The relative effect of climate variability on malaria incidence after scale-up of interventions in western Kenya: a time-series analysis of monthly... (Publications)
Background Despite considerable progress made over the past 20 years in reducing the global burden of malaria, the disease remains a major public health problem and there is concern that climate chang
Revolutionizing the public health workforce: a policy brief in retrospect of the World Congress on Public Health, Rome 2020 (Publications)
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically illustrates the consequences of inadequate prioritization of the Public Health Workforce (PHW). This Policy Brief introduces a Call for Action following
Pre-referral rectal artesunate is no "magic bullet" in weak health systems (Publications)
Severe malaria is a potentially fatal condition that requires urgent treatment. In a clinical trial, a sub-group of children treated with rectal artesunate (RAS) before being referred to a health faci
Suicide and transportation noise: a prospective cohort study from Switzerland (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Although plausible from a pathophysiological point of view, robust evidence for effects of transportation noise on mental health remains scarce. Meanwhile, psychiatric diseases are among t
Acceptability of pre-referral rectal artesunate for severe malaria in children under 5 years by health workers and caregivers in the Democratic... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: For children below 6 years with suspected severe malaria attending a health care provider unable to provide parenteral malaria treatment, pre-referral rectal artesunate (RAS) is recommende
Acute exposure to simulated nocturnal train noise leads to impaired sleep quality and endothelial dysfunction in young healthy men and women: a... (Publications)
A series of human field studies demonstrated that simulated nocturnal traffic noise exposure impaired sleep quality and endothelial function, which could be significantly improved after intake of vita
Specialised Paediatric PAlliativE CaRe: assessing family, healthcare professionals and health system outcomes in a multi-site context of various care... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The number of children and adolescents living with life-limiting conditions and potentially in need for specialised paediatric palliative care (SPPC) is rising. Ideally, a specialised mult
Hydra 2022: return of the interactive conference on helminth parasitology after the pandemic (Publications)
The Hydra helminth conference series, formally titled ‘Parasitic Helminths: New Perspectives in Biology and Infection’, has been serving the community of helminth research as a platform for interactiv
Considering equity in priority setting using transmission models: recommendations and data needs (Publications)
OBJECTIVES: Disease transmission models are used in impact assessment and economic evaluations of infectious disease prevention and treatment strategies, prominently so in the COVID-19 response. These
Heterogeneity in P<em>lasmodium falciparum </em>whole sporozoite vaccine induced humoral immune responses and protection in African volunteers: the... (Publications)
Malaria, a vector borne disease caused by Plasmodium species remains a major public health problem especially in sub-Saharan Africa. In 2018 alone, there were an estimated 228 million clinical cases a
