Matthew Freeman

Professor of Environmental Health, Global Health, and Epidemiology at Emory Unversity

[Exemplars in Global Health @exemplarshealth]

Research from #Exemplars in Global Health in Nepal, Senegal, and Zambia highlights key health system factors that helped to progress childhood immunization coverage over the last 20 years. ➡️ https://t.co/WcTHs9y9Nt

@EmoryRollins @iressef @smadixit @rabednarczyk @MatthewCFreeman

[Matthew Freeman @MatthewCFreeman]

@siwi_water Unless you have children! @siwi_water has a no child policy that is regressive and anti-family. My wife and I (who were speaking in the same session) were told by the organizers yesterday that our kids were not welcome (and an historic precedent). In 2024? That’s embarrassing.

[Matthew Freeman @MatthewCFreeman]

@Stl_Manifest I’m planning a return trip to Europe with my daughter…the name sake of my great aunt who was abroad the St. Louis. I’m thinking of her and my great grandparents and all the others who were denied entry in the US 85 years today. May their memories be a blessing

[Matthew Freeman @MatthewCFreeman]

We developed an evidence-based, simple checklist tool to improve the reporting transparency of WASH interventions. Can be used by researchers and practitioners to add transparency and learning to implementation. https://t.co/czwQjjfX29 @EmoryRollins

[Matthew Freeman @MatthewCFreeman]

@Stl_Manifest This is my great grandfather

[Matthew Freeman @MatthewCFreeman]

@SNV_Kenya @EmoryRollins @GAINAlliance_KE @ReinildeEppinga Excited for our collaboration!

[Karen Levy @klevy_uw]

Thanks @EHPonline for the excellent piece summarizing our recent work on contamination of poultry products in Mozambique. Highlights the importance of paying attention to foodborne transmission of enteropathogen infection. And to markets as a source of those infections.

[Matthew Freeman @MatthewCFreeman]

A new commentary by @EHPonline highlights our two recent papers on the health risks associated with foodborne diarrheal pathogens in LMICs and the challenges (and the urgent need) to address those risks. https://t.co/K7NG6Mh3xb. @klevy_uw @KayokoShioda @EmoryRollins

[Ben Arnold @ben83638]

Today in @Nature a synthesis of the epidemiology of child #malnutrition in the Global South published in 3 papers led by our team. Below, I’ll highlight a few of the results #epitwitter #Medtwitter #tweetorial 🧵 (1/17)

[Karen Levy @klevy_uw]

Our new work in @EHPonline shows high contamination rates, particularly in markets, of poultry products with Campylobacter and Salmonella. Great team effort with partners at Univ Eduardo Mondlane, @ericfevre at @ILRI @MatthewCFreeman at @EmoryRollins, funding @gatesfoundation

[Environmental Health Perspectives @EHPonline]

NEW RESEARCH: Quantifying Enteropathogen Contamination along Chicken Value Chains in Maputo, Mozambique: A Multidisciplinary and Mixed-Methods Approach to Identifying High Exposure Settings ➡️ https://t.co/E8jsfmiCV1 @EmoryRollins @UWDEOHS @MatthewCFreeman @klevy_uw

[Matthew Freeman @MatthewCFreeman]

📢Unless you reduce transmission through the 🐤food system, you cannot appreciably reduce infection of two critical pathogens, even if there are reductions via other pathways, like safe water, hand hygiene👇https://t.co/dPezlII8R0 @EHPonline @EmoryRollins @klevy_uw @KayokoShioda

[Matthew Freeman @MatthewCFreeman]

@Delta The email you sent today implies that the MQD requirement is going down for each tier (eg 6k->5k for silver) but is in fact going up (3K->5K for silver). What gives?!

[Ian Ross. @ianrossuk.bsky.social @IanRossUK]

Our new meta-analysis in @TheLancet : promoting handwashing with soap reduces respiratory infections by 17%.

Paper
👉 https://t.co/83RnQFbZoi

Blogpost
👉 https://t.co/YZi91FGpo2

Handwashing is not just for pandemics.
Endemic pneumonia kills 2.5m every year.

[Ian Ross. @ianrossuk.bsky.social @IanRossUK]

co-authors: @sarahtbick Philip Ayieko @rdreibelbis_UK
@jennyfer_wolf @MatthewCFreeman Elizabeth Allen Michael Brauer Oliver Cumming

[London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine @LSHTM]

Up to 17% of acute respiratory infections in #LMICs could be reduced by #handwashing with #soap, new analysis shows 🧼🫧

Researchers say findings in @TheLancet highlight "missed opportunity" to reduce the burden of respiratory disease

Read more 👉 https://t.co/r0w4uJI73R

[Matthew Freeman @MatthewCFreeman]

@CMarsit Sorry about your loss Carmen. The faculty and students really appreciate all you do for us.

[Emily R Smith, ScD MPH @DrEmilyRSmith]

New @NEJM shows median time from symptom onset or PCR+, whichever was first, to culture conversion was 8 days (IQR 5-10).

In other words, about half of people with omicron are likely still contagious at day 8 or later (regardless of vaccine status).

https://t.co/t3LoAhosSo

[Emory Public Health @EmoryRollins]

We warmly welcome @DeanDaniFallin, the new James W. Curran Dean of Public Health at the Rollins School of Public Health! We are excited she is joining the Rollins community and look forward to the future under her leadership. Learn more about Dean Fallin: https://t.co/Aal6Ks20EO

[Environmental Health Group, LSHTM @LSHTM_EHG]

WASH meta-analysis in @TheLancet

Effectiveness of WASH interventions on child diarrhoea in LMICs
https://t.co/yVtoyattQd

How effective are
- water supply (by level of service)
- POU water treatment (by type)
- sanitation (by LoS)
- handwashing with soap

Read to find out!