Spectrum of infectious diseases among newly arrived Eritrean refugees in Switzerland: a cross-sectional study (Publications)
OBJECTIVES: Our study aimed at determining the prevalence of selected infectious diseases among recently arrived Eritrean refugees in Switzerland. METHODS: In this cross-sectional study, asymptomatic
Multiancestry association study identifies new asthma risk loci that colocalize with immune-cell enhancer marks (Publications)
We examined common variation in asthma risk by conducting a meta-analysis of worldwide asthma genome-wide association studies (23,948 asthma cases, 118,538 controls) of individuals from ethnically div
Retrospective active case finding in Cambodia: an innovative approach to leprosy control in a low-endemic country (Publications)
Currently, leprosy control relies on the clinical diagnosis of leprosy and the subsequent administration of multidrug therapy (MDT). However, many health workers are not familiar with the cardinal sig
Inference with difference-in-differences with a small number of groups: a review, simulation study, and empirical application using SHARE data (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Difference-in-differences (DID) estimation has become increasingly popular as an approach to evaluate the effect of a group-level policy on individual-level outcomes. Several statistical m
A multi-country analysis on potential adaptive mechanisms to cold and heat in a changing climate (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Temporal variation of temperature-health associations depends on the combination of two pathways: pure adaptation to increasingly warmer temperatures due to climate change, and other atten
Impact and cost-effectiveness of snail control to achieve disease control targets for schistosomiasis (Publications)
Schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease that affects over 240 million people globally. To improve population-level disease control, there is growing interest in adding chemical-based snail control inte