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Peer-reviewed Articles
Book Chapters
Policy Briefs
Reports
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Conference Abstracts
Peer-reviewed Articles
Gatzweiler FW, Jayasinghe S, Siri JG, Corburn J (2023). Towards a new urban health science. Urban Science 7(1):30.
Bai Y, Zhang Y, Zotova O, Pineo H, Siri J, Liang L, Luo X, Kwan M-P, Ji J, Jiang X, Chu C, Cong N, Lin V, Summerskill W, Luo Y, Yu H, Wu T, Yang C, Li J, Xiao Y, Zhou J, Dou D, Xiong H, Zhang LL, Wang L, Tao S, Fu B, Zhang Y, Xu B, Yang J, Gong P (2022). Healthy Cities initiative in China: Progress, challenges, and the way forward. Lancet Regional Health-Western Pacific 27:100539.
Reidpath DD, Allotey P, Barker SF, Clasen T, French M, Leder K, Ramirez-Lovering D, Rhule ELM, Siri J (2022). Implementing “from here to there”: A case study of conceptual and practical challenges in implementation science. Social Science and Medicine 301: 114959.
Grant M, Siri J, Gatzweiler F, Dora C, Aerts J, Nandudu S, Claeson A, Carbajal P, Roebbel N, Petrella L, Hérick de Sá T (2022). Supporting a healthy planet, healthy people and health equity through urban and territorial planning. Planning Practice and Research 37(1):111-130.
Milner J, Davies M, Haines A, Huxley R, Michie S, Robertson L, Siri J, & Wilkinson P (2021). Emerging from COVID-19: Lessons for Action on Climate Change and Health in Cities. Journal of Urban Health.
Werna E, Siri JG, Tan DT, & Howden-Chapman P (2020). As safe as houses? Why standards for urban development matter. Cities & Health, 0(0), 1–14.
Lee YY, Tan D, Siri J, Newell B, Gong Y, Proust K, & Marsden T (2020). The role of public health dietary messages and guidelines in tackling overweight and obesity issues. Malaysian Journal of Nutrition, 26, 031–050.
Tan DT, Siri JG, Gong Y, Ong B, Lim SC, MacGillivray BH, & Marsden T (2019). Systems approaches for localising the SDGs: Co-production of place-based case studies. Globalization and Health, 15(1), 85.
Bai X, Colbert M, McPhearson T, Roberts D, Siri J, Walsh B, & Webb B (2019). Networking urban science, policy and practice for sustainability. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 39, 114–122.
Thomson DR, Linard C, Vanhuysse S, Steele JE, Shimoni M, Siri J, Caiaffa WT, Rosenberg M, Wolff E, Grippa T, Georganos S, & Elsey H (2019). Extending Data for Urban Health Decision-Making: A Menu of New and Potential Neighborhood-Level Health Determinants Datasets in LMICs. Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, 96(4), 514–536.
Ebikeme C, Gatzweiler F, Oni T, Liu J, Oyuela A, & Siri J (2019). Xiamen Call for Action: Building the Brain of the City—Universal Principles of Urban Health. Journal of Urban Health, 96(4), 507–509.
Elmqvist T, Siri J, Andersson E, Anderson P, Bai X, Das PK, Gatere T, Gonzalez A, Goodness J, Handel SN, Hermansson Török E, Kavonic J, Kronenberg J, Lindgren E, Maddox D, Maher R, Mbow C, McPhearson T, Mulligan J, Nordenson G, Spires M, Stenkula U, Takeuchi K, Vogel C, Handel S, Das PK (2018). Urban tinkering. Sustainability Science, 13(6), 1549–1564.
Diez-Roux AV, Slesinski SC, Alazraqui M, Caiaffa WT, Frenz P, Fuchs RJ, Miranda JJ, Rodriguez DA, Sarmiento Dueñas OL, Siri J, & Vergara AV (2019). A Novel International Partnership for Actionable Evidence on Urban Health in Latin America: LAC-Urban Health and SALURBAL. Global Challenges, 3(4), 1800013.
Yang J, Siri JG, Remais JV, Cheng Q, Zhang H, Chan KKY, Sun Z, Zhao Y, Cong N, Li X, Zhang W, Bai Y, Bi J, Cai W, Chan EYY, Chen W, Fan W, Fu H, He J, Huang H, Ji JS, Jia P, Jiang X, Kwan M-P, Li T, Li X, Liang X, Liang X, Liang L, Liu Q, Lu Y, Luo Y, Ma X, Schwartländer B, Shen Z, Shi P, Su J, Wu T, Yang C, Yin Y, Zhang Q, Zhang Y, Zhang Y, Xu B, Gong, P. (2018). The Tsinghua–Lancet Commission on Healthy Cities in China: Unlocking the power of cities for a healthy China. The Lancet, 391(10135), 2140–2184.
Tan DT, Gong Y, & Siri JG (2017). The Impact of Subsidies on the Prevalence of Climate-Sensitive Residential Buildings in Malaysia. Sustainability, 9(12), 2300.
Lawrence R, Capon A, & Siri J (2017). Lessons from Hippocrates for contemporary urban health challenges. Cities & Health, 1(1), 72–82.
Bai X, Surveyer A, Elmqvist T, Gatzweiler FW, Güneralp B, Parnell S, Prieur-Richard A-H, Shrivastava P, Siri JG, Stafford-Smith M, Toussaint, J-P, & Webb R (2016). Defining and advancing a systems approach for sustainable cities. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 23, 69–78.
Siri JG (2016). Sustainable, healthy cities: Making the most of the urban transition. Public Health Reviews, 37, 22.
Newell B & Siri J (2016). A role for low-order system dynamics models in urban health policy making. Environment International, 95, 93–97.
Rietveld LC, Siri JG, Chakravarty I, Arsénio AM, Biswas R, & Chatterjee A (2016). Improving health in cities through systems approaches for urban water management. Environmental Health, 15(1), 151–160.
Oliveira JAP de, Doll CNH, Siri J, Dreyfus M, Farzaneh H, & Capon A (2015). Urban governance and the systems approaches to health-environment co-benefits in cities. Cadernos De Saude Publica, 31 Suppl 1, 25–38.
Siri JG, Newell B, Proust K, & Capon A (2015). Urbanization, Extreme Events, and Health: The Case for Systems Approaches in Mitigation, Management, and Response. Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health.
Rafaj P, Amann M, & Siri JG (2014). Factorization of air pollutant emissions: Projections versus observed trends in Europe. The Science of the Total Environment, 494–495, 272–282.
Parnell S, Siri JG, Elmqvist T, Marcotullio P, Capon A, Revi A, & Boufford JI (2014). Making the Sustainable Development Goals Operational through an Urban Agenda: Perspectives from Science. The Solutions Journal.
Siri JG (2014). Independent Associations of Maternal Education and Household Wealth with Malaria Risk in Children. Ecology and Society, 19(1).
Rafaj P, Amann M, Siri J, & Wuester H (2014). Changes in European greenhouse gas and air pollutant emissions 1960–2010: Decomposition of determining factors. Climatic Change, 124(3), 477–504.
Nell S, Eibach D, Montano V, Maady A, Nkwescheu A, Siri J, Elamin WF, Falush D, Linz B, Achtman M, Moodley Y, & Suerbaum S. (2013). Recent acquisition of Helicobacter pylori by Baka pygmies. PLoS Genetics, 9(9), e1003775.
Kassem HA, Siri J, Kamal HA, & Wilson ML (2012). Environmental factors underlying spatial patterns of sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) associated with leishmaniasis in southern Sinai, Egypt. Acta Tropica, 123(1), 8–15.
Siri JG, Wilson ML, Murray S, Rosen DH, Vulule JM, slu*tsker L, & Lindblade KA (2010). Significance of travel to rural areas as a risk factor for malarial anemia in an urban setting. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 82(3), 391–397.
Siri JG, Lindblade KA, Rosen DH, Onyango B, Vulule J, slu*tsker L, & Wilson ML (2008b). Quantitative urban classification for malaria epidemiology in sub-Saharan Africa. Malaria Journal, 7.
Siri JG, Lindblade KA, Rosen DH, Onyango B, Vulule JM, slu*tsker L, & Wilson ML (2008a). A census-weighted, spatially-stratified household sampling strategy for urban malaria epidemiology. Malaria Journal, 7.
Siri JG (2006). Environmental and socio-demographic determinants of severe malaria risk in urban Kisumu, Kenya [University of Michigan] [Doctoral Thesis].
Book Chapters
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Siri J., Indvik K. (2022). Climate Change, Cities and Health [Chapter]. In: Making Healthy Places: Designing and Building for Health, Well-Being, and Sustainability [Botchwey N., Dannenberg A., Frumkin H. (eds)]. Island Press, Washington DC, USA.
Siri J., Indvik K., O’Sullivan K. (2022). Community Resilience and Healthy Places [Chapter]. In: Making Healthy Places: Designing and Building for Health, Well-Being, and Sustainability [Botchwey N., Dannenberg A., Frumkin H. (eds)]. Island Press, Washington DC, USA.
Siri J., Tan D. (2020). A Systems Approach to Urban Health and Well-being Has Come of Age in the Asia-Pacific Region [Chapter]. In: Urban Health and Wellbeing Programme [Gatzweiler F. (ed)]. Springer, Singapore.
Siri J., Capon A. (2017). Urban health: history definitions and approaches [Chapter]. In: Defining the Urban: Interdisciplinary and Professional Perspectives [Iossifova D., Doll C.N.H., Gasparatos A. (eds)]. Routledge, New York.
Howden-Chapman P., Siri J., Chisholm E., Chapman R., Doll C.N.H., Capon A .(2017). SDG3: Ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages [Chapter]. In: International Council for Science (ICSU) (2017). A Guide to SDG Interactions: from Science to Implementation [Griggs D.J., Nilsson M., Stevance A., McCollum D. (eds)]. International Council for Science, Paris.
Policy Briefs
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Davies M., Haines A., Michie S., Robertson L., Siri J., Wilkinson P. (2020). COVID-19, health and climate change: Lessons and priorities for a healthy, sustainable and resilient future. C40 Knowledge Hub Briefing Paper.
LAC-Urban Health, SALURBAL (2020). Knowledge to policy translation for urban health: lessons from Latin American cities [policy brief] [Indvik K., Siri J., Ghani F,. Sarmiento O.L., Barrientos Gutiérrez T., Diez Canseco F., Miranda J., Vives A., Cortinez A., Rodriguez D., Caiaffa W., Bilal U., Ramirez-Zea M., Spinelli H., Lein A., Slesinski C., & Diez Roux A. (eds)]. LAC-Urban Health, Philadelphia.
PAHO, LAC-Urban Health, SALURBAL (2019). Health in all urban policies: lessons from Latin American cities [policy brief] [Indvik K., Lein A., Slesinski C., Ortigoza A., Diez Canseco F., Cortinez A., de Oliveira Morais L.M., Vives A., Sarmiento O.L., Rodriguez D., Caiaffa W., Barrientos T., Siri J., Diez Roux A., Lanzagorta F., Ebert N., Rogger C., Eijkemans G. (eds)]. LAC-Urban Health, Philadelphia.
LAC-Urban Health, SALURBAL (2018). Data in the SALURBAL project [data brief] [Lein A.C., Slesinski C., Diez-Roux A.V., Indvik K., Siri J., Bilal U., Quistberg A., Moore K. (eds)]. LAC-Urban Health, Philadelphia.
LAC-Urban Health, SALURBAL (2018). Food and urban health: lessons from Latin America [policy brief] [Lein A.C., Cardoso L., Sarmiento O.L., Pérez Ferrer C., Kroker-Lobos F., Braslow J., Bilal U., Carvalho M.M., Barrientos T., Miranda J.J., Diez Canseco F., Mayen A.L., Slesinski C., Siri J., Caiaffa W.T., Frenz P., Vives A., Rodriguez D., Diez-Roux A.V. (eds)]. LAC-Urban Health, Philadelphia.
LAC-Urban Health, SALURBAL (2017). Sustainable Transport and Urban Health: Lessons from Latin American Cities [policy brief] [Sarmiento O.L., Siri J., Rodríguez D., Higuera-Mendieta D., Gonzalez S., Montero S., Barrientos T., Morales R., Mora R., Slesinski C., Diez-Roux A. (eds)]. LAC-Urban Health, Philadelphia.
Reports
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Guangzhou Institute for Urban Innovation (2021). 5th Guangzhou Award Report on Local Implementation of SDGs. Guanzhou, China. [co-author]
OECD Global Science Forum (2020). Addressing societal challenges using transdisciplinary research. OECD Science, Technology and Industry Policy Papers, No. 88. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development: Paris, France [consultant for OECD GSF Expert Group] PDF
WHO Centre for Health Development (2016). Global report on urban health: equitable healthier cities for sustainable development. Kobe, Japan. [contributor]
United Nations (2015). Global Sustainable Development Report 2015. [contributor]
Siri J. (2015). Systems thinking and urban health inequities. Contribution to WHO Global report on urban health.
Siri J., Capon A. (2015). Health and wellbeing in sustainable urban development. Global Sustainable Development Report 2015 Briefs.
ICSU (2011). Report of the ICSU Planning Group on Health and Wellbeing in the Changing Urban Environment: a Systems Analysis Approach. International Council for Science, Paris. [member of Planning Group]
Siri J.G., Ernst K. (2009). Needs Assessment for Communicable Disease Surveillance for the Tohono O’odham Nation. Tohono O’Odham Department of Health & Human Services.
Commentary, Book Reviews, & Brief Reports
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Siri J, Geddes I (2023). Mainstreaming health in urban design and planning: advances in theory and practice. Cities and Health 6(5):853-857.
Siri J. (2021). The time for transdisciplinarity is now. In: INGSA2021: Building Back Wiser: Knowledge, Policy and Public in Dialogue: Viewpoints [Allen K., Simon-Kumar N., Mills G. (eds)]. International Network for Government Science Advice, Auckland.
Patz J., Siri J.G. (2021). Toward urban planetary health solutions to climate change and other modern crises. Journal of Urban Health 98:311–314.
Pineo H., Audia C., Black D., French M., Gemmell E., Lovasi G.S., Milner J., Montes F., Niu Y., Pérez-Ferrer C., Siri J., Taruc R.R. (2020). Building a methodological foundation for impactful urban planetary health science. Journal of Urban Health 98:442–452.
Siri J. (2018). [Review of the book Climate Change and the Health of Nations: Famines, Fevers, and the Fate of Populations, by McMichael A]. Population Development Review 44(1):176-9.
Hashim J.H., Siri J.G. (2015). Global environmental change and human health. Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health 28 (2 suppl):5S-7S.
Capon A., Siri J. (2015). Changing the trend: a systems approach to complex urban population health. Cadernos de Saúde Pública 31:S21-S22.
Siri J.G. (2012). The independent effects of maternal education and household wealth on malaria risk in children. IIASA Interim Report IR-12-014. International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg.
MacKellar L., Cao G.-Y., Siri J., Song X. (2012). Guest editors’ introduction: special issue on urbanization and environment in China [editorial]. Popul Environ, 33(2-3):135-136.
Other Media
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Desai P., Siri J. (2020). COVID-19 underscores the role of Housing Associations in the health of people and planet. Oneplanet.com blog.
Mendiluce M., Siri J. (2020). The COVID-19 recovery can be the vaccine for climate change. WEF Global Agenda.
Siri J. (2020). Together we RISE. Wellcome Trustnet.
Tan D., Siri J., Ghani F. (2018). Going off-road for sustainability, equity and health. [letter]. The Malaysian Insight, Malaysiakini, Malay Mail, and Our World.
MacKellar L., Siri J. (2014). Reasons to calm down about Ebola. Wall Street Journal Oct 20, 2014.
Conference Abstracts
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Siri J.G., Brown Z., Spielauer M. (2010). Simulation modeling of the long-term evolution of local malaria transmission and acquired immunity in the context of urban growth and urban-rural travel. Malar J 9(Suppl 2).
MacDonald P.D.M., Kardia S.L.R., Hawley W.A., Hightower A.W., McElroy P.D., Siri J.G., Ombok M., Lal A.A., Wilson M.L. (2000). Predicting house-level Anopheles (Diptera: Culicidae) densities in western Kenya using multivariable regression and geostatistical “hot spot” methods. Program and abstracts of the 49th annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Am J Trop Med Hyg 62(3; SUPP).
Siri J.G., Wilson M.D., Alley W.S., Boatin B.A., Wilson M.L. (1998). Blackfly ecology and risk of onchocerciasis resurgence: recent studies in West Africa. Am J Trop Med Hyg 61. Washington, DC.
Montuori N., Siri J., Simmons T., Gillet C., Senterre G., Wrathall L., Sobel M.E. (1995). Precursor-product relationship between a 37-KDA polypeptide and the 67-KDA laminin receptor. FASEB J 9(3).
