Prevention of overweight and hypertension through cardiorespiratory fitness and extracurricular sport participation among South African schoolchildren (Publications)
Hypertension and overweight are growing public health concerns in school-aged children. We examined whether cardiorespiratory fitness and sport participation contribute to the prevention of hypertensi
Traditional herbal medicine in Mesoamerica: toward its evidence base for improving universal health coverage (Publications)
The quality of health care in Mesoamerica is influenced by its rich cultural diversity and characterized by social inequalities. Especially indigenous and rural communities confront diverse barriers t
Residing near allergenic trees can increase risk of allergies later in life: LISA Leipzig study (Publications)
BACKGROUND: We investigated whether residing in places with higher greenness, more trees and more allergenic trees early in life increases the risk of allergic outcomes, and whether these associations
Communities and clinical trials: a case study from the RTS,S malaria vaccine trials in eastern Africa (Publications)
When clinical trials enter human communities, two complex systems merge-creating challenges for the clinical trial team and the local human community. This is of particular relevance for clinical tria
Mobile pastoralists in Africa: a blind spot in global health surveillance (Publications)
Mobile pastoralists subsist primarily on herds of livestock such as camels, cattle, and goats, migrating seasonally to access water and grazing areas. Speculative estimates of their global population
Breastfeeding following<em> in vitro</em> fertilisation in Switzerland - does mode of conception affect breastfeeding behaviour? (Publications)
AIM: Breastfeeding has numerous advantages. Our aim was to investigate whether breastfeeding initiation and duration in women with pregnancies conceived through in vitro fertilisation differ from spon
