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17.12.2021
Assessing the Potential Health Impact of Omicron
Cases of SARS-CoV-2 variant Omicron are surging in numerous settings, with early evidence suggesting Omicron is more infectious than the Delta variant. It is not yet known,... More...
13.12.2021
Health Economics to Advance Sleeping Sickness Elimination
Global health decision-makers use frameworks to support them with creating strategies to meet global elimination targets for diseases, such as sleeping sickness. In a recent study... More...
03.12.2021
Elimination on the Horizon: Prevalence of Schistosomiasis, a Neglected Tropical Disease, Decreases by Nearly 60%
In a new study by the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), researchers found that the prevalence of schistosomiasis among school-aged children decreased by... More...
30.11.2021
People from Low-Income Households Severely Affected by Pandemic
The COVCO-Basel study by the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) has been investigating the health-related and societal effects of the COVID-19 pandemic for over... More...
30.11.2021
Promising Drug Combination Treatment Against Parasitic Worm Infections
In a Phase III clinical trial, researchers at Swiss TPH have successfully gathered encouraging data to demonstrate higher efficacy of co-administration of ivermectin-albendazole in... More...
16.11.2021
Clinical Trials Completed for a New Drug to Treat Parasitic Worm Infections in Infants
The Pediatric Praziquantel Consortium completed its pivotal clinical Phase III trial of arpraziquantel – a potential new treatment option for the estimated 50 million... More...
09.11.2021
A Decline in Air Pollution Levels in Europe Still Fall Short of WHO Guidelines, According to New Study
A new study by Swiss TPH used robust spatio-temporal methodology to show the reduction in air pollution across Europe from 2006-2019 and found that while exposure rates have... More...
20.10.2021
TB-PRACTECAL: Clinical Trial Yields Promising Results for Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Treatment
TB-PRACTECAL, a clinical trial led by Médecins Sans Frontières with partners including Swiss TPH, has found that a new all-oral treatment regimen for rifampicin-resistant... More...
14.10.2021
From Farms to Families: A New Swiss Partnership Aims to Improve Urban Diets
In partnership, the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) with Sight and Life, ETH Zürich and the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture have launched the... More...
07.10.2021
First Malaria Vaccine Recommended for Children by the WHO
Yesterday, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended the widespread use of the malaria vaccine RTS,S/AS01, debuting a tool that could save the lives of tens of thousands of... More...
22.09.2021
New WHO Air Quality Guidelines Aim to Save Millions of Lives from Air Pollution
Today, the World Health Organization launched their new Global Air Quality Guidelines, which aims to protect the health of populations by reducing key air pollutants. Drawing on... More...
20.09.2021
Students Return to Swiss TPH
This week, universities across Switzerland resumed in-person, hybrid and online courses. After nearly 80 years of educating talent at Socinstrasse in Basel, students return to the... More...
17.09.2021
Key Handover for New Building of Swiss TPH
On 17 September 2021, the key handover for the new building of the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) took place at the BaseLink area in Allschwil. Around 700... More...
07.09.2021
Jennifer Belus Receives Prestigious Ambizione Fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation
75% of people with mental health problems in low-income countries do not have access to effective treatment. Swiss TPH researcher Jennifer Belus aims to contribute to improving the... More...
25.08.2021
Stefanie Knopp Appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Basel
Stefanie Knopp of Swiss TPH has been appointed as an Assistant Professor at the University of Basel. Knopp, a Swiss National Science Foundation PRIMA grant fellow since 2019, leads... More...
20.08.2021
Mitglieder aus Politik und Verwaltung zu Gast im Neubau des Swiss TPH
Das Swiss TPH empfing am Mittwoch 80 Vertreterinnen und Vertreter aus Politik und Verwaltung in seinem Neubau «Belo Horizonte». Gelegenheit bot der Netzwerkanlass beider Basel, der... More...
11.08.2021
Collateral Damage of COVID-19 on Low- and Middle-Income Countries
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on both human health, the economy and society at large. There is no doubt that the disease and control measures indirectly effect... More...
20.07.2021
Swiss TPH Re-designated as WHO Collaborating Centre for Expertise in Malaria
Swiss TPH has been re-designated as the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Modelling, Monitoring and Training for Malaria Control and Elimination, following... More...