Non-Ionising Radiation (Page)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/topics/environment-and-health/non-ionising-radiation
Non-Ionising Radiation Exposure to non-ionising radiation has become almost unavoidable. Electric devices produce extremely low frequency magnetic fields (ELF-MF) while radio-frequency electromagnetic
BSc in Biology - Block Course | Study at Swiss TPH (Page)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/study-with-us/bachelor/bsc-biology
Bachelor of Science in Biology In association with the University of Basel, Swiss TPH is offering courses for the Bachelor's degree in Biology. These courses focus on parasitology and parasitism as we
30 Years of R&D Towards New Drugs for Tropical Diseases (Page)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/impact-stories/30-years-of-rd-towards-new-drugs-for-tropical-diseases
30 Years of R&D of Drugs for Tropical Diseases “Drug discovery in an academic setting? Better leave it to the experts from the pharma industry!” Such reproach is often heard and frequently justified.
The Swiss 5G Backpacker: Hiking Across Switzerland to Explore EMF (Page)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/impact-stories/the-swiss-5g-backpacker-hiking-across-switzerland-to-explore-electromagnetic-fields
We are surrounded by electromagnetic fields (EMF), originating from both natural sources like the sun or thunders, and human-made sources like wireless devices (e.g. mobile phones) and electrical infr
Legionnaires' disease in Switzerland: rationale and study protocol of a prospective national case-control and molecular source attribution study... (Publications)
Switzerland has one of the highest annual Legionnaires' disease (LD) notification rates in Europe (7.8 cases/100,000 population in 2021). The main sources of infection and the cause for this high rate
The Ready-to-Go Questionnaire predicts health outcomes during travel: a smartphone application-based analysis (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The Ready-To-Go (R2G) Questionnaire is a tool for rapid assessment of health risks for travel consultation. This study aims to assess the utility of the R2G Questionnaire in identifying hi
Re-evaluating our knowledge of health system resilience during COVID-19: lessons from the first two years of the pandemic (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Health challenges like coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are becoming increasingly complex, transnational, and unpredictable. Studying health system responses to the COVID-19 pandemic is
The quality of OpenStreetMap food-related point-of-interest data for use in epidemiological research (Publications)
We assessed the quality of food-related OpenStreetMap (OSM) data in urban areas of five European countries. We calculated agreement statistics between point-of-interests (POIs) from OSM and from Googl