Duncan Smith-Rohrberg Maru
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Website: | http://www.nyayahealth.org |
| Skills: | English, Languages, Spanish |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup |
| Tags: | child health, Healthcare, HIV/AIDS, maternal health, Nepal, rural development, social justice, south asia, telemedicine, tuberculosis |
| Schools: | Harvard University, Yale University |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Nyaya Health |
| Position: | Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer |
| Time period: | January 2006 - Present |
| Description: | Nyaya Health is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization working to improve the health of poor communities in Nepal through the provision of medical and public health services. Our current project is developing a primary care center in an isolated, rural district in western Nepal with the Ministry of Health. |
| Employer: | EquityEdit |
| Position: | Co-Found and Executive Director |
| Time period: | January 2006 - Present |
| Description: | Originally a collaboration between Nyaya Health and the for-profit editing company ProEdit Japan, EquityEdit is a non-profit biomedical editing company that recruits scholars to edit manuscripts written by fellow scientists for whom English is not a first language. All revenue generated is donated to small, innovative public health organizations that use information technology and public-private partnerships to benefit poor communities worldwide. |
| Employer: | Yale AIDS Program; PI: Frederick Altice |
| Position: | Research Experience |
| Time period: | January 2003 - Present |
| Description: | Community-based clinical studies of HIV interventions among injection drug users |
| Employer: | All India Institute of Medical Sciences (Delhi); PI: Surendra K Sharma |
| Position: | Research Experience |
| Time period: | January 2004 - December 2006 |
| Description: | Epidemiological investigations of tuberculosis and HIV. |
| Employer: | Laboratory of Psychophysiology, Harvard; PI: Patricia Deldin |
| Position: | Research Experience |
| Time period: | January 2000 - December 2002 |
| Description: | Electrophysiological investigations of auditory processing functions in schizophrenia and depression |
| Employer: | Primate Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Harvard; PI: Marc Hauser |
| Position: | Research Experience |
| Time period: | January 1999 - December 2001 |
| Description: | Behavioral investigations of auditory cognition among non-human primates |
EDUCATION
| University: | Yale University |
| Time period: | 2002 - 2008 |
| Degree: | Epidemiology of microbial disease, School of Public Health, PhD |
| University: | Harvard University |
| Time period: | 1998 - 2002 |
| Degree: | Biology, BA |
PUBLICATIONS
| Articles: | Prison Health, Substance Abuse, and HIV/AIDS in Urban Areas
Smith-Rohrberg Maru D, Bruce RD, Walton M, Mezger J, Shield D, Altice FL. 2007. Acceptance, Adherence, and Retention in a Randomized Controlled Trial of Directly Administered Antiretroviral Therapy, AIDS and Behavior. Smith-Rohrberg Maru D, Kozal MJ, Springer SA, Bruce RD, Altice FL. 2007. Directly Administered Antiretroviral Therapy for HIV-Infected Drug Users Does Not Impact Antiretroviral Resistance: Results from a Randomized, Controlled Trial, JAIDS 46(5):555-563. Altice FL, Smith-Rohrberg Maru D, Bruce RD, Springer SA, Friedland GH. 2007. Superiority of directly administered antiretroviral therapy compared to self-administered therapy among HIV-infected drug users enrolled in a six-month prospective, randomized controlled trial, Clin Infect Dis 45(6):770-8. Smith-Rohrberg Maru D, Basu S, Altice F. 2007. HIV control efforts should directly address incarceration. Lancet Infect Dis. 7(9):568-9. [Letter]. Altice FL, Sullivan LE, Smith-Rohrberg D, Basu S. Stancliff S, Eldred L. 2006. The potential role of buprenorphine in the treatment of opioid dependence in HIV-infected individuals and in HIV prevention. Clin Infect Dis 43S4: 178-183. Smith-Rohrberg D, Mezger J, Bruce RD, Walton M, Altice FL. 2006. Impact of enhanced services on virological outcomes in a directly administered antiretroviral therapy trial for HIV+ drug users. J Acquir Immun Defic Syndr 43S1: 48-53. Basu S, Smith-Rohrberg D, Bruce RD, Altice FL. 2006. Models for integrating buprenorphine therapy into the primary HIV care setting. Clinical Infectious Diseases 42(5): 716-21. Basu S, Smith-Rohrberg D, Hanck S, Altice FL. 2006. HIV testing in correctional institutions: evaluating existing strategies, setting new standards. AIDS and Public Policy 20(5):1-22. Smith-Rohrberg D and Altice FL. 2006. Randomized controlled trials of DAART for HIV+ patients: questions about study population and analytical approach. Clin Infect Dis, 43(9):1221-1222. [Letter]. Smith-Rohrberg D, Bruce R, and Altice, FL. 2004. Corrections-based therapy for opiate dependent patients: implications for buprenorphine treatment among soon-to-be-released inmates. Journal of Drug Issues 34(2): 451-80. Public Health in South Asia Smith-Rohrberg D, Khakha DC, Tahir M, Basu S, Sharma SK. 2007. Poor follow-up rates at a self-pay northern Indian tertiary AIDS clinic. Intl J Health Equity, 6(1):14. Piramanayagam P, Tahir M, Sharma SK, Smith-Rohrberg D, Biswas A, Vajpayee M. 2007. Persistently high HIV seroprevalence among adult tuberculosis patients at a tertiary care centre in Delhi. Indian J Med Res 125:163-7. Smith-Rohrberg D, Sharma SK. 2007. Tuberculin skin test among sarcoidosis patients with and without tuberculosis: utility for the screening of the two conditions in tuberculosis-endemic regions. Sarcoidosis Vasculitis and Diffuse Lung Disease 23(2):130-4. S.K. Sharma SK, Tahir M, Mohan A, Smith-Rohrberg D, Mishra H, Panday RM. 2006. Diagnostic accuracy of ascitic fluid interferon-γ and adenosine deaminase levels in the diagnosis of tuberculosis ascites. Journal of Interferon & Cytokine Research 26(7):484-8. Tahir M, Sharma, SK, Smith-Rohrberg D, Gupta D, Singh UB, Sinha PK. 2006. DOTS at a tertiary care center in northern India: successes, challenges, and the next steps in TB control. Indian Journal of Medical Research 226: 702-706. Sharma, SK, Smith-Rohrberg D, Tahir M, Mohan A, Seith A. 2007. Radiological manifestations of splenic tuberculosis: a 23-patient case series from India. Indian J Med Res 125(5):669-78. Tahir M, Sharma SK, Smith-Rohrberg D. 2007. Unsafe medical injections and HIV transmission in India. Lancet Infect Dis. 7(3):178-9. [Letter]. Smith-Rohrberg D, Basu S, Subbaraman R, Sharma SK. 2006. Compromising comprehensive AIDS management will lead to failure. Lancet Infect Dis. 6(7):384-5. [Letter]. Vinodh BN, Sharma SK, Smith-Rohrberg D, Seith A. 2006. Tubercular oesophago-pleuro-cutaneous fistula: Case Report. Indian J Chest Dis Allied Sci 2006; 48 :209-11. [Case Report] Smith-Rohrberg D. Andrews J. 2006. Geographic and Temporal Aspects of Global Tuberculosis Epidemiology. In Sharma SK and Mohan A, editors. Tuberculosis. [Book Chapter]. Smith-Rohrberg D, Ogbunugafor CB, Basu S. 2006. Treatment of Latent Tuberculosis Infection in High-Burden Resource-Poor Countries. In Sharma SK and Mohan A, editors. Tuberculosis. [Book Chapter]. Smith-Rohrberg D and Sharma SK. 2005. Using ones and zeroes to fight air-borne infectious diseases. India Chest 6(4): 187-88. [Editorial]. Miscellaneous Andrews J, Basu S, Scales D, Smith-Rorhberg Maru D, Subarraman R. 2007. XDR-TB in South Africa: Theory and Practice. PLoS Medicine, 4(4): e163. [Letter]. Basu S, Andrews J, Smith-Rohrberg D. 2006. “Populations who test drugs should benefit from them.” Nature 440: 605. [Letter]. Ghazanfar A, Smith-Rohrberg D, Pollen A, and Hauser MD. 2002. Temporal cues in the perception of long calls by cotton-top tamarins. Animal Behaviour 64, 427-438. Ghazanfar AA, Smith-Rohrberg D, and Hauser MD. 2001. The role of temporal cues in conspecific vocal recognition: rhesus monkey orienting asymmetries to reversed calls. Brain, Behavior and Evolution 58, 163-172. |
