Assessment of the factors affecting emergence and spread of artemisinin resistance in Rwanda (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/projects/project-detail/project/assessment-of-the-factors-affecting-emergence-and-spread-of-artemisinin-resistance-in-rwanda
Background: Malaria is a major public health problem globally and resistance to most widely used drugs impedes its control. Artemisinin resistance has emerged and spread in the Greater Mekong Sub regi
OpenMalaria Workflow and OpenMalariaUtilities R Packages (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/projects/project-detail/project/openmalaria-workflow-and-openmalariautilities-r-packages
OpenMalaria Workflow R Package The work of the Analytics and Intervention Modelling Group is based on OpenMalaria : an open-source C++ program for simulating malaria epidemiology and the impacts on th
Improving the HIV care cascade in Lesotho: Towards 90-90-90 - A research collaboration with the Ministry of Health (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/projects/project-detail/project/improving-the-hiv-care-cascade-in-lesotho-towards-90-90-90-a-research-collaboration-with-the-ministry-of-health
Background Despite enormous progress in the last decade, HIV/AIDS remains the most important cause of morbidity and mortality in most countries of Southern Africa and a central contributor to economic
Air quality in Tehran, Iran: Evaluating acute health effects and modeling the long-term spatial variability (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/projects/project-detail/project/air-quality-in-tehran-iran-evaluating-acute-health-effects-and-modeling-the-long-term-spatial-variability
Air pollution in low- and middle-income countries is higher and from different sources than air pollution in high-income countries, where most exposure and epidemiologic research has been done. The bu
Improving antichagasic drug discovery through stage-specific monitoring of Trypanosoma cruzi (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/projects/project-detail/project/improving-antichagasic-drug-discovery-through-stage-specific-monitoring-of-trypanosoma-cruzi
About 6-7 million people are infected with Trypanosoma cruzi , a protozoan parasite causing Chagas’ disease. Most of the symptoms appear in the chronic phase of Chagas’ disease: cardiomyopathies and m
Health impact assessment of large infrastructure projects in the Brazilian Amazon (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/projects/project-detail/project/health-impact-assessment-of-large-infrastructure-projects-in-the-brazilian-amazon
In Brazil, many large-scale infrastructure projects have been developed by the resource extraction, renewable energy and public infrastructure sectors all over the country. While it is common practice
Health impact evaluation of an urban flooding resilience framework in Dakar, Senegal (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/projects/project-detail/project/health-impact-evaluation-of-an-urban-flooding-resilience-framework-in-dakar-senegal
Rapid urbanisation has been one of the defining phenomena of the twentieth century. In the developing world, much of the urban population finds themselves living in informal settlements with high leve
Design of trials for pathogen elimination (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/projects/project-detail/project/design-of-trials-for-pathogen-elimination
In field trials of new interventions against mosquitoes and the diseases they transmit, there are often spill-over effects between areas that receive the intervention and others that do not, because o
