Mark M. Janko

PhD, MSPH

Mark M. Janko.

Mark M. Janko

PhD, MSPH

Mark M. Janko

PhD, MSPH

Research Topics

Climate Change and Health; Vector-borne Diseases; Hierarchical Bayesian Modeling; Amazon and Congo Basins; Madagascar; Panama.

Overview Awards Publications

Selected Publications

NOTE: † indicates co-first author; * indicates trainee first author.

Peer-reviewed Journals

Barrett, T.M., Titcomb, G.C., Janko, M.M., Pender, M., Kauffman, K., Solis, A., Randriamoria, M.T., Young, H.S., Mucha, P.J., Moody, J. and Kramer, R.A., 2024. Disentangling social, environmental, and zoonotic transmission pathways of a gastrointestinal protozoan (Blastocystis spp.) in northeast Madagascar. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, p.e25030.

Titcomb, G., Uelmen, J., Janko, M.M. and Nunn, C., 2024. Infectious disease responses to human climate change adaptations. Global Change Biology, 30(8), p.e17433.

Mitchell, C.L.*, Janko, M.M., Verity, R., Kashamuka, M.M., Bailey, J.A., Tshefu, A.K., Parr, J.B. and Juliano, J.J., 2024. Close Proximity to Mining Is Associated with Increased Prevalence of the Drug Resistance-Associated Mutation dhps540E in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, p.tpmd230355.

Silke, F.*, Earl, L., Hsu, J., Janko, M.M., Joffe, J., Memetova, A., Michael, D., Zheng, P., Aravkin, A., Murray, C.J. and Weaver, M.R., 2024. Cost-effectiveness of interventions for HIV/AIDS, malaria, syphilis, and tuberculosis in 128 countries: a meta-regression analysis. The Lancet Global Health, 12(7), pp.e1159-e1173.

Lantos, P.M., Janko, M.M., Nigrovic, L.E., Ruffin, F., Kobayashi, T., Higgins, Y. and Auwaerter, P.G., 2024. Mapping the distribution of Lyme disease at a mid-Atlantic site in the United States using electronic health data. Plos one, 19(5), p.e0301530.

Lantos, P.M., Gantt, S., Janko, M.M., Dionne, F., Permar, S.R. and Fowler, K., 2024, June. A geographically-weighted cost-effectiveness analysis of newborn CMV screening. In Open Forum Infectious Diseases (p. ofae311). Oxford University Press.

Navuluri, N., Kussin, P.S., Egger, J.R., Birgen, E., Kitur, S., Thielman, N.M., Parish, A., Green, C.L., Janko, M.M., Diero, L. and Wools-Kaloustian, K., 2024. Tuberculosis is Associated with Chronic Hypoxemia among Kenyan Adults (CHAKA): A Case-Control Study. Annals of the American Thoracic Society, (ja).

Janko, M.†, Araujo, A.†*, Ascencio, E.†*, Guedes, G.†, Vasco, L., Santos, R., Damasceno, C., Medrano, P., Chacon-Uscamaita, P., Gunderson, A., O’Malley, S., Kansara, P., Narvaez, M., Coombes, C., Pizzitutti, F., Salmon-Mulanovich, G., Zaitchik, B., Mena, C., Barbieri, A., Pan, W. Network Profile: Improving Response to Malaria in the Amazon through Identification of Inter-Community Networks and Human Mobility in Border Regions of Ecuador, Peru, and Brazil. BMJ Open

Araujo Navas, A.L.*, Janko, M.M., Benítez, F.L., Narvaez, M., Vasco, L.E., Kansara, P., Zaitchik, B., Pan, W.K. and Mena, C.F., 2024. Impact of climate and land use/land cover changes on malaria incidence in the Ecuadorian Amazon. PLOS Climate, 3(4), p.e0000315.

Naghavi, M., on behalf of the GBD 2021 Cause of Death Collaborators, 2024. Global burden of 288 causes of death and life expectancy decomposition in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990âAS2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. The Lancet, 403(10440), pp.2100-2132.

Schumacher, A.E., on behalf of the GBD 2021 Demographics Collaborators, 2024. Global age-sex-specific mortality, life expectancy, and population estimates in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1950âAS2021, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic: a comprehensive demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. The Lancet, 403(10440), pp.1989-2056.

Janko, M., Recalde-Coronel, G.C., Damasceno, C.P., Salmon-Mulanovich, G., Barbieri, A.F., Lescano, A.G., Zaitchik, B.F. and Pan, W.K., (2023). The impact of sustained malaria control in the Loreto region of Peru: a retrospective, observational, spatially varying interrupted time series analysis of the PAMAFRO program. The Lancet Regional Health - Americas, 20.

Garcia, G., Janko, M., Guerra, C., Hergott, D., Stabler, T., Schwabe, C., Phiri, W., Rivas, M., Aldrich, E., Cook, J., Kleinschmidt, I., Bradley, J., (2023). Identifying environmental, individual, and household risk factors for malaria infection on Bioko Island to inform interventions. Malaria Journal.

Fernandez, D., Gine-Vazquez, I., Morena, M., Koyanagi, A. I., Janko, M. M., Haro, J. M., ... & Tyrovolas, S. (2023). Government interventions and control policies to contain the first COVID-19 outbreak: An analysis of evidence. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 14034948231156969.

Aguilar, G. R., Swetschinski, L. R., Weaver, N. D., Ikuta, K. S., Mestrovic, T., Gray, A. P., ...Janko, M.,... & Naghavi, M. (2023). The burden of antimicrobial resistance in the Americas in 2019: a cross-country systematic analysis. The Lancet Regional Health - Americas.

Mitchell, C.*, Janko, M., Verity, R., Mwandagalirwa, K., Bailey, J., Tshefu, A., Parr, J., Juliano, J., (2022). Could mining be driving the emergence of anti-malarial drug resistance in Eastern DRC? Scientific Reports.

Janko, M., Joffe, J, Michael, D., Earl, L., Rosettie, K., Sparks, G., Albertson, S., Compton, K., Pedroza Velandia, P., Stafford, L., Zheng, P., Aravkin, A., Kyu, H., Murray, C., Weaver, M., (2022). Cost-effectiveness of rotavirus vaccination in children under 5 years of age in 195 countries: a meta-regression analysis. Vaccine.

Matulis, G., Doniddoniddemberel, A., Lantos, P., Jones, J., Wofford, R., Janko, M., Nyamdorj, T., Tserendovdon, B., Sainkhuu, G., Poole-Smith, B., Fiorenzano, J., von Fricken, M., (2022). Hot spots in a cold land - reported cases of rabies in wildlife and livestock in Mongolia from 2012-2018. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases.

Mitchell, C.*, Janko, M., Mwandagalirwa, M., Tshefu, A., Edwards, J., Pence, B., Juliano, J., Emch, M., (2022). Impact of extractive industries on malaria prevalence in adults aged 15-59 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: a population-based cross sectional study. Scientific Reports.

Mitchell, C.*, Ngasala, B., Janko, M., Chacky, F., Edwards, J., Pence, B., Mohamed, A., Mhamilawa, L, Makene, T., Kyaw, T., Molteni, F., Nyinondi, S., Kabula, B., Serbantez, N., Kitojo, C., Reaves, E., Emch, M., Juliano, J., (2022). Evaluating malaria prevalence and land cover across varying levels of transmission intensity in Tanzania using a cross-sectional survey of school-aged children. Malaria Journal.

Allorant, A.*, Biswas, S., Ahmed, S., Wiens, K., LeGrand, K., Janko M., Henry, N., Dangel, W., Watson, A., Blacker, B., Kyu, H., Ross, J., Rahman, M., Hay, S., Reiner, R., (2022). Where are the missing tuberculosis cases in Bangladesh? Finding gaps in routine surveillance activities in Bangladesh by linking prevalence survey and case notification data. The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease.

Berchuck, S., Janko, M., Medeiros, F., Pan, W., Mukherjee, S. (2021). Factor Analysis for Spatiotemporal Surfaces using a Bayesian Non-Parametric Prior. Bayesian Analysis.

Lantos, P., Tsao, J., Janko, M., Arab, A., von Fricken, M., Auwaerter, P., Nigrovic, L., Fowler, V., Ruffin, F., Gaines, D., Sweson, J. Environmental correlates of Lyme disease emergence in Southwest Virginia, 2005-2014 (2021). Journal of Medical Entomology.

Tyrovolas, S., Gine-Vazquez, I., Fernandez, D., Morena M., Koyanagi A., Janko, M., Haro Josep, M., Yang, L., Lee, P., Pan, W., Molassiotis A. Estimating the COVID-19 spread through real-time population mobility patterns: surveillance in Low- and Middle income countries (2021). Journal of Medical Internet Research.

Gunderson, A.*, Kumar, R., Recalde-Coronel, G., Vasco, L., Valle-Campos, A., Zaitchik, B., Mena, C., Lescano, A., Pan, W., Janko, M. (2020). Malaria transmission and spillover across the Peru-Ecuador border: a spatio-temporal analysis. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17 (20)

Tyrovolas, S., Gine-Vazquez I., Martinez, D., Marianthi, M., Ali, K., Janko, M., Haro M., Molassiotis, A., Pan, W. Government interventions and control policies to contain Covid-19 outbreak: An analysis of evidence (2020). Revise and Resubmit at Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.