Janey Messina
|
PhD Janey on top of the "La Soufriere" volcano in Guadeloupe |
 |
Research
My primary research interests are in the application of geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial statistics to study how location affects the health of human populations. I am specifically interested in population and environmental drivers related to the spread and persistence of disease in developing countries. My doctoral work focuses on determining the spatial distribution of several diseases (HIV, malaria, anemia) in the Democratic Republic of Congo, as well as the socio-demographic and environmental drivers that underlie these distributions.
Education
PhD, Geography, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2011
M.S., Geography, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008
B.A., Geography, University of California at Los Angeles, 2005
Funding
UNC-Chapel Hill Graduate School Doctoral Merit Assistantship, 2008-2009
Publications
Carrel, M., Escamilla, V., Messina, J., Giebultowicz, S., Winston, J., Yunus, M., Streatfield, P.K., & Emch, M. (2011) Diarrheal disease risk in rural Bangladesh decreases as tubewell density increases: a zero-inflated and geographically weighted analysis. International Journal of Health Geographics (accepted).
Messina, J.P., Taylor, S.M., Meshnick, S.R., Linke, A., Tshefu, A.K., Atua, B., Mwandagalirwa, K., Emch, M. Population, Behavioral and Environmental Drivers of Malaria Prevalence in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Malaria Journal (in press).
Tan, N., Messina, J., Yang, L., Yang, B., Emch, M., Chen, X., Cohen, M., Tucker, J.D. A Spatial Analysis of County-level Variation in Syphilis and Gonorrhea in Guangdong Province, China. PLoS One 6(5): e19648. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0019648. link to article
Messina, J.P., Brown, W., Amore, G., Kitron, U.D., Ruiz, M.O. (2011) West Nile Virus in the Greater Chicago Area: A Geographic Examination of Human Illness and Risk from 2002-2006. URISA Journal. link to article
Messina, J.P.; Taylor, S.M.; Hand, C.C.; Juliano, J.J.; Muwonga, J.; Tshefu, A.K.; Atua, B.; Alam, M.T.; Udhayakumar, V.; Emch, M.; Meshnick, S.R. (2011) Measurement of malaria in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by molecular analyses of leftover dried blood spots from the 2007 demographic health survey. The Lancet 377(9770).
Taylor, S.M., Messina, J.P., Hand, C.C., Juliano, J.J., Muwonga, J., Tshefu, A.K., Atua, B., Emch, M. and S.R. Meshnick, (2011) Molecular Malaria Epidemiology: Mapping and Burden Estimates for the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2007. PLoS One 6(1): e16420. link to article
Messina, J.P., Emch, M., Muwonga, J., Mwandagalirwa, K., Edidi, S.B., Mama, N., Okenge, A. and S.R. Meshnick. (2010) Spatial and socio-behavioral patterns of HIV prevalence in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Social Science and Medicine 71(8): 1428-1435. link to article
Publications in Review
Messina, J.P. and Emch, M. (submitted) Seasonality of Global Cholera Outbreaks: 1939-2008. Professional Geographer.
Mumba, D., Bohorquez, E., Messina, J., Kande, V., Taylor, S.M., Tshefu, A.K., Muwonga, J., Kashamuka, M., Emch, M., Tidwell, R., Buscher, P., Meshnick, S.R. (submitted) Prevalence of Human African Trypanosomiasis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases.
