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1. Simulations for designing and interpreting intervention trials in infectious diseases (Publications)

   Simulations for designing and interpreting intervention trials in infectious diseases

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   BACKGROUND: Interventions in infectious diseases can have both direct effects on individuals who receive the intervention as well as indirect effects in the population. In addition, intervention combi

2. Assessing the reach and effectiveness of mHealth: evidence from a reproductive health program for adolescent girls in Ghana (Publications)

   Assessing the reach and effectiveness of mHealth: evidence from a reproductive health program for adolescent girls in Ghana

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   BACKGROUND: While mobile health (mHealth) programs are increasingly used to provide health information and deliver interventions, little is known regarding the relative reach and effectiveness of thes

3. Vaccination of dogs in an African city interrupts rabies transmission and reduces human exposure (Publications)

   Vaccination of dogs in an African city interrupts rabies transmission and reduces human exposure

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   Despite the existence of effective rabies vaccines for dogs, dog-transmitted human rabies persists and has reemerged in Africa. Two consecutive dog vaccination campaigns took place in Chad in 2012 and

4. Estimated effects of air pollution and space-time-activity on cardiopulmonary outcomes in healthy adults: a repeated measures study (Publications)

   Estimated effects of air pollution and space-time-activity on cardiopulmonary outcomes in healthy adults: a repeated measures study

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5. Retrospective active case finding in Cambodia: an innovative approach to leprosy control in a low-endemic country (Publications)

   Retrospective active case finding in Cambodia: an innovative approach to leprosy control in a low-endemic country

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   Currently, leprosy control relies on the clinical diagnosis of leprosy and the subsequent administration of multidrug therapy (MDT). However, many health workers are not familiar with the cardinal sig

6. Impact and cost-effectiveness of snail control to achieve disease control targets for schistosomiasis (Publications)

   Impact and cost-effectiveness of snail control to achieve disease control targets for schistosomiasis

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   Schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease that affects over 240 million people globally. To improve population-level disease control, there is growing interest in adding chemical-based snail control inte

7. Inference with difference-in-differences with a small number of groups: a review, simulation study, and empirical application using SHARE data (Publications)

   Inference with difference-in-differences with a small number of groups: a review, simulation study, and empirical application using SHARE data

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   BACKGROUND: Difference-in-differences (DID) estimation has become increasingly popular as an approach to evaluate the effect of a group-level policy on individual-level outcomes. Several statistical m

8. A multi-country analysis on potential adaptive mechanisms to cold and heat in a changing climate (Publications)

   A multi-country analysis on potential adaptive mechanisms to cold and heat in a changing climate

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   BACKGROUND: Temporal variation of temperature-health associations depends on the combination of two pathways: pure adaptation to increasingly warmer temperatures due to climate change, and other atten

9. Microbiological airway colonization in COPD patients with severe emphysema undergoing endoscopic lung volume reduction (Publications)

   Microbiological airway colonization in COPD patients with severe emphysema undergoing endoscopic lung volume reduction

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   Background: Endoscopic lung volume reduction (eLVR) is a therapeutic option for selected patients with COPD and severe emphysema. Infectious exacerbations are serious events in these vulnerable patien

10. Time to change focus? Transitioning from higher neonatal to higher stillbirth mortality in São Paulo State, Brazil (Publications)

    Time to change focus? Transitioning from higher neonatal to higher stillbirth mortality in São Paulo State, Brazil

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    BACKGROUND: Differential trends in mortality suggest that stillbirths may dominate neonatal mortality in the medium to long run. Brazil has made major efforts to improve data collection on health indi