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Contents

  1. 1 Documents/Works in Progress
  2. 2 Peer-reviewed Articles
  3. 3 Technical Reports

Documents/Works in Progress

  • Curriculum vitae available for download (PDF).

  • Essential Field Epidemiology was written to help public health officers, medical epidemiologists, epidemiologists, public health investigators, public health nurses, and graduate students learn how to conduct an outbreak investigation in 7 steps (or less). To learn more visit course site.

  • epitools (epidemiology tools) is an R package for epidemiologic computing and graphics. It was created to make the numerical tools and methods of epidemiology freely available on the World Wide Web. Our primary target audience is public health epidemiologists and data analysts. Using R, an open source programming language and environment for statistical computing and graphics, we provide, for free, numerial tools and programming solutions that have been used and tested in real-world epidemiologic applications. To learn more visit 'epitools' site.

  • Applied Epidemiology Using R was written to help public health and medical scientists, analysts, and graduate students learn how to R for epidemiologic computing. To learn more visit course site.

  • Practical Latex for Public Health and Medicine was written in order to help public health and medical scientists, research analysts, graduate students, and scientific writers learn how to use LaTeX to professionally typeset their scientific and technical documents. LaTeX is a freely available, high-quality typesetting system, with features designed for the production of technical and scientific documentation, especially that involving mathematical notation. LaTeX is well established: it has been around since 1994, and TeX (the underlying program) since the 1980s. LaTeX is the de facto standard for the communication and publication of scientific documents. It is widely used by mathematicians, physicists, statisticians, engineers, and other scientists and academicians throughout the world. To learn more ....

Peer-reviewed Articles

Aragon TJ, Lichtensztajn DY, Katcher BS, Reiter R, Katz MH. Calculating expected years of life lost for assessing local ethnic disparities in causes of premature death. BMC Public Health. 2008;8:116. (PMID: 18402698)

Aragon TJ, Vugia, DJ, Shallow S, Samuel MC, Reingold A, Angulo FJ, Bradford WZ. Case-control study of shigellosis in San Francisco: The role of sexual transmission and HIV infection. Clin Infect Dis, 2007;44:327–334. (PMID: 17205436)  See commentary: Daskalakis DC, Blaser MJ. Another perfect storm: Shigella, men who have sex with men, and HIV. Clin Infect Dis, 2007;44:335–337 (PMID: 17205437)

Porco TC, Holbrook KA, Fernyak SE, Portnoy DL, Reiter R, Aragon TJ. Logistics of community smallpox control through contact tracing and ring vaccination: A stochastic network model. BMC Public Health. 2004;4:34. (PMID: 15298713)

Aragon TJ, Fernyak SE. The risks and benefits of pre-event smallpox vaccination: Where you stand depends on where you sit. Ann Emerg Med. Nov 2003;42(5):681–684. (PMID: 14581921)

Aragon TJ, Ulrich S, Fernyak S, Rutherford GW. Risks of serious complications and death from smallpox vaccination: A systematic review of the United States experience, 1963-1968. BMC Public Health. Aug 11 2003;3:26. (PMID: 12911836)

Aragon TJ, Novotny S, Enanoria W, Vugia DJ, Khalakdina A, Katz MH. Endemic cryptosporidiosis and exposure to municipal tap water in persons with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS): A case-control study. BMC Public Health. Jan 6 2003;3:2. (PMID: 12515584)

Bangsberg DR, Rosen JI, Aragon T, Campbell A, Weir L, Perdreau-Remington F. Clostridial myonecrosis cluster among injection drug users: A molecular epidemiology investigation. Arch Intern Med. Mar 11 2002;162(5):517-522. (PMID: 11871919) 

Aragon T, Fernyak S, Reiter R. Risk of the hemolytic-uremic syndrome after antibiotic treatment of Escherichia coli O157:H7 infections. N Engl J Med. Oct 26 2000;343(17):1271-1272; author reply 1272-1273. (PMID: 11183357) 

CDC, Reported by: Klausner JD, Aragon T, Enanoria WTA, et al. Shigella sonnei outbreak among men who have sex with men—San Francisco, California, 2000-2001. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. Oct 26 2001;50(42):922-926. 

Porco TC, Aragon TJ, Fernyak SE, et al. Risk of infection from needle reuse at a phlebotomy center. Am J Public Health. Apr 2001;91(4):636-638. (PMID: 11291380) 

Aragon T. Mortality Burden of Disease and Injury: Concepts, Methods, and Applications. Doctoral Thesis, Spring 2000, Division of Public Health Biology and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley

Baer JT, Vugia DJ, Reingold AL, Aragon T, Angulo FJ, Bradford WZ. HIV infection as a risk factor for shigellosis. Emerg Infect Dis. Nov-Dec 1999;5(6):820-823. (PMID: 10603219) 

CDC, Reported by: Aragon T, Katz M, Mintz L. Nosocomial group A streptococcal infections associated with asymptomatic health-care workers–Maryland and California, 1997. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. Mar 5 1999;48(8):163-166. 

Colford JM, Jr., Tager IB, Hirozawa AM, Lemp GF, Aragon T, Petersen C. Cryptosporidiosis among patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus: Factors related to symptomatic infection and survival. Am J Epidemiol. Nov 1 1996;144(9):807-816. (PMID: 8890659) 

Hambleton J, Aragon T, Modin G, Northfelt DW, Sande MA. Outcome for hospitalized patients with fever and neutropenia who are infected with the human immunodeficiency virus. Clin Infect Dis. Feb 1995;20(2):363-371. (PMID: 7742443)

Technical Reports

Aragon TJ, Lichtensztajn DY, Katcher BS, Reiter R, Katz MH. Calculating Expected Years of Life Lost to Rank the Leading Causes of Premature Death in San Francisco. San Francisco Department of Public Health. July 24, 2007. (Download PDF)

Mann J, Lee R, Aragon T, Bhatia R. Radiofrequency Radiation from Broadcast Transmission Towers and Cancer: A review of epidemiology studies. San Francisco, Department of Public Health. March, 2001. (Download PDF)

Mann J. Asthma in San Francisco. San Francisco Department of Public Health, Community Health Epidemiology & Disease Control, November 2000. (Download PDF)

Aragon T, Reiter R, Katcher B. San Francisco Burden of Disease & Injury Study: Mortality Analysis 1990-1995. Report. Community Health Epidemiology & Disease Control, San Francisco Department of Public Health, December 1998. (Download PDF)

Bermudez R, Brandon J, Aragon T. Causes of Mortality Among Homeless Persons Identified from Medical Examiner Records 1997. Report. Community Health Epidemiology & Disease Control, San Francisco Department of Public Health, November 1998.

Glaser ER, Davis MM, Aragon T. Cancer Incidence Among Residents of the Bayview- Hunters Point Neighborhood, San Francisco, California 1993-1995. Report. California Cancer Registry, California Department of Health Services. January 1998. (Download PDF)

Porco TC, Aragon TJ, Fernyak SE, Cody SH, Vugia DJ, Katz MH, Bangsberg DR. Quantitative risk assessment for needle reuse at a phlebotomy center: parameter estimation, scenario evaluation, and sensitivity analysis. Technical Report, San Francisco Department of Public Health. May 22, 2000. (Download PDF)

Adler S, Aragon T. Summary Report: Survey of Hepatitis C Virus counseling and testing services at HIV counseling and testing sites, and health service sites. San Francisco Department of Public Health. September 1,1999. (Download PDF)

Aragon T. Investigation of Postoperative Streptococcal Toxic Shock Syndrome Cluster at a San Francisco Hospital, San Francisco Department of Public Health, April 1998 

Aragon T. Investigation of Suspected Food-borne Illness in Persons Attending the Computer Curriculum Corporation Conference at the Grand Hyatt San Francisco on Union Square. San Francisco Department of Public Health, March 1998