Eben Kenah,
Assistant Professor
Teaching Profile
Courses Taught
2015-2017
PHC7980 Research for Doctoral Dissertation
2017
PHC6601 Seminar in Contemporary Public Health Issues
2017
PHC6946 Public Health Internship
2014-2016
STA6177 Applied Survival Analysis
2013-2016
PHC6937 Special Topics in Public Health
2015-2016
PHC7979 Advanced Research
2014
STA7179 Survival Analysis
Publications
2022
Analysis of individual-level data from 2018-2020 Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Scientific reports.
12(1)
[DOI] 10.1038/s41598-022-09564-4.
[PMID] 35365724.
2022
Assortative mixing among vaccination groups and biased estimation of reproduction numbers.
The Lancet. Infectious diseases.
22(5):579-581
[DOI] 10.1016/S1473-3099(22)00155-4.
[PMID] 35460647.
2022
Closing the Gap on COVID-19 Vaccinations in First Responders and Beyond: Increasing Trust.
International journal of environmental research and public health.
19(2)
[DOI] 10.3390/ijerph19020644.
[PMID] 35055463.
2022
Commentary on the use of the reproduction number R during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Statistical methods in medical research.
31(9):1675-1685
[DOI] 10.1177/09622802211037079.
[PMID] 34569883.
2022
COVID-19 Vaccinations in EMS Professionals: Prevalence and Predictors.
Prehospital emergency care.
26(5):632-640
[DOI] 10.1080/10903127.2021.1993391.
[PMID] 34644239.
2022
Dynamic survival analysis for non-Markovian epidemic models.
Journal of the Royal Society, Interface.
19(191)
[DOI] 10.1098/rsif.2022.0124.
[PMID] 35642427.
2022
Mission, Organization, and Future Direction of the Serological Sciences Network for COVID-19 (SeroNet) Epidemiologic Cohort Studies.
Open forum infectious diseases.
9(6)
[DOI] 10.1093/ofid/ofac171.
[PMID] 35765315.
2022
The COVID-19 vaccine concerns scale: Development and validation of a new measure.
Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics.
18(5)
[DOI] 10.1080/21645515.2022.2050105.
[PMID] 35380510.
2022
Understanding how fast SARS-CoV-2 variants transmit from household studies.
The Lancet. Infectious diseases.
22(5):564-565
[DOI] 10.1016/S1473-3099(22)00053-6.
[PMID] 35176229.
2021
Catch the tweet to fight the flu: Using Twitter to promote flu shots on a college campus.
Journal of American college health : J of ACH.
1-15
[DOI] 10.1080/07448481.2021.1973480.
[PMID] 34519614.
2021
Effectiveness of social and behavioral change communication intervention to promote the use of 7.1% chlorhexidine for umbilical cord care in hard-to-reach rural Bangladesh: A mixed method study.
Journal of global health.
11
[DOI] 10.7189/jogh.11.04006.
[PMID] 33692891.
2021
Estimating and interpreting secondary attack risk: Binomial considered biased.
PLoS computational biology.
17(1)
[DOI] 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008601.
[PMID] 33471806.
2021
Incorporating age and delay into models for biophysical systems.
Physical biology.
18(1)
[DOI] 10.1088/1478-3975/abc2ab.
[PMID] 33075757.
2021
Influenza Vaccination of Swine Reduces Public Health Risk at the Swine-Human Interface.
mSphere.
6(3)
[DOI] 10.1128/mSphere.01170-20.
[PMID] 34190586.
2020
Household secondary attack rate of COVID-19 and associated determinants in Guangzhou, China: a retrospective cohort study.
The Lancet. Infectious diseases.
20(10):1141-1150
[DOI] 10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30471-0.
[PMID] 32562601.
2020
Household Secondary Attack Rate of COVID-19 and Associated Determinants.
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences.
[DOI] 10.1101/2020.04.11.20056010.
[PMID] 32511590.
2020
Survival dynamical systems: individual-level survival analysis from population-level epidemic models.
Interface focus.
10(1)
[DOI] 10.1098/rsfs.2019.0048.
[PMID] 31897290.
2019
Modeling outbreak data: Analysis of a 2012 Ebola virus disease epidemic in DRC.
Biomath (Sofia, Bulgaria).
8(2)
[DOI] 10.11145/j.biomath.2019.10.037.
[PMID] 33192155.
2018
The role of benzathine penicillin G in predicting and preventing all-cause acute respiratory disease in military recruits: 1991-2017.
Epidemiology and infection.
146(14):1854-1860
[DOI] 10.1017/S0950268818001838.
[PMID] 29974837.
2016
Investigating Rare Risk Factors for Nipah Virus in Bangladesh: 2001-2012.
EcoHealth.
13(4):720-728
[PMID] 27738775.
2016
Molecular Infectious Disease Epidemiology: Survival Analysis and Algorithms Linking Phylogenies to Transmission Trees.
PLoS computational biology.
12(4)
[DOI] 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004869.
[PMID] 27070316.
2016
The epidemiology and transmissibility of Zika virus in Girardot and San Andres island, Colombia, September 2015 to January 2016.
Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin.
21(28)
[DOI] 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2016.21.28.30283.
[PMID] 27452806.
2015
Household transmissibility of avian influenza A (H7N9) virus, China, February to May 2013 and October 2013 to March 2014.
Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin.
20(10)
[PMID] 25788253.
2015
Semiparametric Relative-risk Regression for Infectious Disease Transmission Data.
Journal of the American Statistical Association.
110(509):313-325
[PMID] 26146425.
2014
A pathway EM-algorithm for estimating vaccine efficacy with a non-monotone validation set.
Biometrics.
70(3):568-78
[DOI] 10.1111/biom.12173.
[PMID] 24766139.
2014
Household Transmission of Vibrio cholerae in Bangladesh.
PLoS neglected tropical diseases.
8(11)
[DOI] 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003314.
[PMID] 25411971.
2013
Clinical and immunological aspects of post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis in Bangladesh.
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene.
89(2):345-53
[DOI] 10.4269/ajtmh.12-0711.
[PMID] 23817330.
2013
Effect of recent diarrhoeal episodes on risk of pneumonia in children under the age of 5 years in Karachi, Pakistan.
International journal of epidemiology.
42(1):194-200
[DOI] 10.1093/ije/dys233.
[PMID] 23378152.
2013
Nonparametric survival analysis of infectious disease data.
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B, Statistical methodology.
75(2):277-303
[PMID] 23772180.
2012
Date palm sap linked to Nipah virus outbreak in Bangladesh, 2008.
Vector borne and zoonotic diseases (Larchmont, N.Y.).
12(1):65-72
[DOI] 10.1089/vbz.2011.0656.
[PMID] 21923274.
2011
Contact intervals, survival analysis of epidemic data, and estimation of R(0).
Biostatistics (Oxford, England).
12(3):548-66
[DOI] 10.1093/biostatistics/kxq068.
[PMID] 21071607.
2011
Epidemic percolation networks, epidemic outcomes, and interventions.
Interdisciplinary perspectives on infectious diseases.
2011
[DOI] 10.1155/2011/543520.
[PMID] 21437002.
2011
The global transmission and control of influenza.
PloS one.
6(5)
[DOI] 10.1371/journal.pone.0019515.
[PMID] 21573121.
2010
Increasing incidence of post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis in a population-based study in Bangladesh.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
50(1):73-6
[DOI] 10.1086/648727.
[PMID] 19951168.
2009
Causes of early childhood deaths in urban Dhaka, Bangladesh.
PloS one.
4(12)
[DOI] 10.1371/journal.pone.0008145.
[PMID] 19997507.
2009
Difficulties in maintaining improved handwashing behavior, Karachi, Pakistan.
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene.
81(1):140-5
[PMID] 19556579.
2009
Recurrent zoonotic transmission of Nipah virus into humans, Bangladesh, 2001-2007.
Emerging infectious diseases.
15(8):1229-35
[DOI] 10.3201/eid1508.081237.
[PMID] 19751584.
2009
Reproductive numbers, epidemic spread and control in a community of households.
Mathematical biosciences.
221(1):11-25
[DOI] 10.1016/j.mbs.2009.06.002.
[PMID] 19559715.
2009
The transmissibility and control of pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus.
Science (New York, N.Y.).
326(5953):729-33
[DOI] 10.1126/science.1177373.
[PMID] 19745114.
2008
Generation interval contraction and epidemic data analysis.
Mathematical biosciences.
213(1):71-9
[DOI] 10.1016/j.mbs.2008.02.007.
[PMID] 18394654.
2007
Network-based analysis of stochastic SIR epidemic models with random and proportionate mixing.
Journal of theoretical biology.
249(4):706-22
[PMID] 17950362.
2007
Second look at the spread of epidemics on networks.
Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics.
76(3 Pt 2)
[PMID] 17930312.
2006
Foodborne transmission of Nipah virus, Bangladesh.
Emerging infectious diseases.
12(12):1888-94
[PMID] 17326940.
2003
Visceral leishmaniasis: consequences of a neglected disease in a Bangladeshi community.
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene.
69(6):624-8
[PMID] 14740879.
Grants
Dec 2016
ACTIVE
Cholera persistence, transmission, and clinical illness in Haiti
Role: Project Manager
Funding: NATL INST OF HLTH NIAID
Jul 2016
– Jun 2022
Cholera transmission and evolution in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Role: Project Manager
Funding: NATL INST OF HLTH NIAID
Jul 2016
– Jun 2017
center for statistics and quantitative infectious diseases (csquid): project 1 modeling , special, statistics
Role: Project Manager
Funding: FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RES CTR
via NATL INST OF HLTH NIGMS
Jul 2016
– Jun 2017
center for statistics and quantitative infectious diseases (csquid): research project 3 understanding transmission
Role: Project Manager
Funding: FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RES CTR
via NATL INST OF HLTH NIGMS
Jul 2015
– Jun 2016
Center for Statistics and Quantitative Infectious Diseases
Role: Project Manager
Funding: FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RES CTR
via NATL INST OF HLTH NIGMS
Jul 2015
– Jun 2016
Center for Statistics and Quantitative Infectious Diseases (CSQUID): Research Project 3 – Understanding Transmission with Integrated Genetic and Epidemiologic Inference
Role: Project Manager
Funding: FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RES CTR
via NATL INST OF HLTH NIGMS
Contact Details
Phones:
- Business:
- (352) 294-1935
Emails:
- Business:
- ekenah@ufl.edu
Addresses:
- Business Mailing:
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117450
GAINESVILLE FL 326110001 - Business Street:
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228 BUCKMAN DRIVE, DAUER HALL 464
GAINESVILLE FL 32610