A framework for managing infectious diseases in rural areas in low- and middle-income countries in the face of climate change-East Africa as a case... (Publications)
Climate change is having unprecedented impacts on human health, including increasing infectious disease risk. Despite this, health systems across the world are currently not prepared for novel disease
Leptospirosis, melioidosis, and rickettsioses in the vicious circle of neglect (Publications)
The global priorities in the field of infectious diseases are constantly changing. While emerging viral infections have regularly dominated public health attention, which has only intensified after th
Precision oncology: a global perspective on implementation and policy development (Publications)
Despite the acknowledged merits of precision oncology (PO) and its increasing global implementation, its full potential for advancing care and prevention remains unrealized. The benefits are currently
Considerations and expectations for the administration of dispersible arpraziquantel to young children: a landscape analysis (Publications)
Schistosomiasis is a serious public health problem in many African countries and beyond. Preventive chemotherapy with praziquantel is a successful public health intervention that is recommended for al
Ensuring Africa's food security by 2050: the role of population growth, climate-resilient strategies, and putative pathways to resilience (Publications)
Africa is grappling with severe food security challenges driven by population growth, climate change, land degradation, water scarcity, and socio-economic factors such as poverty and inequality. Clima
The interspecific competition between larvae of <em>Aedes aegypti</em> and major african malaria vectors in a semi-field system in Tanzania (Publications)
Interspecific competition between mosquito larvae may affects adult vectorial capacity, potentially reducing disease transmission. It also influences population dynamics, and cannibalistic and predato
Lung function-associated exposome profile in the era of climate change: pooled analysis of 8 population-based European cohorts within the EXPANSE... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The independent and interrelated long-term effects of the exposome such as air pollution, greenness, and ambient temperature on lung function are not well understood, yet relevant in the l
Motivation, cues to action, and barriers to COVID-19 vaccine uptake: a qualitative application of the health belief model among women in rural Zambia (Publications)
Vaccine hesitancy has played a major role in slowing the global COVID-19 response. Using cross-sectional, primarily qualitative data collected in four rural districts in Zambia, we aimed to explore co
Slow clearance of histidine-rich protein-2 in Gabonese with uncomplicated malaria (Publications)
Malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs), which detect Plasmodium falciparum (Pf)-specific histidine-rich protein-2 (HRP2), have increasing importance for the diagnosis and control of malaria, especially
