Publications
Blake, A., Hazel, M.A., Jakurama, J., Matundu, J., Bharti, N. (2023) Disparities in mobile phone ownership reflect inequities in access to healthcare. PLoS Digital Health; 2(7): e0000270. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000270.
Baranowski, K., Bharti, N. (2023) Habitat Loss for Black Flying Foxes and Implications for Hendra virus. Landscape Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-023-01642-w
Faust, Christina; Castellanos, Adrian; Peel, Alison; Eby, Peggy; Plowright, Raina; Han, Barbara; Bharti, Nita. (2023) Environmental variation across disparate spatial scales and temporal lags influences Hendra virus spillover. Journal of Applied Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14415
Wang, Z., Wu, P., Wang, J., Lourenço, J., Li, B., Rader, B., Laine, M., Miao, H., Wang, L., Song, H., Bharti, N., Brownstein, J., Bjørnstad, O., Dye, C., & Tian, H. (2022) Accessing the asymptomatic proportion of SARS-CoV-2 infection with age in China before the mass vaccination. Journal of the Royal Society Interface; 19, 20220498. http://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2022.0498
Arnold, C., Srinivasan, S., Herzog, C., Gontu, A., Bharti, N., Small, M., Rogers, C., Schade, M., Kuchipudi, S., Kapur, V., Read, A., Ferrari, M. (2022) SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence in a university community: A longitudinal study of the impact of student return to campus on infection risk among community members. Scientific Reports 12, 8586. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-12499-5
Small, M., Lennon, R., Dziak, J., Smith, R., Sommerville, G., Bharti, N. (2022) College Students' COVID-19 Vaccine Beliefs and Intentions: Implications for Interventions. Journal of American College Health. https://doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2022.2065205
Smith, R., Small, M., Bharti, N., DeMatte, S., Lennon, R, Ferrari, M., and the Data4Action Research Group. (2022) Normative influences and COVID-19 mitigation among college students: Processes, person-centered implications, and antibody results. Health Communication https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2022.2049047
Bharti, N., Lambert, B., Exten, C., Faust, C., Ferrari, M., Robinson, A. (2022) Large university with high COVID-19 incidence did not increase risk to non-student population. Scientific Reports 12, 3313. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-07155-x
Manuel Ruiz-Aravena*, Clifton McKee*, Amandine Gamble, Tamika Lunn, Aaron Morris, Celine E. Snedden, Claude Kwe Yinda, Julia R. Port, David William Buchholz, Yao Yu Yeo, Christina Faust, Elinor Jax, Lauren Dee, Devin Jones, Maureen Kessler, Caylee Falvo, Daniel Crowley, Nita Bharti, Cara E. Brook, Hector C. Aguilar, Alison J. Peel, Olivier Restif, Tony Schountz, Colin R. Parrish, Emily S. Gurley, James O. Lloyd-Smith, Peter Hudson, Vincent J. Munster, Raina K. Plowright. (2021) Ecology, evolution, and spillover of coronaviruses from bats. Nature Reviews Microbiology, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41579-021-00652-2 (*authors contributed equally)
Faust, C., Lambert, B., Kochenour, C., Robinson, A., Bharti, N. (2021) Passive surveillance assesses compliance with COVID-19 behavioural restrictions in a rural US county. Epidemiology and Infection, 149, E211. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268821002107
Hazel, A., Meeks, G., Bharti, N., Jakurama, J., Matundu, J., Jones, J. (2021) Opportunities and constraints in women’s resource security amid climate change: A case study of arid-living Namibian agro-pastoralists. American Journal of Human Biology. http://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.23633
Tao, Y., Hite, J., Lafftery, K., Earn, D.,* Bharti, N.* (2021) Transient disease dynamics across ecological scales. Theoretical Ecology. (*authors contributed equally) https://doi.org/10.1007/s12080-021-00514-w
Baranowski, K.*, Faust, C.*, Eby, P., Bharti, N. (2021) Quantifying the impacts of Australian bushfires on native forests and grey-headed flying foxes. Global Ecology and Conservation. (June 2021; e01566) (*authors contributed equally) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2021.e01566 (Pre-print of earlier version: DOI 10.21203/rs.3.rs-36234/v1)
Bharti, N. (2021) Linking Human Behaviors and Infectious Diseases. PNAS https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2101345118
Tejas S. Athni, Marta S. Shocket, Lisa I. Couper, Nicole Nova, Iain R. Caldwell, Jamie M. Caldwell, Jasmine N. Childress, Marissa L. Childs, Giulio A. De Leo, Devin Kirk, Andrew J. MacDonald, Kathryn Olivarius, David G. Pickel, Steven O. Roberts, Olivia C. Winokur, Hillary S. Young, Julian Cheng, Elizabeth A. Grant, Patrick M. Kurzner, Saw Kyaw, Bradford J. Lin, Ricardo C. López, Diba S. Massihpour, Erica C. Olsen, Maggie Roache, Angie Ruiz, Emily A. Schultz, Muskan Shafat, Rebecca L. Spencer, Nita Bharti *, Erin A. Mordecai * (2021) The influence of vector-borne disease on human history: socio-ecological mechanisms. Ecology Letters. 24(3) (* joint senior and corresponding authors), DOI: 10.1111/ele.13675
Baranowski, K., Taylor, T., Lambert, B., Bharti, N. (2020) Application of Reflectance Ratios on High-Resolution Satellite Imagery to Remotely Identify Eucalypt Vegetation. Remote Sens. 12(24), 4079; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12244079
Bharti, N., Exten, C., Fulton, V., Oliver-Veronesi, R. (2020) Lessons from managing a campus mumps outbreak using test, trace, and isolate efforts. American Journal of Infection Control. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2020.11.008
Blake, A., Djibo, A., Guindo, O., Bharti, N. (2020) Investigating persistent measles dynamics in Niger and associations with rainfall. J. R. Soc. Interface. 17(169), doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2020.0480
Bharti, N. (2020) Controlling the coronavirus narrative. Science. 365(6505), DOI: 10.1126/science.abd3662
Bharti, N., Tatem, A. (2018) Fluctuations in anthropogenic nighttime lights from satellite imagery for five cities in Niger and Nigeria. Scientific Data 5:108256, doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2018.256
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Bharti, N., Djibo, A., Tatem, AJ, Grenfell, BT, Ferrari, MJ. (2016) Measuring populations to improve vaccination coverage. Scientific Reports 6:34541, doi: 10.1038/srep34541
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Bharti, N., Lu, X., Bengtsson, L., Wetter, E., Tatem, A. (2015) Remotely measuring populations during a crisis by overlaying two data sources. International Health 7(2):90-98 doi: 10.1093/inthealth/ihv003
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Halloran, M.E, Vespignani, A., Bharti, N., Feldstein LR, Alexander KA, Ferrari MJ, Shaman J, Drake JM, Porco T, Eisenberg JNS, Del Valle SY, Lofgren E, Scarpino SV, Eisenberg MC, Gao D, Hyman JM, Eubank S, Longini RM. (2014) Ebola: Mobility data. Science 346(6208):433
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Bharti, N. (2014) The importance of movement in environmental change and infectious disease. Institute of Medicine's Forum on Microbial Threats workshop summary on The Influence of Global Environmental Change on Infectious Disease Dynamics.
Lu, X., Wetter, E., Bharti, N., Tatem, A., Bengtsson, L. (2013) Approaching the limits of predictability in human mobility. Scientific Reports 3(2923): 1-9 doi: 10.1038/srep02923
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Tatem, A., Adamo, S., Bharti, N., Burgert, C., Castro, M., Dorelien, A., Fink, G., Linard, C., Mendelsohn J., Montana, L., Montgomery, M., Nelson, A., Noor, A., Pindolia, D., Yetman G., and Balk, D. (2012) Mapping populations at risk: improving spatial demographic data for infectious disease modeling and metric derivation. Population Health Metrics 10(8):1-14 doi:10.1186/1478-7954-10-8
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Bharti, N., Tatem A., Ferrari, M., Grais, R., Djibo, A., Grenfell, B. (2011) Explaining seasonal fluctuations of measles in Niger using nighttime lights imagery. Science 334(6061):1424-1427. doi: 10.1126/science.1210554
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Bharti, N., Broutin, H., Ferrari, M., Grais, R., Djibo, A., Tatem, A., Grenfell, B. (2011) Spatial dynamics of meningitis in Niger: observed patterns in comparison with measles. Epidemiology and Infection doi:10.1017/S0950268811002032
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Metcalf, C.J.E., Bjornstad, O.N., Ferrari, M.J., Klepac, P., Bharti, N., Lopez-Gatall, H., Grenfell, B.T. (2010) The epidemiology of rubella in Mexico: seasonality, stochasticity, and regional variation. Epidemiology and Infection 139:1029-1038.
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Bharti, N., Djibo, A., Ferrari, M., Grais, R., Tatem, A., McCabe, C., Bjornstad, O., Grenfell, B. (2010) Measles hotspots and epidemiological connectivity. Epidemiology and Infection 138:1308-1316.
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Ferrari, M., Djibo, A., Grais, R.F., Bharti, N., Grenfell, B.T., Bjornstad, O.N. (2010) Rural-urban gradient in seasonal forcing of measles transmission in Niger. Proc Biol Sci 277(1695):2775-82.
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Ferrari, M., Grais, R., Bharti, N., Conlan, A., Bjornstand, O., Wolfson, L., Guerin., P., Djibo, A., Grenfell, B. (2008) The dynamics of measles in sub-Saharan Africa. Nature 451, 679-684. doi:10.1038/nature06509
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Bharti, N., Xia, Y., Bjornstand, O., Grenfell, B. (2008) Measles on the edge: coastal heterogeneities and disease modeling. PloS ONE 3(4): e1941. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001941
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Finkelman, B., Viboud, C., Koelle, K., Ferrari, M., Bharti, N., Grenfell, B. (2007) Global patterns in seasonal activity of influenza A/H3N2, A/H1N1, and B from 1997 to 2005: Viral coexistence and latitudinal gradients. PloS ONE 2(12): e1296. doi:10:1371/journal.pone.0001296
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