Spatial analysis and risk mapping of soil-transmitted helminth infections in Brazil, using Bayesian geostatistical models (Publications)
Soil-transmitted helminths (Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura and hookworm) negatively impact the health and wellbeing of hundreds of millions of people, particularly in tropical and subtropic
Mobile phone base stations and early childhood cancers: case-control study (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the risk of early childhood cancers associated with the mother's exposure to radiofrequency from and proximity to macrocell mobile phone base stations (masts) during pregnanc
Patient and physician acceptance of a campaign approach to promoting physical activity: The move for health project (Publications)
A campaign approach consisting of systematic screening and brief counselling of insufficiently active patients in general practice is feasible. Participating practices considered the amount of work as
A question module for assessing community stigma towards HIV in rural India (Publications)
Summary This paper describes a simple question module to assess community stigma in rural India. Fear of stigma is known to prevent people from seeking HIV testing and to contribute to further disease
Nesting doctoral students in collaborative North-South partnerships for health systems research (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The European Union (EU) supports North-South Partnerships and collaborative research projects through its Framework Programmes and Horizon 2020. There is limited research on how such proje
Structural requirements of Tom40 for assembly into preexisting TOM complexes of mitochondria (Publications)
Tom40 is the major subunit of the translocase of the outer mitochondrial membrane (the TOM complex). To study the assembly pathway of Tom40, we have followed the integration of the protein into the TO
Lack of insertional-deletional polymorphism in a collection of <em>Mycobacterium ulcerans</em> isolates from Ghanaian Buruli ulcer patients (Publications)
Mycobacterium ulcerans causes the devastating infectious skin disease Buruli ulcer and has a monomorphic population structure. The resolution of conventional genetic fingerprinting methods is therefor