The Swiss Tropical and
Public Health Institute or Swiss TPH, (formerly known as the Swiss Tropical Institute) was founded in 1943 as through the initiative of Professor Rudolf Geigy. The Swiss TPH consists of five departments working in various disciplines of International Public Health. In June 2009, the Institute for Social and
Preventive Medicine of the University of Basel was integrated into the Swiss Tropical Institute, and in January 2010 the Swiss Tropical Institute changed its name to the Swiss Tropical and
Public Health Institute.
The Swiss TPH is an Associated Institute of the University of Basel, and as a public organization, is partially supported by the Swiss Federal Council and the Canton of Basel-Stadt. The greater part of its funding comes from competitively acquired project funds and the earnings of its service departments Medical Services, Medicines Research and the Swiss Centre for International Health.
The Institute has research programs in
epidemiology and
public health as well as medical
parasitology covering the fields of molecular
parasitology and molecular epidemiology, molecular diagnostics, molecular immunology, parasite chemotherapy,
biostatistics and epidemiology,
health systems research, human & animal health,
ecosystem health and social sciences. One particular research focus of the institute is the
biology of the
malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum.
Last Updated on: Nov 25, 2024