Shona Girl Bangladesh Tubewell Kids on the Embankment Corn Harvest Dirty Pond
Shona girl doing yardwork, Zimbabwe    Tubewell, Bangladesh Children on the embankment, Bangladesh Corn harvest, Zimbabwe Contaminated pond, Bangladesh
Elisabeth Dowling Root
Department of Geography, University of Colorado
Assistant Professor
Office: Guggenheim 201B
Phone: (303) 492-4794
elisabeth.root@colorado.edu
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Journals

Root, E.D., S. Giebultowicz, M. Ali, M. Yunus and M. Emch. 2011. The role of vaccine coverage among social networks in cholera vaccine efficacy.  PLoS ONE 6(7): e22971.

Root, E.D., R. Meyer and M. Emch. 2011. Socioeconomic Context and Gastroschisis: Exploring Associations at Various Geographic Scales. Social Science and Medicine 72(4): 625-633.

Root, E.D. and M. Emch. 2010. Tracing drinking water to its source: an ecological study of the relationship between textile mills and gastroschisis in North Carolina. Health & Place, 16(5): 794-802.

Root, E.D., R. Meyer and M. Emch. 2009. Evidence of Localized Clustering of Gastroschisis in North Carolina, 1999-2004. Social Science and Medicine, 68(8): 1361-1367.

Emch, M., M. Ali, E.D. Root and M. Yunus. 2009. Spatial and Environmental Connectivity Analysis in a Cholera Vaccine Trial. Social Science and Medicine, 68(4): 631-637.

Mobley, L.R., E.D. Root, E.A. Finkelstein, O.A. Khavjou, R. Farris, and J. Will. 2006. The Built Environment, Obesity, and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Low-Income Women. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 30(4): 327-332.


Book Chapters

Root, E.D. and M. Emch. Forthcoming. The Ecology of Injuries in Matlab, Bangladesh in Ecologies and Politics of Health.  B. King and K. Crews (eds). New York: Routledge Press.

Root, E.D. and M. Emch. 2011. Regional Environmental Patterns of Diarrheal Disease in Bangladesh: A Spatial Analytical and Multilevel Approach in Geospatial Analysis of Environmental Health. S. McLafferty and J. Maantay (eds). New York: Springer-Verlag.

Emch, M. and E.D. Root. 2010. Emerging and Remerging Diseases in A Companion to Health & Medical Geography. T. Brown, S. Curtis and G. Moon (eds). Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.

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