Associate Adjunct Professor - School of Public Health - University of California, Berkeley Associate Director, Healthcare Initiative - Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) Mailing address: 50 University Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 Office: SPH: 717 University Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 CITRIS: 330E Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720
Selected Publications Coogan, PF, White, LF, Jerrett, M, Brook, RD, Su, JG, Seto, E, Burnett, R, Palmer, JR, Rosenberg, L (2012) Air Pollution and Incidence of Hypertension and Diabetes in African American Women living in Los Angeles, Circulation. doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.111.052753 Kaye, J, Holstius, D, Seto, E, Eddy, B, Ritter, M, (accepted) Using NFC Phones to Track Water Purification in Haiti, CHI 2012, May 5-10, 2012, Austin, TX. Seto, EYW, Remais, JV, Carlton, EJ, Wang, S, Liang, S, Brindley, PJ, Qiu, D, Spear, RC, Wang, LD, Wang, TP, Chen, HG, Dong, XQ, Wang, LY, Hao, Y, Bergquist, R, Zhou, XN (2011) Toward Sustainable and Comprehensive Control of Schistosomiasis in China: Lessons from Sichuan, PLoS Negl Trop Dis 5(10): e1372. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0001372 Almanza, E, Jerrett, M, Dunton, G, Seto, E, Pentz, MA (2012) A study of community design, greenness and physical activity in children using satellite, GPS and accelerometer data, Health and Place, 18(1):46-54. Stothard JR, Sousa-Figueiredo JC, Betson M, Green HK, Seto EY, Garba A, Sacko M, Mutapi F, Vaz Nery S, Amin MA, Mutumba-Nakalembe M, Navaratnam A, Fenwick A, Kabatereine NB, Gabrielli AF, Montresor A. (2011) Closing the praziquantel treatment gap: new steps in epidemiological monitoring and control of schistosomiasis in African infants and preschool-aged children, Parasitology 138(12):1593-606 doi: 10.1017/S0031182011001235 Spear, RC, Seto, EYW, Carlton, EJ, Liang, S, Remais, JV, Zhong, B, Qiu, D, (2011) The challenge of effective surveillance in moving from low transmission to elimination of schistosomiasis in China, International Journal for Parasitology 41(12):1243-7 doi:10.1016/j.ijpara.2011.08.002 Stothard, JR, Sousa-Figueiredo, JC, Betson, M, Seto, EYW, Kabatereine, NB (2011) Investigating the spatial micro-epidemiology of diseases within apoint-prevalence sample: a field applicable method for rapid mapping of households using low-cost GPS-dataloggers, Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. DOI:10.1016/j.trstmh.20 Seto, EYW, Wong, BK, Lu, D, Zhong, B (2011) Human schistosomiasis resistance to praziquantel in China: Should We Be Worried?, The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, DOI:10.4269/ajtmh.2011.10-0542 Gilhuly, K, Purciel, M, Farhang, L, Lucky, J, Harris, EC, Heller, J, Seto, EYW (2011) Using health impact assessment in community development to improve air quality and public health, Community Development, 42(2) 193-207, DOI: 10.1080/15575330.2011.553289. Carlton EJ, Bates MN, Zhong B, Seto EY, Spear RC. (2011) Evaluation of mammalian and intermediate host surveillance methods for detecting schistosomiasis reemergence in southwest China. PLoS NTDs, 8;5(3):e987. DOI:10.1371/journal.pntd.0000987 Bhatia, R and Seto, E (2010) Quantitative estimation in Health Impact Assessment: Opportunities and challenges, Environmental Impact Assessment Review, doi:10.1016/j.eiar.2010.08.003 Shi, C, Fernando, HJS, Seto, EYW, Muller, JP (2010) The efficacy of satellite information in improving CMAQ/Models-3 prediction of ozone episodes in the US–Mexico border, Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health, 3(3) 159-169. DOI: 10.1007/s11869-010-0064-9 Holstius, D, Seto, E, Kaye, J, (2010) Wireless Monitoring of a Distributed Environmental Health Intervention in Haiti, Wireless Health 2010, October 5-7, 2010, San Diego, CA. Seto, E, Martin, E, Yang, A, Yan, P, Gravina, R, Lin, I, Wang, C, Roy, M, Shia, V, Bajcsy, R (2010) Opportunistic Strategies for Lightweight Signal Processing for Body Sensor Networks, 2010 PETRAE conference, workshop on Light-weight Signal Processing for Computationally Intensive BSN Applications, June 23-25, 2010, Samos, Greece. Gravina, R, Alessandro, A, Salmeri, A, Buondonno, L, Raveendranathan, N, Loseu, V, Giannantonio, R, Seto, E, Fortino, G (accepted) Enabling Multiple BSN Applications Using the SPINE Framework, 2010 International Conference on Body Sensor Networks (BSN 2010), June 7-9, 2010, Singapore.
Yan, P, Lin, I, Roy, M, Seto, E, Wang, C, Yang, A, Bajcsy, R (2010) WAVE and Berkeley Fit - Towards Social Interaction in Mobile Body Sensor Networks, 2010 International Workshop on Ubiquitous Body Sensor Networks (UBSN 2010), March 1-3, 2010, Singapore.
Sudat SE, Carlton EJ, Seto EY, Spear RC, Hubbard AE (2010) Using variable importance measures from causal inference to rank risk factors of schistosomiasis infection in a rural setting in China. Epidemiol Perspect Innov, 14;7:3.
Remais, J, Akullian, A, Ding, L, Seto, E (2010) Analytical methods for quantifying environmental connectivity for the control and surveillance of infectious disease spread. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, doi: 10.1098/rsif.2009.0523
Holt, AC, Seto, EYW, Rivard, T, Gong, P (2009) Object-based Detection and Classification of Vehicles from High-resolution Aerial Photography, Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 75(7) 871-880. [link]
Seto, E, Giani, A, Shia, V, Wang, C, Yan, P, Yang, A, Jerrett, M, Bajcsy, R (2008), A Wireless Body Sensor Network for the Prevention and Management of Asthma. Paper presented at SIES 2009, Lausanne, Switzerland. Kuryloski, P, Giani, A, Giannantonio, R, Gilani, K, Gravina, R, Seppä, V, Seto, E, Shia, V, Wang, C, Yan, P, Yang, A, Hyttinen, J, Sastry, S, Wicker, S, Bajcsy, R (2008), DexterNet: An Open Platform for Heterogeneous Body Sensor Networks and Its Applications. Paper presented at BSN, Berkeley, CA. [link]
Remais, J, Chen, L, Seto, E (2009) Leveraging Rural Energy Investment for Parasitic Disease Control: Schistosome Ova Inactivation and Energy Co-Benefits of Anaerobic Digesters in Rural China, PLoS ONE, 4(3): e4856. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0004856
Seto, EYW and Carlton EJ, (2009) Disease Transmission Models for Public Health Decision‑Making: Designing Intervention Strategies for Schistosoma japonicum, in E. Michael and R. C. Spear (Eds.), Infectious Disease Transmission Modeling and Management of Parasite Control, Landes Bioscience, Austin, TX. [link] Wier, M., Weintraub, J., Humphreys, E.H., Seto, E., Bhatia, R., (2009) An area-level model of vehicle-pedestrian injury collisions with implications for land use and transportation planning, Accident Analysis & Prevention, 41(1): 137-145 doi: 10.1016/j.aap.2008.10.001 Sciammas, C., Rivard, T., Wier, M., Seto, E., Bhatia, R., (2008) Traffic Causes Death and Disease in San Francisco Neighborhood, Race, Poverty, and the Environment, 15(1): 77-78. [link] Gurarie, D. and Seto, E.Y.W. (2008) Connectivity Sustains Disease Transmission in Environments with Low Potential for Endemicity: Modeling Schistosomiasis with Hydrologic and Social Connectivities, Journal of the Royal Society Interface, doi:10.1098/rsif.2008.0265. Seto, E.Y.W., Wu, W., Liu, H.Y., Chen, H.G., Hubbard, A., Holt, A., Davis, G.M., (2008) Schistosomiasis and the Three Gorges Dam: an EcoHealth Perspective, Integrated Management of Coastal and Freshwater Systems, USAID Newsletter, 2(3): 6-10. [link] Clark, T.D., Greenhouse, B., Njama-Meya, D., Nzarubara, B., Maiteki-Sebuguzi, C., Staedke, S.G., Seto, E., Kamya, M.R., Rosenthal, P.J., Dorsey, G., (2008) Factors Determining the Heterogeneity of Malaria Incidence in Children in Kampala, Uganda, The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 198: 393–400. doi: 10.1086/589778 Seto, E.Y.W., Wu, W., Liu, H., Chen, H., Hubbard, A., Holt, A., Davis, G.M., (2008) Impact of Changing Water Levels and Weather on Oncomelania hupensis hupensis Populations, the Snail Host of Schistosoma japonicum, Downstream of the Three Gorges Dam, EcoHealth, 5: 149-158. doi: 10.1007/s10393-008-0169-x Seto, E.Y.W., Moore, C. G., Hoskins, R., (2007) Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing for Infectious Disease Surveillance, In Nkuchia M'ikanatha and Ruth Lynfield (Eds.), Infectious Disease Surveillance, Blackwell, London, United Kingdom. Seto, E.Y.W., Soller, J.A., Colford, J.M. Jr., (2007) Strategies to Reduce Person-to-Person Transmission during Widespread Escherichia coli O157:H7 Outbreak, Emerging Infectious Diseases, 13(6): 860-866. http://www.cdc.gov/EID/content/13/6/860.htm Seto, E.Y.W., Lee, E.Y., Liang, S., Zhong, B., (2007) Individual and Village-level Study of Water Contact Exposure Patterns and Schistosoma japonicum Reinfection in Mountainous Rural China, Trop Med Intl Health, 12(10):1199-209. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2007.01903.x Liang, S., Seto, E.Y.W., Remais, J.V., Zhong, B., Yang, C., Hubbard, A., Davis, G.M., Gu, X., Qiu, D., Spear, R.C., (2007) Environmental effects on parasitic disease transmission exemplified by schistosomiasis in western China, Proc Natl Acad Sci, 104(17): 7110–7115. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0701878104 Seto, E.Y.W., Holt, A, Rivard, T, Bhatia, R (2007), Spatial distribution of traffic induced noise exposures in a US city: an analytic tool for assessing the health impacts of urban planning decisions, International Journal of Health Geographics, 6(24). http://www.ij-healthgeographics.com/content/6/1/24 Seto, EYW, Knapp, F, Zhong, B, Yang, C (2007) The use of the global positioning system to assess individual-level water contact and time-activity patterns associated with schistosomiasis transmission, Geospatial Health, 1(2): 233-241. [link] Seto, E., Zhong, B., Kouch, J., Hubbard, A., Spear, R.C., (2005). Genetic and household risk factors for Schistosoma japonicum infection in the presence of larger scale environmental differences in the mountainous transmission areas of China. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 73(6):1145-1150. Xu, B; Gong, P; Seto, E; Liang, S; Yang, C; Wen, S; Qiu, D; Gu, X; and Spear, R. (2006). A spatial-temporal model for assessing the effects of inter-village connectivity in schistosomiasis transmission. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 96(1):31-46. Spear, R. C., Seto, E., Liang, S., Birkner, M., Hubbard, A., Qiu, D., Yang, C., Zhong, B., Xu, F., Gu, X., & Davis, G. (2004). Factors influencing the transmission of Schistosoma japonicum in the mountains of Sichuan Province. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 70(1), 48-56. Xu, B., Gong, P., Spear, R., & Seto, E. (2003). Comparison of different gray level reduction schemes for a revised texture spectrum method for land-use classification using IKONOS imagery. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 69(5), 529-536. Davis, G., Wu, W., Liu, H., Williams, A., Lu, S., Chen, H., & Seto, E. (2003). Applying GIS and RS to the epidemiology of schistsomiasis in Poyang Lake, China. Geographic Information Sciences, 8(2), 67-77. Wu, W., Davis, G., H, L., Seto, E., S, L., Zhang, J., Hua, Z., Guo, J., Lin, D., Feng, Z., Chen, H., Gong, P., & Spear, R. (2002). Application of Remote Sensing for Surveillance of Snail Habitats in Poyang Lake, China. Chinese Journal of Parasitology and Parasitic Disease, 20(4), 205-208. Stothard, J., Mgeni, A., Khamis, S., Seto, E., Ramsan, M., & Rollinson, D. (2002). Urinary schistosomiasis in schoolchildren on Zanzibar Island (Unguja), Tanzania: a parasitological survey supplemented with questionnaires. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 96(5), 507-514. Stothard, J., Mgeni, A., Khamis, S., Seto, E., Ramsan, M., Hubbard, S., Kristensen, T., & Rollinson, D. (2002) New insights into the transmission biology of urinary schistosomiasis in Zanzibar. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 96(5), 470-475. Seto, E., Xu, B., Wu, W., Davis, G., Qiu, D., Gu, X., Gong, P., & Spear, R. (2002). The Use of GIS and Remote Sensing in Schistosomiasis Control in China. In O. Kahn and R. Skinner (Ed.), Geographic Information Systems and Health Applications. Hershey, PA: Idea Group, Inc. Spear, R. C., Hubbard, A., Liang, S., & Seto, E. (2002). Disease Transmission Models for Public Health Decision Making: Toward an Approach for Designing Intervention Strategies for Schistosomiasis japonica. Environ Health Perspect, 110(9), 907-915. Seto, E., Xu, B., Liang, S., Gong, P., Wu, W. P., Davis, G., Qiu, D. C., Gu, X. G., & Spear, R. (2002). The use of remote sensing for predictive modeling of schistosomiasis in China. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 68(2), 167-174. Seto, E., Wu, W., Qiu, D., Liu, H., Gu, X., Chen, H., Spear, R., & Davis, G. (2002). Impact of soil chemistry on the distribution of Oncomelania hupensis (Gastropoda:Pomatiopsidae) in China. Malacologia, 44, 319-343. Seto, E., Liang, S., Qiu, D., Gu, X., & Spear, R. C. (2001). A protocol for geographically randomized snail surveys in schistosomiasis fieldwork using the global positioning system. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 64(1-2), 98-99. Seto, E. (2000). Remote Sensing Applied to Schistosomiasis Control: The Anning River Project. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley. Spear, R., Gong, P., Seto, E., Zhou, Y., Xu, B., Maszle, D., Liang, S., Davis, G., & Gu, X. (1998). Remote Sensing and GIS for Schistosomiasis Control in Mountainous Areas in Sichuan, China. Geographic Information Systems, 4(1-2), 14-22. Eisenberg, J. N. S., Seto, E. Y. W., Colford, J. M., Olivieri, A., & Spear, R. C. (1998). An analysis of the Milwaukee cryptosporidiosis outbreak based on a dynamic model of the infection process. Epidemiology, 9(3), 255-263. Nicas, M., & Seto, E. (1997). A simulation model for occupational tuberculosis transmission. Risk Analysis, 17(5), 609-616. Eisenberg, J. N., Seto, E. Y. W., Olivieri, A. W., & Spear, R. C. (1996). Quantifying Water Pathogen Risk in an Epidemiological Framework. Risk Analysis, 16(4), 549-563. Seto, E. (1995). A dynamic model for assessing population risks from waterborne pathogens. M.S. Thesis, University of California, Berkeley. |
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