Dr Verena Carrara
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Verena Carrara
Research Clinician
Verena is currently working at the Institute of Global Health in Geneva, Switzerland as a coordinator in the Master of Advanced Studies in Public Health and as a scientific collaborator on projects in partnership with IDDO and with SMRU where she was based until 2020.
Her research work was initially focused on malaria epidemiology and later included maternal and child health, in particular the role of maternal infections and nutritional status in relation to birth outcome, child’s development in the 2 first years of life.
Recent publications
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The fragmented COVID-19 therapeutics research landscape: a living systematic review of clinical trial registrations evaluating priority pharmacological interventions.
McLean ARD. et al, (2022)
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Cross-sectional study of nutritional intake among patients undergoing tuberculosis treatment along the Myanmar–Thailand border
Damji K. et al, (2022), BMJ Open, 12, e052981 - e052981
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A randomized controlled trial of dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine, artesunate-mefloquine and extended artemether-lumefantrine treatments for malaria in pregnancy on the Thailand-Myanmar border
Saito M. et al, (2021), BMC Medicine, 19
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Outcomes for 298 breastfed neonates whose mothers received ketamine and diazepam for postpartum tubal ligation in a resource-limited setting
Gilder ME. et al, (2021), BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 21
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High levels of pathological jaundice in the first 24 hours and neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia in an epidemiological cohort study on the Thailand-Myanmar border
Thielemans L. et al, (2021), PLOS ONE, 16, e0258127 - e0258127