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Overcoming discrimination barriers: a refugee’s journey (Blog)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/impact-stories/overcoming-discrimination-barriers/blog-id/24
Lujain Alchalabi is a Syrian refugee and an Epidemiology master student at Swiss TPH. She came to Switzerland after leaving behind her home and career as a dentist, having no idea what she would do be
New WHO Air Quality Guidelines Aim to Save Millions of Lives from Air Pollution (News)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/news/news-detail/news/new-who-air-quality-guidelines-aim-to-save-millions-of-lives-from-air-pollution
Air pollution is one of the biggest environmental threats to human health, alongside climate change. Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) published their new Global Air Quality Guidelines (AQGs)
Using innovative new tools to advance progress in NTDs (Blog)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/impact-stories/using-innovative-new-tools-to-advance-progress-in-ntds/blog-id/22
Great strides have been made in the fight against neglected tropical diseases over the past 20 years, but the global burden is still considerable. In order to end the neglect, novel tools and innovati
World Rabies Day: Early diagnosis and prompt treatment save lives (Blog)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/impact-stories/world-rabies-day-early-diagnosis-and-prompt-treatment-save-lives/blog-id/21
Rabies is deadly, but 99.9% vaccine-preventable. Children under 15 years in rural communities around the globe are at higher risk of being exposed to rabies. Controlling rabies widespread in endemic c
Students Return to Swiss TPH (News)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/news/news-detail/news/students-return-to-swiss-tph
Education and training at Swiss TPH has a history as old as the institute itself. Since the first course—the General Tropical Course—was offered in 1944, education and training activities multiplied q
Key Handover for New Building of Swiss TPH (News)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/news/news-detail/news/key-handover-for-new-building-of-swiss-tph
The future headquarters of Swiss TPH has been completed on schedule after a little more than two years of construction. The first employees will start work in the new building 'Belo Horizonte' in Alls
Improving treatment of helminth infections (Blog)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/impact-stories/improving-treatment-of-helminth-infections/blog-id/26
The young Jennifer Keiser grew up in Munich, Germany, and followed both her grandfather (a chemist) and her older sister (medicine) into a life of science. While studying in high school, she worked pa
Spirituality and One Health (Blog)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/impact-stories/spirituality-and-one-health/blog-id/23
What do health and spirituality have to do with each other? Jakob Zinsstag, Head of the Human and Animal Health Unit at Swiss TPH, has worked in many places around the world and met people with differ
First Malaria Vaccine Recommended for Children by the WHO (News)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/news/first-malaria-vaccine-recommended-for-children
The World Health Organization (WHO) endorsed the widespread use of the malaria vaccine RTS,S/AS01, marking the first step in a process that should lead to broad distribution in low- and middle-income