A team of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars, led by Dr. Jonathan Zelner, published a study in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.

Identifying hotspots of multidrug resistant tuberculosis transmission using spatial and molecular genetic data

The authors aimed to identify and determine the etiology of ‘hotspots’ of concentrated multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) risk in Lima, Peru. Methods: From 2009-2012, we conducted a prospective cohort study among households of TB cases from 106 health center (HC) areas in Lima, Peru. All notified TB cases and their household contacts were recruited and followed for one year. Individuals with TB symptoms were screened by microscopy and culture; positive cultures were tested for drug susceptibility (DST) and genotyped by 24-loci MIRU-VNTR.

Findings reveal that localized transmission is an important driver of the epidemic of MDR-TB in Lima. Efforts to interrupt transmission may be most effective if targeted to this area of the city. 

Read the article.

Jonathan L. Zelner, Megan B. Murray, Mercedes C. Becerra, Jerome Galea, Leonid Lecca, Roger Calderon, Rosa Yataco, Carmen Contreras, Zibiao Zhang, Justin Manjourides, Bryan T. Grenfell, Ted Cohen. 2015. "Identifying hotspots of multidrug resistant tuberculosis transmission using spatial and molecular genetic data." Journal of Infectious Diseases. Published July 14, 2015.

A study by Health & Society scholar Adam Reich was published in the American Journal of Sociology.  The “moralized markets” school within economic sociology has convincingly demonstrated variation in the relationship between economic activity and moral values. Yet this scholarship has not sufficiently explored either the causes of this variation or the consequences of this variation for organizational practice. By examining different moral-market understandings and practices in the context of a single market-based organizational field, this article highlights the contradictory character of processes of commodification, as different historically institutionalized ideas conflict, in different ways, with the market logic that increasingly organizes the field as a whole. The article examines the contradictory commodification of hospital care in three hospitals within one Northern California community.

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The Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholars program is hosting a free short course on epigentics Nov. 22 & 23. 

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