One Health and citizen science approaches for contextualized community-led interventions tackling water-borne parasitic diseases in Chad (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/projects/project-detail/project/one-health-and-citizen-science-approaches-for-contextualized-community-led-interventions-tackling-water-borne-parasitic-diseases-in-chad
Given the complexity of vector-borne diseases that depend on biotic, abiotic and socio-cultural factors, an integrative approach is vital for effective and successful control. Therefore, this projects
The Peruvian Andes Multigenerational High Altitude Cohort (ALTO) (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/projects/project-detail/project/the-peruvian-andes-multigenerational-high-altitude-cohort-alto
The Peruvian Andes Multigenerational High Altitude Cohort (ALTO) is a birth cohort providing an opportunity for a longitudinal follow-up of children that will address child health from pregnancy to la
Legio2020 - Temporal trends in legionellosis national notification data and the effect of COVID-19 in Switzerland, 2000- 2020 (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/projects/project-detail/project/legio2020-temporal-trends-in-legionellosis-national-notification-data-and-the-effect-of-covid-19-in-switzerland-2000-2020
Legionnaires’ disease (LD) is a severe form of pneumonia caused by Legionella spp. bacteria. The disease is notifiable to the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH). Over the past ten years, ann
Combining sociological, economic and epidemiological evidence to target malaria interventions in Papua New Guinea and beyond (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/projects/project-detail/project/combining-sociological-economic-and-epidemiological-evidence-to-target-malaria-interventions-in-papua-new-guinea-and-beyond
To improve the (cost-) effectiveness of malaria control and accelerate progress towards elimination, control measures must be tailored to sub-national levels to account for local heterogeneity. The Wo
Rapid Assessment of World Bank COVID-19 Multi-Phase Programmatic Approach (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/projects/project-detail/project/rapid-assessment-of-world-bank-covid-19-multi-phase-programmatic-approach
The World Bank supports around 100 country responses to COVID-19 through loans and grants totalling over USD 6 billion. Funding is based either on the Multi-phase Programmatic Approach (MPA) model or
Women’s political EmPOwerment and Child Health (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/projects/project-detail/project/womens-political-empowerment-and-child-health
Although increasing women’s representation in political decision-making has the potential to significantly improve child health and development in LMIC, existing evidence is almost exclusively observa
Claims categorization using Artificial Intelligence (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/projects/project-detail/project/claims-categorization-using-artificial-intelligence
The goal of this project is to develop an automatic claims categorization module for openIMIS based on state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms, standards, and methodologies which will
Manipulation of Human Immunity by Parasitic Worms (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/projects/project-detail/project/manipulation-of-human-immunity-by-parasitic-worms
Approximately ten percent of the world's population is at risk of schistosomiasis, a neglected, tropical disease caused by species of the helminth Schistosoma . For the past 40 years, control of schis
Preparing the Programme Support Rationale (PSR) for South Sudan (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/projects/project-detail/project/preparing-the-programme-support-rationale-psr-for-south-sudan
The Republic of South Sudan (RSS) is a low-income country, still immersed in conflicts, with a fragile state and a complex web of stakeholders. Thus, provision of health services, including vaccinatio
Economic case for Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/projects/project-detail/project/economic-case-for-civil-registration-and-vital-statistics-systems
The objective of this project is to articulate the economic argument and synthesize the evidence base that show that CRVS systems can provide a valuable return on investment for governments, multilate
