Helminth infections: enabling the World Health Organization road map (Publications)
Helminthiases are considered among the most persistent public health problems. Control and/or elimination remains a global health challenge and the World Health Organization Road Map highlights critic
Advancing detection and response capacities for emerging and re-emerging pathogens in Africa (Publications)
Recurrent disease outbreaks caused by a range of emerging and resurging pathogens over the past decade reveal major gaps in public health preparedness, detection, and response systems in Africa. Under
Pre-referral rectal artesunate: no cure for unhealthy systems (Publications)
Pre-referral rectal artesunate suppositories can save the lives of children with severe malaria if patients receive adequate post-referral care. A multi-country randomised controlled trial reporting o
Diagnosis of helminths depends on worm fecundity and the distribution of parasites within hosts (Publications)
Helminth transmission and morbidity are dependent on the number of mature parasites within a host; however, observing adult worms is impossible for many natural infections. An outstanding challenge is
Modeling marine cargo traffic to identify countries in Africa with greatest risk of invasion by <em>Anopheles stephensi</em> (Publications)
Anopheles stephensi, an invasive malaria vector native to South Asia and the Arabian Peninsula, was detected in Djibouti's seaport, followed by Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and Nigeria. If An. stephensi
How to scale-up: a comparative case study of scaling up a district health management strengthening intervention in Ghana, Malawi and Uganda (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The need to scale up public health interventions in low- and middle-income countries to ensure equitable and sustainable impact is widely acknowledged. However, there has been little under
The importance of the treatment rationale for pain in animal-assisted interventions: a randomized controlled trial in healthy participants (Publications)
Animal-assisted interventions (AAIs) is a promising treatment approach for pain, but possible mechanisms still need to be elucidated. This study set out to investigate the analgesic effects of an anim
The association of road traffic noise with cognition in adolescents: a cohort study in Switzerland (Publications)
Environmental noise exposure has been shown to affect children's cognition, but the concept of cognition is multifaceted, and studies on associations with noise are still inconclusive and fragmented.
Patient and provider perceptions of a peer-delivered intervention ('<em>Khanya</em>') to improve anti-retroviral adherence and substance use in South... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Despite a high prevalence of problematic substance use among people living with HIV in South Africa, there remains limited access to substance use services within the HIV care system. To a
