GiveCare - Gender and diversity sensitive holistic end-of-life care: An intersectional multilevel, mixed methods approach

Palliative care is one of the most unequal areas of healthcare. Access to quality end-of-life care varies based on factors like gender and social background. Current care often ignores the broader social and structural issues that shape experiences of patients and caregivers. A more inclusive…

01.04.2025 -
Research project
Schweizerische Nationalfonds (SNF) & Direktion für Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit (DEZA)
Systems Innovation Research
Daniel Cobos Muñoz
Monitoring patient satisfaction with SRHR services in Malawi

The "Malawi German Health Programme IV" (MGHP) is being implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) from August 2024 to July 2027 to help the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) strengthen the Malawi health system by focusing on Sexual and Reproductive…

01.04.2025 - 12.12.2025
Short term service project
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Systems Performance and Monitoring
Lise Beck
Vaccination Coverage - Analysis and evidence synthesis to inform the development of field assessments of vaccination coverage

Vaccination services are essential to protect individuals, through their entire life, from disease and premature mortality. Vaccination services are facing increasing challenges, such as the increasing complexity of services deploying new or unused vaccines, the logistics of the cold chain to keep…

10.03.2025 - 30.09.2025
Short term service project
World Health Organization (WHO)
Systems Performance and Monitoring
Odile Pham-Tan
Development of a digitalisation strategy and action plan for the Caisse Nationale de Solidarité en Santé (CNASS) in Mauritania

1.   Background
Mauritania is undergoing a digital transformation across sectors, with health as a strategic priority under its “Digital Agenda 2022-2025”. In this context, the “Caisse Nationale de Solidarité en Santé“ (CNASS), established in 2022, is tasked with implementing and managing a…

21.02.2025 - 31.12.2025
Short term service project
Enabel Pass
Systems Strengthening and Health Promotion
Damien Revault
The causes and consequences of historical contingencies in the evolution of extensively drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (TB) remains a global health emergency. With 1.3 million annual deaths, TB kills more people than HIV/AIDS and malaria combined. Multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) is also a main cause of human death due to antimicrobial resistance (AMR).

Recently, the World Health Organization endorsed…

01.02.2025 - 31.01.2029
Research project
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) / Project Funding
Tuberculosis Ecology and Evolution Unit
Sébastien Gagneux
MARKOPOLO - Noise and/or ultrafine particulate matter induced cerebral and cardiovascular damage: novel insights from experimental and epidemiological brain-heart axis biomarkers and computational models

Traffic noise and air pollution, especially particulate matter (PM), are closely linked environmental risk factors that contribute significantly to the development of diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and atherosclerosis. In Europe, traffic noise is responsible for the loss of 1.6 million…

01.01.2025 - 31.12.2028
Observational study
European Commission (EU) / Horizon Europe
Environmental Exposures and Health
Martin Röösli , Marloes Eeftens
Gavi Rabies PEP Study (GVI-RPS) - Rabies PEP Review – phase II : Identification of knowledge gaps in community engagement strategies for awareness-raising to improve rabies PEP vaccine uptake and best practice integration of rabies PEP into EPI

In 2018, the Gavi Vaccine Alliance (Gavi) Board approved the inclusion of Rabies vaccine for Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (Rabies PEP) into the portfolio of vaccines to be funded in the 2021-2025 strategic period (period extended since then). The 2018 Vaccine Investment Strategy (VIS) Rabies learning…

01.01.2025 - 31.01.2026
Long term service project
Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI)
Systems Performance and Monitoring
Guillaume Deschamps
Alliances for Social Protection – Digital Convergence Initiative - Expert Pool for Technical Advisory Services on Digital Transformation for Social Protection

The overall goal of this project is to strengthen and modernise social protection systems globally by fostering digital transformation, enhancing interoperability, and establishing global standards. By leveraging collaboration between key actors—such as GIZ, the European Union, the World Bank, Inter…

30.12.2024 - 28.02.2027
Long term service project
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Digital Health Unit
Dragos Dobre
Schisto Elimination - Building community health resilience and alleviating poverty through multi-sectoral cooperation for elimination of schistosomiasis in Cambodia and Lao People’s Democratic Republic

Cambodia and Lao PDR have secured funding from the Global Development Fund (China) and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) to eliminate Schistosoma mekongi. Funding is through the World Health Organization (WHO), and Swiss TPH together with the National Institute of Parasitic…

01.12.2024 - 30.06.2027
Long term service project
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
Diseases and Programmes
Peter Steinmann
CM for GBV - Long term partnership on gender-based violence case management in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Swiss TPH is collaborating with UNFPA’s Eastern Europe and Central Asia Regional Office (EECARO) under a long-term partnership to strengthen gender-based violence (GBV) case management systems across the region. This program responds to the urgent need to address the widespread and underreported…

01.11.2024 - 31.12.2026
Long term service project
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
Household Economics and Health Systems Research
Rebeca Revenga Becedas , Carmen Sant Fruchtman