Artificial light at night influences clock-gene expression, activity, and fecundity in the mosquito <em>Culex pipiens </em>f.<em> Molestus</em> (Publications)
Light is an important environmental cue, and exposure to artificial light at night (ALAN) may disrupt organismal physiology and behavior. We investigated whether ALAN led to changes in clock-gene expr
Setting our sights on infectious diseases (Publications)
In May 2019, the Wellcome Centre for Anti-Infectives Research (WCAIR) at the University of Dundee, UK, held an international conference with the aim of discussing some key questions around discovering
Health impact assessment for promoting sustainable development: the HIA4SD project (Publications)
Health is central to sustainable development, and thus a cross-cutting issue of the SustainableDevelopment Goal (SDG) 2030 agenda. Natural resource extraction projects in Africa haveconsiderable poten
Effectiveness of the Thinking Healthy Programme for perinatal depression delivered through peers: pooled analysis of two randomized controlled trials... (Publications)
Background: The Thinking Healthy Programme (THP) is recommended to treat perinatal depression in resource-limited settings, but scale-up is hampered by a paucity of community health workers. THP was a
Concurrent spatiotemporal daily land use regression modeling and missing data imputation of fine particulate matter using distributed space-time... (Publications)
In this study, a spatiotemporal land use regression (LUR) model using Distributed Space-Time Expectation Maximization (D-STEM) software was developed. We trained the model using daily mean ambient par
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
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
