Book chapters

Circularity of Plastics: Sustainability, Emerging Materials, and Valorization of Waste Plastic - Chapter 3: Converting plastic waste to fuel and fine chemicals

Elsevier,

Circularity of Plastics: Sustainability, Emerging Materials, and Valorization of Waste Plastic, Volume 1, 1 January 2023

This chapter aligns with Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy by explaining that, as plastics are largely derived from fossil fuels, the valorizing of these waste plastics into value-added fuels or chemicals could help tackle the huge plastic waste deposition, contribute to a circular economy, and reduce reliance on the scarce hydrocarbon resource.
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Computational Modeling of Infectious Disease- Chapter 3: Host factors: Who gets sick and why

Elsevier,

Computational Modeling of Infectious Disease: With Applications in Python, 2023, Pages 93-119

This chapter advances the UN SDG Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being by exploring the mathematical modeling and host factor models that seek to explain the pathogenic dynamics, where there are meaningful differences in the way different populations transmit disease (β differences), recover from disease (γ differences), or in some other clinically meaningful factor.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being

Tags:

Health and population; Health and wellbeing, Global

The New Public Health (Fourth Edition); Chapter 4 - Communicable diseases

Elsevier,

The New Public Health (Fourth Edition)

2023, Pages 215-366

This content supports the SDG Goal 3: Good health and well-being, Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation, and Goal 10: Reduced inequalities by examining scientific advances in microbiology and genetics that advance new successes in vaccinology and therapeutics to meet old and new communicable disease challenges, including diseases of poverty in countries at all developmental and income levels.
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Emerging Practices in Telehealth: Best Practices in a Rapidly Changing Field: Chapter 9 - Increasing access and decreasing disparity with telehealth

Emerging Practices in Telehealth: Best Practices in a Rapidly Changing Field, 2023, Pages 131-140

This chapter advances the UN SDG Goal 3: Good Health and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by hihglighting low to high technology options, telehealth platform training for support staff and providers, subsidized and improved budgets for telehealth, and improved reimbursement as vital steps to close the digital divide and improve health-care disparities.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

Tags:

Health and population; Health and wellbeing; Diversity and inclusion, Global

Chapter 7 - Liver-on-a-chip

Elsevier,

Principles of Human Organs-on-Chips, Woodhead Publishing Series in Biomaterials, 2023, Pages 195-249

This content supports the SDG Goal 3: Good health and well-being by exploring organ-on-a-chip (OOC) as a promising candidate for liver studies to propose new treatments for liver diseases and toxicity essays.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being

Tags:

Health and population; Health and wellbeing, Global

Fate of Biological Contaminants During Recycling of Organic Wastes: Fate of Biological Contaminants During Recycling of Organic Wastes

Elsevier,

Fate of Biological Contaminants During Recycling of Organic Wastes

2023, Pages 279-295

This content supports the SDG Goal 3: Good health and well-being and Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation by emphasizing the presence of pathogens, particularly virus, in the waste and leachate materials of some landfills, and also on the waste management, awareness, precaution, needed to be considered to overcome the diseases caused by viral particles.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being

Tags:

Health and population; Health and wellbeing

Marine Phenolic Compounds: Science and Engineering - Chapter 3: Marine natural bromophenols: Sources, structures, main bioactivities, and toxicity

Elsevier,

Marine Phenolic Compounds: Science and Engineering, 2023, pp 87-112

This chapter aligns with Goal 14: Life Below Water and Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing by highlighting some of the many beneficial pharmaceutical applications of marine algae bromophenols.
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SDG:

Goal 14: Life below water; Goal 3: Good health and well-being

Tags:

Oceans & Seas; Health and wellbeing, Global

Dynamics of Plate Tectonics and Mantle Convection - Chapter 20: Mid-Ocean Ridges: Geodynamics Written in the Seafloor

Elsevier,

Dynamics of Plate Tectonics and Mantle Convection, Volume , 1 January 2023

This chapter aligns with Goal 14: Life Below Water and Goal 15: Life on Land by describing the global tectonic processes that form mid-ocean ridges and critical seafloor habitat.
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SDG:

Goal 14: Life below water; Goal 15: Life on land

Tags:

Oceans & Seas; Biodiversity and ecosystems, Global

Current Trends and Future Developments on (Bio-) Membranes - Chapter 3: The environmental pollution’s influence on public health: general principles and case studies

Elsevier,

Current Trends and Future Developments on (Bio-) Membranes: Membrane Technologies in Environmental Protection and Public Health: Challenges and Opportunities, Volume 1, 1 January 2022

This chapter aligns with Goal 3: Good health and well-being and Goal 15: Life on land by summarizing the mechanisms through which different forms of pollution impact human health, with particular emphasis on air, water, soil, and noise pollution.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 15: Life on land

Tags:

Health and wellbeing, Global

Developments and Applications of Enzymes from Thermophilic Microorganisms - Chapter 3 - Biodiversity of thermotolerant microorganisms

Elsevier,

Pratima Bajpai, Chapter 3 - Biodiversity of thermotolerant microorganisms, Editor(s): Pratima Bajpai, In Progress in Biochemistry and Biotechnology,
Developments and Applications of Enzymes from Thermophilic Microorganisms, Academic Press, 2023, Pages 29-45, ISBN 9780443191978

This content aligns with Goal 15: Life on land in its discussion of hyperthermophilic microorganisms sourced from heated environments such as hot springs, and the biodiversity of these microorganisms.
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SDG:

Goal 15: Life on land

Tags:

Biodiversity and ecosystems; Science, Global

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