Josh M Colston, PhD, MSc.
Research Assistant Professor of Medicine, Infectious Disease
PO Box 801340
Charlottesville, Virginia 22908
Bio & Overview
Academic Information
- Department
- Infectious Disease
Primary Education
- MS, Demography and Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, 2008
- PhD, Global Disease Epidemiology and Control, Johns Hopkins University - Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2018
Research Interests
Research Disciplines
- Global Health
- Infectious Diseases/Biodefense
- Translational Science
Selected Publications
2024
Mullen, B., Houpt, E. R., Colston, J., Becker, L., Johnson, S., Young, L., . . . Heysell, S. K. (2024). Geographic Variation and Environmental Predictors of Nontuberculous Mycobacteria in Laboratory Surveillance, Virginia, USA, 2021-2023. EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES, 30(3), 548-554. doi:10.3201/eid3003.231162
Villanueva, K. M., Vasquez, T. P., Yori, P. P., Cacique, L. R., Bardales, P. F. G., Lopez, W. V. S., . . . Kosek, M. N. (2024). The Enterics for Global Health (EFGH) Shigella Surveillance Study in Peru. OPEN FORUM INFECTIOUS DISEASES, 11, S121-S128. doi:10.1093/ofid/ofad655
Dodd, R., Awuor, A. O., Bardales, P. F. G., Khanam, F., Mategula, D., Onwuchekwa, U., . . . McGrath, C. J. (2024). Population Enumeration and Household Utilization Survey Methods in the Enterics for Global Health (EFGH): Shigella Surveillance Study. OPEN FORUM INFECTIOUS DISEASES, 11, S17-S24. doi:10.1093/ofid/ofae018
Colston, J. M., Fang, B., Houpt, E., Chernyavskiy, P., Swarup, S., Gardner, L. M., . . . Kosek, M. N. (2024). The Planetary Child Health & Enterics Observatory (Plan-EO): A protocol for an interdisciplinary research initiative and web-based dashboard for mapping enteric infectious diseases and their risk factors and interventions in LMICs. PLOS ONE, 19(2). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0297775
2023
Colston, J. M. (2024). Elucidating the Impacts of Climate on Dengue Transmission Through Mathematical Models: New Evidence From a Recent Outbreak on the Island of Réunion. JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES, 229(1), 1-3. doi:10.1093/infdis/jiad473
Badr, H. S., Zaitchik, B. F., Kerr, G. H., Nguyen, N. -L. H., Chen, Y. -T., Hinson, P., . . . Gardner, L. M. (2023). Unified real-time environmental-epidemiological data for multiscale modeling of the COVID-19 pandemic. SCIENTIFIC DATA, 10(1). doi:10.1038/s41597-023-02276-y
Yori, P. P., Olortegui, M. P., Schiaffino, F., Colston, J. M., Vasquez, T. P., Bardales, P. F. G. F., . . . Kosek, M. N. (2023). Etiology of acute febrile illness in the peruvian amazon as determined by modular formatted quantitative PCR: a protocol for RIVERA, a health facility-based case-control study. BMC PUBLIC HEALTH, 23(1). doi:10.1186/s12889-023-15619-6
Kerr, G. H., Badr, H. S., Barbieri, A. F., Colston, J. M., Gardner, L. M., Kosek, M. N., & Zaitchik, B. F. (2023). Evolving Drivers of Brazilian SARS-CoV-2 Transmission: A Spatiotemporally Disaggregated Time Series Analysis of Meteorology, Policy, and Human Mobility. GEOHEALTH, 7(3). doi:10.1029/2022GH000727
Badr, H. S., Colston, J. M., Nguyen, N. -L. H., Chen, Y. T., Burnett, E., Ali, S. A., . . . Kosek, M. N. (2023). Spatiotemporal variation in risk of Shigella infection in childhood: a global risk mapping and prediction model using individual participant data. LANCET GLOBAL HEALTH, 11(3), E373-E384. doi:10.1016/S2214-109X(22)00549-6
2022
Shih, D. C., Silver, R., Henao, O. L., Alemu, A., Audi, A., Bigogo, G., . . . Cohen, A. L. (2022). Incorporating COVID-19 into Acute Febrile Illness Surveillance Systems, Belize, Kenya, Ethiopia, Peru, and Liberia, 2020-2021. EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES, 28, S34-S41. doi:10.3201/eid2813.220898
Colston, J. M., Hinson, P., Nguyen, N. -L. H., Chen, Y. T., Badr, H. S., Kerr, G. H., . . . Zaitchik, B. F. (2023). Effects of hydrometeorological and other factors on SARS-CoV-2 reproduction number in three contiguous countries of tropical Andean South America: a spatiotemporally disaggregated time series analysis. IJID REGIONS, 6, 29-41. doi:10.1016/j.ijregi.2022.11.007
Colston, J., Kosek, M., Zaitchik, B., & Badr, H. (2022). Spatiotemporal variation and environmental sensitivity of childhood enteric pathogen infection risk: a Planetary Health approach to predictive modelling and risk mapping.. The Lancet. Planetary health, 6 Suppl 1, S13. doi:10.1016/s2542-5196(22)00275-3
Colston, J. M., Chen, Y. T., Hinson, P., Nguyen, N. -L. H., Yori, P. P., Olortegui, M. P., . . . Kosek, M. N. (2022). Enteropathy Markers in Early Life Were Associated with Adipokine, Apolipoprotein, and Cytokine Profiles Consistent with an Adverse Cardiometabolic Disease Risk Profile Later in Childhood in a Peruvian Birth Cohort. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE, 107(4), 754-765. doi:10.4269/ajtmh.21-1024
Schiaffino, F., Colston, J. M., Paredes Olortegui, M., Rengifo Pinedo, S., Zamora Babilonia, M., Ramal Asayag, C., . . . Kosek, M. N. (2023). Antibiotic Use and Stewardship Practices in a Pediatric Community-based Cohort Study in Peru: Shorter Would be Sweeter. CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES, 76(3), E1054-E1061. doi:10.1093/cid/ciac500
Colston, J. M., Taniuchi, M., Ahmed, T., Ferdousi, T., Kabir, F., Mduma, E., . . . Platts-Mills, J. A. (2022). Intestinal Colonization With Bifidobacterium longum Subspecies Is Associated With Length at Birth, Exclusive Breastfeeding, and Decreased Risk of Enteric Virus Infections, but Not With Histo-Blood Group Antigens, Oral Vaccine Response or Later Growth in Three Birth Cohorts. FRONTIERS IN PEDIATRICS, 10. doi:10.3389/fped.2022.804798
Colston, J. M., Zaitchik, B. F., Badr, H. S., Burnett, E., Ali, S. A., Rayamajhi, A., . . . Kosek, M. N. (2022). Associations Between Eight Earth Observation-Derived Climate Variables and Enteropathogen Infection: An Independent Participant Data Meta-Analysis of Surveillance Studies With Broad Spectrum Nucleic Acid Diagnostics. GEOHEALTH, 6(1). doi:10.1029/2021GH000452
2021
Schiaffino, F., Rengifo Trigoso, D., Colston, J. M., Paredes Olortegui, M., Shapiama, L. W. V., Garcia Bardales, P. F., . . . Kosek, M. N. (2021). Associations among Household Animal Ownership, Infrastructure, and Hygiene Characteristics with Source Attribution of Household Fecal Contamination in Peri-Urban Communities of Iquitos, Peru. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE, 104(1), 372-381. doi:10.4269/ajtmh.20-0810
2020
Colston, J. M., Faruque, A. S. G., Hossain, M. J., Saha, D., Kanungo, S., Mandomando, I., . . . Kosek, M. N. (2020). Associations between Household-Level Exposures and All-Cause Diarrhea and Pathogen-Specific Enteric Infections in Children Enrolled in Five Sentinel Surveillance Studies. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH, 17(21). doi:10.3390/ijerph17218078
Schiaffino, F., Pisanic, N., Colston, J. M., Rengifo, D., Paredes Olortegui, M., Shapiama, V., . . . Kosek, M. N. (2020). Validation of microbial source tracking markers for the attribution of fecal contamination in indoor-household environments of the Peruvian Amazon. SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT, 743. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140531
Giallourou, N., Fardus-Reid, F., Panic, G., Veselkov, K., McCormick, B. J. J., Olortegui, M. P., . . . Swann, J. R. (2020). Metabolic maturation in the first 2 years of life in resource-constrained settings and its association with postnatal growths. SCIENCE ADVANCES, 6(15). doi:10.1126/sciadv.aay5969
Colston, J., Olortegui, M. P., Zaitchik, B., Yori, P. P., Kang, G., Ahmed, T., . . . Kosek, M. (2020). Pathogen-Specific Impacts of the 2011-2012 La Nina-Associated Floods on Enteric Infections in the MAL-ED Peru Cohort: A Comparative Interrupted Time Series Analysis. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH, 17(2). doi:10.3390/ijerph17020487
2019
Colston, J. M., Yori, P. P., Moulton, L. H., Olortegui, M. P., Kosek, P. S., Rengifo Trigoso, D., . . . Kosek, M. N. (2019). Penalized regression models to select biomarkers of environmental enteric dysfunction associated with linear growth acquisition in a Peruvian birth cohort. PLOS NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES, 13(11). doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0007851
Colston, J. M., Zaitchik, B., Kang, G., Yori, P. P., Ahmed, T., Lima, A., . . . Kosek, M. N. (2019). Use of earth observation-derived hydrometeorological variables to model and predict rotavirus infection (MAL-ED): a multisite cohort study. LANCET PLANETARY HEALTH, 3(6), E248-E258. doi:10.1016/S2542-5196(19)30084-1
Colston, J. M., Francois, R., Pisanic, N., Yori, P. P., McCormick, B. J. J., Olortegui, M. P., . . . Kosek, M. N. (2019). Effects of Child and Maternal Histo-Blood Group Antigen Status on Symptomatic and Asymptomatic Enteric Infections in Early Childhood. JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES, 220(1), 151-162. doi:10.1093/infdis/jiz072
Schiaffino, F., Colston, J. M., Paredes-Olortegui, M., Francois, R., Pisanic, N., Burga, R., . . . Kosek, M. N. (2019). Antibiotic Resistance of Campylobacter Species in a Pediatric Cohort Study. ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY, 63(2). doi:10.1128/AAC.01911-18
2018
Colston, J. M., Ahmed, T., Mahopo, C., Kang, G., Kosek, M., de Sousa Junior, F., . . . Zaitchik, B. (2018). Evaluating meteorological data from weather stations, and from satellites and global models for a multi-site epidemiological study. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH, 165, 91-109. doi:10.1016/j.envres.2018.02.027
Colston, J. M., Ahmed, A. M. S., Soofi, S. B., Svensen, E., Haque, R., Shrestha, J., . . . Kosek, M. N. (2018). Seasonality and within-subject clustering of rotavirus infections in an eight-site birth cohort study. EPIDEMIOLOGY AND INFECTION, 146(6), 688-697. doi:10.1017/S0950268818000304
Exum, N. G., Lee, G. O., Paredes Olortegui, M., Penataro Yori, P., Siguas Salas, M., Rengifo Trigoso, D., . . . Kosek, M. N. (2018). A Longitudinal Study of Household Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Characteristics and Environmental Enteropathy Markers in Children Less than 24 Months in Iquitos, Peru. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE, 98(4), 995-1004. doi:10.4269/ajtmh.17-0464
2017
Colston, J. M., Yori, P. P., Colantuoni, E., Moulton, L. H., Ambikapathi, R., Lee, G., . . . Kosek, M. N. (2017). A methodologic framework for modeling and assessing biomarkers of environmental enteropathy as predictors of growth in infants: an example from a Peruvian birth cohort. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION, 106(1), 245-255. doi:10.3945/ajcn.116.151886
2013
Colston, J., & Saboya, M. (2013). Soil-transmitted helminthiasis in Latin America and the Caribbean: modelling the determinants, prevalence, population at risk and costs of control at sub-national level. GEOSPATIAL HEALTH, 7(2), 321-340. doi:10.4081/gh.2013.90
2012
Colston, J. (2012). The neglected tropical diseases (NTD) initiative for Latin America and the Caribbean of the Inter-American Development Bank and the role of geospatial analysis in health programmes. GEOSPATIAL HEALTH, 6(3), S11-S14. Retrieved from https://www.webofscience.com/