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Stephen Luby. Lucy Becker Professor of Medicine, Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Professor, by courtesy, of Epidemiology and Population Health. Dr. Luby studied philosophy and earned a Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude from Creighton University.
May 25, 2018 · Senior Fellow and Nipah expert Stephen Luby (Med) co-authored work linking changes in temperature with the virus’s spread from bats to humans and examined the impact of behavioral changes that reduce the likelihood of people getting the disease.
Oct 12, 2023 · Confronted with a growing public health threat in South Asia, Stanford epidemiologist Stephen Luby realized he needed help from an unlikely source. Luby worried about the rapid conversion of Bangladesh’s ubiquitous three-wheeled vehicles from natural gas to more affordable lead acid batteries.
Sep 14, 2017 · Luby, a professor of medicine, and a team of Stanford researchers including political scientist Francis Fukuyama and geophysicist Howard Zebker are following up on Luby’s insight to revolutionize brickmaking in South Asia, an industry that burns coal, biomass and even tires to dry hand-molded clay into the ubiquitous building material. Brick ...
Sep 24, 2019 · A new Stanford-led study reveals that turmeric – a commonly used spice throughout South Asia – is sometimes adulterated with a lead-laced chemical compound in Bangladesh, one of the world’s predominant turmeric-growing regions.
Jan 29, 2018 · The WASH Benefits Bangladesh trial, led by Stanford epidemiologist Stephen Luby, is one of the first to examine what are known as water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions as a way of improving children’s growth in low-income communities. How well a child grows in the first year can indicate overall well-being and is linked to both ...
Apr 19, 2021 · “Air pollution kills seven million people every year,” said study senior author Stephen Luby, a professor of infectious diseases at Stanford’s School of Medicine. “We need to identify the sources of this pollution and reduce these emissions.”
Dec 12, 2013 · “If you had children or pregnant women in the U.S. with these levels, there would be an uproar,” said Stephen Luby, a Stanford professor of medicine and senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Stanford epidemiologist Stephen Luby is on a quest to save lives by cleaning up production of a ubiquitous building material.
Aug 8, 2019 · An international team of researchers including Stanford epidemiologist Stephen Luby finds reason for hope in a low-cost water treatment device that reduces rates of diarrhea in children, provides good-tasting water and avoids the need for in-home treatment – improvements over other purification strategies that could significantly increase uptake.
