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RESEARCH 
ID: BLT.25.295087
How a 10-minute bout requirement for physical activity affects guideline adherence estimates, Germany
-  Julian Brummer, Michael J Stein, Hansjörg Baurecht, Mirko Brandes, Christoph Buck, Antje Hebestreit, Lilian Krist, Michael Leitzmann, Andrea Weber, Volker Harth, Jana-Kristin Heise, Verena Katzke, Thomas Keil, Alexander Kluttig, Claudia Meinke-Franze, Rafael Mikolajczyk, Ute Mons, Katharina Nimptsch, Nadia Obi, Cara Övermöhle, Annette Peters, Tobias Pischon, Börge Schmidt, Matthias B Schulze, Henry Völzke, Stefan N Willich, Florian Herbolsheimer & Karen Steindorf

ID: BLT.25.294889  
Seasonal malaria chemoprevention effectiveness and drug resistance in Plasmodium falciparum: a matched parallel cohort study, Kenya
-  Beatrice Rotich, Emmah Kimachas, Joseph Kipkoech, Erastus Kirwa, Christine Markwalter, David Ekai, Ann Mwangi, Suzanne Van Hulle, Diana Menya & Wendy Prudhomme O’Meara

POLICY & PRACTICE   
ID: BLT.25.294844
Capacity for national health policy modelling, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
-  Abdullah Alibrahim & Fadi El-Jardali

ID: BLT.25.295572
An oral health module for use in noncommunicable disease risk factor surveys
-  Nicole Rendell, Habib Benzian, Richard G Watt, Leanne Riley, Eugenio Beltran, Eduardo Bernabe, Jonathan Broadbent, Morẹ́nikẹ́ O Foláyan, Heba Fouad, Nicolas Giraudeau, Nalika Gunawardena, Yuriko Harada, Anja Heilmann, Carolina Hommes, Yuka Makino, Ricardo Martinez, Sudeshni Naidoo, Marco A Peres, Waranuch Pitiphat, Maha El Tantawi, Georgios Tsakos, Elena Tsoy, Renato Venturelli & Benoit Varennev

ID: BLT.26.295763
When normal ends at the median: a design flaw in child growth charts, India
-  Seetharaman Narayanan, Rajeshwari A Biradar & Yogeswaran Nehru Sivasubramanian

ID: BLT.26.296186 
Accountability for large language models in health care
-  Carlos Fernando Mourão & Luiz Eduardo Juliasse

LESSONS FROM THE FIELD 
ID: BLT.25.295599
Health and economic impacts of China’s rural Toilet Revolution
-  Zhenyu Zhang, Qijiong Zhu, Runming Du, Jiarui Wang, Zhisheng Liang, Jingtao Ding, Xiangqun Zheng, Yujun Shen & Zhijie Zheng

ID: BLT.25.295594 
Improvements to pharmaceutical manufacturing capacity, Ethiopia
-  Kedir Tahir Hagos, Tsige Gebre-Mariam, David Woo, Abraham Gebregiorgis Kahsay, Mengistab Woldearegay Teferi & Jicui Dong

ID: BLT.25.294262 
Peer-country support for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria programmes, Benin, Burkina Faso, Niger and Togo
-  Casimir Manzengo, Mariama Baissa, Laurent Moyenga, Yeba L Kaaga, Raoul Saizonou, Dismas Baza, Ndoungou S Ba, Rose Diasso-Tingueri, Fatima Aboubakar, Winiga L Koudema, Moussa Bachabi, Dissou Affolabi, Codjo Dandonougbo, Sidzabda CB Kompaore, Dieudonné N Soma, Adjima Combary, Abou Yahaya, Oum R Ganda, Alphazazi Soumana, Anoumou C Dagnra, Abdou G Gbadamassi, Abraham Atekpe, Benita Manzengo, Issa Guire & Omarou Seybou Moussa

PERSPECTIVES   
ID: BLT.25.295382
WHO recommendations for pregnancy and postpartum care should include hypertensive disorders of pregnancy
-  Andrea Solnes Miltenburg, Albert Kihunrwa, Richard Kiritta, Joyce Browne, Benedikte V Lindskog, Johanne Sundby, Joseph R Mwanga & Anne Cathrine Staff

ID: BLT.25.294954 
Establishment of a One Health workforce for pandemic prevention, preparedness and response
-  Ong-orn Prasarnphanich, Carla Berger, Philip AbdelMalik, Uzma Bashir, Raquel Medialdea Carrera, Renee Christensen, Sebastien Cognat, Virginie Dolmazon, Stacie Dunkle, Siobhan Fitzpatrick, Melinda Frost, Paula Gomez, Stefany Ildefonso, Gunel Ismayilova, Sylvio Menna, Marion Muehlen, Pryanka Relan, Flavio Salio, Chadia Wannous, Mathieu Boniol & Stéphane de la Rocque

ID: BLT.25.294374 
Epistemic injustice in climate health research
-  Verina Wild, Anthony Capon, Jan-Christoph Heilinger, Cristian Timmermann, Mujahid Torwali & Jakelin Troy

ID: BLT.26.295696 
A case for eliminating Widal testing for enteric fever, India
-  Kamini Walia, Ram Gopalakrishnan, Priscilla Rupali, Camilla Rodrigues, V Ramasubramanian, Veeraraghavan Balaji, Vinod Ohri, Navin Dang, Chand Wattal, Himanshu Reddy, Nitin Bansal & Hina Singh

ID: BLT.26.295870 
Physician assignment of causes of death from verbal autopsies
-  Chalapati Rao, Henry D Kalter, Daniel Chandramohan, Daniel Cobos & Jordana Leitao