Patient's willingness to pay for improved community health insurance in Tanzania (Publications)
Globally, achieving universal health coverage remains significant challenge. Health insurance coverage in low- and middle-income countries is still low with only a few African countries managed to rea
Empowering rural communities for effective larval source management: a small-scale field evaluation of a community-led larviciding approach to control... (Publications)
Introduction: Larval source management, particularly larviciding, is mainly implemented in urban settings to control malaria and other mosquito-borne diseases. In Tanzania, the government has recently
Global, regional, and national burden of stroke and its risk factors, 1990-2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Up-to-date estimates of stroke burden and attributable risks and their trends at global, regional, and national levels are essential for evidence-based health care, prevention, and resourc
The political economy of national health insurance schemes: evidence from Zambia (Publications)
Governments in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) are increasingly considering the introduction of national health insurance scheme (NHIS) as a strategy to achieve universal health coverage (UHC)
Coverage of policies to improve antimicrobial stewardship in human medicine in low and middle income countries: results from the Global Survey of... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) constitutes a major threat to global health. While antimicrobial misuse or overuse is one of the main drivers for AMR, little is known about the extent to wh
Seroprevalence and risk factors for Q fever and Rift Valley fever in pastoralists and their livestock in Afar, Ethiopia: a One Health approach (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Coxiella burnetii, the causative agent of Q fever, and Rift Valley fever virus are two under-researched zoonotic pathogens in Ethiopia. Potential outbreaks of these diseases, in light of t
Evaluation of C-reactive protein and computer-aided analysis of chest X-rays as tuberculosis triage tests at health facilities in Lesotho and South... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: To improve tuberculosis case-finding, rapid, non-sputum triage tests need to be developed according to the World Health Organization target product profile (TPP) (> 90% sensitivity, > 70%
A review of climate change and cardiovascular diseases in the Indian policy context (Publications)
There is growing evidence that climate change adversely affects human health. Multiple diseases are sensitive to climate change, including cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), which are also the leading ca
