Departmental Affiliations
Center & Institute Affiliations
Contact Info
Research Interests
- International Health Instructor
- Institute for International Programs Community Hlth and Hlth Systems
Experiences & Accomplishments
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.