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B. Selected Publications
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Emch, M.E. (1995) Spatial Patterns of Diarrheal Disease in Matlab, Bangladesh.
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Mapping in Epidemiology and
Environmental Health, Tampa, pp 148-153.
Emch, M.E. (1998) Spatial and Environmental Risk Factors for Diarrheal Disease in Matlab,
Bangladesh, Proceedings of the Geographic Information Systems in Public Health
Conference, San Diego, 8/98.
Emch, M.E. (1999) Diarrheal Disease Risk in Matlab, Bangladesh. Social Science and
Medicine, 49, 519-530.
Emch, M.E. (2000) Relationships Between Flood Control, Kala-azar, and Diarrheal Disease
in Bangladesh. Environment and Planning A, 32, 1051-1063.
Emch, M.E. (2001) The Human Ecology of Deforestation in Bangladesh, in Ed. Vajpeyi, D,
Deforestation, Environment and Sustainable Development: A Comparative Analysis,
Praeger, Westport, Connecticut, pp. 71-90.
Emch, M.E. and Ali, M. (2001) Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Diarrheal Disease in
Matlab, Bangladesh. Environment and Planning A, 33(2): 339-350.
Ali, M.; Emch, M.; Ashley, C.; and Streatfield, P.K. (2001) Implementation of a Medical
Geographic Information System: Concepts and Uses. Journal of Health, Population, and
Nutrition, 19(2): 100-110.
Ali, M.; Emch, M.E.; Tofail, M.; and Baqui, A.H. (2001) Implications of Health Care
Provision on Acute Lower Respiratory Infection Mortality in Bangladeshi Children. Social
Science and Medicine, 52(2): 267-277.
Ali, M.; Emch, M.E.; and Sack, R.B. (2002) Are the Environmental Niches of Vibrio
cholerae 0139 Different from Other Strains of Cholera? International Journal of Infectious
Disease, 5(4):214-9.
Ali, M.; Emch, M.; Donnay, J.P.; Yunus, M.; and Sack, R.B. (2002) The Spatial
Epidemiology of Cholera in an Endemic Area of Bangladesh. Social Science and Medicine,
55(6): 1015-1024.
Emch, M.E.; Naheed, A.; and Ali, M. (2002) Tropical Disease, in (Eds.) D. Levinson, D.
and Christensen, K. et al., Encyclopedia of Modern Asia, New York: Charles Scribner's
Sons.
Ali, M.; Emch, M.; Donnay, J.P.; Yunus, M.; and Sack, R.B. (2002) Identifying
Environmental Risk Factors for Endemic Cholera in Bangladesh. Health & Place, 8(3): 201210.
Ali, M.; Emch, M.E.; and Donnay, J.P. (2002) Spatial Filtering Using a Raster Geographic
Information System: Methods for Scaling Health and Environmental Data. Health & Place.
8(2): 85-92.
Salim, M.D.; Strauss, T., and Emch, M. (2002) A GIS-Integrated Intelligent System for
Optimization of Asset Management for Maintenance of Roads and Brideges, In (Eds.)
Hendtlass, T. and Ali, M. Developments in Applied Artificial Intelligence, pp 628-637.
Ali, M.; Wagatsuma, Y.; Emch, M.; and Breiman, R.F. (2003) Use of a Geographic
Information System for Defining Spatial Risk for Dengue Transmission in Bangladesh: Role
for Aedes Albopictus in an Urban Outbreak, American Journal of Tropical Medicine &
Hygiene 69: 634-640.
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Emch, M.E. (2003) The Human Ecology of Mayan Cacao Farming in the Toledo District,
Belize. Human Ecology, 31(1): 111-131.
Ali, M; Emch, M.; von Seidlein M; Yunus, M.; Clemens, J.D. A novel approach to measure
herd immunity in an individually randomized trial (in review).
Emch, M.; Peterson, M.; Alexander, M. Forest Cover Change in the Toledo District, Belize
from 1975 to 1999: A Remote Sensing Approach. (in review)
Emch, M.E. and Ali, M. (2003) Spatial Cluster Analysis for Etiological Research and
Identification of Socio-environmental Risk Factors. In Khan, O. and Skinner, R. Geographic
Information Systems and Health Applications, Idea Group Publishing: Hershey,
Pennsylvania, pp. 172-187.
Emch, M; Ali, M.; Yunus, M.; Sack, D.; and Clemens, J.D. Spatially Heterogeneous
Effiacacy in Phase III Vaccine Trials (in review).
Emch, M; Ali, M.; Yunus, M.; and Clemens, J.D. Geographical Analysis in Vaccine
Efficacy Trials: Spatial Effect Modifiers (in review).
C. Research Support
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Emch, M.E. (P.I.) Geographical Analysis in Vaccine Efficacy Trials, National Institute of
Allergies and Infectious Disease, National Institutes of Health, $116,212, 2003-2004.
Emch, M.E. (P.I.) Geographical Analysis in Vaccine Efficacy Trials: Spatial Confounders,
Effect Modifiers, and Herd Immunity Measurement, Geography and Regional Science
Program, National Science Foundation, $37,936, 2003-2005.
Emch, M.E. (P.I.) Oregon Cancer Registry GIS Database Development Project, Oregon
Health Services, Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention, $18,389, 2003-2004.
Emch, M.E.(P.I.) Using Satellite Imagery to Monitor Relationships Between Land-Use
Change and Water Quality in Iowa Lakes, NASA, Iowa Space Grant Consortium, Seed
Grant, $10,000, 2001.
Emch, M.E.(P.I.) Using Satellite Imagery to Monitor Relationships Between Landuse
Change and Water Quality in Iowa Lakes, NASA, Iowa Space Grant Consortium, Seed
Grant, 2001.
Czarnetski, A (P.I.); Emch, M.E. (CoP.I); and Cooney, T.(CoP.I.) Science Center for
Teaching, Outreach, and Research on Meteorology (STORM), National Atmospheric and
Oceanographic Administration, 2000-2002 (Director of the Center's Remote Sensing
Initiative, which is involved with research on environmental remote sensing applications,
teaching remote sensing and satellite image processing seminars, and web-based satellite data
provision to the community.)
Emch, M.E. Environmental Risk Factors for Groundwater Arsenic Contamination and
Arsenicosis in Matlab, Bangladesh: A Pilot Study, Association of American Geographers
Research Grant, 2000.
Emch, M.E. Environmental Risk Factors for Groundwater Arsenic Contamination and
Arsenicosis in Matlab, Bangladesh: A Pilot Study, Global Health Corps, Summer 2000.
Emch, M.E. Environmental Risk Factors for Groundwater Arsenic Contamination and
Arsenicosis in Matlab, Bangladesh: A Pilot Study, University of Northern Iowa Summer
Fellowship, Summer 2000.
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