The low and declining risk of malaria in travellers to Latin America: is there still an indication for chemoprophylaxis? (Publications)
ABSTRACT: A comparison was made between local malaria transmission and malaria imported by travellers to identify the utility of national and regional annual parasite index (API) in predicting malaria
Access to and utilisation of GP services among Burmese migrants in London: a cross-sectional descriptive study (Publications)
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: An estimated 10,000 Burmese migrants are currently living in London. No studies have been conducted on their access to health services. Furthermore, most studies on migrants in t
The architecture and effect of participation: a systematic review of community participation for communicable disease control and elimination.... (Publications)
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Community engagement and participation has played a critical role in successful disease control and elimination campaigns in many countries. Despite this, its benefits for malari
Low utilization of health care services following screening for hypertension in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania): a prospective population-based study (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Drug therapy in high-risk individuals has been advocated as an important strategy to reduce cardiovascular disease in low income countries. We determined, in a low-income urban population,
Harmonisation of variables names prior to conducting statistical analyses with multiple datasets: an automated approach (Publications)
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Data requirements by governments, donors and the international community to measure health and development achievements have increased in the last decade. Datasets produced in su
Models for short term malaria prediction in Sri Lanka (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Malaria in Sri Lanka is unstable and fluctuates in intensity both spatially and temporally. Although the case counts are dwindling at present, given the past history of resurgence of outbr