Prof. Dr. med. et sc. nat. (MD PhD) Sonja Merten

Spitale, G., Germani, F., Fritschi, F., Merten, S., & Nikola, B.-A. (2025). Analyzing Freedom: Understanding Swiss COVID-19 Narratives Through NLP analysis (Preprint) [Posted-content]. JMIR Publications Inc. https://doi.org/10.2196/preprints.72455

Bapolisi, Wyvine, Makelele, Jean, Kono-Tange, Lenneke, Bisimwa, Ghislain, & Merten, Sonja. (2025). Exploring the impact of combining women’s empowerment through village savings and loans associations with men’s sensitization on gender equity on socio-economic, maternal, and children’s health outcomes. Community Development Journal, 60(1), 181–199. https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsad033

Condori-Catachura, Sandra, Ahannach, Sarah, Ticlla, Monica, Kenfack, Josiane, Livo, Esemu, Anukam, Kingsley C., Pinedo-Cancino, Viviana, Collado, Maria Carmen, Dominguez-Bello, Maria Gloria, Miller, Corrie, Vinderola, Gabriel, Merten, Sonja, Donders, Gilbert G.G., Gehrmann, Thies, & Lebeer, Sarah. (2025). Diversity in women and their vaginal microbiota. Trends in Microbiology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tim.2024.12.012

Owolodun, Babatunde, Gmür, Desiree, Felber, Selina, Ollier, Camille, Haller, Tobias, & Merten, Sonja. (2025). From diversity to uniformity: comparing nutritional transition of food consumption in four regions in Senegal. Food, Culture and Society, 28(3), 503–527. https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2024.2310380

Spitale, G., Germani, F., Fritschi, F., Merten, S., & Biller-Andorno, N. (2024). Analyzing Freedom: Understanding Swiss COVID-19 Narratives Through NLP analysis [Posted-content]. Center for Open Science. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/gehv7

Bapolisi, Wyvine Ansima, Makelele, Jean, Ferrari, Giovanfrancesco, Kono-Tange, Lenneke, Bisimwa, Ghislain, Schindler, Christian, & Merten, Sonja. (2024). Engaging men in women’s empowerment: impact of a complex gender transformative intervention on household socio-economic and health outcomes in the eastern democratic republic of the Congo using a longitudinal survey. BMC Public Health, 24(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-17717-5

Nyabundi, Agnetta Adiedo, Nyambedha, Erick Otieno, Merten, Sonja, & Ombere, Stephen Okumu. (2024). Contextual challenges experienced by CHVs in the informal use of mobile phones within integrated community case management (ICCM) in Nyaguda sub-location, Western Kenya. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-04124-9

Ikuteyijo, Olutoyin Opeyemi, Hilber, Adriane Martin, Fatusi, Adesegun Olayiwola, Akinyemi, Akanni Ibukun, & Merten, Sonja. (2024). Stakeholders’ engagement with law to address gender-based violence in Southwest Nigeria: a qualitative study using normalisation process theory to explore implementation challenges [Journal-article]. BMJ Public Health, 2(2), e001326. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjph-2024-001326

Mhalu, Grace, Dumbaugh, Mari, Kipo, Daniel, Somba, Magreat, Mnzava, Dorcas, Bohlius, Julia, Mtenga, Sally, & Merten, Sonja. (2024). Towards the elimination of cervical cancer in Tanzania, transdisciplinary science for smarter implementation strategies (TRACCTION): a mixed methods study protocol [Posted-content]. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.07.11.24310271

Zepro, Nejimu Biza, Medhanyie, Araya Abrha, Probst-Hensch, Nicole, Probst-Hensch, Nicole, Chernet, Afona, Tschopp, Rea, Abongomera, Charles, Paris, Daniel H., & Merten, Sonja. (2024). Navigating challenges: a socioecological analysis of sexual and reproductive health barriers among Eritrean refugee women in Ethiopia, using a key informant approach. BMJ Open, 14(4). https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-080654

Ikuteyijo, O. O., Akinyemi, A. I., Ikuteyijo, L. O., Owolodun, B. S., & Merten, S. (2024). Sexual Negotiation and Power Imbalance Influencing Intimate Partner Violence Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Nigerian Urban Slums [Posted-content]. Research Square Platform LLC. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-3873502/v1

Ekou, Franck Kokora, Eze, Ikenna C, Aka, Joseph, Kwiatkowski, Marek, Merten, Sonja, Acka, Felix Kouamé, Fink, Günther, Utzinger, Jürg, Probst-Hensch, Nicole, & Probst-Hensch, Nicole. (2024). Randomised controlled trial on the effect of social support on disease control, mental health and health-related quality of life in people with diabetes from Côte d’Ivoire: The SoDDiCo study protocol. BMJ Open, 14(1). https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-069934

Bapolisi, Wyvine Ansima, Dumbaugh, Mari, Felber, Selina, Bisimwa, Ghislain, & Merten, Sonja. (2024). Family planning in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo: personal beliefs, intimate partner negotiations and social pressure. Culture, Health and Sexuality, 26(11), 1365–1379. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2024.2321911

Erhardt, Rahel M., Jafflin, Kristen, Zepro, Nejimu, Abongomera, Charles, Chernet, Afona, Paris, Daniel Henry, & Merten, Sonja. (2024). Obstetric Outcomes of Eritrean Immigrants in Switzerland: A Comparative Study. International Journal of Public Health, 69. https://doi.org/10.3389/ijph.2024.1606745

Ikuteyijo, Olutoyin Opeyemi, Zepro, Nejimu, Akinyemi, Akanni Ibukun, Probst-Hensch, Nicole, & Merten, Sonja. (2024). Socio-Economic Factors Influencing Intimate Partner Violence Among Adolescents and Young Women in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Scoping Review. Public Health Reviews, 45. https://doi.org/10.3389/phrs.2024.1607041

Kaiser-Grolimund, Andrea, Schwind, Bettina, Kämpfen, Laura, Morgan, Anna Lea, Spitale, Giovanni, Biller-Andorno, Nikola, & Merten, Sonja. (2024). Soliciting Diaries for “Real-Time” Insights Into the COVID-19 Pandemic: Methodological Reflections on Using Digital Technologies to Engage the Public [Journal-article]. International Journal of Public Health, 69. https://doi.org/10.3389/ijph.2024.1606912

Ombere, Stephen Okumu, & Merten, Sonja. (2024). Status. In Stasik, Michael (Ed.), drawings (Vol. 1, pp. 160–163). basel anthropology papers.

Schwind, Bettina, Merten, Sonja, Hollenstein, Eva, Wyss, Kaspar, & Gerold, Jana. (2024). Formen interprofessioneller Zusammenarbeit in der ambulanten Gesundheitsversorgung: eine fallübergreifende Analyse in der deutschsprachigen Schweiz. Praxis, 113, 28–33.

Spitale, Giovanni, Biller-Andorno, Nikola, Germani, Federico, & Merten, Sonja. (2024). Digital Democracy and Emergency Preparedness: Engaging the Public in Public Health. International Journal of Public Health, 69. https://doi.org/10.3389/ijph.2024.1608004

Merten, S, & Haller, T. (2023). Merten, S. and Haller, T., 2023. Interwoven Landscapes: Gender and Land in the Kafue Flats, Zambia. Land, 12(9), 1657. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.3390/land12091657

Ferrari, Giovanfrancesco, Lwamushi, Samuel Makali, Balaluka, Ghislain Bisimwa, Lafta, Riyadh K., Schindler, Christian, Bugugu, Daniella, Lurhangire, Emmanuel, Tediosi, Fabrizio, Mendoza, Jessica Ramirez, & Merten, Sonja. (2023). Understanding context of violence against healthcare through citizen science and evaluating the effectiveness of a co-designed code of conduct and of a tailored de-escalation of violence training in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and Iraq: a study protocol for a stepped wedge randomized controlled trial. Trials, 24(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-023-07839-3

Lee, Tristan Taylor, Dalvie, Mohamed Aqiel, Röösli, Martin, Merten, Sonja, Kwiatkowski, Marek, Mahomed, Hassan, Sweijd, Neville, & Cissé, Guéladio. (2023). Understanding diarrhoeal diseases in response to climate variability and drought in Cape Town, South Africa: a mixed methods approach. Infectious Diseases of Poverty, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40249-023-01127-7

Makali, Samuel Lwamushi, Lembebu, Jean Corneille, Boroto, Raïssa, Zalinga, Christian Chiribagula, Bugugu, Daniella, Lurhangire, Emmanuel, Rosine, Bigirinama, Chimanuka, Christine, Mwene-Batu, Pacifique, Molima, Christian, Mendoza, Jessica Ramirez, Ferrari, Giovanfrancesco, Merten, Sonja, & Bisimwa, Ghislain. (2023). Violence against health care workers in a crisis context: a mixed cross-sectional study in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Conflict and Health, 17(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13031-023-00541-w

Schwind B., Zemp E., Jafflin K., Spath A., Barth M., Maigetter K., Merten S., & Kurth E. (2023). “But at home, with the midwife, you are a person”: experiences and impact of a new early postpartum home-based midwifery care model in the view of women in vulnerable family situations. BMC Health Services Research, 23(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-023-09352-4

Shrikhande, Shreya, Merten, Sonja, Cambaco, Olga, Lee, Tristan T, Lakshmanasamy, Ravivarman, Röösli, Martin, Dalvie, Mohammad Aqiel, Utzinger, Jürg, & Cissé, Guéladio. (2023). Barriers to climate change and health research in India: a qualitative study. BMJ Open, 13(10). https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-073381

Bytyçi-Katanolli, Ariana, Obas, Katrina Ann, Ramadani, Qamile, Fota, Nicu, Jerliu, Naim, Merten, Sonja, Gerold, Jana, Zahorka, Manfred, Kwiatkowski, Marek, & Probst-Hensch, Nicole. (2023). Effectiveness of behavioural change interventions on physical activity, diet and body mass index of public primary healthcare users in Kosovo: the KOSCO cohort. BMJ Open, 13(10). https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-071100

Ikuteyijo, Olutoyin Opeyemi, Kaiser-Grolimund, Andrea, Fetters, Michael D., Akinyemi, Akanni Ibukun, & Merten, Sonja. (2023). Health Providers’ Response to Female Adolescent Survivors of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence and Demand Side Barriers in the Utilization of Support Services in Urban Low-Income Communities of Nigeria. Healthcare (Switzerland), 11(19). https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11192627

Ikuteyijo, Olutoyin Opeyemi, Kaiser-Grolimund, Andrea, Fetters, Michael D., Akinyemi, Akanni Ibukun, & Merten, Sonja. (2023). Health Providers’ Response to Female Adolescent Survivors of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence and Demand Side Barriers in the Utilization of Support Services in Urban Low-Income Communities of Nigeria [Journal-article]. Healthcare (Switzerland), 11(19), 2627. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11192627

Merten, Sonja, & Haller, Tobias. (2023). Interwoven Landscapes: Gender and Land in the Kafue Flats, Zambia. Land, 12(9). https://doi.org/10.3390/land12091657

Wuthrich-Grossenbacher U., Mutsinze A., Wolf U., Maponga C.C., Midzi N., Mutsaka-Makuvaza M.J., & Merten S. (2023). Spiritual and religious aspects influence mental health and viral load: A quantitative study among young people living with HIV in Zimbabwe. BMJ Global Health, 8(8). https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2023-012671

Ikuteyijo, O. O., Kaiser-Grolimund, A., Fetters, M. D., Akinyemi, A. I., & Merten, S. (2023, July 25). Health Providers’ Response to Female Adolescents’ Survivors of Sexual Violence, and Demand Side Barriers in the Utilization of Support Services in Urban Slums of Nigeria [Posted-content]. MDPI AG. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202307.1627.v1

Owolodun B., & Merten S. (2023). Food Security from the Forest: The Case of the Commodification of Baobab Fruit (Adansonia digitata L.) in Boundou Region, Senegal. Land, 12(7). https://doi.org/10.3390/land12071423

Shrikhande, Shreya S., Merten, Sonja, Cambaco, Olga, Lee, Tristan, Lakshmanasamy, Ravivarman, Röösli, Martin, Dalvie, Mohammad Aqiel, Utzinger, Jürg, & Cissé, Guéladio. (2023). “Climate Change and Health?”: Knowledge and Perceptions among Key Stakeholders in Puducherry, India. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(6). https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20064703

Bapolisi, W. A., Bisimwa, G., & Merten, S. (2023). Barriers to family planning use in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo: an application of the theory of planned behaviour using a longitudinal survey. BMJ Open, 13(2), e061564. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-061564

Ikuteyijo, Olutoyin O., Aliyu, Taofeek K., Akinyemi, Akanni I., Ikuteyijo, Lanre O., Ogunoye, Oladimeji R., Obasola, Oluwaseun I., Abe, John O., Mobolaji, Jacob W., Ekundayo, Opeyemi O., Agunbiade, Ojo M., & Merten, Sonja. (2023). Demand and supply of adolescent and young adult’s sexual and reproductive health services during COVID-19 in sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review. International Journal of Population Studies, 2023. https://doi.org/10.36922/ijps.366

Künzli, Nino, Woodrow, Christopher, Berger, Anke, Czabanowska, Katarzyna, Iacoviello, Licia, Lucas, Raquel, Madarasova Geckova, Andrea, Merten, Sonja, Knesebeck, Olaf von dem, Mantwill, Sarah, Panico, Salvatore, Osorio, Lyda, Ribeiro, Ana Isabel, Chiodini, Paolo, Suggs, L. Suzanne, & Coulibaly, Jean. (2023). Chocolate Eaters Do Not Necessarily Win a Nobel Prize—Authors in Special Issues Do Not Necessarily Publish Lower Quality Papers. International Journal of Public Health, 68. https://doi.org/10.3389/ijph.2023.1606967

Oehri, J., Chernet, A., Merten, S., Sydow, V., & Paris, D. H. (2023). Improving primary healthcare access for asylum seekers and refugees: a qualitative study from a swiss family physician perspective. J Prim Care Community Health, 14, 21501319231181878. https://doi.org/10.1177/21501319231181878

Ombere S.O., Nyambedha E.O., Haller T., & Merten S. (2023). Local perspectives on policy implementation of free maternity health services in Kenya: Implications for universal health coverage. African Journal of Reproductive Health , 27(5), 71–81. https://doi.org/10.29063/ajrh2023/v27i5s.9

Ombere S.O., Nyambedha E.O., Haller T., & Merten S. (2023). Anti-Politics and Free Maternal Health Services in Kilifi County, Kenya. African Studies, 82(1), 85–97. https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2023.2241833

Schwind, B., Zemp, E., Jafflin, K., Späth, A., Barth, M., Maigetter, K., Merten, S., & Kurth, E. (2023). “But at home, with the midwife, you are a person”: experiences and impact of a new early postpartum home-based midwifery care model in the view of women in vulnerable family situations. BMC Health Serv Res, 23(1), 375. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-023-09352-4

Shrikhande, S, Merten, S, Cambaco, O, Lee, TT, Lakshmanasamy, R, Roosli, M, Dalvie, MA, Utzinger, J, & Cisse, G. (2023). Barriers to climate change and health research in India: a qualitative study. BMJ Open. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.26.23284955

Shrikhande, S. S., Merten, S., Cambaco, O., Lee, T., Lakshmanasamy, R., Röösli, M., Dalvie, M. A., Utzinger, J., & Cisse, G. (2023). “Climate change and health?”: Knowledge and perceptions among key stakeholders in Puducherry, India. Int J Environ Res Public Health, 20(6), 4703. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20064703

Wüthrich-Grossenbacher, U., Mutsinze, A., Wolf, U., Maponga, C. C., Midzi, N., Mutsaka-Makuvaza, M. J., & Merten, S. (2023). A validation of the religious and spiritual struggles scale among young people living with HIV in Zimbabwe: mokken scale analysis and exploratory factor analysis. Front Psychol, 14, 1051455. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1051455

Zepro, N. B., Ali, N. T., Tarr, N., Medhanyie, A. A., Paris, D. H., Probst-Hensch, N., & Merten, S. (2023). Sexual and reproductive health services use among adolescents in pastoralist settings, northeastern Ethiopia. BMC Health Serv Res, 23(1), 677. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-023-09616-z

Bytyci Katanolli, A., Merten, S., Kwiatkowski, M., Obas, K., Gerold, J., Zahorka, M., Jerliu, N., Ramadani, Q., & Fota, N. (2022). Mixed-methods study to assess an intervention for healthier lifestyles in primary healthcare. 32.

Bytyci-Katanolli, A., Merten, S., Kwiatkowski, M., Obas, K., Gerold, J., Zahorka, M., Jerliu, N., Ramadani, Q., Fota, N., & Probst-Hensch, N. (2022). Non-communicable disease prevention in Kosovo: quantitative and qualitative assessment of uptake and barriers of an intervention for healthier lifestyles in primary healthcare. BMC Health Serv Res, 22(1), 647. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-022-07969-5

Bytyci Katanolli, A., Probst-Hensch, N., Obas, K. A., Gerold, J., Zahorka, M., Jerliu, N., Ramadani, Q., Fota, N., & Merten, S. (2022). Perceived barriers to physical activity behaviour among patients with diabetes and hypertension in Kosovo: a qualitative study. BMC Prim Care, 23(1), 257. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12875-022-01866-w

Darkhawaja, R. A. M., Kwiatkowski, M., Vermes, T., Allabadi, H., Merten, S., Alkaiyat, A., & Probst-Hensch, N. (2022). Exploring the role of social capital, self-efficacy and social contagion in shaping lifestyle and mental health among students representing the future healthcare workforce in Palestine: social cohort study protocol. BMJ Open, 12(1), e049033. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-049033

Ebi, S. J., Deml, M. J., Jafflin, K., Buhl, A., Engel, R., Picker, J., Häusler, J., Wingeier, B., Kruerke, D., Huber, B. M., Merten, S., & Tarr, P. E. (2022). Parents’ vaccination information seeking, satisfaction with and trust in medical providers in Switzerland: a mixed-methods study. BMJ Open, 12(2), e053267. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-053267

Grimm, P. Y., Oliver, S., Merten, S., Han, W. W., & Wyss, K. (2022). Enhancing the understanding of resilience in health systems of low- and middle-income countries: a qualitative evidence synthesis. Int J Health Policy Manag, 11(7), 899–911. https://doi.org/10.34172/ijhpm.2020.261

Ikuteyijo, O. O., Akinyemi, A. I., & Merten, S. (2022). Exposure to job-related violence among young female sex workers in urban slums of Southwest Nigeria. BMC public health, 22(1), 1021. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-13440-1

Jafflin, K., Deml, M. J., Schwendener, C. L., Kiener, L., Delfino, A., Gafner, R., Schudel, S., Mäusezahl, M., Berger, C., Huber, B. M., Merten, S., & Tarr, P. E. (2022). Parental and provider vaccine hesitancy and non-timely childhood vaccination in Switzerland. Vaccine, 40(23), 3193–3202. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.04.044

Kiener, L. M., Schwendener, C. L., Jafflin, K., Meier, A., Reber, N., Scharli Maurer, S., Muggli, F., Gultekin, N., Huber, B. M., Merten, S., Deml, M. J., & Tarr, P. E. (2022). Vaccine hesitancy and HPV vaccine uptake among male and female youth in Switzerland: a cross-sectional study. BMJ Open, 12(4), e053754. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-053754

Ombere, S. O., Nyambedha, E. O., Haller, T., & Merten, S. (2022). Measures adopted by indigent mothers in Kilifi County to tackle maternal health challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study. Afr J Reprod Health, 26(12), 57–65. https://doi.org/10.29063/ajrh2022/v26i12s.7

Schwarz, J., Manirakiza, R., & Merten, S. (2022). Reproductive governance in a fragile and population-dense context: family planning policies, discourses, and practices in Burundi. Eur J Dev Res, 34(6), 2666–2687. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-021-00482-1

Schwarz, J., & Merten, S. (2022). ‘The body is difficult’: reproductive navigation through sociality and corporeality in rural Burundi. Cult Health Sex, in press. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2021.2020904

Schwendener, C. L., Kiener, L. M., Jafflin, K., Rouached, S., Juillerat, A., Meier, V., Schärli Maurer, S., Muggli, F., Gültekin, N., Baumann, A., Debergh, M., Gruillot, C., Huber, B., Merten, S., Buhl, A., Deml, M. J., & Tarr, P. E. (2022). HPV vaccine awareness, knowledge and information sources among youth in Switzerland: a mixed methods study. BMJ Open, 12(1), e054419. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-054419

Ikuteyijo, O., & Merten, S. (2021). Exposure to Job-Related Violence among Young Sex Workers in Selected Urban Slums of South West Nigeria.

Merten S, & Sibil Tschudin. (2021). Verhütungsverhalten nach soziokulturellen und Lebensstil-Faktoren.

Nyabundi, A.A., Nyambedha, E., & Merten, S. (2021). Establishing relations: Health workers views on integration of mobile phones during follow-up. International Journal of Science and Research, 7(12), 537–541.

Wüthrich Grossenbacher U, Mutambara J, Midzi N, Mutsaka M, & Merten S. (2021). The importance of considering religious and spiritual ontologies in the care of HIV patients in Zimbabwe-a scoping literature review. Int J HIVAIDS Prev Educ Behav Sci, 7, 27.

Bapolisi, W.A., Ferrari, G., Bisimwa, G., & Merten, S.: (2021). Gendered determinants of food insecurity in ongoing regional conflicts, North and South Kivu, the Democratic Republic of Congo. Agriculture and Food Security, 10(1), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40066-021-00285-x

Bapolisi, W., Ferrari, G., Bisimwa, G., & Merten, S. (2021). Gendered determinants of food insecurity in ongoing regional conflicts, North and South Kivu, the Democratic Republic of Congo. Agric Food Secur, 10, 13. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40066-021-00285-x

Grimm, P. Y., Merten, S., & Wyss, K. (2021). Evidence of health system resilience in Myanmar during cyclone Nargis: a qualitative analysis. BMJ Open, 11(9), e050700. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-050700

Leuenberger, A., Cambaco, O., Zabré, H. R., Lyatuu, I., Utzinger, J., Munguambe, K., Merten, S., & Winkler, M. S. (2021). “It is like we are living in a different world”: health inequity in communities surrounding industrial mining sites in Burkina Faso, Mozambique, and Tanzania. Int J Environ Res Public Health, 18(21), 11015. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182111015

Leuenberger, A., Kihwele, F., Lyatuu, I., Kengia, J. T., Farnham, A., Winkler, M. S., & Merten, S. (2021). Gendered health impacts of industrial gold mining in northwestern Tanzania: perceptions of local communities. Impact assessment and project appraisal, 39(3), 183–195. https://doi.org/10.1080/14615517.2021.1904697

Olarewaju, V. O., Jafflin, K., Deml, M. J., Gültekin, N., Muggli, F., Schärli, S., Gruillot, C., Kloetzer, A., Huber, B. M., Merten, S., & Tarr, P. E. (2021). The Youth Attitudes about Vaccines (YAV-5) scale: adapting the parent attitudes about childhood vaccines short scale for use with youth in German, French, and Italian in Switzerland, exploratory factor analysis and mokken scaling analysis. Hum Vaccin Immunother, 17(12), 5183–5190. https://doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2021.1980314

Olarewaju, V. O., Jafflin, K., Deml, M. J., Zimmermann, C., Sonderegger, J., Preda, T., Staub, H., Kwiatkowski, M., Kloetzer, A., Huber, B. M., Merten, S., & Tarr, P. E. (2021). Application of the Parent Attitudes about Childhood Vaccines (PACV) survey in three national languages in Switzerland: exploratory factor analysis and mokken scale analysis. Hum Vaccin Immunother, 17(8), 2652–2660. https://doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2021.1894894

Ombere, S. O., Haller, T., Nyambedha, E., & Merten, S. (2021). Cultural practices during pregnancy and birth among the Giriama community in coastal Kenya: a qualitative study. Int J Childbirth, 11(4), 154–165. https://doi.org/10.1891/ijc-2021-0008

Spitale, Giovanni, Merten, Sonja, Jafflin, Kristen, Schwind, Bettina, Kaiser-Grolimund, Andrea, & Biller-Andorno, Nikola. (2021). A Novel Risk and Crisis Communication Platform to Bridge the Gap Between Policy Makers and the Public in the Context of the COVID-19 Crisis (PubliCo): Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study. JMIR Research Protocols, 10(11), e33653. https://doi.org/10.2196/33653

Zepro, Nejimu Biza, Medhanyie, Araya Abrha, Bezabih, Afework Mulugeta, Tarr, Natalie, & Merten, Sonja. (2021). Lived Experiences and Perceptions of Childbirth among Pastoralist Women in North-East Ethiopia: A Multimethod Qualitative Analysis to the WHO Health Systems Responsiveness Framework. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(23), 12518. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182312518

Bapolisi, Wyvine Ansima, Ferrari, Giovanfrancesco, Blampain, Clara, Makelele, Jean, Kono-Tange, Lenneke, Bisimwa, Ghislain, & Merten, Sonja. (2020). Impact of a complex gender-transformative intervention on maternal and child health outcomes in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo: protocol of a longitudinal parallel mixed-methods study. BMC Public Health, 20(1), 51. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-8084-3

Giles, M. L., Mantel, C., Muñoz, F. M., Moran, A., Roos, N., Yusuf, N., Diaz, T., Ahun, M., Nic Lochlainn, L. M., Wootton, E., Pathirana, J., Rendell, S., Tuncalp, O., Perut, M., Hombach, J., Merten, S., & Lambach, P. (2020). Vaccine implementation factors affecting maternal tetanus immunization in low- and middle-income countries: results of the Maternal Immunization and Antenatal Care Situational Analysis (MIACSA) project. Vaccine, 38(33), 5268–5277. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2020.05.084

Giles, M. L., Mason, E., Muñoz, F. M., Moran, A. C., Lambach, P., Merten, S., Diaz, T., Baye, M., Mathai, M., Pathirana, J., Rendell, S., Tunçalp, Ö, Hombach, J., & Roos, N. (2020). Antenatal care service delivery and factors affecting effective tetanus vaccine coverage in low- and middle-income countries: results of the Maternal Immunisation and Antenatal Care Situational analysis (MIACSA) project. Vaccine, 38(33), 5278–5285. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2020.05.025

Kusi, Caroline, Steinmann, Peter, & Merten, Sonja. (2020). The fight against lymphatic filariasis: perceptions of community drug distributors during mass drug administration in coastal Kenya. Infectious Diseases of Poverty, 9(1), 22. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40249-020-0638-1

Merten, S., Mlotshwa, L., & Schwarz, J. (2020). Youth, sexuality, gender, and health: dealing with a social phenomenon. International Journal of Public Health, 65(4), 375–376. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-020-01392-5

Wyss-van den Berg, M., Ogutu, B., Sewankambo, N. K., Merten, S., Biller-Andorno, N., & Tanner, M. (2020). Communities and clinical trials: a case study from the RTS,S malaria vaccine trials in eastern Africa. J Empir Res Hum Res Ethics, 15(5), 465–477. https://doi.org/10.1177/1556264620951384

Merten S. (2019). Access to Health and Nutrition Services in Rwanda. Study report.

Merten S. (2019). Report of the Maternal Immunization and Antenatal Care Situation Analysis (MIACSA) study.

Ntalasha H, Malungo J, Merten S, & Simona JS. (2019). Patient-Related Factors Influencing Adherence to ART, a case of Chivuna, Southern Province of Zambia. World Journal of AIDS, 9, 49–69.

Tarr, N, & Merten, S. (2019). Literaturreview ‘Interkulturelles Dolmetschen’ 2012-2018.

Schwarz J, Arminjon M, Zemp Stutz E, Merten S, Bodenmann P, & Clair C. (2019). [Social determinants of health - how gendergot lost on the way]. Revue Medicale Suisse, 15(640), 485–489.

Schwarz, Joëlle, Arminjon, Mathieu, Stutz, Elisabeth Zemp, Merten, Sonja, Bodenmann, Patrick, & Clair, Carole. (2019). Social determinants of health - How gender got lost on the way. Revue Medicale Suisse, 15, 485–489.

Deml, Michael J., Jafflin, Kristen, Merten, Sonja, Huber, Benedikt, Buhl, Andrea, Frau, Eleonora, Mettraux, Valérie, Sonderegger, Joanna, Kliem, Paulina, Cattalani, Rachele, Krüerke, Daniel, Pfeiffer, Constanze, Burton-Jeangros, Claudine, & Tarr, Philip E. (2019). Determinants of vaccine hesitancy in Switzerland: study protocol of a mixed-methods national research programme. BMJ Open, 9(11). https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-032218

Dumbaugh, Mari, Bapolisi, Wyvine, Bisimwa, Ghislain, Mwamini, Marie-Chantale, Mommers, Paula, & Merten, Sonja. (2019). Navigating fertility, reproduction and modern contraception in the fragile context of South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo: ‘Les enfants sont une richesse’. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 21(3), 323–337. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2018.1470255

Leuenberger, A., Farnham, A., Azevedo, S., Cossa, H., Dietler, D., Nimako, B., Adongo, P. B., Merten, S., Utzinger, J., & Winkler, M. S. (2019). Health impact assessment and health equity in sub-Saharan Africa : a scoping review. Environmental impact assessment review, 79, 106288. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2019.106288

Mhalu, Grace, Weiss, Mitchell G., Hella, Jerry, Mhimbira, Francis, Mahongo, Enos, Schindler, Christian, Reither, Klaus, Fenner, Lukas, Zemp, Elisabeth, & Merten, Sonja. (2019). Explaining patient delay in healthcare seeking and loss to diagnostic follow-up among patients with presumptive tuberculosis in Tanzania : a mixed-methods study. BMC Health Services Research, 19(1), 217. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-019-4030-4

Schwarz J., Dumbaugh M., Bapolisi W., Ndorere M.S., Mwamini M.-C., Bisimwa G., & Merten S. (2019). “So that’s why I’m scared of these methods”: Locating contraceptive side effects in embodied life circumstances in Burundi and eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Social Science and Medicine, 220, 264–272. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.09.030

Schwarz, Joëlle, Arminjon, Mathieu, Zemp Stutz, Elisabeth, Merten, Sonja, Bodenmann, Patrick, & Clair, Carole. (2019). Déterminants sociaux de la santéen Suisse - comment le genres’est perdu en chemin. Revue Médicale Suisse, 15(640), 485–489.

van den Berg, Machteld, Ogutu, Bernhards, Sewankambo, Nelson K., Merten, Sonja, Biller-Andorno, Nikola, & Tanner, Marcel. (2019). Clinical trials in low-resource settings : the perspectives of caregivers of paediatric participants from Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya. Tropical Medicine and International Health, 24(8), 1023–1030. https://doi.org/10.1111/tmi.13281

Elouard, Yajna, Weiss, Carine, Martin-Hilber, Adriane, & Merten, Sonja. (2018). Sexual violence as a risk factor for family planning-related outcomes among young Burundian women. International Journal of Public Health, 63(1), 13–22. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-017-0988-z

Haller, T., & Merten, S. (2018). Crafting our own rules : constitutionality as a bottom-up approach for the development of by-laws in Zambia. Human Ecology, 46, 3–13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-017-9917-2

Mlotshwa, Langelihle, Manderson, Lenore, Chasela, Charles, & Merten, Sonja. (2018). Talking about sex in pregnancy : reflections from the field in urban South Africa. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 20(11), 1157–1170. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2017.1420233

Mtenga, Sally M., Pfeiffer, Constanze, Tanner, Marcel, Geubbels, Eveline, & Merten, Sonja. (2018). Linking gender, extramarital affairs, and HIV : a mixed methods study on contextual determinants of extramarital affairs in rural Tanzania. AIDS Research and Therapy, 15(1), 12. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12981-018-0199-6

Rokicki, Slawa, & Merten, Sonja. (2018). The context of emergency contraception use among young unmarried women in Accra, Ghana: a qualitative study. Reproductive Health, 15(1), 212. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12978-018-0656-7

Schwarz, Joëlle, Dumbaugh, Mari, Bapolisi, Wyvine, Ndorere, Marie Souavis, Mwamini, Marie-Chantale, Bisimwa, Ghislain, & Merten, Sonja. (2018). “So that’s why I’m scared of these methods” : locating contraceptive side effects in embodied life circumstances in Burundi and eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Social Science & Medicine, 220, 264–272. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.09.030

Spaeth, Anna, Zemp, Elisabeth, Merten, Sonja, & Dratva, Julia. (2018). Baby-friendly hospital designation has a sustained impact on continued breastfeeding. Maternal and child nutrition, 14(1), e12497. https://doi.org/10.1111/mcn.12497

Weiss, Carine, Elouard, Yajna, Gerold, Jana, & Merten, Sonja. (2018). Training in youth-friendly service provision improves nurses’ competency level in the Great Lakes Region. International Journal of Public Health, 63(6), 753–763. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-018-1106-6

Dumbaugh, Mari, Bapolisi, Wyvine, van de Weerd, Jennie, Zabiti, Michel, Mommers, Paula, Balaluka, Ghislain Bisimwa, & Merten, Sonja. (2017). Evaluating the comparative effectiveness of different demand side interventions to increase maternal health service utilization and practice of birth spacing in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo: an innovative, mixed methods approach. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 17(1), 212. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-017-1396-3

Mlotshwa, Langelihle, Manderson, Lenore, & Merten, Sonja. (2017). Personal support and expressions of care for pregnant women in Soweto, South Africa. Global Health Action, 10(1), 1363454. https://doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2017.1363454