Mari Armstrong-Hough, PhD, MPH
NYU School of Global Public Health - Assistant Professor
Email: mah842@nyu.edu
Education
PhD, Sociology, Duke UniversityMPH, Applied Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Yale University
BA, Political Science, Sociology, and History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Research Interests
HIV, tuberculosis, noncommunicable disease comorbidities, active case finding, intervention design, trials, trials with nested mixed methods BIO
Mari Armstrong-Hough’s global health research examines the epidemiologic interfaces among tuberculosis (TB), HIV, and non-communicable diseases. Her work develops and evaluates interventions to increase early case-finding, status awareness, and linkage to care in high-burden settings like Uganda and South Africa. She has published on predictors of evaluation for TB among high-risk groups, novel approaches to active case-finding for TB and HIV, the ways that providers and patients imagine and communicate risk for respiratory infection, and the availability of essential medicines in settings with double burdens of infectious and non-communicable disease. Her first book, Biomedicalization and the Practice of Culture: Globalization and Type 2 Diabetes in the United States and Japan (2018), examined how the practice and experience of global evidence-based medicine is shaped by local cultural repertoires. Her recent work has appeared in the Journal of AIDS, International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, and the The Lancet Respiratory Medicine. She co-directs the NIH-funded Mixed-Methods Fellowship of the Pulmonary Complications of AIDS Research Training Program at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. She is PI of a prospective cohort study of patients initiating treatment for pulmonary TB in Uganda and a co-investigator on NIH-funded studies of contact tracing for TB. Publications
Recent
Guevara Alvarez G, Kapur R, Nguyen T, Nguyen N, Armstrong-Hough M, Parekh N, Shelley D (2024).
Prevalence of food insecurity among HIV-positive smokers in Vietnam
Tobacco Use Insights, 17, 1179173X241297804. doi: 10.1177/1179173X241297804. PMCID: PMC11624529.
Prevalence of food insecurity among HIV-positive smokers in Vietnam
Tobacco Use Insights, 17, 1179173X241297804. doi: 10.1177/1179173X241297804. PMCID: PMC11624529.
Armstrong-Hough M, Shelby T, Ggita J, Nangendo J, Gupta AJ, Davis JL, Katamba A (2024).
An adapted scale to measure perceived TB and HIV stigma during household contact investigation
International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 28 (9), 433-438. doi: 10.5588/ijtld.23.0395.
An adapted scale to measure perceived TB and HIV stigma during household contact investigation
International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 28 (9), 433-438. doi: 10.5588/ijtld.23.0395.
Nguyen NT, Nguyen T, Vu GV, Truong N, Pham Y, Guevara Alvarez G, Armstrong-Hough M, Shelley D (2024).
Depression and associated factors among HIV-positive smokers receiving care at HIV outpatient clinics in Vietnam: A cross-sectional analysis
BMJ Open, 14 (2), e077015. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-077015. PMCID: PMC10868293.
Depression and associated factors among HIV-positive smokers receiving care at HIV outpatient clinics in Vietnam: A cross-sectional analysis
BMJ Open, 14 (2), e077015. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-077015. PMCID: PMC10868293.
Kalibbala D, Mpungu SK, Ssuna B, Muzeyi W, Mberesero H, Semitala FC, Katahoire A, Armstrong-Hough M, Kalyango JN, Musiime V (2022).
Determinants of testing for HIV among young people in Uganda. A nested, explanatory-sequential study
PLOS Global Public Health, 2 (12), e0000870. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0000870. PMCID: PMC10022384.
Determinants of testing for HIV among young people in Uganda. A nested, explanatory-sequential study
PLOS Global Public Health, 2 (12), e0000870. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0000870. PMCID: PMC10022384.
Ayakaka I, Armstrong-Hough M, Hannaford A, Ggita JM, Turimumahoro P, Katamba A, Katahoire A, Cattamanchi A, Shenoi SV, Davis JL (2022).
Perceptions, preferences, and experiences of tuberculosis education and counselling among patients and providers in Kampala, Uganda: A qualitative study
Global Public Health, 17 (11), 2911-2928. doi: 10.1080/17441692.2021.2000629. PMCID: PMC11005908.
Perceptions, preferences, and experiences of tuberculosis education and counselling among patients and providers in Kampala, Uganda: A qualitative study
Global Public Health, 17 (11), 2911-2928. doi: 10.1080/17441692.2021.2000629. PMCID: PMC11005908.
Notable
Gaps in TB preventive therapy for persons initiating antiretroviral therapy in Uganda: An explanatory sequential cascade analysis
International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 25 (5), 388-394. doi: 10.5588/ijtld.20.0956.
Armstrong-Hough M, Ggita J, Ayakaka I, Dowdy D, Cattamanchi A, Haberer JE, Katamba A, Davis JL (2018).
Brief report: “Give me some time”: Facilitators of and barriers to uptake of home-based HIV testing during household contact investigation for tuberculosis in Kampala, Uganda
Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 77 (4), 400-404. doi: 10.1097/QAI.0000000000001617. PMCID: PMC5825267.
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