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
Soliciting diaries for "real-time" insights into the COVID-19 pandemic: methodological reflections on using digital technologies to engage the public (Publications)
OBJECTIVES: To discuss the opportunities and challenges of the qualitative solicited diary approach using digital technologies as an innovative way to access insights into people's lives and their uni
A novel barcoded nanopore sequencing workflow of high-quality, full-length bacterial 16S amplicons for taxonomic annotation of bacterial isolates and... (Publications)
Due to recent improvements, Nanopore sequencing has become a promising method for experiments relying on amplicon sequencing. We describe a flexible workflow to generate and annotate high-quality, ful
Characteristics, consent patterns, and challenges of randomized trials using the Trials within Cohorts (TwiCs) design: a scoping review (Publications)
OBJECTIVES: Trials within Cohorts (TwiCs) is a pragmatic design approach that may overcome frequent challenges of traditional randomized trials such as slow recruitment, burdensome consent procedures,
Does growing up in a physical activity-friendly neighborhood increase the likelihood of remaining active during adolescence and early adulthood? (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The SOPHYA-cohort-study investigated whether the objectively characterized and perceived residential neighborhood of Swiss youth predict accelerometer-measured physical activity and activi
Mass deworming for improving health and cognition of children in endemic helminth areas: a systematic review and individual participant data network... (Publications)
Abstract Background: Soil transmitted (or intestinal) helminths and schistosomes affect millions of children worldwide. Objectives: To use individual participant data network meta‐analysis (NMA) to ex
Protecting migratory farmers in rural Tanzania using eave ribbons treated with the spatial mosquito repellent, transfluthrin (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Many subsistence farmers in rural southeastern Tanzania regularly relocate to distant farms in river valleys to tend to crops for several weeks or months each year. While there, they live
A vision to strengthen resources and capacity of the Palestinian health research system: a qualitative assessment (Publications)
Abstract Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) proposed a global strategy to build a robust Health Research System Resources and Infrastructural Capacity (HRSRIC). Despite the growing resear