Li, X, Chen D, Hassen J, Liang S, McKune S, Havelaar A, Blackburn J. (2024). Geospatial Analysis of Multilevel Socio-environmental Factors Impacting the Campylobacter Burden Among Infants in Rural Eastern Ethiopia: A One Health Perspective. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.07.03.2430985

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Acosta, D., Barrow, A., Mahamadou, I. S., Assuncao, V. S., Edwards, M., and McKune, S. (2024). Climate Change and Health in the Sahel: A Systematic Review. Royal Society Open Science. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.231602

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Paro, F., Davour, R., Acosta, D., Mechlowitz, K., Tiwari, C., and McKune, S. (2024). Improving Nutrition Security in LMICs and the Role of Animal Source Foods. Annual Review of Animal Biosciences. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-animal-111523-102149

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Malin, A., Wang., Z., Khan., D., and McKune S. (2024) The Potential Systemic Role of Diet in Dental Caries Development and Arrest. Nutrients. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu16101463.

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Semakula, H. M., Liang, S., McKune, S., Mukwaya, P. I., Mugagga, F., Nseka, D., Wasswa, H., Kayima, P., Peter, A. S., Mwendwa, P., and J. Nakato. (2024) Integrated modelling of the determinants of household food insecurity during the 2020–2021 COVID-19 lockdown in Uganda. Agriculture and Food Security. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40066-023-00460-2

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*Mo, R., Acosta, D., Moore, E., Singh, N., and McKune, S. (2024) Gender, culture, and dietary diversity among livestock keepers in Karamoja, Uganda. Social Science and the Humanities Open. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2024.100836

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Tiwari, C., Balehegn, M., Adesogan, A., and McKune, S. (2023). Benefits, perceived and actual risks and barriers to egg consumption in low-and middle-income countries. Frontiers in Animal Sciences. https://doi.org/10.3389/fanim.2023.1270588

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McKune, S., Galie, A., Miller, B., Bukachi, S., Bikaako, W., and R. Pyburn. (2023). Systematic retrospective analysis of the utility of qualitative and quantitative research methods for understanding essential elements of a gender responsive vaccine system. Sustainable Food Systems. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2023.1176101

 

McNamara, K. and S. McKune (2023). Empowered bodies: Embodiment as a lens for understanding nutrition-empowerment connections in community settings. Development in Practice. https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2023.2270787.

 

*Mechlowitz, K., Singh, N., Li, X., Chen, D., Yang, Y., A.J., Rabil, A., Cheraso, A.J., Roba, K.T., Manary, M., Yousuf Hassen, J., Rajashekara, G., Yimer, G., Havelaar, A. and McKune, S.  (2023) Women’s Empowerment and Child Nutrition in a Context of Shifting Livelihoods in Eastern Ethiopia. Frontiers in Nutrition. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2023.1048532

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Deblais, L., Ojeda, A., Bhrane, M., Ibrahim, B., Abdi, K., Usmael, B., Demisie, Y., Amin, J., Ahmed, I., Usmane, I., Yusuf, E., Usmail, M., Mummed, B., Game, H., Abrahim, F., Seran, A., Umer, K., Dawid, M.,  French, N.P., Gebreyes, W., Hassen, J., Manary, M., Ibrahim, A., Roba, K., Saleem, C., Chen, D., McKune, S., Havelaar, A., and Rajashekara, G. (2023) Prevalence and load of Campylobacter genus in infants and associated household in rural Eastern Ethiopia: a longitudinal study from the Campylobacter Genomics and Environmental Enteric Dysfunction (CAGED) Project. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.00424-23

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McKune, S., Acosta, D., Fujii, Y., Joyce-Beaulieu, D., Sayeed, M., Cato, E., Flaherty, K., Creasy, A., Pu, R., Logan, T., Gallagher, A., Cummings, D., Long, M., Maurelli, A., and Nelson, E. (2023) The infected and affected: Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic among children at a K-12 school in Florida. Frontiers in Public Health. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1003923

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Bhattarai, S., Blackburn, J., McKune, S., and Ryan, S. (2023). Spatio-temporal patterns of malaria in Nepal from 2005-2018: A country progressing toward malaria elimination. Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sste.2023.100576

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*Moore, E., Wood, E., Stark, H., Wereme, A., and McKune, S. (2023). The sustainability and scalability of egg consumption in Burkina Faso for infant and young children feeding. Frontiers in Nutrition. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2022.1096256

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*Magalhães, M., Ojeda, A., Mechlowitz, K., Brittain, K., Daniel, J., Roba, K., Yousuf, J., Manary, M., Gebreyes, W. A., Havelaar, A. H., and McKune, S. L. (2022). Socioecological predictors of breastfeeding practices in rural eastern Ethiopia: a cross sectional study. International Breastfeeding Journal. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13006-022-00531-3

 

*Moore, E., Singh, N., Serra, R., and McKune, S. (2022) Household decision-making, women’s empowerment, and increasing egg consumption in children under five in rural Burkina Faso: Observations from a cluster randomized controlled trial. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2022.1034618

Balehegn, M,  Adesogan, A., Andrade, J. A., Andrade, J., and McKune, S. (2022). The importance of meat for cognitive development. Meat and Muscle Biology.  https://doi.org/10.22175/mmb.13040

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Havelaar, A., Adhanom, M., Ahmed, I., Amin, J., Chen, D., Deblais, L., French, N., Gebreyes, W., Hassen, J., Li, X., Manary, M., Mekuria, Z., Mohammed, A., Mummed, B., Ojeda, A., Rajashekara, G., Roba, K., Saleem, C., Singh, N., Usmane, I., Yang, Y., Yimer, G., and McKune, S. (2022) Unraveling the reservoirs for colonization of infants with Campylobacter spp. in rural Ethiopia: protocol for a longitudinal study during a global pandemic and political tensions. BMJ Open. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-061311

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Nelson, EJ., McKune, SL., Ryan, KA., et al. (2022) Antigen vs RT-PCR Tests for Screening Quarantined Students in Florida During the COVID-19 Pandemic SARS-CoV-2 Delta Variant Surge. JAMA Pediatr. 2022;176(5):525–526. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2022.0080

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Serra, R., Ludgate, N., Fiorillo Dowhaniuk, K., McKune, SL., Russo, S. (2022) Beyond the Gender of the Livestock Holder: Learnings from Intersectional Analyses of PPR Vaccine Value Chains in Nepal, Senegal, and Uganda. Animals 2022, 12(3), 241; https://doi.org/10.3390/ani12030241

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*Mechlowitz, K., Roba, KT., Feye, A., Laytner, L., and McKune, SL. (2022) Chronic undernutrition and adolescent school performance in central Ethiopia. Afr. J. Food Agric. Nutr. Dev. 2022; 22(4): 20102-20120. https://doi.org/10.18697/ajfand.109.20525

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*McKune, S., Mechlowitz, K., Miller, L.C. (2022) Dietary animal source food across the lifespan in LMIC. Global Food Security. 35 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2022.100656

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*Moore, EV., Singh, N., Serra, R., and McKune, SL. (2022) Household decision-making, women's empowerment, and increasing egg consumption in children under five in rural Burkina Faso: Observations from a cluster randomized controlled trial. Front. Sustain. Food Syst. 6:1034618. doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2022.1034618

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*Acosta, D., Ludgate, N., McKune, S., and Russo, S. (2022). Who has access to livestock vaccines? Using the Social-Ecological Model framework to identify the social barriers to peste des petits ruminants vaccines in Karamoja, Uganda. Frontiers in Veterinary Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2022.831752

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Serra, R., Ludgate, N., Dowhaniuk, K. F., McKune, S., and Russo, S. (2022). Beyond the gender of the livestock holder: Learnings from intersectional analyses of PPR vaccine value chains in Nepal, Senegal, and Uganda. Animals. https://doi.10.3390/ani12030241

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Nelson, E., McKune, S., Ryan, K., Shapiro, J., Mott-Young, A., Myers, P., and Morris, J. G. (2021) Antigen versus RT-PCR tests for screening quarantined students 2 during a SARS-CoV-2 delta variant surge 3. JAMA Pediatrics. https://doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2022.0080

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McKune, S. (2021). The Environment and the Challenge of Climate Change. In Villalon, L. (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the African Sahel. Oxford University Press.

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McKune, S. (2021). The Challenge of Food Security and Nutrition. In Villalon, L. (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the African Sahel. Oxford University Press.

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*Chen, D., Mechlowitz, K., Li, X., Schaefer, N., Havelaar, A., and McKune, S. (2021) Benefits and risks of smallholder livestock production on child nutrition in low- and middle-income countries. Frontiers in Nutrition. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2021.751686

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Havelaar, A. and McKune, S. (2021). Balancing the nutritional benefits and infection risks of livestock in low- and middle-income countries. World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) Panorama, 2021-1.

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Coffin-Schmitt, J., Moore, E., McKune, S., Mo, R., Nkamwesiga, J., Isingoma, E., Nantima, N., Adiba, R., Mwiine, F., Nsamba, P., Hendrickx, S., and Mariner, J. (2021) Measurement and Sampling Error in Mixed-Methods Research for the Control of Peste des Petits Ruminants in the Karamoja Subregion of Northeastern Uganda: A Cautionary Tale. Preventive Veterinary Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prevetmed.2021.105464

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*Acosta, D., Fuji, Y., Jacobs, K., Beaulieu, D., Maurelli, A., Nelson, E., and McKune, S. (2021) Psychosocial health of K-12 students engaged in emergency remote education and in-person schooling: A cross-sectional study. IJERPH. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18168564

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*Mechlowitz, K., Roba, K.T., Feye, A., Laytner, L., McKune, S. (2021). Undernutrition and Adolescent School Performance in Rural Ethiopia. African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development. https://doi.org/10.18697/ajfand.109.20525

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McKune, S., Toure, A. and Serra, R. (2021). Gender and Intersectional Analysis of livestock vaccine value chains in Kaffrine, Senegal. PLOS One. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0252045

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*McOmber, C., McNamara, K., Ryley, T., and McKune, S. (2021). Investigating the Conceptual Plurality of Empowerment in Food Security Research. Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13063166

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McKune, S., Acosta, D., Diaz, N., Brittain, K., Joyce-Beaulieu, D., Maurelli, A., and Nelson, E. (2021) Psychosocial health of School-aged Children during the Initial COVID-19 Lockdown in Florida: A cross-sectional study. Vol 21: 603. BMC Public Health. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-10540-2

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McOmber, C., McNamara, K., and McKune, S. (2021). Community Concept Drawing: A participatory visual method for incorporating local knowledge into conceptualization. Field Methods. https://doi.org/10.1177/1525822X211014736

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Nelson, E. McKune, S., Ryan, K., Lednicky, J., Crowe, S., Myers, P., and Morris, G. (2021). SARS-CoV-2. positivity on or after 9 days among quarantined student contacts of confirmed cases. JAMA. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2776857

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Chen, D., McKune, S., Singh, N., Yousuf Hassen, J., Gebreyes, W., Manary, M., Bardosh, K., Yang, Y., Diaz, N., Mohammed, A., Terefe, Y., Roba, K., Ketema, M., Ameha, N., Assefa, N., Rajashekara, G., Deblais, L., Ghanem, M., Yimer, G., Ordiz, I., and Havelaar, A. (2021). Campylobacter Colonization, Environmental Enteric Dysfunction, Stunting, and Associated Risk Factors among Young Children in Rural Ethiopia: a Cross-sectional Study from the Campylobacter Genomics and Environmental Enteric Dysfunction (CAGED) Project. Frontiers in Public Health. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2020.615793

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*Dowhaniuk, N., Ojok, S., and McKune, S. (2021) Setting a Research Agenda to Improve Community Health: An Inclusive Mixed-Methods Approach in Northern Uganda. PLOS One. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244249

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Yimer, G., Gebreyes, W., Havelaar, A., Yousuf, J., McKune, S., Mohammed, A., and O’Mathúna, D. (2020). Community Engagement and Building Trust to Resolve Ethical Challenges during Humanitarian Crises: Experience from the CAGED Study. Conflict and Health. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13031-020-00313-w

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McKune, S. Stark, H., Sapp, A., Yang, Y., Slanzi, C., Moore, C., Omer, A., Wereme N’Diaye, A. PhD. (2020) Behavior change, egg consumption, and child nutrition: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial. Pediatrics. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2020-007930

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McKune, S., Lane, J., Austin-Datta, R., Ouma, E., Flax, V., Williams, R., Moore, E., Jacobs, M., and Turk, J. (2020). Increasing animal source food consumption: Recommendations for making livestock research and programming more nutrition sensitive. Global Food Security. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2020.100430

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*Stark, H., Omer, A., Wereme N’Diaye, A., Sapp. A., Moore, E., and McKune, S. (2020). The Un Oeuf study: Design, methods, and baseline data from a cluster randomized controlled trial to increase child egg consumption in Burkina Faso. Maternal and Child Nutrition. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/mcn.13069

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Colverson, K., Gaile, A., Moore, E., Harris-Coble, L., McKune, S., Moe, R., Munoz, O. (2020). Evolution of a Gender Tool: WEAI, WELI and Livestock Research. Global Food Security. Vol 26: 100375 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2020.100375

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Terefe, Y., Deblais, L. Ghanem, M., Helmy, Y., Mummed, B. Chen, D., Singh, N., Ahyong, V., Kalantar, K., Yimer, G., Yousuf J., Mohammed, A., McKune, S., Manary, M., Ordiz, M., Gebreyes, W., Havelaar, A., and Rajashekara, G. (2020) Co-occurrence of Campylobacter Species in Children from Eastern Ethiopia, and their Association with Environmental Enteric Dysfunction, Diarrhea and Host Microbiome. Frontiers Public Health. Vol 8, 99 (1-16). https://doi.org10.3389/fpubh.2020.00099

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Bardosh, K., Wolyie, J., Ahmed, E., Yousuf, J., Ketema, M., Ibrahim, A., McKune, S., Havelaar, A. (2020). Chicken Eggs, Childhood Stunting and Environmental Hygiene: An Ethnographic Study from the Campylobacter Genomics and Environmental Enteric Dysfunction (CAGED) Project in Ethiopia. One Health Outlook. Vol 2, 5 (1-15). https://doi.org/10.1186/s42522-020-00012-9

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*Bailey, K. M., McCleery, R. A., Barnes, G., & McKune, S. (2019). Climate-Driven Adaptation, Household Capital, and Nutritional Outcomes among Farmers in Eswatini. International journal of environmental research and public health, 16(21), 4063. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16214063

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Adesogan, A. T., Havelaar, A. H., McKune, S., Eilittä, M., & Dahl, G. E. (2019). Animal source foods: Sustainability problem or malnutrition and sustainability solution? Perspective matters. Global Food Security, 100325.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2019.100325

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*Acosta, D., Hendrikx, S., and McKune, S. (2019). The livestock vaccine supply chain: why it matters and how it can help eradicate Peste des Petits Ruminants, based on findings in Karamoja, Uganda. Vaccine. 37(43):6285-6290. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2019.09.011

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Balehegn, M., Mekuriaw, Z., Miller, L., McKune, S., and Adesogan, A. (2019). Animal source foods for improved cognitive development. Animal Frontiers. Volume 9, Issue 4, October 2019, Pages 50–57. https://doi.org/10.1093/af/vfz039

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Varijakshapanicker, P., McKune, S., Miller, L., Hendrickx, S., Balehegn, M., Dahl, G., and Adesogan, A. (2019). Sustainable livestock systems to improve human health, nutrition, and economic status. Animal Frontiers. Volume 9, Issue 4, October 2019, Pages 39–50. https://doi.org/10.1093/af/vfz041

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McKune, S., Poulsen, L., Devereux, T., Russo, S., McOmber, C., Faas, S., and Ryley, T. (2018). Reaching the end goal: Do interventions to improve climate information services lead to greater food security? Climate Risk Management. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2018.08.002

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Anderson, H., Wood, L., McKune, S. and Kowalewska, A. (2017). Household remoteness and patterns of food production, consumption and acquisition in Tajikistan. International Journal of Agricultural Extension.

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*Wood, L., Chapman, L., Beau de Rochars, M., and McKune, S. (2017). Community-based Health Needs Assessment in Léogâne and Gressier, Haiti: Six Years Post-Earthquake. Journal of International Humanitarian Action. http://rdcu.be/xHwp

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*Chapman, K., Wood, E., and McKune, S. (2017). Perceptions of Vaginal Illness Related to Water Quality in the Coastal Ouest Region of Haiti. Biological Sciences.

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Abramowitz, S., McKune, S., Fallah, M., Monger, K.T. and Omidian, P. (2017) The Opposite of Denial: Social Learning at the Onset of the Ebola Emergency in Liberia. Journal of Health Communication, 22: sup1, 59-65, https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2016.1209599

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McLean, K., Abramowitz, S., Ball, J., McKune, S., Omidian, P. (2016) Community-based Reports of Morbidity, Mortality, and Health-Seeking Behaviors in Four Monrovia Communities During the West African Ebola Epidemic. Global Public Health: An International Journal for Research, Policy, and Practice.

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McKune, S. and Hood, N. (2016) Impact of Food Aid on two communities in Niger. Emergency Nutrition Network Field Exchange. Issue 51, pp. 68-71.

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McKune, S., Borresen, E., Young, A., Ryley, T., Russo, S., Camara, A.D., Coleman, M. and Ryan, E. (2015) Climate change through a gendered lens: Examining livestock holder food security. Global Food Security, 6, pp.1-8.

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Abramowitz, S., McLean, K., McKune, S., Bardosh, K., Fallah, M., Monger, J., Tehoungue, K., and Omidian, P. (2015) Community-Centered Responses to Ebola in Urban Liberia: The View from Below. 9(5). PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0003706

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McKune, S. & Silva, J. (2013) Pastoralists under pressure: Double exposure to economic and environmental change in Niger. The Journal of Development Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2013.822067

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Jamoom, E. W., Andresen, E. M., Neugaard, B., & McKune, S. L. (2008). The effect of caregiving on preventive care for people with disabilities. Disability and Health Journal, 1(1), 51-57.

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Neugaard, B., Andresen, E., McKune, S., & Jamoom, E. (2008). Health-Related Quality of Life in a National Sample of Caregivers: Findings from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. Journal of Happiness Studies, 9(4), 559-575.