Medicines Implementation Research | Research at Swiss TPH (Page)
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delivery of effective public health and clinical policies and programs. It attempts to solve the wide range of implementation problems encountered in real world conditions and real world health systems. As a [...] and complex – and therefore overlaps with other types of research used in medicine and public health. The World Health Organization defines it as a form of research which "addresses implementation bottlenecks [...] malaria live in poor rural communities with no access to health care....
Mental disorders among cardiac disease patients in a Palestinian population (Publications)
(CVDs) are among the leading contributors to the global burden of disease, making them a major public health problem. Mental disorders and CVDs are common conditions, which very often co-occur, and influence [...] This PhD project the “CARMEN Study” was carried out in collaboration between Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, (Swiss TPH) and An-Najah National University. The following dissertation is based on [...] of cardiac diseases. This could potentially lead to a national mental heal...
New Vector Control Interventions (Page)
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Group | New Vector Control Interventions Experimental Huts, Ifakara Epidemiology and Public Health Vector Biology New Vector Control Interventions Vector Research and Control Our mission is to bring new [...] Visual Analysis of Long Lasting Insecticidal Nets to Maximise Universal Access Latest Publications All Publications Burton T.A et al. Semi-field evaluation of a volatile transfluthrin-based intervention [...] practice product testing standard operating procedures (SOPs). The NVCI group is...
Human African Tryponosomiasis | SwissTPH (Page)
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Implementation Research Unit Parasite Chemotherapy Unit Project Sites Related Publications All Publications Antillón M et al. Health economic evaluation of strategies to eliminate gambiense human African t [...] single-arm, open-label, phase 2-3 trial. Lancet Glob Health . 2022;10(11):e1665-e1674. DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(22)00338-2 Mudji J et al. Mental distress and health-related quality of life in gambiense human African [...] company with technical support from a range of partners in...
Tuberculosis Research Against "Super Resistant Bacteria" (Page)
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great danger. A research team led by cell biologist Sébastien Gagneux at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) examines the antibiotic resistance mechanisms of Mycobacterium tuberculosis [...] the Department of Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology (MPI) at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), which is associated with the University of Basel: "The alarming history [...] five continents both on human and animal TB, from basic research to health...
Global Action Required to Tackle Pandemic-Induced Hunger and Poverty (News)
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employment and income and increases in food insecurity," said Günther Fink, an economist and public health specialist at Swiss TPH. "48% of rural Kenyan households, 69% of agricultural households in Bangladesh [...] California, Davis, Northwestern University, Yale University, University of Basel, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Princeton University, Busara Center for Behavioral Economics, Stanford University, [...] containment measures have undermined several other aspects of...
R. Geigy Award 2020 goes to Tobias Schindler (News)
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scientists who have made outstanding contributions to research into neglected tropical diseases or public health, combining laboratory and field-work in innovative ways. [...] with a fever are still routinely treated only for malaria. Together with partners from the Ifakara Health Institute (IHI), Tobias Schindler, Postdoctoral Scientific Collaborator at Swiss TPH, has developed [...] impressed by the smooth cooperation between Swiss TPH, the government of Equatorial Guinea, the World Health...
Promising Drug Combination Treatment Against Parasitic Worm Infections (Page)
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help to eliminate this disease as a public health problem”, said Jennifer Keiser, Head of the Helminth Drug Development unit at Swiss TPH and last author of the publication. Blood sample collection in Côte [...] helminthiasis. The findings were published yesterday in The Lancet Infectious Diseases Journal. Health personnel taking blood samples of participants in the combination drug clinical trial in Laos. (Photo: [...] Swiss TPH) Soil-transmitted helminths (STH) affect one in five people in...
Introducing the SDGs into Peer-Reviewed Literature (News)
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world into a better and more equitable place. Organisations from all over the world, including the public and private sectors as well as academia and the scientific community, are urged to work towards the [...] contribution to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Tropical Medicine and International Health is the first peer-reviewed journal to introduce an innovative feature that tracks the SDGs addressed [...] Swiss TPH researchers in collaboration with two of the editors of Tropical...
Childhood air pollutant exposure and carotid artery intima-media thickness in young adults (Publications)
air pollutants increases risk for cardiovascular health outcomes in adults. The contribution of childhood air pollutant exposure to cardiovascular health has not been thoroughly evaluated. METHODS AND RESULTS: [...] air pollutants and efforts that focus on limiting childhood exposures continue to be important public health goals [...] intima-media thickness (CIMT) were assessed. Self-administered questionnaires collected information about health and socio-demographic characteristics and a 12-hr...