Publications

Project-related publications

  • 2022
  • Aschenbrenner P, Gleixner S, Gornott C (2022). Climate data uncertainty for agricultural impact assessments in West Africa. [under review]
  • Belesova K et al. (2022). Child survival and annual crop yield reductions in rural Burkina Faso: Critical windows of vulnerability around early life development. Am J Epidemiol.  [accepted]
  • 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
  • Huhn S, Axt M, Gunga HC, Maggioni MA, Munga S, Obor D, Sié A, Boudo V, Bunker A, Sauerborn R, Bärnighausen T, Barteit S (2022). The Impact of Wearable Technologies in Health Research: Scoping Review. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth 2022;10(1):e34384. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2196/34384
  • 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
  • Mank I, Sorgho R, Zerbo F, Kagoné M, Coulibaly B, Oguso J, Mbata M, Khagayi S, Muok EMO, Sié A, Danquah I (2022). ALIMUS – We are feeding! Study protocol of a multi-centre, cluster-randomized controlled trial on the effects of a home garden and nutrition counselling intervention to reduce child undernutrition in rural Burkina Faso and Kenya. Trials [accepted 28 April 2022]
  • 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 H-C, Maggioni MA, Bärnighausen T (2021). 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; 16(9):e0257170. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257170
  • 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.
  • Hansen L-S; Sorgho R; Mank I; Schwerdtle P N; Agure E, Bärnighausen T, 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 2021 (accepted)
  • Jaegermeyr J, Müller C, Ruane A et al (2021). Climate change signal in global agriculture emerges earlier in new generation of climate and crop models, 12 August 2021, PREPRINT (Version 1) available at Research Square. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-101657/v1
  •  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
  • 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