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School of Population Health
Staff Profile

Dr Kurt Long

Position: Senior Lecturer

Phone: +61 7 3365 5404

Fax: +61 7 3365 5599

Email: k.long@uq.edu.au

 

Location: 426

Building: Public Health Building

Centre or Group: Nutrition Unit

Biography:

Dr. Long, a Senior Lecturer in the Nutrition Program, is a human population biologist with extensive experience working on issues of childhood health and nutrition in developing countries. Before joining the Nutrition Unit, he worked at the National Institute of Public Health in Mexico and the Harvard School of Public Health. While in Mexico he began a series of clinical trials in conjunction with the National Vaccine Council, a sub-secretariat of the Ministry of Health, concerned with defining what immunological and physiological mechanisms underlie the impact micronutrient supplementation has on infectious disease morbidity and growth among children. He has been developing stochastic models based on this work which model the impact of supplementation on the regulation of the immune response and pathogen-specific health outcomes. He is now developing projects concerned with how changing associations between micronutrient deficiencies, infectious diseases, and inflammatory markers relate to trends in nutrition and health in countries passing through the epidemiological transition. These projects are especially concerned with the impact of nutrition on body composition among young children and the development of obesity in rural areas of Mexico. This work will hopefully allow the development of new public health interventions that more effectively reduce childhood infectious disease morbidity while simultaneously identifying what factors may underlie the rapidly increasing rates of obesity found in countries like Mexico.

Qualifications:

  • PhD  (1991)
    Pennsylvnia State University
  • Master of Arts  (1983)
    Pennsylvania State University
  • Bachelor of Arts  (1978)
    University of Colorado

 

Publications

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  • Estrada-Garcia T, Lopez-Saucedo C, Thompson-Bonilla R, Abonce M, Lopez-Hernandez D, Santos JI, et al. Association of diarrheagenic Escherichia coli Pathotypes with infection and diarrhea among Mexican children and association of atypical Enteropathogenic E. coli with acute diarrhea. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 2009; 47(1):93-8.
  • Long KZ, Rosado JL, Montoya Y, de Lourdes Solano M, Hertzmark E, DuPont HL, et al. Effect of Vitamin A and Zinc Supplementation on Gastrointestinal Parasitic Infections Among Mexican Children. Pediatrics. 2007; 120:e846-e855.
  • Long KZ, Rosado JL, Fawzi W. The Comparative Impact of Iron, the B-Complex Vitamins, Vitamins C and E, and Selenium on Diarrheal Pathogen Outcomes Relative to the Impact Produced by Vitamin A and Zinc. Nutrition Reviews. 2007; 65(5):218-232.
  • Long KZ, Rosado JL, DuPont HL, Hertzmark E, Santos JI. Supplementation with vitamin A reduces watery diarrhoea and respiratory infections in Mexican children. British Journal of Nutrition. 2007; 97(2):337-343. View Publication
  • Long KZ, Garcia C, Santos JI, Rosado JR, Hertzmark E, DuPont HL, et al. Vitamin A Supplementation Has Divergent Effects on Norovirus Infections and Clinical Symptoms among Mexican Children. Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2007; 196:978-85.
  • Long KZ, Santos JI, Rosado JL, Lopez-Saucedo C, Thompson-Bonilla R, Abonce M, et al. Impact of vitamin A on selected gastrointestinal pathogen infections and associated diarrheal episodes among children in Mexico City, Mexico. Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2006; 194(9):1217-1225. View Publication
  • Long KZ, Santos JI, Garcia TE, Haas M, Firestone M, Bhagwat J, et al. Vitamin A supplementation reduces the monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 intestinal immune response of Mexican children. Journal of Nutrition. 2006; 136(10):2600-2605. View Publication
  • Long KZ, Montoya Y, Hertzmark E, Santos JI, Rosado JL. A double-blind, randomized, clinical trial of the effect of vitamin A and zinc supplementation on diarrheal disease and respiratory tract infections in children in Mexico City, Mexico. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 2006; 83(3):693-700. View Publication
  • Long KZ, Estrada-Garcia T, Rosado JL, Santos JI, Haas M, Firestone M, et al. The effect of vitamin A supplementation on the intestinal immune response in Mexican children is modified by pathogen infections and diarrhea. Journal of Nutrition. 2006; 136(5):1365-1370. View Publication
  • Garcia C, DuPont HL, Long KZ, Santos JI, Ko G. Asymptomatic norovirus infection in Mexican children. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 2006; 44(8):2997-3000. View Publication
  • Macias-Carrillo C, Franco-Marina F, Long-Dunlap K, Hernandez-Gaytan SI, Martinez-Lopez Y, Lopez-Cervantes M. Breast feeding and the incidence of acute diarrhea during the first three months of life. Lactancia materna y diarrea aguda en los primeros tres meses de vida. 2005; 47(1):49-57. View Publication
  • Long KZ, Nanthakumar N. Energetic and nutritional regulation of the adaptive immune response and trade-offs in ecological immunology. American Journal of Human Biology. 2004; 16(5):499-507. View Publication
  • Long K, Vasquez-Garibay E, Mathewson J, De La Cabada J, DuPont H. The impact of infant feeding patterns on infection and diarrheal disease due to enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli. Salud Publica de Mexico. 1999; 41(4):263-270. View Publication
  • Long KZ, Santos JI. Vitamins and the regulation of the immune response. Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. 1999; 18(3):283-290. View Publication
  • Granich R, Cantwell MF, Long K, Maldonado Y, Parsonnet J. Patterns of health seeking behavior during episodes of childhood diarrhea: A study of Tzotzil-speaking Mayans in the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico. Social Science and Medicine. 1999; 48(4):489-495. View Publication
  • Long-Dunlap K, Rivera-Dommarco J, Rivera-Pasquel M, Hernandez-Avila M, Lezana MA. Feeding patterns of Mexican infants recorded in the 1988 National Nutrition Survey. Salud Publica de Mexico. 1995; 37(2):120-129. View Publication
  • Long KZ, Wood JW, Gariby EV, Weiss KM, Mathewson JJ, De la Cabada FJ, et al. Proportional hazards analysis of diarrhea due to enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli and breast feeding in a cohort of urban Mexican children. American Journal of Epidemiology. 1994; 139(2):193-205. View Publication

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