Lived experiences and perceptions of childbirth among pastoralist women in north-eastern Ethiopia: a multimethod qualitative analysis to the WHO... (Publications)
Maternity should be a time of hope and joy. However, for women in pastoralist communities in Ethiopia, the reality of motherhood is often grim. This problem is creating striking disparities of skilled
Economic evaluation of disease elimination: an extension to the net-benefit framework and application to human African trypanosomiasis (Publications)
The global health community has earmarked a number of diseases for elimination or eradication, and these goals have often been praised on the premise of long-run cost savings. However, decision makers
Optimizing moxidectin dosing for <em>Strongyloides stercoralis</em> infections: insights from pharmacometric modeling (Publications)
Moxidectin is a frontrunner drug candidate in the treatment of strongyloidiasis. A dose of 8 mg is recommended to treat this indication, which shows a reasonably good efficacy and tolerability profile
Investigating seasonal patterns in enteric infections: a systematic review of time series methods (Publications)
Foodborne and waterborne gastrointestinal infections and their associated outbreaks are preventable, yet still result in significant morbidity, mortality, and revenue loss. Many enteric infections dem
Long-term exposure to ambient air pollution and bladder cancer incidence in a pooled European cohort: the ELAPSE project (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The evidence linking ambient air pollution to bladder cancer is limited and mixed. METHODS: We assessed the associations of bladder cancer incidence with residential exposure to fine parti
Cost-effectiveness of sleeping sickness elimination campaigns in five settings of the Democratic Republic of Congo (Publications)
Gambiense human African trypanosomiasis (gHAT) is marked for elimination of transmission by 2030, but the disease persists in several low-income countries. We couple transmission and health outcomes m
Cervical cancer in women living in South Africa: a record linkage study of the National Health Laboratory Service and the National Cancer Registry (Publications)
Introduction: In countries with high HIV prevalence, it is important to understand the cervical cancer (CC) patterns by HIV status to ensure targeted prevention measures. We aimed to determine the fac
Developing customized stepwise MIRU-VNTR typing for tuberculosis surveillance in Georgia (Publications)
INTRODUCTION: Mycobacterial Interspersed Repetitive Units-Variable Tandem Repeats (MIRU-VNTR) typing has been widely used for molecular epidemiological studies of tuberculosis (TB). However, genotypin
Prevalence and molecular identification of zoonotic <em>Anisakis </em>and <em>Pseudoterranova </em>species in fish destined to human consumption in... (Publications)
Zoonotic larvae of the family Anisakidae found in several fish species represent a serious risk in public health since they may cause food-borne anisakidosis in humans. Chile has culinary preferences
Parents' vaccination information seeking, satisfaction with and trust in medical providers in Switzerland: a mixed-methods study (Publications)
OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to better understand parental trust in and satisfaction with information sources and medical providers regarding decision making about childhood vaccines. SETTING