Kelly Baker
PhD
Associate Professor
Director, Center for Climate Change and Health Equity
Research Topics
Maternal and child health; One Health; Infectious Disease prevention and control; global development and health; climate change; flood borne outbreaks; water insecurity; water quality; antimicrobial resistance; rapid diagnostics; STEM education; transdisciplinary collaboration
Selected Publications
- Caruso BA, Sevilimedu V, Fung IC, Patkar A, Baker KK* (2015). Gender disparities in water, sanitation, and global health. Lancet, 386(9994):650-1.
- Baker KK*, Senesac R, Sewell D, Sen Gupta A, Cumming OC, Mumma J. (2018). Fecal Fingerprints of Enteric Pathogen Contamination in Low-Income Neighborhoods of Kisumu, Kenya: The role of human and domestic animal sources in environmental pathogen contamination patterns. Environ. Sci. Technol. 52(18). DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.8b01528.
- Medgyesi D, Brogan J, Sewell D, Phillippe JP, Kwong L, Baker KK. Where Children Play (2018): Frequency of and location of infant and child exposure to feces and trash in public domains of an Internal Displaced Persons camp in Haiti. Int J Environ Res Public Health 15(8).
- Baker KK*, Story S, Kuntz EW, Zimmerman M (2018). Impact of harassment of women, social capital, and water and sanitation access on adverse birth outcomes in Indian women: a seven year cohort study. PLoS ONE 13(10): e0205345.
- Tsai MH, Mumma J, Cumming O, Dreibelbis R, Aseyo E, Nelima D, Davis E, Baker KK* (2019). Enteric Pathogen Diversity in Infant Foods in Low-income Neighborhoods Of Kisumu, Kenya. International journal of environmental research and public health 16 (3), 506. 27.
- Mumma JAO, Simiyu S, Aseyo E, Anderson J, Allen E, Dreibelbis R, Baker KK, Tsai MH, Cumming O (2019). The Safe Start Trial A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial for the Effect of an Infant Hygiene Intervention on Enteric Infections and Diarrhoea in Low[1]Income Informal Settlements of Kisumu, Kenya. BMC Infectious Diseases. BMC Infect Dis. 2019 Dec 19;19(1):1066.
- Hoffmann V, Simiyu S, Sewell D, Tsai K, Cumming O, Mumma J, Baker KK* (2022). Market to Mouth: An observational study on the influence of milk product safety and household food hygiene on indicator and pathogen contamination of infant food in peri[1]urban Kisumu. Frontier Pub Health (9).
- Baker KK*, Mumma J, Simiyu S, Sewell D, Tsai K, Anderson J, MacDougall A, Dreibelbis R, Cumming OC. (2022) Environmental and behavioural exposure pathways associated with diarrhoea and enteric pathogen detection in 5-month-old, periurban Kenyan infants: a cross-sectional study. BMJ One, 12 (10), e059878.
- Baker KK, Simiyu S, Busieni P, Gutema FD, Okoth B, Agira J, Amadi C, Ziraba A, Kapanka A, Osinuga A, Ouma C, Sewell D, Gaire S, Tumwebaze I, Mberu B, (2023). Protocol for the PATHOME study: a cohort study on urban societal development and the ecology of enteric disease transmission among infants, domestic animals and the environment. BMJ Open; 13:e076067. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-076067.
- Busenei P, Osinuga A, Simiyu S, Mberu B, Sewell DS, Baker KK* (2024). Development of a protocol for using geo-trackers to identify enteric pathogens transmission pathways in urban health research: Opportunities, challenges and lessons learnt from a pilot study in Kenya. CABI One Health; 3:1; https://doi.org/10.1079/cabionehealth.2024.0011.