James Trostle came to Trinity after helping manage a large international health program at the Harvard Institute for International Development from 1988 to 1995, and working as a Five College Professor and Founding Director of the Five College Program in Culture, Health and Science between 1995 and 1998 in Massachusetts.  From 2001-3 he was also Professor at the National Institute of Public Health in Cuernavaca, Mexico, and in 2016 he was named a Visiting Professor at the School of Public Health at the University of Chile.  He has served for 13 years on various advisory groups for the World Health Organization.  His research interests are in epidemiology and global health, and he has been a coprincipal investigator on NIH and NSF-funded projects in coastal Ecuador since 2002.

Trostle's teaching often joins the classroom with a variety of Hartford communities and organizations.  He stresses writing for public audiences as well as writing for discovery.  As an instructor long ago for NOLS and Outward Bound, he has likened his courses to academic Outward Bound experiences, where he tries to create challenges that are real but surmountable.

• M. Bronfman, A. Langer, and J. Trostle. "De la Investigación en Salud a las Políticas: la Difícil Traducción. (From Health Research to Policy: The Difficult Translation.)" Mexico City: Manual Moderno and the Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, 2000, 178 pp.
• Trostle, J. Epidemiology and Culture. Cambridge University Press, 2005, 208 pp. (Translations available in Chinese, Japanese, and Portuguese.)

Journal Articles, Selected, since 2010:

• ST Cherng/I Cangemi, JA Trostle, JV Remais, JNS Eisenberg. Social cohesion and passive adaptation in relation to climate change and disease. Global Environmental Change. 2019. 58 doi: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.101960.
• PA Collender, C Morris, R Glenn-Finer, A Acevedo, HH Chang, JA Trostle, JNS Eisenberg, JV Remais. “Mass gatherings and diarrheal disease transmission among rural communities in coastal Ecuador.” Am J Epidemiol. 2019. doi: 10.1093/aje/k wz102.
  
• E. August, KJ Burke, C Fleischer, J Trostle. Writing assignments in epidemiology courses: how many and how good? Public Health Reports. 2019. Jul/Aug;134(4):441-446.
  doi: 10.1177/0033354919849942.
  
• Hubbard A, Trostle J, Cangemi I, Eisenberg J.  Countering the curse of dimensionality: Exploring data-generating mechanisms through participant observation and mechanistic modeling. Epidemiology 2019. 30(4):609-14. Doi: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000001025
• August E & Trostle JA. “Using Writing Assignments to Promote Critical Thinking, Learning and Professional Identity: The Epidemiology Workplace Writing Repository.” Journal of Public Health 2018. (January 30). doi: 10.1093/pubmed/fdy011.
• Lopez VK, Dombecki C, Trostle J, Mogrovejo P, Castro Morillo N, Cevallos W, Goldstick J, Jones AD, Eisenberg JNS. “Trends of Child Undernutrition in Rural Ecuadorian Communities with Differential access to Roads, 2004-2013.” Maternal & Child Nutrition 2018.  (February 7). doi: 10.1111/mcn.12588.
  
• Kraay ANM, Trostle J, Brouwer AF, Cevallos W, Eisenberg JNS. Determinants of Short-term Movement in a Developing Region and Implications for Disease Transmission. Epidemiology. 2018 Jan;29(1):117-125. doi:10.1097/EDE.0000000000000751.
• Tsai AC, Mendenhall E, Trostle JA, Kawachi I. Co-occurring epidemics, syndemics, and population health. The Lancet. 2017. Mar 4;389(10072):978-982. doi:10.1016/S0140-
  6736(17)30403-8.
  
• JA Fuller, E Villamor, W Cevallos, J Trostle, and JNS Eisenberg. “I get height with a little help from my friends: Herd protection from sanitation on child growth in rural Ecuador.”  Int J Epidemiol. 2016 Apr;45(2):460-9. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyv368.
• Goldstick JE, Trostle J, Eisenberg JN. Ask When--Not Just Whether--It's a Risk: How Regional Context Influences Local Causes of Diarrheal Disease. Am J Epidemiol. 2014. 179(10):1247-54. doi:10.1093/aje/kwu034. Epub 2014 Apr 15.
• Carlton EJ, Eisenberg JN, Goldstick J, Cevallos W, Trostle J, Levy K. Heavy rainfall events and diarrhea incidence: the role of social and environmental factors. Am J Epidemiol. 2014. 179(3):344-52. doi:10.1093/aje/kwt279. Epub 2013 Nov 19.
• Cifuentes SG, Trostle J, Milbrath M, Trueba G, Baldeón ME, Coloma J, et al. Transitioning cause of fever from malaria to dengue, northwestern Ecuador, 1990–2011. Emerg Infect Dis. 2013. Oct. http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1910.130137
• Craig R Janes, Kitty K Corbett, James H Jones, James Trostle. Commentary: Emerging infectious diseases: the role of social sciences. The Lancet, 380 (9857) December 2012, Pp. 1884–1886.
• J.N.S. Eisenberg, J. Trostle, R.J.D. Sorensen, K.F. Shields.  Toward a systems approach to enteric pathogen transmission:  From individual independence to community interdependence. Annual Review of Public Health 33 (2012):5.1–5.19.
• J.L.Zelner, J. Trostle, J.E. Goldstick, W. Cevallos, J.S. House, J.N.S. Eisenberg. Social Connectedness and Disease Transmission: Social Organization, Cohesion, Village Context, and Infection Risk in Rural Ecuador.  American Journal of Public Health 102(12): 2233-2239. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2012.300795, 2012.
• A.R. Markovitz, J.E. Goldstick, K. Levy, W. Cevallos, B. Mukherjee, J.A. Trostle and J.N.S. Eisenberg. Where science meets policy: comparing longitudinal and cross-sectional designs to address diarrhoeal disease burden in the developing world. International Journal of Epidemiology (January, 2012):1–10.
• J.N.S. Eisenberg, W. Cevallos, G. Trueba, K. Levy, J. Scott, B. Percha, R. Segovia, K Ponce, A. Hubbard, C. Marrs, B. Foxman, D.L. Smith, and J. Trostle. In-roads to the spread of antibiotic resistance: regional patterns of microbial transmission in northern coastal Ecuador. Journal of the Royal Society: Interface (September, 2011).
• J. Trostle.  Invited Editorial: “Anthropology Is Missing: On The World Development Report 2010, Development and Climate Change.”  Medical Anthropology 29(3), 217-225, 2010.
• J. Trostle.  “On creating epidemics, plagues, and other wartime alarums and excursions: Enumerating versus estimating civilian mortality in Iraq.” IN A. Herring and A. Swedlund, eds., Plagues and Epidemics:  Infected Spaces Past and Present.  Oxford: Berg Publishers, pp. 61-80,  2010.
• J. Trostle, J. Yépez-Montufar, B. Corozo-Angulo, M. Rodríguez.  Males diarreicos en la costa Ecuatoriana: Cambios socioambientales y concepctiones de salud.  (Diarrheal illnesses on the Ecuadorian coast: Socio-environmental changes and health beliefs.)  Cadernos de Saúde Pública 26:1334-1344, 2010.

• Co-author and Principal Investigator on subcontract to the University of Michigan, 2017-22. National Institutes of Health. "Zika and Dengue Co-circulation under Environmental Change and Urbanization." $264,829 (Total Project Budget: $2,500,000)
  
• Fulbright Scholar, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago. March-July, 2014.
• Co-author and Principal Investigator on subcontract to Emory University, 2014-2019. National Science Foundation, Water Sustainability and Climate Program. “Analytical methods for estimating the joint climatological-social drivers of water quality and supply in contrasting tropical zones: Ecuador & China.” $281,295 (Total Project budget:  $2,500,000)
  
• Hackenberg Lecturer, Society for Applied Anthropology, March 2012.
• Dana Research Professor, Trinity College, 2011-13.
• Stephen Frankel Lecturer, Population Health, University of Bristol, UK, November 2010.
  
• Weatherhead Resident Scholar, School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico. 2009-10.
• Co-author and Principal Investigator on subcontract to U Michigan 2008-2013. National Institutes of Health, Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases. "Environmental change and diarrheal diseases: A natural experiment." $260,000.  (Total project budget: $3,197,000)
• Principal Investigator, 2008-2012. National Science Foundation, Ecology of Infectious Diseases.  “Collaborative Research: Agricultural Antibiotics and Human Health: A Multiscale Ecological Approach to the Development and Spread of Antibiotic Resistance.” $184,000 (Total project budget: $2,488,000) 
• Fellow, Society for Applied Anthropology, 2007
  
• Co-author and Principal Investigator on subcontract to U Michigan for six years (2003-2008). National Institutes of Health, Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases. "Environmental change and diarrheal diseases: A natural experiment.". $259,000. (Total project budget: $2,778,000)