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Manisha Kulkarni
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Latest papers
Inter-cluster contamination: a semivariance analysis of community effect ranges of malaria vector control interventions in a four-armed malaria trial in Muleba, Tanzania.
Malaria journal · 2025 · senior author
Study protocol for a scoping review of Lyme disease prediction methodologies.
BMJ open · 2024
Durability of three types of dual active ingredient long-lasting insecticidal net compared to a pyrethroid-only LLIN in Tanzania: methodology for a prospective cohort study nested in a cluster randomized controlled trial.
Malaria journal · 2022
Latest funding
- $20,000
2026 TickNet Canada Scientific Symposium and Canadian Tick-Borne Disease Summit
CIHR · 2025 · Nominated PI
- $436,050
Predicting the Current and Future Burden of Lyme Disease with a Platform for Integrating Computation, Analysis, and Simulation for Ontario (PICASO)
CIHR · 2025 · Principal investigator
- $19,970
Identifying research priorities to assess climate change impacts on malaria and arboviruses in Sub-Saharan Africa: An International Planning Meeting
CIHR · 2022 · Nominated PI
11 publications.
Inter-cluster contamination: a semivariance analysis of community effect ranges of malaria vector control interventions in a four-armed malaria trial in Muleba, Tanzania.
Thickstun C, Lukole E, Mosha JF, Manjurano A, Kleinschmidt I, Mosha FW, Charlwood JD, Rowland M, Jolly A, Zwerling A, Protopopoff N, Kulkarni M
Study protocol for a scoping review of Lyme disease prediction methodologies.
Szaroz D, Kulkarni M, Robayo González CX, Zinszer K
Durability of three types of dual active ingredient long-lasting insecticidal net compared to a pyrethroid-only LLIN in Tanzania: methodology for a prospective cohort study nested in a cluster randomized controlled trial.
Martin JL, Messenger LA, Mosha FW, Lukole E, Mosha JF, Kulkarni M, Churcher TS, Sherrard-Smith E, Manjurano A, Protopopoff N, Rowland M
Antenatal Care Research in East Africa During the Millennium Development Goals Initiative: A Scoping Review.
Steele V, Patterson K, Berrang-Ford L, King N, Kulkarni M, Lwasa S, Namanya DB, Harper SL
Factors influencing antenatal care attendance for Bakiga and Indigenous Batwa women in Kanungu District, Southwestern Uganda.
Steele V, Patterson K, Berrang-Ford L, King N, Kulkarni M, Namanya D, Kesande C, Batwa Communities, Twesigomwe S, Asaasira G, Harper SL
Sentinel surveillance of Lyme disease risk in Canada, 2019: Results from the first year of the Canadian Lyme Sentinel Network (CaLSeN).
Guillot C, Badcock J, Clow K, Cram J, Dergousoff S, Dibernardo A, Evason M, Fraser E, Galanis E, Gasmi S, German GJ, Howse DT, Jardine C, Jenkins E, Koffi J, Kulkarni M, Lindsay LR, Lumsden G, McKay R, Moore K, Morshed M, Munn D, Nelder M, Nocera J, Ripoche M, Rochon K, Russell C, Slatculescu A, Talbot B, Thivierge K, Voordouw M, Bouchard C, Leighton P
Dengue Incidence and Sociodemographic Conditions in Pucallpa, Peruvian Amazon: What Role for Modification of the Dengue-Temperature Relationship?
Charette M, Berrang-Ford L, Coomes O, Llanos-Cuentas EA, Cárcamo C, Kulkarni M, Harper SL
Factors associated with maternity waiting home use among women in Jimma Zone, Ethiopia: a multilevel cross-sectional analysis.
Kurji J, Gebretsadik LA, Wordofa MA, Sudhakar M, Asefa Y, Kiros G, Mamo A, Bergen N, Asfaw S, Bedru KH, Bulcha G, Labonte R, Taljaard M, Kulkarni M
What caused the 2012 dengue outbreak in Pucallpa, Peru? A socio-ecological autopsy.
Charette M, Berrang-Ford L, Llanos-Cuentas EA, Cárcamo C, Kulkarni M
Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasitaemia among indigenous Batwa and non-indigenous communities of Kanungu district, Uganda.
Donnelly B, Berrang-Ford L, Labbé J, Twesigomwe S, Lwasa S, Namanya DB, Harper SL, Kulkarni M, Ross NA, IHACC Research Team, Michel P
2026 TickNet Canada Scientific Symposium and Canadian Tick-Borne Disease Summit
Principal investigators: Kulkarni, Manisha A; Bouchard, Catherine; Leighton, Patrick
Keywords: Climate Change; Clinical Science; Diagnostics; Infectious Diseases; Knowledge Mobilization; Lyme Disease; Patient Engagement; Public Health; Surveillance; Tick-Borne Pathogens
Predicting the Current and Future Burden of Lyme Disease with a Platform for Integrating Computation, Analysis, and Simulation for Ontario (PICASO)
Principal investigators: Jalal, Hawre; Kulkarni, Manisha A
Keywords: Climate Change; Land Cover; Lyme Disease; Mathematical Modeling; Population Change; Spatiotemporal Modeling; Ticks (Ixodes Scapularis); Urbanization; Vector-Borne Diseases
Identifying research priorities to assess climate change impacts on malaria and arboviruses in Sub-Saharan Africa: An International Planning Meeting
Principal investigators: Kulkarni, Manisha A; Mosha, Franklin W; Protopopoff, Natacha
Keywords: Arboviruses; Climate Change; Emerging Zoonoses; Global Health; Malaria; Partnership Strengthening; Vector-Borne Diseases
Assessing strategies for the prevention and control of emerging tick-borne diseases in urban and peri-urban settings
Principal investigators: Ost, Katarina
Keywords: Acceptability; Epidemiology; Field Experiments; Lyme Disease; Ottawa; Tick-Borne Disease
Approche multisectorielle de recherche convergente pour l'évaluation exhaustive du risque posé par les arbovirus émergents sur les populations vulnérables du Canada - application aux maladies transmises par les moustiques dans le centre du Canada.
Principal investigators: Talbot, Benoit
Keywords: Arbovirus Émergent; Géographie; Moustique Vecteur; Population Humaine À Risque; Réservoir Animal; Symptomologie; Sérologie; Une Seule Santé; Écologie; Épidémiologie
Assessing the impact of COVID-19 response on malaria control and malaria burden in rural Tanzania
Principal investigators: Kulkarni, Manisha A
Keywords: Cross-Sectional Survey; Global Health; Malaria Control; Mixed Methods; Pandemic Response
Mathematics for Public Health (MfPH)
Principal investigators: Murty, Vijayakumar
Public Health Risk Assessment Tools for Emerging Vector-borne Diseases 2.0
Principal investigators: Kulkarni, Manisha A
Keywords: Epidemiology; Geographic Information Systems; Lyme Disease; Risk Mapping; Survey
Landscape ecology of the deer tick and its associated Lyme disease pathogen
Principal investigators: Kulkarni, Manisha
Landscape ecology of the deer tick and its associated Lyme disease pathogen
Principal investigators: Kulkarni, Manisha
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- School of Epidemiology and Public Health
- Geography
- Social and Preventive Medicine
- Emergency Medicine
Co-authors at University of Ottawa, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Lea Berrang Ford
Geography
3 shared papers, latest 2017
Kate Zinszer
Social and Preventive Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2024
Alice Zwerling
School of Epidemiology and Public Health
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Ann Jolly
School of Epidemiology and Public Health
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Kieran Moore
Emergency Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2020
Monica Taljaard
School of Epidemiology and Public Health
1 shared papers, latest 2019
Ronald Labonté
School of Epidemiology and Public Health
1 shared papers, latest 2019
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