The SSTMP Tropical Medicine & Public Health working group brings together members from different disciplines, backgrounds and fields of activities.
These fields include One Health, epidemiology, veterinary public health and public health medicine. Members are active in basic science as well as implementation research, provide consultancy services for health systems strengthening and develop statements on behalf of the SSTMP.
Within the Tropical Medicine & Public Health working group, we aim at connecting researchers, clinicians and veterinarians being active in the inter- and trans-disciplinary field, and realizing coming projects.
The SSTMP Tropical Medicine & Public Health working group currently consists of the following active members:
Steffi Knopp is an epidemiologist with a primary interest in neglected tropical diseases working at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) in Basel, Switzerland. Her main areas of research concern the diagnosis, epidemiology and control of helminth infections in Sub-Saharan Africa. Steffi is currently leading two large-scale projects focusing on novel tools and intervention strategies for urogenital schistosomiasis elimination in Zanzibar, United Republic of Tanzania.
Salome Dürr is a veterinary epidemiologist working at the Veterinary Public Health Institute. Her interest lies in research on zoonoses, mainly rabies, by applying One Health approaches for its surveillance and control, and their implication on public health. Domestic dog ecology is one of her research foci.
Helena Greter is an epidemiologist and biologist working at the Swiss TPH. She engages in implementation research and translating innovative research findings in the field of environmental, animal and human health into practice. Current projects include integrated disease surveillance networks for agro-pastoralist communities aiming at improving their access to human and animal health services in Chad, and establishing a One Health laboratory network for the across five countries in the Indian Ocean.
Eva Veronesi is a medical and veterinary entomologist working as senior scientist at the Biosafety Unit of the Institute of Microbiology of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI). She is specialised in surveillance and control of arthropods causing severe diseases in humans and animals, and in exploring mechanisms of vector-pathogen interactions involved in arbovirus transmission. Eva was the Director of the Society for Vector Ecology (E-SOVE) from 2013-18 and she worked with international organizations (WHO, FAO, EFSA, IAEA and EC) as advisor, technical officer, consultant, reviewer, and trainer on neglected tropical diseases and vector-borne disease prevention. Currently leading three projects focusing on early warning for vector-borne epidemics (E4Warning HorizonEurope), the impact of biopesticides on the food chain (SNSF), and medical entomology training (ISIDORe/INFRAVEC HorizonEurope).
Charlotte Adamczick is a paediatrician with interest in Global Child Health and specialised in Tropical Medicine and Paediatric Infectious Diseases. She engages in implementing WHO recommendations at hospital and community level in regards to health system strengthening, HIV/Tb/Malnutrition and general paediatrics in African and Asian countries. She works at the EBPI in Zürich.
We welcome interested people to join our working group.
