Vaccination of dogs in an African city interrupts rabies transmission and reduces human exposure (Publications)
Despite the existence of effective rabies vaccines for dogs, dog-transmitted human rabies persists and has reemerged in Africa. Two consecutive dog vaccination campaigns took place in Chad in 2012 and
Retrospective active case finding in Cambodia: an innovative approach to leprosy control in a low-endemic country (Publications)
Currently, leprosy control relies on the clinical diagnosis of leprosy and the subsequent administration of multidrug therapy (MDT). However, many health workers are not familiar with the cardinal sig
Inference with difference-in-differences with a small number of groups: a review, simulation study, and empirical application using SHARE data (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Difference-in-differences (DID) estimation has become increasingly popular as an approach to evaluate the effect of a group-level policy on individual-level outcomes. Several statistical m
A multi-country analysis on potential adaptive mechanisms to cold and heat in a changing climate (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Temporal variation of temperature-health associations depends on the combination of two pathways: pure adaptation to increasingly warmer temperatures due to climate change, and other atten
Time to change focus? Transitioning from higher neonatal to higher stillbirth mortality in São Paulo State, Brazil (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Differential trends in mortality suggest that stillbirths may dominate neonatal mortality in the medium to long run. Brazil has made major efforts to improve data collection on health indi
Time trends of positivity rates from foodborne pathogen testing in Switzerland, 2003 to 2012 (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Campylobacteriosis and salmonellosis are important foodborne diseases in Europe, including in Switzerland. In 2014, notification rates for Switzerland were 92.9 per 100 000 population for