KaziBantu - Healthy Schools for Healthy Communities. 2017 onwards [Video] (Publications)
Healthy Schools for Healthy Communities – KaziBantu builds on existing evidence that school-based health interventions can improve the health of schoolchildren and teachers in low-resource settings. T
Long-term exposure to ambient air pollution and incidence of brain tumor: the European Study of Cohorts for Air Pollution Effects (ESCAPE) (Publications)
Background: Epidemiological evidence on the association between ambient air pollution and brain tumor risk is sparse and inconsistent. Methods: In 12 cohorts from six European countries, individual es
Efficacy and safety of a single-dose mebendazole 500 mg chewable, rapidly-disintegrating tablet for <em>Ascaris lumbricoides</em> and <em>Trichuris... (Publications)
This randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study evaluated the efficacy and safety of a new chewable, rapidly-disintegrating mebendazole (MBZ) 500 mg tablet for Ascaris lumbricoides and Trichur
State of inequality in malaria intervention coverage in sub-Saharan African countries (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Scale-up of malaria interventions over the last decade have yielded a significant reduction in malaria transmission and disease burden in sub-Saharan Africa. We estimated economic gradient
Human and livestock trematode infections in a mobile pastoralist setting at Lake Chad: added value of a one health approach beyond zoonotic diseases... (Publications)
Background: At Lake Chad in Central Africa, mobile pastoralists face economic losses due to livestock trematodiases. Fasciola gigantica and Schistosoma bovis-trematodes that affect livestock-share tra
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
Microbiological airway colonization in COPD patients with severe emphysema undergoing endoscopic lung volume reduction (Publications)
Background: Endoscopic lung volume reduction (eLVR) is a therapeutic option for selected patients with COPD and severe emphysema. Infectious exacerbations are serious events in these vulnerable patien
Associations between key intervention coverage and child mortality: an analysis of 241 sub-national regions of sub-Saharan Africa (Publications)
Background: Reducing child mortality remains a key objective in the Sustainable Development Goals. Although remarkable progress has been made with respect to under-5 mortality over the last 25 years,