Kristen Aiemjoy, Ph.D., M.Sc.
Assistant Professor
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Research/Academic Interests
Dr. Aiemjoy's research focuses on infectious disease surveillance and diagnostics with a focus on enteric infections. She is working on methods to calculate incidence of typhoid and scrub typhus from cross-sectional antibody levels. Dr Aiemjoy has over 12 years of international research experience including in Uganda, Tanzania, South Sudan, South Africa, Ethiopia and Nepal.
Division
Public Health Sciences
Undergraduate School
B.Sc., Georgetown University, Washington DC 2010
Medical School
M.Sc., Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK 2011
Other School
Ph.D., Epidemiology, UC San Francisco, San Francisco CA 2018
Fellowship
Infectious Diseases, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford CA 2018-2021
Aiemjoy K, Seidman JC, Saha S, Munira SJ, Sajib MS, Al Sium SM, Sarkar A, Alam N, Jahan FN, Kabir MS, Tamrakar D. Estimating typhoid incidence from community-based serosurveys: A multicohort study in Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and Ghana. medRxiv. 2021 Oct 21:2021-10.
Aiemjoy K, Seidman JC, Saha S, Munira SJ, Sajib MSI, Al Sium SM, ... Estimating the incidence of typhoidal Salmonella from cross-sectional serology using antibody dynamics following infection. medRxiv. 2021 Oct 21. doi:10.1101/2021.10.20.21265277.
Wittberg DM, Aragie S, Tadesse W, Melo JS, Aiemjoy K, Chanyalew M, Emerson PM, Freeman MC, Nash SD, Callahan EK, Tadesse Z, Zerihun M, Porco TC, Lietman TM, Keenan JD. WASH Upgrades for Health in Amhara (WUHA): study protocol for a cluster-randomised trial in Ethiopia. BMJ Open. 2021 Feb 22;11(2):e039529. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2020-039529. PMID:33619183.
Aragie S, Gebresillasie S, Chernet A, Shiferaw A, Tadesse Z, Zerihun M, Varnado NE, Cotter SY, Wittberg DM, Zhou Z, Callahan EK, Nash SD, Aiemjoy K, Keenan JD. Community Hand-Dug Wells for Trachoma: A Cluster-Randomized Trial. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2021 Feb 1;104(4):1271–7. doi:10.4269/ajtmh.20-0390. Epub ahead of print. PMID:33534742.
Andrews JR, Vaidya K, Saha S, Yousafzai MT, Hemlock C, Longley A, Aiemjoy K, Yu AT, Bogoch II, Tamrakar D, Date K, Saha SK, Garrett DO, Luby SP, Qamar F. Healthcare Utilization Patterns for Acute Febrile Illness in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Pakistan: Results from the Surveillance for Enteric Fever in Asia Project. Clin Infect Dis. 2020 Dec 1;71(Suppl 3):S248-S256. doi:10.1093/cid/ciaa1321. PMID:33258937.
Yu AT, Shakya R, Adhikari B, Tamrakar D, Vaidya K, Maples S, Date K, Bogoch II, Bern C, Qamar F, Yousafzai MT, Garrett DO, Longley AT, Hemlock C, Luby S, Aiemjoy K, Andrews JR. A Cluster-based, Spatial-sampling Method for Assessing Household Healthcare Utilization Patterns in Resource-limited Settings. Clin Infect Dis. 2020 Dec 1;71(Suppl 3):S239-S247. doi:10.1093/cid/ciaa1310. PMID:33258933.
Tamrakar D, Vaidya K, Yu AT, Aiemjoy K, Naga SR, Cao Y, Bern C, Shrestha R, Karmacharya BM, Pradhan S, Qamar FN, Saha S, Date K, Longley AT, Hemlock C, Luby S, Garrett DO, Bogoch II, Andrews JR. Spatial Heterogeneity of Enteric Fever in 2 Diverse Communities in Nepal. Clin Infect Dis. 2020 Dec 1;71(Suppl 3):S205-S213. doi:10.1093/cid/ciaa1319. PMID:33258932.
Vaidya K, Aiemjoy K, Qamar FN, Saha SK, Tamrakar D, Naga SR, Saha S, Hemlock C, Longley AT, Date K, Bogoch II, Garrett DO, Luby SP, Andrews JR. Antibiotic Use Prior to Hospital Presentation Among Individuals With Suspected Enteric Fever in Nepal, Bangladesh, and Pakistan. Clin Infect Dis. 2020 Dec 1;71(Suppl 3):S285-S292. doi:10.1093/cid/ciaa1333. PMID:33258935.
Aiemjoy K, Tamrakar D, Saha S, Naga SR, Yu AT, Longley A, Date K, Hemlock C, Qamar FN, Saha SK, Luby SP, Garrett DO, Andrews JR, Bogoch II. Diagnostic value of clinical features to distinguish enteric fever from other febrile illnesses in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Pakistan. Clin Infect Dis. 2020 Nov;71(Supplement_3):S257-S265. doi:10.1093/cid/ciaa1297.
Aragie S, Wittberg DM, Aiemjoy K, Melo JS, Smith MJ, Nash SD, Tadesse Z, Keenan JD. Odour reduction interventions for simple pit latrines in rural Ethiopia: a randomized study. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 2020 Oct 5;114(10):718-720. doi:10.1093/trstmh/traa039. PMID:32503041.