Nicole Probst-Hensch Elected to SAMS Executive Board (News)
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Nicole Probst-Hensch, Head of the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Swiss TPH will represent the University of Basel and Swiss TPH on the Executive Board of the Swiss Academy of Medical
Swiss TPH Symposium: Global Health in the 21st Century (News)
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Swiss TPH hosted their 45 th symposium this year, entitled Global Health in the 21 st Century. The virtual symposium had over 500 registered guests from the public, private, non-profit and governmenta
Swiss TPH Awarded New Grant for Early Career Researchers (News)
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The Botnar Research Centre for Child Health (BRCCH) has announced five new research projects around the topic of child health within their Postdoctoral Excellence Programme (PEP). One of these project
A Novel Solar Plant for the Ifakara Health Institute in Tanzania (News)
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The Ifakara Health Institute (IHI) is a renowned health research organisation in Tanzania. In close partnership with Swiss TPH, a unique teaching and research ecosystem has developed over decades, whi
DYNAMIC: New Clinical Decision Support Tool Reduces Antibiotic Prescription in Children by a Four-fold (News)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/news/news-detail/news/dynamic-new-clinical-decision-support-tool-reduces-antibiotic-prescription-in-children-by-a-four-fold
Every year, an estimated 3.3 million children die from acute febrile episodes, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). This situation is mainly due to the lack of diagnostic tools an
Forschungskooperation zur Entwicklung eines neuartigen Covid-Impfstoffes (News)
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Das Universitätsspital Basel (USB), die Universität Basel und das Schweizerische Tropen- und Public Health-Institut (Swiss TPH) gehen eine Forschungskooperation mit dem Startup-Unternehmen RocketVax e
Mathias Kronig New Administrative Director at Swiss TPH (News)
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On 25 May 2021, the Board of Governors at Swiss TPH unanimously elected Mathias Kronig as the new Administrative Director of Swiss TPH. In this function, Kronig will be a part of the Directorate of Sw
Prisons Accelerate Spread of Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis in Georgia (News)
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The causative agent of tuberculosis (TB), Mycobacterium tuberculosis , is stunningly versatile. In order to circumvent the effect of antibiotics, it changes its biological properties and develops a so
New Findings about Diagnostic Tools for Malaria Elimination (News)
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Malaria often causes symptoms such as fever, chills, and flu-like illness and when left untreated can lead to death. However, in areas where malaria is common, some people are infected and can transmi
Andrej Trauner Wins Swiss TB Award (News)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/news/news-detail/news/andrej-trauner-wins-swiss-tb-award
Approximately 10 million people will be infected with tuberculosis (TB) in 2018 alone. In most cases the infection will be curable, however for many people the infection will mark the beginning of a l