Finch A, Vora NM, et al. The promise and compromise of the WHO Pandemic Agreement for spillover prevention and One Health. Lancet. 2025 Apr.

Plowright R … Vora NM … Keeley A. Ecological countermeasures to prevent pathogen spillover and subsequent pandemics. Nature Communications. 2024 Mar. PubMed PMID: 38531842.

Lancet-PPATS Commission on Prevention of Viral Spillover, Mettenleiter TC, Winkler AS. Draft of WHO Pandemic Agreement plays down primary prevention. Lancet. 2024 Feb. PubMed PMID: 38341244.

Vora NM, et al. The Lancet-PPATS Commission on Prevention of Viral Spillover: reducing the risk of pandemics through primary prevention. Lancet. 2023 Oct. PubMed PMID: 37837991.

Vora NM, Hannah L, et al. Interventions to reduce risk of pathogen spillover and subsequent early disease spread to prevent outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 2023 Mar. PubMed PMID: 36823026.

Vora NM, et al. Want to prevent pandemics? Stop spillovers. Nature. 2022 May. PubMed PMID: 35551284.

Kache PA, Cook S, Sizer N, Hannah L, Vora NM. Urgent need for integrated pandemic policies on pathogen spillover. Lancet Planetary Health. 2021 Oct. PubMed PMID: 34627468.

Vora NM, Sizer N, Bernstein A. Preventing spillover as a key strategy against pandemics. Nature. 2021 Sept. PubMed PMID: 34522012.

Whittemore K … Vora NM … Lucero D. Walking distance for vulnerable populations to public health emergency response points of dispensing in New York City. Journal of Emergency Management. 2021 Nov. PubMed PMID: 34878162.

Vora NM, Grober A, Goodwin BP, et al. Challenges of Service Coordination for Evacuees of Hurricane Maria through the National Disaster Medical System — Georgia, September–November, 2017. Journal of Emergency Management. 2018 May/Jun. PubMed PMID: 30044493.

Willetts L, van de pas R, Woolaston K, Bennett N, Vora NM, et al. Implementing the Global Action Plan on Biodiversity and Health. Lancet. 2024 Nov. PubMed PMID: 39615507.

Vora NM, et al. Nature-based solutions are essential for climate and health action. Lancet. 2024 Aug. PubMed PMID: 39146950.

Willets L … Vora NM. Advancing integrated governance for health through national biodiversity strategies and action plans. Lancet. 2023 Jul. PubMed PMID: 37499672.

Willetts L, Comeau L, Vora N, et al. Health in global biodiversity governance: what is next? Lancet. 2023 Jan. PubMed PMID: 36709768.

Machalaba C … Vora NM … Karesh W. Applying A One Health Approach in Global Health and Medicine: enhancing involvement of medical schools and global health centers. Annals of Global Health. 2021 Mar. PubMed PMID: 33816135.

Karesh W, Vora N. Chapter 17: One World – One Health. In: Scheld W, Grayson M, Hughes J, editors. Emerging Infections 9. American Society for Microbiology Press; 2010. ISBN 978-1-55581-525-7.

He K, Foerster S, Vora NM, et al. Evaluating completion rates of COVID-19 contact tracing surveys in New York City. BMC Public Health. 2024 Feb. PubMed PMID: 38331772.

Dai K, Foerster S, Vora NM, et al. Community transmission of SARS-CoV-2 during the Delta wave in New York City. BMC Infectious Diseases. 2023 Nov. PubMed PMID: 37915079.

Udeagu CC, Vora NM, et al. Integrating contact tracers into point-of-care testing workflow to accelerate the tracing of people with exposure to COVID-19, August-December 2020, New York City. Journal of Public Health Management & Practice. 2023 Jun. PubMed PMID: 37290128.

Udeagu CC … Vora NM. Outcomes of a Community Engagement and Information Gathering Program to Support Telephone-based COVID-19 Contact Tracing-New York City, July 2020-June 2021: A Descriptive Analysis. JMIR Public Health Surveill. 2022 Oct. PubMed PMID: 36240019.

Blaney K … Vora NM. COVID-19 Case Investigation and Contact Tracing in New York City, June 1,2020–October 31, 2021. JAMA Network Open. 2022 Nov. PubMed PMID: 36322090.

Whittemore K … Vora NM. Risk Factors for Conversion From a COVID-19 Household Contact to a Case: New York City, August 1, 2020, to July 31, 2021. JAMA Network Open. 2022 Sept. PubMed PMID: 36103182.

Udeagu CC … Vora NM. Community-based workforce for COVID-19 contact tracing and prevention activities in New York City. Public Health Reports. 2022 Jul. PubMed PMID: 35861302.

Whittemore K … Vora NM, Lucero D. Hospital-level factors associated with death during pneumonia-associated hospitalization among adults — New York City, 2010–2014. PLOS One. 2021 Oct. PubMed PMID: 34618828.

Wu M … Vora NM. Pneumonia-associated hospitalizations in New York State by level of urbanization. PLOS One. 2020 Dec. PubMed PMID: 33362262.

Brown T, Dubowski K, Plitt M, Falci L, Lee E, Huynh M, Furuya Y, Vora NM. Erroneous reporting of deaths attributed to pneumonia and influenza at two New York City teaching hospitals, 2013-2014. Public Health Reports. 2020 Nov/Dec. PubMed PMID: 33031711.

Preliminary Estimate of Excess Mortality During the COVID-19 Outbreak - New York City, March 11-May 2, 2020. MMWR. 2020 May. PubMed PMID: 32407306.

Kache PA, Julien T, Corrado RE, Vora NM, Daskalakis D, Varma JK, Lucero DE. Geospatial cluster analyses of pneumonia-associated hospitalisations among adults in New York City, 2010-2014. Epidemiology and Infection. 2018 Dec. PubMed PMID: 30451133.

Gu CH, Lucero DE, Huang C, Daskalakis D, Varma JK, Vora NM. Burden of Pneumonia-Associated Hospitalizations — New York City, 2001–2014. Public Health Reports. 2018 Sept/Oct. PubMed PMID: 30188808.

Cordoba E, Maduro G, Huynh M, Varma JK, Vora NM. Deaths From Pneumonia — New York City, 1999–2015. OFID. 2018 Jan. PubMed PMID: 29955618.

Hayes B, Haberling DL, Kennedy J, Varma JK, Fry A, Vora NM. Burden of Pneumonia-Associated Hospitalizations — United States, 2001–2014. CHEST. 2017 Oct. Pub Med PMID: 29017956.

Corrado RE, Lee D, Lucero DE, Varma JK, Vora NM. Burden of Adult Community-Acquired, Healthcare-Associated, Hospital-Acquired, and Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia — New York City, 2010–2014. CHEST. 2017 Apr. Pub Med PMID: 28455128.

Vora NM, et al. Bat and lyssavirus exposure among humans in a region that celebrates a bat festival — Idanre, Nigeria, 2010 and 2013. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 2020 Jul. PubMed PMID: 32568051.

Vora NM, Orciari LA, et al. Potential confounding of diagnosis of rabies in persons with recent receipt of intravenous immune globulin. MMWR. 2018 Feb. PubMed PMID: 29420464.

Wallace RM, Lai Y, Doty JB, Chen CC, Vora NM, et al. Initial pen and field assessment of baits to use in oral rabies vaccination of Formosan ferret-badgers in response to the re-emergence of rabies in Taiwan. PLOS ONE. 2018 Jan. Pub Med PMID: 29293591.

McNeil CS, Nagy S, Moonan C, Wallace RM, Vora NM, et al. Community rabies knowledge and pet vaccination practices after a skunk rabies outbreak in Eddy County, New Mexico. J Am Vet Med Assoc. 2015 Jun; 246(11). Pub Med PMID 25970222.

Vora NM, Orciari LA, Niezgoda M, et al. Clinical management and humoral immune responses to rabies post-exposure prophylaxis among three patients who received solid organs from a donor with rabies. Transpl Infect Dis. 2015 Apr. Pub Med PMID: 25851103.

Vora NM, Clippard J, Stobierski MG, Signs K, Blanton J. Animal bite and rabies postexposure prophylaxis reporting — United States, 2013. JPHMP. 2014 Jul. Pub Med PIMD: 25084537.

Vora NM, Basavaraju SV, Feldman K, et al. Raccoon rabies virus variant transmission through solid organ transplantation. JAMA. 2013 Jul; 310(4): 398–407. Pub Med PMID: 23917290.

Vora NM, Osinubi M, Wallace RM, et al. Notes from the Field: Assessment of Potential Zoonotic Disease Exposure and Illness Related to an Annual Bat Festival — Idanre, Nigeria. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2014 Apr; 63(15): 334. Pub Med PMID: 24739343.

Vora NM, Holman RC, Mehal JM, Steiner CM, Blanton J, Sejvar S. Burden of encephalitis-associated hospitalizations in the United States, 1998–2010. Neurology. 2014 Feb; 82(5): 443–451. Pub Med PMID: 24384647.

Wallace RM, Bhavnani D, Russell J, Zaki S, Muehlenbachs A, Hayden-Pinneri K, Aplícano RM, Peruski L,

Vora NM, et al. Rabies death attributed to exposure in Central America with symptom onset in a U.S. detention facility — Texas, 2013. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2014 May; 63(20): 446–449. Pub Med PMID: 24848216.

Wu H, Chang SS, Tsai HJ, Wallace RM, Recuenco S, Doty J, Vora NM, Chang FY. Notes from the Field: Wildlife Rabies on an Island Free from Canine Rabies for 52 Years — Taiwan, 2013. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2014 Feb; 63(08): 178–178. Pub Med PMID: 24572614.

Mehal JM, Holman RC, Vora NM, Blanton J, Cheek JE, Gordon PH. Encephalitis-associated hospitalizations among American Indians and Alaska Natives. AJTMH. 2014 Apr; 90(40): 755–759. Pub Med PMID: 24515941.

Wallace RM, Stanek D, Griese S, Krulak D, Vora NM, et al. Challenges in postexposure prophylaxis assessment after organ transplant-transmitted rabies infection: public health response and impact. Zoonoses and Public Health. 2014 Mar. Pub Med PMID: 24673934.

[Lead author]. Human contacts with oral rabies vaccine baits distributed for wildlife rabies management —Ohio, 2012. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2013 Apr; 62(14): 267–9. Pub Med PMID: 23575240.

[Co-author]. U.S.-acquired human rabies with symptom onset and diagnosis abroad, 2012. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2012 Oct; 61(39): 777–81. Pub Med PMID: 23034584.

Winters A, Iqbal M, Benowitz I, Baumgartner J, Vora NM, et al. Public Health Management of Persons Under Investigation for Ebola virus Disease In New York City, 2014-2016. Public Health Reports. 2019 Sep/Oct. PubMed PMID: 31424330.

Saffa A, Tate A, … , Varma JK, Vora NM. Active Monitoring of Travelers for Ebola Virus Disease — New York City, October 25, 2014–December 29, 2015. Health Security. 2018 Jan/Feb. PubMed PMID: 29406796.

Tate AR, Ezeoke I, Lucero DE, Huang CC, Saffa AB, Varma JK, Vora NM. Reporting of False Data During Ebola Virus Disease Active Monitoring — New York City, January 1, 2015–December 29, 2015. Health Security. 2017 Sep/Oct; 15(5):509–518. Pub Med PMID: 29058968.

Ezeoke I, Saffa A, Guthartz S, Tate A, Varma JK, Vora NM. Health Precautions Taken by Travelers to Countries with Ebola Virus Disease. Emerg Infect Dis. 2016 May; 22(5): 929–931. Pub Med PMID: 27089474.

Millman AJ, Chamany S, Guthartz S, Thihalolipavan S, Porter M, Schroeder A, Vora NM, Varma JK, Starr D. Active Monitoring of Travelers Arriving from Ebola-Affected Countries - New York City, October 2014–April 2015. MMWR. 2016 Jan; 65(3): 51–54. Pub Med PMID: 26820056.

Vora NM, Arthur RR, Swerdlow DL, Angulo FJ. Preparation of at-risk west African countries for Ebola. The Lancet. 2015 Jan; 385(9965): 329–330. Pub Med PMID: 25747580.

Logan G, Vora NM, et al. Establishment of a Community Care Center for Ebola Virus Disease Patient Isolation and Management — Bomi County, Liberia, October 2014. MMWR. 2014 Nov; 63(Early Release): 1–3. Pub Med PMID: 25375073.

Sandison T, Homsy J, Arinaitwe E, Wanzira H, Kakuru A, Bigira V, Kalamya J, Vora N, Kublin J, Kamya M, Dorsey G, Tappero J. Protective efficacy of co-trimoxazole prophylaxis against malaria in HIV exposed children in rural Uganda: a randomised clinical trial. BMJ. 2011 Mar; 342:d1617. Pub Med PMID: 21454456.

Vora N, Homsy J, Kakuru A, Arinaitwe E, Wanzira H, Sandison T, Bigira V, Kamya M, Tappero J, Dorsey G. Breastfeeding and the risk of malaria in children born to HIV-infected and uninfected mothers in rural Uganda. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2010 Oct; 55(2):253–61. Pub Med PMID: 20683193.

Gasasira A, Kamya M, Ochong E, Vora N, Achan J, Charlebois E, Ruel T, Kateera F, Meya D, Havlir D, Rosenthal P, Dorsey G. Effect of trimethoprim-sulphamethoxazole on the risk of malaria in HIV- infected Ugandan children living in an area of widespread antifolate resistance. Malar J. 2010 Jun; 9(177). Pub Med PMID: 20573194.

Arinaitwe E, Sandison T, Wanzira H, Kakuru A, Homsy J, Kalamya J, Kamya M, Vora N, Greenhouse B, Rosenthal P, Tappero J, Dorsey G. Artemether-lumefantrine versus dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine for falciparum malaria: a longitudinal, randomized trial in young Ugandan children. CID. 2009 Dec; 49(11):1629–37. Pub Med PMID: 19877969.

Conners EE, Lee EH, Thompson C, McGibbon E, Rakeman J, Iwamoto M, Cooper H, Vora NM, et al. Zika Virus Infection among Pregnant Women and their Infants in New York City, January 2016–June 2017. Obstetrics &; Gynecology. 2018 Aug. PubMed PMID: 29995729.

McGibbon E, Moy M, Vora NM, et al. Epidemiological Characteristics and Laboratory Findings of Zika Virus Cases in New York City, January 1, 2016–June 30, 2017. Vector-Borne and Zooonotic Disease. 2018 Jul. PubMed PMID: 29742003.

Madad S, Tate A, Rand M, Quinn C, Vora NM, et al. Zika Virus Preparedness and Response Efforts through Collaboration between a Health Care Delivery System and a Local Public Health Department. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness. 2018 Mar. PubMed PMID: 29510763.

Graham KA, Fox DJ, Talati A, Pantea C, Brady L, Carter SL, Friedenberg E, Vora NM, Browne ML, Lee CT. Prevalence and Clinical Attributes of Congenital Microcephaly — New York, 2013-2015. MMWR. 2017 Feb; 66(5): 125–129. Pub Med PMID: 28182608.

Jacobs-Wingo J, Ezeoke I, Saffa A, Tate A, Lee D, Johnson K, Whittemore K, Illescas A, Collins A, Rand M, Rakeman JL, Varma JK, Vora NM. Using a call center to coordinate Zika virus testing-New York City, 2016. J Emerg Mgmt. 2016 Nov/Dec; 14(6): 391–395. Pub Med PMID: 28101877.

Whittemore K, Tate A, Illescas A, Saffa A, Collins A, Varma JK, Vora NM. Zika Virus Knowledge among Pregnant Women Who Were in Areas with Active Transmission. Emerg Infect Dis. 2017 Jan; 23(1): 164–166. Pub Med PMID: 27855041.

Lee CT, Vora NM, Bajwa W, et al. Zika Virus Surveillance and Preparedness — New York City, 2015–2016. MMWR. 2016 Jun; 65(24): 629–635. Pub Med PMID: 27337505.

Huang CC … Vora NM. Infectious Diseases Hospitalizations — New York City, 2001–2014. Public Health Reports. 2020 Sept/Oct. PubMed PMID: 32687737.

Zucker JR, Rosen JB, Iwamoto M, Arciulo RJ, Langdon-Embry M, Vora NM, et al. Consequences of Under-Vaccination: Measles Outbreak, New York City, 2018–2019. New England Journal of Medicine. 2020 Mar. PubMed PMID: 32160662.

Alroy KA, Vora NM, et al. Interventions to Reduce Measles Virus Exposures in Outpatient Health Care Facilities — New York City, 2018. MMWR. 2019 Sep. PubMed PMID: 31513562.

Alroy KA, Vora NM, et al. Interventions to Reduce Measles Virus Exposures in Outpatient Health Care Facilities — New York City, 2018. MMWR. 2019 Sep. PubMed PMID: 31513562.

Kennedy J, Haberling, D, Huang C, Lucero D, Lessa F, Daskalakis D, Vora NM. Infectious Disease Hospitalizations — United States, 2001–2014. CHEST. 2019 Apr. PubMed PMID: 31047954.

Bai Y, Osinubi MOV, Osikowicz L, McKee C, Vora NM, et al. Human Exposure to Novel Bartonella Species from Contact with Fruit Bats. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 2018 Dec. PubMed PMID: 30457529.

Baum S, Reddy V, Vora NM, et al. Cost comparison between two responses to hepatitis A virus incidents in restaurant food handlers — New York City, 2015 and 2017. JPHMP. 2020 Mar/Apr. PubMed PMID: 31995548.

Tran OC, Lucero DE, Balter S, Fitzhenry R, Huynh M, Varma JK, Vora NM. Sensitivity and Positive Predictive Value of Death Certificate Data among Decedents with Legionnaires’ Disease in New York City, 2008–2013. Public Health Reports. 2018 Jan. PubMed PMID: 30005174.

Reich N, Lessler J, Varma JK, Vora NM. Quantifying the Risk and Cost of Active Monitoring for Infectious Diseases. Scientific Reports. 2018 Jan. Pub Med PMID: 29348656.

Townsend MB, Gallardo-Romero NF, Khmaladze E, Vora NM, et al. Retrospective Proteomic Analysis of Serum After Akhmeta Virus Infection: New Suspect Case Identification and Insights into Poxvirus Humoral Immunity. J Infect Dis. 2017 Oct. Pub Med PMID: 29029254.

Vora NM, Li Y, Geleishvili M, et al. Human infection with a zoonotic orthopoxvirus in the country of Georgia. N Engl J Med. 2015 Mar; 372(13): 1223–1230. Pub Med PMID: 25806914.

Vora NM, Kubin CJ, Furuya EY. Appropriateness of gram-negative agent use at a tertiary care hospital in the setting of significant antimicrobial resistance. OFID. 2015 Jan; 2(1).

Vora NM, Smith KM, Machalaba CC, Karesh WB. Reptile- and amphibian-associated Salmonellosis in childcare centers, United States. EID. 2012 Dec; 18(12): 2092–4. Pub Med PMID: 23171538.

Vora N. Media Watch: The Viral Storm book review. Lancet Infect Dis. 2012 Mar; 12(3): 190.

Vora N. Impact of anthropogenic environmental alterations on vector-borne diseases. Medscape J Med. 2008 Oct; 10(10). Pub Med PMID: 19099032.

Vora NM, Gupta V. Beyond the bedside: Pursuing a non-traditional career in medicine. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2024 Aug. PubMed PMID: 39159460.

Iskander J, Thomas D, Vora NM, et al. The U.S. Public Health Service and the American Medical Association House of Delegates: Informing Policy at the Intersection of Public Health and Medical Care. Public Health Reports. 2020 Mar. PubMed PMID: 32228138.

Illescas A, Kache P, Whittemore K, Lucero DE, Quinn C, Daskalakis D, Vora NM. Hospitalizations Involving an Intensive Care Unit Admission Among Patients Aged ≥65 years within New York City Hospitals during 2000–2014. Medical Care. 2020 Jan. PubMed PMID: 31651742.

Rose J, Vora NM, Countway P, Gast R, Caron D. Effects of temperature on growth rate and gross growth efficiency of an Antarctic bacterivorous protist. ISME J. 2009 Feb; 3(2):252–60. Pub Med PMID: 18843301.

Rose J, Vora NM, Caron D. Effect of temperature and prey type on nutrient regeneration by an Antarctic bacterivorous protist. Microb Ecol. 2008 Jul; 56(1):101–11. Pub Med PMID: 17932714.

Kizirian D, Truong N, Eriksson A, Vora N. Taxonomic status of Xenopeltis hainanensis jidamingae Zhao. J Herpetol. 2003; 7(2):438–40.