A review of malaria epidemiology and control in Papua New Guinea 1900 to 2021: progress made and future directions (Publications)
The research and control of malaria has a long history in Papua New Guinea, sometimes resulting in substantial changes to the distribution of infection and transmission dynamics in the country. There
Marcel Tanner, global health specialist "Extraordinaire" incl supplementary materials with personal contributions from renowned experts (Publications)
Marcel Tanner, President of the Swiss Academy of the Sciences, Director emeritus of the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), and Professor of Epidemiology and Medical Parasitology a
Efficient oxidative dearomatisations of substituted phenols using hypervalent iodine (iii) reagents and antiprotozoal evaluation of the resulting... (Publications)
Quinones and quinols are secondary metabolites of higher plants that are associated with many biological activities. The oxidative dearomatization of phenols induced by hypervalent iodine(III) reagent
Fexinidazole for human African trypanosomiasis, the fruit of a successful public-private partnership (Publications)
After 100 years of chemotherapy with impractical and toxic drugs, an oral cure for human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) is available: Fexinidazole. In this case, we review the history of drug discovery
Advancing detection and response capacities for emerging and re-emerging pathogens in Africa (Publications)
Recurrent disease outbreaks caused by a range of emerging and resurging pathogens over the past decade reveal major gaps in public health preparedness, detection, and response systems in Africa. Under
Pre-referral rectal artesunate: no cure for unhealthy systems (Publications)
Pre-referral rectal artesunate suppositories can save the lives of children with severe malaria if patients receive adequate post-referral care. A multi-country randomised controlled trial reporting o
Evaluation of nanopore sequencing for <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis </em>drug susceptibility testing and outbreak investigation: a genomic analysis (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Mycobacterium tuberculosis whole-genome sequencing (WGS) has been widely used for genotypic drug susceptibility testing (DST) and outbreak investigation. For both applications, Illumina te
Health system readiness and the implementation of rectal artesunate for severe malaria in sub-Saharan Africa: an analysis of real-world costs and... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Rectal artesunate, an efficacious pre-referral treatment for severe malaria in children, was deployed at scale in Uganda, Nigeria, and DR Congo. In addition to distributing rectal artesuna
The perception of health care quality by primary health care managers in Ukraine (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Ukraine is reforming its health care system to improve quality of health care. Insight into how primary health care managers perceive quality is important for the ongoing reform as well as
Wealth and inequality gradients for the detection and control of hypertension in older individuals in middle-income economies around 2007-2015 (Publications)
Socioeconomic inequalities in the detection and treatment of non-communicable diseases represent a challenge for healthcare systems in middle-income countries (MICs) in the context of population agein