PUBLICATIONS
2022
Bonner KE, Ssekyanzi H, Sicsic J, Mueller JE, Toomey T, Ulrich AK, Horvath KJ, Neaton JD, Banura C+, Basta NE+. What drives willingness to receive a new vaccine that prevents an emerging infectious disease? A discrete choice experiment among university students in Uganda. PLoS One. 2022;17(5):e0268063. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0268063
Sulis G, Horn M, Borrow R, Basta NE. A comparison of national vaccination policies to prevent serogroup B meningococcal disease. Vaccine. 2022 May 14:S0264-410X(22)00568-0. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.04.101
Griffith BC, Cusick SE, Searle KM, Negoescu DM, Basta NE, Banura C. Does mothers' and caregivers' access to information on their child's vaccination card impact the timing of their child's measles vaccination in Uganda? BMC Public Health. 2022;22(1):834. doi: 10.1186/s12889-022-13113-z
Basta NE, Sohel N, Sulis G, Wolfson C, Maimon G, Griffith L, Kirkland S, McMillian J, Thompson M, Raina P; Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA). Factors Associated With Willingness to Receive a COVID-19 Vaccine Among 23,819 Adults Aged 50 Years or Older: An Analysis of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging. American Journal of Epidemiology. 2022;kwac029. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwac029
Wister A, Li L, Cosco TD, McMillan J, Griffith LE; Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) Team (including Basta NE). Multimorbidity resilience and COVID-19 pandemic self-reported impact and worry among older adults: a study based on the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA). BMC Geriatr. 2022 Feb 2;22(1):92. doi: 10.1186/s12877-022-02769-2
Ulrich AK, Sundaram ME, Basta NE. Supporting individual vaccine decision-making: A role for vaccination counselors. Vaccine. 2022;S0264-410X(22)00135-9. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.02.012
Lessard D, Ortiz-Paredes D, Park H, Varsaneux O, Worthington J, Basta NE, Lebouché B, Cox J, MacDonald S, Ismail S, Kronfli N. Barriers and facilitators to COVID-19 vaccine acceptability among people incarcerated in Canadian federal prisons: A qualitative study. Vaccine X. 2022;10:100150. doi: 10.1016/j.jvacx.2022.100150
Wister A, Li L, Mitchell B, Wolfson C, McMillan J, Griffith LE, Kirkland S, Raina P; Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) Team (including Basta NE). Levels of depression and anxiety among informal caregivers during the COVID-19 pandemic: A study based on the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2022 Feb 12:gbac035. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbac035
Ortiz-Paredes D, Varsaneux O, Worthington J, Park H, MacDonald SE, Basta NE, Lebouché B, Cox J, Ismail SJ, Kronfli N. Reasons for COVID-19 vaccine refusal among people incarcerated in Canadian federal prisons. PLoS One 2022;17(3):e0264145. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0264145
Beauchamp MK, Joshi D, McMillan J, Erbas Oz U, Griffith LE, Basta NE, Kirkland S, Wolfson C, Raina P; Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) Team. Assessment of Functional Mobility After COVID-19 in Adults Aged 50 Years or Older in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging. JAMA Network Open. 2022;5(1):e2146168. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.46168
Sulis G+, Basta NE+ (joint first authors), Wolfson C, Kirkland SA, McMillan J, Griffith LE, Raina P; Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) Team. Influenza vaccination uptake among Canadian adults before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: An analysis of the Canadian Longitudinal study on Aging (CLSA). Vaccine. 2022;40(3):503-511. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2021.11.088
2021
Raina P, Wolfson C, Griffith LE, Kirkland S, McMillan J, Basta N, Joshi D, Erbas Oz U, Sohel N, Maimon G, Thompson M; Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) Team. A longitudinal analysis of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of middle-aged and older adults from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging. Nat Aging. 2021. 1:1137–1147. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-021-00128-1
MacPherson A, Hutchinson N, Schneider O, Oliviero E, Feldhake E, Ouimet C, Sheng J, Awan F, Wang C, Papenburg J, Basta NE. Probability of Success and Timelines for the Development of Vaccines for Emerging and Reemerged Viral Infectious Diseases. Annals of internal medicine. 2021 Mar;174(3):326-34.
Rujumba J, Akugizibwe M, Basta NE, Banura C. Why don’t adolescent girls in a rural Uganda district initiate or complete routine 2-dose HPV vaccine series: Perspectives of adolescent girls, their caregivers, healthcare workers, community health workers and teachers. Plos one. 2021 Jun 29;16(6):e0253735.
Yared N, Malone M, Welo E, Mohammed I, Groene E, Flory M, Basta NE, Horvath KJ, Kulasingam S. Challenges related to human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine uptake in Minnesota: clinician and stakeholder perspectives. Cancer Causes & Control. 2021 Jul 10:1-0. doi:10.1080/07448481.2020.1772270
Chung H, He S, Nasreen S, Sundaram M E, Buchan S A, Wilson S E et al. Effectiveness of BNT162b2 and mRNA-1273 covid-19 vaccines against symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection and severe covid-19 outcomes in Ontario, Canada: test negative design study. BMJ 2021; 374 :n1943 doi:10.1136/bmj.n1943
Ulrich AK, Full KM, Cheng B, Gravagna K, Nederhoff D, Basta NE. Stress, anxiety, and sleep among college and university students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of American College Health. 2021 May 11:1-5
2020
Gravagna K, Becker A, Valeris-Chacin R, Mohammed I, Tambe S, Awan FA, Toomey TL, Basta NE. Global assessment of national mandatory vaccination policies and consequences of non-compliance. Vaccine. 2020 Nov 17;38(49):7865-73.
Griffith BC, Ulrich AK, Becker AB, Nederhoff D, Koch B, Awan FA, Basta NE. Does education about local vaccination rates and the importance of herd immunity change US parents’ concern about measles?. Vaccine. 2020 Nov 25;38(50):8040-8.
Li D, Rooney MR, Burnmeister L, Basta NE, Lutsey PL. Trends in Daily Use of Biotin Supplements Among US Adults, 1999-2016. 2020. 324(6):605–607.doi:10.1001/jama.2020.8144
Cheng MP, Yansouni CP, Basta NE, Desjardins M, Kanjilal S, Paquette K, Caya C, Semret M, Quach C, Libman M, Mazzola L, Sacks JA, Dittrich S, Papenburg J. Serodiagnostics for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Related Coronavirus-2: A Narrative Review. 2020. doi:10.7326/M20-2854
Ulrich A, McKearnan SB, Lammert S, Wolfson J, Pletcher J, Halloran ME, Basta NE. Validity of university students' self-reported meningococcal B vaccination status during and after an outbreak. Journal of American College Health. 2020. doi:10.1080/07448481.2020.1772270
2019
Tastad KJ, Schleiss MR, Lammert SM, Basta NE. Awareness of congenital cytomegalovirus and acceptance of maternal and newborn screening. PLoS One. 2019 Aug 26;14(8):e0221725. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0221725
Groene E, Mohammed I, Horvath K, Basta NE, Yared N, Kulasingam S. Online Media Scans: Applying Systematic Review Techniques to Assess Statewide Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Activities. The Journal for Public Health Research. 2019. 8(2). doi:10.4081/jphr.2019.1623
Basta NE, Halloran ME. Evaluating the effectiveness of vaccines using a regression discontinuity design. American Journal of Epidemiology. 2019 Jun 1;188(6):987-990. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwz043
Cooper LV, Robson A, Trotter CL, et al. on behalf of the MenAfriCar Consortium (All contributing authors, including Basta NE listed in the appendix). Risk factors for acquisition of meningococcal carriage in the African meningitis belt. Tropical Medicine & International Health. 2019 Apr;24(4):392-400. doi: 10.1111/tmi.13203
Basta NE, Becker AB, Li Q, Nederhoff D. Parental awareness of meningococcal B vaccines and willingness to vaccinate their teens. Vaccine. 2019 Jan 21;37(4):670-676. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2018.11.078.
2018
Basta NE, Borrow R, Miller E. World Health Organization immunological basis for immunization series tetanus vaccine module. World Health Organization. 2018. Available Online: http://www.who.int/immunization/documents/ISBN9789241513616/en/.
Sanstead E, Basta NE, Martin K, Cruz V, Ehresmann K, Kulasingam S. Pertussis and the Minnesota State Fair: Demonstrating a novel setting for efficiently conducting seroepidemiologic studies. Journal of Community Health. 2018;43(5):937-943. doi: 10.1007/s10900-018-0508-y.
Hanson KE, Koch B, Bonner K, McRee A-L, Basta NE. National trends in parental human papillomavirus vaccination intentions and reasons for hesitancy, 2010-2015. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2018;67(7):1018-1026. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciy232.
Logan J, Nederhoff D, Koch B, Griffith B, Wolfson J, Awan FA, Basta NE. ‘What Have You HEARD About The HERD?’ Does education about local vaccination rates and herd immunity affect willingness to vaccinate? Vaccine. 2018;36(28):4118-4125. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2018.05.037.
Basta NE, Berthe A, Keita M, Onwuchekwa U, Tamboura B, Traore A, et al. Meningococcal carriage within households in the African meningitis belt: A longitudinal pilot study. Journal of Infection. 2018;76(2):140-148. doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2017.11.006.
Bonner K, Banura C, Basta NE. HPV Vaccination strategies targeting hard-to-reach populations: Out-of-school girls in LMICs. Vaccine. 2018;36(2):191-193. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2017.11.038.
PRIOR TO 2018
Halloran ME, Auranen K, Baird S, Basta NE, Bellan SE, Brookmeyer R, et al. Simulations for designing and interpreting intervention trials in infectious diseases. BMC Medicine. 2017;15(1):223. doi: 10.1186/s12916-017-0985-3.
Aronow PM, Basta NE, Halloran ME. The regression discontinuity design under interference: A local randomization-based approach. Observational Studies. 2016;2:129-133.
The African Meningococcal Carriage Consortium. (Authors, including Basta NE, listed in the appendix). Household transmission of Neisseria meningitidis in the African meningitis belt: A longitudinal cohort study. The Lancet Global Health. 2016;4(12):e989-e995. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(16)30244-3.
Basta NE, Christensen H. 4CMenB vaccine effectiveness: Reasons for optimism (Invited Commentary). The Lancet. 2016;388(10061):2719-2721. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)32061-X.
Basta NE, Mahmoud A, Borrow R. The authors reply: Meningococcal B vaccine during a university outbreak. The New England Journal of Medicine. 2016;375(16):1595. doi: 10.1056/NEJMc1610666.
Basta NE, Mahmoud A, Wolfson J, Ploss A, Heller B, Hanna S, et al. Immunogenicity of a meningococcal B vaccine during a university outbreak. The New England Journal of Medicine. 2016;375(3):220-228. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1514866.
Paireau J, Chen A, Broutin H, Grenfell B, Basta NE. Seasonal dynamics of bacterial meningitis: A time-series analysis. The Lancet Global Health. 2016;4(6):e370-e377. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(16)30064-X.
Metcalf CJE, Farrar J, Cutts F, Basta NE, Graham AL, Lessler J, et al. Use of serological surveys to generate key insights into the changing global landscape of infectious disease. The Lancet. 2016;388(10045):728-730. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)30164-7.
Sundaram ME, Mason SM, Basta NE. HPV vaccine uptake among overweight and obese US adolescents: An analysis of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2009-2014. Vaccine. 2016;34(22):2501-2506. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2016.03.064.
Basta NE, Borrow R, Berthe A, Dembélé AT, Onwuchekwa U, Townsend K, et al. Population-level persistence of immunity two years after a meningococcal serogroup A polysaccharide-tetanus toxoid protein conjugate vaccine (PsA-TT) mass-vaccination campaign in Mali. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2015;61(Suppl 5):S547-S553. doi: 10.1093/cid/civ602.
Basta NE, Borrow R, Berthe A, Onwuchekwa U, Dembélé AT, Almond R, et al. Higher tetanus toxoid immunity 2 years after PsA-TT introduction in Mali. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2015;61(Suppl 5):S578-S585. doi: 10.1093/cid/civ513.
The African Meningococcal Carriage Consortium. (Authors, including Basta NE, listed in appendix). The diversity of meningococcal carriage across the African meningitis belt and the impact of vaccination with a group A meningococcal conjugate vaccine. Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2015;212(8):1298-1307. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiv211
Xiao H, Tian H-Y, Gao L-D, Liu H-N, Duan L-S, Basta NE, et al. Animal reservoir, natural and socioeconomic variations and the transmission of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome in Chenzhou, China, 2006 – 2010. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. 2014;8(1):e2615. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002615
Basta NE, Stuart JM, Nascimento M, Manigart O, Trotter C, Hassan-King M, et al. Methods for identifying Neisseria meningitidis carriers: A multi-center study in the African meningitis belt. PLoS One. 2013;8(10):e78336. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0078336.
The African Meningococcal Carriage Consortium. (Authors, including Basta NE, listed in appendix). Meningococcal carriage in the African meningitis belt. Tropical Medicine & International Health. 2013;18(8):968-978. doi: 10.1111/tmi.12125.
Dakar discussion group on priorities for research on epidemic meningococcal disease in Africa. (Writing Committee: Basta NE, Broome C, Clark T, Greenwood B, Mueller J, and Stephens D). Priorities for research on meningococcal disease and the impact of serogroup A vaccination in the African meningitis belt. Vaccine. 2013;31(11):1453-1457. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2012.12.035.
Pitzer VE, Basta NE. Linking data and models: The importance of statistical analyses to inform models for the transmission dynamics of infections. Epidemiology. 2012;23:520-522. doi: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e31825902ab.
Chao DL, Matrajt L, Basta NE, Sugimoto JD, Dean B, Bagwell D, et al. Planning for the control of pandemic influenza A (H1N1) in Los Angeles County and the United States. American Journal of Epidemiology. 2011;173(10):1121-1130. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwq497.
Yang Y, Sugimoto JD, Halloran ME, Basta NE, Chao DL, Matrajt L, et al. The transmissibility and control of pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus. Science. 2009; 326(5953):729-733. doi: 10.1126/science.1177373.
Basta NE, Chao DL, Halloran ME, Matrajt L, Longini IM. Strategies for pandemic and seasonal influenza vaccination of schoolchildren in the United States. American Journal of Epidemiology. 2009;170(6):679-686. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwp237.
Basta NE, Edwards SE, Schulte J. Assessing public health department employees' willingness to report to work during an influenza pandemic. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. 2009;15(5):375-383. doi: 10.1097/PHH.0b013e3181a391e2.
Basta NE, Halloran ME, Matrajt L, Longini IM. Estimating influenza vaccine efficacy from challenge and community-based study data. American Journal of Epidemiology. 2008;168(12):1343-1352. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwn259.
Basta NE, Matthews F, Chatfield M, Brayne C (MRC-CFAS). Community-level socio-economic status and cognitive and functional impairment in the older population. European Journal of Public Health. 2008;18(1):48-54. doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckm076.