Jessica A. Grembi, PhD
- Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
University Park, PA 16802
- Email grembi@psu.edu
- PDF Curriculum Vitae
- Pronouns She/Her
Areas of Expertise
- Gut microbiome
- Childhood undernutrition
- Small intestine microbial ecology
- Environmental enteropathy
- Global health
Education
- PhD, Environmental Engineering, Stanford University
- MS, Environmental Engineering, Penn State University
- BS, Environmental Engineering, United States Military Academy at West Point
Publications
Pathways through which water, sanitation, hygiene, and nutrition interventions reduce antibiotic use in young children: a mediation analysis of a cluster-randomized trial.
eClinicalMedicine, Nguyen, A, Heitmann, G, Mertens, A, Ashraf, S, Rahman, M, Ali, S, Rahman, M, Arnold, B, Grembi, Jessica, Lin, A, Ercumen, A, Benjamin-Chung, J, 2025
Treatment heterogeneity of water, sanitation, hygiene, and nutrition interventions on child growth by environmental enteric dysfunction and pathogen status for young children in Bangladesh.
PLoS neglected tropical diseases, Butzin-Dozier, Z, Ji, Yunwen, Coyle, J, Malenica, I, Rogawski McQuade, E, Grembi, Jessica, Platts-Mills, J, Houpt, E, Graham, J, Ali, Shahjahan, Rahman, Md. Ziaur, Alauddin, M, Famida, S, Akther, S, Hossen, M, Mutsuddi, P, Shoab, A, Rahman, Mahbubur, Islam, Md. Ohedul, Miah, R, Taniuchi, M, Liu, Jie, Alauddin, S, Stewart, C, Luby, S, Colford, Jr, J, Hubbard, A, Mertens, A, Lin, Audrie, 2025
Water, sanitation, handwashing, and nutritional interventions can reduce child antibiotic use: evidence from Bangladesh and Kenya.
Nature Communications, Ercumen, A, Mertens, A, Butzin-Dozier, Z, Jung, D, Ali, Shahjahan, Achando, B, Rao, G, Hemlock, C, Pickering, A, Stewart, C, Tan, Sophia, Grembi, Jessica, Benjamin-Chung, J, Wolfe, M, Ho, G, Rahman, Md. Ziaur, Arnold, C, Dentz, H, Njenga, S, Meerkerk, T, Chen, B, Nadimpalli, M, Islam, Md. Ohedul, Hubbard, A, Null, C, Unicomb, L, Rahman, Mahbubur, Colford, Jr, J, Luby, S, Arnold, Benjamin, Lin, Audrie, 2025
Associations between weather extremes and faecal contamination along pathogen transmission pathways in rural Bangladeshi households: a prospective observational study.
The Lancet Planetary Health, Niven, C, Islam, Mahfuza, Nguyen, A, Grembi, Jessica, Mertens, A, Pickering, A, Kwong, L, Alam, M, Sen, D, Islam, S, Rahman, Mahbubur, Unicomb, L, Hubbard, A, Luby, S, Colford, Jr, J, Arnold, Benjamin, Benjamin-Chung, J, Ercumen, A, 2025
Influence of hydrometeorological risk factors on child diarrhea and enteropathogens in rural Bangladesh.
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Grembi, Jessica, Nguyen, A, Riviere, M, Heitmann, G, Patil, A, Athni, T, Djajadi, S, Ercumen, A, Lin, A, Crider, Y, Mertens, A, Karim, M, Islam, M, Miah, R, Famida, S, Hossen, M, Mutsuddi, P, Ali, S, Rahman, M, Hussain, Z, Shoab, A, Haque, R, Rahman, M, Unicomb, L, Luby, S, Arnold, B, Bennett, A, Benjamin-Chung, J, 2024
Influence of Temperature and Precipitation on the Effectiveness of Water, Sanitation, and Handwashing Interventions against Childhood Diarrheal Disease in Rural Bangladesh: A Reanalysis of the WASH Benefits Bangladesh Trial.
Environmental Health Perspectives, Nguyen, A, Grembi, Jessica, Riviere, M, Barratt Heitmann, G, Hutson, W, Athni, T, Patil, A, Ercumen, A, Lin, Audrie, Crider, Y, Mertens, A, Unicomb, L, Rahman, Mahbubur, Luby, S, Arnold, Benjamin, Benjamin-Chung, J, 2024
Is detection of enteropathogens and human or animal faecal markers in the environment associated with subsequent child enteric infections and growth: an individual participant data meta-analysis.
The Lancet Global Health, Mertens, A, Arnold, Benjamin, Benjamin-Chung, J, Boehm, A, Brown, J, Capone, D, Clasen, T, Fuhrmeister, E, Grembi, Jessica, Holcomb, D, Knee, J, Kwong, L, Lin, Audrie, Luby, S, Nala, R, Nelson, K, Njenga, S, Null, C, Pickering, A, Rahman, Mahbubur, Reese, H, Steinbaum, L, Stewart, J, Thilakaratne, R, Cumming, O, Colford, Jr, J, Ercumen, A, 2024
Human metabolome variation along the upper intestinal tract.
Nature Metabolism, Folz, J, Culver, R, Morales, J, Grembi, Jessica, Triadafilopoulos, G, Relman, D, Huang, K, Shalon, D, Fiehn, O, 2023
Introducing riskCommunicator: An R package to obtain interpretable effect estimates for public health.
PLoS One, Grembi, Jessica, Rogawski McQuade, E, 2022
High-throughput low-cost nl-qPCR for enteropathogen detection: A proof-of-concept among hospitalized patients in Bangladesh.
PLoS One, Flaherty, K, Grembi, Jessica, Ramachandran, V, Haque, F, Khatun, S, Rahman, Mahmudu, Maples, S, Becker, T, Spormann, A, Schoolnik, G, Hryckowian, A, Nelson, Eric, 2021
Author Correction: Gut microbiota plasticity is correlated with sustained weight loss on a low-carb or low-fat dietary intervention (Scientific Reports, (2020), 10, 1, (1405), 10.1038/s41598-020-58000-y)
Scientific Reports, Grembi, Jessica A., Nguyen, Lan H., Haggerty, Thomas D., Gardner, Christopher D., Holmes, Susan P., Parsonnet, Julie, 2020
Gold Standard Cholera Diagnostics Are Tarnished by Lytic Bacteriophage and Antibiotics.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology, Nelson, Eric, Grembi, Jessica, Chao, D, Andrews, J, Alexandrova, L, Rodriguez, P, Ramachandran, V, Sayeed, M, Wamala, J, Debes, A, Sack, D, Hryckowian, A, Haque, F, Khatun, S, Rahman, M, Chien, A, Spormann, A, Schoolnik, G, 2020
High-Throughput Multiparallel Enteropathogen Detection via Nano-Liter qPCR.
Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology, Grembi, Jessica, Mayer-Blackwell, K, Luby, S, Spormann, A, 2020
Shared bacterial communities between soil, stored drinking water, and hands in rural Bangladeshi households.
Water research X, Fuhrmeister, E, Ercumen, A, Grembi, Jessica, Islam, Mahfuza, Pickering, A, Nelson, Kara, 2020
Gut microbiota plasticity is correlated with sustained weight loss on a low-carb or low-fat dietary intervention.
Scientific reports, Grembi, Jessica, Nguyen, L, Haggerty, T, Gardner, C, Holmes, S, Parsonnet, J, 2020
Identification of Widespread Antibiotic Exposure in Patients With Cholera Correlates With Clinically Relevant Microbiota Changes.
Journal of Infectious Diseases, Alexandrova, L, Haque, F, Rodriguez, P, Marrazzo, A, Grembi, Jessica, Ramachandran, V, Hryckowian, A, Adams, C, Siddique MSA, None, Khan, A, Qadri, F, Andrews, J, Rahman, Mahmudur, Spormann, A, Schoolnik, G, Chien, A, Nelson, Eric, 2019