Health impact assessment of a watershed development project in southern India: a case study (Publications)
A “Health in All” approach has been encouraged by India’s National Health Policy to address cross-sectoral health concerns. To illustrate how health concerns can be systematised in food system plannin
Identification and profiling of a novel diazaspiro[3.4]octane chemical series active against multiple stages of the human malaria parasite... (Publications)
A novel diazaspiro[3.4]octane series was identified from a Plasmodium falciparum whole-cell high-throughput screening campaign. Hits displayed activity against multiple stages of the parasite lifecycl
A systematic literature review of schistosomiasis in urban and peri-urban settings (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease caused by trematode worms of the genus Schistosoma and belongs to the neglected tropical diseases. The disease has been reported in 78 countries, wit
Abundance of <em>Opisthorchis felineus </em>metacercariae in cyprinid fish in the middle Ob river basin (Tomsk region, Russia) (Publications)
Infection with the liver fluke, Opisthorchis felineus, caused by the consumption of infected raw or undercooked cyprinid fish is common in humans and carnivores in the middle Ob River basin (Tomsk reg
Quest for a potent antimalarial drug lead: synthesis and evaluation of 6,7-dimethoxyquinazoline-2,4-diamines (Publications)
Quinazolines have long been known to exert varied pharmacologic activities that make them suitable for use in treating hypertension, viral infections, tumors, and malaria. Since 2014, we have synthesi
Parasite-host dynamics throughout antimalarial drug development stages complicate the translation of parasite clearance (Publications)
Ensuring continued success against malaria depends on a pipeline of new antimalarials. Antimalarial drug development utilizes pre-clinical murine and experimental human malaria infection studies to ev
Investigation of heterochromatin protein 1 function in the malaria parasite <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> using a conditional domain deletion and... (Publications)
The human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum encodes a single ortholog of heterochromatin protein 1 (PfHP1) that plays a crucial role in the epigenetic regulation of various survival-related proce
Poverty is not poverty: the reality on the ground including the rural-urban divide and how we can turn the tide on NCDs (Publications)
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) tend to occur in younger sub-Saharan African (SSA) populations, about 20 years earlier as compared to high income countries (HIC). Weak health systems and infrastructure