ArticleRoyal Society open science2022
Quantifying the effect of human population mobility on malaria risk in the Peruvian Amazon.
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- Assessment of malaria risk in Southeast Asia: a systematic review.Malaria journal · 2023Pooled it
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- Malaria Risk among Internally Mobile Individuals and Heterogeneous Mobility Patterns in Two Hypoendemic Communities: Implications for Malaria Elimination in the Peruvian Amazon.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
- Presence of Dengue Virus NS1 antigen and IgM and IgG antibodies in asymptomatic individuals in Ecuadorian Amazonia - a descriptive repeated cross-sectional community-based survey.New microbes and new infections · 2026Article
- Comparing and integrating human mobility data sources for measles transmission modeling in Zambia.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- Modelling the impact of climatic and environmental variables on malaria incidence in Tanzania: Implications for achieving the WHO's 2030 Targets.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- The role of connectivity on malaria dynamics across areas with contrasting control coverage in the Peruvian Amazon.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2024Article
- Knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding malaria transmission and prevention in an indigenous Maijuna community: a qualitative study in the Peruvian Amazon.Malaria journal · 2024Article
- The impact of sustained malaria control in the Loreto region of Peru: a retrospective, observational, spatially-varying interrupted time series analysis of the PAMAFRO program.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2023Article
- Quantifying the effect of human population mobility on malaria risk in the Peruvian Amazon.Royal Society open science · 2022Article
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Abstract
The impact of human population movement (HPM) on the epidemiology of vector-borne diseases, such as malaria, has been described. However, there are limited data on the use of new technologies for the study of HPM in endemic areas with difficult access such as the Amazon. In this study conducted in rural Peruvian Amazon, we used self-reported travel surveys and GPS trackers coupled with a Bayesian spatial model to quantify the role of HPM on malaria risk. By using a densely sampled population cohort, this study highlighted the elevated malaria transmission in a riverine community of the Peruvian Amazon. We also found that the high connectivity between Amazon communities for reasons such as work, trading or family plausibly sustains such transmission levels. Finally, by using multiple human mobility metrics including GPS trackers, and adapted causal inference methods we identified for the first time the effect of human mobility patterns on malaria risk in rural Peruvian Amazon. This study provides evidence of the causal effect of HPM on malaria that may help to adapt current malaria control programmes in the Amazon.
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