Publications

2018 Ebola outbreak in Congo provides public health lessons for COVID-19, say researchersMultiple factors led people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to resist public health messages during the 2018 outbreak of Ebola virus, and University of Alberta researchers fear the situation could be repeated with COVID-19 unless lessons are learned from the earlier epidemic. “Mistrust, fear and rumours were complete obstacles to th...

Publications in peer-reviewed medical journals

1. Kasereka MC, Sawatzky J, Hawkes MT. Ebola epidemic in war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo, 2018: Acceptability and patient satisfaction of the recombinant Vesicular Stomatitis Virus - Zaire Ebolavirus Vaccine. Vaccine. 2019 Mar 13.

2. Claude KM, Underschultz J, Hawkes MT. Ebola virus epidemic in war-torn eastern DR Congo. Lancet. 2018 Oct 5.

3. Turnbull H, Kasereka MC, Amirav I, Sahika SE, Solomon I, Aldar Y, Hawkes MT. Development of a novel device for objective respiratory rate measurement in low resource settings. BMJ Innovations Oct 2018, 4 (4) 185-191.

4. Amirav I, Masumbuko CK, Hawkes MT. Poor Agreement and Imprecision of RR Measurements in Children in a Low-Income Setting. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. (Impact Factor=15.2). 2018 Sep 7.

5. Brooks HM, Jean Paul MK, Claude KM, Mocanu V, Hawkes MT. Use and disuse of malaria bed nets in an internally displaced persons camp in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: A mixed-methods study. PLoS One. 2017 Sep 26;12(9):e0185290.

6. Brooks HM, Jean Paul MK, Claude KM, Houston S, Hawkes MT. Malaria in an Internally Displaced Persons Camp in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Clin Infect Dis (Impact Factor=8.9). 2017 Aug 1;65(3):529-530. doi: 10.1093/cid/cix382. PMID: 28838136

7. Ma C, Claude KM, Kibendelwa ZT, Brooks H, Zheng X, Hawkes M. Pathog Glob Health. Is maternal education a social vaccine for childhood malaria infection? A cross-sectional study from war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo. 2017 Feb 21:1-9. doi: 10.1080/20477724.2017.1288971.

8. Charchuk R, Makelele JPK, Kasereka MC, Houston S, Hawkes MT. Burden of malaria is higher among children in an internal displacement camp compared to a neighbouring village in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.Malar J. 2016 Aug 25;15(1):431.

9. Hamze H, Charchuk R, Makelele JPK, Kasereka MC, MashukanoL, Hawkes MT. Lack of household clustering of malaria in a complex humanitarian emergency: implications for active case detection.Pathog Glob Health. 2016 Aug 25:1-5.

10. Hawkes M, Sivasivugha ES, Ngigi SK, Masumbuko CK, Brophy J, Kibendelwa ZT. HIV and Religion in the Congo: A Mixed-Methods Study. Curr HIV Res. 2013 Jun 23;11(3):246-53.

11. Kasereka MC, Austin DE, Conroy AL, Lukaba T, Mwesha D, and Hawkes MT. (2020). Prior vaccination with recombinant Vesicular Stomatitis Virus-Zaire EbolaVirus vaccine is associated with improved survival among patients with Ebola virus infection. Vaccine. 38(14): 3003-3007

12. Kasereka MC, Jack Underschultz, and Michael T. Hawkes. (2019). Social resistance drives persistent transmission of Ebola virus disease in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo: A mixed-methods study. PLOS ONE. 14(9): e0223104.

13. Kasereka MC and Michael T Hawkes T. (2019). 'The cat that kills people:’ community beliefs about Ebola origins and implications for disease control in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Pathogens and Global Health. 113(4): 149-157.

14. Hawkes M. Low-quality evidence that atovaquone-proguanil and doxycycline are better tolerated prophylactic antimalarial regimens in travellers than mefloquine. Evid Based Nurs. 2010 Feb;13(1):19-20.

15. Amirav I, Kasereka MC, Hawkes MT, Solomon I, Aldar Y, Margalit G, Zvirin A, Honen Y, Sahika SE, and Kimmel R. (2019). 3D analysis of child facial dimensions for design of medical devices in low-middle income countries (LMIC). PLOS ONE. 14(5): 0216548.

16. Kasereka MC and Hawkes MT. Ebola crisis in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo: student-led community engagement.Pathogens and Global Health. Volume 114, 2020 - Issue 4