Swiss TPH :: Newsletter July


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Dear Reader
Dear Colleagues

It is a great pleasure to introduce to you and your colleagues the new edition of our newsletter. Besides our regular and comprehensive biennial reporting, the Swiss Tropical Institute (STI) wishes to use this newly designed newsletter to share with you recent steps that the STI made in the field of research, direct service support and training. As you know, it is the aim of STI to contribute to national and international health development through research, training and services by working along the continuum from innovation over validation to application. It is also in this spirit that the newsletter is designed. The first issue of the new STI newsletter focuses on malaria, as it not only represents one of the diseases of poverty, but also a main area of activities of the current 240 STI collaborators in Basel and abroad.

The burden of malaria for rural and urban societies, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa does not need to be rehearsed again. We all know about this public health crisis, but strongly feel that owing to the new international commitments and the unprecedented availability of funds for research and control, we ought to be able to make a difference, i.e. to reduce the global burden significantly and therefore to alleviate poverty. The articles of this newsletter give you a brief insight into the areas STI is currently active and how STI tries to contribute to the renewed international efforts. Providing this insight represents a contribution to the international discussion, but also invites your comments and suggestions ranging from specific observations to initiating new collaborations and exchanges. We look forward to your reactions and really hope that our newsletter becomes a platform to share and exchange leading to new ideas and partnerships. Please liaise with us through the editorial team (Dr. Joachim Pelikan; joachim.pelikan@unibas.ch) or by writing directly to the authors of the different contributions.

We look forward to your reactions and also thank you for spreading the newsletter in your institution and in your networks as well as wish you a most enjoyable reading.

Marcel Tanner
Director