30 Years of R&D Towards New Drugs for Tropical Diseases (Page)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/impact-stories/30-years-of-rd-towards-new-drugs-for-tropical-diseases
30 Years of R&D of Drugs for Tropical Diseases “Drug discovery in an academic setting? Better leave it to the experts from the pharma industry!” Such reproach is often heard and frequently justified.
Dynamic electronic decision trees to manage childhood illness (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/projects/project-detail/project/dynamic-electronic-decision-trees-to-manage-childhood-illness
Every year in low- and middle-income countries, more than 5 million children under the age of 5 years die from preventable illnesses due to poor clinical management at the primary health care level. I
Designing and Implementing Insurance Management Information Systems (Page)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/about/scih/systems-strengthening-and-health-promotion/designing-and-implementing-insurance-management-information-systems
Universal Health Coverage: Designing and Implementing Insurance Management Information Systems Swiss TPH supports the Agenda 2030, especially the health related goals and the global community's target
SwissLEGIO (Page)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/projects/swisslegio
The SwissLEGIO Project Legionnaires’ disease/legionellosis is a severe form of pneumonia. The disease is notifiable to the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health. Over the past ten years, annual report
World Zoonoses Day: The Jigjiga One Health Initiative (Blog)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/impact-stories/world-zoonoses-day-the-jigjiga-one-health-initiative/blog-id/20
The specific needs of nomadic pastoralist communities are often not considered in public services. This is also the case in the health sector. In Ethiopia, the Swiss Agency for Development and Coopera
The Swiss 5G Backpacker: Hiking Across Switzerland to Explore EMF (Page)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/impact-stories/the-swiss-5g-backpacker-hiking-across-switzerland-to-explore-electromagnetic-fields
We are surrounded by electromagnetic fields (EMF), originating from both natural sources like the sun or thunders, and human-made sources like wireless devices (e.g. mobile phones) and electrical infr
The Ready-to-Go Questionnaire predicts health outcomes during travel: a smartphone application-based analysis (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The Ready-To-Go (R2G) Questionnaire is a tool for rapid assessment of health risks for travel consultation. This study aims to assess the utility of the R2G Questionnaire in identifying hi
Re-evaluating our knowledge of health system resilience during COVID-19: lessons from the first two years of the pandemic (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Health challenges like coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are becoming increasingly complex, transnational, and unpredictable. Studying health system responses to the COVID-19 pandemic is
The quality of OpenStreetMap food-related point-of-interest data for use in epidemiological research (Publications)
We assessed the quality of food-related OpenStreetMap (OSM) data in urban areas of five European countries. We calculated agreement statistics between point-of-interests (POIs) from OSM and from Googl
