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Marissa Childs

Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
Verified email at fas.harvard.edu
Cited by 802

[HTML][HTML] How will mosquitoes adapt to climate warming?

LI Couper, JE Farner, JM Caldwell, ML Childs… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
The potential for adaptive evolution to enable species persistence under a changing climate
is one of the most important questions for understanding impacts of future climate change. …

Daily Local-Level Estimates of Ambient Wildfire Smoke PM2.5 for the Contiguous US

ML Childs, J Li, J Wen, S Heft-Neal… - Environmental …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Smoke from wildfires is a growing health risk across the US. Understanding the spatial and
temporal patterns of such exposure and its population health impacts requires separating …

The contribution of wildfire to PM2.5 trends in the USA

M Burke, ML Childs, B de la Cuesta, M Qiu, J Li… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Steady improvements in ambient air quality in the USA over the past several decades, in
part a result of public policy 1 , 2 , have led to public health benefits 1 , 2 , 3 – 4 . However, …

[HTML][HTML] Exposures and behavioural responses to wildfire smoke

…, JA Weill, JA Burney, J Wen, ML Childs… - Nature human …, 2022 - nature.com
Pollution from wildfires constitutes a growing source of poor air quality globally. To protect
health, governments largely rely on citizens to limit their own wildfire smoke exposures, but the …

Global change and emerging infectious diseases

N Nova, TS Athni, ML Childs, L Mandle… - Annual review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Our world is undergoing rapid planetary changes driven by human activities, often mediated
by economic incentives and resource management, affecting all life on Earth. Concurrently, …

[HTML][HTML] Seasonal temperature variation influences climate suitability for dengue, chikungunya, and Zika transmission

JH Huber, ML Childs, JM Caldwell… - PLoS neglected tropical …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Dengue, chikungunya, and Zika virus epidemics transmitted by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes
have recently (re)emerged and spread throughout the Americas, Southeast Asia, the Pacific …

The influence of vector‐borne disease on human history: socio‐ecological mechanisms

…, JM Caldwell, JN Childress, ML Childs… - Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Vector‐borne diseases (VBDs) are embedded within complex socio‐ecological systems.
While research has traditionally focused on the direct effects of VBDs on human morbidity and …

[HTML][HTML] Chopping the tail: How preventing superspreading can help to maintain COVID-19 control

MP Kain, ML Childs, AD Becker, EA Mordecai - Epidemics, 2021 - Elsevier
Disease transmission is notoriously heterogeneous, and SARS-CoV-2 is no exception. A
skewed distribution where few individuals or events are responsible for the majority of …

The impact of long-term non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 epidemic dynamics and control: the value and limitations of early models

ML Childs, MP Kain, MJ Harris… - … of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Mathematical models of epidemics are important tools for predicting epidemic dynamics
and evaluating interventions. Yet, because early models are built on limited information, it is …

Mosquito and primate ecology predict human risk of yellow fever virus spillover in Brazil

ML Childs, N Nova, J Colvin… - … Transactions of the …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Many (re)emerging infectious diseases in humans arise from pathogen spillover from wildlife
or livestock, and accurately predicting pathogen spillover is an important public health goal. …