Publications

Project-related publications

2024

  • Boutros P, Kassem N, Boudo V, Sié A, Munga S, Maggioni MA, Golec M, Simion R, Bärnighausen T, Winkler V, Barteit S. Understanding the Risk Factors, Burden, and Interventions for Chronic Respiratory Diseases in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Scoping Review. Public Health Rev. 2024 Oct 31;45:1607339. https://doi.org/10.3389/phrs.2024.1607339

  • Bunker A, Compoaré G, Sewe MO, Laurent JGC, Zabré P, Boudo V, Ouédraogo WA, Ouermi L, Jackson ST, Arisco N, Vijayakumar G, Yildirim FB, Barteit S, Maggioni MA, Woodward A, Buonocore JJ, Regassa MD, Brück T, Sié A, Bärnighausen T. The effects of cool roofs on health, environmental, and economic outcomes in rural Africa: study protocol for a community-based cluster randomized controlled trial. Trials. 2024 Jan 16;25(1):59. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-023-07804-0

  • Dieng MDB, Tompkins AM, Arnault J, Sié A, Fersch B, Laux P, Schwarz , Zabré P, Munga S, Khagayi S, Diouf I, Kunstmann H. Process-based atmosphere-hydrology-malaria modeling: Performance for spatio-temporal malaria transmission dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa.Water Resources Research,60, e2023WR034975. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023WR034975

  • Kihagi GW, Hansen LS, Agure E, Muok EMO, Mank I, Danquah I, Sorgho R. ‘Counselling is not just providing information’: perceptions of caregivers and stakeholders on the design of nutrition and health counselling interventions for families with young children in rural Kenya. BMC Health Serv Res. 2024 May 7;24(1):597. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-024-10872-w

  • Martin-Makowka A, Nyawanda BO, Beloconi A, Bigogo G, Khagayi S, Munga S, Munywoki PK, Danquah I, Utzinger J, Vounatsou P. Variation of malaria dynamics and its relationship to climate in western Kenya during 2008-2019: a wavelet approach. Submitted to e-Life. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.31.24316488

  • Matzke I, Huhn S, Koch M, Maggioni MA, Munga S, Muma JO, Odhiambo CO, Kwaro D, Obor D, Bärnighausen T, Dambach P, Barteit S. Assessment of Heat Exposure and Health Outcomes in Rural Populations of Western Kenya by Using Wearable Devices: Observational Case Study. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth. 2024 Jul 4;12:e54669. https://doi.org/10.2196/54669

  • Nyawanda BO, Khagayi S, Obor D, Odhiambo SB, Beloconi A, Otieno NA, Bigogo G, Kariuki S, Munga S, Vounatsou P. The effects of climatic and non-climatic factors on malaria mortality at different spatial scales in western Kenya, 2008-2019. BMJ Glob Health. 2024 Sep 7;9(9):e014614. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2023-014614

  • Nyawanda BO, Kariuki S, Khagayi S, Bigogo G, Danquah I, Munga S, Vounatsou P. Forecasting malaria dynamics based on causal relations between control interventions, climatic factors, and disease incidence in western Kenya. J Glob Health. 2024 Oct 11;14:04208. https://doi.org/10.7189/jogh.14.04208

  • Nyawanda BO, Khagayi S, Ochomo E, Bigogo G, Kariuki S, Munga S, Vounatsou P. The influence of malaria control interventions and climate variability on changes in the geographical distribution of parasite prevalence in Kenya between 2015 and 2020. Int J Health Geogr. 2024 Oct 27;23(1):22. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12942-024-00381-8

  • Traoré N, Singhal T, Millogo O, Sié A, Utzinger J, Vounatsou P. Relative effects of climate factors and malaria control interventions on changes of parasitaemia risk in Burkina Faso from 2014 to 2017/2018. BMC Infect Dis. 2024 Feb 7;24(1):166. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-024-08981-2

  • Traoré N, Millogo O, Sié A, Vounatsou P. Impact of Climate Variability and Interventions on Malaria Incidence and Forecasting in Burkina Faso. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2024 Nov 8;21(11):1487. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph21111487

  • Yeboah E, Lohmann J, Koulidiati JL, Kuunibe N, Kyei NNA, Hamadou S, Ridde V, Danquah I, Brenner S, De Allegri M. Quality of nutritional status assessment and its relationship with the effect of rainfall on childhood stunting: a cross-sectional study in rural Burkina Faso. Public Health. 2024 Sep;234:91-97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2024.05.020

2023

  • Arumugam P, Chemura A, Aschenbrenner P, Schauberger B, Gornott C. Climate change impacts and adaptation strategies: An assessment on sorghum for Burkina Faso. European Journal of Agronomy. 2023. 142, Article 126655. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eja.2022.126655

  • Barteit S, Sié A, Zabré P, Traoré I, Ouédraogo WA, Boudo V, Munga S, Khagayi S, Obor D, Muok E, Franke J, Schwarz M, Blass K, Su TT, Bärnighausen T, Sankoh O, Sauerborn R. Widening the lens of population-based health research to climate change impacts and adaptation: the climate change and health evaluation and response system (CHEERS). Front Public Health. 2023 May 25;11:1153559. https://doi.org./10.3389/fpubh.2023.1153559

  • Belesova K, Gasparrini A, Wilkinson P, Sié A, Sauerborn R. Child Survival and Annual Crop Yield Reductions in Rural Burkina Faso: Critical Windows of Vulnerability Around Early-Life Development. Am J Epidemiol. 2023 Jul 7;192(7):1116-1127. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwad068

  • Beloconi A, Nyawanda BO, Bigogo G, Khagayi S, Obor D, Danquah I, Kariuki S, Munga S, Vounatsou P. Malaria, climate variability, and interventions: modelling transmission dynamics. Sci Rep. 2023 May 5;13(1):7367. https://doi.org./10.1038/s41598-023-33868-8

  • Elnour Z, Grethe H, Siddig K, Munga S. Malaria control and elimination in Kenya: economy-wide benefits and regional disparities. Malar J. 2023 Apr 7;22(1):117. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-023-04505-6

  • Hansen L, Kihagi GW, Agure E, Muok EMO, Mank I, Danquah I, Sorgho R. Sustainable home gardens in Western Kenya: A qualitative study for co-designing nutrition-sensitive interventions. Journal of Rural Studies, 103, 103132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2023.103132

  • Koch M, Matzke I, Huhn S, Sié A, Boudo V, Compaoré G, Maggioni M, Bunker A, Bärnighausen T, Dambach P, Barteit S. Assessing the Effect of Extreme Weather on Population Health Using Consumer-Grade Wearables in Rural Burkina Faso: Observational Panel Study. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth 2023;11:e46980. https://doi.org/10.2196/46980

  • Müller C, Ouédraogo WA, Schwarz M, Barteit S, Sauerborn R. The effects of climate change-induced flooding on harvest failure in Burkina Faso: case study. Front Public Health. 2023 Aug 8;11:1166913. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1166913

  • Nyawanda BO, Beloconi A, Khagayi S, Bigogo G, Obor D, Otieno NA, Lange S, Franke J, Sauerborn R, Utzinger J, Kariuki S, Munga S, Vounatsou P. The relative effect of climate variability on malaria incidence after scale-up of interventions in western Kenya: A time-series analysis of monthly incidence data from 2008 to 2019. Parasite Epidemiol Control. 2023 Mar 15;21:e00297. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.parepi.2023.e00297

  • Romanovska P, Gleixner S, Gornott C. Climate data uncertainty for agricultural impact assessments in West Africa. Theor Appl Climatol 152, 933–950 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-023-04430-3

  • Schwarz M, Ouédraogo WA, Traoré I, Müller C, Sié A, Barteit S, Mank I, Siegert F, Sauerborn R, Franke J. Satellite-based multi-annual yield models for major food crops at the household field level for nutrition and health research: A case study from the Nouna HDSS, Burkina Faso. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 117 (2023) 103203. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2023.103203

2022

  • Dieng D, Cannon AJ, Laux P, Hald C, Adeyeri O, Rahimi J, Srivastava AK, Lamine Mbaye M, Kunstmann H (2022). Multivariate Bias-Correction of High-Resolution Regional Climate Change Simulations for West Africa: Performance and Climate Change Implications. JGR Atmospheres 127(5), e2021JD034836. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JD034836

  • Hamad M, Zuhal E, Siddig K, Grethe H. A 2019 Social Accounting Matrix for Kenya including malaria epidemiological and agroecological zones. Working Paper No. 103/2022. Berlin: Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Life Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, ZDB-ID 2879066-2. https://www.econstor.eu/handle/10419/286376

  • Hansen L-S, Sorgho R, Mank I, Nayna Schwerdtle P, Agure E, Bärnighausen TW, Danquah I. Home gardening in sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review on practices and nutrition outcomes in rural Burkina Faso and Kenya. Food and Energy Security 25 May 2022. https://doi.org/10.1002/fes3.388

  • Huhn S, Axt M, Gunga HC, Maggioni MA, Munga S, Obor D, Sié A, Boudo V, Bunker A, Sauerborn R, Bärnighausen T, Barteit S. The Impact of Wearable Technologies in Health Research: Scoping Review. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth. 2022 Jan 25;10(1):e34384. https://doi.org/10.2196/34384

  • Huhn S, Matzke I, Koch M, Gunga HC, Maggioni MA, Sié A, Boudo V, Ouedraogo WA, Compaoré G, Bunker A, Sauerborn R, Bärnighausen T, Barteit S. Using wearable devices to generate real-world, individual-level data in rural, low-resource contexts in Burkina Faso, Africa: A case study. Front Public Health. 2022 Sep 30;10:972177. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.972177

  • Huber V, Pena Ortiz C, Gallego Puyol D, Lange S, Sera F (2022). Evidence of rapid adaptation integarted into projections of temperature-related excess mortality. Environ Res Letters. 17, 044075.  https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac5dee

  • Koch M, Matzke I, Huhn S, Gunga HC, Maggioni MA, Munga S, Obor D, Sié A, Boudo V, Bunker A, Dambach P, Bärnighausen T, Barteit S. Wearables for Measuring Health Effects of Climate Change-Induced Weather Extremes: Scoping Review. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth. 2022 Sep 9;10(9):e39532. https://doi.org/10.2196/39532

  • Mank I, Sorgho R, Zerbo F, Kagoné M, Coulibaly B, Oguso J, Mbata M, Khagayi S, Muok EMO, Sié A, Danquah I. ALIMUS-We are feeding! Study protocol of a multi-center, cluster-randomized controlled trial on the effects of a home garden and nutrition counseling intervention to reduce child undernutrition in rural Burkina Faso and Kenya. Trials. 2022 Jun 1;23(1):449. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-022-06423-5
  • Murken L, Gornott C (2022). The importance of different land tenure systems for farmers’ response to climate change: A systematic review. – Climate Risk Management, 35, 100419. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2022.100419

  • Yeboah E , Kuunibe N, Mank I, Parisi D,  Bonnet E, Lohmann J, Hamadou S,  Picbougoum BT, Belesova, K, Sauerborn R, Baernighausen T, Danquah I,  De Allegri M (2022).  Every drop matters: combining population-based and satellite data to investigate the link between lifetime rainfall exposure and chronic undernutrition in children under five years in rural Burkina Faso. Environ. Res. Lett. 17 054027. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac661c

2021

  • Barteit S, Boudo V, Ouedraogo A, Zabré P, Ouremi L, Sié A, Munga S, Obor D, Kwaro D, Huhn S, Bunker A, Sauerborn R, Gunga HC, Maggioni MA*, Bärnighausen T*. Feasibility, acceptability and validation of wearable devices for climate change and health research in the low-resource contexts of Burkina Faso and Kenya: Study protocol. PLoS One. 2021 Sep 30;16(9):e0257170. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257170. *These authors share the senior authorship

  • Bliefernicht, J., Salack, S., Waongo, M., Annor, T., Laux, P., & Kunstmann, H. (2021). Towards a historical precipitation database for West Africa: Overview, quality control and harmonization. International Journal of Climatology, 1– 23. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.7467
  • Gottlieb-Stroh T, Souares A, Bärnighausen T, Sié A, Zabre SP, Danquah I (2021). Seasonal and socio-demographic patterns of self-reporting major disease groups in north-west Burkina Faso: an analysis of the Nouna Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) data. BMC Public Health;21(1):1101. doi:10.1186/s12889-021-11076-1
  • Gunga H-C, Maggioni M (2021). Physiological foundations and global effects of climate change on human health and performance using the example of sub-Saharan Africa. In: Traidl-Hoffmann C, Schulz C, Herrmann M, Simon B. (eds) Planetary Health: Klima, Umwelt und Gesundheit im Anthropozän. Medizinisch Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin. ISBN: 3954666502.
  •  Jägermeyr J, Müller C, Ruane AC, Elliott J, Balkovic J, Castillo O, Faye B, Foster I, Folberth C, Franke JA, Fuchs K, Guarin JR, Heinke J, Hoogenboom G,  Iizumi T, Jain AK, Kelly D, Khabarov N, Lange S, Lin TS, Liu W, Mialyk O, Minoli S, Moyer E,  Okada M, Phillips M, Porter C, Rabin SS, Scheer C, Schneider JM, Schyns JF, Skalsky R, Smerald A, Stella T, Stephens H, Webber H, Zabel F, Rosenzweig C (2021). Climate impacts on global agriculture emerge earlier in new generation of climate and crop models. Nat Food 2, 873–885. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-021-00400-y

  • Kienast C, Maggioni MA, Gunga HC. 26 – Physiology – Book Chapter in: Traidl-Hoffmann C, Schulz C, Herrmann M, Simon B. Planetary Health: Klima, Umwelt und Gesundheit im Anthropozän. MWV- Medizinische Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft. Sept 2021. ISBN: 978-3-95466-650-8 23.

  • Laudien R, Schauberger B, Waid J, Gornott C. (2021). A forecast of staple crop production in Burkina Faso to enable early warnings of shortages in domestic food availability. Sci Rep 12, 1638 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-05561-9
  • Liersch S, Drews M, Pilz T, Salack S, Sietz D, Aich V, Larsen MAD, Gädeke A, Halsnæ K, Thiery W, Huang S, Lobanova A, Koch H, Hattermann FF (2021). One simulation, different conclusions—the baseline period makes the difference!. 2020 Environ. Res. Lett. 15 104014. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aba3d7
  • Mank I, Belesova K, Bliefernicht J, Traoré I, Wilkinson P, Danquah I, Sauerborn R (2021). The Impact of Rainfall Variability on Diets and Undernutrition of Young Children in Rural Burkina Faso. Frontiers in Public Health, 9, 693281. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.693281
  • Millogo O, Doamba JEO, Sié A, Utzinger J, Vounatsou P (2021). Constructing a malaria-related health service readiness index and assessing its association with child malaria mortality: an analysis of the Burkina Faso 2014 SARA data. BMC Public Health. 21(1), 20. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-09994-7
  • Nilsson M, Sie A, Muindi K, Bunker A, Ingole V, Ebi KL (2021). Weather, climate, and climate change research to protect human health in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Glob Health Action. 14(S1), 1984014. https://doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2021.1984014
  • Rabuffetti M, Steinach M, Lichti J, Gunga HC, Balcerek B, Becker PN, Fähling M, Merati G, Maggioni MA (2021). The Association of Fatigue With Decreasing Regularity of Locomotion During an Incremental Test in Trained and Untrained Healthy Adults. Front Bioeng Biotechnol. ;9:724791. https://doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2021.724791.
  • Scheelbeek PFD, Dangour AD, Jarmul S, Turner G, Sietsma AJ, Minx JC, Callaghan M, Ajibade I, Austin SE, Biesbroek R, Bowen KJ, Chen T, Davis K, Ensor T, Ford JD, Galappaththi EK, Joe ET, Musah-Surugu IJ, Alverio GN, Schwerdtle PN, Pokharel P, Salubi EA, Scarpa G, Segnon AC, Siña M, Templeman S, Xu J, Zavaleta-Cortijo C, Berrang-Ford L (2021). The effects on public health of climate change adaptation responses: a systematic review of evidence from low- and middle-income countries. Environ Res Lett.;16(7):073001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac092c.

  • Sorgho R, Quiñonez CAM, Louis VR, Winkler V, Dambach P, Sauerborn R, Horstick O (2020). Addendum: Sorgho, R., et al. Climate Change Policies in 16 West African Countries: A Systematic Review of Adaptation with a Focus on Agriculture, Food Security, and Nutrition. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17, 8897. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021; 18(3):945. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18030945

  • Sorgho R, Jungmann M, Souares A, Danquah I, Sauerborn R. Climate Change, Health Risks, and Vulnerabilities in Burkina Faso: A Qualitative Study on the Perceptions of National Policymakers (2021). Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health. ; 18(9):4972. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18094972
  • Stepanyan D, Grethe H, Zimmermann G, Siddig K, Deppermann A, Feuerbacher A, Luckmann J, Valin H, Nishizawa T, Ermolieva T, Havlik P (2021). Multiple rotations of Gaussian quadratures: An efficient method from uncertainty analyses in large-scale simulation models. Environmental Software Modeling, 136. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2020.104929
  • Talebian S, Carlsen H, Johnson O, Volkholz J, Kwamboka E (2021). Assessing future cross-border climate impacts using shared socioeconomic pathways, Climate Risk Management, Volume 32, 2021, 100311, ISSN 2212-0963, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2021.100311
  • Vinke K, Rottmann S, Gornott C, Zabre P, Nayna Schwerdtle P, Sauerborn R (2021). Is migration an effective adaptation to climate-related agricultural distress in sub-Saharan Africa?. Popul Environ. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11111-021-00393-7
  • Voûte C, Guevara M, Schwerdtle PN (2021). A failure of ambition on climate action will amplify humanitarian needs. BMJ. 375:n3008. doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n3008.

2020

  • Dambach P, Winkler V, Bärnighausen T, Traoré I, Ouédraogo S, Sié A, Sauerborn R, Becker N, Louis V (2020) “Biological larviciding against malaria vector mosquitoes with Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis (Bti) – Long-term observations and assessment of repeatability during an additional intervention year of a large-scale field trial in rural Burkina Faso”. Global Health Action VOL. 13, 1829828. https://doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2020.1829828.
  • Feuerbacher A, McDonald S, Dukpa C, Grethe H (2020). Seasonal rural labor markets and their relevance to policy analyses in developing countries. Food Policy 93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2020.101875
  • Gunga H-C (2020). Human Physiology in Extreme Environments. ISBN: 9780128159422, 0128159421. https://www.elsevier.com/books/human-physiology-in-extreme-environments/gunga/978-0-12-815942-2
  • Karst IG, Mank I, Traoré I, Sorgho R, Stückemann K-J, Simboro S, Sié A, Franke J,  Sauerborn R (2020). Estimating Yields of Household Fields in Rural Subsistence Farming Systems to Study Food Security in Burkina Faso. Remote Sens. 12(11), 1717. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12111717 (shared first and last authorship)
  • Mank I, Vandormael A, Traoré I, Ouédraogo WA, Sauerborn R, Danquah I (2020). Dietary habits associated with growth development of children aged < 5 years in the Nouna Health and Demographic Surveillance System, Burkina Faso. Nutr J 19, 81 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12937-020-00591-3
  • Nayna Schwerdtle P, Stockemer J, Bowen K, Sauerborn R, McMichael C and Danquah I (2020). A Meta-Syntesis of Policy Recommendations Regarding Human Mobility in the Context of Climate Change. Int J Environ Res Public Health; 17(24). https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17249342
  • Nayna Schwerdtle P, Mcmichael C, Mank I, Sauerborn R, Danquah I, Bowen K (2020). Health and migration in the context of a changing climate: A systematic literature assessment. Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab9ece
  • Sorgho R, Mank I, Kagoné M, Souares A, Danquah I, Sauerborn R (2020). “We Will Always Ask Ourselves the Question of How to Feed the Family”:
    Subsistence Farmers’ Perceptions on Adaptation to Climate Change in Burkina Faso. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 17(19), 7200. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17197200
  • Sorgho R; Quiñonez CAM; Louis VR; Winkler V ; Dambach P; Sauerborn R; Horstick O (2020).Climate Change Policies in 16 West African Countries: A Systematic Review of Adaptation with a Focus on Agriculture, Food Security, and Nutrition. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, 17, 8897.https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17238897
  • Yeboah E, Bunker A, Dambach P, Mank I, Sorgho R, de Allegri M, Vounatsou P,  Sié A, Munga S, Sauerborn R, Bärnighausen T, Danquah I. Transformative Adaptations for Health Impacts of Climate Change in Burkina Faso and Kenya in The African Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation, editor: Walter Leal, Springer, 2020. https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-3-030-42091-8_119-1

2019

  • Belesova K, Gornott C, Milner J, Sié A, Sauerborn R, Wilkinson P (2019). Mortality impact of low annual crop yields in a subsistence farming population of Burkina Faso under the current and a 1.5°C warmer climate in 2100. Sci Total Environ. 691,538-548. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.07.027