Overcoming discrimination barriers: a refugee’s journey (Blog)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/impact-stories/overcoming-discrimination-barriers/blog-id/24
Lujain Alchalabi is a Syrian refugee and an Epidemiology master student at Swiss TPH. She came to Switzerland after leaving behind her home and career as a dentist, having no idea what she would do be
Using innovative new tools to advance progress in NTDs (Blog)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/impact-stories/using-innovative-new-tools-to-advance-progress-in-ntds/blog-id/22
Great strides have been made in the fight against neglected tropical diseases over the past 20 years, but the global burden is still considerable. In order to end the neglect, novel tools and innovati
World Rabies Day: Early diagnosis and prompt treatment save lives (Blog)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/impact-stories/world-rabies-day-early-diagnosis-and-prompt-treatment-save-lives/blog-id/21
Rabies is deadly, but 99.9% vaccine-preventable. Children under 15 years in rural communities around the globe are at higher risk of being exposed to rabies. Controlling rabies widespread in endemic c
Improving treatment of helminth infections (Blog)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/impact-stories/improving-treatment-of-helminth-infections/blog-id/26
The young Jennifer Keiser grew up in Munich, Germany, and followed both her grandfather (a chemist) and her older sister (medicine) into a life of science. While studying in high school, she worked pa
Spirituality and One Health (Blog)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/impact-stories/spirituality-and-one-health/blog-id/23
What do health and spirituality have to do with each other? Jakob Zinsstag, Head of the Human and Animal Health Unit at Swiss TPH, has worked in many places around the world and met people with differ
Melissa Penny speaks about the beauty of disease modelling (Blog)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/impact-stories/the-beauty-of-disease-modelling/blog-id/25
Melissa Penny is an applied mathematician at Swiss TPH who has worked in public health and infectious disease modelling for over 15 years. She joins us today to discuss the first malaria vaccine, dise
The ‘death rays’ that never were (Blog)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/impact-stories/the-death-rays-that-never-were/blog-id/34
To anti-5G activists he’s like a red rag to a bull: Martin Röösli, a professor for environmental epidemiology at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute in Basel. But early on in his career, he
The ‘shadow pandemic’ requires more than a shadow response (Blog)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/impact-stories/the-shadow-pandemic-requires-more-than-a-shadow-response/blog-id/33
Thirty years on and the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence (GBV) is as important now as it was in its first year. Starting annually on November 25, the International Day for the Elimina
In Nigeria, an electronic application improves quality of health care for children (Blog)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/impact-stories/in-nigeria-an-electronic-application-improves-quality-of-health-care-for-children/blog-id/32
An electronic application is improving the quality of health care for children under five years old. ALMANACH, short for the Algorithm for the Management of Childhood Illness, is a user-friendly appli
Antimicrobial resistance: the silent pandemic (Blog)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/impact-stories/antimicrobial-resistance-the-silent-pandemic/blog-id/30
For Antimicrobial Awareness Week, Esther Künzli, Ad Interim Head of the Travel Clinic and Infectious Disease Specialist, joined us to speak about the silent killer that is currently being overshadowed
