Concurrent spatiotemporal daily land use regression modeling and missing data imputation of fine particulate matter using distributed space-time... (Publications)
In this study, a spatiotemporal land use regression (LUR) model using Distributed Space-Time Expectation Maximization (D-STEM) software was developed. We trained the model using daily mean ambient par
Effectiveness of the Thinking Healthy Programme for perinatal depression delivered through peers: pooled analysis of two randomized controlled trials... (Publications)
Background: The Thinking Healthy Programme (THP) is recommended to treat perinatal depression in resource-limited settings, but scale-up is hampered by a paucity of community health workers. THP was a
Health impact assessment for promoting sustainable development: the HIA4SD project (Publications)
Health is central to sustainable development, and thus a cross-cutting issue of the SustainableDevelopment Goal (SDG) 2030 agenda. Natural resource extraction projects in Africa haveconsiderable poten
Protecting migratory farmers in rural Tanzania using eave ribbons treated with the spatial mosquito repellent, transfluthrin (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Many subsistence farmers in rural southeastern Tanzania regularly relocate to distant farms in river valleys to tend to crops for several weeks or months each year. While there, they live
Challenges in diagnosing scrub typhus among hospitalized patients with undifferentiated fever at a national tertiary hospital in northern Vietnam (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Scrub typhus (ST) is a leading cause of non-malarial febrile illness in Southeast Asia, but evidence of its true disease burden is limited because of difficulties of making the clinical di
Targeting <em>Plasmodium </em>plasmepsin V: hitting two birds with one stone (Publications)
A recent report by Jennison et al. reveals an important role for plasmepsin V (PMV), an aspartyl protease, in the development of malaria transmission stages. The authors showed that PMV activity is cr
A real-world quality assessment study in six ExpoM-RF measurement devices (Publications)
Exposimeters measuring radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) are commonly used to assess personal exposure to RF-EMF in real-life environments. They are usually calibrated in an anechoic cham
Regulating pharmacists as contraception providers: a qualitative study from Coastal Kenya on injectable contraception provision to youth (Publications)
INTRODUCTION: Young people worldwide are often reticent to access family planning services from public health facilities: instead, they choose to get contraception from private, retail pharmacies. In
Dispersal of <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis </em>driven by historical European trade in the South Pacific (Publications)
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is a globally distributed bacterial pathogen whose population structure has largely been shaped by the activities of its obligate human host. Oceania was the last majo