WHO Collaborating Centres
Swiss TPH hosts three WHO collaborating centres:
The WHO Collaborating Centre for Epidemiology and Control of Helminth Infections is based in the Ecosystem Health Sciences Unit.
The WHO Collaborating Centre for Modelling, Monitoring and Training for Malaria Control and Elimination is based in the Health Interventions Unit.
The WHO Collaborating Centre for Verbal Autopsy is based in the Household Economics and Health Systems Research Unit.
WHO Collaborating Centre for Epidemiology and Control of Helminth Infections
The Collaboration Centre's role includes teaching and training, mapping risk areas, evaluating existing and developing new diagnostic tools, screening new compounds for efficacy and safety against parasitic worms, and assisting countries in establishing their control programmes.
WHO Collaborating Centre for Modelling, Monitoring and Training for Malaria Control and Elimination
The purpose of the Collaboration Centre is to provide technical advice, improve malaria prevention modelling methods, evaluate routine data and effectively implement surveillance-response methods, training and capacity building.
WHO Collaborating Centre for Verbal Autopsy
The collaborating center's mandate is to assist WHO in developing and maintaining the WHO Verbal Autopsy instrument, contribute to the global network of collaborating centers, provide support and training to local and regional users, and strengthen the implementation and quality assurance of the Verbal Autopsy instrument.