Peer Reviewed Publications – 2020

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• Jesse Knight, Sharmistha Mishra (2020) Estimating effective reproduction number using generation time versus serial interval, with application to Covid-19 in the Greater Toronto Area, Canada. Infectious Disease Modelling 5: 889-896.

• Katherine B Rucinski, Sheree R Schwartz, Sharmistha Mishra, Nancy Phaswana-Mafuya, Daouda Diouf, Tampose Mothopeng, Seni Kouanda, Anato Simplice, Abo Kouame, Bai Cham, Ubald Tamoufe, Sindy Matse, Harry Hausler, Ghislaine Fouda, Vincent Pitche, Stefan D Baral (2020) High HIV Prevalence and Low HIV-Service Engagement Among Young Women Who Sell Sex: A Pooled Analysis Across 9 Sub-Saharan African Countries. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 85(2): 148-155.

• Linwei Wang, Huiting Ma, Kristy CY Yiu, Andrew Calzavara, David Landsman, Linh Luong, Adrienne K Chan, Rafal Kustra, Jeffrey C Kwong, Marie-Claude Boily, Stephen Hwang, Sharon Straus, Stefan D Baral, Sharmistha Mishra (2020) Heterogeneity in testing, diagnosis and outcome in SARS-CoV-2 infection across outbreak settings in the Greater Toronto Area, Canada: an observational study. CMAJ Open 8(4): e627-e636.

• Parinita Bhattacharjee, Huiting Ma, Helgar Musyoki, Eve Cheuk, Shajy Isac, Margaret Njiraini, Peter Gichangi, Sharmistha Mishra, Marissa Becker, Michael Pickles (2020) Prevalence and patterns of gender-based violence across adolescent girls and young women in Mombasa, Kenya. BMC Women’s Health 20(1): 229.

• Aida Sivro, Ruth Mwatelah, Cheli Kambaran, Henok Gebrebrhan, Michael G Becker, Huiting Ma, Nichole R Klatt, Alexander S Zevin, Nzioki King’ola, Sammy Wambua, Peter Gichangi, Eve Cheuk, Paul J McLaren, Sharmistha Mishra, Marissa Becker, Lyle R McKinnon (2020) Sex Work Is Associated With Increased Vaginal Microbiome Diversity in Young Women From Mombasa, Kenya. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 85(1): 79-87.

• Eve Cheuk, Sharmistha Mishra, Olga Balakireva, Helgar Musyoki, Shajy Isac, Daria Pavlova, Parinita Bhattacharjee, Robert Lorway, Michael Pickles, Huiting Ma, Peter Gichangi, Paul Sandstrom, Lyle R McKinnon, Lisa Lazarus, Stephen Moses, James Blanchard, Marissa Becker (2020) Transitions: Novel Study Methods to Understand Early HIV Risk Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Mombasa, Kenya, and Dnipro, Ukraine. Frontiers in Reproductive Health 2: 7.

• Sharmistha Mishra, Linwei Wang, Huiting Ma, Kristy CY Yiu, J Michael Paterson, Eliane Kim, Michael J Schull, Victoria Pequegnat, Anthea Lee, Lisa Ishiguro, Eric Coomes, Adrienne Chan, Mark Downing, David Landsman, Sharon Straus, Matthew Muller (2020) Estimated surge in hospital and intensive care admission because of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic in the Greater Toronto Area, Canada: a mathematical modelling study. CMAJ Open 8(3): e593-e604.

• Huiting Ma, Linwei Wang, Peter Gichangi, Vernon Mochache, Griffins Manguro, Helgar Musyoki, Parinita Bhattacharjee, Francois Cholette, Paul Sandstrom, Marissa L Becker, Sharmistha Mishra (2020) Venue-Based HIV Testing at Sex Work Hotspots to Reach Adolescent Girls and Young Women Living With HIV: A Cross-sectional Study in Mombasa, Kenya. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 84(5): 470-479.

• Linwei Wang, Darrell HS Tan, Sharmistha Mishra (2020) Evidence of Nonrandom Mixing by Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Use Among Men Who Have Sex With Men Partnerships in Melbourne, 2016 to 2018. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 84(4): e22-e23.

• Boris I Pavlin, Andrew Hall, Jan Hajek, Muhammad Ali Raja, Vikas Sharma, Otim Patrick Ramadan, Sharmistha Mishra, Audrey Rangel, Aileen Kitching, Katrina Roper, Tim ODempsey, Judith Starkulla, Amy Elizabeth Parry, Rashida Kamara, Alie H Wurie (2020) Atypical clinical presentation of Ebola virus disease in pregnancy: Implications for clinical and public health management. International Journal of Infectious Diseases 97: 167-173.

• Jesse Knight, Stefan D Baral, Sheree Schwartz, Linwei Wang, Huiting Ma, Katherine Young, Harry Hausler, Sharmistha Mishra (2020) Contribution of high risk groups’ unmet needs may be underestimated in epidemic models without risk turnover: a mechanistic modelling analysis. Infectious Disease Modelling 5: 549-562.

• Aidan Ablona, Titilola Falasinnu, Michael Irvine, Claudia Estcourt, Paul Flowers, Michelle Murti, Oralia Gomez-Ramirez, Christopher K Fairley, Sharmistha Mishra, Ann Burchell, Troy Grennan, Mark Gilbert (2020) Validation of a clinical prediction rule to predict asymptomatic chlamydia and gonorrhea infections among internet-based testers. Sexually Transmitted Diseases 48(7): 481-487.

• Parinita Bhattacharjee, Shajy Isac, Helgar Musyoki, Faran Emmanuel, Kennedy Olango, Samuel Kuria, Martin K Ongaro, Jeffrey Walimbwa, Janet Musimbi, Mary Mugambi, Shem Kaosa, Japheth Kioko, Margret Njraini, Memory Melon, Juddie Onyoni, Kigen Bartilol, Marissa Becker, Robert Lorway, Michael Pickles, Stephen Moses, James Blanchard, Sharmistha Mishra (2020) HIV prevalence, testing and treatment among men who have sex with men through engagement in virtual sexual networks in Kenya: a cross-sectional bio-behavioural study. Journal of the International AIDS Society 23(S2): e25516.

• Stefan D Baral, Sharmistha Mishra, Daouda Diouf, Nittaya Phanuphak, David Dowdy (2020) The public health response to COVID-19: balancing precaution and unintended consequences. Annals of Epidemiology 46: 12-13.

• Sharmistha Mishra, Jeffrey C Kwong, Adrienne K Chan, Stefan D Baral (2020) Understanding heterogeneity to inform the public health response to COVID-19 in Canada. Canadian Medical Association Journal 192(25): e684-e685.

• Andrea Wilson, Helgar Musyoki, Lisa Avery, Eve Cheuk, Peter Gichangi, Parinita Bhattacharjee, Janet Musimbe, Stella Leung, James Blanchard, Stephen Moses, Sharmistha Mishra, Marissa Becker (2020) Sexual and reproductive health among adolescent girls and young women in Mombasa, Kenya. Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters 28(1): 1749341.

• Elizabeth Roberts, Huiting Ma, Parinita Bhattacharjee, Helgar K Musyoki, Peter Gichangi, Lisa Avery, Janet Musimbi, Jenkin Tsang, Shem Kaosa, Japheth Kioko, Marissa L Becker, Sharmistha Mishra (2020) Low program access despite high burden of sexual, structural, and reproductive health vulnerabilities among young women who sell sex in Mombasa, Kenya. BMC Public Health 20: 806.

• Rachel Lau, Robert B Chris, Melissa S Phuong, Aisha Khatib, Swana Kopalakrishnan, Shveta Bhasker, Hira Raheel, Celine Lecce, Sergey Yegorov, Sharmistha Mishra, Andrea K Boggild (2020) Treatment of soil-transmitted helminth infections in pregnancy: a systematic review and meta-analysis of maternal outcomes. Journal of Travel Medicine 27(2): 79.

• Sharmistha Mishra, Stefan D Baral (2020) Rethinking the population attributable fraction for infectious diseases. Lancet Infectious Diseases 20(2): 155-157.

• Linwei Wang, Nasheed Moqueet, Gilles Lambert, Daniel Grace, Ricky Rodrigues, Joseph Cox, Nathan J Lachowsky, Syed W Noor, Heather L Armstrong, Darrell H S Tan, Ann N Burchell, Huiting Ma, Herak Apelian, Jesse Knight, Marc Messier-Peet, Jody Jollimore, Stefan D Baral, Trevor A Hart, David M Moore, Sharmistha Mishra (2020) Population-level sexual mixing according to HIV status and preexposure prophylaxis use among men who have sex with men in Montreal, Canada: implications for HIV prevention. American Journal of Epidemiology 189(1): 44-54.

• Benjamin Baranek, Shaoyuan Wang, Angela M Cheung, Sharmistha Mishra, Darrell HS Tan (2020) The Effect of Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate on Bone Mineral Density: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Antiviral Therapy 25(1): 21-32.