Visiting Scholars and Scientists

Christopher da Costa

Takemi Fellow

Takemi Program in International Health

chrisdacosta@hsph.harvard.edu

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Education and Training
Awards and Honors

Global Healthcare Leaders Program
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

MBA, Physicians' Executive MBA
Auburn University, Auburn, AL

Internal Medicine Residency
University of Nevada School of Medicine, Las Vegas, NV

PhD, Immunology (Infectious Diseases Fellowship)
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, England

MSc., Clinical Tropical Medicine
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, England

MD, Medicine
University of Zambia School of Medicine, Lusaka, Zambia

BSc., Human Biology
University of Zambia School of Natural Sciences, Lusaka, Zambia

Takemi International Health Fellowship2023-2024
Harvard T.H. CHan School of Public Health

Beit Memorial Medical Research Fellowship
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Fogarty International Fellowship
NIH

Bibliography

Perspectives on development and advancement of new tuberculosis vaccines.

da Costa C, Benn CS, Nyirenda T, Mpabalwani E, Grewal HMS, Ahmed R, Kapata N, Nyasulu PS, Maeurer M, Hui DS, Goletti D, Zumla A.

Int J Infect Dis. 2024 Apr. 141S:106987. PMID: 38417616

End of the Bedaquiline patent - a crucial development for moving forward affordable drugs, diagnostics, and vaccines for infectious diseases in low- and middle-income countries.

Petersen E, Hui DS, Nachega JB, Ntoumi F, Goletti D, Aklillu E, Sharma A, Nyirenda T, Yeboah-Manu D, Satta G, da Costa C, Azhar EI, Bockarie M, Al-Abri S, McHugh TD, Rodriguez-Morales AJ, Varghese GM, Zumla A.

Int J Infect Dis. 2023 06. 131:180-182. PMID: 37030652

Advances in development of new tuberculosis vaccines.

da Costa C, Onyebujoh P, Thiry G, Zumla A.

Curr Opin Pulm Med. 2023 05 01. 29(3):143-148. PMID: 36866744

COVID-19 risk perception, cognitive dissonance, and vaccine hesitancy.

Equils O, Bakaj Berishaj A, Stice E, da Costa C.

Hum Vaccin Immunother. 2023 12 31. 19(1):2180217. PMID: 36852481

Addressing and Inspiring Vaccine Confidence in Black, Indigenous, and People of Color During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic.

Marcelin JR, Swartz TH, Bernice F, Berthaud V, Christian R, da Costa C, Fadul N, Floris-Moore M, Hlatshwayo M, Johansson P, Kullar R, Manning K, McGee EU, Medlin C, Piggott DA, Syed U, Snowden J, Tan T, Abdul-Mutakabbir JC.

Open Forum Infect Dis. 2021 Sep. 8(9):ofab417. PMID: 34580644

The effect of diabetes mellitus on outcomes of patients with nosocomial pneumonia caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: data from a prospective double-blind clinical trial comparing treatment with linezolid versus vancomycin.

Equils O, da Costa C, Wible M, Lipsky BA.

BMC Infect Dis. 2016 09 06. 16:476. PMID: 27600290

Immunogenicity and safety of two tetravalent (measles, mumps, rubella, varicella) vaccines coadministered with hepatitis a and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines to children twelve to fourteen months of age.

Blatter MM, Klein NP, Shepard JS, Leonardi M, Shapiro S, Schear M, Mufson MA, Martin JM, Varman M, Grogg S, London A, Cambron P, Douha M, Nicholson O, da Costa C, Innis BL.

Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2012 Aug. 31(8):e133-40. PMID: 22622699

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