Schweizer Kohorte mit Biobank: Notwendige Basis für Public-Health-Forschung und grosse Langzeitstudien (Blog)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/impact-stories/schweizer-kohorte-mit-biobank-notwendige-basis-fuer-public-health-forschung-und-grosse-langzeitstudien/blog-id/64
Wir leben in einer Zeit, in der Public-Health-Innovationen möglicherweise mehr zu Lebensverlängerung und Lebensqualität beitragen als medizinische Innovationen. Von dieser Idee lässt sich SAMW-Vorstan [...] dsmitglied Prof. Nicole Probst-Hensch, Professorin am Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), leiten. Im Schwerpunkt, der in Zusammenarbeit mit einem breit aufgestellten Team entstanden [...] entstanden ist, zeigt sie auf, weshalb in der Schweiz finanzielle Ressourcen für Publ...
Mirko Winkler appointed Professor of Urban Public Health (News)
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2023 and head the new Urban Public Health unit in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health (EPH) at Swiss TPH. "The appointment as Professor of Urban Public Health is a great pleasure and honour [...] excellence in Urban Public Health with national and global impact," said Nicole Probst-Hensch, head of EPH who pioneered this new professorship. "We can use this novel and promising public health pillar at our [...] our institute to promote the health and well-being of people of all ages.”...
Coping with emerging public health problems (Blog)
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Nicole Probst-Hensch, Head of the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Swiss TPH and Principal Investigator of the most extensive long-term study in Switzerland, talks about the importance of
Strengthening public health in times of war (Blog)
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military experts predicted would be over within days. But the war is still ongoing. How can a public health project be run under such circumstances? How do local people work under these challenging and
Heat as a Health Risk: Need for Action to Raise Public Awareness (News)
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and kidney diseases, as well as mental illness. On behalf of the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) and the Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN), Swiss TPH conducted a representative survey about [...] protecting their health in the heat. However, many behavioural measures that help on hot days are either not known about or not actively implemented. This can result in avoidable health consequences due [...] cohort in Switzerland about heat and its effects on health. The findings...
Foundation stone laid for new Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (News)
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"Construction work started as planned in July 2019 and we are confident that we will be able to stick to the tight schedule and move in at the end of 2021", said Stefan Mörgeli, Project Manager New Bu
Groundbreaking Ceremony for the New Building of the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (News)
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education spaces in a unique way that will enable us to even better fulfil our mandate to improve the health of people in the Basel region, Switzerland and worldwide." The new building belongs to the University
Science Publication: SARS-CoV-2 Genomic Surveillance in Africa (News)
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genomes and characterize variants in real-time. This was the largest consortium of scientists and public health institutions working together to support data-driven COVID-19 response in Africa. The results [...] ion and capacity building in genomic surveillance on the African continent enabled real-time public health response. Particularly it describes the setting up of the Africa Pathogen Genomics Initiative [...] through setting up a laboratory surveillance programme. Originally, Swiss TPH set...
Public-private partnership launched to develop new drugs for parasitic worm infections (News)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/news/news-detail/news/public-private-partnership-launched-to-develop-new-drugs-for-parasitic-worm-infections
and innovation programme and will run to September 2024. HELP is led by the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), and comprises not-for-profit research and development (R&D) organization [...] on, Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), and pharmaceutical companies Bayer Animal Health, and Celgene. Partnering European and African academic institutions are the University Hospital Bonn [...] Bonn, Germany, and Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle Paris, France, as well as...
Health for All Project - Improving Population Health in Albania (News)
Europe to enhance public health efforts with a strong emphasis on prevention and management of non-communicable diseases,” Utzinger added. On May 4th, 2016 an International Public Health Conference took [...] took place in Tirana, organised by the Institute of Public Health of Albania. More than 200 participants examined approaches and ways to strengthen health information systems in Europe. In his keynote speech [...] involved in Albania since 2014. The current activities primarily focus on...
