African Contributions to Global Health - Sponsors
Jürg Utzinger is the Director of Swiss TPH and Professor of Epidemiology at the Faculty of Science at the University of Basel. He is trained in environmental sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, holds a PhD in epidemiology from the University of Basel, and pursued four years of postdoctoral research in demography and epidemiology at Princeton University in the LIS. Before his appointment as Director of Swiss TPH, Utzinger headed the Ecosystem Health Sciences Unit at Swiss TPH.
His research, teaching and training interests pertain to the epidemiology and integrated control of neglected tropical diseases, malaria and health impact assessment of large footprint projects in low, and middle-income countries. He is engaged in transnational global health projects in Africa and Asia.