Relationships between long-term residential exposure to total environmental noise and stroke incidence (Publications)
Background: Noise has been related to several cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) such as coronary heart disease and to their risk factors such as hypertension, but associations with stroke remain under-re
Addressing the evidence gap in the economic and social benefits of civil registration and vital statistics systems: a systematic review (Publications)
Objectives: Considering the aspiration embedded in the Sustainable Development Goals to Leave No One Behind by 2030, civil registration and vital statistics systems have an essential role in providing
Potential opportunities and challenges of deploying next generation sequencing and CRISPR-Cas systems to support diagnostics and surveillance towards... (Publications)
Recent developments in molecular biology and genomics have revolutionized biology and medicine mainly in the developed world. The application of next generation sequencing (NGS) and CRISPR-Cas tools i
Egg excretion indicators for the measurement of soil-transmitted helminth response to treatment (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Periodic administration of anthelmintic drugs is a cost-effective intervention for morbidity control of soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections. However, with programs expanding, drug p
Projected impact of heat on mortality and labour productivity under climate change in Switzerland (Publications)
Extreme temperatures have reached unprecedented levels in many regions of the globe due to climate change, and a further increase is expected. Besides other consequences, high temperatures increase th
Defining elimination as a public health problem for schistosomiasis control programmes: beyond prevalence of heavy-intensity infections (Publications)
WHO's 2021?30 road map for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) outlines disease-specific and cross-cutting targets for the control, elimination, and eradication of NTDs in affected countries. For schis
Surviving the hungry season (Publications)
For villagers who support themselves by growing and selling their own crops, the hardest months of the year are those immediately before the harvest when savings have been used up but the income from