Dr. Martina Ragettli

Professional activities at Swiss TPH / research interests

• Climate change and health: Assessment of health effects of environmental changes and the impact of policies to mitigate and adapt to these changes.
• Estimation of environmental exposures of populations to heat, noise and ambient air pollution, and to assess related health effects.
• Evaluation of public health programs to prevent heat-related mortality.
• Teaching and training in environmental epidemiology (climate change and health, environment and health)

Higher education and qualifications

• 2013: PhD in Epidemiology, Swiss TPH/University of Basel, Switzerland
• 2010: Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in spatial information systems; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland
• 2009: MSc in Geography, University of Basel, Switzerland

Past professional activities

• 2014-2015: Post-doctoral fellow, University of Montreal, Canada, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Public Health, collaboration with the Department of Public Health, City of Montreal
• 2009-2013: Scientific assistant/doctoral researcher, Swiss TPH, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health

Ragettli M.S, Flückiger B, Vienneau D, Domingo-Irigoyen S, Koschenz M, Röösli M. Vulnerability to heat-related mortality and the effect of prevention measures: a time-stratified case-crossover study in Switzerland. Swiss Med Wkly. 2024;154(10):3410. DOI: 10.57187/s.3418

Ragettli M.S, Schulte F, Röösli M. Hitzekompetenz der Bevölkerung 50+ in der Schweiz: Wissen, Betroffenheit, Handeln im Sommer 2023. Allschwil: Swiss TPH, 2024

Wicki B, Flückiger B, Vienneau D, de Hoogh K, Röösli M, Ragettli M.S. Socio-environmental modifiers of heat-related mortality in eight Swiss cities: a case time series analysis. Environ Res. 2024;246:118116. DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2024.118116

Ragettli M.S, Saucy A, Flückiger B, Vienneau D, de Hoogh K, Vicedo Cabrera A.M, Schindler C, Röösli M. Explorative assessment of the temperature–mortality association to support health-based heat-warning thresholds: a national case-crossover study in Switzerland. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023;20(6):4958. DOI: 10.3390/ijerph20064958

Vicedo-Cabrera A.M, de Schrijver E, Schumacher D.L, Ragettli M.S, Fischer E.M, Seneviratne S.I. The footprint of human-induced climate change on heat-related deaths in the summer of 2022 in Switzerland. Environ Res Lett. 2023;18(7):074037. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ace0d0

Ragettli M.S, Röösli M. Hitze-Massnahmen-Toolbox 2021. Ein Massnahmenkatalog für den Schutz der menschlichen Gesundheit vor Hitze.. Basel: Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institut. Im Auftrag des BAG, 2021