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03.09.2019
Swiss TPH Scientist Awarded Competitive European Research Grant
Marloes Eeftens, Senior Scientist at Swiss TPH, was awarded the European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant. The highly competitive grant supports 408 early-career researchers... More...
29.08.2019
Health in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Society is called upon to transform the world by 2030 through a rigorous pursuit of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In November 2018, Swiss TPH and the... More...
23.08.2019
Accelerated Research and Development Needed to End Malaria
New tools for malaria prevention and treatment are required to eradicate malaria in the foreseeable future, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). An overview of... More...
15.08.2019
Heatwaves Increase Emergency Admissions to Swiss Hospitals
The fact that heat threatens people's well-being comes as no surprise. The first scientific evaluation of the extent to which heatwaves influence emergency hospital admissions in... More...
06.08.2019
Malaria Mortality in Africa May Be Higher than Estimated
Previous studies analysing malaria mortality in sub-Saharan Africa may have underestimated the burden caused by this mosquito-borne disease. A study by Swiss TPH researchers found... More...
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
Groundbreaking Ceremony for the New Building of the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
Today, Friday, 21 June 2019, the groundbreaking ceremony (“Spatenstich”) for the new building of the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) took place at the... 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...
17.05.2019
New Findings on Malaria Vaccine
Protection by the malaria vaccine RTS,S is not only a matter of antibody quantity but also of quality. These are the findings of a study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global... More...
16.05.2019
Flu Prevention in Switzerland
A nationwide systematic survey of 97 organisations carried out by Swiss TPH shows that authorities, hospitals, institutions and organisations in Switzerland have long been... More...
02.05.2019
Farewell to Thierry Freyvogel
A few days before his 90th birthday, Thierry Alfred Freyvogel-Jenny (4 May 1929 - 24 April 2019) passed away peacefully at home. We have lost a sensitive, farsighted, witty and... More...
24.04.2019
Two Decades of Swiss Leadership for New Malaria Medicines
On World Malaria Day 2019, Swiss organizations look back on a long history of successful public-private collaboration for new malaria medicines. Switzerland’s leading role in the... More...