Distribution and treatment needs of soil-transmitted helminthiasis in Bangladesh: a Bayesian geostatistical analysis of 2017-2020 national survey data (Publications)
BACKGROUND: In Bangladesh, preventive chemotherapy targeting soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections in school-age children has been implemented since 2008. To evaluate the success of this strategy
Evidence synthesis of observational studies in environmental health: lessons learned from a systematic review on traffic-related air pollution (Publications)
BACKGROUND: There is a long tradition in environmental health of using frameworks for evidence synthesis, such as those of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for its Integrated Science Assessmen
Discovery of an orally active nitrothiophene-based antitrypanosomal agent (Publications)
Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT), caused by Trypanosoma brucei gambiense and rhodesiense, is a parasitic disease endemic to sub-Saharan Africa. Untreated cases of HAT can be severely debilitating a
Recurrent abdominal wall mass in a hepatitis B-positive male: an unusual case of lumbar mycetoma (Publications)
KEY CLINICAL MESSAGE: Atypical presentations of eumycetoma can pose a challenge in the diagnosis and treatment of the disease. Healthcare providers thorough in their differential diagnosis and investi
Reflections on the impact and response to the Peruvian 2017 coastal El Niño event: looking to the past to prepare for the future (Publications)
Climate-related phenomena in Peru have been slowly but continuously changing in recent years beyond historical variability. These include sea surface temperature increases, irregular precipitation pat
Farmers' valuation and willingness to pay for vaccines to protect livestock resources against priority infectious diseases in Ghana (Publications)
INTRODUCTION: Livestock vaccination coverage rates remain low in many lower and middle income countries despite effective vaccines being commonly available. Consequently, many preventable infectious l
Violence against health care workers in a crisis context: a mixed cross-sectional study in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Health Care Workers (HCWs) in conflict zones face high levels of violence while also playing a crucial role in assisting the population in distress. For more than two decades, the eastern
Impacts of performance-based financing on health system performance: evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Health systems' weakness remains one of the primary obstacles towards achieving universal access to quality healthcare in low-income settings. Performance-based financing (PBF) programs ha