Health Interventions |
Developing new interventions to address major global health problems is a long-standing work area at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute. We work on three major themes:
- Development of new interventions (malaria vaccines, integrated malaria interventions, improved case management, improved tools for key measures such as drug resistance);
- Implementation research on new interventions (integrated urban malaria control, impact of ACTs, vector control and IPTi under programme conditions, understanding and improving malaria treatment, rapid diagnostic tests for malaria
- Evidence of impact and cost-effectiveness (Cochrane reviews, cost-effectiveness assessments of vector control and IPTi).
- Finally, our work extends also into large-scale programmatic implementation, as in the case of the national ITN upscaling and the implementation of RDTs in Tanzania. Our work calls for applied and multidisciplinary research including basic laboratory sciences, clinical medicine, biometrics and it rests heavily on field epidemiology, social sciences, and health systems research. For the latter, we interact closely with the Health Systems Unit. Our work invariably involves a large network of collaborations within the Swiss TPH and globally.