Acceptability of pre-referral rectal artesunate for severe malaria in children under 5 years by health workers and caregivers in the Democratic... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: For children below 6 years with suspected severe malaria attending a health care provider unable to provide parenteral malaria treatment, pre-referral rectal artesunate (RAS) is recommende
Acute exposure to simulated nocturnal train noise leads to impaired sleep quality and endothelial dysfunction in young healthy men and women: a... (Publications)
A series of human field studies demonstrated that simulated nocturnal traffic noise exposure impaired sleep quality and endothelial function, which could be significantly improved after intake of vita
Specialised Paediatric PAlliativE CaRe: assessing family, healthcare professionals and health system outcomes in a multi-site context of various care... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The number of children and adolescents living with life-limiting conditions and potentially in need for specialised paediatric palliative care (SPPC) is rising. Ideally, a specialised mult
Hydra 2022: return of the interactive conference on helminth parasitology after the pandemic (Publications)
The Hydra helminth conference series, formally titled ‘Parasitic Helminths: New Perspectives in Biology and Infection’, has been serving the community of helminth research as a platform for interactiv
Considering equity in priority setting using transmission models: recommendations and data needs (Publications)
OBJECTIVES: Disease transmission models are used in impact assessment and economic evaluations of infectious disease prevention and treatment strategies, prominently so in the COVID-19 response. These
Heterogeneity in P<em>lasmodium falciparum </em>whole sporozoite vaccine induced humoral immune responses and protection in African volunteers: the... (Publications)
Malaria, a vector borne disease caused by Plasmodium species remains a major public health problem especially in sub-Saharan Africa. In 2018 alone, there were an estimated 228 million clinical cases a
Spatial analysis of schistosomiasis in Hunan and Jiangxi provinces in the People's Republic of China (Publications)
Understanding the spatial distribution of schistosome infection is critical for tailoring preventive measures to control and eliminate schistosomiasis. This study used spatial analysis to determine ri
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
