Environmental Exposure Modelling (Page)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/about/eph/environmental-exposures-and-health/environmental-exposure-modelling
in exposure assignment and processing of big data are crucial. One of our key research aims is to solve issues related to these challenges, from the application of novel statistical techniques (e.g. machine [...] long-term health effects of air pollution can typically only consider the residential locations of the participants, thereby ignoring the space-time activity patterns that likely influence total exposure. People [...] household radon exposure and skin cancer is thus of high public...
Environmental Exposures and Health | Research at Swiss TPH (Page)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/about/eph/environmental-exposures-and-health
reviews and contributes to the development of guidelines and regulatory limits in the field of environmental health. Martin Röösli Full Professor, PhD Head of Unit +41612848383 martin.roosli@swisstph.ch [...] long-term health effects of air pollution can typically only consider the residential locations of the participants, thereby ignoring the space-time activity patterns that likely influence total exposure. People [...] Health unit develop and integrate novel tools and methods to investigate...
Screening open access compound libraries and repurposing drugs to identify and characterize new molecules active against schistosomiasis and other... (Publications)
activity of both compound libraries, a series of more than a hundred analogues from three of the leads identified in the Pathogen Box screening was also tested in vitro. Screening this set of analogues [...] backstairs influence on poverty in the tropical belt, mainly in sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia. The lack of sanitary infrastructure in endemic areas is contributing to the transmission of the parasites [...] schistosomiasis and on the benzimidazoles for STH. A corollary of this...
Screening open access compound libraries and repurposing drugs to identify and characterize new molecules active against schistosomiasis and other... (Publications)
activity of both compound libraries, a series of more than a hundred analogues from three of the leads identified in the Pathogen Box screening was also tested in vitro. Screening this set of analogues [...] backstairs influence on poverty in the tropical belt, mainly in sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia. The lack of sanitary infrastructure in endemic areas is contributing to the transmission of the parasites [...] schistosomiasis and on the benzimidazoles for STH. A corollary of this...
Mothers deserve better: Why we need more data on breastfeeding (Page)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/impact-stories/mothers-deserve-better-why-we-need-more-data-on-breastfeeding-to-drive-change
reflect the experiences of the majority of individuals who breastfeed. However, we acknowledge that not all breastfeeding individuals identify as mothers, and we aim to be inclusive of all parents who breastfeed [...] breastfeeding rates and the impacts of early-life nutrition on maternal and child health. Previously, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California Berkeley Center of Excellence in Maternal, Child [...] lead to early weaning, despite the best of intentions. Although...
FarmCo South Africa (Page)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/projects/farmco-south-africa
no conflict of interest, and the study is free from external influences, including intellectual, financial, or proprietary agendas. This commitment ensures the independence and reliability of our research [...] by the University of Cape Town, in collaboration with the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH). The latter is an associated research institute of the University of Basel, Switzerland [...] Ethics Committee of Northwestern and Central Switzerland. It has also been...
Systems Innovation Research | Research Groups at Swiss TPH (Page)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/about/eph/household-economics-and-health-systems-research/systems-innovation-research
standard medical certificate of cause of cause of death. In settings where this is not possible, VA is used to determine the cause through interviews with the deceased's next of kin or caregivers. Using a [...] power of communities Accept Show More Videos Selected Projects All Projects WHO RAcE - A Programmatic Analysis of integrated Community Case Management (iCCM): A Multicountry Systems-Wide Analysis of the [...] a period of profound systemic change driven by rapid demographic changes,...
Bayesian spatial models applied to malaria epidemiology (Publications)
malaria remains one of the major cause of morbidity and mortality in large areas of the developing world, especially sub-Saharan Africa. The main victims are children under five years of age. The observed [...] proposed and analyzed through a set of simulated data. The proposed approach was applied to obtain simultaneous estimation of suitability of malaria transmission and of conditional risk in Senegal. The renewed [...] scaling-up to achieve universal coverage with some form of vector...
Bayesian spatial models applied to malaria epidemiology (Publications)
malaria remains one of the major cause of morbidity and mortality in large areas of the developing world, especially sub-Saharan Africa. The main victims are children under five years of age. The observed [...] proposed and analyzed through a set of simulated data. The proposed approach was applied to obtain simultaneous estimation of suitability of malaria transmission and of conditional risk in Senegal. The renewed [...] scaling-up to achieve universal coverage with some form of vector...
Malaria Epidemiology and Control | Swiss TPH Research Groups (Page)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/about/eph/health-interventions/malaria-epidemiology-and-control
to understand the factors that influence the effectiveness of interventions in specific health system settings, to contribute to a sustainable and holistic improvement of health programmes. Our group’s [...] New Guinea and Tanzania we investigate the drivers of residual malaria transmission with a particular focus on the behaviour of the human host and of the mosquito vector. This way, we aim to identify how [...] Health Institute Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research Makerere...