Publications | Nicole E. Basta, PhD MPhil

Selected Publications

2023

Cosco TD, Wister A, Best JR, Riadi I, Kervin L, Hopper S, Basta NE, Wolfson C, Kirkland SA, Griffith LE, McMillani JM, Raina P. Worsened Ability to Engage in Social and Physical Activity During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Older Adults' Mental Health: Longitudinal Analysis From the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging. Innov Aging. 2023 Aug 19;7(7):igad086. doi: 10.1093/geroni/igad086. PMID: 37771714; PMCID: PMC10533203.

Sulis G, Kim JY, Rodrigue V, Gore G, Peebles A, Ulrich AK, Horn M, Basta NE. Sex-disaggregated effectiveness data reporting in COVID-19 vaccine research: a systematic review. Commun Med (Lond). 2023 May 19;3(1):69. doi: 10.1038/s43856-023-00297-7. PMID: 37208492; PMCID: PMC10196298.

Kirkland SA, Griffith LE, Oz UE, Thompson M, Wister A, Kadowaki L, Basta NE, McMillan J, Wolfson C, Raina P; Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) Team. Increased prevalence of loneliness and associated risk factors during the COVID-19 pandemic: findings from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA). BMC Public Health. 2023 May 12;23(1):872. doi: 10.1186/s12889-023-15807-4. PMID: 37170234; PMCID: PMC10175060.

Sulis G, Peebles A, Basta NE. Lassa fever vaccine candidates: A scoping review of vaccine clinical trials. Trop Med Int Health. 2023 Jun;28(6):420-431. doi: 10.1111/tmi.13876. Epub 2023 Apr 24. PMID: 37095630; PMCID: PMC10247453.

Bonner KE, Chyderiotis S, Sicsic J, Mueller JE, Ulrich AK, Toomey T, Horvath KJ, Neaton JD, Basta NE. What motivates adults to accept influenza vaccine? An assessment of incentives, ease of access, messaging, and sources of information using a discrete choice experiment. SSM Popul Health. 2023 Mar 14;22:101384. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2023.101384. PMID: 37008807; PMCID: PMC10060740.

Khattar J, Anderson LN, De Rubeis V, de Groh M, Jiang Y, Jones A, Basta NE, Kirkland S, Wolfson C, Griffith LE, Raina P; Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) Team. Unmet healthcare needs during the COVID-19 pandemic among adults: a prospective cohort study in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging. CMAJ Open. 2023 Feb 14;11(1):E140-E151. doi: 10.9778/cmajo.20210320. PMID: 36787988; PMCID: PMC9933993.

Griffith LE, Beauchamp M, McMillan J, Borhan S, Oz UE, Wolfson C, Kirkland S, Basta NE, Thompson M, Raina P; Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) Team. Persistent COVID-19 symptoms in community-living older adults from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA). Commun Med (Lond). 2023 Mar 11;3(1):36. doi: 10.1038/s43856-023-00266-0. PMID: 36906677; PMCID: PMC10006564.

Zolotarova T, Dussault C, Park H, Varsaneux O, Basta NE, Watson L, Robert P, Davis S, Mercer M, Timmerman S, Bransfield M, Minhas M, Kempis R, Kronfli N. Education increases COVID-19 vaccine uptake among people in Canadian federal prisons in a prospective randomized controlled trial: The EDUCATE study. Vaccine. 2023 Feb 17;41(8):1419-1425. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2023.01.040. Epub 2023 Jan 23. PMID: 36697314; PMCID: PMC9868384.

De Rubeis V, Gonzalez A, de Groh M, Jiang Y, Erbas Oz U, Tarride JE, Basta NE, Kirkland S, Wolfson C, Griffith LE, Raina P, Anderson LN; Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) Team. Obesity and adverse childhood experiences in relation to stress during the COVID-19 pandemic: An analysis of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging. Int J Obes (Lond). 2023 Mar;47(3):197-206. doi: 10.1038/s41366-023-01258-9. Epub 2023 Jan 23. PMID: 36690842; PMCID: PMC9868513.

2022

Griffith LE, McMillan J, Hogan DB, Pourfarzaneh S, Anderson LN, Kirkland S, Basta NE, van den Heuvel E, Raina P; Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) Team. Frailty and the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on community-living middle-aged and older adults: an analysis of data from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA). Age Ageing. 2022 Dec 5;51(12):afac289. doi: 10.1093/ageing/afac289. PMID: 36571783; PMCID: PMC9792085.

Khattar J, Griffith LE, Jones A, De Rubeis V, de Groh M, Jiang Y, Basta NE, Kirkland S, Wolfson C, Raina P, Anderson L, Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) Team. Symptoms of depression and anxiety, and unmet healthcare needs in older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging. BMC Public Health. 2022 Dec 1;22(1):2242. doi: 10.1186/s12889-022-14633-4. PMID: 36456993; PMCID: PMC9713148.

Sulis G, Rodrigue V, Wolfson C, McMillan JM, Kirkland SA, Andrew MK, Basta NE. Pneumococcal vaccination uptake and missed opportunities for vaccination among Canadian adults: a cross-sectional analysis of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA). PLoS One. 2022 Oct 14;17(10):e0275923. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0275923. PMID: 36240132; PMCID: PMC9565727.

Gravagna K, Basta NE, Nederhoff D, Cheng B, McKearnan SB, Bonner K, Ulrich AK. Willingness to be vaccinated, preventative behaviors, and patterns of social contacts during the COVID-19 pandemic among US college students. J Am Coll Health. 2022 Sep 15:1-7. doi: 10.1080/07448481.2022.2115301. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36107804; PMCID: PMC10014473.

Romanchuk K, Linthwaite B, Cox J, Park H, Dussault C, Basta NE, Varsaneux O, Worthington J, Lebouché B, MacDonald SE, Ismail SJ, Kronfli N. Determinants of SARS-CoV-2 vaccine willingness among people incarcerated in 3 Canadian federal prisons: a cross-sectional study. CMAJ Open. 2022 Oct 23;10(4):E922-E929. doi: 10.9778/cmajo.20210248. PMID: 36280247; PMCID: PMC9640165.

Peebles A, MacDonald SE, Basta NE. School-based COVID-19 vaccination programmes: An equitable strategy to reduce the impact of COVID-19 on children and their families. Lancet Reg Health Am. 2022 Nov;15:100365. doi: 10.1016/j.lana.2022.100365. Epub 2022 Sep 16. PMID: 36128219; PMCID: PMC9477543.

Gravagna K, Wolfson C, Sulis G, Buchan SA, McNeil S, Andrew MK, McMillan J, Kirkland S, Basta NE. Influenza vaccine coverage and factors associated with non-vaccination among adults at high risk for severe outcomes: An analysis of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging. PLoS One. 2022 Sep 30;17(9):e0275135. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0275135. PMID: 36178943; PMCID: PMC9524702.

Falck RS, Liu-Ambrose T, Noseworthy M, Kirkland S, Griffith LE, Basta NE, McMillan JM, Raina P. Can “Rover” Help with Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic? Results from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA). Front Psychiatry. 2022 Sep 29;13:961067. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.961067. PMID: 36304559; PMCID: PMC9594988.

Griffith LE+, Usman Ali M+, Andreacchi A, Loeb M, Kenny M, Joshi D, Mokashi V, Irshad A, Ulrich AK, Basta NE, Raina P, Anderson L, Balion C. The complexity of examining laboratory-based biological markers associated with mortality in hospitalized patients during early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review and evidence map. PLoS One. 2022 Sep 9;17(9):e0273578. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0273578. PMID: 36084120; PMCID: PMC9462773.

De Rubeis V+, Anderson LN+, Khattar J, de Groh M, Jiang Y, Erbas Oz U, Basta NE, Kirkland S, Wolfson C, Griffith LE, Raina, P, on behalf of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) Team. Stressors and perceived consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic among older adults: A cross-sectional study using data from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA). CMAJ Open. 2022 Aug 9;10(3):E721-E730. doi: 10.9778/cmajo.20210313. Erratum in: CMAJ Open. 2022 Aug 30;10(3):E798. PMID: 35944921; PMCID: PMC9377549.

McMillan JM, Hogan DB, Zimmer C, Sohel N, Wolfson C, Kirkland S, Griffith LE, Basta NE, Raina P; Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) Team. Predictors of reported alcohol intake during the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada among middle-aged and older adults: results from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA). Can J Public Health. 2022 Oct;113(5):665-677. doi: 10.17269/s41997-022-00661-5. Epub 2022 Jul 11. PMID: 35818014; PMCID: PMC9273697.

Sulis G, Horn M, Borrow R, Basta NE. A comparison of national vaccination policies to prevent serogroup B meningococcal disease. Vaccine. 2022 Jun 9;40(26):3647-3654. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.04.101. Epub 2022 May 14. PMID: 35581099; PMCID: PMC9575558.

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 May 19;17(5):e0268063. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0268063. PMID: 35587501; PMCID: PMC9119467.

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 Apr 26;22(1):834. doi: 10.1186/s12889-022-13113-z. PMID: 35473625; PMCID: PMC9044684.

Ulrich AK, Sundaram ME, Basta NE. Supporting individual vaccine decision-making: A role for vaccination counselors. Vaccine. 2022 Mar 25;40(14):2123-2125. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.02.012. Epub 2022 Mar 5. PMID: 35256221; PMCID: PMC8896987.

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 Mar 9;17(3):e0264145. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0264145. PMID: 35263350; PMCID: PMC8906611.

Basta NE, Sohel N, Sulis G, Wolfson C, Maimon G, Griffith LE, Kirkland S, McMillian JM, 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 and older: An analysis of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging. Am J Epidemiol. 2022 May 20;191(6):987-998. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwac029. PMID: 35166332; PMCID: PMC8903402. [Selected as an Editor's Choice Manuscript]

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. PMID: 35109803; PMCID: PMC8808267.

Lessard D, Ortiz-Paredes D, Park H, Varsaneux O, Worthington J, Basta NE, MacDonald SE, Lebouché B, Cox J, Ismail SJ, Kronfli N. Barriers and facilitators to COVID-19 vaccine acceptability among people incarcerated in Canadian federal prisons: A qualitative study. Vaccine X. 2022 Feb 19;10:100150. doi: 10.1016/j.jvacx.2022.100150. PMID: 35243324; PMCID: PMC8883835.

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 Sep 1;77(9):1740-1757. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbac035. PMID: 35150268; PMCID: PMC8903401.

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 Netw Open. 2022 Jan 4;5(1):e2146168. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.46168. Erratum in: JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Feb 1;5(2):e220927. PMID: 35019980; PMCID: PMC8756318.

Sulis G+, Basta NE+, 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 Jan 24;40(3):503-511. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2021.11.088. Epub 2021 Dec 4. PMID: 34916102; PMCID: PMC8660139.

Ulrich AK, McKearnan SB, Lammert S, Wolfson J, Pletcher J, Halloran ME, Basta NE. Validity of university students' self-reported vaccination status after a meningococcal B outbreak. J Am Coll Health. 2022 Apr;70(3):824-829. doi: 10.1080/07448481.2020.1772270. Epub 2020 Jul 16. PMID: 32672510; PMCID: PMC7881838.

2021

Raina P, Wolfson C, Griffith L, 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. doi: 10.1038/s43587-021-00128-1.

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. Oct;32(10):1107-1116. doi: 10.1007/s10552-021-01459-5. Epub 2021 Jul 10. PMID: 34247291; PMCID: PMC8416869.

Chung H, He S, Nasreen S, Sundaram ME, Buchan SA, Wilson SE, Chen B, Calzavara A, Fell DB, Austin PC, Wilson K, Schwartz KL, Brown KA, Gubbay JB, Basta NE, Mahmud SM, Righolt CH, Svenson LW, MacDonald SE, Janjua NZ, Tadrous M, Kwong JC; Canadian Immunization Research Network (CIRN) Provincial Collaborative Network (PCN) Investigators. 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 Aug 20;374:n1943. doi: 10.1136/bmj.n1943. PMID: 34417165; PMCID: PMC8377789.

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. J Am Coll Health. 2021. Jul 9;1-5. doi: 10.1080/07448481.2021.1928143. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34242544; PMCID: PMC8742838.

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. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0253735. PMID: 34185805; PMCID: PMC8241119.

MacPherson A, Hutchinson N, Schneider O, Oliviero E, Feldhake E, Ouimet C, Sheng J, Awan F, Wang C, Papenburg J, Basta NE, Kimmelman J. Probability of success and timelines for the development of vaccines for emerging and reemerged viral infectious diseases. Ann Intern Med. 2021. Mar;174(3):326-334. doi: 10.7326/M20-5350. Epub 2020 Nov 24. PMID: 33226855; PMCID: PMC7707230.

2020

Basta NE, Trotter C, Borrow R. World Health Organization. (‎2020)‎. The immunological basis for immunization series: Module 15: Meningococcal Disease, update 2020. World Health Organization. 118 pages. Available online at: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/339965.

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):8040-8048. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2020.09.076. Epub 2020 Nov 4. PMID: 33158593; PMCID: PMC7740073.

Gravagna K, Becker A, Valeris-Chacin R, Mohamed I, Tambe S, Awan FA, Toomey TL, Basta NE. Global assessment of mandatory vaccination policies and consequences of non-compliance. Vaccine. 2020 Nov 17; 38(49):7865-7873. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2020.09.063. Epub 2020 Oct 21. PMID: 33164808; PMCID: PMC8562319.

Li D, Rooney MR, Burnmeister LA, Basta NE, Lutsey PL. Trends in daily use of biotin supplements among US adults, 1999-2016. JAMA. 2020 Aug 11; 324(6):605–607. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.8144. PMID: 32780133; PMCID: PMC7420177.

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. Ann Intern Med. 2020 Sep 15;173(6):450-460. doi:10.7326/M20-2854. Epub 2020 Jun 4. PMID: 32496919; PMCID: PMC7281623.

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.