Debbie Humphries
Dr. Debbie (maiden name: Debilijah) Humphries has a broad background in public health research and practice. She has been a consultant in the areas of diet and physical activity behavior change, sustainability of community health programs, program monitoring and evaluation, and training in participatory monitoring and evaluation for organizations in Vietnam, Africa and in the United States. She has extended that reach through her Community Health Program Planning course which places student groups with agencies in the State of Connecticut to plan and evaluate programs. Sample projects include: Determining the Best Time to Implement Routine HIV Testing in Jails; Barriers to Accessing Health Care and Health Needs of Undocumented Immigrants; Evaluation of HIV/AIDS prevention, testing and care in Connecticut Correctional Facilities; and Strategies to Reduce Low Birth Weight in New Haven: An Evaluation of the Outreach Strategy of the New Haven Maternal and Child Health Department. Humphries is also a member of the Community Research Core for the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS at Yale.[1]
Dr. Humphries’ research addresses interactions between nutrition and infectious disease, as well as programmatic approaches to improving public health. This work has taken her to Asia and Africa where she has studied environmental factors and intestinal helminth infections and their relationship to anemia as well as effectiveness of intervention programs. She is currently collaborating on a longitudinal study to characterize parasite and host factors affecting response to deworming in Ghana.
Research interests[edit]
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; Developing Countries; Ghana; HIV; Hookworm Infections; Malaria; Parasitology; Public Health; Vietnam; Global Health; Nutrition Policy Research summary Dr. Humphries has a broad background in public health practice. She has consulting expertise in the areas of diet and physical activity behavior change, sustainability of community health programs, program monitoring and evaluation, and training in participatory monitoring and evaluation.
Dr. Humphries has research experience in relationships between nutritional deficiencies and infectious disease in resource-poor environments. She is interested in interdisciplinary research on nutrition, immune function, and disease.
Education[edit]
PhD, Cornell University, 1996 MPH, University of Michigan/Ann Arbor, 1992
Publications[edit]
Smith, L., Conroy, K., Hongmei, W., Rui, L., Humphries, D. (2013) Portion size variably affects food intake of 6-year-old and 4-year-old children in Kunming, China. Appetite 69:31-8. PMID 23702260 Humphries, D., Simms, B., Davey, D., Otchere, J., Quagraine, J., Terryah, S., Newton, S., Berg, E., Harrison, L., Boakye, D., Wilson, M., Cappello, M. (2013) Hookworm infection among school age children in Kintampo North Municipality, Ghana: Nutritional risk factors and response to albendazole treatment. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 89(3):540-8. PMID 23836564 Humphries, D., J. Behrman, B. Crookston, K Dearden, W. Schott, M. Penny. 2014. Households Across All Income Quintiles, Especially the Poorest, Increased Animal Source Food Expenditures Substantially During Recent Peruvian Economic Growth. PLoS One. Kotze, A.C., Dobson R.J., Humphries D.L., Wilson M., Cappello, M. (2014) Application of a Poisson distribution quality control measure to the analysis of two human hookworm drug treatment studies in Ghana. International Journal of Parasitology: Drugs and Drug Resistance [available online 30 January 2014].
Stefani, M., Humphries, D. (2014) Boundary Development in the Field of International Nutrition Science. Advances in Nutrition 5:193-198. Humphries D, Carroll-Scott A, Mitchell L, Tian T, Choudhury S, Fiellin DA. (2014) Assessing research activity and capacity of community-based organizations: Development and pilot testing of an instrument. Prog Community Health Partnersh 8(4). [Available online before publication] Stefani, M., Humphries, D. (2013) Exploring culture in the world of international nutrition and nutrition sciences. Advances in Nutrition 4(5):536-8. PMC 3771141 [Available on 2014/9/1] Humphries, D., et al., Epidemiology of hookworm infection in Kintampo North Municipality, Ghana: patterns of malaria coinfection, anemia, and albendazole treatment failure. Am J Trop Med Hyg, 2011. 84(5): p. 792-800. Humphries D, Gomez L, Hartwig K, 2010. Sustainability of NGO capacity building in southern Africa: successes and opportunities. Int J Health Plann Manage (e-pub ahead of print). Hartwig, K., Humphries, D., and Matebeni, Z. (2008) Building Capacity for AIDS NGOs in Southern Africa: Evaluation of a Pilot Initiative. Health Promotion International 23:251-259. PMID 18407925 Yim, A., Humphries, D., and Abuova, G. Food, Alcohol and Cigarette Availability and Consumption in Almaty, Kazakstan: Results and Appraisal of a Rapid Assessment. Public Health Nutrition 6(8): 791-800, 2003. Krummel, D.A., Humphries, D., and Tessaro, I. Focus Groups on Cardiovascular Health in Rural Women: Implications for Practice. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior 34(1): 38-46, 2002 Humphries, D.L. and Krummel, D.A. Perceived Susceptibility to Cardiovascular Disease and Dietary Intake in Women. American Journal of Health Behaviors 23(4): 250-260, 1999 Humphries, D.L., Stephenson, L.S., Pearce, E.J., The, P.H., Dan, H.T., and Khanh, L.T. The Use of Human Faeces for Fertilizer is Associated with Increased Intensity of Hookworm Infection in Vietnamese Women. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 91: 518-520, 1997. Humphries, D., Vella, A.T., and Pearce, E.J. Increased CD4+ T Cell-dependent Anti-erythrocyte Antibody Levels Following the Onset of Parasite Egg Production in Schistosoma mansoni Infected Mice. Parasite Immunology 16: 469-477, 1994.[2]
International activities[edit]
AIDS Project New Haven United States (2013-Present) Serve as a board member and on the program committee of the board. New Haven Farms Fresh Produce Prescription Program United States (2012-Present) Co-principal investigator on an urban-farm based intervention to investigate the effects of fresh produce on fruit and vegetable intake and diabetes risk factors. Field research on parasitology and nutritional status Ghana (2010-Present) interested in measures of nutritional status in resource poor settings Supervision of Student Research Uganda (2010-Present) Supervision of Student Research South Africa (2010-Present) Supervision of Student Research Kunming, China (2010-2013) Monitoring and Evaluation of Secure the Future Gaborone, Botswana, Maseru, Lesotho, Windhoek, Namibia, Mbabane, Swaziland, Johannesburg, South Africa (2004-2007) Secure the Future is an initiative of the Bristol-Myers Squibb Company to strengthen the capacity of African countries to deal effectively with the HIV pandemic. The Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS at Yale has established a Monitoring and Evaluation Unit (MEU) for the BMS/STF initiative. Institution: Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation
Current projects Dr. Humphries has a broad background in public health practice. She has consulting expertise in the areas of diet and physical activity behavior change, sustainability of community health programs, program monitoring and evaluation, and training in participatory monitoring and evaluation.[3]
Dr. Humphries has research experience in relationships between nutritional deficiencies and infectious disease in resource-poor environments. She is interested in interdisciplinary research on nutrition, immune function, and disease.[4]
Engaging with students in the classroom, on theses and internships provides Dr. Humphries with valuable insights and the opportunity to investigate different perspectives and approaches. She has supported students in conducting research in topics as varied as mapping access to health centers in Burkina Faso, developing a game for teaching communities about malaria transmission, mapping access to food and cigarettes in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and policy approaches to reducing the diabetes impact in India. She enjoys experimenting in the classroom with pedagogical methods that combine academic concepts with practical experience.[5]
Relationship between hookworm infection, response to treatment, and nutritional status in school children in Ghana; measures of research capacity for community based organizations; impact of public health resource sharing on service cost and quality in Connecticut and Massachusetts[6]
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