205
US        
503 2100453

Research Interests

  • International Health Instructor
  • Institute for International Programs Community Hlth and Hlth Systems
Experiences & Accomplishments
Education
MPH
Johns Hopkins University
1995
MD
Stanford University
1991
Overview

1. Childhood pneumonia, 2. Influenza and other respiratory viruses, 3. S. pneumoniae and other respiratory bacteria, 4. Zinc and pneumonia prevention and case management 5. Salmonella Typhi and enteric fever 6. Other febrile and respiratory acute infections 7. Reactive airways disease and asthma

Select Publications
  • 1. Brooks, W.A., Goswami, D., Rahman, M., Nahar, K., Fry, A., Balish, A., Iftekharuddin, N., Azim, T., Xiyan, X., Klimov, A., Bresee, J., Bridges, C., Luby, S., Influenza is a major contributor to childhood pneumonia in a tropical developing country, in press (Pediatr Infect Dis J). 2009.

  • 2. Brooks, W.A., Alamgir, ASM., Sultana, R., Islam, MS., Rahman, M., Fry, A., Shu, B., Lindstrom, S., Nahar, K., Goswami, D., Haiddar, MS., Nahar, S., Butler, E., Hancock, K., Donis, RO., Davis, CT., Zaman, RU., Luby, SP., Uyeki, TM., Rahman, M., Pediatric H5N1 case detected through routine influenza surveillance in Bangladesh. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2009. 15(8): p. 1311-1313.

  • 3. Breiman, R.F., W.A. Brooks, D. Goswami, et al., A multinational, randomized, placebo-controlled trial to assess the immunogenicity, safety, and tolerability of live attenuated influenza vaccine coadministered with oral poliovirus vaccine in healthy young children. Vaccine, 2009.

  • 4. Subhi, R., M. Adamson, H. Campbell, M. Weber, K. Smith, and T. Duke, The prevalence of hypoxaemia among ill children in developing countries: a systematic review. Lancet Infect Dis, 2009. 9(4): p. 219-27.

  • 5. Luby SP, Brooks WA, Saha SK, el-Arifeen S, Naheed A, Sack D, et al. Use of multiple surveillance modalities to assess the epidemiology of Streptococcus pneumoniae infection in Bangladesh. Clin Infect Dis. 2009 Mar 1;48 Suppl 2:S97-102.

Projects
Surveillance for influenza and the viral aetiologies of influenza-like febrile illnesses in an urban slum in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Efficacy of oseltamivir in reducing the duration of clinical illness, viral shedding, and transmissibility reduction within households among participants in an influenza disease burden surveillance cohort in urban Dhaka, Bangladesh
Hospital based human influenza surveillance in Bangladesh: Identifying pandemic risk
Use of the Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi-induce, antigen-specific antibodies in lymphocyte supernatant, as an immunological marker in typhoid fever patients.
Evaluation of a multiplexed in vitro immunoassay to detect viral infection in a clinical setting
Estimating respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) mortality among children < 5 years in Bangladesh
Innate immunity to respiratory pathogens in Influenza-immunized children: A pilot study