Integrating testing volume into bandit algorithms for infectious disease surveillance (Publications)
Mobile testing services provide opportunities for active surveillance of infectious diseases for hard-to-reach and/or high-risk individuals who do not know their disease status. Identifying as many in
Evaluating the adoption of mhealth technologies by community health workers to improve the use of maternal health services in sub-Saharan Africa:... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Limited information exists on the impact of mobile health (mHealth) use by community health workers (CHWs) on improving the use of maternal health services in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). OBJ
Mental health of individuals at increased suicide risk after hospital discharge and initial findings on the usefulness of a suicide prevention project... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Supporting individuals in managing their suicidality can prevent suicidal behavior. This study evaluated the suicide prevention project SERO, which was launched in Central Switzerland in 2
Targeting <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> IspD in the methyl-d-erythritol phosphate pathway: urea-based compounds with nanomolar potency on target and... (Publications)
The methyl-d-erythritol phosphate (MEP) pathway has emerged as an interesting target in the fight against antimicrobial resistance. The pathway is essential in many human pathogens, including Plasmodi
Vulnerability to heat-related mortality and the effect of prevention measures: a time-stratified case-crossover study in Switzerland (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Swiss climate scenarios predict increases in the frequency and intensity of extreme heat episodes in the future. For the effective prevention of heat-related mortality, several aspects of
A genome-focused investigation reveals the emergence of a <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> strain related to multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in... (Publications)
A previous study in Pará, Northern Brazil, described a strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with a unique genotype (SIT2517/T1) associated with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). To improve ou
Changes in seasonality and sex ratio of scrub typhus: a case study of South Korea from 2003 to 2019 based on wavelet transform analysis (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Scrub typhus (ST, also known as tsutsugamushi disease) is a common febrile vector-borne disease in South Korea and commonly known as autumn- and female-dominant disease. Although understan
From fragmentation to open access: building an open data portal for health data dissemination (Publications)
Open data is defined as data that can be used and redistributed by anyone with minimal or no restrictions. A design science research methodology was applied to the development of an open data portal f
Total synthesis of tosyl-samroiyotmycin A and its biological profiling (Publications)
A total synthesis of the enantiopure syn,syn-tosyl-samroiyotmycin A, a C2-symmetric 20-membered antimalarial macrodiolide with syn,syn-configuration of the 8,24-dihydroxy-9,25-dimethyl units and it's
Medium-ring keto bislactams with antischistosomal activity (Publications)
We discovered medium-ring keto bislactams as a new antischistosomal chemotype. The ketone functional group and isoindolinone substructure were required for high antischistosomal activity. Aryl substit
