Melissa Penny speaks about the beauty of disease modelling (Blog)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/impact-stories/the-beauty-of-disease-modelling/blog-id/25
Melissa Penny is an applied mathematician at Swiss TPH who has worked in public health and infectious disease modelling for over 15 years. She joins us today to discuss the first malaria vaccine, dise
TB-PRACTECAL: Clinical Trial Yields Promising Results for Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Treatment (News)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/news/news-detail/news/tb-practecal-clinical-trial-yields-promising-results-for-drug-resistant-tuberculosis-treatment
TB-PRACTECAL, a clinical trial led by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) with partners including Swiss TPH, has found that a new all-oral six-month treatment regimen is safer and more effective at treatin
A Decline in Air Pollution Levels in Europe Still Fall Short of WHO Guidelines, According to New Study (News)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/news/news-detail/news/a-decline-in-air-pollution-levels-in-europe-still-fall-short-of-who-guidelines-according-to-new-study
Air pollution – both ambient (outdoor) and household (indoor) – is the biggest environmental risk to health, with ambient air pollution alone killing around 3 million people each year. Air pollution c
DYNAMIC: New Clinical Decision Support Tool Reduces Antibiotic Prescription in Children by a Four-fold (News)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/news/news-detail/news/dynamic-new-clinical-decision-support-tool-reduces-antibiotic-prescription-in-children-by-a-four-fold
Every year, an estimated 3.3 million children die from acute febrile episodes, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). This situation is mainly due to the lack of diagnostic tools an
Twitter for Academics (Blog)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/impact-stories/twitter-for-academics/blog-id/19
For academics, the platform is becoming more popular. Twitter allows you to easily promote your research and build your network by providing links to your professional achievements, journal articles,
World Refugee Day: together we heal, learn and shine (Blog)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/impact-stories/world-refugee-day-together-we-heal-learn-and-shine/blog-id/18
Access to healthcare is an additional burden for forcibly displaced people, which adds to their already extremely difficult situations. On World Refugee Day, Swiss TPH is proud to engage in several pr
Forschungskooperation zur Entwicklung eines neuartigen Covid-Impfstoffes (News)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/news/news-detail/news/forschungskooperation-zur-entwicklung-eines-neuartigen-covid-impfstoffes
Das Universitätsspital Basel (USB), die Universität Basel und das Schweizerische Tropen- und Public Health-Institut (Swiss TPH) gehen eine Forschungskooperation mit dem Startup-Unternehmen RocketVax e
Mathias Kronig New Administrative Director at Swiss TPH (News)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/news/news-detail/news/mathias-kronig-new-administrative-director-at-swiss-tph
On 25 May 2021, the Board of Governors at Swiss TPH unanimously elected Mathias Kronig as the new Administrative Director of Swiss TPH. In this function, Kronig will be a part of the Directorate of Sw
Can Switzerland beat COVID-19, Jürg Utzinger? (Blog)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/impact-stories/can-switzerland-beat-covid-19/blog-id/17
Jürg Utzinger is the Director of Swiss TPH and a Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Basel. His research and teaching focuses on neglected tropical diseases and the health effects of large-
There is no excuse for the world to still have malaria (Blog)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/impact-stories/there-is-no-excuse-for-the-world-to-still-have-malaria/blog-id/13
Mosquitoes infect millions of people with malaria - a disease that kills a child every two minutes. Most of these deaths occur in the poorest countries with the weakest health systems. Over the past 2