09.07.2019
Changes in Mosquito Behaviour Could Result in Millions of Additional Malaria Cases
Bed nets and indoor residual spraying with insecticides are key interventions to protect people in their homes from mosquito bites, thereby preventing malaria transmission. A... More...
04.07.2019
Health Care and Management Graduates are Ready to Improve Health
The Health Care and Management (HCM) programme looks back on more than a quarter of a century of educating international health professionals. On 27 June 2019, eighteen students... More...
03.07.2019
Sébastien Gagneux receives Gardner Middlebrook Award 2019
Sébastien Gagneux, Swiss TPH and University of Basel, was honoured with the Gardner Middlebrook Lifetime Achievement Award for his research on tuberculosis. The prestigious award... More...
27.06.2019
Interventions for Schistosomiasis Elimination in Zanzibar
Schistosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease with a considerable impact on global health. More than 200 million people are infected, mainly in sub-Saharan Africa. Researchers... More...
21.06.2019
Spatenstich Neubau Schweizerisches Tropen- und Public Health-Institut
Heute Freitag, 21. Juni 2019, fand der Spatenstich für den Neubau des Schweizerischen Tropen- und Public Health-Instituts (Swiss TPH) im BaseLink-Areal in Allschwil statt. Der... More...
20.06.2019
One Third of Cambodians Infected with Threadworm
Strongyloides stercoralis is a soil-transmitted threadworm that is endemic in many tropical and subtropical countries. In a nation-wide study in Cambodia, Swiss TPH scientists and... More...
20.06.2019
Study Results Provide Basis for Targeted WASH Interventions in Rohingya Refugee Camp
Currently, around 910,000 Rohingya refugees live in Cox’s Bazar District in Bangladesh after having fled violence faced in Myanmar, resulting in one of the most rapid exoduses in... More...
13.06.2019
Reducing the Burden of Non-Communicable Diseases in Moldova
In Moldova, over half of the population suffers from non-communicable diseases (NCDs). The Government of the Republic of Moldova and the Swiss Agency for Development and... More...
04.06.2019
European Scientists Call for Climate Action
A new report highlights an alarming range of health risks in Europe due to climate change and the benefits of a rapid phase out of fossil fuels. The report entitled “The imperative... More...