Impact of scaling up prenatal nutrition interventions on human capital outcomes in low- and middle-income countries: a modeling analysis (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Prenatal nutrition interventions can lead to improved birth outcomes, which in turn are associated with better education and human capital outcomes later in life. OBJECTIVE: We estimated t
Dynamics and risk of transmission of bovine tuberculosis in the emerging dairy regions of Ethiopia (Publications)
The Ethiopian government has several initiatives to expand and intensify the dairy industry; however, the risk of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) spread is a challenge. To assess the rate of expansion and r
Spatial mobility and large-scale resource extraction: an analysis of community well-being and health in a copper mining area of Zambia (Publications)
We examine population mobility around a newly-developed large-scale copper mine in Zambia and analyse how socioeconomic and health indicators differed amongst migrants, resettled households, and non-m
Women deprivation index and family planning utilisation in urban geography of West African countries (Publications)
Inequalities in health care utilisation and outcomes vary significantly across geographies. Though available evidence suggests disparity in contraceptive uptake in favour of urban compared with rural
User-centred design of a final results report for participants in multi-sensor personal air pollution exposure monitoring campaigns (Publications)
Using low-cost portable air quality (AQ) monitoring devices is a growing trend in personal exposure studies, enabling a higher spatio-temporal resolution and identifying acute exposure to high concent
Waiting for “good care”. Biomedicine and the elderly in North Sulawesi, Indonesia (Publications)
Health and illness denote inherent features and phases when a person grows old. In old age, being healthy and becoming ill both represent meaningful conditions and dynamics where the entanglement and
Cross-feeding between intestinal pathobionts promotes their overgrowth during undernutrition (Publications)
Child undernutrition is a global health issue associated with a high burden of infectious disease. Undernourished children display an overabundance of intestinal pathogens and pathobionts, and these b
A cross-sectional analysis of meteorological factors and SARS-CoV-2 transmission in 409 cities across 26 countries (Publications)
There is conflicting evidence on the influence of weather on COVID-19 transmission. Our aim is to estimate weather-dependent signatures in the early phase of the pandemic, while controlling for socio-
Modelling the impact of fexinidazole use on human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) transmission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Publications)
Gambiense human African trypanosomiasis is a deadly disease that has been declining in incidence since the start of the Century, primarily due to increased screening, diagnosis and treatment of infect
Evolution of COVID-19 mortality over time: results from the Swiss hospital surveillance system (CH-SUR) (Publications)
BACKGROUND: When the periods of time during and after the first wave of the ongoing SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 pandemic in Europe are compared, the associated COVID-19 mortality seems to have decreased subst
