World Rabies Day: Early diagnosis and prompt treatment save lives (Blog)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/impact-stories/world-rabies-day-early-diagnosis-and-prompt-treatment-save-lives/blog-id/21
Rabies is deadly, but 99.9% vaccine-preventable. Children under 15 years in rural communities around the globe are at higher risk of being exposed to rabies. Controlling rabies widespread in endemic c
Improving treatment of helminth infections (Blog)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/impact-stories/improving-treatment-of-helminth-infections/blog-id/26
The young Jennifer Keiser grew up in Munich, Germany, and followed both her grandfather (a chemist) and her older sister (medicine) into a life of science. While studying in high school, she worked pa
Spirituality and One Health (Blog)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/impact-stories/spirituality-and-one-health/blog-id/23
What do health and spirituality have to do with each other? Jakob Zinsstag, Head of the Human and Animal Health Unit at Swiss TPH, has worked in many places around the world and met people with differ
Melissa Penny speaks about the beauty of disease modelling (Blog)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/impact-stories/the-beauty-of-disease-modelling/blog-id/25
Melissa Penny is an applied mathematician at Swiss TPH who has worked in public health and infectious disease modelling for over 15 years. She joins us today to discuss the first malaria vaccine, dise
Twitter for Academics (Blog)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/impact-stories/twitter-for-academics/blog-id/19
For academics, the platform is becoming more popular. Twitter allows you to easily promote your research and build your network by providing links to your professional achievements, journal articles,
World Refugee Day: together we heal, learn and shine (Blog)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/impact-stories/world-refugee-day-together-we-heal-learn-and-shine/blog-id/18
Access to healthcare is an additional burden for forcibly displaced people, which adds to their already extremely difficult situations. On World Refugee Day, Swiss TPH is proud to engage in several pr
Can Switzerland beat COVID-19, Jürg Utzinger? (Blog)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/impact-stories/can-switzerland-beat-covid-19/blog-id/17
Jürg Utzinger is the Director of Swiss TPH and a Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Basel. His research and teaching focuses on neglected tropical diseases and the health effects of large-
There is no excuse for the world to still have malaria (Blog)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/impact-stories/there-is-no-excuse-for-the-world-to-still-have-malaria/blog-id/13
Mosquitoes infect millions of people with malaria - a disease that kills a child every two minutes. Most of these deaths occur in the poorest countries with the weakest health systems. Over the past 2
The power of film in research (Blog)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/impact-stories/the-power-of-film-in-research/blog-id/16
Andrea Leuenberger, a young researcher at Swiss TPH, was one of the PhD students who participated in the Digital Storytellers project of the r4d programme, a Swiss programme that supports research aim
COVID-19: Have we learned anything from previous lessons? (Blog)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/impact-stories/covid-19-have-we-learned-anything-from-previous-lessons/blog-id/9
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in serious collateral damage to many health and social systems worldwide; especially in Africa. At the same time, the crisis also revealed great potential for innova