Gut Microbiome Strain-sharing within Isolated Village Social Networks (Nature, 2024)
14 | Friendship , Genetics , Global Health , Homophily , Honduras , Indigenous Social Network , Infectious Disease , LIMC , Microbiome , NAC Favorite , Nature , Social Network , Sociocentric Network , Trellis Software

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Beghini F, Pullman J, Alexander M, Shridhar SV, Prinster D, Singh A, Matute Juárez R, Airoldi EM, Brito IL, Christakis NA. Gut microbiome strain-sharing within isolated village social networks. Nature. 2025 Jan;637(8044):167-175. doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-08222-1. Epub 2024 Nov 20. PMID: 39567691; PMCID: PMC11666459.

Environmental, socioeconomic, and health factors associated with gut microbiome species and strains in isolated Honduras villages
10 | Biomarker , Cardiovascular Disease , Geographic Effects , Global Health , Honduras , Indigenous Social Network , LIMC , Mental Health , Microbiome , Trellis Software

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Shridhar SV, Beghini F, Alexander M, Singh A, Juárez RM, Brito IL, Christakis NA. Environmental, socioeconomic, and health factors associated with gut microbiome species and strains in isolated Honduras villages. Cell Reports. 2024 Jul 3;43(7):114442. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2024.114442. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38968070.

Maternal and Child Health Interventions to Promote Behavior Change: A Population-Level Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial in Honduras
9 | Experiment , Global Health , Honduras , LIMC , Maternal and Child Health (MNCH) , Methodology , RCT , Social Network , Trellis Software

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Oles W, Alexander M, Negron R, et al. Maternal and child health intervention to promote behaviour change: a population-level cluster-randomised controlled trial in Honduras. BMJ Open 2024;14:e060784. doi:10.1136/ bmjopen-2022-060784

Induction of Social Contagion Across Diverse Outcomes in Structured Experiments in Isolated Honduras Villages (Science, 2024)
9 | Maternal and Child Health (MNCH) , Experiment , Network Targeting , Contagion Intervention , Breadboard Software , Global Health , LIMC , Social Contagion , Social Network

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Airoldi EM, Christakis NA. Induction of social contagion for diverse outcomes in structured experiments in isolated villages. Science. 2024 May 3;384(6695):eadi5147. doi: 10.1126/science.adi5147. Epub 2024 May 3. PMID: 38696582.

Clinically relevant antibiotic resistance genes are linked to a limited set of taxa within gut microbiome worldwide
5 | Methodology , Microbiome , Honduras , Infectious Disease , Global Health

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Diebold PJ, Rhee MW, Shi Q, Trung NV, Umrani F, Ahmed S, Kulkarni V, Deshpande P, Alexander M, Thi Hoa N, Christakis NA, Iqbal NT, Ali SA, Mathad JS, Brito IL. Clinically relevant antibiotic resistance genes are linked to a limited set of taxa within gut microbiome worldwide. Nature Communications. 2023 Nov 14;14(1):7366. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-42998-6. PMID: 37963868; PMCID: PMC10645880.

Social network correlates of free and purchased insecticide-treated bed nets in rural Uganda
6 | Social Determinants , Social Network , Sociocentric Network , Uganda , Infectious Disease , Global Health

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S. Takada, P. Krezanoski, V. N. Nyakato, A.J. O'Malley, J. M. Perkins, A. C. Tsai, D. R. Bangsberg, N. A. Christakis, and A. Nishi, “Social network correlates of free and purchased insecticide-treated bed nets in rural Uganda,” Malar J, 21, 350 (2022) (Nov 2022) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-022-04347-8

Algorithms for seeding social networks can enhance the adoption of a public health intervention in urban India (PNAS, 2022)
15 | Methodology , NAC Favorite , PNAS , India , Contagion Intervention , Experiment , Global Health , Social Contagion , Social Network , Sociocentric Network , Maternal and Child Health (MNCH) , LIMC , RCT , Trellis Software , Network Targeting

Citation:

M. Alexander, L. Forastiere, N. A. Christakis, and S. Gupta, “Algorithms for seeding social networks can enhance the adoption of a public health intervention in urban India,” PNAS, 119(30) e2120742119 (May 2022) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2120742119

Pay-it-forward gonorrhoea and chlamydia testing among men who have sex with men in China: a randomised controlled trial
6 | RCT , Sexuality , LIMC , China , Global Health , Contagion Intervention

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Yang F., Zhang TP, Tang W., Ong JJ, M. Alexander, L. Forastiere, N. Kumar, Li KT, Zou F., Yang L., Mi G., Wang Y., Huang W., Lee A., Zhu W., Luo D., Vickerman P., Wu D., Yang B., N. A. Christakis, and Tucker JD, “Pay-it-forward gonorrhoea and chlamydia testing among men who have sex with men in China: a randomised controlled trial,” The Lancet: Infectious Diseases, 20(8): 976-982 (Aug 2020) DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30172-9

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