Book chapters

Elsevier,

Behavioral Ecology of Tropical Birds, Second Edition, 2022, pp 1-8

This content aligns with Goal 15: Life on Land by highlighting the exceptional biodiversity and ecology of tropical birds.
Elsevier,

Conservation of Marine Birds, 2022, Pages 321-344

This chapter advances the UN SDG goals 12 and 11 by focusing mainly on the IPLC perspective in seabird conservation. By understanding this worldview and the associated approaches, we can set the stage to build a bridge between both groups in an effort to achieve more effective approaches to seabird conservation.
Elsevier,

The COVID-19 Response
The Vital Role of the Public Health Professional
2023, Pages 101-118

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing as well as Goal 10: Reducing Inequalities by examining the consequences of failing to adequately address long-standing social determinants and structural disparities related to the public's health
Elsevier,

Viruses (Second Edition): From Understanding to Investigation, 2023, Pages 401-407

This content supports the SDG Goal 3: Good health and well-being by exploring the human hepatitis B virus (HBV), family Hepadnaviridae, as a highly infectious virus transmitted by blood and body fluids.
Elsevier,

Viruses (Second Edition)
From Understanding to Investigation
2023, Pages 297-300

This content supports the SDG Goal 3: Good health and well-being by exploring the important human pathogen HDV.
Elsevier,

The COVID-19 Response, 2023, pages 101-118.

This content aligns with Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by exploring how social factors such as access to housing, employment, education, and healthcare contributed to the inequitable impacts of COVID-19.
Elsevier,

The Perfect Puppy, 2022, pp 309-313

This chapter aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 15: Life on Land by describing effective and compassionate end of life care for dogs to promote companion animal welfare.
Elsevier,

Energy Democracies for Sustainable Futures, 2022, Pages 215-224

This chapter advances the UN SDG goals 7, 10, and 16 by suggesting that energy does not only need to be democratized but ultimately, needs to be decolonized from the processes that place fossil fuels in the service of settler capitalism, rather than Diné sovereignty. Such a move might enable movements toward energy justice.
Elsevier,

Aging
From Fundamental Biology to Societal Impact
2023, Pages 725-744

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing as well as Goal 10: Reducing Inequalities by presenting early evidence on what it meant to be a frail older individual in the COVID-19 pandemic from the perspective of three different settings: community, hospitals, and nursing homes. Lessons learned provide opportunities to improve health outcomes, community and health services, and how we want to live as aging societies.
Elsevier,

Josiah O. Kuja, Anne W.T. Muigai, Jun Uetake, Chapter 8 - Metagenomics: A resilience approach to climate change and conservation of the African Glacier biodiversity, Editor(s): Catalina Lopez-Correa, Adriana Suarez-Gonzalez, In Translational and Applied Genomics, Genomics and the Global Bioeconomy, Academic Press, 2023, Pages 153-173, ISBN 9780323916011

This content aligns with Goal 15: Life on Land and Goal 2: Zero Hunger by investigating how new genomic applications can leverage agricultural production and how the utilization of bioresources like cold-active enzymes and freeze-resistant proteins from glaciers may help develop more drought-resilient plants.

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