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new insights and discuss solutions to pressing health challenges. Upcoming Events 12-13 June 2025: Malaria in Focus 28 August 2025: Beat the Heat Conference 11 September 2025: Integrated People-Centred Care [...] Location: Swiss TPH, Seminar Room 6 & online Event category: Partner Event 12.06.2025 - 13.06.2025 Malaria in Focus: From Research to Global Action Location: Swiss TPH, Seminar Room 4 Event category: Swiss
Epidemiologist and Health Expert Marcel Tanner Receives Honorary Doctorate from the University of Zurich (News)
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to numerous research projects in the epidemiology and control of infectious diseases (especially malaria). In addition, on behalf of the SDC, he managed major health programmes and research projects in [...] in rural and urban areas of Tanzania and Chad. He was instrumental in the development of malaria vaccines (SPf66, RTS,S) for Africa. From 1996-1997 and 2009-2010, Marcel Tanner has been a regular lecturer
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important vectors because they spread some of the most devastating infectious diseases, such as malaria and dengue fever. To study the biology of arthropod vectors and to develop new tools for vector control
Defining health research for development: the perspective of stakeholders from an international health research partnership in Ghana and Tanzania (Publications)
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK, Vaccine Developer) and the global health nonprofit organisation PATH and its Malaria Vaccine Initiative program (PATH/MVI, Funder-Development Partner), (RTS, S) (NCT00866619). The r
HPLC-based activity profiling for antiplasmodial compounds in the traditional Indonesian medicinal plant <em>Carica papaya</em> L (Publications)
decoctions of Carica papaya have been traditionally used in some parts of Indonesia to treat and prevent malaria. Leaf extracts and fraction have been previously shown to possess antiplasmodial activity in vitro
Feasibility and clinical outcomes when using practice guidelines for evaluation of fever in returning travelers and migrants: a validation study (Publications)
adherence rate was 54.8%. The main reasons for non-adherence were as follows: no repetition of malaria tests (111/352) and no presumptive antibiotic treatment for febrile diarrhea (64/153) or abdominal
Effects of inflammation and <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> infection on soluble transferrin receptor and plasma ferritin concentration in different... (Publications)
is still needed when estimating ID prevalence in areas with a high prevalence of inflammation or malaria. This trial was registered at controlled-trials.com as ISRCTN02181959
Surveillance and response systems for elimination of tropical diseases: summary of a thematic series in Infectious Diseases of Poverty (Publications)
virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS), H7N9 avian influenza, lymphatic filariasis, malaria, Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), rabies, schistosomiasis and tuberculosis (TB). There are
Synthesis and antimalarial and antituberculosis activities of a series of natural and unnatural 4-methoxy-6-styryl-pyran-2-ones, dihydro analogues and... (Publications)
of this latter scaffold could lead to the identification of new leads for the dual treatment of malaria and leishmaniasis
Longitudinal evaluation of Ocimum and other plants effects on the feeding behavioral response of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in the field in... (Publications)
materials from plants against nuisance insects is common with great potential to compliment existing malaria control programmes and this requires evaluation in the field. Ocimum plant species, Ocimum suave