Health in food systems policies in India: a document review (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Food systems affect nutritional and other health outcomes. Recent literature from India has described policy aspects addressing nutritional implications of specific foods (eg, fruits, vege
Human behavior, livelihood, and malaria transmission in two sites of Papua New Guinea (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Malaria transmission is currently resurging in Papua New Guinea (PNG). In addition to intervention coverage, social and cultural factors influence changes in epidemiology of malaria in PNG
Towards elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Rwanda: a nested case-control study of risk factors for transmission (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Mother-to-child HIV transmission (MTCT) has substantially declined since the scale-up of prevention programs around the world, including Rwanda. To achieve full elimination of MTCT, it is
The complexity of scaling up an mHealth intervention: the case of SMS for Life in Tanzania from a health systems integration perspective (Publications)
BACKGROUND: SMS for Life was one of the earliest large-scale implementations of mHealth innovations worldwide. Its goal was to increase visibility to antimalarial stock-outs through the use of SMS tec
Search for the active ingredients from a 2-aminothiazole DMSO stock solution with antimalarial activity (Publications)
Chemical decomposition of DMSO stock solutions is a common incident that can mislead biological screening campaigns. Here, we share our case study of 2-aminothiazole 1, originating from an antimalaria
Antibodies elicited by a virosomally formulated <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> serine repeat antigen-5 derived peptide detect the processed 47kDa... (Publications)
Serine repeat antigen-5 (SERA5) is a candidate antigen for inclusion into a malaria subunit vaccine. During merozoite release and reinvasion the 120kDa SERA5 precursor protein (P120) is processed, and
Validity of ambient levels of fine particles as surrogate for personal exposure to outdoor air pollution--results of the European EXPOLIS-EAS Study... (Publications)
To evaluate the validity of fixed-site fine particle levels as exposure surrogates in air pollution epidemiology, we considered four indicator groups: (1) PM2.5 total mass concentrations, (2) sulfur a
Impact of intermittent preventive treatment with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine on antibody responses to erythrocytic-stage Plasmodium falciparum antigens... (Publications)
We evaluated the impact of intermittent preventive treatment in infants (IPTi) with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP), which was given at ages 3, 4, and 9 months through the Expanded Program on Immunizat