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2025

Publications

Gjonaj, L., Generalao, O. B., Alguno, A., Malaluan, R., Lubguban, A., & Dumancas, G. G. (2025). Quantification of Argan Oil (Argania spinosa L.) Adulterated with Avocado, Flaxseed, Walnut, and Pumpkin Oils Using Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectroscopy and Advanced Chemometric and Machine Learning Techniques. Chemosensors, 13(2), 37. https://doi.org/10.3390/chemosensors13020037

2024

Publications

Dumancas, G. G., Generalao, O. B., Rivera, H. C. E., Zamora-Rico, P. R. F., Rico, J. A. A., Climacosa, F. M. M., Caoili, S. E. C., & de Castro, R. (2024). Challenges and Opportunities in Establishing a COVID-19 Patient Registry in a Regional Setting in the Philippines. COVID, 4(11), 1776-1793. https://doi.org/10.3390/covid4110124

Cobbinah, E., Generalao, O., Ke, G., Malaluan, R., Lubguban, A., Dumancas, G. A rapid analytical method for turmeric essential oil authentication using mid-infrared spectroscopy and chemometrics. Journal of Food Composition and Analysis, Volume 129. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfca.2024.106102.

Pia Regina Fatima C Zamora, Jimuel Celeste, Roselle Leah Rivera, John Paul Petrola, Raphael Nelo Aguila, Jake Ledesma, Miles Kaye Ermoso, Romulo de Castro. The ATIPAN project: a community-based digital health strategy toward UHC, Oxford Open Digital Health, Volume 2, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1093/oodh/oqae011

Preprints

Empowering Health Data Science Through the Philippine Datathon: How AI can contribute to UHC.

de Castro R, Lazo L, Panes AM, Rayos CA, Nursetyo AA, Kodriati N and Sevilleja JE. Evaluation of Digital Health in Southeast Asia (SEA) with an Emerging Framework for Digital Determinants. Submitted for Publication, Health Promotion International. July 2023.

Nilgiriwala, Kayzad and Mahajan, Uma and Ahmad, Riris and de Castro, Romulo and Lazo, Lucita and Kong, Jude Dzevela and Lee, Angela and Veerakumarasivam, Abhi and Sharef, Nurfadhlina and Demidenko, Serge. Navigating the Governance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Asian Nations: A Focus on India, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4735279

Jimuel Celeste Jr., Jesus Emmanuel Sevilleja, Vena Pearl Bongolan, Roselle Leah Rivera, Salvador Eugenio Caoili, Romulo de Castro. COVID-19 mortality in the Philippines: a province-level analysis, 2020-2023. medRxiv 2024.03.14.24304321; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.03.14.24304321

2023

Publications

Dumancas, G. G., Carreto, N., Generalao, O., Ke, G., Bello, G., Lubguban, A., & Malaluan, R. (2023). Chemometrics for Quantitative Determination of Terpenes Using Attenuated Total Reflectance–Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy: A Pedagogical Laboratory Exercise for Undergraduate Instrumental Analysis Students. Journal of Chemical Education. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.3c00358

Dumancas, G. G., Smith, K. F. K., Bugayong-Janagap, A. M., Zamora, P. R. F. C., Ferriols, V. M. E. N., Liwag, A. G., Villaruz, J. F., Guanzon, M. L. V. V., Ferraris, H. F. D., Rodney, T. L., & De Castro, R. (2023). Challenges and opportunities in establishing a regional biobank center in a developing country: A case from the Philippines. Health Policy and Technology, 100822. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hlpt.2023.100822

2022

Publications

Cobbinah, E., Generalao, O., Lageshetty, S. K., Adrianto, I., Singh, S., & Dumancas, G. G. (2022). Using Near-Infrared Spectroscopy and Stacked Regression for the Simultaneous Determination of Fresh Cattle and Poultry Manure Chemical Properties. Chemosensors, 10(10), 410. https://doi.org/10.3390/chemosensors10100410

Miñoza, J. M. A., Rico, J. A., Zamora, P. R. F., Bacolod, M., Laubenbacher, R., Dumancas, G. G., & de Castro, R. (2022). Biomarker Discovery for Meta-Classification of Melanoma Metastatic Progression Using Transfer Learning. Genes, 13(12), 2303. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes13122303

Abesamis, R., Balingit, R., de Castro, R., Aguila, R. N., Cabiguin, M., Villagracia, J., Susmeña, M., Montemar, M. N., & Yokor, A. (2022). MPA-FishMApp – A Citizen Science App That Simplifies Monitoring of Coral Reef Fish Density and Biomass in Marine Protected Areas. The Philippine Journal of Fisheries, 29(2). https://doi.org/10.31398/tpjf/29.2.2022-0009

Dumancas, G. G., Harrison, D., Rico, J. A., Zamora, P. R. F. C., Liwag, A. G., Villaruz, J. F., Guanzon, Ma. L. V. V., Ferraris, H. F. D., Jalandoni, P. J. B., Padernal, W. F., Villareal, B. N. L., Maculada, R. A., Fernandez, R. M. A., Villa, F. R., & de Castro, R. (2022). Are phenome-wide association studies feasible in a developing country? Trends in Genetics, 38(9), 885–888. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tig.2022.05.003

Dumancas, G. G., Rachal, M., Zamora, P. R. F. C., & de Castro, R. (2022). Examining Barriers and Opportunities of Conducting Genome-Wide Association Studies in Developing Countries. Current Epidemiology Reports, 9(4), 376–386. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40471-022-00303-x

Bongolan, V. P., Francisco, N. A. G., Saliba, M. T. D., & Celeste, J. (2022). School Reopening Simulations with COVID-19 Agent-based Model for the Philippine Regions. Philippine Engineering Journal, 43(2),  71-84.   https://www.journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/pej/article/view/8904​

Preprint

Zamora, P. R. F., Rico, J. A., Bolinas, D. K., Sevilleja, J. E., & de Castro, R. (2022). Early COVID-19 Pandemic Response in Western Visayas, Philippines [Preprint]. medRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.21.22277909

2021

Publications

Bongolan, V. P., Minoza, J. M. A., de Castro, R., & Sevilleja, J. E. (2021). Age-Stratified Infection Probabilities Combined With a Quarantine-Modified Model for COVID-19 Needs Assessments: Model Development Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 23(5), e19544.    https://doi.org/10.2196/19544

Conference Proceedings

Bongolan, V. P., Ang, K. K., Celeste, J. J., Minoza, J. M., Caoili, S., Rivera, R. L., & de Castro, R. (2021). COVID-19 AGENT-BASED MODEL: AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL SIMULATOR APPLIED IN VACCINATION SCENARIOS FOR QUEZON CITY, PHILIPPINES. The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, XLVI-4/W6-2021, 65–70.    https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLVI-4-W6-2021-65-2021

2020

Publications

Dumancas, G. G., de Castro, R., Saludes, J. P., Peñaranda, B. S., Bello, G. A., Villa, F. R. P., Villareal, B. N. A. L., Padernal, W. F., Posecion, T. M. A., Guanzon, Ma. L. V. V., Drilon, J. M., & Montoya, J. C. (2020). Barriers and Recommendations for Developing a Data Commons for the Implementation and Application of Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes Risk Scoring in the Philippines. Current Epidemiology Reports, 7(2), 77–88.   https://doi.org/10.1007/s40471-020-00232-7

Preprints

Rayo, J. F., de Castro, R., Sevilleja, J. E., & Bongolan, V. P. (2020). Modeling the dynamics of COVID-19 using Q-SEIR model with age-stratified infection probability [Preprint]. medRxiv.    https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.20.20095406

Miñoza, J. M. A., Sevilleja, J. E., de Castro, R., Caoili, S. E., & Bongolan, V. P. (2020). Protection after Quarantine: Insights from a Q-SEIR Model with Nonlinear Incidence Rates Applied to COVID-19 [Preprint].  medRxiv.    https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.06.06.20124388