Operational strategies of anti-malarial drug campaigns for malaria elimination in Zambia's southern province: a simulation study (Publications)
effect of alternative operational strategies for parasite clearance in southern province. METHODS: OpenMalaria, a discrete-time, individual-based stochastic model of malaria, was parameterized for the study
Assessing the population coverage of a health demographic surveillance system using satellite imagery and crowd-sourcing (Publications)
System was established in the area that surrounds the Majete Wildlife Reserve (1600 km2), using the OpenHDS data system. We compared house locations obtained using GPS recordings on mobile devices during
Microbiota-Targeted Interventions for Childhood Undernutrition (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/projects/project-detail/project/microbiota-targeted-interventions-for-childhood-undernutrition
revealed specific changes to the microbiota, which are conserved between both study sites. These results open the way to develop microbiota-targeted interventions to rebalance the microbiota and subsequently
Impementation and scaling up of a digital Clinical Decision Support System / ICRC Nigeria (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/projects/project-detail/project/impementation-and-scaling-up-of-a-digital-clinical-decision-support-system-/-icrc-nigeria
as the quality of care they received. The results were published in the peer-reviewed journal BMJ Open. (https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/12/7/e055315.full) Target groups Primary target groups are children [...] the management of childhood illness in primary care in rural Nigeria: an observational study. BMJ Open. 2022 Jul 21;12(7):e055315. Bernasconi A, Crabbé F, Adedeji AM, Bello A, Schmitz T et.al. Results
One Health: Connecting Humans, Animals and the Environment (Page)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/study-with-us/postgraduate/one-health-connecting-humans-animals-and-the-environment
calculate the added value resulting from the One Health approach using case studies. The free Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) "One Health: Connecting Humans, Animals and the Environment" provides the theoretical
Community effectiveness of pyriproxyfen as a dengue vector control method: a systematic review (Publications)
persistence of the intervention and may also slow down the development of insecticide resistance. Open questions concern concentration and frequency of application in the various treatments. Area-wide
Cohort profile: the Kilombero and Ulanga Antiretroviral Cohort (KIULARCO): a prospective HIV cohort in rural Tanzania (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The Kilombero and Ulanga Antiretroviral Cohort (KIULARCO) is a single-site, open and ongoing prospective cohort of people living with human immunodeficiency virus (PLWHIV) established in 2005
Epidemiological links between malaria parasitaemia and hypertension: findings from a population-based survey in rural Côte d'Ivoire (Publications)
variations are needed to clarify involved biological mechanisms, toward comorbidity management.This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No
Comparison of diagnostic methods for the detection and quantification of the four sympatric <em>Plasmodium</em> species in field samples from Papua... (Publications)
reduced risk of contamination, together with reduced costs per sample through reduced reaction volume, opens the possibility to implement qPCR in endemic settings as a suitable diagnostic tool for large epi
SSPH+ Lugano Summer School in Public Health (Page)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/study-with-us/postgraduate/ssph-lugano-summerschool
group work among participants, pre-recorded lectures as well as independent study. Registration will open in January 2025 with early bird options. For any details, please see the enrollment section of the