Basic Epidemiology (BEPI) (Publications)
BEPI (Basics of Epidemiology) is a web based blended learning offer for Master and PhD students to expand and improve their basic knowledge in Epidemiology and to apply it to epidemiological case studies [...] studies and to the use of existing data bases. BEPI is based on the Epidemiology chapter of the Swiss Public Health textbook (Ackermann-Liebrich U, Meier C, et al. In: Gutzwiller F, Paccaud F, eds., Sozial-
Autumn Semester Starts for Students at Swiss TPH (News)
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Bachelor and Master programmes This semester, 16 students are starting the Master’s degree programmes in Epidemiology and Infection Biology at the University of Basel which are organized by Swiss TPH. [...] The MSc in Epidemiology centres around teaching of epidemiology and biostatistics followed by research work typically embedded in a field study of Swiss TPH. The MSc in Infection Biology focuses on h [...] course on infection biology and epidemiology. “It is always a great pleasure to...
Streamlining course evaluations at Swiss TPH (Projects)
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rather time consuming: The estimated time effort for the evaluation of both the Specialised Master in Epidemiology and Infection Biology amounts ten working days per year. The effectiveness of these evaluations [...] Education and Training (ET) portfolio contains undergraduate and graduate teaching (Bachelor and Master), PhD courses, and professional postgraduate education including other teaching products. As key
A Warm Welcome to Our New Students (News)
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Lochmann who starts the Master of Science (MSc) in Infection Biology today. 31 students from 16 countries are starting the MSc programmes in Infection Biology and Epidemiology this semester. The MSc in [...] Bachelor and Master of Science programmes “I am really excited to get to know Swiss TPH and learn more about the research the institute does, especially in the area of infectious diseases,” said Salomé [...] drugs, vaccines and diagnostic tools to better manage and prevent infectious...
Students Return to Swiss TPH (News)
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welcoming 28 students. Swiss TPH also welcomes 26 Masters Students from 15 countries beginning their studies in Infection Biology (10) and Epidemiology (17), as well as 25 PhD students from 16 countries [...] force for research in the fields of medical parasitology and infection biology, public health and epidemiology and medical anthropology. From bachelor to postgraduate studies Many courses begin this week, [...] national and international students,” says Julia Bohlius, Head of Education and...
Launch of Swiss TPH Alumni Network (News)
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topics, including international health, epidemiology, public health, infection biology, clinical practice, and management. Swiss TPH offers bachelor’s and master’s programmes, as well as PhD programmes in [...] network is to strengthen the links with its graduates and bring together alumni from Swiss TPH’s master’s, PhD and postgraduate programmes. Leaders in public and global health “Our alumni are not only well [...] postgraduate level, a range of short courses, professional certificates...
A Narrowing Window for Change: Experts Call for Global Climate Action (News)
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sanitation systems. Swiss TPH is now offering a course on Climate Change and Health within the Master in Epidemiology of the University of Basel. [...] increase climate resilience. Guéladio Cissé, Professor in Sanitary Engineering and Environmental Epidemiology and Head of the Ecosystem Health Sciences Unit at Swiss TPH, was one of the two Coordinating Lead
Mirko Winkler wird Professor für Urban Public Health (News)
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Professur am 1. Mai 2023 aufnehmen und die neue Einheit «Urban Public Health» im Departement «Epidemiology and Public Health (EPH)» am Swiss TPH leiten. «Die Ernennung zum Professor für ‹Urban Public Health› [...] gelernte Bauzeichner studierte an der ETH Zürich Umweltnaturwissenschaften, wo er im 2008 mit einem Master of Science abschloss. Er promovierte in Epidemiologie am Swiss TPH/Universität Basel und erhielt
Perception par les éleveurs des nuisances causées par les insectes et les tiques aux bovins dans le Canton du Jura (Publications)
to be increasing. The following diseases were spontaneously listed: keratoconjunctivitis (59%), mastitis related to flies (31%), hypodermosis (15%), ehrlichiosis (12%) and babesiosis (10%). Suspicion of [...] perception of their distribution is in accordance with the epidemiological data. An overview of the epidemiology of tick- and insect-related diseases can therefore be established by surveying farmers' perception
We Simply Cannot Miss out on 50% of the Talent Worldwide (News)
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great mentor and strong promoter of women in science. After then I obtained a Master of Public Health and a PhD in Epidemiology from UCLA in Los Angeles and was appointed a research professorship at the [...] ons department at Roche for a couple of years. I then became very interested in environmental epidemiology and joined the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine at the University of Basel with Prof [...] to be closer to our families. I became the first director of the National...