From public health policy to impact for COVID-19: a multi-country case study in Switzerland, Spain, Iran and Pakistan (Publications)
COVID-19 response across health systems components in Switzerland, Spain, Iran, and Pakistan. Methods: We conducted four case studies on the policy response of national health systems to the early phase [...] different health system typologies. We collected data prospectively for the period of January-July 2020 on 17 measures of the COVID-19 response recommended by the WHO that encompassed all health systems [...] systems domains (governance, financing, health workforce, information, medicine...
Gender in public health research: reflections on design and process across four research projects in low-and middle-income countries (Publications)
in these research projects. In conclusion, we suggest that public health funding bodies require researchers to integrate gender in public health research from early on as part of the design and to conduct [...] gendered inequalities in health. The COVID-19 pandemic further exposed these deep inequities: men appear to be more vulnerable to poorer outcomes, but most of the global health workforce is female who are [...] hospital infection. However, researchers often fail to adequately embed gender...
Application of human biomonitoring data to support policy development, raise awareness and environmental public health protection among countries... (Publications)
HBM data either for raising awareness or addressing environmental/public health issues and policy development. The ministries of Health and Environment were reported to be the most prominent entities advocating [...] such exposures and effects. Results from HBM studies can also contribute to improving public health by providing evidence of individuals' internal chemical exposure as well as data to understand the burden [...] approach was used to explore the use of HBM data to support national...
Urogenital schistosomiasis infection prevalence targets to determine elimination as a public health problem based on microhematuria prevalence in... (Publications)
Recent research suggests that schistosomiasis targets for morbidity control and elimination as a public health problem could benefit from a reanalysis. These analyses would define evidence-based targets that [...] programs could use to confidently assert that they had controlled or eliminated schistosomiasis as a public health problem. We estimated how low Schistosoma haematobium infection levels diagnosed by urine filtration
Control and elimination of schistosomiasis as a public health problem: thresholds fail to differentiate schistosomiasis morbidity prevalence in... (Publications)
whether a targeted area has controlled schistosomiasis morbidity or eliminated schistosomiasis as a public health problem. The relationship between these PHI categories and morbidity is not well understood. METHODS: [...] BACKGROUND: Current World Health Organization guidelines utilize prevalence of heavy-intensity infections (PHIs), that is, ≥50 eggs per 10 mL of urine for Schistosoma haematobium and ≥400 eggs per gram
Trends of community-based systemic antibiotic consumption: comparative analyses of data from Ethiopia and Norway calls for public health policy... (Publications)
consumption of systemic antibiotics for Ethiopia and Norway showed opposite trends, calling for public health policy actions in Ethiopia. [...] systemic antibiotics (J01)-in defined daily doses (DDD) per 1000 inhabitants per day (DID)-in Ethiopia's public healthcare sector (2016-2020). By so doing, it attempts to capture the extent of population exposure