Cross-sectional study of the burden and determinants of non-medical and opportunity costs of accessing chronic disease care in rural Tanzania (Publications)
OBJECTIVES: Countries in sub-Saharan Africa are seeking to improve access to healthcare through health insurance. However, patients still bear non-medical costs and opportunity costs in terms of lost
A data browsing application for accessing gene and module-level blood transcriptome profiles of healthy pregnant women from high- and low-resource... (Publications)
Transcriptome profiling data, generated via RNA sequencing, are commonly deposited in public repositories. However, these data may not be easily accessible or usable by many researchers. To enhance da
Assessing the effectiveness of a multicomponent intervention on hand hygiene and well-being in primary health care centers and schools lacking... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Hand hygiene is crucial in health care centers and schools to avoid disease transmission. Currently, little is known about hand hygiene in such facilities in protracted conflict settings.
Family planning in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo: personal beliefs, intimate partner negotiations and social pressure (Publications)
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has a low prevalence of family planning use. Recent studies have highlighted the significant role that socio-cultural factors play in the decision to use fam
Optimizing malaria vector control in the Greater Mekong Subregion: a systematic review and mathematical modelling study to identify desirable... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: In the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), new vector-control tools are needed to target mosquitoes that bite outside during the daytime and night-time to advance malaria elimination. METHODS:
Prevalence and intensity of urinary schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminths among women of reproductive age in Mwaluphamba, Kwale (Publications)
Objective: To assess the epidemiology of urinary schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis among women of reproductive age in Mwaluphamba, Kwale County, Kenya. Methods: A community-based cros
Ecology of arboviruses and their potential mosquito vectors in Benin, Côte d’Ivoire and Gabon: a mini review (Publications)
Mosquito-borne arboviral zoonoses are an increasingly (re-)emerging threat for millions of people in endemic countries of Africa. Aedes-transmitted yellow fever (YF), dengue (DEN), chikungunya (CHIK),
hERG,<em> Plasmodium</em> life cycle, and cross resistance profiling of new azabenzimidazole analogues of astemizole (Publications)
Toward addressing the cardiotoxicity liability associated with the antimalarial drug astemizole (AST, hERG IC50 = 0.0042 μM) and its derivatives, we designed and synthesized analogues based on compoun
A new model for ranking schools of public health: the public health academic ranking (Publications)
Objectives: As there is no ranking designed for schools of Public Health, the aim of this project was to create one. Methods: To design the Public Health Academic Ranking (PHAR), we used the InCites B
Phylogenetic analysis of pyruvate-ferredoxin oxidoreductase, a redox enzyme involved in the pharmacological activation of nitro-based prodrugs in... (Publications)
The present frontrunners in the chemotherapy of infections caused by protozoa are nitro-based prodrugs that are selectively activated by PFOR-mediated redox reactions. This study seeks to analyze the
