Good health and well-being – framing targets to maximise co-benefits for forests and people (Publications)
SDG3, Health and Wellbeing for All, depends on many other SDGs but there are also potential conflicts and trade-offs. In this chapter, ee stress the importance of forests to global health and well-bei
Deworming children for soil-transmitted helminths in low and middle-income countries: systematic review and individual participant data network... (Publications)
Intestinal parasites affect millions of children globally. We aimed to assess effects of deworming children on nutritional and cognitive outcomes across potential effect modifiers using individual par
Heckman-type selection models to obtain unbiased estimates with missing measures outcome: theoretical considerations and an application to missing... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: In low-income settings, key outcomes such as biomarkers or clinical assessments are often missing for a substantial proportion of the study population. The aim of this study was to assess
Associations between metal constituents of ambient particulate matter and mortality in England: an ecological study (Publications)
OBJECTIVES: To investigate long-term associations between metal components of particulate matter (PM) and mortality and lung cancer incidence. DESIGN: Small area (ecological) study. SETTING: Populatio
Understanding the gap between access and use: a qualitative study on barriers and facilitators to insecticide-treated net use in Ghana (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Mass and continuous distribution channels have significantly increased access to insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) in Ghana since 2000. Despite these gains, a large gap remains between ITN a
Validation of <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> dUTPase as the target of 5'-tritylated deoxyuridine analogues with anti-malarial activity (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Malaria remains as a major global problem, being one of the infectious diseases that engender highest mortality across the world. Due to the appearance of resistance and the lack of an eff
A “cookbook” for vulnerability research (Publications)
There is a growing need to facilitate the interdisciplinary study of the relationship between the environment and human health and well-being. It is increasingly recognized that vulnerability is a key
Differential impact of malaria control interventions on <em>P. falciparum</em> and <em>P. vivax</em> infections in young Papua New Guinean children (Publications)
INTRODUCTION: As malaria transmission declines, understanding the differential impact of intensified control on Plasmodium falciparum relative to Plasmodium vivax and identifying key drivers of ongoin
Active dispersal of <em>Aedes albopictus</em>: a mark-release-recapture study using self-marking units (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Understanding the dispersal dynamics of invasive mosquito species is fundamental to improve vector surveillance and to target control efforts. Aedes albopictus has been deemed a poor flyer
Investigating the drivers of the spatio-temporal patterns of genetic differences between <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> malaria infections in Kilifi... (Publications)
Knowledge of how malaria infections spread locally is important both for the design of targeted interventions aiming to interrupt malaria transmission and the design of trials to assess the interventi
