Safety and immunogenicity of radiation-attenuated PfSPZ vaccine in equatoguinean infants, children, and adults (Publications)
The radiation-attenuated Plasmodium falciparum sporozoites (PfSPZ) Vaccine has demonstrated safety and immunogenicity in 5-month-old to 50-year-old Africans in multiple trials. Except for one, each tr
A validation of the religious and spiritual struggles scale among young people living with HIV in Zimbabwe: Mokken scale analysis and exploratory... (Publications)
INTRODUCTION: Religious/spiritual convictions and practices can influence health- and treatment-seeking behavior, but only few measures of religiousness or spirituality have been validated and used ou
Cutaneous tuberculosis of the foot clinically mimicking mycetoma: a case report (Publications)
KEY CLINICAL MESSAGE: In a resource-limited setting such as Sudan, where diagnostic and surveillance capacities are limited and several dermal diseases with similar clinical presentation are endemic,
A qualitative assessment of community acceptability and use of a locally developed children's book to increase shared reading and parent-child... (Publications)
INTRODUCTION: Early reading interventions hold promise for increasing language and literacy development in young children and improving caregiver-child interactions. To engage rural caregivers and you
Upscaling cervical cancer screening and treatment for women living with HIV at a rural referral hospital in Tanzania: protocol of a before-and-after... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Cervical cancer (CC) is nearly always caused by persistent human papillomavirus (HPV) infection. It is the most common cancer among women living with HIV (WLWH) and is the leading cause of
Ambient air quality standards and policies in Eastern Mediterranean countries: a review (Publications)
Objectives: National ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) are critical tools for controlling air pollution and protecting public health. We designed this study to 1) gather the NAAQS for six classica
Explorative assessment of the temperature–mortality association to support health-based heat-warning thresholds: a national case-crossover study in... (Publications)
Defining health-based thresholds for effective heat warnings is crucial for climate change adaptation strategies. Translating the non-linear function between heat and health effects into an effective
Global, regional, and national burden of mortality associated with short-term temperature variability from 2000-19: a three-stage modelling study (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Increased mortality risk is associated with short-term temperature variability. However, to our knowledge, there has been no comprehensive assessment of the temperature variability-related
School-based preventive chemotherapy program for schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminth control in Angola: 6-year impact assessment (Publications)
BACKGROUND: A school preventive chemotherapy (PC) program for soil-transmitted helminths (STHs) and schistosomiasis has operated in Huambo, Uige and Zaire provinces, Angola, since 2013 and 2014, respe
The air and viruses we breathe: assessing the effect the PM2.5 air pollutant has on the burden of COVID-19 (Publications)
Evidence suggests an association between air pollutant exposure and worse outcomes for respiratory viral diseases, like COVID-19. However, does breathing polluted air over many years affect the suscep