Deworming children for soil-transmitted helminths in low and middle-income countries: systematic review and individual participant data network... (Publications)
Intestinal parasites affect millions of children globally. We aimed to assess effects of deworming children on nutritional and cognitive outcomes across potential effect modifiers using individual par
Mass deworming for improving health and cognition of children in endemic helminth areas: a systematic review and individual participant data network... (Publications)
Abstract Background: Soil transmitted (or intestinal) helminths and schistosomes affect millions of children worldwide. Objectives: To use individual participant data network meta‐analysis (NMA) to ex
Good health and well-being – framing targets to maximise co-benefits for forests and people (Publications)
SDG3, Health and Wellbeing for All, depends on many other SDGs but there are also potential conflicts and trade-offs. In this chapter, ee stress the importance of forests to global health and well-bei
A vision to strengthen resources and capacity of the Palestinian health research system: a qualitative assessment (Publications)
Abstract Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) proposed a global strategy to build a robust Health Research System Resources and Infrastructural Capacity (HRSRIC). Despite the growing resear
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