Open in Browser     Swiss TPH News, April 2022   Swiss TPH Opens New Headquarters   On 1 April 2022, the new headquarters of Swiss TPH officially opened in Allschwil, Switzerland. 700 employees and students will now work, research and study in the new building designed by Basel architects Kunz und Mösch. More than 300 guests attended the inauguration from politics, the private sector and academia, as well as from the local neighbourhood of BaseLink, an emerging life science cluster. » Read more   Our New Film   We are proud to share the new Swiss TPH film, which provides a glimpse into the diversity of areas in which we work, our expertise as a global health institute, and highlights what makes Swiss TPH particularly special: the people who work here. » Enjoy watching   Increasing Awareness of Noma   There is limited data on the incidence and prevalence of noma, which hinders management and treatment of this devastating disease that mainly affects children in very poor communities. Swiss TPH researchers have contributed to a better understanding of this disease by conducting a rigorous systematic literature review on the distribution of noma, laying the groundwork for improved interventions.   ARTICLE     Gut Microbiota Influences Parasitic Worms Treatment   Almost a quarter of the world's population is at risk of helminth infections and available treatment options are limited. Therefore, it is crucial to understand why anti-parasitic drugs fail in certain cases. A new study by Swiss TPH published in Nature Communications sheds light on how gut bacteria affect treatment outcomes against parasitic worms.   ARTICLE     One Health Initiative for Food Safety in Palestine   The One Health Initiative for Food Safety aims to develop a One Health approach for Palestine. We spoke to Said Abukhattab, PhD student at Swiss TPH, about conducting his research in a politically unstable environment and the importance of one health as a way to improve global health.   BLOG     Impact of Climate Change   The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC, the United Nations' body for assessing the existing knowledge on climate change, recently published its report "Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability", with a contribution by Guéladio Cissé from Swiss TPH on the topic of health, well-being and the changing structures of communities.   REPORT     Malaria Modelling as a Tool to Support Policy-Making   In a correspondence published in Nature Medicine, researchers from Swiss TPH highlight the pivotal role of dynamical malaria modelling to take into account malaria's complexity and test implementation scenarios to support new policy strategies.   CORRESPONDENCE     CABI One Health is Now Accepting Submissions   The transdisciplinary open access journal is looking for papers that focus on the interconnections between humans, animals, plants, ecosystems and their shared environment in a truly transdisciplinary way. Jakob Zinsstag from Swiss TPH acts as editor-in-chief.   CALL FOR PAPERS   Gut Microbes - Friends or Foes?   Julian Dommann, a Master’s Student at Swiss TPH, was part of a study that found an association between gut-microbial community and drug efficacy against soil transmitted helminth infections. Read more about his experience in the field on our blog. » Impact Stories Project Updates   Improving Patient Care with an Electronic Decision Support System   Swiss TPH and Médecins sans frontiers (MSF) collaborate in a new project on digitising clinical protocols with the aim to develop a new tool to improve quality of care in low-income settings. The resulting Clinical Decision Support System will empower frontline healthcare workers to perform a structured clinical assessment, eventually leading to diagnosis and treatment recommendations. » Read more Accessible Quality Healthcare (AQH) in Kosovo   Kosovo has the lowest life expectancy in the Balkans and primary healthcare plays an essential role in non-communicable disease prevention. Researchers from Swiss TPH collected data from a cohort study within the AQH project and found that poor nutrition, physical inactivity, obesity and smoking were common risk factors for cardiovascular diseases among patients. » Read full article Innovative Disease Prevention for Animals and People   For over 15 years, Biovision supported malaria and African animal trypanosomiasis integrated vector management (IVM) research and control programmes in Kenya. Swiss TPH performed an experience capitalisation for greater impact and developed recommendations for Biovision's future engagements in the field of IVM. One of the main recommendations was to increase commitment to One Health approaches to promote innovative diseases prevention. » Read more Improving Access to Malaria Care and Services in Cameroon   Within the GIZ BACKUP programme, a new project led by Swiss TPH aims to contribute to better transparency of payment for malaria care and services in Cameroon by developing a strategy to monitor treatments and costs through the use of the openIMIS programme. The project has been launched in selected health districts on a pilot basis. » Read more   NICE: Nutrition in City Ecosystems   The NICE project, which works with partners Sight and Life, ETH Zürich and the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture and local governments in Bangladesh, Kenya and Rwanda to increase the availability and production of healthy food, was showcased at the Private Sector Mechanism Gender Roundtable Business Accelerating Gender Equality and Women’s and Girls’ Empowerment in Food System on 7 April 2022. » Read more about NICE Gender Dynamics of Community-Led Interventions   Community Led Total Sanitation is a sustainable, low-cost participatory approach that aims to mobilise communities to eliminate open defecation and improve sanitation. Embedded in the Health Promotion and System Strengthening (HPSS) project in Tanzania, a new study assessed the gender dynamics of participation by describing the involvement of women and men and identifying the challenges faced in improving hygiene and sanitation. » Read full article   Upcoming Events   27 April 2022: Webinar: Community-Based COVID-19 Testing in Lesotho and Zambia   This event hosted by the Botnar Research Center for Child Health (BRCCH) will highlight research progress of the project with Kwame Shanaube from Zambart and Klaus Reither from Swiss TPH on the effects of community-led interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic in Lesotho and Zambia. » Register now   3-5 May 2022: COVID-19 Pandemic and Environmental Emergency – Reinventing Global Health in Times of Global Changes   The Geneva Health Forum will offer a platform to discuss the immense challenges of the intertwinement of human, animal and environmental health. Swiss TPH will take part in sessions on mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic, sustainable pharmaceutical distribution in African countries and the health of nomadic pastoralists. » Register now   In the Media   • Telebasel: Neubau des Swiss TPH in Allschwil eingeweiht. » TV feature   • SRF: Interview with Nicole Probst-Hensch. » Radio broadcast   • Health Policy Watch: COVID-19 Pandemic Has Highlighted the Importance of ‘One Health’ Collaborations. » Article   Study with Us   Health Care and Management   We were thrilled to welcome students from nine countries to our new headquarters in Allschwil to kick off the 27th Health Care and Management course. The course provides them with the core competencies to understand and react to health challenges. If you are interested in joining the next course, please visit our » HCM website.     International Cooperation and Global Health   In a globalised world, international professional groups are confronted with complex challenges. This 8-week course is aimed at professionals from health sectors and other interested parties who are preparing for working abroad or who are confronted in their daily life with intercultural communication, migration or health in a global context. The course language is German.   REGISTER NOW     Travellers' Health   This course prepares health and travel industry staff to give relevant health information to travellers and to assess travel-related problems occurring during and after travel, with a special focus on tropical diseases. At the end of the course, participants will be able to provide up-to-date information in travel medicine, including pre-travel advice, immunizations, risk assessment and behaviour during travel and management of travel-related diseases.   REGISTER NOW   Latest Publications   • De Schrijver E, Bundo M, Ragettli M, et. al. Nationwide Analysis of the Heat- and Cold-Related Mortality Trends in Switzerland between 1969 and 2017: The Role of Population Aging. Environmental Health Perspectives » Read full article   • Mpina M, Stabler TC, Schindler T, et al. Diagnostic performance and comparison of ultrasensitive and conventional rapid diagnostic test, thick blood smear and quantitative PCR for detection of low-density Plasmodium falciparum infections during a controlled human malaria infection study. Malaria Journal » Read full article       Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) Kreuzstrasse 2 4123 Allschwil, Switzerland communications@swisstph.ch Swiss TPH   Imprint | Data Privacy   If you do not wish to receive further newsletters, you can unsubscribe any time.