Professor of Global Health and Medicine, BU Adjunct Professor of Nutrition, Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy
Infectious Disease
Dr. Davidson H. Hamer, MD
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Davidson H. Hamer is an expert in the field of Infectious Disease. He attended University of Vermont College of Medicine. He received 2 awards: "Fellow (FACP)" and "Super Doctor". Davidson Hamer has written publications. He has 99 publications published with PubMed. The lastest paper is: 'Development and familiality of sexual orientation in females.'
Publications
- Novel Approaches for Visualizing and Analyzing Dose-Timing Data from Electronic Drug Monitors, or "How the 'Broken Window' Theory Pertains to ART Adherence".
- Characteristics of Travelers to Asia Requiring Multidose Vaccine Schedules: Japanese Encephalitis and Rabies Prevention.
- Malaria Prevention Strategies: Adherence Among Boston Area Travelers Visiting Malaria-Endemic Countries.
- Iron Supplementation in Iron-Replete and Nonanemic Pregnant Women in Tanzania: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
- Engagement of the community, traditional leaders, and public health system in the design and implementation of a large community-based, cluster-randomized trial of umb...
- Malian children with moderate acute malnutrition who are treated with lipid-based dietary supplements have greater weight gains and recovery rates than those treated w...
- What is the burden of submicroscopic malaria in pregnancy in central India?
- Can a community health worker and a trained traditional birth attendant work as a team to deliver child health interventions in rural Zambia?
- The state of routine and emergency obstetric and neonatal care in Southern Province, Zambia.
- Chikungunya: establishing a new home in the Western hemisphere.
- Setting global research priorities for integrated community case management (iCCM): Results from a CHNRI (Child Health and Nutrition Research Initiative) exercise.
- Personal and environmental predictors of the intention to use maternal healthcare services in Kalomo, Zambia.
- Etiology of Bacteremia in Young Infants in Six Countries.
- Can traditional birth attendants be trained to accurately identify septic infants, initiate antibiotics, and refer in a rural African setting?
- Estimates of possible severe bacterial infection in neonates in sub-Saharan Africa, south Asia, and Latin America for 2012: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
- Household malaria knowledge and its association with bednet ownership in settings without large-scale distribution programs: Evidence from rural Madagascar.
- Understanding the psychosocial and environmental factors and barriers affecting utilization of maternal healthcare services in Kalomo, Zambia: a qualitative study.
- Travel to Brazil: analysis of data from the Boston Area Travel Medicine Network (BATMN) and relevance to travelers attending world cup and olympics.
- Preferences and Decision Needs of Boston-Area Travelers to Countries With Risk of Yellow Fever Virus Transmission: Implications for Health Care Providers.
- Low coverage of intermittent preventive treatment and insecticide-treated nets for control of malaria during pregnancy in sub-Saharan Africa--what needs to be done?
- Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of US Practitioners Who Provide Pre-Travel Advice.
- Zinc as an adjunct to the treatment of severe pneumonia in Ecuadorian children: a randomized controlled trial.
- Impact of biomass fuels on pregnancy outcomes in central East India.
- Prevalence of Dengue Virus Infection in US Travelers Who Have Lived in or Traveled to Dengue-Endemic Countries.
- Acceptability of hypothetical dengue vaccines among travelers.
- Expatriates: special considerations in pretravel preparation.
- Response to letter.
- Underpricing the competition in the other drug war: a novel strategy for combatting the inappropriate use of artemisinin monotherapies.
- Systematic review of current and emerging strategies for reducing morbidity from malaria in sickle cell disease.
- Hepatitis B screening in US travelers seen at the Boston area travel medicine network.
- HIV/AIDS-Related Knowledge and Behaviors Among Most-at-Risk Populations in Vietnam.
- Integrated community case management: next steps in addressing the implementation research agenda.
- Costs and Cost-Effectiveness of Training Traditional Birth Attendants to Reduce Neonatal Mortality in the Lufwanyama Neonatal Survival Study (LUNESP).
- The effect of mobile phone text-message reminders on Kenyan health workers' adherence to malaria treatment guidelines: a cluster randomised trial.
- Patterns of antimicrobial use for respiratory tract infections in older residents of long-term care facilities.
- Effect of training traditional birth attendants on neonatal mortality (Lufwanyama Neonatal Survival Project): randomised controlled study.
- Metabolic syndrome in the elderly living in marginal peri-urban communities in Quito, Ecuador.
- Availability and utilization of malaria prevention strategies in pregnancy in eastern India.
- Community case management of fever due to malaria and pneumonia in children under five in Zambia: a cluster randomized controlled trial.
- Anisakidosis: Perils of the deep.
- Effect of incentives on insecticide-treated bed net use in sub-Saharan Africa: a cluster randomized trial in Madagascar.
- Importance of dose timing to achieving undetectable viral loads.
- Human immunodeficiency virus postexposure prophylaxis for medical trainees on international rotations.
- IL-2 and IL-10 gene polymorphisms are associated with respiratory tract infection and may modulate the effect of vitamin E on lower respiratory tract infections in eld...
- Attitudes, knowledge, and practices regarding malaria prevention and treatment among pregnant women in Eastern India.
- Community-level micronutrient fortification of school lunch meals improved vitamin A, folate, and iron status of schoolchildren in Himalayan villages of India.
- Using electronic drug monitor feedback to improve adherence to antiretroviral therapy among HIV-positive patients in China.
- Low zinc status: a new risk factor for pneumonia in the elderly?
- Burden of malaria in pregnancy in Jharkhand State, India.
- Malaria at parturition in Nigeria: current status and delivery outcome.
- Zinc supplementation in elderly nursing home residents.
- Meta-analytical studies on the epidemiology, prevention, and treatment of human immunodeficiency virus infection.
- Research priorities to reduce global mortality from newborn infections by 2015.
- Micronutrient deficiencies are associated with impaired immune response and higher burden of respiratory infections in elderly Ecuadorians.
- Impact of enhanced infection control at 2 neonatal intensive care units in the Philippines.
- Nutrition, health, and aging in sub-Saharan Africa.
- Barriers to adherence to antiretroviral medications among patients living with HIV in southern China: a qualitative study.
- Balancing individual benefit against public health risk: the impact of cotrimoxazole prophylaxis in HIV-infected patients on antimicrobial resistance.
- Long-term care facilities: a cornucopia of viral pathogens.
- Knowledge and use of measures to reduce health risks by corporate expatriate employees in western Ghana.
- Effects of repeated administration of intradermal skin test by Mantoux method on delayed-type hypersensitivity responses in healthy young and elderly subjects.
- Major reduction of malaria morbidity with combined vitamin A and zinc supplementation in young children in Burkina Faso: a randomized double blind trial.
- From chloroquine to artemether-lumefantrine: the process of drug policy change in Zambia.
- Epidemiology of congenital malaria in Nigeria: a multi-centre study.
- Two-dose versus monthly intermittent preventive treatment of malaria with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine in HIV-seropositive pregnant Zambian women.
- Serum zinc and pneumonia in nursing home elderly.
- Veterinary field test as screening tool for mastitis and HIV-1 viral load in breastmilk from HIV-infected Zambian women.
- Intermittent preventive treatment with sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine is effective in preventing maternal and placental malaria in Ibadan, south-western Nigeria.
- Improved diagnostic testing and malaria treatment practices in Zambia.
- Community-level micronutrient fortification of a food supplement in India: a controlled trial in preschool children aged 36-66 mo.
- Paediatric malaria case-management with artemether-lumefantrine in Zambia: a repeat cross-sectional study.
- Low concentrations of zinc in gastric mucosa are associated with increased severity of Helicobacter pylori-induced inflammation.
- Travel-related health problems of Hong Kong residents: Assessing the need for travel medicine services.
- Nutritional, immunological and health status of the elderly population living in poor neighbourhoods of Quito, Ecuador.
- Rapid diagnosis of pneumococcal meningitis: implications for treatment and measuring disease burden.
- Strategies, time, and costs associated with the recruitment and enrollment of nursing home residents for a micronutrient supplementation clinical trial.
- An uninvited dinner guest.
- Effects of moderate doses of vitamin A as an adjunct to the treatment of pneumonia in underweight and normal-weight children: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-contr...
- Treatment of paediatric malaria during a period of drug transition to artemether-lumefantrine in Zambia: cross sectional study.
- No room for complacency about adherence to antiretroviral therapy in sub-Saharan Africa.
- A sensitivity analysis of a randomized controlled trial of zinc in treatment of falciparum malaria in children.
- Plasma zinc concentrations are depressed during the acute phase response in children with falciparum malaria.
- Vitamin E and respiratory infection in the elderly.
- On the medical edge: preparation of expatriates, refugee and disaster relief workers, and Peace Corps volunteers.
- Vitamin E and respiratory tract infections in elderly nursing home residents: a randomized controlled trial.
- Diagnostic accuracy of stool assays for inflammatory bacterial gastroenteritis in developed and resource-poor countries.
- From the farm to the kitchen table: the negative impact of antimicrobial use in animals on humans.
- Assessment of the Binax NOW Streptococcus pneumoniae urinary antigen test in children with nasopharyngeal pneumococcal carriage.
- Foodborne Illnesses.
- A Cluster Randomised Trial on the Impact of Integrating Early Infant HIV Diagnosis with the Expanded Programme on Immunization on Immunization and HIV Testing Rates in...
- Prevention and management of neonatal hypothermia in rural zambia.
- Local perceptions, cultural beliefs and practices that shape umbilical cord care: a qualitative study in southern province, zambia.
- The global burden of neonatal hypothermia: systematic review of a major challenge for newborn survival.
- Development and familiality of sexual orientation in females.
- High-throughput SNP genotyping by allele-specific PCR with universal energy-transfer-labeled primers.
- Interaction between the serotonin transporter gene and neuroticism in cigarette smoking behavior.
- Association and linkage of anxiety-related traits with a functional polymorphism of the serotonin transporter gene regulatory region in Israeli sibling pairs.
- Using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale to screen for psychiatric disorders in people presenting with deliberate self-harm.
Schools
University of Vermont College of Medicine
Washington Hospital Center Dc
Wash Hospital Center
New Eng Med Center
Doctors Specialties
- Infectious Disease Medicine
- Infectious Disease
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Fellow (FACP)
- Super Doctor
Education
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Tufts Medical Center -
Georgetown University Hospital - Washington Hospital Center -
University of Vermont College of Medicine
Hospital
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Boston Medical Center
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