<em>Mycobacterium ulcerans</em> disease (Buruli ulcer) (Publications)
Buruli ulcer is an infection of the subcutaneous tissue leading to chronic necrotizing skin ulcers. Sub-Saharan Africa carries the main burden of BU, but it also occurs in the Americas and the Western
Beyond health-system building blocks: context and determinants of health (Publications)
The WHO health-system building block framework represents a construction that has been widely used to analyse health systems. While the framework has shown success and become a useful analytical tool,
Development of prediction models to identify hotspots of schistosomiasis in endemic regions to guide mass drug administration (Publications)
Schistosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease affecting over 150 million people. Hotspots of Schistosoma transmission-communities where infection prevalence does not decline adequately with mass dru
Assessing the contributions of an urban population health initiative to shift political priority towards cardiovascular health: three case studies... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The urban population health initiative was designed as a multidisciplinary, multisector programme to address cardiovascular (CV) disease, specifically hypertension and its underlying cause
Demand and supply of adolescent and young adult’s sexual and reproductive health services during COVID-19 in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review (Publications)
The COVID-19 pandemic and its associated containment strategies have significantly impacted the logistics of supplying sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services to adolescents and young adults (AY
A community based seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in Somali Region, eastern Ethiopia (Publications)
Background: Coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) is life-threatening infectious disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 virus that caused a global pandemic. SARS-CoV-2 has been widely transmitted throughout Ethiopi
Social context of intimate partner violence and system response during COVID-19 in Africa: a scoping review (Publications)
(through EBSCO), Africa Journal Archive, ProQuest (Coronavirus Research Library; Middle East and Africa Collection; Psychology, Sociology, and Social Science Database), and Google Scholar, also extend
Sociocultural framework for psychiatric case formulation (Publications)
A Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI) field trial in India, widely reported racist violence in the United States, and casteist and religious communal conflicts in India highlighted inattention to str
Checkpoint for the diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection: a model from Switzerland (Publications)
Background: The world has experienced several phases of waves and remission of the SARS-CoV-2 called “pandemic waves” during the past two years: The first one in February and March 2020, followed by a
