Global concern regarding mosquito-borne disease emergence and re-emergence has
driven the development of citizen science mosquito surveillance initiatives. Although these …

Participatory research is the science of partnerships underlying research, concerned with
research governance, ownership of research products, and relationships behind research …

In conventional randomised controlled trials (RCTs), researchers design the interventions. In
the Camino Verde trial, each intervention community designed its own programmes to …

Rapidly growing cities face new and compounding health challenges, leading governments
and donors to seek innovative ways to support healthier, more resilient urban growth. One …

Background: Recent studies using mass drug administration (MDA) of antibiotics to entire
communities have focused global attention on the unique ethical challenges of MDA of …

Background Cluster randomized trials are common in health research in low-and middle-
income countries raising issues that challenge interpretation of standard ethical guidelines …

In Bauchi State, northern Nigeria, communities recognise short birth interval (kunika in the
Hausa language) as harmful, but family planning is a sensitive topic. This paper describes …

Randomized control trials have provided evidence that some community-based
interventions (CBIs) work in vector-borne diseases (VBDs). Conversely, there is limited …

One reason for doing randomised controlled trials (RCTs) is that experiments can be
convincing. Early epidemiological experimenters, such as Jenner and the smallpox vaccine …

The mosquito Aedes aegypti transmits arboviral diseases at extraordinary rates. Dengue
alone afflicts 50 to 100 million people each year, with more than 3 billion at risk globally …