Faculty

Kristjana Asbjornsdottir

Affiliate Associate Professor, Epidemiology

206-616-7841

Education

PhD Epidemiology, University of Washington, 2015
MPH Epidemiology, University of Washington, 2012
BS Biochemistry, University of Iceland, 2005

Contact

206-616-7841

Box 357236
Department of Epidemiology
Seattle, WA

Research Areas

Research Interests

Dr. Ásbjörnsdóttir is an epidemiologist with interests in global maternal and child health and infectious diseases. Her specific research interests are in the health and survival of HIV-exposed and -infected infants and improving HIV care services in resource-limited settings. She currently works on the SAIA-Scale study, a stepped wedge trial scaling up a systems analysis and improvement approach intervention for mother-to-child transmission of HIV services in Manica Province, Mozambique; and on the DeWorm3 study, a multi-country cluster randomized trial of community-wide deworming with the goal of interrupting transmission of soil-transmitted helminths. She is a member of the Health Alliance International and Global Women Adolescent and Child Health (Global WACh) research centers in the Department of Global Health.

Dr. Ásbjörnsdóttir teaches Epi 320: Introduction to Epidemiology, offered in Winter and Spring quarters.Global maternal and child health; HIV; infant feeding and morbidity; health care in resource-limited settings.

Recent Publications (PubMed)

Posttrial Experiences in Sustainment of a Scaled Model of the Systems Analysis and Improvement Approach (SAIA-SCALE) in the Absence of External Funding in Manica Province, Mozambique.
(2024 Nov 1)
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 97(3): 203-207
Hazim CE, Coutinho J, Crocker J, Asbjornsdottir K, Cruz M, Agostinho M, Amaral F, de Fatima Cuembelo M, Dinis A, Fernandes Q, Gimbel S, Inguane C, Murgorgo F, Nassiaca R, Ramiro I, Sherr K
Coverage of community-wide mass drug administration platforms for soil-transmitted helminths in Benin, India, and Malawi: findings from the DeWorm3 project.
(2024 Oct 8)
Infect Dis Poverty 13(1): 72
Means AR, Ásbjörnsdóttir KH, Sharrock KC, Galagan SR, Aruldas K, Avokpaho E, Chabi F, Halliday KE, Houngbegnon P, Israel GJ, Kaliappan SP, Kennedy D, Legge H, Oswald WE, Palanisamy G, Rogers E, Timothy J, Pearman E, Ramesh RM, Simwanza J, Sheik-Abdullah JF, Sheikh M, Togbevi CI, Witek-McManus S, Pullan RL, Bailey R, Kalua K, Ibikounlé M, Luty AJF, Ajjampur SSR, Walson JL
Mental illness and COVID-19 vaccination: a multinational investigation of observational & register-based data.
(2024 Sep 26)
Nat Commun 15(1): 8124
Barker MM, Kõiv K, Magnúsdóttir I, Milbourn H, Wang B, Du X, Murphy G, Herweijer E, Gísladóttir EU, Li H, Lovik A, Kähler AK, Campbell A, Feychting M, Hauksdóttir A, Joyce EE, Thordardottir EB, Frans EM, Hoffart A, Mägi R, Tómasson G, Ásbjörnsdóttir K, Jakobsdóttir J, Andreassen OA, Sullivan PF, Johnson SU, Aspelund T, Brandlistuen RE, Ask H, McCartney DL, Ebrahimi OV, Lehto K, Valdimarsdóttir UA, Nyberg F, Fang F
Soil surveillance for monitoring soil-transmitted helminths: Method development and field testing in three countries.
(2024 Sep)
PLoS Negl Trop Dis 18(9): e0012416
Manuel M, Amato HK, Pilotte N, Chieng B, Araka SB, Siko JEE, Harris M, Nadimpalli ML, Janagaraj V, Houngbegnon P, Rajendiran R, Thamburaj J, Kaliappan SP, Sirois AR, Walch G, Oswald WE, Asbjornsdottir KH, Galagan SR, Walson JL, Williams SA, Luty AJF, Njenga SM, Ibikounlé M, Ajjampur SSR, Pickering AJ
Scaling-up and scaling-out the Systems Analysis and Improvement Approach to optimize the hypertension diagnosis and care cascade for HIV infected individuals (SCALE SAIA-HTN): a stepped-wedge cluster randomized trial.
(2024 Mar 20)
Implement Sci Commun 5(1): 27
Hazim CE, Dobe I, Pope S, Ásbjörnsdóttir KH, Augusto O, Bruno FP, Chicumbe S, Lumbandali N, Mate I, Ofumhan E, Patel S, Rafik R, Sherr K, Tonwe V, Uetela O, Watkins D, Gimbel S, Mocumbi AO
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