Area of research
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health · Parasitology
Research interest
Research interests include Toxoplasma gondii Research Studies, Malaria Research and Control, Herpesvirus Infections and Treatments, and Mosquito-borne diseases and control.
Non-specific effects of vaccines on all-cause mortality: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) 2012-2025
The 2023 – 2024 multi-source mpox outbreaks of Clade I MPXV in sub-Saharan Africa: Alarm bell for Africa and the World
World Tuberculosis Day 2024 theme “Yes! We can end TB” can be made a reality through concerted global efforts that advance detection, diagnosis, and treatment of tuberculosis infection and disease
The 2023 – 2024 multi-source mpox outbreaks of Clade I MPXV in sub-Saharan Africa: Alarm bell for Africa and the World
An Update on the Imported Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Europe.
The WHO Global Tuberculosis 2021 Report – not so good news and turning the tide back to End TB
Vaccination for monkeypox prevention in persons with high-risk sexual behaviours to control on-going outbreak of monkeypox virus clade 3.
World TB Day 2022: Revamping and Reshaping Global TB Control Programs by Advancing Lessons learnt from the COVID-19 pandemic
Screening for latent tuberculosis: the way forward for tuberculosis elimination.
Emergence of new SARS-CoV-2 Variant of Concern Omicron (B.1.1.529) - highlights Africa's research capabilities, but exposes major knowledge gaps, inequities of vaccine distribution, inadequacies in global COVID-19 response and control efforts
World Tuberculosis Day 2021 Theme — ‘The Clock is Ticking’ — and the world is running out of time to deliver the United Nations General Assembly commitments to End TB due to the COVID-19 pandemic
One and a half years into the COVID-19 pandemic - exit strategies and efficacy of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines for holistic management and achieving global control
The continuing 2019-nCoV epidemic threat of novel coronaviruses to global health — The latest 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China
Comparing SARS-CoV-2 with SARS-CoV and influenza pandemics
MDR/XDR-TB management of patients and contacts: Challenges facing the new decade. The 2020 clinical update by the Global Tuberculosis Network
MDR/XDR-TB management of patients and contacts: Challenges facing the new decade. The 2020 clinical update by the Global Tuberculosis Network
Imported Malaria in Countries where Malaria Is Not Endemic: a Comparison of Semi-immune and Nonimmune Travelers
Li Wenliang, a face to the frontline healthcare worker. The first doctor to notify the emergence of the SARS-CoV-2, (COVID-19), outbreak
COVID-19 and tuberculosis—threats and opportunities
Toxoplasma gondii-specific IgG avidity testing in pregnant women
Tools to implement the World Health Organization End TB Strategy: Addressing common challenges in high and low endemic countries
Transmission of respiratory tract infections at mass gathering events
COVID-19 travel restrictions and the International Health Regulations – Call for an open debate on easing of travel restrictions
Commemorating World TB Day 2020: “IT’S TIME” — It’s time to End the Global TB Epidemic
SARS-CoV-2 epidemiology and control, different scenarios for Turkey
Molecular characterization of human enteric viruses in food, water samples, and surface swabs in Sicily
World Tuberculosis Day March 24th 2019 Theme: “It’s TIME” — International Journal of Infectious Diseases Tuberculosis Theme Series
Monkeypox — Enhancing public health preparedness for an emerging lethal human zoonotic epidemic threat in the wake of the smallpox post-eradication era
Recommendations for Management of Endemic Diseases and Travel Medicine in Solid-Organ Transplant Recipients and Donors
Current status of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever in the World Health Organization Eastern Mediterranean Region: issues, challenges, and future directions