Concurrently measured concentrations of atmospheric mercury in indoor (household) and outdoor air of Basel, Switzerland (Publications)
Indoor air pollution can be a major health risk because urban populations spend up to 90% of their time in closed rooms. Gaseous elemental mercury (GEM) has not been measured as routinely as other ind
Aging does not impact drug-drug interaction magnitudes with antiretrovirals: a Swiss HIV Cohort Study (Publications)
The risk of drug-drug interactions (DDIs) is elevated in aging people living with HIV (PLWH) due to highly prevalent age-related comorbidities leading to more comedications. To investigate the impact
Rapid detection of the source of a <em>Listeria monocytogenes</em> outbreak in Switzerland through routine interviewing of patients and whole-genome... (Publications)
AIMS OF THE STUDY: Listeriosis is a notifiable disease in Switzerland. In summer 2022, the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health noticed an increase in reports of listeriosis cases, indicating a possi
Temperature frequency and mortality: assessing adaptation to local temperature (Publications)
Assessing the association between temperature frequency and mortality can provide insights into human adaptation to local ambient temperatures. We collected daily time-series data on mortality and tem
Social Transfers for Exclusive Breastfeeding (STEB) Intervention in Lao People's Democratic Republic: protocol for a randomized controlled trial (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Children in Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) receive suboptimal nutrition because of low breastfeeding rates, undermining their developmental potential. While major public health
HIV co-infection is associated with reduced <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> transmissibility in sub-Saharan Africa (Publications)
Persons living with HIV are known to be at increased risk of developing tuberculosis (TB) disease upon infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). However, it has remained unclear how HIV co-infe
Future use-cases of vaccines in malaria control and elimination (Publications)
Malaria burden has significantly changed or decreased over the last 20 years, however, it remains an important health problem requiring the rigorous application of existing tools and approaches, as we
Lidar reveals activity anomaly of malaria vectors during pan-African eclipse (Publications)
Yearly, a quarter billion people are infected and a half a million killed by the mosquito-borne disease malaria. Lack of real-time observational tools for continuously assessing the unperturbed mosqui