Varun Goel
Biographic Data
| ID | 3583414 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Varun Goel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Varun |
| FAMILY NAME | Goel |
| SIGNATURE | GOEL V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2933-427X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2027 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Do coupled population, economic, and land use dynamics explain household energy transitions in Malawi?
In sub-Saharan Africa, population growth coupled with weak or missing markets for clean energy means that the absolute number of people relying on woodfuels for cooking is growing. Charcoal, which has distinctly different environmental and economic implications from firewood, has become one of the most consumed fuels in the region. However, among rural populations, the drivers and consequences of charcoal use remain under-studied. We examine rura…
Renewable C8 alcohol–diesel blends for cleaner combustion in compression ignition engines
Modelling state-level crash fatalities by a network-constrained inhomogeneous poisson point process
Traditional spatial analysis of traffic crashes often relies on planar density estimation, which ignores the topological constraints of the road network and limits the precision of risk assessment. To address this limitation, this study employs a Network-Constrained Inhomogeneous Poisson Point Process (IPPP) to model fatal crash risk across the diverse roadway environments of South Carolina. The model integrates high-resolution road geometry (slo…
Spatially heterogeneous and neighborhood impacts of deep tubewells on childhood diarrhea in rural Bangladesh
Deep tubewells that procure groundwater from deep arsenic-free aquifers are crucial sources of safe drinking-water in rural Bangladesh. However, their health benefits may be heterogeneous and context dependent: inequitable distribution, long collection distances and continued use of unsafe alternatives may increase microbial contamination and diarrheal disease. We examined whether the association between household deep tubewell use and under-five…
Expanding disease ecology even more
Our paper describes the development of the disease ecology tradition of health and medical geography including some key themes and a few recent innovations. The four commentaries by a distinguished set of scholars add more background to this tradition and offer many useful opinions about productive areas of inquiry that this tradition has and should focus on. Our paper does not provide history, themes and areas of innovation to the entire subdisc…
Disease ecology in health and medical geography
This paper describes the development of the disease ecology tradition of health and medical geography including some key themes and innovations. It first grounds disease ecology in the history of ecology from the natural sciences and the human ecology traditions within the social sciences. These ecological studies of disease developed in response to limitations in the biomedical approach to studying health and disease that developed after germ th…
Reduction potentials for particulate emissions from household energy in India
Household access to clean energy is a priority for public health and the environment in low- and middle-income countries. However, past illustrative studies have explored benefits of replacing all polluting energy sources, a transition that is only theoretically possible. Factors that limit achievement of the entire theoretical reduction potential should be explored to inform programmatic decision making. We propose a hierarchy of reduction poten…
Psychological challenges encountered by health care professionals having a risk of accidental exposure and its impact on their wellbeing in a non-covid hospital during the prevailing pandemic
Health care professionals played and are still playing a crucial role in containing the spread of the coronavirus (SARS-CoV 2). While being a frontliner and saving the lives of patients, healthcare professionals (HCP’s) have encountered physical but varied levels and types of psychological challenges. Psychological challenges faced by HCP’s at covid care centres have been highlighted by many researches and publications. The purpose of this study …
Race, place, and HIV
Effectiveness of a national mass distribution campaign of long-lasting insecticide-treated nets and indoor residual spraying on clinical malaria in Malawi, 2018–2020
INTRODUCTION: Malawi's malaria burden is primarily assessed via cross-sectional national household surveys. However, malaria is spatially and temporally heterogenous and no analyses have been performed at a subdistrict level throughout the course of a year. The WHO recommends mass distribution of long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets (LLINs) every 3 years, but a national longitudinal evaluation has never been conducted in Malawi to determine …
Sars-CoV-2 testing in North Carolina
SARS-CoV-2 testing data in North Carolina during the first three months of the state's COVID-19 pandemic were analyzed to determine if there were disparities among intersecting axes of identity including race, Latinx ethnicity, age, urban-rural residence, and residence in a medically underserved area. Demographic and residential data were used to reconstruct patterns of testing metrics (including tests per capita, positive tests per capita, and t…
Individual, household and neighborhood risk factors for malaria in the Democratic Republic of the Congo support new approaches to programmatic intervention
Considering Alternate Pathways of Drinking-Water Contamination
Deep tubewells are a key component of arsenic mitigation programs in rural Bangladesh. Compared to widely prevalent shallow tubewells, deep tubewells reduce ground-water arsenic exposure and provide better microbial water quality at source. However, the benefits of clean drinking-water at these more distant sources may be abated by higher levels of microbial contamination at point-of-use. One such potential pathway is the use of contaminated surf…
Extending multilevel spatial models to include spatially varying coefficients
Race, place, and HIV
Disease ecology in health and medical geography
This paper describes the development of the disease ecology tradition of health and medical geography including some key themes and innovations. It first grounds disease ecology in the history of ecology from the natural sciences and the human ecology traditions within the social sciences. These ecological studies of disease developed in response to limitations in the biomedical approach to studying health and disease that developed after germ th…
Extending multilevel spatial models to include spatially varying coefficients
Sars-CoV-2 testing in North Carolina
SARS-CoV-2 testing data in North Carolina during the first three months of the state's COVID-19 pandemic were analyzed to determine if there were disparities among intersecting axes of identity including race, Latinx ethnicity, age, urban-rural residence, and residence in a medically underserved area. Demographic and residential data were used to reconstruct patterns of testing metrics (including tests per capita, positive tests per capita, and t…
Individual, household and neighborhood risk factors for malaria in the Democratic Republic of the Congo support new approaches to programmatic intervention
Extending multilevel spatial models to include spatially varying coefficients
Considering Alternate Pathways of Drinking-Water Contamination
Deep tubewells are a key component of arsenic mitigation programs in rural Bangladesh. Compared to widely prevalent shallow tubewells, deep tubewells reduce ground-water arsenic exposure and provide better microbial water quality at source. However, the benefits of clean drinking-water at these more distant sources may be abated by higher levels of microbial contamination at point-of-use. One such potential pathway is the use of contaminated surf…
Effectiveness of a national mass distribution campaign of long-lasting insecticide-treated nets and indoor residual spraying on clinical malaria in Malawi, 2018–2020
INTRODUCTION: Malawi's malaria burden is primarily assessed via cross-sectional national household surveys. However, malaria is spatially and temporally heterogenous and no analyses have been performed at a subdistrict level throughout the course of a year. The WHO recommends mass distribution of long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets (LLINs) every 3 years, but a national longitudinal evaluation has never been conducted in Malawi to determine …
Sars-CoV-2 testing in North Carolina
SARS-CoV-2 testing data in North Carolina during the first three months of the state's COVID-19 pandemic were analyzed to determine if there were disparities among intersecting axes of identity including race, Latinx ethnicity, age, urban-rural residence, and residence in a medically underserved area. Demographic and residential data were used to reconstruct patterns of testing metrics (including tests per capita, positive tests per capita, and t…
Individual, household and neighborhood risk factors for malaria in the Democratic Republic of the Congo support new approaches to programmatic intervention
Psychological challenges encountered by health care professionals having a risk of accidental exposure and its impact on their wellbeing in a non-covid hospital during the prevailing pandemic
Health care professionals played and are still playing a crucial role in containing the spread of the coronavirus (SARS-CoV 2). While being a frontliner and saving the lives of patients, healthcare professionals (HCP’s) have encountered physical but varied levels and types of psychological challenges. Psychological challenges faced by HCP’s at covid care centres have been highlighted by many researches and publications. The purpose of this study …
Race, place, and HIV
Reduction potentials for particulate emissions from household energy in India
Household access to clean energy is a priority for public health and the environment in low- and middle-income countries. However, past illustrative studies have explored benefits of replacing all polluting energy sources, a transition that is only theoretically possible. Factors that limit achievement of the entire theoretical reduction potential should be explored to inform programmatic decision making. We propose a hierarchy of reduction poten…
Renewable C8 alcohol–diesel blends for cleaner combustion in compression ignition engines
Modelling state-level crash fatalities by a network-constrained inhomogeneous poisson point process
Traditional spatial analysis of traffic crashes often relies on planar density estimation, which ignores the topological constraints of the road network and limits the precision of risk assessment. To address this limitation, this study employs a Network-Constrained Inhomogeneous Poisson Point Process (IPPP) to model fatal crash risk across the diverse roadway environments of South Carolina. The model integrates high-resolution road geometry (slo…
Spatially heterogeneous and neighborhood impacts of deep tubewells on childhood diarrhea in rural Bangladesh
Deep tubewells that procure groundwater from deep arsenic-free aquifers are crucial sources of safe drinking-water in rural Bangladesh. However, their health benefits may be heterogeneous and context dependent: inequitable distribution, long collection distances and continued use of unsafe alternatives may increase microbial contamination and diarrheal disease. We examined whether the association between household deep tubewell use and under-five…
Expanding disease ecology even more
Our paper describes the development of the disease ecology tradition of health and medical geography including some key themes and a few recent innovations. The four commentaries by a distinguished set of scholars add more background to this tradition and offer many useful opinions about productive areas of inquiry that this tradition has and should focus on. Our paper does not provide history, themes and areas of innovation to the entire subdisc…
Disease ecology in health and medical geography
This paper describes the development of the disease ecology tradition of health and medical geography including some key themes and innovations. It first grounds disease ecology in the history of ecology from the natural sciences and the human ecology traditions within the social sciences. These ecological studies of disease developed in response to limitations in the biomedical approach to studying health and disease that developed after germ th…
Do coupled population, economic, and land use dynamics explain household energy transitions in Malawi?
In sub-Saharan Africa, population growth coupled with weak or missing markets for clean energy means that the absolute number of people relying on woodfuels for cooking is growing. Charcoal, which has distinctly different environmental and economic implications from firewood, has become one of the most consumed fuels in the region. However, among rural populations, the drivers and consequences of charcoal use remain under-studied. We examine rura…
Medicine (8 works) · Geography (6 works) · Public health (5 works) · Demography (4 works) · Environmental health (4 works) · Odds (4 works) · Demography (3 works) · Immunology (3 works) · Logistic regression (3 works) · Odds ratio (3 works)