Assistant Professor, Global Health
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
Dr. Patricia Pavlinac, MS, PhD, is an epidemiologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Health at the University of Washington. Dr. Pavlinac also co-directs the Gut Health and Child Survival scientific priority area of the Global Center for Integrated Health of Women, Adolescents and Children (Global WACh). Her research aims to identify interventions to halt morbidity and mortality attributed to enteric infectious diseases in children. Dr. Pavlinac has extensive experience coordinating pediatric studies in Kenya including her current role as Project Director of two clinical trials testing whether empiric use of a broad-spectrum antibiotic improves post-acute survival and growth in Kenyan children. These trials build on evidence that Kenyan children suffer an elevated risk of mortality and chronic malnutrition after acute infectious illnesses that may be due to inadequately treated or new exposure to bacterial pathogens. Nested in these trials, her team is also evaluating the impact of azithromycin on antimicrobial resistance to provide policy-makers with a balanced perspective on the costs and benefits of empiric azithromycin use.
Publications
- Tiwari, R, Tickell, KD, Yoshioka, E, Otieno, J, Shah, A, Richardson, BA et al.. Lactoferrin and lysozyme to promote nutritional, clinical and enteric recovery: a protocol for a factorial, blinded, placebo-controlled randomised trial among children with diarrhoea and malnutrition (the Boresha Afya trial). BMJ Open. 2024;14 (8):e079448. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-079448. PubMed PMID:39122384 PubMed Central PMC11331881.
- Mogeni, P, Soge, OO, Tickell, KD, Tornberg, SN, Pascual, R, Wakatake, E et al.. β-Lactamase and Macrolide Resistance Gene Carriage in Escherichia coli Isolates Among Children Discharged From Inpatient Care in Western Kenya: A Cross-sectional Study. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2024;11 (6):ofae307. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofae307. PubMed PMID:38938894 PubMed Central PMC11210497.
- Rwigi, D, Nyerere, AK, Diakhate, MM, Kariuki, K, Tickell, KD, Mutuma, T et al.. Phenotypic and molecular characterization of β-lactamase-producing Klebsiella species among children discharged from hospital in Western Kenya. BMC Microbiol. 2024;24 (1):135. doi: 10.1186/s12866-024-03284-7. PubMed PMID:38654237 PubMed Central PMC11040804.
- Somji, S, Ashorn, P, Manji, K, Ahmed, T, Chisti, M, Dhingra, U et al.. Clinical and nutritional correlates of bacterial diarrhoea aetiology in young children: a secondary cross-sectional analysis of the ABCD trial. BMJ Paediatr Open. 2024;8 (1):. doi: 10.1136/bmjpo-2023-002448. PubMed PMID:38604769 PubMed Central PMC11015214.
- Atlas, HE, Conteh, B, Islam, MT, Jere, KC, Omore, R, Sanogo, D et al.. Diarrhea Case Surveillance in the Enterics for Global Health Shigella Surveillance Study: Epidemiologic Methods. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2024;11 (Suppl 1):S6-S16. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofad664. PubMed PMID:38532963 PubMed Central PMC10962728.