Swiss TPH

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Jürg Utzinger

Diagnosis, epidemiology and control of neglected tropical diseases with an emphasis on schistosomiasis, soil-transmitted helminthiasis and food-borne trematodiasis
Integrated approaches for risk profiling and spatio-temporal predictions of neglected tropical diseases and malaria
Health impact assessment of large infrastructure development projects in the extractive industries and water resources in developing countries
Development and validation of metabonomics as a tool for biomarker discovery that may give rise to new diagnostic and prognostic assays

1993: MSc in Environmental Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland
1995: MSc in Developing Country Studies, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland
1999: PhD in Epidemiology, Swiss TPH/University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
2004: SNF-Förderungsprofessur, Swiss TPH/University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
2006: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
2010: Professor in Epidemiology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

1992: Field Assistant, US Fish and Wildlife Services, Volcano National Park, Hawaii, USA
1993: Field Assistant, Limnological Research Centre of EAWAG, Kastanienbaum, Switzerland
1994-1995: Research Fellow, Ifakara Health Institute, Ifakara and Morogoro, Tanzania
1996-1999: Doctoral Fellow, Swiss TPH and Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Côte d’Ivoire, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
1999-2000: Research Fellow, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss TPH, Basel, Switzerland
2000-2003: Visiting Fellow (Postdoctoral Fellow), Office of Population Research, Princeton University, Princeton, USA
2004-present: Project Leader and Head, Ecosystem Health Sciences Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss TPH, Basel, Switzerland