Relationships between long-term residential exposure to total environmental noise and stroke incidence (Publications)
environmental noise and stroke incidence in Montreal, Canada. Materials and Methods: We created an open cohort of adults aged > /=45years, free of stroke before entering the cohort for the years 2000 to
A pilot study characterizing real time exposures to particulate matter and carbon monoxide from cookstove related woodsmoke in rural Peru (Publications)
kitchen carbon monoxide (CO) samples were taken. Control households used a number of stoves including open fire and chimney stoves while intervention households used study-promoted chimney stoves. Measurements
Surveillance and response systems for elimination of tropical diseases: summary of a thematic series in Infectious Diseases of Poverty (Publications)
journal Infectious Diseases of Poverty provides a new platform to engage with, and disseminate in an open-access format, science outside traditional disciplinary boundaries. The current piece reviews a thematic
Biomonitoring human exposure to household air pollution and association with self-reported health symptoms- a stove intervention study in Peru (Publications)
chimney-equipped stoves) were less exposed to HAP compared to the control group (n=179, with mostly open-fire stoves). We also estimated associations between the exposure biomarkers, risk factors, and s
Modeling the cost effectiveness of malaria control interventions in the highlands of western Kenya (Publications)
malaria control strategies can assist the decision-making process for prioritizing interventions. The OpenMalaria stochastic simulation modeling platform can be applied to simulate the impact of interventions
The spatial distribution of <em>Schistosoma mansoni</em> infection in four regions of western Côte d'Ivoire (Publications)
obtained from readily available school lists, while climatic and environmental data were extracted from open-access remote sensing databases. Multivariable, binary non-spatial models and a Bayesian geostatistical
Oral fexinidazole for late-stage African <em>Trypanosoma brucei gambiense </em>trypanosomiasis: a pivotal multicentre, randomised, non-inferiority... (Publications)
ne combination therapy in patients with late-stage g-HAT. METHODS: In this randomised, phase 2/3, open-label, non-inferiority trial, we recruited patients aged 15 years and older with late-stage g-HAT
<em>Strongyloides stercoralis</em>: spatial distribution of a highly prevalent and ubiquitous soil-transmitted helminth in Cambodia (Publications)
age of 13 and women aged 50 years and over had lower odds of infection than their male counterparts. Open defecation was associated with higher odds of infection, while having some knowledge of the health
Long-term exposure to transportation noise and air pollution in relation to incident diabetes in the SAPALDIA study (Publications)
observed stronger effects of Lden road among participants reporting poor sleep quality or sleeping with open windows. Conclusions: Transportation noise may be more relevant than AP in the development of diabetes
Mass deworming for improving health and cognition of children in endemic helminth areas: a systematic review and individual participant data network... (Publications)
infections may benefit more. We urge the global community to adopt calls to make data available in open repositories to facilitate IPD analyses such as this, which aim to assess effects for the most vulnerable