Pavani Kalluri Ram
MD
Research Topics
Child survival; handwashing; global health; diarrheal diseases; acute respiratory infections; infectious disease epidemiology.
Selected Publications
- Ram PK, Dutt D, Silk BE, Doshi S, Rudra CB, Abedin JK, Goswami D, Fry AM, BKrytuss WA, Luby SP, and Cohen AL. Household air quality risk factors associated with childhood pneumonia in urban Dhaka, Bangladesh. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 2014 May;90(5):968-75. PMID: 24664785.
- Kamm KB, Feikin DR, Bigogo GM, Aol G, Audi A, Cohen AL, Shah MM, Yu J, Breiman RF, Ram PK. Associations between presence of handwashing stations and soap in the home and diarrhoea and respiratory illness, in children less than five years old in rural western Kenya. Trop Med Int Health. 2014 Apr; 19(4):398-406. PMID: 24405627.
- Salje H, Gurley ES, Homaira N, Ram PK, Haque R, Petri W. Moss WJ, Luby SP, Breysse P, Azziz-Baumgartner E. Impact of neighborhood biomass cooking patterns on episodic high indoor particulate matter concentrations in clean fuel homes in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Indoor Air. 2014 Apr;24(2):213-20. PMID: 24033488.
- Pickering AJ, Blum AG, Breiman RF, Ram PK, Davis J. Video surveillance captures student hand hygiene behavior, reactivity to observation, and peer influence in Kenyan primary schools. PLOS ONE. 2014 Mar 27;9(3): e92571. PMID: 24676389.
- Vujcic J, Ram PK, Hussain F, Unicomb L, Gope PS, Abedin J, Mahmud ZH, Sirajul Islam M, Luby SP. Toys and toilets: cross-sectional study using children's toys to evaluate environmental faecal contamination in rural Bangladeshi households with different sanitation facilities and practices. Topical Medicine and Hygiene. 2014 May;19(5):528-36. PMID: 24645919.
- Gurley E, Salje H, Homaira N, Ram PK, Haque R, Petri W, Bresee J, Moss W, Luby SP, Breysse P, Azziz-Baumgartner E. Indoor exposure to particulate matter and age at first acute lower respiratory infection in a low-income, urban community in Bangladesh. American Journal of Epidemiology. 2014 Apr 15;179(8):967-73. PMID: 24607596.
- Sahli MW, Wactawski-Wende J, Ram PK, Lamonte MJ, Hovey KM, Grenco RJ, Andrews CA, Millen AE. Association of Plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D Concentrations and Pathogenic Oral Bacteria in Postmenopausal Women. Journal of Periodontology. 2013 Nov 21. (Epub ahead of print). PMID: 24261910.
- Dreibelbis R, Winch PJ, Leontsini E, Hulland KR, Ram PK, Unicomb L, Luby SP. 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. BMC Public Health. 2013 Oct 26; 13: 1015. PMID: 24160869.
- Gurley E, Homaira N, Salje H, Ram PK, Haque R, Petri Jr WA, Bresee J, Luby SP, Azziz-Baumgartner E. Indoor exposure to particulate matter and the incidence of acute lower respiratory infections among children: A birth cohort study in urban Bangladesh. Indoor Air. 2013 Oct;23(5):379-86. PMID: 23906055.
- Hulland K, Leontsini E, Dreibelbis R, Unicomb L, Afroz A, Dutta NC, Nizame FA, Luby SP, Ram PK, Winch PJ. Designing a handwashing station for low-income communities in Bangladesh using the Integrated Behavioural Model for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Interventions (IBM-WASH). BMC Public Health. 2013 Sep 23; 13:877. PMID: 24060247.
- Pickering AJ, Davis J, Blum AG, Scalmanini J, Oyier B, Breiman RF, Ram PK. Access to waterless hand sanitizer improves student hand hygiene behavior in primary schools in Nairobi, Kenya. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 2013 Sep; 89(3):411-8. PMID: 23836575.
- Arnold BF, Null C, Luby SP, Unicomb L, Stewart CP, Dewey KG, Ahmed T, Ashraf S, Christensen G, Clasen T, Dentz HN, Fernald LC, Haque R, Hubbard AE, Kariger P, Leontsini E, Lin A, Njenga SM, Pickering AJ, Ram PK, Tofail F, Winch PJ, Colford JM Jr. Cluster-randomized controlled trials of individual and combined water, sanitation, hygiene, and nutritional interventions in rural Bangladesh and Kenya: The WASH Benefits Study design and rationale. BMJ Open. 2013 Aug 30;3(8):e003476. PMID: 23996605.
- Halder AK, Molyneaux JW, Luby SP, Ram PK. Impact of duration of structured observations on measurement of handwashing behavior at critical times. BMC Public Health. 2013 Aug 2; 13(1):705. PMID: 23915098.