Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980-2015: a systematic... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Improving survival and extending the longevity of life for all populations requires timely, robust evidence on local mortality levels and trends. The Global Burden of Disease 2015 Study (G
Embedding systematic quality assessments in supportive supervision at primary healthcare level: application of an electronic tool to improve quality... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Assessing quality of health services, for example through supportive supervision, is essential for strengthening healthcare delivery. Most systematic health facility assessment mechanisms,
Perspectives on the methods of a large systematic mapping of maternal health interventions (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Mapping studies describe a broad body of literature, and differ from classical systematic reviews, which assess more narrowly-defined questions and evaluate the quality of the studies incl
Pharmacokinetics of the antischistosomal lead ozonide OZ418 in uninfected mice determined by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (Publications)
One of the major neglected tropical diseases, schistosomiasis, is currently treated and controlled with a single drug, praziquantel. The quest for an alternative drug is fueled by its lack of activity
Influenza pandemics and tuberculosis mortality in 1889 and 1918: analysis of historical data from Switzerland (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis (TB) mortality declined in the northern hemisphere over the last 200 years, but peaked during the Russian (1889) and the Spanish (1918) influenza pandemics. We studied the imp