Patricia Pavlinac, MS, PhD

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

  1. Garcia Quesada, M, Breskin, A, Platts-Mills, JA, Benkeser, D, Pavlinac, PB, Galagan, SR et al.. Comparing existing and novel methods for estimating etiology-specific diarrheal disease incidence in hybrid surveillance studies. medRxiv. 2025; :. doi: 10.1101/2025.11.11.25339698. PubMed PMID:41292665 PubMed Central PMC12642700.
  2. Atlas, HE, Mogeni, P, Shawon, RA, Tickell, KD, Bunyige, L, Monchari, I et al.. Effect of azithromycin on post-discharge growth in Kenyan children. BMJ Glob Health. 2025;10 (11):. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2025-020294. PubMed PMID:41285436 PubMed Central PMC12645614.
  3. Pavlinac, PB, Zane, GK, Khalil, I, McQuade, ETR, Platts-Mills, JA, Lalika, M et al.. Anthropometric and neurocognitive consequences of Campylobacter, enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli, and norovirus: A systematic review. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2025;19 (11):e0013293. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0013293. PubMed PMID:41212930 PubMed Central PMC12622849.
  4. Lubeck-Schricker, M, Rivas-Nieto, AC, Rosauer, J, Mpinganjira, S, Malhotra, A, Bastias, M et al.. Burden of Shigella among children with diarrhea in the Americas: A systematic review and meta-analysis. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2025;19 (8):e0013393. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0013393. PubMed PMID:40825034 PubMed Central PMC12413091.
  5. Somji, S, Sudfeld, CR, Duggan, C, Manji, K, Ahmed, T, Chisti, MJ et al.. Is rotavirus aetiology in young children with acute diarrhoea associated with sociodemographic and clinical factors, including rotavirus vaccination status? A secondary cross-sectional analysis of the ABCD trial. BMJ Glob Health. 2025;10 (7):. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2024-018337. PubMed PMID:40716798 PubMed Central PMC12306288.
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