Recordings, slides, and posters from the 2025 Stanford Global Health Research Convening.
Recordings, slides, and posters from the 2025 Stanford Global Health Research Convening
The 11th Annual Stanford Global Health Research Convening was held in-person on Wednesday, January 29, 2025, at the Arrillaga Alumni Center on Stanford University campus. The theme was One Health. Following are recordings and resources shared by participants.
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Jonna Mazet, DVM, MPVM, PhD, is the Vice Provost – Grand Challenges at the University of California, Davis. She is Chancellor’s Leadership Distinguished Professor of Epidemiology and Disease Ecology and founded the One Health Institute in the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, where she focused on global health problem-solving, especially for emerging infectious disease and conservation challenges. Dr. Mazet is active in international One Health education, service, and research programs, most notably in relation to disease transmission among wildlife, domestic animals, and people and the ecological drivers of novel disease dynamics.
Escherichia coli strain sharing across humans, animals, and the environment in urban Kenya | Daniel Kim, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California Berkeley | Recording link
Diversified farming, agroecology, and one health: Analyzing strategies for smallholders’ food and water security in multi hazard environments | Chris Bacon, PhD, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Environmental Studies and Sciences, Santa Clara University; William Sundstrom, PhD, Professor of Economics, Santa Clara University | Recording link
A national active case-finding program for tuberculosis in prisons, Peru, 2024 | Esther Jung, MPH, Research Program Coordinator, Andrews Lab, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Stanford University | Recording link
Massive global impacts of climate change on dengue transmission | Erin Mordecai, PhD, Associate Professor, Biology Department, Senior Fellow in the Woods Institute for the Environment, and Faculty Fellow at the Center for Innovation in Global Health, Stanford University | Recording link
Quantifying the effects of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) education and infrastructure operation and maintenance on students’ toilet use and handwashing in Indian primary schools | Gracie Hornsby, MS, PhD Candidate, PhD Candidate, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University | Recording link
Following is a selection of the posters presented at the 2025 convening. See a full list of poster and oral presentation titles here.
Understanding the role of traditional healers within the Malawian healthcare system: a qualitative study | Riya Master, Andrew Mguntha, Kimberly Baltzell, Gama Bandawe, and Anneka Hooft
Below the tip of the iceberg: the problem of adolescent pregnancy, early motherhood, fatherhood, and reproductive health practices in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala | Diana Carolina Chaparro, Andrea Baumann, Christy Gombay, Olive Wahoush, Tim O’Shea
Youth perspectives on the World Health Organization adolescent health care guidelines and universal health coverage | Risa Turetsky, Titus Divala, Bryan Gonzalez, Valentina Baltag, Jonathan Klein
Health and well-being priorities of national and regional commitments made at the 2023 Global Agenda for Action for Adolescents | Jonathan D. Klein, Ashley Halkett, Risa Turetsky, Anshu Mohan, Bhavya D. Nandini
AI-Driven Eco-Health Networks: Mapping interconnected Health Systems | Aditya Narashim
Suitability spatial analysis to Identify and protect vulnerable sections of society: gender-based violence & femicide | Mónica Terán-Hernández, González – Curiel
Effect of an mHealth-facilitated, stage-based intervention on maternal and child health: a community-based, cluster-randomized controlled trial | Yunwei Chen, Yuju Wu, Ann M Weber, Alexis Medina, Yian Guo, Siva Balakrishnan, Huan Zhou, Scott Rozelle, Gary L Darmstadt, Sean Sylvia
The Governance of Health among Indigenous Communities in Mexico | Alberto Diaz-Cayeros, Raquel Juarez Tirzo
The role of protracted violence on healthcare seeking and utilization in the occupied Palestinian territory | Olivia Mendoza, M.S. & Dr. Tracy Kuo Lin, Ph.D., M.Sc.
Wildfires, climate and health: community perspectives on risks and solutions in the San Joaquin Valley | Emily H. Wood, Kasandra Escobar, Rafaay Kamran, Sukhmandeep Kaur Sidhu, Hector Gonzalez, Devon Lee, Omar Esteban Ramos, Charlize Nguyen, Arleanna Waller, Sarah Packer, Sandie Ha, Jennifer Giese, Myrnelle Gomez, Theresa Kiehn, Amber Shavers, Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, Mathew Kiang, Manali I. Patel
Quantification of HIV shedding in viremic patients | Rebecca Linfield, Alessandro Zulli, Sehee Jong, Alexandria Boehm, Julie Parsonnet
Yellow fever in the south-south region of Nigeria: a one health approach to surveillance | Ogboghodo E.O, Igbarumah I, Osaigbovo I.I
Risk factors associated with stillbirth in a case-control study in Faridpur, Bangladesh, 2022-2023 | Sofia Pesantez, Ashley Styczysnki, Allison Sherris, Seth Hoffman, Zahid Hossain, Hafsa Hossain Atia, Shahana Parveen, Gary Shaw, Stephen Luby
Simulating the consequences of Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) transmission via raw milk consumption | Esra Buyukcangaz, Amna Tariq, Victor Pena Garcia, Koree French, A. Desiree LaBeaud
A GIS approach to characterize population access to emergency care for NCD in Kenyan emergency departments | Christine Ngaruiya, Grace Soma, Hani Mowafi, Benjamin Wachira, Louise Makau-Barasa, Jim Dziura, Jill Kelly
Airborne Avian Influenza in Dhaka Poultry Markets | Christopher LeBoa, Shohan Rahman
Task sharing community health worker training on the Youth Readiness Intervention to improve mental health outcomes of Somali war affected youth in Kenya | Zeena Khazendar, Catherine Musyoka, Maimuna Issa, Abdulkadir Hussein, Clea Sarnquist
The Association between Alcohol and Tobacco Use and BMI in Women aged 18-49 in India, IPUMS-DHS 2015 | Shreya Gunda, Caleb King, Spencer Phonsombat, Latha Palaniappan, Nitya Rajeshuni