Global, regional, and national burden of stroke and its risk factors, 1990-2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Up-to-date estimates of stroke burden and attributable risks and their trends at global, regional, and national levels are essential for evidence-based health care, prevention, and resourc
The political economy of national health insurance schemes: evidence from Zambia (Publications)
Governments in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) are increasingly considering the introduction of national health insurance scheme (NHIS) as a strategy to achieve universal health coverage (UHC)
Assessing different next-generation sequencing technologies for wastewater-based epidemiology (Publications)
Wastewater-based epidemiology has proven to be an important public health asset during the COVID-19 pandemic. It can provide less biassed and more cost-effective population-level monitoring of the dis
Forecasting malaria dynamics based on causal relations between control interventions, climatic factors, and disease incidence in western Kenya (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Malaria remains one of the deadliest diseases worldwide, especially among young children in sub-Saharan Africa. Predictive models are necessary for effective planning and resource allocati
Respiratory and allergic outcomes among farmworkers exposed to pesticides in Costa Rica (Publications)
AIM: We examined the association of exposure to a pesticide mixture with respiratory and allergic outcomes among farmworkers from Costa Rica. METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional study of 299 farmw
HIV co-infection increases the risk of post-tuberculosis mortality among persons who initiated treatment for drug-resistant tuberculosis (Publications)
Little is known regarding the relationship between common comorbidities in persons with tuberculosis (TB) (including human immunodeficiency virus [HIV], diabetes, and hepatitis C virus [HCV]) and post
Persistent depression in pregnant refugee and migrant women living along the Thai-Myanmar border: a secondary qualitative analysis (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Antepartum depression affects around 15% of pregnant women worldwide, and may negatively impact their infants' physical, cognitive and social development, and confer a greater risk of emot