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Introducing Swiss TPH - Excellence in Global Health

Over 800 people from more than 70 nations work at Swiss TPH focusing on infectious and non-communicable diseases, environment, society and health as well as health systems and interventions. They all share the mission to improve population health globally.

New Findings on S. mansoni Life Cycle

For over 50 years, Swiss TPH has researched Schistosomiasis, a neglected tropical disease caused by parasitic flatworms which affects 250 million people globally. A new study details the complex S. mansoni life cycle, contributing to antischistosomal drug discovery.

Photo: Yvette Endriss/Swiss TPH

One Health in Chad

The Support Project for the Health Districts in Chad (PADS - Programme d'Appui aux Districts Sanitaires au Tchad) aims to strengthen the healthcare system. In order to reach people in remote areas such as nomadic populations, PADS applies a 'One Health' approach taking into account both human and animal health.

PADS is a project of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.

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MBA in International Health Management

Do you want to become a part of a new generation of leaders in global health?

Swiss TPH’s part-time MBA in International Health Management trains future leaders and managers who want to work in multicultural and transdisciplinary settings.

Learn more about the MBA

A Milestone in the Fight Against Sleeping Sickness

Fexinidazole is the first all-oral drug against sleeping sickness. Swiss TPH contributed significantly to the development of fexinidazole together with DNDi, Sanofi and many others. Since its foundation 75 years ago, Swiss TPH has been researching sleeping sickness. For instance, it was the first to succeed in breeding tsetse flies under laboratory conditions.

Photo: Swiss TPH 1946

Epidemiology and Whole Genome Sequencing of Clinical Mycobacterium bovis from Ghana

Lecturer: Isaac Otchere Darko, Univeristy of Ghana
Location: Swiss TPH, Kilimanjaro
Event category: Advances in Infection Biology, Epidemiology and Global Public Health

04.03.2019 17:15 to 18:00

Antenatal influenza vaccination: Engaging clinicians for increasing coverage in urban Pune, India

Lecturer: Joseph Gnanouday Giduthuri
Location: Swiss TPH, Kilimanjaro
Event category: Advances in Infection Biology, Epidemiology and Global Public Health