Physiologically based pharmacokinetic modelling to identify pharmacokinetic parameters driving drug exposure changes in the elderly (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Medication use is highly prevalent with advanced age, but clinical studies are rarely conducted in the elderly, leading to limited knowledge regarding age-related pharmacokinetic changes.
Multiplicity of asymptomatic <em>Plasmodium falciparum </em>infections and risk of clinical malaria: a systematic review and pooled analysis of... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum holds an extensive genetic polymorphism. In this pooled analysis, we investigate how the multiplicity, i.e. the number of co-infecting clones, in
Guide posts for investment in primary health care and projected resource needs in 67 low-income and middle-income countries: a modelling study (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Primary health care (PHC) is a driving force for advancing towards universal health coverage (UHC). PHC-oriented health systems bring enormous benefits but require substantial financial in
"We treat humans, not herds!": a qualitative study of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) providers' individualized approaches to vaccination... (Publications)
Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) providers' roles in parents' decision-making about vaccinations for their children have only recently begun receiving research attention, despite studies s
State of deworming coverage and equity in low-income and middle-income countries using household health surveys: a spatiotemporal cross-sectional... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Mass deworming against soil-transmitted helminthiasis, which affects 1 billion of the poorest people globally, is one of the largest public health programmes for neglected tropical disease
The role of humidity in associations of high temperature with mortality: a multicountry, multicity study (Publications)
BACKGROUND: There is strong experimental evidence that physiologic stress from high temperatures is greater if humidity is higher. However, heat indices developed to allow for this have not consistent
The transferability of lipid loci across African, Asian and European cohorts (Publications)
Most genome-wide association studies are based on samples of European descent. We assess whether the genetic determinants of blood lipids, a major cardiovascular risk factor, are shared across populat