Marcel Tanner

Datos Biográficos

ID191274
NOMBREMarcel Tanner
NOMBRESMarcel
APELLIDOTanner
FIRMATANNER M
AFILIACIONESSwiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
ORCID0000-0002-1205-6971
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS60
TOTAL DE CITAS94
TOTAL COMO AUTOR60
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1990
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H5

  • Health technology assessment system in Tanzania

    Open AccessMwifadhi Mrisho, Fakih S Bakar et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    Health Technology Assessment (HTA) is a cost-effective solution that decreases inefficiencies and improper investments in health systems. Tanzania has made remarkable efforts in the field of HTA with the establishment of the national HTA committee in 2017; yet, literature on its institutionalization is limited. Using a systems thinking and analytical approach, this study examined Tanzania’s HTA system, focusing on conceptualization, management, i…

  • The effectiveness of community health worker training, equipping, and deployment in reducing Covid-19 infections and deaths in rural Western Kenya

    Open AccessNeema Kaseje, Kennedy Oruenjo et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    COVID-19 and other pandemics remain significant threats to population health, particularly in rural settings where health systems are disproportionately weak. There is a lack of evidence on whether trained, equipped, and deployed community health workers (CHWs) can lead to significant reductions in COVID-19 infections and deaths. Our objective was to measure the effectiveness of deploying trained and equipped CHWs in reducing COVID-19 infections …

  • Kindness leadership needed now more than ever, in global health and beyond

    Open AccessJanet Michel, Odile Pham-Tan et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2024

    If the pandemic taught us anything, it is how contested and important leadership is. Researchers have challenged the sacredness of leadership and offered alternatives to bridge the separation between leaders and followers. According to distributed leadership, leadership actors can emerge from anywhere in an organisation [1]. A leader is defined as a person who has [...]

  • Rethinking human resources and capacity building needs for malaria control and elimination in Africa

    Open AccessHalima Mwenesi, Charles Mbogo et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Despite considerable success in controlling malaria worldwide, progress toward achieving malaria elimination has largely stalled. In particular, strategies to overcome roadblocks in malaria control and elimination in Africa are critical to achieving worldwide malaria elimination goals—this continent carries 94% of the global malaria case burden. To identify key areas for targeted efforts, we combined a comprehensive review of current literature w…

  • What Africa can do to accelerate and sustain progress against malaria

    Open AccessFredros O Okumu, Margaret Gyapong et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    After a longstanding global presence, malaria is now largely non-existent or suppressed in most parts of the world. Today, cases and deaths are primarily concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa. According to many experts, this persistence on the African continent reflects factors such as resistance to insecticides and drugs as well as insufficient access to essential commodities such as insecticide-treated nets and effective drugs. Crucially, however,…

  • Leveraging latent assets to strengthen the Covid-19 response and vaccine roll-out in Africa

    Open AccessNeema Kaseje, Kennedy Oruenjo et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    Exercise training is an essential component of pulmonary rehabilitation and is associated with improved function and other important outcomes in persons with chronic lung disease. A subset of pulmonary rehabilitation patients experience hypoxemia that may occur or worsen with exercise. For the purpose of this review, severe exercise-induced hypoxemia is defined as an S pO 2 of < 89% during exercise, despite use of supplemental oxygen delivered at…

  • What does a pandemic proof health system look like

    Open AccessJanet Michel, Thomas C Sauter et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2021

    Switzerland is currently in a lockdown and other lockdowns are looming world-wide. Many countries in the West are now experiencing a third COVID-19 wave. While some scientists are aiming for Zero Covid, calls to learn to live with the virus are becoming prominent as anti-lockdown protests spread across Europe. A health system is defined as all organizations, institutions and resources that produce actions whose primary purpose is to improve healt…

  • The determinants of information seeking behaviour and paying attention to earthquake-related information

    Open AccessSidika Tekeli-Yesil, Constanze Pfeiffer et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Disaster…2020

    This study explores the process and determinants of finding information about earthquake-preparedness andof paying attention to earthquake-related information. Data were collected in Istanbul-Turkey, where an earthquake with a magnitude greater than 7 on the Richter scale is expected in the near future, using qualitative methods. Participants were mainly exposed to earthquake-related information following an earthquake. They seldom sought informa…

  • Ethical principles for promoting health research data sharing with sub‐Saharan Africa

    Open AccessEvelyn Anane‐Sarpong, Tenzin Wangmo et al.ARTICLEDeveloping World Bioethics2020

    A powerful feature of global health research is data‐sharing with regions which bear the heaviest burden of disease. It offers novel opportunities for aggregating data to address critical global health challenges in ways higher than relying on individual studies. Yet there exist important stratifiers of the capacity to share data, particularly across the Global North‐South divide. Systemic challenges that characterize sub‐Saharan Africa and disad…

  • Communities and Clinical Trials

    Open AccessMachteld van den Berg, Bernhards Ogutu et al.ARTICLEJournal of Empirical Research on…2020Citada por: 1Referencias: 6

    When clinical trials enter human communities, two complex systems merge-creating challenges for the clinical trial team and the local human community. This is of particular relevance for clinical trials in low-resource settings where the resource scarcity can intensify existing inequities. Here we present a case study of a phase III malaria vaccine clinical trial. Through qualitative interviews with researchers and caregivers of pediatric partici…

  • Care-Seeking Dynamics among Patients with Diabetes Mellitus and Hypertension in Selected Rural Settings in Kenya

    Open AccessMiriam Karinja, Goonaseelan Pillai et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2019

    Diabetes mellitus and hypertension are two common non-communicable diseases (NCDs) that often coexist in patients. However, health-seeking behaviour in patients with diabetes mellitus or hypertension has not been extensively studied especially in low- and middle-income countries. This study aimed to examine care-seeking dynamics among participants diagnosed with diabetes and/or hypertension across nine counties in rural Kenya. We conducted a cros…

  • Good collaborative practice

    Open AccessClaire Leonie Ward, David Shaw et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2018

    In line with the policy objectives of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, this commentary seeks to examine the extent to which provisions of international health research guidance promote capacity building and equitable partnerships in global health research. Our evaluation finds that governance of collaborative research partnerships, and in particular capacity building, in resource-constrained settings is limited but has improved w…

  • Defining Health Research for Development

    Open AccessClaire Leonie Ward, David Shaw et al.ARTICLEDeveloping World Bioethics2018

    OBJECTIVES: The study uses a qualitative empirical method to define Health Research for Development. This project explores the perspectives of stakeholders in an international health research partnership operating in Ghana and Tanzania. METHODS: We conducted 52 key informant interviews with major stakeholders in an international multicenter partnership between GlaxoSmithKline (GSK, Vaccine Developer) and the global health nonprofit organisation P…

  • “You cannot collect data using your own resources and put It on open access”

    Open AccessEvelyn Anane‐Sarpong, Tenzin Wangmo et al.ARTICLEDeveloping World Bioethics2018

    Data‐sharing is a desired default in the field of public health and a source of much ethical deliberation. Sharing data potentially contributes the largest, most efficient source of scientific data, but is fraught with contextual challenges which make stakeholders, particularly those in under‐resourced contexts hesitant or slow to share. Relatively little empirical research has engaged stakeholders in discussing the issue. This study sought to ex…

  • Application of Ethical Principles to Research using Public Health Data in The Global South

    Open AccessEvelyn Anane‐Sarpong, Tenzin Wangmo et al.ARTICLEDeveloping World Bioethics2018

    Existing ethics guidelines, influential literature and policies on ethical research generally focus on real‐time data collection from humans. They enforce individual rights and liberties, thereby lowering need for aggregate protections. Although dependable, emerging public health research paradigms like research using public health data ( RUPD ) raise new challenges to their application. Unlike traditional research, RUPD is population‐based, alig…

  • A Cross-Sectional Examination of Physical Activity Levels and Their Socio-Demographic Determinants in Southern Tanzania

    Open AccessBeverly Msambichaka, Ramadhani Abdul et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2018

    Physical activity is essential for healthy aging. Evidence suggests that vigorous-intensity physical activity (VPA) may be more beneficial than moderate-intensity physical activity (MPA). We examined physical activity levels (MPA, VPA and total physical activity), and their socio-demographic determinants in 2311 participants (15−93 years; 68% women) of the MZIMA Open Community Cohort, who had complete relevant data. Physical activity levels were …

  • The Ethics of End-of-Trial Obligations in a Pediatric Malaria Vaccine Trial

    Open AccessClaire Leonie Ward, David Shaw et al.ARTICLEJournal of Empirical Research on…2018Citada por: 1

    This study explores stakeholder experiences and perspectives on end-of-trial obligations at the close of a phase II/III Pediatric Malaria Vaccine Trial (PMVT) [GSK/PATH-MVI RTS, S) (NCT00866619]. We conducted 52 key informant interviews with major stakeholders of an international multicentre PMVT in Ghana and Tanzania. The responses fell into four main themes: (a) Communicating End-of-Trial, (b) Maintaining Health Care Services, (c) Dissemination…

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks, 1990–2016

    Open AccessEmmanuela Gakidou, Ashkan Afshin et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2017

    BACKGROUND: The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2016 (GBD 2016) provides a comprehensive assessment of risk factor exposure and attributable burden of disease. By providing estimates over a long time series, this study can monitor risk exposure trends critical to health surveillance and inform policy debates on the importance of addressing risks in context. METHODS: We used the comparative risk assessment framework dev…

  • The Global Fund’s paradigm of oversight, monitoring, and results in Mozambique

    Open AccessAshley Warren, Roberto Cordon et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2017

    BACKGROUND: The Global Fund is one of the largest actors in global health. In 2015 the Global Fund was credited with disbursing close to 10 % of all development assistance for health. In 2011 it began a reform process in response to internal reviews following allegations of recipients' misuse of funds. Reforms have focused on grant application processes thus far while the core structures and paradigm have remained intact. We report results of dis…

  • The Ethics of Health Care Delivery in a Pediatric Malaria Vaccine Trial

    Open AccessClaire Leonie Ward, David Shaw et al.ARTICLEJournal of Empirical Research on…2017Referencias: 1

    This study explores ethical issues raised in providing medical care to participants and communities of low-resource settings involved in a Phase II/III pediatric malaria vaccine trial (PMVT). We conducted 52 key informant interviews with major stakeholders of an international multi-center PMVT (GSK/PATH-MVI RTS,S) (NCT00866619) in Ghana and Tanzania. Based on their stakeholder experiences, the responses fell into three main themes: (a) undue indu…

  • ‘It is not expected for married couples’

    Open AccessSally Mtenga, Sally Mmanyi Mtenga et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2016

    BACKGROUND: Behavioral change approaches for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention in Tanzania encourage married partners to observe safe sex practices (condom use, avoidance of, or safe sex with multiple partners). To implement this advice, partners need to communicate with each other about safer sex, which is often challenging. Although social-structural factors are crucial in understanding sexual behavior, only a few studies focus on u…

  • A Harmonic Way to Transdisciplinarity

    Marcel TannerARTICLEGAIA - Ecological Perspectives…2016

    Aiming at generating innovative solutions to mitigate global health challenges through working along the continuum from innovation to application harmonically leads to a transdisciplinary understanding of, and practice for, health and social development. The One Health approach is presented as a case study where a transdisciplinary concept and approach is validated in different social, cultural and ecological settings, and is subsequently put int…

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990–2013

    Open AccessMohammad H Forouzanfar, Lily Alexander et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2015

  • Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life years (Dalys) for 306 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (Hale) for 188 countries, 1990–2013

    Open AccessChristopher J L Murray, Ryan M Barber et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2015

  • Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990–2013

    Open AccessTheo Vos, Ryan M Barber et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2015