Modeling human adaptive immune responses with tonsil organoids (Publications)
Most of what we know about adaptive immunity has come from inbred mouse studies, using methods that are often difficult or impossible to confirm in humans. In addition, vaccine responses in mice are o
Case-control study of individuals with discrepant nucleocapsid and spike protein SARS-CoV-2 IgG results (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Laboratory-based methods for SARS-CoV-2 antibody detection vary widely in performance. However, there are limited prospectively-collected data on assay performance, and minimal clinical in
Global, regional, and national burden of mortality associated with short-term temperature variability from 2000-19: a three-stage modelling study (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Increased mortality risk is associated with short-term temperature variability. However, to our knowledge, there has been no comprehensive assessment of the temperature variability-related
Long-term exposure to low ambient air pollution concentrations and mortality among 28 million people: results from seven large European cohorts within... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Long-term exposure to ambient air pollution has been associated with premature mortality, but associations at concentrations lower than current annual limit values are uncertain. We analys
Outdoor air pollution exposure and cognitive performance: findings from the enrolment phase of the CONSTANCES cohort (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Air pollution exposure is one of the modifiable risk factors of cognitive decline. We aimed to test the association between exposure to several outdoor air pollutants and domain-specific c
Engaging with antenatal care providers to conduct vaccination counselling with expectant mothers (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/projects/project-detail/project/engaging-with-antenatal-care-providers-to-conduct-vaccination-counselling-with-expectant-mothers
Vaccination is a powerful public health tool that reduces the global burden of disease immensely and saves 2-3 million lives a year. Vaccination coverage in Switzerland can be improved, yet only provi
Monitoring Agent South Sudan (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/projects/project-detail/project/monitoring-agent-south-sudan
Swiss TPH will support the Country Programmes Team in the Republic of South Sudan in developing a comprehensive, three to five-year Programme Support Rationale (PSR) which will include strategic compo
Dynamic electronic decision trees to manage childhood illness (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/projects/project-detail/project/dynamic-electronic-decision-trees-to-manage-childhood-illness
Every year in low- and middle-income countries, more than 5 million children under the age of 5 years die from preventable illnesses due to poor clinical management at the primary health care level. I
Analysis and mapping of prospective sources of funding for additional contributions to MEMTI (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/projects/project-detail/project/analysis-and-mapping-of-prospective-sources-of-funding-for-additional-contributions-to-memti
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria set aside funding to incentivize the acceleration of efforts towards elimination of malaria in four countries in the Asia-Pacific region: Papua
Consultancy for the Immunization Supply Chain Tools Assessment (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/projects/project-detail/project/consultancy-for-the-immunization-supply-chain-tools-assessment
For more than a decade the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have been supporting the Expanded Programmes on Immunisation (EPI) with tools that allow for