Associations between exclusive breastfeeding duration and children's developmental outcomes: evidence from Siaya county, Kenya (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) during the first 6 months of life is widely promoted as a key strategy to enhance child health, growth, and development. Even though a high proportion of chil
Health impact assessment and climate change: a scoping review (Publications)
Climate change has various adverse impacts on public health, ranging from heat-related illness to an increased risk of undernutrition in low-income countries. Health impact assessment (HIA) has been a
Participatory systems modelling for youth mental health: an evaluation study applying a comprehensive multi-scale framework (Publications)
The youth mental health sector is persistently challenged by issues such as service fragmentation and inefficient resource allocation. Systems modelling and simulation, particularly utilizing particip
Durchfall beim Reiserückkehrer (Publications)
Durchfall stellt neben Fieber und Hautproblemen die häufigste Ursache für Arztbesuche bei Reiserückkehrern aus tropischen und subtropischen Ländern dar. Um eine Überdiagnostik zu vermeiden, sind Kenn
Temporal distribution of <em>Plasmodium falciparum </em>recrudescence following artemisinin-based combination therapy: an individual participant data... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The duration of trial follow-up affects the ability to detect recrudescent infections following anti-malarial treatment. The aim of this study was to explore the proportions of recrudescen
Causes of fever in returning travelers: a European multicenter prospective cohort study (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Etiological diagnosis of febrile illnesses in returning travelers is a great challenge, particularly when presenting with no focal symptoms [acute undifferentiated febrile illnesses (AUFI)
Estimating causes of death where there is no medical certification: evolution and state of the art of verbal autopsy (Publications)
Over the past 70 years, significant advances have been made in determining the causes of death in populations not served by official medical certification of cause at the time of death using a techniq
Schistosomiasis at the crossroad to elimination: review of eclipsed research with emphasis on the post-transmission agenda (Publications)
While chronic schistosomiasis is pathologically well defined, the acute form of the disease is less well understood. It is generally agreed that early lesions, such as lung nodules and bladder polyps,
Whole-organism phenotypic screening methods used in early-phase anthelmintic drug discovery (Publications)
Diseases caused by parasitic helminths (worms) represent a major global health burden in both humans and animals. As vaccines against helminths have yet to achieve a prominent role in worm control, an
Point-of-care sample preparation and automated quantitative detection of <em>Schistosoma haematobium </em>using mobile phone microscopy (Publications)
Schistosoma haematobium continues to pose a significant public health burden despite ongoing global control efforts. One of several barriers to sustained control (and ultimately elimination) is the la