Udhayashankar Kanagasabai
Dr, Health Scientist, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Location: United States
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1. Patel, P; Sato, K; Bhandari, N; Kanagasabai, U; et al. (2022) From policy to practice: uptake of pre-exposure prophylaxis among adolescent girls and young women in United States President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief-supported countries, 2017–2020, AIDS: June 15, 2022 - Volume 36 - Issue Supplement 1 - p S15-S26 doi: 10.1097/QAD.0000000000003103
2. Kerzner M, De AK, Yee R, Keating R, Djomand G, Stash S, et al. (2022) Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) uptake and service delivery adaptations during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in 21 PEPFAR-funded countries. PLoS ONE 17(4): e0266280. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266280
3. Kanagasabai U, Qualls M, Shiraishi RW, et al. Baseline assessment findings of the Africa Society for Blood Transfusion Step-Wise Accreditation Programme in 10 sub-Saharan African countries, 2016-2018. Vox Sanguinis. 2022 Mar. DOI: 10.1111/vox.13262. PMID: 35266552
4. Dadzie, Jeffrey E., and Kanagasabai, Udhayashankar. 2022. "A Policy Analysis of the Primary Health Care Approach in Liberia" Hygiene 2, no. 1: 44-62. https://doi.org/10.3390/hygiene2010004
5. S. Ebrahim, A. Maher, U. Kanagasabai et al “MERS-CoV Confirmation among 6,873 Suspected Persons and Relevant Epidemiologic and Clinical Features, Saudi Arabia — 2014 to 2019.” EClinicalMedicine 41: 101191. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589537021004727
6. Kanagasabai, U.; Enriquez, K.; Gelting, R.; Malpiedi, P.; Zayzay, C.; Kendor, J.; Fahnbulleh, S.; Cooper, C.; Gibson, W.; Brown, R.; Nador, N.; Williams, D.E.; Chiriboga, D.; Niescierenko, M. The Impact of Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Improvements on Hand Hygiene at Two Liberian Hospitals during the Recovery Phase of an Ebola Epidemic. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18, 3409. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18073409 7. Kanagasabai U, Singh A, Shiraishi RW, Ly V, Hy C, et al. (2020) Improving injection safety practices of Cambodian healthcare workers through training. PLOS ONE 15(10): e0241176. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241176 8. Kanagasabai, U., Selenic, D., Chevalier, M.S., Drammeh, B., Qualls, M., Shiraishi, R.W., Bock, N., Benech, I. and Mili, F.D. (2020), Evaluation of the WHO global database on blood safety. Vox Sang. doi:10.1111/vox.13001
9. Enriquez K, Udhayashankar K, Niescierenko M. Understanding the Predictors that Contribute to Liberian Health Care Workers Feeling Protected From Ebola While at Work. Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2020 May 29:1-6. DOI: 10.1017/dmp.2020.52. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 32468986.
10. Andrews B, Kanagasabai U, McQuilkin P, et al, Presentation and treatment outcomes of Liberian children age 5 and under diagnosed with malaria, Global Pediatric Health, 2019
11. Bemah P, Baller A, Cooper C, M Moses, Skrip L, Rude J, Twyman A, Soka A, Seifeldin R, O Chantelle, Kanagasabai U, et al, Strengthening Healthcare Workforce Capacity During and Post Ebola Outbreaks in Liberia: An innovative and Effective Approach to Epidemic Preparedness and Response, Pan African Medical Journal, 2018
12. K Udhayashankar, Chevalier M et al, “Trends and Gaps in National Blood Transfusion Services — 14 Sub-Saharan African countries, 2014–2016”, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Review, 2018
13. McQuilkin P, Kanagasabai U, Niescierenko M, “Health Care Access during the EVD Epidemic in Liberia”, American Journal of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene, 2017
14. Niescierenko M, Kanagasabai U, “Ebola Virus Disease”, Book Chapter, Atlas of Pediatrics in the Tropics and Resource-Limited Setting, 2015
15. National Infection Prevention and Control Guidelines, Ministry of Health, Liberia, 2018; Contributing author
16. Infection Prevention and Control Recovery Plans and Implementation: Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone Inter-country Meeting, Final Report, World Health Organization, 2015; Contributing author
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Awards & Prizes :
Certificate of Appreciation for Technical Assistance, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, South Africa, 2021
Certificate of Appreciation for Support of the NCIRD Acute Flaccid Myelitis Response, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2019
Honor Award for Innovative use of technology to advance Global Polio Vaccination, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2019
Humanitarian Award for Services during the Ebola Outbreak in Liberia, University of Massachusetts, 2015
Best Performance Award in Public Health and Community Medicine, A. M. Dogliotti College of Medicine University of Liberia, 2011
Best Performance in Clinical Subjects, A. M. Dogliotti College of Medicine University of Liberia, 2011
