OpenMalaria - OpenMalaria Modelling Core Funding

Significant progress in malaria control has been achieved through expanded vector control interventions, yet major challenges persist. Funding and coverage gaps, growing insecticide and drug resistance, declining intervention effectiveness, invasive mosquito species such as Anopheles stephensi, and…

05.09.2025 - 31.08.2028
Research project
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF)
Disease Modelling
Nakul Chitnis
ACCLIMATISE - Attribution of a Changing CLIMate in the AssessmenT of malaria Intervention Strategy Efficiency

Recent significant investments in malaria interventions have reduced malaria burden.
Contemporaneously, the climate has continued to warm with associated changes in rainfall and weather extremes, which compound year to year and decadal climate variability. Together these impact malaria transmission…

01.09.2025 - 31.08.2028
Research project
Wellcome Trust
Disease Modelling
Nakul Chitnis
EMPOWER - Empowering People Living with NCDs & Frontline Health Workers and Leveraging Digital Health Technology, to tackle the Burden of Chronic Diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa

With 74% of deaths and over 75% of all Disability Adjusted Life Years, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading cause of death and disability worldwide. In low-and-middle income countries (LMICs), primary care providers often lack sufficient training and resources to effectively diagnose and…

01.09.2025 - 31.08.2029
Research project
European Commission (EU) / Horizon Europe , State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI); Staatssekretatiat für Bildung, Forschung und Innovation (SBFI)
Systems Strengthening and Health Promotion
Kaspar Wyss
IVM-KIDS - Accelerating a Paediatric Formulation of Ivermectin for the Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases

Ivermectin is a critical drug for the control and elimination of multiple neglected tropical diseases. Currently, children weighing under 15kg do not receive treatment with ivermectin due to an absence of safety data and the lack of a suitable paediatric formulation. Consequently, these children are…

01.09.2025 - 31.08.2029
Clinical Trial
European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP)
Helminth Drug Development
Jennifer Keiser
PSPH - Private Sector Partnerships in Health - phase II

Somalia, a low income country in the Horn of Africa, has been ravaged by war and famine that has exerted a significant human and economic cost to the Somali population. This is evidenced by low socio-economic indicators. A lack of social safety nets, a weakened public health infrastrucure and…

01.08.2025 - 31.07.2029
Long term service project
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
Systems Strengthening and Health Promotion
Siddharth Srivastava
Strengthening the Community of Practice for Clinical Decision Support Systems

The primary aim of this collaboration is to investigate and document the scope and characteristics of clinical decision-support systems (CDSS) developed and implemented within low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Additionally, the study seeks to understand trends in intervention longevity and…

31.07.2025 - 31.12.2026
Long term service project
Université de Genève
Digital Health Unit
Fenella Beynon
Evaluation - Evaluation of Gender Based Violence (GBV) and Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) Programme in NCA's Ukraine Response

Using quantitative and qualitative methods, we aim to capture the contribution of programme activities (Contribution Analysis) in supporting survivors, and women and girls' access to lifesaving GBV services that are appropriate and relevant to their immediate needs. We will explore how programme…

10.07.2025 - 30.11.2025
Short term service project
Norwegian Church Aid (NCA)
Systems Strengthening and Health Promotion
Adriane Martin Hilber
Strengthening Universal Health Insurance in Tanzania

Strengthening Management and Implementation of Public Health Insurance in Tanzania

This project falls under the Improving Health Care Programme in Tanzania II (IHCP2), implemented by GIZ between April 2023 and March 2026, with a specific focus on expanding health insurance coverage, cost control,…

08.07.2025 - 31.03.2026
Long term service project
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Systems Strengthening and Health Promotion
Siddharth Srivastava
EPI Management - Technical Assistance to Gambia Ministry of Health for increasing the effectiveness of EPI Management

Swiss TPH intends to support The Gambia's Expanded Program for Immunization (EPI) in developing and nurturing a continuous performance improvement and evidence-based approach. Regarding the shortcomings in the multiple information systems collecting and managing EPI data, we consider them rooted in…

01.07.2025 - 31.12.2025
Short term service project
Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI)
Systems Performance and Monitoring
Luis Segura
NICE phase II - NICE - Nutrition in City Ecosystems, phase II

The second phase of NICE continues NICE's first phase mission to improve nutrition and reduce poverty among vulnerable populations in secondary cities of low- and middle-income countries, building on the achievements of Phase 1.

NICE envisions that populations in city regions demand and access an…

01.07.2025 - 30.06.2029
Long term service project
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
Systems Strengthening and Health Promotion
Helen Prytherch