Europe-wide high-spatial resolution air pollution models are improved by including traffic flow estimates on all roads (Publications)
Europe-wide air pollution models. We built separate random forests (RF) models for different road types in OpenStreetMap (highway, primary, secondary and tertiary, and residential roads). We collected observations
Can equine communication via audible exhales improve the welfare of therapy horses? – A pilot practice project (Publications)
horses working in therapeutic settings, increase client safety, enhance human-animal relationships, and open up new possibilities for improving the therapeutic process. This method is applicable to all horses
Malaria treatment for prevention: a modelling study of the impact of routine case management on malaria prevalence and burden (Publications)
treatment of symptomatic cases impacts malaria prevalence and incidence. METHODS: Leveraging the OpenMalaria stochastic agent-based transmission model, we first simulated an array of transmission intensities
Distribution and treatment needs of soil-transmitted helminthiasis in Bangladesh: a Bayesian geostatistical analysis of 2017-2020 national survey data (Publications)
species. Climatic, environmental, and socioeconomic predictors were extracted from satellite images, open-access, model-based databases, and demographic household surveys, and used to predict the prevalence
Malaria intervention scale-up in Africa: effectiveness predictions for health programme planning tools, based on dynamic transmission modelling (Publications)
Spectrum health programme planning tool. METHODS: The dynamic Plasmodium falciparum transmission model OpenMalaria was used to simulate health effects of scale-up of insecticide-treated net (ITN) usage, indoor
Spectrum-malaria: a user-friendly projection tool for health impact assessment and strategic planning by malaria control programmes in sub-Saharan... (Publications)
fitted to proportional burden reductions simulated in the P. falciparum dynamic transmission model OpenMalaria. RESULTS: In projections for Nigeria, ITNs, IRS, CMU, and CMS scale-up reduced health burdens
Impact of a complex gender-transformative intervention on maternal and child health outcomes in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo: protocol of... (Publications)
Focus group discussions and in-depth interviews will be conducted. All narrative data will be coded (open coding) with the help of qualitative data analysis software (Atlas TI). DISCUSSION: Women's empowerment
Mass campaigns combining antimalarial drugs and anti-infective vaccines as seasonal interventions for malaria control, elimination and prevention of... (Publications)
threatened by resistance. METHODS: Malaria transmission and intervention dynamics were simulated using OpenMalaria, an individual-based simulation model of malaria transmission, by considering a seasonal t
"It is not expected for married couples": a qualitative study on challenges to safer sex communication among polygamous and monogamous partners in... (Publications)
were investigated and the challenges to safer sex dialogue explored. RESULTS: The study revealed that open safer sex dialogue in marriage is limited and challenged by social norms about marriage (a view that
Same day ART initiation versus clinic-based pre-ART assessment and counselling for individuals newly tested HIV-positive during community-based HIV... (Publications)
pre-ART assessment often requiring several clinic visits before ART-initiation. METHODS: This two-armed open-label randomized controlled trial compares in individuals tested HIV-positive during community-based