Long-term air pollution exposure and malignant intracranial tumours of the central nervous system: a pooled analysis of six European cohorts (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Risk factors for malignant tumours of the central nervous system (CNS) are largely unknown. METHODS: We pooled six European cohorts (N = 302,493) and assessed the association between resid
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.
Dynamic electronic decision trees to manage childhood illness (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/projects/project-detail/project/dynamic-electronic-decision-trees-to-manage-childhood-illness
Every year in low- and middle-income countries, more than 5 million children under the age of 5 years die from preventable illnesses due to poor clinical management at the primary health care level. I
World Zoonoses Day: The Jigjiga One Health Initiative (Blog)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/impact-stories/world-zoonoses-day-the-jigjiga-one-health-initiative/blog-id/20
The specific needs of nomadic pastoralist communities are often not considered in public services. This is also the case in the health sector. In Ethiopia, the Swiss Agency for Development and Coopera
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
