Innovative tools and OpenHDS for health and demographic surveillance on Rusinga Island, Kenya (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Health in low and middle income countries is on one hand characterized by a high burden associated with preventable communicable diseases and on the other hand considered to be under-docum
Improving health outcomes through concurrent HIV program scale-up and health system development in Rwanda: 20 years of experience (Publications)
The 1994 genocide against the Tutsi destroyed the health system in Rwanda. It is impressive that a small country like Rwanda has advanced its health system to the point of now offering near universal
Environmental and behavioural determinants of leptospirosis transmission: a systematic review (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Leptospirosis is one of the most widespread zoonotic diseases, which is of global medical and veterinary importance, and also a re-emerging infectious disease. The main tracks of transmiss
Health worker compliance with a 'test and treat' malaria case management protocol in Papua New Guinea (Publications)
The Papua New Guinea (PNG) Department of Health introduced a 'test and treat' malaria case management protocol in 2011. This study assesses health worker compliance with the test and treat protocol on
Design of trials for interrupting the transmission of endemic pathogens (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Many interventions against infectious diseases have geographically diffuse effects. This leads to contamination between arms in cluster-randomized trials (CRTs). Pathogen elimination is th