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, 2026, 'Malaria in Papua New Guinean infants: a prespecified analysis of a randomised postpartum antimalarial treatment trial.', Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trag042
, 2026, 'Women's perspectives on health service integration for multi-morbidity in pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum in a high-burden setting', Med, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.medj.2026.101037
, 2026, 'Agency in young people’s unsafe abortion trajectories in Papua New Guinea', Culture Health and Sexuality, 28, pp. 289 - 303, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2025.2456623
, 2026, 'A randomized prospective study of neonatal hepatitis B vaccine immunogenicity in The Gambia and Papua New Guinea.', J Allergy Clin Immunol Glob, 5, pp. 100653, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jacig.2026.100653
, 2026, 'Association between village coverage of 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine and vaccine-type pneumococcal carriage among children aged 0–59 months with pneumonia in Papua New Guinea: an observational study', Vaccine: X, 30, pp. 100811 - 100811, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvacx.2026.100811
, 2026, 'Caregiver and healthcare professional perspectives on drivers of routine immunisation uptake in East New Britain, Papua New Guinea: a qualitative study.', BMJ Public Health, 4, pp. e003553, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjph-2025-003553
, 2026, 'High rates of suppurative otitis media among children attending urban clinics in Goroka, Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea: a cross-sectional study.', Lancet Reg Health West Pac, 67, pp. 101807, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lanwpc.2026.101807
, 2026, 'Ontogeny of plasma cytokine and chemokine concentrations across the first four months of human life in a Papua new Guinean cohort.', Cytokine, 197, pp. 157076, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cyto.2025.157076
, 2025, 'Evaluating the effectiveness of the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine and clinical and demographic characteristics on pneumococcal carriage density in young children in Papua New Guinea, Lao PDR, and Mongolia.', BMC Infect Dis, 26, pp. 97, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-025-12328-w
, 2025, 'Genomic evidence supports the "long chronology" for the peopling of Sahul.', Sci Adv, 11, pp. eady9493, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ady9493
, 2025, 'Common and divergent dynamic changes of the human plasma metabolome across the first week of life in the Gambia and Papua New Guinea 3859', The Journal of Immunology, 214, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jimmun/vkaf283.1611
, 2025, 'Leveraging known Pacific colonisation times to test models for the ancestry of Southeast Asians.', Sci Rep, 15, pp. 37044, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-20856-3
, 2025, 'Feasibility, Safety, and Impact of the Probiotics Lactiplantibacillus plantarum and Bifidobacterium longum subspecies infantis in Papua New Guinean Infants: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.', JMIR Res Protoc, 14, pp. e73926, http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/73926
, 2025, 'Health system effectiveness of symptomatic malaria case management in Papua New Guinea.', BMJ Glob Health, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2024-016825
, 2025, 'Socio-structural influences on unintended pregnancy among girls aged 15-17 years in Papua New Guinea', BMJ Global Health, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2024-017679
, 2025, 'Factors Associated with Timely First-Dose Pentavalent and Measles-Rubella Vaccination: A Cross-Sectional Study in East New Britain, Papua New Guinea.', Vaccines (Basel), 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines13020156
, 2025, 'A combined school survey and reactive case detection reveals minimal local transmission of malaria in the Highlands Region of Papua New Guinea.', Malar J, 24, pp. 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-024-05197-2
, 2025, 'Tuberculosis treatment and undernutrition on Daru Island, Papua New Guinea: A qualitative exploration of a local foodscape', Social Science and Medicine, 365, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117631
, 2025, 'Baseline assessment of front-line health system capacity in vector-borne disease surveillance and response in Papua New Guinea.', PLOS Glob Public Health, 5, pp. e0004108, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0004108
, 2025, 'Human and entomological determinants of malaria transmission in the Lihir Islands of Papua New Guinea: A cross-sectional study.', PLoS Negl Trop Dis, 19, pp. e0012277, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0012277
, 2025, 'Impact of mass drug administration with ivermectin, diethylcarbamazine, and albendazole for lymphatic filariasis on hookworm and Strongyloides stercoralis infections in Papua New Guinea.', PLoS Negl Trop Dis, 19, pp. e0012851, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0012851
, 2025, 'Insights into Infant Strongyloidiasis, Papua New Guinea.', Emerg Infect Dis, 31, pp. 1793 - 1801, http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid3109.241923
, 2024, 'Prevalence of enteric pathogens in shellfish in Madang Province of Papua New Guinea', Papua New Guinea Medical Journal, 64, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/mj21003
, 2024, 'Young men’s everyday life experiences with contraception and unintended pregnancy in Papua New Guinea', Plos Global Public Health, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0003925
, 2024, 'Exploring the association between multidimensional poverty and antenatal care utilization in two provinces of Papua New Guinea: a cross-sectional study', International Journal for Equity in Health, 23, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12939-024-02241-0
, 2024, 'An archaic HLA class I receptor allele diversifies natural killer cell-driven immunity in First Nations peoples of Oceania.', Cell, 187, pp. 7008 - 7024.e19, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2024.10.005
, 2024, 'What does it cost to deliver antenatal care in Papua New Guinea? Results from a health system costing and budget impact analysis using cross-sectional data', BMJ Open, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-080574
, 2024, 'The role and value of counsellors in the treatment journeys of people with tuberculosis and their families: Qualitative insights from the South Fly District of Papua New Guinea', Plos Global Public Health, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0002572
, 2024, 'Mycoplasma genitalium in pregnancy, including specific co-infections, is associated with lower birthweight: A prospective cohort study', Med, 5, pp. 1123 - 1136.e3, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.medj.2024.05.007
, 2024, 'Genetic Signatures of Positive Selection in Human Populations Adapted to High Altitude in Papua New Guinea.', Genome Biol Evol, 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evae161
, 2024, 'The prioritisation of curable sexually transmitted infections among pregnant women in Zambia and Papua New Guinea: Qualitative insights', Plos Global Public Health, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0003441
, 2024, 'Understanding how neglected tropical diseases programs in five asia-pacific countries adjusted to the covid-19 pandemic: A qualitative study', Plos Neglected Tropical Diseases, 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0012221
, 2024, 'Population structure and migration in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, a region impacted by the kuru epidemic.', Am J Hum Genet, 111, pp. 668 - 679, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2024.02.011
, 2024, 'Point-of-care testing and treatment of sexually transmitted and genital infections to improve birth outcomes in high-burden, low-resource settings (WANTAIM): a pragmatic cluster randomised crossover trial in Papua New Guinea', Lancet Global Health, 12, pp. e641 - e651, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(24)00004-4
, 2024, 'Acceptability of self-collected vaginal swabs and point-of-care testing for sexually transmitted and genital infections among pregnant women in Papua New Guinea', Global Public Health, 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2024.2381685
, 2024, 'Artemisinin combination therapy at delivery to prevent postpartum malaria: A randomised open-label controlled trial.', Int J Infect Dis, 149, pp. 107258, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2024.107258
, 2024, 'Breastfeeding and Neonatal Age Influence Neutrophil-Driven Ontogeny of Blood Cell Populations in the First Week of Human Life.', J Immunol Res, 2024, pp. 1117796, http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2024/1117796
, 2024, 'Clinical predictors of hypoxic pneumonia in children from the Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea: secondary analysis of two prospective observational studies.', Lancet Reg Health West Pac, 45, pp. 101052, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lanwpc.2024.101052
, 2024, 'Continuous quality improvement in a community-wide TB screening and prevention programme in Papua New Guinea.', Public Health Action, 14, pp. 97 - 104, http://dx.doi.org/10.5588/pha.24.0013
, 2024, 'Novel coenzyme Q6 genetic variant increases susceptibility to pneumococcal disease.', Nat Immunol, 25, pp. 2247 - 2258, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41590-024-01998-4
, 2024, 'Plasma adenosine deaminase-1 and -2 activities are lower at birth in Papua New Guinea than in The Gambia but converge over the first weeks of life.', Front Immunol, 15, pp. 1425349, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2024.1425349
, 2024, 'Poliovirus serological assay after the cVDPV1 outbreak in Papua New Guinea: a cross-sectional study from 2020 to 2021.', Lancet Reg Health West Pac, 44, pp. 100986, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lanwpc.2023.100986
, 2023, 'Low knowledge of newborn danger signs among pregnant women in Papua New Guinea and implications for health seeking behaviour in early infancy – findings from a longitudinal study', BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 23, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12884-022-05322-6
, 2023, 'A cross-sectional study to ascertain malaria prevalence among asymptomatic travellers arriving on the Lihir Group of Islands, Papua New Guinea: implications for elimination efforts.', Malar J, 22, pp. 364, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-023-04804-y
, 2023, 'Health service needs and perspectives of a rainforest conserving community in Papua New Guinea's Ramu lowlands: a combined clinical and rapid anthropological assessment with parallel treatment of urgent cases.', BMJ Open, 13, pp. e075946, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-075946
, 2023, 'Pneumococcal carriage, serotype distribution, and antimicrobial susceptibility in Papua New Guinean children vaccinated with PCV10 or PCV13 in a head-to-head trial.', Vaccine, 41, pp. 5392 - 5399, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2023.07.026
, 2023, 'Quantifying differences in iron deficiency-attributable anemia during pregnancy and postpartum', Cell Reports Medicine, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrm.2023.101097
, 2023, 'Leading causes of deaths in the mortality transition in Papua New Guinea: evidence from the Comprehensive Health and Epidemiological Surveillance System.', Int J Epidemiol, 52, pp. 867 - 886, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyac232
, 2023, 'Validating the InterVA-5 cause of death analytical tool: using mortality data from the Comprehensive Health and Epidemiological Surveillance System in Papua New Guinea.', BMJ Open, 13, pp. e066560, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-066560
, 2023, 'Beyond patient delay, navigating structural health system barriers to timely care and treatment in a high burden TB setting in Papua New Guinea', Global Public Health, 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2023.2184482