Association between childhood diarrhoeal incidence and climatic factors in urban and rural settings in the health district of Mbour, Senegal (Publications)
We assessed the association between childhood diarrhoeal incidence and climatic factors in rural and urban settings in the health district of Mbour in western Senegal. We used monthly diarrhoeal case
A controlled trial to reduce the risk of human Nipah virus exposure in Bangladesh (Publications)
Human Nipah virus (NiV) infection, often fatal in Bangladesh, is primarily transmitted by drinking raw date palm sap contaminated by Pteropus bats. We assessed the impact of a behavior change communic
Quality of life as predictor for the development of cardiac ischemia in high-risk asymptomatic diabetic patients (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Ischemia induced by psychological stress and depression is a common phenomenon in stable coronary artery disease (CAD). We evaluated the quality of life (QoL) of diabetic patients screened
State of deworming coverage and equity in low-income and middle-income countries using household health surveys: a spatiotemporal cross-sectional... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Mass deworming against soil-transmitted helminthiasis, which affects 1 billion of the poorest people globally, is one of the largest public health programmes for neglected tropical disease
The role of humidity in associations of high temperature with mortality: a multicountry, multicity study (Publications)
BACKGROUND: There is strong experimental evidence that physiologic stress from high temperatures is greater if humidity is higher. However, heat indices developed to allow for this have not consistent