Evaluation of a urogenital schistosomiasis behavioural intervention among students from rural schools in Unguja and Pemba islands, Zanzibar (Publications)
Urogenital schistosomiasis is a common experience among children in Zanzibar. There is a paucity of behavioural science-based, health education, and behaviour change (HEBC) interventions for school-ag
Greenspace exposure and cancer incidence: a 27-year follow-up of the French GAZEL cohort (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Greenspace exposure has been suggested to be associated with a range of health outcomes. The available evidence on the association of this exposure with cancer is still very scarce and inc
Multi-decade changes in pollen season onset, duration, and intensity: a concern for public health? (Publications)
Longitudinal shifts in pollen onset, duration, and intensity are public health concerns for the growing number of individuals with pollen sensitization. National analyses of long-term pollen changes a
Exposure to <em>Leptospira </em>spp. and associated risk factors in the human, cattle and dog populations in Bhutan (Publications)
Leptospirosis is a neglected worldwide zoonotic bacterial disease with a high prevalence in subtropical and tropical countries. The prevalence of Leptospira spp. in humans, cattle and dogs is unknown
Cost-effectiveness modelling to optimise active screening strategy for <em>gambiense </em>human African trypanosomiasis in endemic areas of the... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Gambiense human African trypanosomiasis (gHAT) has been brought under control recently with village-based active screening playing a major role in case reduction. In the approach to elimin
Structural basis of malaria RIFIN binding by LILRB1-containing antibodies (Publications)
Some Plasmodium falciparum repetitive interspersed families of polypeptides (RIFINs)—variant surface antigens that are expressed on infected erythrocytes1—bind to the inhibitory receptor LAIR1, and in
Validation of a human-serum-based <em>in vitro </em>growth method for drug screening on juvenile development stages of <em>Schistosoma mansoni</em> (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Schistosomiasis affects over 200 million people worldwide but only praziquantel is available for treatment and control. Drug discovery is often based on phenotypic drug screening, involvin
The long-term impact of the Leprosy Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (LPEP) program on leprosy incidence: a modelling study (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The Leprosy Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (LPEP) program explored the feasibility and impact of contact tracing and the provision of single dose rifampicin (SDR) to eligible contacts of newly
Estimating true prevalence of <em>Schistosoma mansoni</em> from population summary measures based on the Kato-Katz diagnostic technique (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The prevalence of Schistosoma mansoni infection is usually assessed by the Kato-Katz diagnostic technique. However, Kato-Katz thick smears have low sensitivity, especially for light infect
