New Publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

I co-authored an article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences entitled “Burkitt lymphoma risk shows geographic and temporal associations with Plasmodium falciparum infections in Uganda, Tanzania, and Kenya” led by Kelly Broen and Dr. Sam Mbulaiteye. We used high-resolution long-term serial malaria exposure data (2000-2017; 5km resolution) and granular pediatric endemic Burkitt lymphoma (eBL) case data from the EMBLEM study (2010-2016) across regions of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda to find geographic, temporal, and age-related associations between lifetime exposure to Plasmodium falciparum and eBL risk. Our findings suggest that malaria reduction may substantially reduce eBL incidence and mortality. You can find the R langauge scripts for the manuscript analysis in this GitHub repository.