Esteban Baus C., Mtr

EGBAUS@puce.edu.ec    

Research group: Healthy Living Initiative

Infectious and Tropical Diseases 

Areas of research: Healthy environments and lifestyles / Promotion of health and nutrition.

 Current research:

• Community-based research: control and prevention of Chagas disease
• Scientific communication

  Education: 

• 2015. Master in Management of Local Community Development, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador.
• 2006. Bachelor in Biology, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador.

  Current position:  

• Professor, School of Medicine. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador
• Principal Investigator at the Center for Research on Health in Latin America.

  Recent publications: 

• Bates, B. R., Carrasco-Tenezaca, M., Mendez-Trivino, A. M., Mendoza, L. E., Nieto-Sanchez, C., Baus, E. G., & Grijalva, M. J. (2023). Identifying Barriers and Facilitators for Home Reconstruction for Prevention of Chagas Disease: An Interview Study in Rural Loja Province, Ecuador. Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 8(4), 228. MDPI AG. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed8040228 

• Baus, E.G., Carrasco-Tenezaca, M., Frey, M. & Medina Maldonado, V. E. (2023). Risk Factors for the Mental Health of Adolescents from the Parental Perspective: Photo-Voice in Rural Communities of Ecuador. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(3), 2205; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20032205
• Grijalva, M.J.; Villacís, A.G.; Ocaña-Mayorga, S.; Yumiseva, C.A.; Nieto-Sanchez, C.; Baus, E.G. and Moncayo, A.L. (2022).Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Chemical Control for Chagas Disease Vectors in Loja Province, Ecuador. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases. Ahead of print http://doi.org/10.1089/vbz.2021.0089

• Mario J Grijalva, Ana L Moncayo, Cesar A Yumiseva, Sofia Ocaña-Mayorga, Esteban G Baus, Anita G Villacís. (2022). Evaluation of Selective Deltamethrin Application with Household and Community Awareness for the Control of Chagas Disease in Southern Ecuador. Journal of Medical Entomology, tjac050, https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjac050

• Bates, B.R., Nieto-Sánchez, C., Marvel, D.L., Guerrero, D., Baus, E.G., Grijalva, M.J. (2020). Broadening ‘Media’ for Development Communication: Alternative Channels Employed in Loja, Ecuador. Asia Pacific Media Educator 29(2):201-213. doi:10.1177/1326365X19870097

• Bates, B.R., Nieto-Sanchez, C., Marvel, D.L., Baus, E.G., Grijalva, M.J. (2019). Broadening “media” for development communication: Alternative channels employed in Loja, Ecuador. Asia Pacific Media Educator, 29(2): 201–213. 10.1177/1326365X19870097

• Nieto-Sanchez C, Bates BR, Guerrero D, Jimenez S, Baus EG, Peeters Grietens K & Grijalva, M. J. (2019) Home improvement and system-based health promotion for sustainable prevention of Chagas disease: A qualitative study. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 13(6): e0007472. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0007472

• Grijalva, M. J., Villacís, A. G., Moncayo, A. L., Ocaña-Mayorga, S., Yumiseva, C. A., & Baus, E. G. (2017). Distribution of triatomine species in domestic and peridomestic environments in central coastal Ecuador. PLoS neglected tropical diseases, 11(10), e0005970

• Grijalva, M. J., Villacis, A. G., Ocaña-Mayorga, S., Yumiseva, C. A., Moncayo, A. L., & Baus, E. G. (2015). Comprehensive survey of domiciliary triatomine species capable of transmitting Chagas disease in southern Ecuador. PLoS neglected tropical diseases, 9(10), e0004142

• Villacís, A. G., Ocaña-Mayorga, S., Lascano, M. S., Yumiseva, C. A., Baus, E. G., & Grijalva, M. J. (2015). Abundance, natural infection with trypanosomes, and food source of an endemic species of triatomine, Panstrongylus howardi (Neiva 1911), on the Ecuadorian Central Coast. The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 92(1), 187-192

• Nieto-Sanchez, C., Baus, E. G., Guerrero, D., & Grijalva, M. J. (2015). Positive deviance study to inform a Chagas disease control program in southern Ecuador. Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 110(3), 299-309

  Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7787-9883

ResearchGate:  https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Esteban_Baus