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Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Princeton University, 2002, Demography

Department of Geography
Callcott, Room 125
Columbia, SC 29208
Phone: (803) 777-6380   Fax: (803) 777-4972
Email: mcaldas@sc.edu

Areas of Interest
Population dynamics and demographic methods
Mortality and morbidity
Environmental change and health
Malaria transmission and control
Spatial methods applied to social sciences
Amazon frontier expansion

Recent Publications
_____, Sawyer, DO, Singer, BH. 2006. "Spatial patterns of malaria in the Amazon: implications for surveillance and targeted interventions". In press, Health and Place.

_____, Singer BH. 2006. "A new approach to account for multiple and dependent tests in local statistics of spatial association: controlling the false discovery rate". Geographical Analysis, 38(2): 180-208.

Killeen GF, Tanner M, Mukabana WR, Kalongolela MS, Kannady K, Lindsay SW, Fillinger U, _____. 2006. "Habitat targeting for controlling aquatic stages of malaria vectors in Africa". American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 74(4): 517-518.

Mukabana WR, Kannady K, Kiama, GM, Ijumba JN, Mathenge EM, Kiche I, Nkwengulila G, Mboera L, Mtasiwa D, Yamagata Y, Schayk I, Knols BGJ, Lindsay SW, _____, Mshinda H, Tanner M, Fillinger U, Killeen GF. 2006. "Ecologists can enable communities to implement malaria vector control in Africa". Malaria Journal 5:9.

_____, Monte-Mór, RL, Sawyer, DO, Singer, BH. 2006. "Malaria risk on the Amazon Frontier". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103(7): 2452-2457.

Singer BH, _____. 2006. "Enhancement and suppression of malaria in the Amazon". American Journal of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene, 74(1): 12.

Erlanger TE, Keiser J, _____, Bos R, Singer BH, Tanner M, and Utzinger J. 2005. "Effect of water resource development and management on lymphatic filariasis, and estimates of populations at risk". American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 73(3): 523-533.

_____, Singer BH. 2005. "Was malaria present in the Amazon before the European conquest? Available evidence and future research agenda". Journal of Archaeological Science 32 (2005) 337-340.

Keiser J, _____, Maltese MF, Bos R, Tanner M, Singer BH, Utzinger J. 2005. "Effect of irrigation and large dams on the burden of malaria on global and regional scale". American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 72(4): 392-406.

_____, Yamagata Y, Mtasiwa D, Tanner M, Utzinger J, Keiser J, Singer BH. 2004. "Integrated Urban Malaria Control: a Case Study In Dar es Salaam, Tanzania". American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 71(Suppl 2): 103-117.

Keiser J, Utzinger J, _____, Smith T, Tanner M, Singer BH. 2004. "Urbanization in sub-Saharan Africa and implications for malaria control". American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 71(Suppl 2): 118-127.

Guelich JM, Singer BH, _____, Rosenberg LE. 2002. "A gender gap in the next generation of physician-scientists: medical student interest and participation in research". Journal of Investigative Medicine, 50(6):412-418.

_____. 2001. "Changes in mortality and life expectancy: some methodological issues". Mathematical Population Studies, 9:181-208.

Singer BH, _____. 2001. "Agricultural colonization and malaria on the Amazon frontier". In: Weinstein M, Hermalin AI, Stoto MA (eds.) Population Health and Aging: strengthening the dialogue between epidemiology and demography. Annuals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 954:184-222.

Teaching
Geography of Latin America
Population Geography
Introduction to GIS

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