RESEARCH — Dr. Shalean Collins

PUBLICATIONS

WATER INSECURITY SCALE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION

Stoler J, Miller JD, Adams EA, Ahmed F, Alexander M, Asiki G, Balogun M, Boivin MJ, Brewis A, Carrillo G, Chapman K, Cole S, Collins SM, Escobar-Vargas J, Eini-Zinab H, Freeman MC, Ghorbani M, Hagaman A, Hawley N, Jamaluddine Z, Jepson WE, Krishnakumar D, Maes K, Mathad J, Maupin J, Mbullo Owuor P, Morales MM, Morán-Martinez J, Omidvar N, Pearson AL, Rasheed S, Rosinger AY, Samayoa-Figueroa L, Sánchez-Rodríguez EC, Santoso MV, Schuster RC, Sheikhi M, Srivastava S, Staddon C, Sullivan A, Tesfaye Y, Trowell A, Tshala-Katumbay D, Tutu R, Workman CL, Wutich A, Young SL. The Household Water Insecurity Experiences (HWISE) Scale: Comparison scores from 27 sites in 22 countries. Journal of Water, Sanitation, & Hygiene for Development. 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2166/washdev.2021.108

Young SL, Boateng GO, Jamaluddine Z, Miller JD, Frongillo EA, Neilands TB, Collins SM, Wutich A, Jepson W, Stoler J, HWISE Research Collaboration Network. (2019) The Household Water InSecurity Experiences (HWISE) Scale: Development and validation of a tool to measure household water insecurity globally. BMJ Global Health. 2019; 4(5).

Young SL, Collins SM, Boateng GB, Neilands T, Jamaluddine Z, Miller J, Brewis A, Frongillo EA, Jepson W, Melgar-Quiñonez H, Schuster RC, Stoler JB, Wutich A. Development and validation protocol for an instrument to measure household water insecurity across cultures and ecologies: The Household Water InSecurity Experiences (HWISE) Scale. BMJ Open. 2019; 9(1).

Jepson W, Wutich A, Boateng G, Collins S, Young SL. Progress in Household Water Insecurity Metrics: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach in the Social Sciences. WIREs Water. 2017.

Young SL, Miller JD, Frongillo EA, Boateng GO, Jamaluddine Z, Neilands TB, HWISE Research Collaboration Network*. Validity of a four-item household water insecurity experiences scale for assessing water issues related to health and well-being. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 2020; 104(1).

Boateng GO, Collins SM, Mbullo P, Wekesa P, Onono M, Neilands TB, Young SL. A Novel Household Water Insecurity Scale: Procedures and Psychometric Analyses Among Postpartum Women in Western Kenya. PLOS One. 2018.

WATER INSECURITY CONSEQUENCES

Tallman PS, Collins SM, Salmon G, Chaparro P. Water insecurity, human biology, and physical health in the Peruvian Amazon. American Journal of Human Biology. 2022. Accepted.

Wutich A, Rosinger A, Brewis A, Beresford M, Young SL, HWISE Research Coordination Network. Water sharing is a distressing form of reciprocity: shame, upset, anger, and conflict over water in twenty cross-cultural sites. American Anthropologist. 2021. DOI: 10.1111/aman.13682

Wies JR, Collins SM, Mays A, Young SL. “As long as we have the mine, we’ll have water”: Cultural models of water insecurity in Appalachian Kentucky. Annals of Anthropological Practice. 2020.

Venkataramanan V, Collins SM*, Clark KA, Yeam J, Nowakowski VG, Young SL. Coping strategies for individual and household-level water insecurity: a systematic review. WIREs Water. 2020; 7(5). *co-first authorship.

Stoler J, Pearson AL, Staddon C, Wutich A, Mack E, Brewis A, Rosinger AY, HWISE Research Collaboration Network* Cash water expenditures are associated with household water insecurity, food insecurity, and perceived stress in study sites across 20 low- and middle-income countries. Science of the Total Environment. 2020.

Brooks Y, Collins SM, Mbullo P, Boateng G, Young SL, Richardson R. (2017) Evaluating human sensory perceptions and the Compartment Bag Test assays as proxies for the presence and concentration of Escherichia coli in drinking water in western Kenya. American Journal of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene. 2017; 97(4).

Brewis A, Rosinger A, Wutich A, Adams E, Cronk L, Pearson A, Workman C, Young SL, HWISE Consortium** (HWISE Consortium, Alphabetical: Bologun M, Boivin M, Budds J, Collins SM, Gershim A, Harris L, Jepson W, Maes K, Mbullo P, Miller JD*, Staddon C, Stoler J, Tutu R, Tesfaye Y, Trowell A, Tshala-Katumbay D). (2019) Water Sharing, reciprocity, and need: A comparative study of inter-household water transfers in Sub-Saharan Africa. Economic Anthropology. 2019; 6(2).

Rosinger AY, Young SL, Collins SM, Razia Haider S, Mishra P, Nagai HT, Petro M, Downs JA. Schistosomiasis and hydration status: Schistosoma haematobium, but not Schistosoma mansoni increases urine specific gravity among rural Tanzania women. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 2018; 166(4).

Brewis A, Workman C, Wutich A, Jepson W, Young SL, HWISE Research Collaboration Network*. Household water insecurity is strongly associated with food insecurity: Evidence from 27 sites in low- and middle-income countries. American Journal of Human Biology. 2020; 32(1).

Venkataramanan V, Geere J, Thomae B, Stoler J, Hunter P, Young SL, HWISE Research Collaboration Network*. In pursuit of ‘safe’ water: the burden of personal injury from water fetching in 21 low-income and middle-income countries. BMJ Global Health. 2020; 5(10).

Pearson AL, Mack EA, Ross A, Marcantonio R, Zimmer A, Bunting EL, Smith AC, Miller JD, Evans T, HWISE Research Coordination Network. Interpersonal conflict over water is associated with household demographics, domains of water insecurity, and regional conflict: Evidence from nine sites across eight sub-Saharan African countries. Water. 2021; 13: 1150.

Stoler J, Miller JD, Brewis A, Freeman MC, Harris LM, Jepson W, Pearson AL, Rosinger AY, Shah SH, Staddon C, Workman C, Wutich A, Young SL, HWISE Research Collaboration Network*. Household water insecurity will complicate the ongoing COVID-19 response: Evidence from 29 sites in 23 low- and middle-income countries. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health. 2021.

Rosinger AY, Brewis A, Wutich A, Jepson W, Staddon C, Stoler J, Young SL, HWISE Research Collaboration Network*. Water borrowing is consistently practiced globally and is associated with water-related system failures across diverse environments. Global Environmental Change. 2020; 64.

WATER INSECURITY IN THE FIRST 1,000 DAYS

Collins SM, Mbullo P, Miller JD, Boateng GO, Wekesa P, Onono M, Young SL. “I know how stressful it is to lack water!” Exploring the lived experiences of household water insecurity among pregnant and postpartum women in western Kenya. Global Public Health. 2019.

Krumdieck N,Collins S, Wekesa P, Mbullo P, Boateng G, Onono M, Young SL. Household water insecurity is associated with a range of negative consequences among pregnant Kenyan women of mixed HIV status. Journal of Water and Health. 2016.

Schuster R, Butler M, Young SL, HWISE Research Collaboration Network* “If there is no water, we cannot feed our children”: The far-reaching consequences of water insecurity on infant feeding practices and infant health across 16 low- and middle-income countries.American Journal of Human Biology. 2020; 32 (1).

FOOD INSECURITY AND HIV

Rickman R, Lane C, Collins S, Miller J, Nichols A, Foster S, Young SL, Widen E. Disentangling the role of HIV exposure on linear growth among mother-infant dyads in Western Kenya: A comparison of three growth models. Current Developments in Nutrition. 2021; 5 (Supp 2).

Lane C, Widen EM, Collins SM, Young SL. HIV-exposed and -uninfected infants in Uganda experience different growth trajectories than similar, unexposed infants. Current Developments in Nutrition. 2020; 4 (Supp 2).

Wang M, Miller JD, Collins SM, Santoso MV, Wekesa P, Onono M, Weiser S, Gandhi M, Young SL. Social support mitigates deleterious role of food insecurity on antiretroviral adherence among postpartum women in western Kenya. AIDS and Behavior. 2020.

Wang M, Miller JD, Collins SM, Santoso MV, Wekesa P, Onono M, Gandhi M, Young SL. Social Support Mitigates the Negative Impact of Food Insecurity on Antiretroviral Adherence Among Postpartum Women in Western Kenya. Current Developments in Nutrition. 2019; 24.

Widen EM, Tsai I, Collins SM, Wekesa P, China J, Krumdieck N, Miller J, Weiser SD, Onono M, Young SL. HIV infection and increased food insecurity are associated with adverse body composition changes among pregnant and lactating Kenyan women. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 2019; 73.

Murnane PM, Miller JD, Tuthill EL, Collins SM, Neilands TB, Onono M, Cohen CR, Weiser SD, Laudenslager ML, Young SL. Perinatal food insecurity and postpartum psychosocial stress in Kenyan women of mixed HIV status. AIDS and Behavior. 2020; 24(6).

Familiar I, Collins SM,Sikorskii A, Ruisenor-Escudero H, Natamba BK, Bangirana P, Widen EM, Achidri D, Achola H, Onen D, Boivin MJ, Young SL. Quality of caregiving is positively associated with neurodevelopment during the first year of life among HIV-exposed unaffected children in Uganda. Journal of AIDS. 2017; 77(3).

Widen EM, Collins SM, Young SL. Food insecurity, but not HIV infection status, is associated with adverse changes in body composition during lactation among Ugandan women of mixed HIV status. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 2017; 105(2).

Tuthill EL, Miller JD, Collins SM, Widen EM, Onono M, Young SL. HIV infection, hunger, breastfeeding self-efficacy and depressive symptoms determine exclusive breastfeeding to 6 months among women in western Kenya: A longitudinal observational study. International Breastfeeding Journal. 2020; 15(4).

Widen EM, Collins SM, Khan H, Biribawa C, Acidri D, Achoko W, Achola W, Ghosh S, Griffiths JK, Young SL. Food insecurity, but not HIV-infection status, is associated with adverse changes in body composition during lactation in Ugandan women of mixed HIV status. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 2017; 105(2).

Dumas SE, Maranga A, Mbullo P, Collins SM, Wekesa P, Onono M, Young SL. “Men are in front at eating time, but not when it comes to rearing the chicken”: Unpacking the Gendered Benefits and Costs of Livestock Ownership in Kenya. Food and Nutrition Bulletin. 2018; 39(1).

BREASTFEEDING

Boateng GO, Martin SL, Tuthill EL, Collins SM, Dennis CL, Natamba BK, Young SL. Adaptation and psychometric evolution of the breastfeeding self-efficacy scale to assess exclusive breastfeeding. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth Health. 2019; 19(73).

Boateng, GO, Martin SL. Collins SM, Natamba BK, Young SL. Measuring Exclusive Breastfeeding Social Support: Scale development and validation in Uganda. Maternal and Child Nutrition. 2018; 14(3).

PICA

Miller J, Fiorella K, Wekesa P, Boateng G, Collins S, Young SL An inquiry into a recent paper on pica in western Kenya. NFS Journal. 2017; 6.

Miller JD, Collins SM, Omotayo L, Martin SL, Dickin K, Young SL. (2018) “We eat the stones because we want iron”: Geophagic earth consumed by women in western Kenya contains dangerous levels of iron and heavy metals. American Journal of Human Biology. 2018.

INFANT GROWTH

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

Young SL, Boateng GO, Jamaluddine Z, Miller JD, Frongillo EA, Neilands TB, Collins SM, Wutich A, Jepson W, Stoler J, HWISE Research Coordination Network. The Household Water InSecurity Experiences (HWISE) Scale: development, validation, and implementation of a household water insecurity measure for low- and middle- income countries. Agriculture, Nutrition & Health Conference. Hyderbad, India. June, 2019.

Venkatramanan V, Collins SM, Clark K, Yeam J, Nowakowski V, Young SL. How do households cope with water insecurity? A global, multidisciplinary systematic literature review. University of Colorado, Boulder WaSH Symposium. Boulder, CO. March, 2019. Oral Presentation.

Mbullo P, Jackson-Gibson M, Collins SM, Benzaken C, Platt H, Young SL, Hirshhorn LR. Knowledge, attitudes, and experiences of PrEP among young women in Seme sub-county in Kisumu, Kenya. Poster. Center for AIDS Research (CFAR). Chicago, IL. October, 2018.

Stoler J, Young SL, Jepson WE, Wutich A, Collins SM, Miller J, HWISE Consortium. A New Approach to Measuring Household Water InSecurity Experiences (HWISE): Highlights and Opportunities from the HWISE Network. UNC Chapel Hill Water & Health Conference. Chapel Hill, North Carolina. October 2018.

Young AL, Boateng GO, Collins SM, Wutich A, Jepson WE, Miller JD, Jamaluddine Z, Melgar-Quiñonez H, Neilands TB, Frongillo EA, HWISE Consortium. Development and testing of a household water insecurity measure that is cross-culturally equivalent. UNC Chapel Hill Water & Health Conference. Chapel Hill, North Carolina. October 2018.

Murnane PM, Miller JD, Collins SM, Neilands TB, Onono M, Cohen CR, Weiser SD, Laudenslager ML, Young SL. Food insecurity during pregnancy and postpartum is associated with postpartum stress in Kenyan women. Poster. SPER. Baltimore, Maryland. June 2018.

Murnane PM, Miller JD, Collins SM, Neilands TB, Onono M, Cohen CR, Weiser SD, Laudenslager ML, Young SL. Food insecurity is associated with postpartum stress in Kenyan women of mixed HIV status.Poster. AIDS. Amsterdam, Netherlands. June 2018.

Clark KA, Santoso MV, Miller JD, Collins SM, Onono M, Boateng GO, Young SL. Greater maternal food insecurity is an underlying factor in infant morbidity symptoms at three months of age in Nyanza, Kenya. Poster. American Society for Nutrition. Boston, Massachusetts. June 2018.

Lin AR, Santoso MV, Collins SM, Bezner Kerr, R, Kasim N, Martin H, Mollay C, Mtinda E, Young SL. He said, she said: Intra-household disparities in water insecurity experiences between male and female household heads in Tanzania. Poster. American Society for Nutrition. Boston, Massachusetts. June 2018.

Young SL, Butler MS, Collins SM, Schuster RC. “Unbreastfed”: The far reaching consequences of water insecurity for infant feeding. Oral Presentation. Society for Applied Anthropology. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. April 2018.

Yeam J, Boateng GO, Miller J, Collins SM, Young SL. Lower depression and greater social support is associated with higher health-related quality of life among postpartum women in western Kenya. Poster. Human Biology Association (HBA). Austin, TX. April, 2018.

Schuster RC, Butler MS, Collins SM, Young SL. Cross-cultural perceptions of how water insecurity shapes breastfeeding. Oral Presentation. Human Biology Association (HBA). Austin, TX. April, 2018.

Rosinger AY, Young SL, Collins SM, Haider SY, Mishra P, Nagai HT, Petro M, Boateng GO, Downs JA. Schistosoma haematobium but not Schistosoma mansoni, increases urine specific gravity in a sample of rural Tanzanian women, 2016. Poster. Human Biology Association (HBA). Austin, TX. April, 2018.

Butler MS, Schuster RC, Collins SM, Young SL. “Unbreastfed”: Far reaching consequences of water insecurity for infant feeding. Breastfeeding and Feminism International Conference. Oral Presentation. Chapel Hill, North Carolina. March, 2018.

Miller JD, Boateng GO, Santoso MV, Collins SM, Onono MA, Young SL. Concerns for Physical Safety are Strongly Associated with Household Water Insecurity Among Women in Western Kenya. Poster. Consortium for Universities of Global Health (CUGH). New York, NY. March 2018.

Collins, SM., Miller, JD., Mbullo, P., Boateng, GO., Wekesa, P., Onono, M., Young, SL. “You take the cash meant for beans and you buy water”: The multi-faceted consequences of water insecurity for pregnant and postpartum women of mixed-HIV status. Experimental Biology. Chicago, IL. April 2017. Poster.

Boateng, GO., Onono, M., Collins, SM., Baughan, E., Wekesa, P., Familiar, I., Widen, EM., Lewise, SL. Early Childhood Learning Activities Buffer Adverse Effects of HIV Exposure on Infant Cognitive Development: A Longitudinal Study. Experimental Biology. Chicago, IL. April 2017. Poster & Oral Presentation.

Boateng, GO., Collins, SM., Mbullo, P., Wekesa, P., Krumdieck, NR., Johnson, M., Onono, M., Neilands, TB., Young, SL. A Novel Tool for the Assessment of Household Water Insecurity: Scale development and validation in Western Kenya. Experimental Biology. Chicago, IL. April 2017. Poster & Oral Presentation.

Collins SM., Widen, EM., Santoso, MV., Martin, SL., Hoke, MK., Tuthill, EL., Wekesa, P., Boateng, GO., Onono, M., Young, SL. Biological and psychosocial determinants of sustained exclusive breastfeeding among women of mixed-HIV status in western Kenya. Human Biology Association. New Orleans, LA. April 2017. Poster.

Miller, J., Boateng, G., Collins, S., Wekesa, P., Onono, M., Young, SL. Perinatal geophagy is associated with HIV and anemia among women in western Kenya. Human Biology Association. New Orleans, LA. April 2017. Poster.

Boateng, GO., Onono, M., Baughan, E., Collins, SM. and Young SL. Food insecurity and HIV-exposure are deleterious to infant cognitive development. Human Biology Association. New Orleans, LA. April 2017. Poster & Oral.

Mbullo P, Collins SM, Miller JD, Wekesa P, Boateng GO, Onono M, Young SL. “We eat it, we love it”: Rabbit farming may be a livelihood strategy to reduce vulnerability among HIV-affected households in Kenya. Poster. Center for AIDS Research (CFAR). Chicago, IL. October, 2017.

Collins SM, Boateng GB, Miller J, Schuster R, Jepson W, Wutich A, Young SL. How do we measure household water insecurity? Development and progress of the Household Water Insecurity Experiences (HWISE) Scale. Poster. University of Oklahoma WaTER Conference. Norman, Oklahoma. September, 2017.

Boateng GO, Collins SM, Mbullo P, Wekesa P, Onono M, Neilands TB, Young, SL. Reliability and Validity of a Household Water Insecurity Scale: A model to develop a cross-culturally validated tool. Arab-American Frontiers Symposium. Rabat, Morocco. November, 2017.

Collins SM, Miller JD, Mbullo P, Boateng GO, Wekesa P, Onono M, Young SL. “You take the cash meant for beans and you buy water” : The multi-faceted consequences of water insecurity for pregnant and postpartum women of mixed HIV status. Experimental Biology. Chicago, IL. April 2017.

Boateng GO, Onono M, Collins SM, Baughan E, Wekesa P, Familiar I, Widen EM, Young SL. Early childhood learning activities buffer adverse effects of HIV exposure on infant cognitive development: a longitudinal study. Poster. Experimental Biology. Chicago, IL. April 2017. **Received First Place in the American Society for Nutrition’s Emerging Leaders in Nutrition Poster Competition

Boateng GO, Collins SM, Mbullo P, Wekesa P, Krumdieck NR, Johnson M, Onono M, Neilands TB, Young SL. A novel tool for the assessment of household water insecurity: scale development and validation in western Kenya. Poster. Experimental Biology. Chicago, IL. April 2017.

Collins SM, Widen EM, Santoso MV, Martin SL, Hoke MK, Tuthill EL, Wekesa P, Boateng GO, Onono M, Young SL. Biological and psychosocial determinants of sustained exclusive breastfeeding among women of mixed HIV status in Western Kenya. Poster. Human Biology Association. New Orleans, LA. April, 2017.

Miller J, Boateng GO, Collins SM, Wekesa P, Onono M, Young SL. Perinatal geophagy is associated with HIV and anemia among women in western Kenya. Poster. Human Biology Association. New Orleans, LA. April 2017. ***Won Hilde Spielvogel Award for Outstanding Presentation by an Undergraduate Student

Boateng GO, Onono M, Baughan E, Collins SM, Young S.L. Food insecurity and HIV exposure are deleterious to infant cognitive development. Oral and Poster Presentations. Human Biology Association. New Orleans, LA. April 2017.

Widen, EM., Natamba, BK., Collins, S., Khan, H., Biribawa, C., Sirotin, N., Ghosh, S., Griffiths, JK., Young, SL. Food insecurity is associated with loss of arm fat area and body weight during lactation among Ugandan women of mixed-HIV status. Society for Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiologic Research (SPER) & the Epidemiology Congress of America. Miami, FL. June 2016.

Familiar, I., Collins, S. , Sikorskii, A., Ruisenor, H., Achidri, D., Achola, H., Onen, D., Boivin, M., Young, SL. Predictors of neurocognitive outcomes among a cohort of 12-month old infants from Uganda of mixed HIV exposure. The International AIDS Conference. Durban, South Africa. July 2016.

Widen, E., Collins, S., Wekesa, P., Krumdieck, N., Onono, M., Young, SL. Newly Diagnosed HIV is Associated with Lower Rates of Gestational Weight Gain and Loss of Mid-Upper Arm Circumference among Pregnant Kenyan Women. Experimental Biology. San Diego, CA. April 2016.

Tsai, I., Krumdieck, N., Collins, S., Widen, EM., Wekesa, P., Onono, M., Young, SL. Food Insecurity is Associated with Depression and Stress Among a Cohort of Pregnant Kenyan Women of Mixed HIV Status. Experimental Biology. San Diego, CA. April 2016.

Miller, JD., Collins, S., Krumdieck, NR., Wekesa, P., Onono, M., Young, SL. Pica is Associated with Lower Hemoglobin Concentration in a Cohort of Pregnant Kenyan Women of Mixed HIV Status. Experimental Biology. San Diego, CA. April 2016.

Maranga, A., Dumas, SE., Mbullo, PE., Wekesa, P., Collins, S., Onono, M., Young, SL. Perceived Benefits of Livestock Ownership among Female Smallholder Farmers of Mixed HIV Status in Nyanza Province, Kenya. Experimental Biology. San Diego, CA. April 2016.

Martin, SL., Collins, S., Natamba, BK., Achidri, D., Widen, EM., Young, SL. Perceived breastmilk insufficiency and HIV are key predictors of exclusive breastfeeding at 1 and 3 months among mothers in northern Uganda. Experimental Biology. San Diego, CA. April 2016.

Krumdieck, N., Collins, S., Wekesa, P., Onono, M., Young, SL. Just how much household water insecurity do pregnant Kenyan women of mixed HIV status experience?: The need for a validated scale. Water and Health Conference: Where Science Meets Policy, UNC Chapel Hill. October 2015.

Natamba, BK., Bangirana, P., Achan, J., Birabwa, A., Achola, H., Onen, D., Collins, S., Widen, EM., Sorotin, N., Mehta, S., Griffiths, JK., Young, S.L. Perinatal HIV exposure affects infant cognition at 6 months but not changes in cognitive scores between 6 and 12 months. European Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID). Leipzig, Germany. May 2015.

Collins S, Natamba BK, Arbach A, Widen EM, Desai P, Khan H, Griffiths JK, Young SL. Alcohol Use Among Pregnant Ugandan Women of Mixed HIV Status is Associated with Social Environment and Food Insecurity. Experimental Biology. Boston, MA. March 2015.

Widen EM, Natamba BK, Collins S, Khan H, Sirotin N, Ghosh S, Griffiths JK, Young SL. Maternal Food Insecurity is Associated with Loss of Fat, but not Lean Mass during Lactation among Ugandans of Mixed-HIV Status. Experimental Biology, Boston, MA. March 2015.