Stefanie Knopp

Professional Activities

  • Designing, coordinating, conducting and reporting studies on the diagnosis, epidemiology and control of helminth infections in Africa.

Higher Education & Qualifications

  • PhD, 2010 in Epidemiology, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, University of Basel, Switzerland
  • Diploma, 2005 in Biology, Institute for Tropical Medicine, University of Tuebingen, Germany

Work Experience

  • 2010 to date: Research fellow at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, supporting projects funded by CONTRAST, the Schistosomiasis Consortium for Operational Research (SCORE) and the African-European Research Initiative on Co-infections of Poverty Related and Neglected Infectious Diseases (IDEA) with fieldwork in Tanzania, Zanzibar and Côte d’Ivoire.
  • 2007-present: Lecturer at the tropEd course “Disease Control: Strategies and Policies” at the Institute of Public Health, Medical School, University of Heidelberg, Germany
  • 2008-present: Lecturer at the WATSAN course “Water and sanitation related diseases” at the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland
  • 2007-2010: PhD at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, on the diagnosis, epidemiology and control of soil-transmitted helminth infections in Zanzibar, Tanzania in collaboration with the Helminth Control Laboratory Unguja, with fieldwork in Zanzibar.
  • 1999-2005: Diploma at the University of Tuebingen, Germany, on antibody and cytokine responses in Dracunculus medinensis patients at distinct states of infections, with fieldwork in Togo.
  • 2003: Practical work in Rick Maizels’ lab at the Institute of Immunology and Infection Research at the University of Edinburgh, UK.
  • 1998-1999: Laboratory assistant in the Comboni Clinic, Sogakofe, Ghana.