Stephen Luby

About

Stephen Luby is a physician, researcher, and educator who joined the Stanford faculty in 2012. He has extensive international experience, having lived and worked for five years in Pakistan at the Aga Khan University and for eight years in Bangladesh with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and icddr,b. His professional background includes fellowship training in Epidemiology at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and board certification in Internal Medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine. Dr. Luby's academic credentials include an MD from the University of Texas, Southwestern, and a BA in Philosophy from Creighton University. His work focuses on medicine, infectious diseases, and global health, with a particular emphasis on public health issues in developing countries. As a researcher and educator, he contributes to the Stanford Program in Science, Technology & Society, and his professional activities are supported by his lab and external profiles. Dr. Luby's career reflects a commitment to advancing health through research and education, especially in the context of infectious diseases and health systems in resource-limited settings.

Research topics

• Medicine
• Environmental health
• Computer Science
• Internal medicine
• Biology
• Psychology
• Geography
• Surgery
• Nursing
• Political Science

Selected publications

• Impact of community masking on COVID-19: A cluster-randomized trial in Bangladesh

  Science · 2022 · 340 citations

  Persuading people to mask Even in places where it is obligatory, people tend to optimistically overstate their compliance for mask wearing. How then can we persuade more of the population at large to act for the greater good? Abaluck et al . undertook a large, cluster-randomized trial in Bangladesh involving hundreds of thousands of people (although mostly men) over a 2-month period. Colored masks of various construction were handed out free of charge, accompanied by a range of mask-wearing prom…

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• Nipah virus dynamics in bats and implications for spillover to humans

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2020 · 249 citations

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• Uncertainties in estimating SARS-CoV-2 prevalence by wastewater-based epidemiology

  Chemical Engineering Journal · 2021 · 195 citations

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• The Impact Of Community Masking On COVID-19: A Cluster-Randomized Trial In Bangladesh

  Science · 2021 · 171 citations

  = 342,183 adults). We cross-randomized mask type (cloth versus surgical) and promotion strategies at the village and household level. Proper mask-wearing increased from 13.3% in the control group to 42.3% in the intervention arm (adjusted percentage point difference = 0.29; 95% confidence interval = [0.26, 0.31]). The intervention reduced symptomatic seroprevalence (adjusted prevalence ratio = 0.91 [0.82, 1.00]), especially among adults ≥60 years old in villages where surgical masks were distrib…

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• Incidence of typhoid and paratyphoid fever in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Pakistan: results of the Surveillance for Enteric Fever in Asia Project

  The Lancet Global Health · 2022 · 121 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  BACKGROUND: Precise enteric fever disease burden data are needed to inform prevention and control measures, including the use of newly available typhoid vaccines. We established the Surveillance for Enteric Fever in Asia Project (SEAP) to inform these strategies. METHODS: From September, 2016, to September, 2019, we conducted prospective clinical surveillance for Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi (S Typhi) and Paratyphi (S Paratyphi) A, B, and C at health facilities in predetermined catchment a…

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Recent grants

• Global Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases

  NIH · $3.5M · 2002–2027

Frequent coauthors

• Emily S. Gurley

  Johns Hopkins University

  446 shared

• Mahmudur Rahman

  Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research

  239 shared

• Peter Daszak

  EcoHealth Alliance

  229 shared

• Leanne Unicomb

  International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research

  216 shared

• Salah Uddin Khan

  King Saud University

  212 shared

• Jonathan H. Epstein

  EcoHealth Alliance

  170 shared

• Hossain M. S. Sazzad

  UNSW Sydney

  167 shared

• Benjamin F. Arnold

  Global Brain Health Institute

  165 shared

Labs

• Luby LabPI

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Education

• Residency, Preventive Medicine

  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Center for Global Health

  1993

• Fellowship, Epidemiology - Epidemic Intelligence Service

  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Center for Global Health

  1992

• Internship and Residency, Internal Medicine

  University of Rochester Medical Center

  1989

• MD, Medicine

  University of Texas Medical Branch

  1986

• Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, Philosophy

  Creighton University

  1981

Awards & honors

• Fellowship, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Epid…

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