Peter Odermatt

Professional Activities

  • Epidemiology and control of parasitic infections with emphasis on helminths and food-borne trematodiasis, nematodiasis, and schistosomiasis
  • Impact of parasitic infections on human health, including epilepsy, nutritional status etc.
  • Public health and control of neglected tropical diseases
  • Course coordinator: General Tropical Course (Allgemeiner Tropenkurs) and other courses

Higher Education & Qualifications

  • Epidemiology and control of parasitic infections with emphasis on helminths and food-borne trematodiasis, nematodiasis, and schistosomiasis
  • Impact of parasitic infections on human health, including epilepsy, nutritional status etc.
  • Public health and control of neglected tropical diseases
  • Course coordinator: General Tropical Course (Allgemeiner Tropenkurs) and other courses
  • 1989 MSc Medical Parasitology (Biology), University of Basel, Switzerland
  • 1994 PhD Zoology (Epidemiology of schistosomiasis Tanzania), University of Basel, Switzerland
  • 2004 MPH International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA
  • 2010 Associate Professor (Privatdozent) Epidemiology & Parasitology

Working Experience

  • 1990-1993 PhD Student, Ifakara Health Research Institute, Ifakara, Tanzania
  • 1994-1997 Research fellow at Swiss Tropical Institute (Dept. Public Health & Epidemiology)
  • 1994-1997 Consultant Médecins Sans Frontières, Switzerland
  • 1998-1999 Project leader National Malaria Centre, Phnom Penh, Cambodia for Médecins Sans Frontières
  • 1999-2005 Program director, Institut de la Francophonie pour la Médecine Tropicale, Vientiane, Laos
  • 2005 – present: Swiss TPHs, Basel, Switzerland

Publications

List of Publications