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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Technical evaluation and usability of a quantitative G6PD POC test in cord blood: a mixed-methods study in a low-resource setting.
Bancone G. et al, (2022), BMJ Open, 12
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Temporal distribution of Plasmodium falciparum recrudescence following artemisinin-based combination therapy: an individual participant data meta-analysis
Dahal P. et al, (2022), Malaria Journal, 21
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Association between fetal abdominal growth trajectories, maternal metabolite signatures early in pregnancy, and childhood growth and adiposity: prospective observational multinational INTERBIO-21st fetal study.
Villar J. et al, (2022), The lancet. Diabetes & endocrinology, 10, 710 - 719
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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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Leveraging human resources for outbreak analysis: lessons from an international collaboration to support the sub-Saharan African COVID-19 response.
Botero-Mesa S. et al, (2022), BMC public health, 22