Understand social, cultural and behavioral factors in community-based disease prevention and control primarily in developing country settings.

Utilize social, cultural and behavioral information in the design of community-based public health interventions.

Develop and test health behavior change strategies.

Involve from local communities to national level institutions in all aspects of public health programs.

formative and operations research; survey methods, ethnographic research methods; qualitative research methods; behavioral trials; program evaluation methods; community participation; health education; health communication; health behavior change; evaluation of school-based programs; evaluation of children's museum exhibits; vector-borne disease; mosquito-borne disease; tropical disease; Aedes aegypti; dengue fever; malaria; cysticercosis; Lyme disease; diarrheal disease; child survival; IMCI; Central America; Honduras; El Salvador; Guatemala; Nicaragua; Puerto Rico; Dominican Republic; Peru; Brazil; Tanzania; Cambodia

Leontsini, E. Software Review: Dengue, anon. (2005). London:Wellcome Trust, Distributed by CAB International, Wallingford, UK. Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology 100(1): 91-93, 2006

Leontsini E, Rosenbaum J, Báez C, Solís A, Valera C, Gonzálvez G. NEgociación de PRÁcticas Mejoradas - NEPRÁM (Negotiation of Improved Practices): The development of a national behaviour change strategy for community-based prevention of dengue fever in the Dominican Republic. Dengue Bulletin 28(Suppl.): 22-25, 2004.

Malouin R, Winch P, Leontsini E, Glass G, Simon D, Hayes EB, Schwartz BS. Longitudinal evaluation of an educational intervention for preventing tick bites in an area with endemic Lyme disease in Baltimore County, Maryland. American Journal of Epidemiology 157:1039-1051, 2003.

Harvey SA, Winch PJ, Leontsini E, Torres G C, López R S, Gilman RH, Oberhelman RA. Domestic poultry raising practices in a Peruvian shantytown: implications for control of Campylobacter jejuni associated diarrhea. Acta Tropica 86(1):41-54, 2003.

Winch PJ, Leontsini E, Rigau-Perez JG, Ruiz-Perez M, Clark GG and Gubler DJ. Community-based dengue prevention programs in Puerto Rico: Impact on knowledge, behavior and residential mosquito infestation. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 67(4):363-370, 2002. Nominated for the Charles C. Shepard Science Award June 9, 2003, and awarded the James H. Nakano Citation June 16, 2003, of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.

Fernández EA, Leontsini E, Sherman C, Chan AST, Reyes CE, Lozano RC, Fuentes BA, Nichter M and Winch PJ. Trial of a community based behavioural intervention to decrease infestation of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in cement washbasins in El Progreso, Honduras. Acta Tropica 70:171-183, 1998.

Chan AST, Sherman C, Lozano RC , Fernández EA, Winch PJ and Leontsini E. Development of an indicator to evaluate the impact of a community based Aedes aegypti control intervention on improved cleaning of water storage containers by householders. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 92(3):317 329, 1998.

Sherman C, Fernández EA, Chan AST, Lozano RC, Leontsini E and Winch PJ. La Untadita: A procedure for maintaining washbasins and drums free of Aedes aegypti based on modification of existing practices. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 58(2):257-262, 1998.

Leontsini E. Debate. In: Seven theses on health education for community participation, by Briceño-León R. Cadernos de Saúde Pública, Rio de Janeiro, 12(1):26-27,1996.

Winch P J, Lloyd L S, Hoemeke L, Leontsini E. Vector Control at the household level: an analysis of its impact on women. Acta Tropica, (56):327-339, 1994.

Leontsini E, Gil B E, Kendall C, Clark G G. Effect of a community-based Aedes aegypti control programme on mosquito larval production sites in El Progreso, Honduras. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, (87):267-271, 1993.

Elli Leontsini, Enrique Gil, Carl Kendall and Gary G. Clark. "Effect of a Community-based Aedes aegypti Control Program on Mosquito Larval Production Sites in El Progreso, Honduras. In "Dengue, A Worldwide Problem, a Common Strategy" edited by Halstead S B and Gómez-Dantés H, pp 265-277, November 1992.

Kendall C, Hudelson P, Leontsini E, Winch P, Lloyd L, Cruz F. Urbanization, Dengue and the Health Transition: Anthropological Contributions to International Health. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 5(3):257-268, 1991.

Hudelson P, Kendall C, Leontsini E, Pelto P. Using formal methods and ANTHROPAC to design dengue fever health education materials. WHO Dengue Newsletter (16):48-57, 1991.

Kendall C, Leontsini E, Gil E, Cruz F, Hudelson P, Pelto P. Exploratory Ethnoentomology: Using ANTHROPAC to design a dengue fever control program. Cultural Anthropology Methods Newsletter 2(2):11-12, 1990.

Winch P, Kendall C, Leontsini E. Community Participation in Aedes aegypti Control Programs. In: Uren MF, Blok J, Manderson LH (editors). Arbovirus Research in Australia. Brisbane, Australia: University of Queensland Medical School, 1990.

Bolton P, Kendall C, Leontsini E, Whitaker C. Health Technologies and Women of the Developing World. In: Women and International Development Annual ed. by Rita S. Gallin, Marilyn Aronoff and Anne Ferguson. Vol 1, Nov 1989, Westview Press.

Leontsini E, Brown T, Biddison WE. Physical and Functional Association of the T Cell Receptor and the T3 Molecular complex on Cytotoxic T Cell Clones that are Differentially Inhibitable by Anti-T3 Antibodies. Cellular Immunology. 1986;102:21-32.