Bayesian spatial models applied to malaria epidemiology (Publications)
seen in the last decade in the fight against the disease, malaria remains one of the major cause of morbidity and mortality in large areas of the developing world, especially sub-Saharan Africa. The main [...] setting. In particular, the work addresses the problem of selecting variables and assessing the need of incorporating a spatial structure in the modelling of the mixing probability and the non-degenerate di [...] relationships between the predictors and malaria risk. The area under study i...
A tropical institute to tackle unemployment (Page)
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paved the way for the establishment in 1951 of the Centre suisse de recherches scientifiques in Adiopodoumé in what is now the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, and for the foundation in 1957 – on the invitation [...] Geigy began laying the foundations for extending the outreach of the newly established Tropeli (as the institute was known locally) from Basel to the world. In 1944, he set up the journal of tropical [...] including for Switzerland. This widely-held belief led policymakers to look f...
World Tuberculosis Day 2023: Yes! We can end TB! (Page)
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(Bedaquiline+Pretomanid+Linezolid) for the treatment of multidrug-resistant TB. This is the kind of impact we strive for!" Suzanne Gajewski is a Clinical Research Manager in the Clinical Operations Unit at Swiss [...] research was the finding that prisons can be a breeding ground for highly drug-resistant TB, which can then spread into the general population. The elimination of TB requires political will to tackle the disease [...] documentation, which can be burdensome for research teams. When ...
Household Economics and Health Systems Research | Swiss TPH (Page)
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and Policy Household Health Systems The main objective of the Household Economics & Health Systems Research unit is to study the interactions between individuals and the larger health system environment, [...] families. Identifying the motives and constraints underlying individual decision making is not only critical for understanding specific health behaviors, but also for designing the most effective interventions [...] Trypanosomiasis Modelling and Economic Predictions for Policy The HAT MEPP...
Analytics and Intervention Modelling (Page)
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package which is developed to allow the use of OpenMalaria directly from R. The package has been the main tool used by the Analytics and Intervention Modelling Group since November 2021 and it is now publicly [...] Additional ongoing development of the model include the account for delay in treatment, the inclusion of additional interventions and extensions to the stochastic framework for estimating probabilities of [...] outputs to predict the costs and the cost-effectiveness of different...
Impact Stories | Swiss TPH (Page)
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care for children 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 us [...] care for children under five years old. ALMANACH, short for the Algorithm for the Management of Childhood Illness, is a user-friendly application that can be installed on tablets or smartphone and is being [...] November 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against...
